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* This Cracked [http://www.cracked.com/article_17209_insane-sports-stories-that-will-make-you-believe-in-curses.html article where the first item] declared that the San Francisco Giants have a curse to never win the World Series. Oops.

** Another article "[http://www.cracked.com/article_15291_the-2007-lineup-35-soon-to-be-cancelled-shows.html The 2007 Lineup: 35 Soon to Be Canceled Shows]" is this. Although most of the shows did get canceled soon after they premiered (and the joke is that ''every'' show of the 2007 season is represented), a few didn't, such as ''Chuck'' (now in it's 5th season), ''The Singing Bee'' (just finished season 4, albeit on a different network), ''[[Pushing Daisies]]'' (2 seasons and critical acclaim), and most notably ''[[The Big Bang Theory]]''.

** [http://www.cracked.com/photoplasty_85_if-video-games-were-realistic_p27#25 This] entry in a [[Cracked]] photoshop contest became hilarious after [[Rock Band]] 3 introduced pro mode, which can be used with a 108-button guitar controller.

* All Ghost stuff in ''[[Red vs. Blue]]''.

* From ''[[Youtube Poop]]'':

** In ''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yacqVp39e98 The LOL King]'', one of the first jokes involves Simba falling off of Pride Rock as Rafiki holds him up. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIP1xnk2W3E&t=3m27s And then, the official blooper reel on the Diamond Edition DVD came].

* A series of ''[[Naruto]]'' flash video parodies on [[YouTube]] called "Fun With Akatsuki" featured the masked Tobi as a hapless, good-natured [[Butt Monkey]] with the catchphrase, "But Tobi is a good boy!" The fact that Tobi {{spoiler|turns out to be the [[Big Bad]] of the series}} makes this even funnier.

** Two words... {{spoiler|Blind}} Itachi, since Kakashi mentions during the fight with the Itachi clone early in Shippuden that {{spoiler|Itachi's eyesight deteriorates every time he uses the Mangekyo Sharingan}}. This later becomes a plot point, as {{spoiler|Itachi's on the verge of losing his vision during his fight with Sasuke, and Sasuke later taxes his Mangekyo Sharingan almost to the point of blindness before using Itachi's eyes}}.

** During his review of [[The Room]], other Channel Awesome contributors warned him not to review it because of how bad it is. These cries become a lot funnier when the site was hit with a [[Frivolous Lawsuit]] from Tommy Wiseau and the video was taken down for "copyright infringement".

** Another, minor example from his ''Super Show'' review was his comment on Carland. [[Cars|It's a little more developed than that,]] [[Disney Theme Parks|but still...]]

** Following the removal of The Room episode, Doug did "The Tommy Wiseau Show", a sketch with Tommy Wiseau doing his own show and talking to "John from TheRoomMovie.com". One year later, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4dKLfmKG0UY this was released]. Right down to the same pun used.

* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGCXXymyxX4 This] parody of [[Transformers]] using chibi-fied versions of G1 characters actually came out before [http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Robot_Heroes a toyline that did the exact same thing.]

* When ''The Liam Smith Show'' [[Flash Forward|flashed forward]] to New Years Eve 2999, Dick Clark promoted [[UPN]]: "For One Thousand Years, the Solar System's Number One Network."

** There's also his rant about the movie ''[[Rocky Balboa]]'' breaking the ''Rocky'' series' numbering tradition, and compares it to the then-upcoming new Rambo film being titled "John Rambo." That did indeed become the movie's working title for a while (and actual release title in some countries), causing him to comment "I feel kind of bad, like I picked on a retarded kid."

{{quote| "That what all people should do! We should send all the old people in the sky!" }}

* [[Retsupurae]]'s "Cornshaq Baby Please" had Slowbeef uttering, "Mr. O'Neil, the answer to this multiplication problem is 12, but also Mario 2 is the greatest game ever." A year later, [[Kanye West|a famous rapper]] said something in a similar fashion that caused a [[Memetic Mutation]].

** Watch [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xt2uyDqbA-Q Slowbeef's Retsuparae] of a savestate-laden [[Let's Play]] of ''[[Kaizo Mario World]]'' a few times. Then try to read ''[http://www.bartleby.com/130/ On Liberty]''.

