Retroactive Wish: Difference between revisions

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'''Paco:''' ''(jaw gaping)'' Say "I wish for a Porsche" before it wears off! ''Say "I wish for a Porsche" before it wears off!''|''[[Blue Beetle]]''}}

 

== Comic Strips ==

* From a ''[[Zits]]'' strip:

'''Jeremy:''' And as long as you're at it, would it be so terrible if I had a million bucks, too? }}

* The author of ''[[The Perishers]]'' confesses to playing with this trope after noticing that he invariably came into possession of things resembling things he had recently introduced into the comic. This was his entire motivation in creating the character of Fiscal Yere, an incredibly rich child. It didn't work.

== Films -- Animation ==

* From ''[[Robots]]'':

'''Fender:''' Wow! That was great, psychic friend! Now say, "Money should be falling from the sky!" }}

 

* ''[[Discworld]]''

** From ''[[Discworld/Hogfather|Hogfather]]'' comes the closest thing to deconstructing this trope:

'''The Dean:''' Things like the Give the Dean a Huge Bag of Money Goblin? }}

** During the play near the end of ''[[Discworld/Wyrd Sisters|Wyrd Sisters]]'', Hwel the playwright laments the poor special effects he's forced to use after the tin sheet used to make thunder gets bent, and shouts to the heavens that all he wanted was a decent [[Dramatic Thunder|dramatic thunderstorm]]. As one starts up, he wonders to himself if he should have asked for a wind machine while he was at it.

== Live-Action TV ==

* The ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'' episode "Triangle":

'''Willow:''' I wish I had a million dollars! }}

* In the Pilot of ''[[Friends]]'', Ross says, "I just want to be married again" right before Rachel appears wearing a wedding dress. Chandler immediately jumps in, "And ''I'' just want a million dollars!"

* In "Rising", the pilot episode of ''[[Stargate Atlantis]]'', Major Sheppard declares that he's been thinking how to find his kidnapped comrades on a Wraith-controlled planet. Immediately, the telepathic ship delivers him a life-signs detector. Then he says, "Now I'm thinking about a nice turkey sandwich." Nothing happens, and Lieutenant Ford remarks, "Worth a try."

* From ''[[Not Going Out]]'':

''([[The Ditz|the cleaner]] walks in)''<br />

'''Lee:''' Honestly, who do you know that's a beautiful nymphomaniac rich widow?<br />

'''Lee:''' Oh, so it's just the one wish then. }}

* Shortly after [[The Daily Show|Jon Stewart]] appeared on ''Crossfire'', called the host a dick and said the show was hurting America, ''Crossfire'' got cancelled. When Jon heard the news:

* In the episode "[[Chuck]] Versus the Gravitron":

'''Morgan:''' I could have asked for anything! Swedish bikini team. Uh, DeLorean, flying DeLorean! }}

** What's even better is that like two episodes later he ''gets'' a DeLorean.

* ''[[Scrubs]]'':

'''Hideous Patient:''' You're cute. }}

* ''[[Lost Girl]]'' #1x08, when Bo is at Trick's for information on the type of Fae that tried to kill her:

'''Bo:''' I also want a pony. }}

* Ethan from ''[[Power Rangers Dino Thunder]]''. In the opening two-parter, while he and the other soon-to-be Rangers are looking for Kira, he mentions that it's "not like she's just gonna fall out of the sky and land right in front of us." Kira promptly drops out of the villain's [[Portal Network]] and lands on the hood of their car. Ethan then waits until the ''end'' of the season before completing the trope -- and it ''works''. He always was pretty [[Genre Savvy]].

'''Ethan:''' What? Last time I did that, it worked. ''(the missing characters appear)'' See? }}

 

== Web Animation ==

* From ''[[The Demented Cartoon Movie]]'':

''(a shoe kicks his head off)'' }}

 

== Web Comics ==

* [http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0069.html This happens] in ''[[The Order of the Stick|Order of the Stick]]''.

'''Haley: I really wish I had a bajillion gold pieces!!''' }}

* In [http://www.unshelved.com/archive.aspx?strip=20020705 this comic] from ''[[Unshelved]]'', Dewey is irritated by the library mascot Buddy the Book Beaver:

'''Dewey:''' Mira Sorvino! I wish for a date with Mira Sorvino! }}

* This is lampshaded in ''[[Goblins]]'' with the following exchange.

''(Dies-Horribly [a goblin] then falls off of the overhanging cliff and into the river; cue smug looks from the other two)'' }}

* ''[[Dinosaur Comics]]'' does it [http://www.qwantz.com/index.php?comic=1495 here].

* In [http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1543 a strip] of ''[[Questionable Content]]'':

* Used in a ''Little Dee'' strip [http://littledee.net/archive/20100125.html strip]:

'''Vachel:''' Hey, it was worth a try! }}

* Perfectly set up in [http://www.drowtales.com/mainarchive.php?order=chapters&id=684&overview=1&chibi=1&cover=1&page=1&check=1 this] ''[[Drowtales]]'' strip... but with no extra person to make the second wish.

* ''[[Family Guy]]'': A man tells his wife to imagine "a happy healthy baby boy at play. Now put him in a magic bubble and release him into the universe." When Stewie, in a bubble, rolls by, the man tells his wife to imagine Lindsay Lohan naked and doing a backwards crab walk. Later on, Lohan appears at Peter's door doing just that.

* First episode of ''[[Drawn Together]]'':

'''Captain Hero:''' I wish we had [[Dead Baby Comedy|a 12-year-old girl and a donkey!]] ''(nothing happens)'' Damn! }}

** The wish actually does come true in a later episode.

* Homer tries this in one episode of ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]]'':

''(lightning strikes him again)'' }}

* ''[[Clone High]]'': after a [[Tempting Fate|"It can't get any worse"]]:

''(Abe leaves, and a butterfly appears carrying a dollar bill for Gandhi)'' }}

* ''[[Jackie Chan Adventures]]''

"I wish I had a million bucks!" }}

* ''[[The Fairly Odd Parents]]''

'''Cosmo:''' Cool. Let me try. I miss rump roasts! Come on, rump roasts! }}

* In the ''[[Phineas and Ferb]]'' episode "Rollercoaster: The Musical!" the [[Recurring Extra|recurring farmer couple]] do this.

'''Wife:''' Well, how ''does'' it work, then?! }}

** In ''[[Phineas and Ferb The Movie: Across the 2nd Dimension]]'', after Candace vanishes into the other dimension, Stacy tries to invoke the "mysterious force" that protects Phineas and Ferb from being busted in order to get Candace back. When Candace walks in, Stacy tries asking the mysterious force for a car.

* Happens in the ''[[Back at the Barnyard]]'' episode "The Farmer Takes A Woman".

'''Freddy:''' You can't expect a plate of boneless chicken to just drop out of nowhere. ''(nothing happens)'' I'M WAITING! }}

** [[Brick Joke|And later, he's still waiting.]]