Line #34 HilariousInHindsight/PrintMedia


1	* Magazine/NintendoPower:
2	** The ''[[Franchise/SuperMarioBros Mario Vs. Wario]]'' comics printed in Magazine/NintendoPower shortly after Wario's debut in ''VideoGame/SuperMarioLand2SixGoldenCoins'' said that the reason for Wario's grudge against Mario was when they were playing cowboys as kids, he got to be sheriff only once. Ten years later, the GBA game ''VideoGame/WarioWare Inc.: Mega Microgame$'' features a hidden version of Nintendo's arcade game ''Sheriff'' with Wario taking over the title role. Wario also gets to be a sheriff in ''[[VideoGame/MarioParty Mario Party 2]]''.
3	** Another Nintendo Power example: when [[Franchise/{{Pokemon}} Lucario]] was suggested as a playable character in ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBros Brawl'' in the letters to the editor, it was juxtaposed with a suggestion of WesternAnimation/DoraTheExplorer and laughed off by the responder. Later along the line, Lucario was announced as a playable character. (Sadly, Dora didn't make the cut.)
4	** During the early days, the Player's Pulse section once featured a topic of the issue being the most infuriating gaming moments for players. One such player ranted about something involving his sister, and ended his post with "God must be a girl!"[[note]] Ironically, this was a time when Nintendo of America didn't allow religious references in any games it licensed, and since NP was an American magazine...[[/note]] [[Literature/HaruhiSuzumiya Thirteen years later...]]
5	** A fan letter published the December 1991 issue' detailed a fantasy game system which would come bundled with a game "better known as Super Mario Bros. 24", but would actually have the title of ''VideoGame/SuperMarioGalaxy''.
6	** Another letter in the mid-90's had someone writing in about how awesome a game set in a courtroom would be, which the editors replied would've been [[ItWillNeverCatchOn a stupid idea]]. Capcom, apparently, was reading that letter, and came with the ''Franchise/AceAttorney'' series.
7	* Electronic Gaming Monthly made an AprilFoolsDay joke about a code to get play as Sonic and Tails in ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBros. Melee'' (even photoshopping an extremely convincing pic). Come the Wii generation and ''Brawl'', Sonic (but not Tails) joins the cast of playable characters.
8	* ''Magazine/TVGuide'':
9	** A tradition for the magazine was every Fall Preview to gush on shows that would quickly be canceled while virtually ignoring series that would end up running for years.
10	** For Super Bowl XXXII in 1998, TV Guide had five covers, one for Denver Broncos star John Elway and four for the Green Bay Packers, who were going into the game heavy favorites. Elway and the Broncos pulled off an upset victory.
11	** The magazine had ''four'' alternate covers in 1999 for the Cleveland Browns with the headline "The Browns Are Back!" The Browns went 2-14 that season.
12	** An annual event in September would be TV Guide doing regional covers for local NFL teams and thus often boasting of a great year for a team that went on to have a losing season.
13	** The 2000 Fall TV Preview featured four major stars in anticipated sitcoms: Creator/MichaelRichards (''The Michael Richards Show''), Creator/GeenaDavis (''The Geena Davis Show''), Creator/BetteMidler (''Bette'') and Creator/JohnGoodman (''Normal, Ohio''). All four shows were quickly canceled flops.
14	** The July 12, 2003 issue featured a cover star of Travis Fimmel, who was starring in the WB version of ''Tarzan'', called "soon to be TV's hottest star." The series was canceled after eight episodes.
15	* ''Entertainment Weekly'' had to endure quite a few miscues over its 32 year existence.
16	** As with ''TV Guide'', it's impossible to count how many times the Fall TV Preview spent pages talking about a "sure thing" show that was canceled fast while brushing over what became the season's biggest hits.
17	** Of all the movies of 1991 for ''EW'' to put on the cover of their Summer Preview? The infamous flop ''Film/HudsonHawk''.
18	** A 1997 cover story talked about "the big gambles of '97" which included the ''Franchise/StarWars'' Special Editions. Just a few weeks later, ''EW'' was talking about the Special Editions breaking box office records.
19	** Among the many movies covered by the 1999 Summer Preview, one that wasn't even ''mentioned''? ''Film/TheSixthSense''.
20	** The 2008 Fall Movie Preview boasted a big cover story for ''Film/HarryPotterAndTheHalfBloodPrince'' which was to premiere in November. ''Literally'' hours after ''EW'' announced the cover and just as it was to hit newsstands and subscribers, Warner Bros announced the movie would be delayed until July of 2009.
21	** In a 2013 cover story on the huge success of ''Series/PrettyLittleLiars'', ''EW'' had to acknowledge that not only did they give the show a poor review when it premiered two years earlier but even listed it as one of the "5 Worst Shows of 2011."
22	* In September of 1993, ''The Hollywood Reporter'' did [[https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/x-files-first-episode-thrs-784008/ a review]] of a new Fox TV series with a "labored premise," and finishing with the line "though the show works with a certain unintended camp kick, at the moment “X” doesn’t mark the spot where viewers can find involving drama by way of Stephen King-esque actions" and down on its chances of lasting a full season. The series in question? ''Series/TheXFiles''.
