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== Animated ==
* The stop-motion animation film ''[[A Town Called Panic]]'' plays it straight when Cowboy and Indian try to order 50 bricks to build a barbecue for their friend, Horse. They accidentally order 50 million bricks, and the day wears into evening as truck after truck deliver loads of bricks, until there is a pile as large as the house. Horse returns home to a brick-free yard, except for the newly constructed barbecue. His birthday party runs well into the night, and it is not until the lights are out at bedtime that we find out where the 49,999,950 other bricks have gone. They are neatly stacked on the roof, forming a cube larger than the house.
* In the [[DreamWorks]] movie ''[[Megamind]]'', snarky [[Damsel in Distress]] Roxanne complains early on that the titular villain's gimmicks are getting old, and he needs to make things more exciting. The thing is, Megamind has a habit of [[Malaproper|mispronouncing and misinterpreting words]]. So later in the movie, she opens a door in Megamind's lair marked "EXIT" to reveal a deep pit full of alligators, some random toys on the ground, and a disco ball hanging overhead. Not an "exiting" room, but an "exciting" room, as Megamind later explains.
* In the 1994 [[Disney]] movie ''[[The Lion King]]'', during Scar's little self-righteous speech at the beginning of the movie, Zazu casually comments about the villain lion that "He'd make a very handsome throw rug." 3 years later in the 1997 [[Disney]] movie ''[[Hercules (Disney film)|Hercules]]'', a short clip of a stresses Herc shows him [http://imgur.com/gallery/GyE9E tossing a familiar lion's pelt onto the floor in frustration.] One of the many shout outs to previous movies.
* In ''[[The Emperor's New Groove]]'', in the beginning of the movie, Yzma announces Kronk to "Pull the lever", and [[No OSHA Compliance|it sends her down a trap door into a moat with an alligator]] as she shouts, "WRONG LEVER!!". Then she angrily storms back in saying, "Why do we even ''HAVE'' that lever?" and smacking an alligator who was clinging to her. About 3/4ths of the way through the movie when Pacha and Kuzko walk back into the palace to enter Yzma's "Secret Lab". The first thing shown is a drenched Kuzko walking back in grumbling, "Why does she even ''HAVE'' that lever?"
== Live-Action ==
* In ''[[A Guy Thing]]'', Paul gets beat up by Becky's ex-boyfriend. His fiance insists on calling the cops but Paul doesn't want to tell the truth so he gives them a completely ridiculous description. In the last scene of the movie Paul and Becky get into a cab and the driver matches Paul's description exactly.
** Actually, this guy appeared in the police lineup earlier in the movie, soon after Paul gave the ridiculous description, but Paul said "It's not him."
* In ''[[Airplane!]]'', Stryker leaves a passenger behind in a cab to catch his plane in time. At the very very end, after all the plot has happened, the guy gets the girl, everybody is rejoicing and the credits have rolled, we cut back to his passenger, still in the cab: "Well, I'll give him another twenty minutes. But that's it." And the meter's running, too.
** While the joke is lost on audiences today, the guy in the cab was Howard Jarvis, who pushed for California Proposition 13 in 1978, an initiative which made massive money saving cuts to public services.
* In ''[[Monty Python and the Holy Grail]]'', the opening credits are botched, and the audience is told that the people responsible were sacked. At the end of the film, {{spoiler|there are no closing credits, just a blank screen with music}}.
** Another well-known example: Shortly after assembling, Arthur and his knights are spurned by a castle populated by Frenchmen. {{spoiler|Their lord is uninterested in the search for the grail because "he's already got one". It turns out that this is where the grail was all along.}}
* In another Rowan Atkinson project, ''[[Johnny English]]'', gets two in one. Johnny invents an assailant to explain how the crown jewels got stolen. He [[Line-of-Sight Name|uses things in the room as inspiration for his description]], leading to an incredibly implausible appearance. At the end of the film he accidentally ejects Lorna from his car. Roll credits. Halfway through, Lorna lands in a hotel pool in the ejector seat. Sitting on the side of the pool is a man who matches the imaginary assailant's description perfectly.
