Growing the Beard: Mulberry and Electric Wonderland show greater attempts for depth than the older comics do. Art Evolution also seems apparent in all but the youngest of the flagship series.
Sequel Displacement: Even though Peter calls "Raiders of the Lost Arc" his favorite Platypus Comix story, he has an open hatred towards the half written in 1998. As a result, the website only features the half from 2001, set post-9/11.
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Big-Lipped Alligator Moment: "My Ocarina of Time Walkthrough" has a point in which the player asks, "How do I defeat Jenova?" Instead of stating that Jenova comes from Final Fantasy VII, not Ocarina of Time, Peter fabricates instructions on how to gain the abilities to turn into a werewolf and "Omnislash". He caps off his response by warning that defeating Jenova will cause the N64 to explode.
Peter advises in "The Five Best Sets Ever" that since Time-Life cut the price of The Real Ghostbusters: The Complete Collection in half, an '80s kid "...should buy this yesterday." Some time afterward, the Real Ghostbusters DVD rights reverted to Sony Pictures, causing the Time-Life collection to go out-of-print, in favor of Vanilla Editions containing fewer episodes, and no bonus features.
The review of Kids' WB!'s final day includes a lament about the likelihood that World of Quest would end after 13 episodes, then never air on US televisions again "until it appears on Toon Disney at 3 in the morning in the year 2014." Not only did the second season of World Of Quest air only in Europe, but Peter just happened to write that review mere months before Disney announced they had decided to replace Toon Disney with Disney XD. On the bright side, his Exact Words don't give a completely correct prediction of the future of World Of Quest; he feared it would disappear from the face of the Earth.
In 2004, Peter found a cartoon on Telefutura starring a homely schoolgirl named "Betty." After watching an episode, he published a review online, titled "The most obscure cartoon I can possibly review." Two years later, the character of Betty La Fea was formally introduced to America with the successful sitcom, Ugly Betty, prompting Peter to retitle the article (now called "Ugly Betty: The Cartoon Series") and rewrite the opening and concluding paragraphs.
The section on Muppet Babies has an offhand comment that NBC took so long to release Saturday Night Live season one on DVD, that "...they'll never get to the seasons nobody cares about." This took on a new meaning after NBC decided to stop releasing SNL complete season DVD boxsets after season five, the last one to include any of the Not Ready For Primetime Players as regular cast members.
The FOX Kids section mentions that Disney's DVDs of The Tick had two episodes omitted because they contained parodies of Marvel characters that they could be sued for. Two years after the article was published, Disney acquired the very company that stopped them from putting specific episodes of the show on DVD.
The article closes with "It's a real tragedy moments like "Fish Don't Stink" can't be legally bought." Five years after the article was published, the entire series of Bobby's World was released to DVD.
"The Ancient Lost Art of TV Guide Advertising" Vol. 7, "The Bicentennial", shares a cover◊ promoting the Wonder Woman TV show. Underneath, Peter laments that Wonder Woman apparently doesn't seem relatable enough for her own theatrical movie, with the rejection of a Joss Whedon-penned screenplay prompting him to declare, "if Joss can't make it work, no one can." Eventually, Allan Heinberg and Patty Jenkins would respectively pen and direct Wonder Woman's first big-screen solo movie, and turn it into the first critical darling among the DC Extended Universe's films. This statement might have also become Harsher in Hindsight during the year of that movie's premiere, due to the scathing receptions of Joss' leaked Wonder Woman script, and the first released DC film with him as a credited screenwriter, Justice League (2017); the latter would even receive a recut four years later, either replacing or deleting all of his material.
Peter also shares a leaked synopsis of Frozen II, actually consisting of a Jessica Jones (2015)season two recap with the names changed. Regardless, it foresaw Elsa reuniting with her mother (though the movie only has Elsa find her spirit), and Anna and Elsa living separately at the end (though the movie ends with Anna as Queen of Arendelle instead of Elsa).
In his review of the America's New Love Affair With Cartoons issue of TV Guide from 1990, he comments on the fact that Super Mario Bros. (1993)was going to be animated, claiming that the viewers got shafted and that had it stuck to the same plot but was animated, it would've been a Cult Classic, leading to it being a real Mario movie. Years after the article was published, an actual animated Mario movie, which got much better reception among fans of the franchise, was released.
Mis-blamed: The "Worst Comix Ever" article about The Adventures of D & A put its blame for the comic squarely on the shoulders of Disney Adventures comics editor Heidi MacDonald. While Heidi's Comics Zone column introducing the comic said that the "whole staff brainstormed to create action-packed adventures", her name wasn't included in the credits for the comic; D & A writer/artist Mike Duggan had the sole script credit on all three stories.
Hilarious in Hindsight: The "Pony-Free Since 2001◊" banner took on some irony after a self-proclaimed Pegasister became one of the most frequent posters on the Platypus Comix forum.
" It seems possible this happened on purpose, since the comic acts as a throwback to cautionary stories written during the Cold War.
