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** Also, the episode had Monica meeting recently-engaged Rachel for the first time in years.

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* ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'': Before becoming famous as "Lindana", Linda Flynn once dated Heinz Doofenshmirtz. He mocked her dreams of becoming a star by claiming he'd rule the world by then. She then suggested him to start small. The Tri-State Area, for example. Well, Linda became a pop star. Did Doof take over the Tri-State Area? [[WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerbTheMovieAcrossTheSecondDimension Not in this reality]].

See also {{Irony}}, {{Futureshadowing}} and ItWillNeverCatchOn.

** Another episode showed Adam and Jamie trying to be the first to find a needle in a haystack. At the beginning, Adam predicts that in a few hours, Jamie will still be searching while he'll "be kicking back, sipping mimosas in the shade." When he's unsuccessful a few hours in, [[GenreSavvy he predicts this will happen]] right before it does.

* A flashback episode of ''{{Friends}}'' has the main characters meeting up in a bar, and being told it's getting demolished and replaced with a coffee house, to which Chandler remarks "Where are we going to hang out now?" For those who don't know, the six hanging out at the coffee house has been pretty much a OnceAnEpisode thing for the whole show.

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* ''{{Series/Frasier}}'', a flashback shows Martin has a pet goldfish named Eddie. His partner tells him to consider a "real" pet like a dog, but Martin says he isn't a dog person.

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** The article about [[http://www.platypuscomix.net/bored/tvguideads13.html Fall 1989]] points out Creator/AlysonHannigan, the actress of Buffy's witchy companion Willow, portraying one of the children in ''Free Spirit'', a sitcom about a CuteWitch who becomes a MagicalNanny to three motherless children.

* A couple of these happen in ''Series/EverybodyLovesRaymond''. There was one that had Maria not wanting to meddle in Robert's life and Debra thinking it's not meddling as long as it's out of love. Another has Robert saying he found the love of his life Joanne who he later divorce. But the biggest would be a flashback of a pregnant Debra wanting to move to the house thats next door to Maria and Frank, thinking it be perfect since they could see them all the time.

* A couple of these happen in ''Series/EverybodyLovesRaymond''. There was one that had Maria not wanting to meddle in her Robert's life and Debra thinking it's not meddling as long as it's out of love. Another has Robert saying he found the love of his life Joanne who he later divorce. But the biggest would be a flashback of a pregnant Debra wanting to move to the house thats next door to Maria and Frank, thinking it be perfect since they could see them all the time.

Compare HilariousInHindsight, which is the non-in universe version of this Trope.

* An episode of ''WesternAnimation/GarfieldAndFriends'' flashes back to when Jon was a kid and adopting Garfield(who is just a kitten). He assures his mother he can handle taking care of him because after all, [[BigEater "how much an a cat eat?"]]

* ''PhineasAndFerb'': Before becoming famous as "Lindana", Linda Flynn once dated Heinz Doofenshmirtz. He mocked her dreams of becoming a star by claiming he'd rule the world by then. She then suggested him to start small. The Tri-State Area, for example. Well, Linda became a pop star. Did Doof take over the Tri-State Area? [[PhineasAndFerbTheMovieAcrossTheSecondDimension Not in this reality]].
* An episode of ''GarfieldandFriends'' flashes back to when Jon was a kid and adopting Garfield(who is just a kitten). He assures his mother he can handle taking care of him because after all, [[BigEater "how much an a cat eat?"]]

* ''PlatypusComix'' used this in "[[http://www.platypuscomix.net/bored/tvguideads11.html The Lost Art Of TV Guide Advertising: Spring 1997]]". One of the ads shown was for the series premire of ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'', and it was annotated with this:

* ''Anime/YuGiOh'', Grandpa Muto makes a vow in a flashback that if he ever loses a game, he'll give up adventuring, open a game shop and wear overalls for the rest of his life.

* A flashback episode of ''Friends'' has the main characters meeting up in a bar, and being told it's getting demolished and replaced with a coffee house, to which Chandler remarks "Where are we going to hang out now?" For those who don't know, the six hanging out at the coffee house has been pretty much a OnceAnEpisode thing for the whole show.

* A flashback episode of ''Firends'' has the main characters meeting up in a bar, and being told it's getting demolished and replaced with a coffee house, to which Chandler remarks "Where are we going to hang out now?" For those who don't know, the six hanging out at the coffee house has been pretty much a OnceAnEpisode thing for the whole show.

See also {{Irony}} and ItWillNeverCatchOn.

* ''{{Anime/YuGiOh}}'', Grandpa Muto makes a vow in a flashback that if he ever loses a game, he'll give up adventuring, open a game shop and wear overalls for the rest of his life.

* ''PlatypusComix'' used this in "[[http://www.platypuscomix.net/bored/tvguideads11.html The Lost Art Of TV Guide Advertising: Spring 1997]]". One of the ads shown was for the series premire of ''BuffyTheVampireSlayer'', and it was annotated with this:

* ''{{YuGiOh}}'', Grandpa Muto makes a vow in a flashback that if he ever loses a game, he'll give up adventuring, open a game shop and wear overalls for the rest of his life.

* ''{{Frasier}}'', a flashback shows Martin has a pet goldfish named Eddie. His partner tells him to consider a "real" pet like a dog, but Martin says he isn't a dog person.
* ''TheBigBangTheory'', when Leonard moves in Sheldon puts in the roommate agreement that they will set aside time to watch ''{{Firefly}}'', "we may as well get it out of the way, it's going to be on forever".

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* ''{{YuGiOh}}'', Grandpa Muto makes a vow in a flashback that if he ever loses a game, he'll give up adventuring, open a game shop and wear overalls for the rest of his life.

-->''"Not sure what this is. Something about a cheerleader? I'm sure there's something about it in a couple places on the Internet. I think there was a 1992 film by the same name, and then the guy who wrote it didn't like how it turned out and made it as a series instead.....who knows how it'll go. Maybe the geeks will get into it?"''

See also {{Irony}} and It'llNeverCatchOn.

See also {{Irony}} and ItllNeverCatchOn.