* The ''[[Gaming in The Clinton Years]]'' series is already bizarre and surreal, but it does achieve one of these at the end of their ''[[Final Fantasy VIII]]'' review. The narrator exclaims "If Square doesn't add voice-overs to ''Final Fantasy IX'', I'm committing suicide! I hate text!" ''[[Final Fantasy IX]]'' was released in the USA November 2000, when [[Bill Clinton]]'s second term ended. No wonder there's no "Gaming in the Dubya Years". Though it crosses over into [[Funny Aneurysm Moment]] when you learn George Wood really is dead (luckily 6 years after FFIX came out).

** Circles back around now that he's proven to be alive.

* [http://www.strum.co.uk/webbery/purpose.htm What is the Internet for?] That question was [[The Internet Is for Porn|answered]] two years after that essay was published.

** The Second Anniversary Spectacularthon had a few teasing shots at a couple VAs. I mean, no ''way'' Vic Mignogna would've watched it, recommended by a few of his Rangers, right? [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nejwl0QZlFs Wrong.] Thankfully, he took it well and the two have met a few times since.

*** Another one with LK and Vic -- for their first Kamicon promo, Martin calls him [[Yuri Lowenthal]]. Vic voiced an Uchiha later in ''Shippuden''.

** ''Episode 50 Joey Wheeler Ace Attorney'' had Joey up against the guy that banned the series twice already. The judge said that third time's the charm .. and a few weeks later, Little Kuriboh was temporarily suspended on [[YouTube]] for the third time.

** Episode 25 featured a short sequence of Yami and Tea singing a duet, and the end stinger said 'that's the closest you're gonna get to yu-gi-oh: the abridged musical'. Several years and a ''lot'' of [[Filk|cover songs]] later...

** In Episode 4, Taka voices the commisioner using the same voice he would later use for Dartz on Yugioh Abridged.

* Due to the lead times involved, the fact that there were going to be goofy twin autobots in ''[[Revenge of the Fallen]]'' was known over six months before the movie was released. However, their look and a certain level of [[Fanon]] lead to the assumption they'd be bumbling hillbilly-type characters. So, [[Internet Personality Vangelus]] put forth the idea in his review of Skids that the autobot was really a rap star (named MC Paddington) with a dark past. This, plus the voice he assigned him, eerily anticipated the [[Alien Scrappy|actual Skids]], only [[Crowning Moment of Funny|much funnier.]]

* The [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZzgAjjuqZM "Hastily Made Cleveland Tourism Video] features a line that says "Our Economy's based on LeBron James". Now that he's left, presumably there's no economy at all.

* [[My Immortal]] gives us [[The Cloud Cuckoolander Was Right|this little bit]] from the Author's Notes of Chapter 42:

{{quote| omg da new book iz kumming out rlly soon I kant wait!!!1111. I fink dat snap will be really the same person as Volximort koz dey are both haff-blood so dat will explain y he kild dumblydore and he hated hairy!!!!!1111 {{spoiler|'''nd den hairy wil have 2 kommit suicide so voldimort will die koz he will rilly be a horcrox!!!!!111'''}} omg I hope draco nd harry get 2getha dat will be so shmexxy, wont it?? If dey don’t den JKR is hamophobic!!!!!111111 fangz 4 da help wiv facts, medusa u rok!!!111}}

* A throw-away gag in [[Berserk Abridged]] has two [[Strawman Political]] parodies arguing, which devolves into childish taunting, including the liberal one of the two calling the conservative parody a teabagger...this was made at the end of 2007, cue a certain political movement that appeared a year later.

** A video she made in high school about STDs contains a giant stuffed bear with AIDS having an affair with a 14 year old girl. Pedobear.

* In the ending of episode 2 part 2 of Four Swords Misadventures, Green explains that the scene of his Japanese counterpart having sex (or the implication that he was having sex) with Zelda in the ending won't happen for them because "they are in the censored english version", to which Red says starkly "The censors always ruin the fun." A few months later, any attempts at doing the episode on youtube ended up blocked thanks to that scene, thus forcing Haidoukendude (or hitthefloor729, as he is known on Youtube) to do a special Youtube edition of the episode where he not only had to put a bulletin on the scene in question with big letters to explain that what the Japanese versions of what Link and Zelda were saying, despite appearances, did NOT translate to anything suggestive, but also went as far as to post a link to the actual translation, thus spoiling the joke, meaning that the joke was ruined for everyone due to censorship.

