History HilariousInHindsight / LiveActionTv

* One contestant on ''[[{{Pyramid}} The $100,000 Pyramid]]'' who was simply a housewife listed her occupation as a "domestic goddess", which obviously confused [[GameShowHost host Dick Clark]]. She clarified, and since then, it became sort of a RunningGag for ''{{Pyramid}}'' contestants who were housewives to introduce themselves that way. Two months after ''[[{{Pyramid}} The $100,000 Pyramid]]'' was cancelled, Kösuke Fujishima would create a '''literal''' [[OhMyGoddess domestic goddess]] ([[EndingFatigue though, much to longtime readers' chagrin]], [[WillTheyOrWontThey she's still not a house]]'''[[WillTheyOrWontThey wife]]''' [[WillTheyOrWontThey yet]]...)

* ''Trading Spouses'' was a sketch on an early episode of Chappelle's Show. About a year later, ''Trading Spouses'' became an actual reality show. And part of me died.

* One contestant on ''[[{{Pyramid}} The $100,000 Pyramid]]'' who was simply a housewife listed her occupation as a "domestic goddess", which obviously confused [[GameShowHost host Dick Clark]]. She clarified, and since then, it became sort of a RunningGag for ''{{Pyramid}}'' contestants who were housewives to introduce themselves that way. Two months after ''[[{{Pyramid}} The $100,000 Pyramid]]'' was cancelled, Kösuke Fujishima would create a '''literal''' [[OhMyGoddess domestic goddess]] (though, much to readers' chagrin, [[WillTheyOrWontThey she's not a house]]'''[[WillTheyOrWontThey wife]]''' [[WillTheyOrWontThey yet]], [[EndingFatigue after almost 23 years...]])

With airlines in recent years cutting costs by cutting things like free meals, [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QCz8he36hsk this sketch]] from ''TheCarolBurnettShow'' seems eerily prophetic.

* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jgt9DLDG0lU&feature=channel This 1976 interview]] with ''StarTrekTOS'' actors {{DeForest Kelley}}, Walter Koenig and JamesDoohan had them discussing potential storylines for ''Star Trek'' films. Kelley speaks of "the crew encountering Jesus Christ in space, and finding out that Christ is actually Lucifer", which is much like the plot of ''StarTrekV''. Depending on your opinion of that movie, it's either HilariousInHindsight or a FunnyAneurysmMoment.

* A very young Dakota Fanning guest stars in an early episode of ''MalcolmInTheMiddle'' as a little girl who [[Twilight loves to bite Reese.]]

** Willow's [[{{Dollhouse}} "Did I fall asleep?"]]

** In Angel, season 5 episode 19 Time Bomb, Illyria has this to say to Angel regarding vampires: "Do you know what you were when I was young? You were the muck at our feet. We called you the ooze that eats itself. You were pretty at night. [[{{Twilight}}You sparkled, and you stank. You still stink of it!"]]

* The {{Heroes}} episode titled "I am Sylar" becomes hilarious now that Zachary Quinto, who plays Sylar, also plays [[IAmNotSpock Spock]] in the new [[Film/StarTrek Star Trek film]].

* Another StarTrekTheNextGeneration bit that's worthy of a chuckle. Watching "The Host," there's the senior staff debriefing where an exhausted Dr. Crusher is going over the basics on what Odan was and how limited their options are. There's a reaction shot where Worf looks terribly bored and about to fall asleep. He ''really'' should have been paying attention, because his luck with Trills would only ''slightly'' be worse than Beverly's...
* In the StarTrekTheNextGeneration episode "11001001", Picard mentions that part of their reason for stopping is to fix the holodeck, woith which they have been having some problems. Given later events...

* In TheOffice episode "The Merger", Michael stabs the tires of the other employees to get them to unite against Vance Refrigeration. When they get annoyed and leave, he says:

* Lily Tomlin hosted an early {{Saturday Night Live}} episode where the recurring puppet character Scred developed a crush on her. She awkwardly responded that being in a relationship with a puppet wouldn't be the best career move for her. One wonders nowadays if she would have responded better to a female puppet.

