History HilariousInHindsight / LiveActionTv

* In the pilot of ''Series/{{Castle}}'', the protagonist's author poker buddies react to his killing off his money-making character. One of them is James Patterson, who says, "You don't see me trying to kill off Alex Cross." Cue a few months later, Creator/JamesPatterson shoots an ad for his latest Alex Cross novel, where he says, "Buy this book, or I'll have to kill Alex Cross."

* A Ukrainian comedy called ''Series/ServantOfThePeople'' sees a man played by Volodymyr Zelenskyy become the Ukrainian President. Not long after the series ended, Zelenskyy would go from playing the Ukrainian President to actually being him.

* ''Series/{{Dickinson}}'': Creator/FinnJones has a role in the second season and he's probably most well known for his role in the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse show ''Series/IronFist''. About ten months after the second season premiered, Creator/HaileeSteinfeld also made her debut in another MCU show, ''Series/Hawkeye2021''.

** In "Oscar of All Trades", Oscar explains to Olive how he worked as an Odd Squad greeter and tells two Investigation agents walking into the bullpen to "keep on keepin' on!" This was a good ten months before ''WebVideo/{{OddTube}}'' would have Olympia, and later Orla, adopt the [[JustForPun punny]] {{Catchphrase}} of "Keep on keepin' odd".

** In an early 70s episode, Miss Brahms mentions that her mother has to be held back from attacking the television when Music/GaryGlitter is on ''Music/TopOfThePops''. In light of his later convictions for child pornography.

** Frank Thornton, who played Captain Peacock, later played 'Truly' Truelove in ''Series/LastOfTheSummerWine''. Bizarrely, Peacock shared his defining backstory (falsely claiming to have had heroic experiences DuringTheWar) with the character that Truelove would replace, Foggy Dewhirst, yet Truelove was a completely different character type.
** In an early 70s episode Miss Brahms mentions that her mother has to be held back from attacking the television when Gary Glitter is on Top of the Pops. In light of his later convictions for child pornography.

* ''HilariousInHindsight/BuffyTheVampireSlayer''

** In "An Old Flame With A New Wick", Charlie compares learning that his ex is a trans man to "living in ''Film/TheMatrix''" - this was years before [[Creator/TheWachowskis the franchise's creators]] publicly came out as trans, as well as before one of them stated that elements of the franchise were meant to be transgender allegory.

** In "An Old Flame With A New Wick", Charlie compares learning that his ex is a trans man to "living in ''Film/TheMatrix''" - this was years before [[TheWachowskis the franchise's creators]] publicly came out as trans, as well as before one of them stated that elements of the franchise were meant to be transgender allegory.

** In "An Old Flame With A New Wick", Charlie compares learning that his ex is now a trans man to "living in ''Film/TheMatrix''" - this was years before [[TheWachowskis the franchise's creators]] publicly came out as trans, as well as before one of them stated that elements of the franchise were meant to be transgender allegory.

** During the 2008 presidential election, ''The Daily Show'' played a satirical biographical film about then-nominee UsefulNotes/BarackObama called [[https://www.cc.com/video/xzy8n3/the-daily-show-with-jon-stewart-barack-obama-he-completes-us-2008 "Barack Obama: He Completes Us"]], which parodied ''WesternAnimation/{{The Lion King|1994}}''. In the 2011 White House Correspondents' Dinner, now-President Obama {{troll}}ed Creator/{{Fox News|Channel}} and [[ConspiracyTheorist the birthers]], particularly UsefulNotes/DonaldTrump, by playing footage of what he claimed was from his birth, before revealing it was really the opening of ''The Lion King''.

* More or less ''anything'' Vince (''Series/QueerAsFolk UK'') has to comment about Series/DoctorWho becomes extremely funny for all those who picked up the series because [[Series/DoctorWho Russell T. Davies]] created the series back when, before his new project [[Series/DoctorWho NuWho]] was realized.

** Norm once remarked that Creator/EdwardAsner was the only actor who could play his wife. Norm, did you somehow marry [[Franchise/DCAnimatedUniverse Granny]] [[WesternAnimation/SupermanBatmanApocalypse Goodness]]?

* ''Series/TheBoys2019'': Creator/JackQuaid's character being part of a group dedicated to destroying superheroes becomes this now that he lends this voice to ''WesternAnimation/MyAdventuresWithSuperman'' as [[Franchise/{{Superman}} one of the most iconic superheroes in history]].

** Creator/SatoshiHino voices [[Series/{{Arrow}} Oliver Queen]], who also previously voiced [[LightNovel/TheFamiliarOfZero Saito Hiiraga]]: [[spoiler:In the first season of ''LightNovel/TheFamiliarOfZero'', Saito almost got killed by a '''RainOfArrows''']].

* HilariousInHindsight/Titans2018