* [[Improv Everywhere]] once had fun [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKx0aek1T0w splitting pedestrian traffic into a fast lane and slow lane] on a street in Manhattan. As it turns out, some in London [http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/news/2010/12/101201_oxford_st_wup_sl.shtml have taken that idea seriously].

* In November of 2009, Barepolitical made their [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWxTGJ3TK1U first parody of LadyGaga] featuring original character Lord Gaga. In the 2nd part of the song, both characters start competing for who is the weirder of the two, with Gaga saying that she likes to "wear a bathing suits made out of raw meat". Guess what the real [[Lady Gaga]] decided to wear on the controversial cover of Vogue several months later of said parody?

* Before the second "season" of ''[[Marble Hornets]]'' started up (or was even hinted at), somebody made [http://i40.tinypic.com/o5utz4.png this poster] as a joke. {{spoiler|The tagline was ''completely accurate''.}}

* [[Screw Attack]]

** They predicted Milo would become Skynet, [http://kotaku.com/5645343/rumor-project-milo-canceled and in a weird coincidence...]

** [http://www.gametrailers.com/player/709342.html For 2011], they speculated on a new Nintendo console aiming on hardcore games. [[Wii U|And whadya know]].

* In [[We Are Our Avatars (Roleplay)|We Are Our Avatars]], Cyber Amy gave out gifts to [[User:Daionus The 23 rd|Dai]]'s characters. Meant to be tunics for the guys, and dresses for the girls. Too bad it was mistyped. What's so funny, though? Daisuke might as well be The Chick of the group, and is the only male member at the time.

* [[The Irate Gamer]] did an episode about Kool-Aid Man video games. The parody [[Third Rate Gamer]] followed up with a "review" of Cool Spot, mocking the episode. Months later, IG reviewed Cool Spot.

* On April Fools' of 2011, Boubouille of [[World of Warcraft]] news site MMO-Champion posted [http://www.mmo-champion.com/threads/878945-World-of-Warcraft-5.0-Panda-Mania! this] joke article about the upcoming expansion pack being centered around the Pandaren race and introducing them as playable for both factions. Well... The next expansion is centered around the Pandaren race and introduces them as playable for both factions.

** Made even better when you know that the moderation team speculated and planned a few elaborate satirical jokes which were then denied for risk of causing bad press by forumgoers taking it seriously. The pandaren joke on the other hand was deemed obvious and cringeworthy enough for everyone to understand it was just a joke. Which they did. Since it was. At the time.

 

== [[Web Comics]] ==

* ''[[Penny Arcade]]'': compare [http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2002/06/21 this strip] and [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/6295138.stm this actual news article.]

{{quote| "We can categorically state that we [the British military] [[Suspiciously Specific Denial|did not release man-eating badgers]] into the local area."}}

** And this [http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/1999/11/03 infamous strip], whose mockery of the bogus release date for [[Vaporware|Duke Nukem Forever]] was funny in 1999 when the game was a year and a half late, but only grew more so as the game grew two years, four years, eight years, ''nine years'', only to loop back around to [[Hilarious in Hindsight]] when a demo of the game, now out of development hell, was released at PAX.

** [http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2004/8/23/ This strip] became a lot funnier when a few years later Tycho actually did miss a portion of PAX due to the birth of his child.

** [http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2008/8/11/ This strip], considering ''[[Serious Sam]] HD'' and its Super Happy Funtime mode (also see the second [[FoxTrot]] example in [[Hilarious in Hindsight/Comic Books|Comic Books]] for more information) .

* The [http://www.megatokyo.com/strip/31 first] Shirt Guy Dom [[Filler]] for ''[[Megatokyo]]'' promises there will never be another one again. Compare with [http://www.megatokyo.com/search.php?q=meta:Shirt+Guy+Dom this list].

* When the characters from ''[[Real Life Comics]]'' go to the future, [http://www.reallifecomics.com/archive/011002.html Greg Dean from 2001 asks Greg Dean from 2006 what the most important thing to happen in the following five years]. Funny in 2001 because his response, that he'll hit his shin on an open drawer, [[Worst News Judgment Ever|is ridiculous]]. Gets funnier [http://www.reallifecomics.com/archive/030708.html in 2003], when he ''does'' hit his shin on the drawer. Becomes hilarious [http://www.reallifecomics.com/archive/050320.html in 2005] when he gets ''married''...

