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* ''Manga/TheLegendOfZeldaAkiraHimekawa'': In the adaptation of the ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaPhantomHourglass Phantom Hourglass]]'', while on Tetra's ship, Link is told to swab the deck against his will. When he gets on Linebeck's ship, he makes the boy do the same thing.

* In the [[Manga/TheLegendOfZeldaAkiraHimekawa manga adaptation]] of ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaPhantomHourglass'', while on Tetra's ship, Link is told to swab the deck against his will. When he gets on Linebeck's ship, he makes the boy do the same thing.

** During Part 4, Rohan explains that he has the ability to completely write and send in a manuscript for his manga in just 4 hours. [[spoiler:When Made in Heaven is speeding up time]] in ''[[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureStoneOcean Stone Ocean]]'', Rohan is apparently the only mangaka able to meet his deadlines, and this is at the point where one day is less than "'five"' minutes.

** During Part 4, Rohan explains that he has the ability to completely write and send in a manuscript for his manga in just 4 hours. [[spoiler:When Made in Heaven is speeding up time]] in ''[[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureStoneOcean Stone Ocean]]'', Rohan is apparently the only mangaka able to meet his deadlines.

** During Part 4, Rohan explains that he has the ability to completely write and send in a manuscript for his manga in just 4 hours. [[spoiler:When Made in Heaven is speeding up time]] in ''[[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureStoneOcean Stone Ocean]]'', Rohan is apparently the only mangaka able to meet his deadlines, in under 'five' minutes.

** During Part 4, Rohan explains that he has the ability to completely write and send in a manuscript for his manga in just 4 hours. [[spoiler:When Made in Heaven is speeding up time]] in ''[[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureStoneOcean Stone Ocean]]'', Rohan is apparently the only mangaka able to meet his deadlines.

* In one episode of the ''Manga/DetectiveConan'' anime, Kogoro is a guest on a television show and mentions a risk of Analog phone calls by showing how easily they can be overheard - and he gives a theoretical example of a conversation one would ''not'' want to be overheard: An adulturer making a plan with a mistress. In another episode, Ran is meeting with her mother, and they pass by a TV store where that clip is played back without context.
** When Kazuha is first introduced, she has initially thought Kudo was a girl trying to seduce Heiji. When she sees Shinichi in person for the first time in "The Desperate Revival" arc, she notes to herself that he really is a man.

