Line #46 HilariousInHindsight/AnimatedFilms


1	!!Examples:
2	* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qu_Eag_NbVU Cutting Edge]]'', a song in ''WesternAnimation/TheBraveLittleToaster'' where The Master's new appliances gloat about how technologically advanced they are is amusing to watch now that [[TechnologyMarchesOn Technology Has Marched On]]. Said "cutting edge" appliances are now all hilariously and amazingly obsolete (good luck even finding some of them in a thrift store), while the "outdated" toaster, lamp, vacuum, and electric blanket are all still popular and commonly used in homes.
3	* In Disney's ''WesternAnimation/{{Cinderella}}'', one of the heroine's evil stepsisters is named "Anastasia". Fast-forward about fifty years, and ''WesternAnimation/{{Anastasia}}'' becomes something of an evil stepsister to the Disney canon princesses, considering she was Creator/DonBluth's answer to them, and Don Bluth used to work for Disney before leaving and establishing himself as a competitor. Even better, both Anastasias are/eventually become redheaded heroines with love interests with humble backgrounds.
4	* One of the songs used in ''WebVideo/TheFryingNemoSaga'', a series of YouTubePoop videos based on ''WesternAnimation/FindingNemo'', is "What A Wonderful World" by Music/LouisArmstrong. In 2016, the film's sequel, ''WesternAnimation/FindingDory'', would use this song [[spoiler: when Hank the septopus crashes a truck into the ocean to free all the fish inside of it]].
5	* In ''WesternAnimation/FritzTheCat'' a character trying (in vain) to seem racially aware hilariously remarked "Why does a great actor like Creator/JamesEarlJones always have to play black characters?" Five years later ''Franchise/StarWars: Film/ANewHope'' hit theaters, with James Earl Jones portraying the presumed, and eventually confirmed White guy Darth Vader.
6	** Even funnier now, with the controversy over white characters being made black in comic book movies, i.e. Creator/SamuelLJackson as ComicBook/NickFury, Creator/LaurenceFishburne as Perry White in ''Film/ManOfSteel''.
7	* In ''WesternAnimation/Frozen2013'', Elsa has the ability to conjure ice and snow. Shortly after the movie came out, a "polar vortex" caused large swaths of the United States and Canada to be blasted with subzero temperatures and heavy snowfall. A lot of fans therefore jokingly blamed the polar vortex on Elsa's powers. That, or telling Mother Nature that when Elsa said "the cold never bothered me anyway," it wasn't supposed to be taken as a challenge. The first teaser for ''WesternAnimation/FrozenII'' would be released during the 2019 polar vortex.
8	* ''WesternAnimation/MeetTheRobinsons'':
9	** Throughout the film, [[Main/AffablyEvil The Bowler Hat Guy]]/[[spoiler:Goob]], a middle-aged man, is seen carrying a notebook with a cartoon pony on the cover. A few years later, thanks to a [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic certain cartoon]], that sort of thing [[Main/PeripheryDemographic would become commonplace]] in the real world.
10	** At one point in the movie, the Bowler Hat Guy [[Main/MindControl Mind Controls]] a frog and a [[UsefulNotes/TyrannosaurusRex T-Rex]] using a special hat. 10 years later, and out comes a [[VideoGame/SuperMarioOdyssey video game where you do exactly that]].
11	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Pocahontas}}'':
12	** Creator/MelGibson voices the dashing John Smith, who reconciles two warring races and falls in love with a woman of a different ethnicity - and doesn't blast racial slurs at her.
13	** Creator/ChristianBale is a mild, meek young soldier who doesn't seem like he would hurl verbal abuse at the Virginia Company's photographer. WebVideo/TheNostalgiaChick gleefully points this out.
14	* ''WesternAnimation/PenguinsOfMadagascar'':
15	** Long before this movie, Creator/BenedictCumberbatch narrated a documentary in which he had trouble [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-GnLDJAgrws pronouncing]] the word "penguin" as he does in this film (he pronounces the word as "pengwing" especially when he has to rattle of lines rapid fire).
16	** In the movie, [[spoiler:the fate of Dave the Octopus is that he gets trapped inside a snow globe]]. In both ''VideoGame/Splatoon1'' and ''VideoGame/Splatoon2'', [[spoiler:the fate of [[FinalBoss DJ Octavio]], also an octopus, is that he gets imprisoned in a snow globe]].
17	** An Octopus pretending to be a human? [[VideoGame/{{Octodad}} Someone should make a game about that...]]
18	* The eighth film ''Animation/{{Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf\|Film Series}}'' film, ''[[Animation/PleasantGoatAndBigBigWolfDunkForFuture Dunk for Future]]'', had Happytoon as a production company. They're the company that produces ''Animation/HappyHeroes'', Huang Weiming's other long-running series. Later in 2022, it was announced that ''Happy Heroes'' would be getting a third movie, ''[[Animation/HappyHeroesTheStones The Stones]]'', that has ''Pleasant Goat'' production company Creator/CreativePowerEntertaining as part of its crew, bringing it full-circle.