** [http://www.irregularwebcomic.net/82.html Another] strip parodied the "progression" from Darth Maul's double-bladed lightsaber in ''Episode I'' and Anakin's dual wielding of lightsabers in ''Episode II'' with having characters draw quadruple, quintuple and septuple lightsabers...

{{quote| '''David Morgan-Mar''': This comic was published over 2 years before Episode III was released in May, 2005. Need I say anything more than "General Grievous"? I'm ready for those royalties, George. }}

** A minor one, but the comic is currently (Oct 2010) on a Tue-Fri-Sun update schedule. Amber posted a comic with the tagline, "It's like a Friday cliffhanger, but on a Tuesday!" Then she got sick and couldn't update on Friday, so it was a Friday cliffhanger.

* ''[[Three Panel Soul]]'' gives us [http://threepanelsoul.com/2008/09/22/on-sober-analysis/ Bernanke's description of the state of the economy] circa ''September 2008'' ([http://threepanelsoul.com/view.php?date=2008-09-22 inspired by a New York Times article]).

** In [http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=20091004&mode=classic this] 2009 Sunday strip, a [[Star Trek]] crossword has as #6 down, "Brain connection with fingers to face". The actual answer is {{spoiler|Vulcan mind meld}}, but considering what [[Face Palm|Captain Picard]] is now famous for...

* An ''[[Awkward Zombie]]'' animated short features the crew of the ''[[Myth Busters]]'' attempting to build a cannon out of duct tape in order to fire a pig. While the "cannon made out of duct tape" sounds like a [[Flanderized]] "silly Mythbusters build," the Mythbusters did a "duct tape" special much later. And guess what they ''actually'' built?

** "[[Ace Attorney|Edgeworth]] [http://www.awkwardzombie.com/comic1-121707.php is such a closet Steel Samurai Fan]". A full two years later, ''[[Ace Attorney Investigations]]'' comes out and that turns out to be ''precisely'' the case.

* ''[[Order of the Stick]]'': Haley can't remember whether Sabine, a succubus, is a demon or a devil. This was before 4th edition.

** An early [[Fourth Wall Mail Slot|viewer mail]] [http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0121.html strip] in which Belkar insults a class that he would [http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0132.html later take a level in].

* ''[[Cass Toons]]'' as a whole is that much more hilarious now that a DC character has actually attempted to kill [[Dan Di Dio]].

** And this [http://www.sluggy.com/comics/archives/daily/010917 2001 strip] wherein Torg and Riff need [[Noodle Implements|leiderhosen and pliers]] to party with Charlie Sheen, but Sasha tells them he's been sober for months, so they try to find Robert Downey Jr., a belt sander, and a Portuguese man-of-war. Over the next decade, guess which got his career back on track and which became a walking punchline?

* ''[[Doctor Horribles Sing Along Blog]]'': "The hammer is my penis." It just didn't turn out so well [http://spamusement.com/index.php/comics/view/90 the first time.]

* ''Metroid: Third Derivative'' had a number of sequences involving hordes of Zoomers walking around with a constant shout of "HUT HUT HUT HUT HUT HUT". Since then, a ''[[Metroid]]'' game has been codeveloped by [[Tecmo]], the company responsible for ''Tecmo Bowl''.

* ''[[Something Positive]]:'' [http://www.somethingpositive.net/sp04252005.shtml "You don't give yourself enough credit. I bet you're a lot sweeter than you admit. You're a nice person, and I bet, someday, you're going to be a caring husband and father."] Davan's reaction is to laugh his head off, but two years later, [http://www.somethingpositive.net/sp12192006.shtml we meet Rory] - [http://www.somethingpositive.net/sp01152007.shtml not his son,] [http://www.somethingpositive.net/sp05232007.shtml but when you see them together...]

** Equius... {{spoiler|[[The Elder Scrolls V Skyrim|took an arrow to the knee]]}}.

* ''[[Sonichu]]'' mentioned that he had a dream of seeing his creator with long hair in the mirror in one issue. Needless to say, this ended up coming true. [http://sonichu.com/cwcki/Tomgirl_Saga\]

 

== [[Web Animation]] ==

* In episode 4 of the series ''Beebo'', when Beebo's master goes to Heaven and sees Kobe Bryant and pleads "Please don't rape me!". Guess what trial Kobe Bryant got into less than a year later.