History HilariousInHindsight / SaturdayNightLive

** Brie also appears as 60s songbird Lesley Gore - hmm, [[Film/CaptainMarvel a MCU superhero]] [[Series/WandaVision turned into a black and white 60s character]], that'll never catch on...

* The same episode featured a sketch centering around Wilson recording dialogue for another sequel in the ''WesternAnimation/{{Cars}}'' franchise. Just a month later, Creator/DisneyPlus announced that a new series based on the franchise titled ''Cars on the Road'' would debut in 2022, with Wilson reprising his role as Lightning [=McQueen=].

* The parody of ''WesternAnimation/{{Bambi}}'' as an action movie, starring Creator/DwayneJohnson as the titular character, became even funnier in 2017 when Johnson starred in [[WesternAnimation/{{Moana}} an actual Disney movie]] and even moreso in 2020 when [[Film/DisneyLiveActionRemakes Disney announced a real live-action]] ''Bambi'' [[https://variety.com/2020/film/news/bambi-disney-remake-1203479063/ was in development.]]

* The first episode after 9/11 has your typical ''Celebrity Jeopardy'' skit, with host Reese Witherspoon playing the [[CloudCuckooLander certifiably nuts]] Anne Heche; she doesn't respond to Alex Trebek (Will Ferrell) informing her that it's her board, until he calls her "Celestia"; fast-forward about 9-10 years, and that name is [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic definitely recognizable]].

* In one "Weekend Update", Creator/NormMacDonald responded to a joke comment by Creator/JoelSchumacher that all the costumes in ''Film/BatmanAndRobin'' would have nipples by making a "note to self": "Do not see the new Batman movie!" Good thinking on his part!
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=suotMy3uYG8&ab_channel=SaturdayNightLive This cold opening]] from the 12th episode has Tim Meadows as UsefulNotes/OJSimpson quoting Creator/CubaGoodingJr's "Show me the money!" line from ''Film/JerryMaguire''. 19 years later, Gooding portrayed Simpson in ''Series/ThePeopleVOJSimpson''.

* In one episode hosted by Creator/PatrickStewart, he delivers a garbled version of his introductory narration from ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' in which he misspeaks "starship Enterprise" as "Star Trek Enterprise." There was later a show called ''Series/StarTrekEnterprise''.

* One of Kenan Thompson's recurring characters is retired football player DC Timmons, who's a train wreck of a man due to suffering repeated head trauma in his time on the field. This season has Kenan take on the role of senator Herschel Walker, a former football player who's known for showing all the signs of repeated head trauma.

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=suotMy3uYG8&ab_channel=SaturdayNightLive This cold opening]] from the 12th episode has Tim Meadows as UsefulNotes/OJSimpson quoting Creator/CubaGoodingJr's "Show me the money!" line from ''Film/JerryMaguire''. Gooding would then go on to play O.J. in ''Series/ThePeopleVOJSimpson''.

* The parody of ''WesternAnimation/{{Bambi}}'' as an action movie, starring Creator/DwayneJohnson as the titular character, became even funnier in 2017 when Johnson starred in [[WesternAnimation/{{Moana}} an actual Disney movie]] and even moreso in 2020 when Disney announced a real live-action ''Bambi'' [[https://variety.com/2020/film/news/bambi-disney-remake-1203479063/ was in development.]]

[[folder: Season 15]]
* Music/SineadOConnor was scheduled to perform in the penultimate episode, but she pulled out of the episode due to the controversial choice of host (Creator/AndrewDiceClay). This is amusing given that she herself would spark controversy on the show later on by ripping apart the Pope's picture while identifying him as "the real enemy." She performed on the next season's premiere (which is, by the way, NOT the infamous performance stated above).

* In the sketch "Black Takeover" during the 7th episode hosted by Creator/RichardPryor, Creator/DanAykroyd, who plays the father, is seen ranting about [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin African-Americans taking over various things]]; at one point, he says that "one day one's Governor, next day one's President..." Well, he ''was'' right about the [[UsefulNotes/BarackObama "President"]] part.

* In one of the "Generalissimo Francisco Franco Is Still Dead" skits, the latter's former Press Secretary claims that "[he] doesn't think that there will be any change in [Franco's] position". In 2019, after a long and extremely heated debate, the Spanish government ordered Franco's corpse to be exhumed from the Valley of the Fallen (a memorial to the deceased on both sides of the UsefulNotes/SpanishCivilWar, commissioned by Franco himself and built using forced labor) due to considering it both disrespectful to the victims of the conflict and not wishing it to be memorialized. Franco was then reburied next to his wife in a private graveyard.

