Hilarious in Hindsight/Western Animation: Difference between revisions

Due to its status as a [[Long Runner]], ''[[The Simpsons (Animation)|The Simpsons]]'' has no shortage of moments like these:

* In one episode, Sideshow Bob said about conservatives: "''We're not all Billy No-funs, Johnny Bible-thumpers, or even — God forbid — [[George Bush|George Bushes]]!''"

* And in a very early episode, Satan informs Bart that he isn't due in Hell until the Yankees win the World Series. They've won five since that episode, so shouldn't Bart be in Hell by now?

** In the French-Canadian dub of the episode, Satan tells Bart that he's not due until the Nordiques, an NHL hockey team based in Quebec City, won the Stanley Cup. In 1994, the team was bought, moved to Denver and renamed the Colorado Avalanche. Does this mean Bart is immortal now? Or does it mean that eventually Quebec City will reacquire the Nordiques?

* The 1946 [[Looney Tunes]] short [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gc2L_7m_4mI "Hair Raising Hare"] features [[Bugs Bunny]] being lured by a mechanical rabbit. When he calls it "baby" and kisses it, it ends up falling to pieces. Gee, it might have been a possible [[Berserk Button]] reaction, considering that the short came out fifty years before ''[[Space Jam (Film)|Space Jam]]'''s Lola Bunny appeared!

* The 1949 ''[[Looney Tunes]]'' short ''[[Rabbit of Seville]]'' has a sequence where Bugs gleefully forces Elmer Fudd to have a violent shave, all the while singing a cheerful tune with a rather cheerfully sadistic expression on his face. A few decades later and [[Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (Theatre)|another psychotic barber would have his own musical on Broadway]]...

** In the "Return of Batduck" episode, in which Plucky Duck tries to get a role in ''[[Batman (Film)|Batman Returns]]'', one gag has [[Tim Burton]] explaining to [[Dracula]] that he likes him a lot, but he's already doing movies about "a bat guy". The Count says "I'll go with Coppola" before departing, a reference to ''Bram Stoker's Dracula'' which arrived later in 1992. Coppola's Dracula was played by Gary Oldman, who found his own way into the Batman universe by playing Jim Gordon in the [[Dark Knight Trilogy]] years later.

** The "Samurai Film Critic" skit from "Weekday Afternoon Live", featuring Dizzy Devil as the aforementioned samurai, has a bit where Dizzy [[Who Writes This Crap?|gets sick of the dated references in the sketch]] and starts slashing the screen to ribbons, yelling "WHO ''CARES'' ABOUT ''KIEFER SUTHERLAND?!''" at the top of his lungs. Now that Sutherland's had a massive popularity kick thanks to ''[[Twenty Four|24]]'', the scene is that much funnier.

** Also, in the episode where Kim Possible learns how to drive, she is recruited by several [[Animate Inanimate Object|Animate Inanimate Objects]] (or, more accurately, normal appliances/a car modified to contain an autonomous AI) to save their master (an AI developer) from Dr. Drakken. This becomes especially hilarious when [[Christie Carlson Romano]], the voice actress who plays Kim Possible, ends up playing Belle in the Beauty and the Beast broadway stage performance, who has to do something similar for the servants (who are transformed into actual [[Animate Inanimate Object|Animate Inanimate Objects]]).

* In ''[[The Fairly Odd Parents]]'', at the end of an episode, a button is pressed that would blow up the planet. [[Exact Words|It ends up blowing up Pluto]], but it's okay because "[[Pluto Is Expendable|no one cares about Pluto]]."

* The [[Grand Finale]] for ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender]]'' premiered a day after ''[[The Dark Knight]]''. In ''[[The Dark Knight]]'', Alfred tells Bruce "Some men just want to watch the world burn." (though this line featured prominently in a teaser trailer a year prior). The very next day audiences got to see Fire Lord Ozai trying to burn the entire Earth Kingdom to the ground. It was like they knew the movie would be premiering on the same weekend!

** Another Hilarious in Hindsight moment for the ''Avatar'''s Grand Finale moment comes from a piece of fan art called "[http://alexds1.deviantart.com/art/How-we-roll-79828584 How we roll]," Zuko [[What the Hell, Hero?|complains to the heroes for sitting around doing nothing while his evil relatives plot]]. Four months later, the Grand Finale airs, and Zuko's doing the exact same thing.

** Yet another, more in the vein of the ''Star Wars'' fandom: Mark Hamill, who played Luke Skywalker in the Star Wars movies, plays the evil overlord father of one of the main characters. Role reversal much? He even shoots lightning!

** In "The Warriors of Kyoshi", Sokka has to wear the [[Amazon Brigade|Kyoshi Warriors']] usual apparel to get training from them, and Aang mocks him for it ("nice dress"). About a season later Aang himself has to wear almost the same thing as part when he's trying to channel Kyoshi's spirit.

* A precursor cartoon short to ''[[Codename Kids Next Door]]'' called "Kenny and the Chimp" features Kenny getting Swine Flu.

* An episode of ''[[The Critic]]'' showed Victor Hugo's wholly depressing novel "The Hunchback of Notre Dame" being turned into an [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HEhKwnkanUs inappropriate musical]. Two years later, [[The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Disney)|Disney did it for real]].

** One can almost make a drinking game out of the Critic's predictions.