* Episode 22 of ''[[Anime/{{OsomatsuSan}} Osomatsu-San]]'' has one that starts in the 4th episode. Todomatsu witnesses Dayon helping Iyami practice his iconic "Sheeeh!", by lifting a lid off the ground to reveal a yellow turd of varying sizes for Iyami to react to. Fast forward to the 22nd episode where Dayon drops down into the arena to reveal a giant pink turd to Iyami, similarly to how he did in the 4th episode. SOMEHOW, this causes Iyami to drop the Final Sheeeh, which completely destroys the Earth.
* In ''Anime/{{Endride}}'', as revenge for Shun trying to [[FaintingSeer booby-trap him into having a vision]], Eljuia fake prophesizes that Shun can return home if he finds an Endora bluebird, which leads the excitable Shun to walk right into his own trap. Out of earshot, Felix comments to Eljuia that no such species exists. Several episodes later, Gradido gives the Ignauts a whistle and gets Shun to blow on it, summoning a blue-feathered bird which they can use to communicate. Shun's first reaction is to ask "Is this one of those Endora bluebirds?"
* ''Manga/MonsterMusume'' had a bonus comic at the end of the first volume where the girls try to find out whether Kimihito has an affinity for hips, butts, or breasts. He replies that he likes legs, the joke being that [[OurCentaursAreDifferent none]] [[SnakePeople of the]] [[HarpingOnAboutHarpies girls]] have normal legs. Then a few volumes later [[SpiderPeople Rachnera]] is introduced. Cue Kimihito commenting that he finds her legs ''very'' charming.
* In the first TournamentArc of the original ''Manga/DragonBall'' Jackie Chun (AKA Roshi in disguise) destroyed the moon to stop Ohzaru!Goku's rampage, and the announcer complains, among other things, that now werewolves will be unable to transform. Comes the second TournamentArc, and one of the finalists is Wolfman a reverse werewolf (that is, a wolfman that becomes fully human with the full moon) that is enraged with Jackie Chun because without moon he cannot transform anymore.
* When Amitie agrees to be interrogated by the TSAB in ''Anime/MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaReflection'', she specifically asks for Fate to be the one to do it. Nanoha theorizes it's because Fate is a kind girl, and Vita tells her to take things seriously. After the interrogation is over, Fate asks Amitie why she was chosen specifically, and Amitie says it's because she looked like a kind girl.
* In episode 8 of ''Manga/LaidBackCamp'', Nadeshiko shares a photograph of a strange-looking vehicle on her way back home from school with her friends. This turns out to have been a Google Street View camera car, and in the episode's [[TheStinger post-credits]], Rin finds a surprised Nadeshiko standing at the intersection.
* In the very first issue of ''Manga/FoodWars'', we are introduced to Soma's most legendarily disgusting dish: squid tentacles in peanut butter. Fast forward 250-odd issues to the end of the "Rebellion"-arc, and what are the secret ingredients in the dish Erina makes in her CookingDuel with [[WorldsBestWarrior Eishi Tsukasa]]? [[spoiler: Absolutely correct. Squid tentacles and peanut butter]]
* Happens in ''Manga/YuunaAndTheHauntedHotSprings'': In chapter 2 the monks were given good luck by Chitose Nakai, in chapter 19 one of Chitose's middle school friends mentions that one of her favorite celebrity in the Johnny's was once a monk.
* Lampshaded by Fuwa ''Manga/KoroSenseiQuest'' when a magic sphere attack from Sugino at the start of the series takes down a monster near the end. When Fuwa mentions that Sugino fired multiple attacks, the rest from the first chapter arrive and destroy a stone bridge, seperating the class.
* It happens in the first ''Anime/TimeBokan'' series. Early in episode 2, Chorobou threatens Perasuke with being grilled and eaten if he doesn't reveal where Dr. Kieta is. When the gang is sent back to Ancient Greece, Perasuke is taken by the Persians, who almost do exactly that.
* ''Manga/YourAndMySecret'' begins with scientist Momoi Manzo talking about making a shrinking device, only to reveal after it goes off that it the experiment was actually for a body swap machine. Towards the end of the series he finally gets around to fixing it so the main characters can swap back... only to reveal that he made a shrinking device instead.
* ''Manga/TheVoynichHotel'' features one such joke that doesn't pay off until the last page of the story, where two buffoonish Yakuza who disappeared in a very early chapter and were implied to have been killed off-panel by one of the maids show up out of the blue and are staggered by their bill. Turns out they were apparently trapped in time at the restaurant they were going to the last time they were seen, for a period of weeks if not months.
* ''Manga/HidamariSketch'':
** Nazuna attempts a drawing and the characters spend a few strips trying to guess who it is. It isn't until a few chapters later that it's revealed to be the landlady.
** In episode 4 of Hoshimittsu, Nazuna is identified as a jimoti ("local" people from the neighborhood), a word that sounds like an Italian surname to Miyako. Later, the girls visit a hardware store, where they run into a burly, foreign-looking man. Miyako inmediately identifies him as "Jimotti-san".
* ''Literature/RebuildWorld'': When [[SergeantRock Shirakabe]] tells Akira during the prep for a mission that he’s being stuck with TheNewMeat Togami, he tells Akira that if he gets sick of Togami, to throw him back into Shirakabe’s APC. After Togami spends the entire mission as TheLoad, he falls off of Akira car, gets yanked up off the ground by Akira JustInTime, and is immediately thrown into Shirakabe’s APC.
* ''Manga/SpyXFamily'': In one arc, Loid is called away from Yor and Anya to help foil a terrorist bombing, and he covers it by claiming [[EmbarrassingCoverUp that he's having digestive issues]]. Several chapters of terrorist-plot-induced chaos later, the three of them are reunited... at which point he apologizes for having taken so long in the bathroom, causing [[LethalChef Yor to apologize for cooking breakfast so poorly.]]
* In the [[Manga/TheLegendOfZeldaAkiraHimekawa manga adaptation]] of ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaPhantomHourglass'', while on Tetra’s ship, Link is told to swab the deck against his will. When he gets on Linebeck’s ship, he makes the boy do the same thing.

* The original ''Anime/DigimonAdventure'' has one between Joe and Gomamon. It starts in episode 7 with Gomamon offering to lend a hand when things get too hard, to which Joe replies he kind of...doesn't have hands. Cut to the season finale, where Joe offers to shake Gomamon's hand, and jokes when he actually pulls it off.
** A bit of FillingTheSilence actually put this one in ''Anime/DigimonAdventure02''. Early in the episode "His Master's Voice", the principal says, "Would the person who put the jelly donuts in the swimming pool please report to the office?" Later in the episode, someone runs by Kari and says "...And then I put the Jelly Donuts in the swimming pool."