23	* ''Magazine/{{Cracked}}'' when it was still a humor magazine:
24	** A 1970s issue [[http://web.archive.org/web/20120119094157/http://www.cartoonbrew.com/cartoon-culture/1970s-cracked-magazine-accurately-predicted-2009.html predicted youth culture 30 years later]] pretty well.
25	** A 1984 issue featured parodies of recurring features in rival ''Magazine/{{MAD}}'', including two Don Orehek cartoons done InTheStyleOf Don Martin. Six years later, Don Martin left ''MAD'' over a salary dispute and started working for ''Cracked''.
26	* [[http://s3-ec.buzzfed.com/static/2014-02/enhanced/webdr06/8/16/enhanced-3516-1391895560-2.jpg This]] ''Sports Illustrated'' cover taken during the 1984 Summer Olympics and its boycott from Soviet nations shows the red olympic ring in the far right corner fallen apart. Now here's the ring sculpture from the 2014 Winter Olympics' [[http://s3-ec.buzzfed.com/static/2014-02/enhanced/webdr07/8/16/anigif_enhanced-322-1391893601-22.gif opening ceremonies]].
27	* The infamous [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sports_Illustrated_cover_jinx Sports Illustrated cover jinx]] has been providing laughter for decades. It ranges from teams called sure-things proceeding (sometimes almost immediately) to lose major games; pre-season predictions for "championship" teams who end up having losing seasons; to scores of "future stars" who never come close to fulfilling their potential.
28	* Even without the above jinx, ''SI'' has often gotten stuff very wrong:
29	** A 1965 story declared Arnold Palmer was through as a golfer. Palmer would win 16 tournaments over the next six years.
30	** They said the Green Bay Packers were just having an off-year in a losing season in 1968. It would take 28 years for the Packers to win another Super Bowl.
31	** Their 1984 college football preview said unranked LSU was "in a rebuilding year." The Cougars not only went 13-0 but won the National Championship.
32	** They called Wayne Gretzky "old and out of gas"...in 1990. Gretzky would score an NHL-best 878 points over the next nine seasons.
33	** A 1991 story discussed how the New York Yankees were likely never to recapture their old magic. Within five years, the Yankees had won the first of four World Series within a decade.
34	** The December 2023 issue discussed the Georgia Bulldogs, who were coming off back-to-back National Championships and an undefeated regular season with talk of them going for a threepeat. By the time the issue was published, the Bulldogs had lost the SEC Championship to Alabama, which cost them a shot at the College Football Playoffs.
35	** It can't be counted how many times the NFL/MLB/NBA/NHL preview has predicted "Division/Conference/World Champions" for teams that end up having losing seasons while teams not expected to break .500 are the ones hoisting a trophy at the end of the year.
36	* ''{{Magazine/Wizard}} Magazine'':
37	** In issue #112 (January 2001), there's a funny little comic about the employees discussing possible directors for the ''Film/SpiderMan1'' movie. Copy Editor Andy Serwin thinks Disney should make it, believing Spider-Man is for kids. Eight years later, Disney owns Creator/MarvelComics, and there are plans for an animated Spider-Man movie (though it'll be released by Creator/SonyPictures). It'll be seven more years later for Spider-Man to finally appear in the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse alongside the Avengers.
38	** The April 2001 issue had a fancast for a live-action ''[[Comicbook/TeenTitans Titans]]'' movie. While many of the choices were questionable (like 39-year-old Creator/TomCruise as Comicbook/{{Nightwing}} and Creator/SeanConnery as Comicbook/{{Deathstroke}}), one of the ideas put forth was Creator/KellyHu as Cheshire. About a decade later, Kelly Hu would voice Cheshire in ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice''.
39	** Likewise, in both a 2001 "Casting Call" and a mock movie poster, ''Wizard'' suggested that if a ''G.I. Joe'' movie was ever made, Creator/RayPark should play Snake-Eyes. Sure enough, Park played the role in ''Film/GIJoeTheRiseOfCobra'' and ''Film/GIJoeRetaliation''.
40	** That same mock ''G.I. Joe'' poster suggested Creator/JenniferGarner as Scarlett. In ''Rise of Cobra'', Scarlett was played by Garner's ''Series/{{Alias}}'' co-star, Creator/RachelNichols.
41	** A 1997 "Casting Call" on an ''X-Men'' movie choosing Creator/PatrickStewart for Professor X wasn't too surprising given how fans had wanted that for years. But a 2000 call for a sequel suggesting Creator/AlanCumming as Comicbook/{{Nightcrawler}}? Maybe [[Film/X2XMenUnited someone at 20th Century Fox]] was a fan of the magazine...
42	** In a fancast from issue #105, the magazine suggested Creator/JohnTurturro for the role of Alberto Falcone in a hypothetical adaptation of ''ComicBook/TheLongHalloween''. 19 years later, Turturro was cast as Carmine Falcone, Alberto's dad, in ''Film/{{The Batman\|2022}}''.
