Quotes / Hilarious in Hindsight

"Comedy can be a dangerous business. It's hard to make the world look ridiculous when it's always finding new ways to make itself look ridiculous."

—Cracked, 8 Absurd Jokes that Predicted Real Life Events

Chandler's Boss: Seriously, though. I think we should all support President Clinton— and her husband Bill!

—Friends, "The One with Chandler's Work Laugh" (1999)

"The Mary Tailor-Made Show" must be part of The Da Vinci Code, because you have a man saying "Hey, let's say I make a story for tonight's news about a woman having eight babies?" How many prophecies have you printed that you are not telling the world about?"

—MAD reader

"After seeing that Barbie Horse Adventures was on the list, and recalling this old strip, we really had no choice."

—Penny Arcade, "BFF!"

"Space Megaforce! Presented by Toho."

—Space Megaforce (1992, four years before Touhou Project)

"Hey, do you remember back in one of my E3 videos, I made a very hilarious joke in which I pretended to mistake the Dead Space 3 trailer for a new Lost Planet? How strangely prophetic that very hilarious joke now seems!"

—Ben Croshaw, Zero Punctuation

Unfortunately, it was supposed to be just a self-contained joke, but current events are making it more and more relevant. Which is not normally how jokes work.

—John Oliver to Stephen Colbert on one of his jokes

A young wizard named Harry which, may I remind you, this predates Harry Potter. J. K. Rowling's a fucking hack.

—Pan Pizza, RebelTaxi

"These things don't happen in New York! I just hope a guy in a hockey mask named Jason doesn't show up!"

—Barney, Evil Laugh, two years before Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan

(Side note: when writing the line "buying my good tweets", we were trying to think of something so silly that it couldn't be real. So of course the founder of Twitter sold one for just under $3 million shortly after we posted the article.)

—This Verge article, about NFTs

Thurgood Stubbs: Looks like that frog network finally ran out of money.

—The PJs, "Hangin' With Mr. Super"

"It's the circle of debt.. And it screws us allllll...

This is now a million times funnier now that we know he's cast as Zazu in the Lion King remake. XD"

—One of the comments on the YouTube version of the Last Week Tonight with John Oliver episode about payday loans.

(Homer throws a paperweight at Raven!Bart but dodges out of the way)
Homer: D'oh, I missed!

—The Simpsons, "Treehouse of Horror", "The Raven"

Brian: Whatever dangers we may face, we'll never fear or cry
Stewie: That's right, until we're syndicated, Fox will never let us die. Please?

—Family Guy, "Road To Rhode Island"

Chris: Where do you think you go when you die?
Sam: I learned from church that if you're good, you go to Heaven, but if you're bad, you go to a place where the dead believe they're still living and they pray for death but death won't come.
Chris: UPN?

—Family Guy, "To Love And Die In Dixie"

(at the Newport Fashion Show)
Stewie: Look, there's Brody Jenner. God, what a douchebag! I can't believe that came out of Bruce Jenner's vagina.
Brian: Bruce Jenner is a man.
Stewie: No, Brian. That's what the press would have you believe, but he's not. Bruce Jenner is a woman. An elegant, beautiful, Dutch woman.

—Family Guy, "We Love You Conrad"

Lisa: Let me share the Buddhist path to Heaven with an enlightened tale I call "The Princess Not Affiliated With Disney", unless we are now owned by Disney.

—The Simpsons, "My Way Or The Highway To Heaven"

Dad: One day one's Governor, next day one's President, next day one's...Barbra Streisand. I don't know.

—Dan Aykroyd, Saturday Night Live, "Black Takeover" sketch, 12/13/1975

Fun Fact: There is an Anna/Elsa fanfic out there where they are Cannibals, and it even predates Coffin by a couple of years (The Killers by Racoonisphere). Granted, with the vast amount of fanfics pairing the two, some niches will eventually be tapped into due to sheer volume alone.

—Lefio79, Know Your Meme, on this image of Anna and Elsa

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