* Happens in the ''Franchise/TouhouProject'' manga ''Inaba of the Moon and Inaba of the Earth''. Kaguya needs to lose weight, so Tewi fixes her a [[UnconventionalSmoothie Banana Yogurt]] ''[[StockYuck Natto]]'' Drink. She doesn't drink it. Ten strips later, after she's tried several other means of losing weight, she comes back from a run with Mokou, thirsty, and Tewi hands her a drink...
** Two more from Chapter 2, where Reisen and Tewi get trapped at Kourindo by rain. In an early strip, Tewi claims that she tried to predict the weather by kicking her shoe, but [[ATwinkleInTheSky launched it into the stratosphere]]; as they leave Kourindo, Rinnosuke sees them off and finds the shoe outside his shop. While the girls are at the shop, Tewi reads an Outside World magazine about the "Sunflower" satellite and [[ImagineSpot imagines a giant sunflower in space]]; as they walk home, she stops by a patch of sunflowers and tells them that they're awesome.

* In a chapter of ''Manga/KatteniKaizo'', Yoko Tanaka hid behind a brick wall, unnoticed. The series was then cancelled due to a lack of readership. In a completely unrelated chapter of ''Manga/SayonaraZetsubouSensei'' '''seven years later''', she finally smashes through the wall and yells her name. Turns out that they share a common fanbase.
* In ''Anime/Persona4TheAnimation'', after Yosuke asks Yu if he'd seen Yukiko's Midnight Channel show, Yu responds that he wishes he'd taped it. Some episodes later, when Rise's is being broadcast, the camera cuts to Yu mashing the record button on his TV's remote.
** Even before that, when Yosuke asks Yu if he saw Kanji's Midnight Channel show, Yu's response is to offer Yosuke a copy.
* During ''Manga/DeathNote'', it's made clear that [[{{Shinigami}} Ryuk]] loves to eat apples. After a few offhand remarks about this, it is left out for a while. When Light [[spoiler: voluntarily becomes incarcerated]], Ryuk asks "So, I guess apples are out of the question now?"

* The ''Anime/DuelMasters'' [[GagDub dub]] was specially designed to lampshade the hell out of this trope during its television run. When the series was initially premiering on Creator/{{Toonami}}, there was one new episode a week. The closing line for one episode has a tournament announcer placing the game on hold for a commercial break, then the opening line for the next episode:
-->"That commercial break seemed to last a week."
* ''Manga/TheLuciferAndBiscuitHammer'' had one that spanned most of the series. In an early chapter, Sami catches Yuuhi out with a feint while sparring and comments on how bad he is at them. Cut to the second-last chapter where [[spoiler:Yuuhi and Mikazuki are having one last big rematch as Beast Knights, and Mikazuki gets the final blow by calling a punch but throwing a kick, planting his foot straight in Yuuhi's face]].
* In the animated adaptation of ''Literature/LoveChunibyoAndOtherDelusions'', there was the twisted [[PlayingHouse game of house]] that Touka and Yumeha were playing together where they are divorcees keeps popping up in random places.
** It's first brought up in episode 5 after Yuuta comes back home after tutoring Rikka and sees them playing house in his room.
** He finds them talking about it again when he comes back after [[spoiler:he and Rikka confess to each other]] in episode 10.
** The two of them talk about "being able to see the kids" in front of everyone in episode 11 [[spoiler:before Touka leaves for her flight to Italy]] which surprises everyone but Yuuta.
* ''Manga/FistOfTheNorthStar'' sounds like the last series that would employ a brick joke, but it does. Kenshiro "convinces" a sleazy bartender to do him a favor and watch over some orphaned kids by hitting a pressure point with a one-month time delay, promising to come back and "turn off" the pressure point's effect. Several gory chapters later, Kenshiro goes back to check on the kids, and finds out that a village has offered to take care of the children. The orphans are thrilled to see Ken...and off in one corner of the page is the bartender, running out to meet Ken in a combination of joy and panic. The scene cuts away after that panel, so Ken probably restored the bartender after that page.

