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* ''[[The Legend of Billie Jean]]'' was a box office bomb during its original release, but started to gain popularity as it began to play on syndicated networks years later.
* Unlike many other classic comedies, the films starring the team of Bert Wheeler and Robert Woolsey were not shown on television during the Baby Boomer generation, which resulted in virtually no one having any clue who they were after Woolsey's untimely death in 1938. In the '80s and '90s, stations like TCM and AMC began to show Wheeler and Woolsey's movies for the first time in decades- if it weren't for cable, Wheeler and Woolsey's films would've been completely forgotten decades ago. OK, so they're still not very well-known at all, but among vintage film/comedy fans, Bert n' Bob have a very small but very loyal following, so this trope definitely counts despite the fact that they remain obscure to the general public.
* ''[[Strictly Sexual]]'' is a 2008 comedy that history would have forgotten...except for the fact that it is the most watched movie available for free on hulu.com through some bizarre twist. It still frequently ranks in the most popular movies of the week. Ditto for ''[[Saints And Soldiers]]'', ''[[Sex And Consequences]]'', and ''[[
* [[Mike Judge]] is one of the kings of this trope. ''[[Office Space]]'' is the quintessential example, with tepid box office numbers at best, only becoming a [[Cult Classic]] after being shown ad nauseum on premium cable (and, later, [[Comedy Central]]). ''[[Idiocracy]]'' bombed similarly in theaters, a victim of [[Screwed by the Network|zero to no promotion by the distributor]], 20th Century Fox (all the [[Take That]]s in the film at the Fox network probably didn't help Judge). Thanks once again to cable, the film seems to be well on its way to this trope if it's not already there.
* Oh, ''[[Destroyer|Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins]]'', was there a weekend afternoon movie block you '''weren't''' on in the '80s?
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