* In ''[[Spice World]]'' when a movie producer is pitching ideas about a movie involving the girls (intersperced with clips of the girls actually acting out what he says) he says "and that's when they find the bomb". The manager rejects that idea. During the end credits Mel C suddenly says "what happened to the bomb on the bus?" and it goes off.
* In a Russo-Finnish film ''[[Morozko|Jack Frost]]'' (later made into an episode of ''[[Mystery Science Theater 3000]]''), the superhumanly strong hero Ivan, when facing a band of thieves, throws a bunch of clubs into the air. Months later, when he wins the heart of Nastinka, he and his love are attacked by the same thieves. At which time the clubs fall down on the thieves' heads.
* ''[[The King's Speech]]'' is filled with these, from the shilling that Bertie owes Lionel for much of the film to "When waiting for a king to apologize, one may wait a rather long time."
* In ''[[She's All That]]'' the main plot is a bet between Zack and Dean to make Lanney the prom queen. When she finds out about this, the bet is forgotten. The second to last scene has Lanney asking what the bet's outcome was. {{spoiler|We cut to graduation where Zack accepts his diploma stark naked}}.
* Around the start of ''[[Cabin Fever (film)|Cabin Fever]]'', a store owner causes an awkward reaction when asked about a gun, saying only that it's "for niggers". At the end, three nig...black people (two men and a woman) are walking along, seemingly unaware that they're in the middle of Hicksville, Nowhere. The store owner frantically reaches for the gun...the visitors enter..then the store owner places the gun on the counter, greets the visitors and says "I got it all fixed up just like you wanted!"
* The western spoof ''[[Support Your Local Sheriff]]'' starts with some pioneers burying a man named Millard Frymore. The funeral is permanently disrupted when gold is discovered in the grave. Later in the film, it's mentioned in passing that the resulting mine was named after Millard.
* ''[[Who Framed Roger Rabbit?]]'': Roger keeps blowing his lines, seeing tweeting birds instead of stars at the beginning of the film. Later, in [[Toon Town]], Eddie Valiant gets brained and sees tweeting birds. And finally, during Roger's subverted [[Big Damn Heroes]] moment, he gets a pile of bricks dropped on him, causing him to see...
{{quote|''"Look, Raoul! Stars! Ready whenever you are!"''}}
* ''[[The Avengers (film)|The Avengers]]'': {{spoiler|The second [[The Stinger|stinger]] has the group go to the shawarma place Tony recommended earlier in the movie. The shawarma place was nearly destroyed by the battle. [[Crowning Moment of Funny|No one speaks]].}}
** {{spoiler|The Hulk getting a little payback on Thor after he uppercut the green giant with his hammer. As they take down a Leviathan at the Grand Street Station, Hulk lays a right hand straight across the God of Thunder's jaw and sends him flying off-screen. [[Hilarity Ensues]].}}
** And earlier in the film. Captain America tells Nick Fury that by that point, nothing could possibly surprise him, and Nick bets $10 that Cap's wrong. Several scenes later, after watching a carrier lift off out of the water, Cap hands Nick ten bucks without either saying a word.
* ''[[Anger Management]]'' has the main character almost taking a seat between two fat passengers before Buddy offers him one. {{spoiler|The air marshal that assaulted the main character with a tazer had taken that seat, shown at the end of the film.}}
== Unsorted ==
* In ''[[Accepted]]'', when Bartleby is letting the students choose what they want to learn, one rather creepy looking guy states he would like to "learn how to blow s**t up with my mind." B tells him to write it on the board. Later during the school party montage, we see him trying (unsuccessfully) to blow up random objects. Then, at the end of the film, Harmon College's Dean is walking to his car, which mysteriously explodes. Cut to the creepy guy, who tells a stunned B: "I told you, dude..."
* In ''[[The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert]]'', when the trio launches ''Priscilla'', their going-away party drowns out a ceremony announcing a girl who plans to run across Australia. The girl shows up twice later in the film, once just after the bus takes a short cut, and again when she runs right past the group and takes no notice of them.
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