A series of Naruto flash video parodies on YouTube featured the masked Tobi as a hapless, good-natured Butt-Monkey with the catchphrase, "But Tobi is a good boy!" The fact that Tobi turns out to be the Big Bad of the series makes this even funnier.
Two words... Blind Itachi, since Kakashi mentions during the fight with the Itachi clone early in Shippuden that Itachi's eyesight deteriorates every time he uses the Mangekyo Sharingan. This later becomes a plot point, as 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.
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.
The GonzoSSM animated short, What Happened to Megaman made the prediction that Mega Man would be joining Super Smash Bros before he was officially announced. Turns out Nintendo did want him.
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.
In the 7th episode of Super Mario Bros. Z, the Seven Koopalings and Bowser Jr. appear together, the first time in any Mario-related things that this has happened. Almost a year later, New Super Mario Bros. Wii comes out which has the first canonical game involving Bowser Jr. and the seven Koopalings being together...
The Strong Bad Email "for kids" is about the idea of Strong Bad running a kids' show. At the end, Strong Bad comments that Homsar would be a better host, followed by a mock kids' show being hosted by Homsar. It had, among other things, silly songs being repeated over and over. Matt Chapman, creator of Homestar Runner, later went on to direct Yo Gabba Gabba!, a kids series with silly songs being repeated over and over.
An early Strong Bad Email had a fan write in to say he missed the simple early days of SBEmail where Strong Bad would answer an email without some kind of gimmick. The immediate gag was that this was followed by Strong Bad's computer malfunctioning and exploding, but the email is even funnier when you consider that later episodes of Strong Bad Email would only get longer and more elaborate, with plenty of Easter eggs and other "gimmicks".
In the first "Biz Cas Fri" short, Homestar calls Strong Bad his "dog", but spells it "D-O-G-E", leading to Strong Bad's confused reply "I'm your doge?!" According to the Know Your Meme page, the use of "doge" even inspired the name of the meme.
In the Strong Bad Email "techno", clicking on the Cheat's lightswitch at the end pops up a poster for a "lightswitch rave" featuring "DJ The Stick and DJ from Full House". Fast forward to 2016, and a sequel series called Fuller House has, among other things, Stephanie Tanner (not her sister D.J., because of irony) become an actual DJ.
Coach Z's rap song "These Peoples Try to Fade Me" features the line "And I got a bunch of types, a bunch of laser dabs." No one has a clue what he meant by that at the time, but fast forward a decade or so and "dabbing" is a dance move popular in the hip-hop community, made mainstream by the group Migos. As a bonus, it apparently originated in the Brothers Chaps' hometown of Atlanta, Georgia!
In the anime adaptation of Arakawa Under the Bridge, Hoshi (the mugger during a comedic scene in Vaguely Recalling JoJo) gets voiced by Tomokazu Sugita. Later on, Tomokazu gets to voice Joseph Joestar in the 2012 anime adaptation of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure. This scene is hilarious if you know that because Rubber Soul had just technically gave Joseph Joestar a coconut backbreaker.
During the second episode of the High Priestess mini-arc, Jack the Ripper does a filk song based on the Japanese 24 commercials. Before this, Rikiya Koyama voiced Jack Bauer in the Japanese dub, and got in as Yoshikage Kira in All Star Battle. He also voiced Will A. Zepelli in the Phantom Blood movie, but no one likes to talk about that.
Old Joseph was saved by Ceasar Zeppeli when he was fighting against Empress. In JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Eyes of Heaven, Ceasar returns from the dead and meets old Joseph.
All the ghost stuff in the earlier seasons ended up oddly prescient following The Reveal of the ghosts actually being A.I.s. And in an specific case, Church's exasperated cry of, "Holy crap, who is running this army?!" becomes utterly hilarious when we find out the person running the Red and Blue armies is, in fact, Dr. Leonard Church, whose mind served as an inspiration for the Church AI.
When performing a hostage exchange near the end of Season 2, Caboose calls Donut "Major Cinnamon Bun." Keep in mind that Season 2 of Red vs. Blue aired three years before the first Adventure Time short even aired.
In the first alternate ending for Episode 100, all of the Reds and Blues end up in a massive free-for-all that ultimately ends with a Total Party Kill, with Caboose being the last character left alive (at least until a vehicle falls on him). Many years later in 2020, DEATH BATTLE! made an episode showing which team would have won if every character had fought seriously like in Episode 100's alternate ending... and it also ended with Caboose as the last one alive, except this time he survives the whole thing.