* Michael Weatherly, Agent Anthony Dinozzo on {{NCIS}}, married an oncologist Sept '09. His character was seriously dating to a doctor on the show! (Though hopefully his real-life marriage won't end like his character's!)

* In an episode of YesDear Greg tells Jimmy to stop thinking about sex, to which Jimmy says "That's like Tiger Woods not thinking about sex." FreudianSlip, or amazing prescience?

* During the final season of {{Lost}}, Michael Emerson showed up as a guest on ''Jimmy Kimmel Live'', revealing that the series was still filming at the time(so neither he, nor Jimmy would know the series' ending). At one point, Emerson talked about how he'd mostly done comedies in his theatrical career before TV had typecast him as a creepy villain. Jimmy joked that maybe after ''Lost'' was over, Emerson could do a sitcom, "the Hurley and Ben Show!" That joke became much funnier when the GrandFinale aired, revealing that [[spoiler: Hurley becomes the Island's new No. 1 while Ben becomes his No. 2.]]

* EerieIndiana: There's an episode where the main characters are out to stop a werewolf that's named after an actor famous for playing the Wolfman, but a vaguer discription would be "some guys go out hunting and someone gets shot." The episode? It's called ''Mr. Chaney''.
* {{Glee}} getting shot down by NBC to perform at the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. As of now, that same cast is going to be opening the Emmys, which are on NBC this year.
* In the DirtyJobs Shark Week episode "Dirty Jobs that Bite Harder", after making/testing a shark suit, Mike mentions that he "Does it once, and crosses it off the list". When the suit's inventor, Jeremiah Sullivan, comments on this, Mike replies with a joking "Get a TV show, cross it off the list." One or two years later, during Shark Week, we see Jeremiah again-- a major part of another show.
* Clark Gregg appeared on TheShield for several episodes. A few years later, he was in the Film/IronMan films as an agent of of...you guessed it...Shield.
* In 'Birds of Prey', Joe Flanigan (who played Sheppard in Stargate Atlantiss) guest starred as a Detective. He and Shemar Moore are walking along discussing 'meta-humans' (people with super powers) and Flanigan says " I've seen perps who can shoot lightning from their fingertips, drop from ten stories, or turn into bugs." Moore replies "One big bug, or lots of small ones?" Flanigan just says "Both."
Amusing in context, but if you're a Stargate SG1 and Atlantis fan, hilarious. Sheppard got infected by a special virus in the episode 'Conversion' and starts to turn into a big Iratus bug. This was a rip off of a plot in SG1 which had Teal'c being slowly turned into hundreds of insects. So, now, he really has seen both.

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** In the episode "The End of the World", Jabe at one point asks if Rose is a prostitute the Doctor hired. Billie Piper has since gone on to play one in ''SecretDiaryOfACallGirl''.

* Watching Bob Saget on ''FullHouse'' becomes much funnier if you've heard his stand-up routine, and know just how sick his sense of humor is. [[ThatGuyWithTheGlasses The Nostalgia Critic]] uses this to great effect in his Full House review, juxtaposing some of Danny Tanner's more [[TastesLikeDiabetes vomit-inducingly cloying moments]] with Bob's jokes about banging everything in sight.

** Entirely in-series: at the end of 201, ''{{RocketshipX-M}}'', when Crow comments about how bad it is for people trapped in a capsule to be watching a movie about people ''dying'' in a capsule, Joel asks the Mads, "Why don't you just show us ''Marooned''?" Forrester's response: "We couldn't get it!" Of course, two years later in episode 401, they ''did''... thanks to Film Ventures International releasing it as ''Space Travelers''.

** Entirely in-series: at the end of 201, ''RocketshipX-M'', when Crow comments about how bad it is for people trapped in a capsule to be watching a movie about people ''dying'' in a capsule, Joel asks the Mads, "Why don't you just show us ''Marooned''?" Forrester's response: "We couldn't get it!" Of course, two years later in episode 401, they ''did''... thanks to Film Ventures International releasing it as ''Space Travelers''.