* In the first episode of ''Manga/{{Yuyushiki}}'', Yuzuko mentions the common trope [[TapOnTheHead where someone is knocked out via a karate chop to the neck]], and wonders aloud if the move works in real life. A few episodes later, she unexpectedly tries to knock Yui out with a karate chop to the neck. [[spoiler: It doesn't work]].
* Very near the beginning of ''Anime/RODTheTV'', Maggie mentions that she's a fan of ''Literature/HarryPotter''. Two episodes later, while staying in Nenene's apartment, she decides to move into the cupboard under the stairs.
* In ''Manga/{{Alyosha}}'', Chapter 1.2: After Alyosha throws her poison tooth, Miru tells her that you must [[http://mangafox.me/manga/alyosha/v01/c001.2/9.html throw unwanted teeth onto the roof]]. 35 chapters later, she throws her blade on the roof, saying "Miru taught me '[[http://mangafox.me/manga/alyosha/v02/c036/17.html Throw the blade you don't need onto the roof]].'" The pun being that both "tooth" and "blade" are "ha" in Japanese.
* Happen in ''Manga/SchoolRumble'' when Hanai fly as a human kite when their ship got lost. He returns few chapters later.
* Fai of ''Manga/TsubasaReservoirChronicle'' goes volumes with substituting whistling with a "hyuu~". At first people thought it was to annoy Mr. Grumpy Kurogane, but by the time Recourt comes around, [[spoiler:he whistles for real, which unleashes one hell of a spell and saves everyone's lives]].
* In ''Manga/GoodLuckGirl'', Momoji and Kumagai reenact the [[MemeticMutation infamous]] scene from ''Anime/DragonBallZ'' when Vegeta screams, "It's over 9000!" and crushes the scouter. Later, when trying to find Ichiko, Momoji comments that it would be a lot easier to find her if Kumagai hadn't crushed the scouter.

* Near the start of chapter 6 of ''Manga/SakuraTrick'', Haruka gives Yuu a swimsuit with an UmbrellaOfTogetherness using their names on it, which Yuu promptly tears off. At the end of the chapter, Mitsuki, trying not to worry about Yuu, finds a certain drawing...

* The mushroom growing on the heads of Team Natsu in the first few chapters/episodes of ''Manga/FairyTail''. Fast-forward to the [[DarkerAndEdgier Tartaros arc]], Happy is seen with a striped mushroom on his head [[spoiler:that is actually one of Tartaros's demons that had latched on to Happy]].
** Near the end of the Edolas arc, Natsu takes on the persona of the Great Demon Lord Dragneel, claiming he is responsible for magic disappearing from Edolas in order to convince Mystogan to "defeat" him and be seen as a hero, rather than sacrificing himself. Much later, it turns out that [[spoiler:E.N.D. stands for Etherious Natsu Dragneel, and Natsu himself is the strongest of the demons Zeref created.]]
* In the second episode of ''Anime/{{Naruto}}'', Naruto takes a ridiculous picture for his official ninja profile, with extreme make-up and an obnoxious pose, and the Third Hokage tells him to retake the picture. Apparently, that never happened, because in the ''Anime/NarutoShippuden'' anime-only arc "Kakashi: Shadow of the ANBU Black Ops" (which follows Kakashi through the years between [[spoiler:the day he killed his teammate Rin]] and into the start of the original series), the Third Hokage is seen with the stat sheets of Kakashi's next team to read in front of him, and we're treated once again to Naruto's obnoxiously-ridiculous photo. It's even funnier for being right next to Sasuke and Sakura's completely normal photos.
* Early in Chapter 29 of ''Manga/MonthlyGirlsNozakiKun'', Nozaki explains to Wakamatsu the dangers of working with screentones, such as dropping a knife on one's thigh. The chapter ends with Wakamatsu dropping a knife on his thigh.
* ''Anime/CowboyBebop'': The episode "[[Recap/CowboyBebopSession22CowboyFunk Cowboy Funk]]" features wannabe bounty-hunter Cowboy Andy, a rich guy who decided to go around dressed as an actual cowboy -- horse and all -- in pursuit of criminals, particularly the Teddy Bomber. No one on the ''Bebop'' believes Spike when he tells them that a cowboy in a ten-gallon hat and spurs riding a horse kept him from capturing Teddy, and Jet and Faye jokingly suggest that a samurai would have been more believable. At the very end of the episode, after Teddy has been captured, Andy shows up again, now calling himself Musashi and dressed like a samurai.

* Episode 6 of ''LightNovel/{{Durarara}}'' has Togusa try to track Kazatano with a sock for his scent. It seemed like the dog just ran off... but it turns out he did track them down at the end of the episode, just a bit too late.

* In the animated adaptation of ''LightNovel/LoveChunibyoAndOtherDelusions'', there was the twisted [[PlayingHouse game of house]] that Touka and Yumeha were playing together where they are divorcees keeps popping up in random places.

* ''LightNovel/RebuildWorld'': When [[SergeantRock Shirakabe]] tells Akira during the prep for a mission that he’s being stuck with TheNewMeat Togami, he tells Akira that if he gets sick of Togami, to throw him back into Shirakabe’s APC. After Togami spends the entire mission as TheLoad, he falls off of Akira car, gets yanked up off the ground by Akira JustInTime, and is immediately thrown into Shirakabe’s APC.