In Season 6, Sarge's call gets dropped and he complains about the stupid 4G network. At the time the joke was written, 3G was in prominence, and the joke was that the futuristic technology wasn't working right. Now it just comes off as a Take That! to modern cell phone technology.
In a cross-show case, Season 16 has Atlus Arcadium Rex venting off his frustration by shooting lightning at a moon, eventually shattering half of it to make it resemble the moon from fellow Rooster Teeth show RWBY. This episode occurred in July 2018. Four months later, RWBY reveals that their moon was indeed shattered by an angry god throwing a fit.
In season 3, Caboose makes a comments about how "time is made of circles". Come season 17, they become hilariously prescient once it's revealed that black holes in the Rv B verse allow time to loop back on itself to the Big Bang.
Shrapnel: In 2018, the second KILL CONTRACT episode, Once Upon a Time in Uganda came out, which introduced the Ugandan Knuckles, a race of deformed echidna people based directly off of a meme character of the same name, whose Catchphrase is a reference to the Ugandan action movie, Who Killed Captain Alex?, by Ramon Film Productions, AKA Wakaliwood. A few years later, Wakaliwood officially announced a Wakaliwood documentary film, titled . . . Once Upon a time in Uganda!note Both are likely coincidentally referencing Once Upon a Time in the West.
In "The Semi-Finals", Ian reveals that mummy terrorists used the Power Brick to summon their giant cat goddess Pockets to Legondo. Three years later, The LEGO Ninjago Movie would also use the idea of a giant cat being summoned to a LEGO universe.
This parody of Rhythm Heaven with Super Smash Bros. characters replaces the "Packing Pests" segment with one where Sakurai adds characters to the game and swats away others. Not only would several of the characters he swats away — specifically Sora, Steve, Sans, Banjo-Kazooie, and Cuphead — eventually make it into the game as DLC characters and costumes, but two of the more improbable characters used would make it into fighting games that quickly got compared to Smash (Garfield in Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl and Shaggy in Multi Versus).
In the JaidenAnimations video "Dating things I shouldn't", Jaiden tries out some weird Dating Sims. She explains that she's always had trouble understanding romance, and it shows: she struggles at the games she plays, ending up robbing a bank in Speed Dating For Ghosts instead of dating anyone, picking three salamanders in a Totem Pole Trench in The Ratchelor, and going after the faceless Galaga Ship in Namco High. A few months later, Jaiden would release "Being Not Straight", in which she realizes that she's aromantic and asexual, which explains why she's so bad at romance-based games.
50 Ways to Die in Minecraft: Part 3, Death 41 is the Titanic being struck by an iceberg after the captain says "there are no icebergs in Minecraft". Icebergs were added to Minecraft a year and a half later with the Update Aquatic.
Foxy Gets Hooked: One of the children's drawings in the background says "What's with the eyes?" and another asks if the animatronics are highnote Although here, it's mostly referring to their Creepy Shadowed Undereyes in the original game. When the Five Nights at Freddy's (2023) movie teaser was released in May 2023, the animatronics' glowing red eyes caused people to joke once again that the animatronics are high.
There's a scene in "Why I changed my Name." where Jamie is seen entering their new name into the name field in Animal Crossing: Wild World and gets the remark "A fine name... for a boy!" from Kapp'n, which Jamie cringes at. At the time Jamie identified only as non-binary and had a more androgynous presentation, but eventually came to identify as transmasculine and began presenting more masculine, making this scene look quaint in retrospect.
A non-video example - when Jamie first got Kepler he updated his social media bios to include the phrase "doggo dad" despite presenting as female at the time. Post-transition, this description of himself has become a lot more apt.
This Cartoon Cafe short pokes fun at Nickelodeon All Star Brawl by having Bugs Bunny comparing NASB to Multiversus by using the fact that the game didn't have voice acting when it came out. Sometime later, voice acting would finally be added to All Star Brawl. Sadly the short also became Harsher in Hindsight, as Bugs Bunny claims that people were forgetting about NASB due to how lacking it was comparing to Multiversus, only for Multiversus' popularity starting to decreases over the months ever since that video was released, while All Star Brawl's popularity not only would increase, but the game would even gain a sequel.
, one of the first jokes involves Simba falling off of Pride Rock as Rafiki holds him up. And then, the official blooper reel on the Diamond Edition DVD came