* In an episode hosted by Creator/BenAffleck, he touted "Bennifer" T-shirts during the monologue, explaining that he had unfortunately ordered 50,000 of them prior to his breakup with Music/JenniferLopez, and went on to offer several other PortmanteauCoupleName combos such as "Benyonce", "Mary-Kate and Ashfleck", and (in the unlikely event that Creator/MattDamon [[HoYay finally came around]]), "Ben-Gay". Only a couple years later, Affleck would get hitched to Creator/JenniferGarner (and was with her until 2015), which made those "Bennifer" shirts valuable again.

* After the Oscar nominations were announced, the show did a song about how so many of the Best Picture nominees were about "white male rage." Then the winner ended up being ''Film/{{Parasite}}'', a South Korean film and the first ever non-English-language winner of the award.

** That episode sees the first appearance of Music/TheBluesBrothers. She would later appear in [[Film/TheBluesBrothers their film]].

** Doubles as HarsherInHindsight given allegations of sexual impropriety against Franken.

** The Franchise/IncredibleHulk suddenly goes completely articulate since he wrote his speech as Bruce Banner. The publicity for ''Film/ThorRagnarok'' made sure to emphasize the Hulk's speech.

* In the end of the first episode of this season, Creator/ElliottGould introduces the new cast one more time and proudly tells the audience, "We're gonna be around forever!" [[HarsherInHindsight Three months later, another host, Charlene Tilton, caused an F-bomb debacle which got most of those cast members fired as a result]] except for Creator/EddieMurphy and Creator/JoePiscopo, but it also counts as this trope ''and'' HeartwarmingInHindsight considering that SNL is still the [[LongRunner longest running]] sketch show.

* One sketch featuring potential auditions for ''WesternAnimation/TheLionKing2019'' featured Creator/JohnOliver as Zazu, before Oliver was ''actually cast'' as Zazu for the film in real life.

* In the end of the first episode of this season, Creator/ElliottGould introduces the new cast one more time and proudly tells the audience, "We're gonna be around forever!" [[FunnyAneurysmMoment Three months later, another host, Charlene Tilton, caused an F-bomb debacle which got most of those cast members fired as a result]] except for Creator/EddieMurphy and Creator/JoePiscopo, but it also counts as this trope ''and'' HeartwarmingInHindsight considering that SNL is still the [[LongRunner longest running]] sketch show.

* In 1998, Creator/AlecBaldwin hosted a Season 24 episode, and during his YetAnotherChristmasCarol opening speech during the monologue, Creator/JimmyFallon, then a new cast member, made an appearance as the "Ghost of Hosts Future" and told Alec that he was given a prediction that he would become famous and host the show in 2011. Fast forward to actual 2011, where Jimmy is now one of TV's most popular television personalities and hosted Season 37's Christmas episode on December 17[[note]]Specifically, he said he would host the show on December 12, 2011. The prediction couldn't come fully true as December 12 fell on a Monday that year[[/note]]. (Doubles as a FunnyAneurysmMoment: The sketch stated that Music/{{REM}} was the musical guest for the episode Fallon hosted. REM broke up earlier that year.)

* From the Creator/AmySchumer episode, a deliberately uplifting commercial about random people from families to couples finding a special connection... with guns. Not so implausible after the NRA made a proper Valentine's Day message in 2018. Unfortunately it turns into a FunnyAneurysmMoment when they have to pull it after a mass shooting in Florida.

* The Michael Cohen wiretap cold open in the [[Music/ChildishGambino Donald Glover]] episode has "Trump" (Alec Baldwin) saying "How you holding up in prison?" When "Cohen" (Creator/BenStiller) says, "I'm not in prison", Trump says, "Give it a couple weeks." A couple of months later, Cohen pleaded guilty to several felonies - possibly a FunnyAneurysmMoment for Cohen and his family, but for the rest of us, it certainly falls under this. Additionally, one of the people Cohen calls is "Omarosa" (Creator/LeslieJones), who says, "Yeah, this is Omarosa and I'm ''still'' pissed off." The real Omarosa would start doing a book tour savaging the Trump administration within a few months.