19	* In ''WesternAnimation/TheSecretLifeOfPets'', there's a scene where, while Max and Duke are being chased by Snowball and the sewer animals, a turtle shell is seen bouncing around like a Koopa shell from ''Franchise/SuperMarioBros''. Six years later, ''The Secret Life of Pets''' production company, Creator/IlluminationEntertainment, [[WesternAnimation/TheSuperMarioBrosMovie released an adaptation of that series]].
20	* ''Franchise/{{Shrek}}'':
21	** In [[WesternAnimation/Shrek1 the first movie]], after Fiona realizes Shrek is an ogre, he remarks "You were expecting maybe Prince Charming?" We learn in the next movie that she really ''was'' expecting Prince Charming, and her not being rescued by said Prince Charming drives part of the plot.
22	** Shrek and Fiona, huh? Maybe there’s [[VideoGame/XenobladeChronicles1 another couple with similar names?]]
23	** In ''WesternAnimation/{{Shrek 2}}'', there is a poster of "Sir Justin" in Fiona's room who looks like Music/JustinTimberlake. Timberlake played the role of Arthur in ''WesternAnimation/ShrekTheThird''.
24	** In ''WesternAnimation/ShrekTheThird'', there is a scene in which several princesses, including spoofs of Rapunzel, Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty and Snow White, have a superhero-style battle against Prince Charming, all of whom are included in the Franchise/DisneyPrincess line-up (though Rapunzel jointed the Disney lineup four years after ''Shrek The Third'' was made). In an actual Disney film, ''WesternAnimation/RalphBreaksTheInternet'', [[spoiler: the Disney Princesses help fight an army of Ralph clones with their own special abilities]].
25	* In ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsonsMovie'', Bart imitates WesternAnimation/MickeyMouse by wearing a black bra on his head and saying "I'm the mascot of an evil corporation". Creator/{{Disney}} now owns most of 21st Century Fox's assets, which includes ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons''.
26	* In ''WesternAnimation/SleepingBeauty'', Fauna suggests that they attempt to reason with Maleficent because she can't be all bad; Fauna also speculates that Maleficent isn't very happy, knowing nothing about love, kindness, and joy of helping others. In this movie, Maleficent is of course evil, but Fauna sort of predicts the remake, ''Film/{{Maleficent}}'', in which the titular character is [[WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds driven to villainy as a result of being physically and emotionally broken]]; she unexpectedly finds herself helping Aurora, learns to be kind and love again, and pulls a HeelFaceTurn because of that.
27	* ''WesternAnimation/SouthParkBiggerLongerAndUncut'':
28	** Gregory complains about [[Film/TeamAmericaWorldPolice America policing the world]].
29	** The "censored version" of ''Asses of Fire'' is only one minute long because of all the raunchy content. In 2001, the DVD of ''Film/FreddyGotFingered'' has a three-minute "PG" version of the film as a bonus feature.
30	* The ShoutOut to ''Film/MadMax'' in ''[[WesternAnimation/TheSpongebobMovieSpongeOutOfWater The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water]]'' with the denizens of Bikini Bottom transformed into Apunkalypse after the disappearance of the Krabby Patty recipe became more hilarious three months later with the release of ''Film/MadMaxFuryRoad''.
31	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Rio}}'': Nigel, a sulfur-crested cockatoo, is one in an endangered species. Eventually, ''The Week'' would specify a "good week" for "endangered species," by which it meant men bearing such a name as going out of vogue, meeting at a pub somewhere.
32	* ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory1'': Rex, a toy dinosaur, mentions that he was made by an unnamed company that was bought out by Mattel. Fans have long noted his resemblance to the tyrannosaur from the already-discontinued "Dino-Riders" line (which featured human action figures that... well, [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin rode on dinosaurs]]) and speculated that that's exactly what he was. Fast forward two years after the movie's release, and the company behind Dino-Riders, Tyco, was indeed bought by Mattel.
33	** ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory4'': Woody telling Buzz about what a conscience (or "inner voice") is becomes this when Creator/TomHanks starred in Disney's ''[[Film/Pinocchio2022Disney Pinocchio]]'' remake as Geppetto.
34	* ''WesternAnimation/TurningRed'':
35	** This wouldn’t be the last time in 2022 James Hong [[Film/EverythingEverywhereAllAtOnce would deal with a mother with a troubled relationship with her own daughter.]] Except this time, ''he's'' the feared grandparent.
36	* Creator/WaltDisney saw ''Film/{{Pollyanna\|1960}}'' make less money than expected, and [[http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B0DE6DD123DF936A15753C1A961948260&sec=&spon= commented]], "I think the picture would have done better with a different title. Girls and women went to it, but men tended to stay away because it sounded sweet and sticky." Decades later, Disney executives would use ''the exact same'' logic to justify the retitling of [[WesternAnimation/{{Tangled}} one of the CGI films]], which came off the heels of [[WesternAnimation/ThePrincessAndTheFrog another underperforming film with a "girly" title]].
37	* Duke Weaselton in ''WesternAnimation/{{Zootopia}}'' is shown running a bootleg DVD stand, with mammal-versions of other Disney animated movies, including "[[ProductionForeshadowing movies that haven't even been released yet]]". One of these films is ''Giraffic'', referencing a production which was in the works at the time known as ''Gigantic'', but ended up being shelved indefinitely the following year. ''Giraffic'' has a caption which says "Weaselton Exclusive", and now, since the real film is never coming out, it's really true!

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