43	* The [[https://theweek.com/toc/406678 Sep. 07 '18]] cover for ''The Week'' is titled "Swamped," showing Trump sloshing through a swamp that has encompassed the White House. ''[[Magazine/{{Mad}} MAD's]]'' ''20 Dumbest People, Events, and Things of 2018'' parodies Trump himself as the Swamp ''Thing''.
44	* A cartoon in ''Road & Track'' featured a car called the "Bug Royale" which had the front end of a Bugatti Royale and the rear of a Volkswagen Beetle. The cartoon was featured in an early 1990's issue, a few years before Volkswagen actually took ownership of Bugatti (1998).
45	* In 1977, long before the book ''Night at the Museum'' was ever published, a commemorative book from the Smithsonian opened with an essay titled "I Wonder What Happens at Midnight", about everything in the museums magically coming to life after closing time. In 2008, ''[[Film/NightAtTheMuseum Night at the Museum 2]]'' came out, with that exact premise.
46	* A 1995 issue of Odyssey Magazine had an article titled "A Note from the NASA Administrator". The accompanying photograph showed the author of the article, then-administrator Daniel Goldin, and astronaut Charles Bolden talking to schoolkids about space exploration. In July 2009, Bolden was appointed as... NASA's Administrator.
47	* This ''Entertainment Weekly'' [[http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,316556,00.html story]] mused about the possibility of Paula Abdul dancing with Fred Astaire after seeing Music/EltonJohn playing with [[TheDeadRiseToAdvertise Louis Armstrong]] for Diet Coke. Well, it wasn't Fred, but [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7gny3qTxqw it was close enough]]... One wonders if that writer has ever played ''VideoGame/SuperCastlevaniaIV''...
48	* On the subject of academic writings...
49	-->It follows from such a view that psychology may be an interim science destined to wither away as neurology advances. I think this is about as imminent as the withering away of the Soviet dictatorship but I would not deny the possibility. -- Roger Brown, Words and Things, 1958
50	* In [[http://www.homunculus.com/articles/sorvinomira/sorvinogq9708.html this 1997 interview]], the reference to Tom Cruise at the very end is pretty hilarious in retrospect. So is the earlier part about how good she is at picking projects, considering that she hasn't had a major starring role since that interview came out.
51	* This [[http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/c9/National-stereotypes.jpg 1835 British children's book]] says about the Chinese, "It is from China that we obtain tea and silk, and fine muslins." Little more than a century later...
52	* Some 1970s newspapers abbreviated "Three Mile Island" as "TMI", which creates some chuckles when reading through newspaper archives several decades later, now that people often use the exact same letters to mean "too much information". "Senator Calls for TMI Investigation" indeed...
53	* ''Kitchen Confidential'':
54	** New York chef Creator/AnthonyBourdain remarked in the foreword to his tell-all memoirs that the book would not get him his own show on the Food Network. The book made Bourdain a celebrity chef, who ended up getting [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3XoHaSsqkE his own show]] on, yes, the Food Network.
55	** Later in the book, Bourdain and a fellow chef dismiss the Spanish chef Ferran Adriá, and his molecular gastronomy, as "bogus", "shock value" and "that foam guy's shit". Adriá went on to completely revolutionize fine dining, and Bourdain would later make [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3sGz1XtD4I a fawning documentary]] about Adriá and his cooking.
56	* The 1995 book ''Unuseless Japanese Inventions'' featured a selection of humorous gadgets that "performed a useful function, but were too impractical or embarrassing to ever actually use." On [[https://andoryu71.blogspot.jp/2015/05/chindogu-selfie-sticks.html page 250]] is a couple using a camera mounted on a stick to take a self-portrait, 20 years before selfie sticks became the hottest fad item. Apparently, people got over their embarrassment.
57	* Because of a long gap time for print in the 1980s and '90s in order to make an early January release date, ''Pro Wrestling Illustrated's'' Year-End issue with the "PWI Awards" would only cover events up to, at the latest, the first week of November. Which means often ''PWI'' would miss some important items in the last two months of a year to affect their awards:
58	** The 1988 "Inspirational Wrestler" award went to Wrestling/JerryLawler for restoring the AWA World title to prominence. Shortly after the issue hit, Lawler and the AWA had a huge falling out with Lawler stripped of the belt, which set the AWA on a path to being out of business in two years.
59	** The 1989 Tag Team of the Year was Wrestling/ArnAnderson and Wrestling/TullyBlanchard. Both men had left WWF by early November.
60	** The 1990 issue discussed Wrestling/{{Sting}} defeating Wrestling/RicFlair for the NWA World title and articles basically saying Flair was done as a major star. By the time the issue came out, Flair had regained the title from Sting and would hold it about a dozen more times (not to mention numerous other championships) while remaining one of the top stars in the business for another two decades.
61	** The very first winner of the "Comeback of the Year" award in 1992 was Wrestling/UltimateWarrior. Warrior had left WWF in mid-November.

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