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Examples of [[It Will Never Catch On]] in [[Western Animation]] include:
* In ''[[Code Monkeys]]'', which takes place in the Atari era, Mr. Larrity shoots down ideas for games that have become big in real-life (like ''[[God of War (series)|God of War]]}}'' and ''[[Doom (series)|Doom]]''), pitched by young versions of their creators. Also, Dave thinks home computers will never be successful.
** Also in ''Code Monkeys'': Dave sells his movie ticket to ET to a young M. Night Shyamalan so he can go to the strip club. Dave blows the kid's mind when he says: "Do you think this is a good idea for a movie? A guy doesn't know he's a ghost until the very end."
** Subverted when one of the programmers creates an 8-bit version of [[Halo]] that would have launched the [[Space Marine]] genre. Larrity admits it could have been one of the best-selling games of all time, but won't publish it because it was created by a woman and he's a first-class misogynist.
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** During Super Bowl III, Abe Simpson says "If people don't support this thing, it might not make it."
** In the 1991 episode "Bart Gets Hit By A Car", the devil tells Bart "you're not due (in hell) until the next time the Yankees win the World Series." That would be 1996. And they've won it four other times since then.
* This was brought up in ''[[The Critic (animation)|The Critic]]'' (in a scene which is a parody of ''The Graduate''):
{{quote|'''Franklin Sherman:''' Son, I've got one word for you: Snapple.
'''Jay Sherman:''' Oh, Dad, you and your made-up words. }}
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