History Main / HilariousInHindSight

* ''Animation/OurFriendXiongXiaoMi'', a 2013 Chinese cartoon, stars a character who's basically a [[{{Expy}} copy of]] Franchise/WinnieThePooh. The show itself uses an art style that looks remarkably similar to that of ''WesternAnimation/PeppaPig''. ''Winnie-the-Pooh'' and ''Peppa Pig'' ended up being BannedInChina in 2017 and 2018 respectively.

'''''Note:''''' ''Examples can only be added once the event that makes it hilarious has ended. In particular, anything related to a widespread disease, hoarding of any kind, or something similar to social distancing doesn't inherently mean that there's a connection to [[UsefulNotes/CoronavirusDisease2019Pandemic COVID-19]]. Please don't add examples of this nature.''

** A previous episode guest-starring Creator/PeterSellers had him and various Muppets sing "It's a Small World After All".

* [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C3%A3o_Paulo%E2%80%93Guarulhos_International_Airport The biggest airport]] of UsefulNotes/SaoPaulo is known by the code "GRU" due to being located in nearby Guarulhos. The emergence of [[WesternAnimation/DespicableMe another Gru]] in coincidence to the recent operators of the aiport opting to market the place as [[http://instagram.com/p/ioti7Rljlq/ "GRU Airport"...]]

* The aerospace and defense company [[http://www.baesystems.com/home BAE Systems]], founded in 1999. The mid-2010's brings us the slang term [[http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Bae "bae"]].
* Miss Philippines 2015 Pia Wurtzbach [[https://twitter.com/PiaWurtzbach/status/594760335040479232 tweeted this]] in the aftermath of the Manny Pacquiao vs. Floyd Mayweather fight in May of that year (it translates to "Calm down, guys. I've got this. We'll fight back at Miss Universe!"). Guess what title she won seven months later...

* Until 1975 the West African nation of Benin was named Dahomey, pronounced exactly the same as [[UnfortunateNames "da homie"]].

* In 1895 Lord Kelvin scoffed at the idea of airplanes by saying "Heavier than air flying machines are impossible." Not only was he proven wrong only eight years later, the statement was already pretty dumb considering birds can fly but are obviously heavier than air, as they don't just float away like balloons.

* The PlayByPost MassivelyMultiplayerCrossover RolePlay ''Roleplay/CampusLife'' had an arc where at the stories climax, the mane cast from ''[[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic Friendship Is Magic]]'' used the Elements of Harmony to purify the negative energy in the [[Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog Chaos Emeralds]], and then they, along with several others, use them to go into {{Super Mode}}s to fight the current BigBad with. All this takes place before the season finale of season four, which would give the mane cast ''canon'' {{Super Mode}}s to fight the current big bad with.

* HilariousInHindsight/WebComics

* When actor Creator/DickSargent (yes, the real [[TheOtherDarrin Other Darrin]]) outed himself in the early '90s, there was the expected snickering over a gay actor named Dick. The snickering would've been much louder if more people were aware that Sargent was a stage name. His birth surname: Cox.

* Until 1975 the West African nation of Benin was named Dahomey, which is pronounced exactly the same as [[UnfortunateNames ''da homie.'']]

'''''Note:''' Anything related to a widespread disease, hoarding of any kind, or something similar to social distancing doesn't inherently mean that there's a connection to [[UsefulNotes/CoronavirusDisease2019Pandemic COVID-19]]. Please don't add examples of this nature.''

'''Note: anything related to a wide-spread disease, hoarding of any kind, or something similar to social distancing does not inherently craft a connection to [[UsefulNotes/CoronavirusDisease2019Pandemic COVID-19]]. DO NOT ADD EXAMPLES OF THIS NATURE, ''PLEASE''.'''

'''Note: anything related to a wide-spread disease, hoarding of any kind, or something similar to social distancing does not inherently craft a connection to Covid-19. DO NOT ADD EXAMPLES OF THIS NATURE, ''PLEASE''.'''

* Similarly, the 16th century comedy ''Morosophus'' by Dutch playwright Wilhelm Gnapheus stars a KnowNothingKnowItAll {{Astrologer}} who is rumoured to have a large book sitting around in his house collecting dust. It was intended on an attack on Gnapheus' contemporary Nicholas Copernicus, who indeed had a large book in his house sitting around in his house. Shortly before Copernicus' death, that book was published under the title [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_revolutionibus_orbium_coelestium On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres]], the first great work on Heliocentrism. Today, Copernicus is remembered as a genius and one of the fathers of modern astronomy because of that work.

* In a quote condemning Nicholas Copernicus, Martin Luther [[http://www.astronomy.ohio-state.edu/~pogge/Ast161/Unit3/response.html described heliocentrism]] as being akin to "somebody moving in a carriage or ship [holding] that he was sitting still and at rest while the earth and the trees walked and moved". Not only is heliocentrism the dominant astronomical theory today, but a few centuries after the quote was made, Einstein published the Special Theory of Relativity that explained motion as being relative to the observer, meaning, yes, someone in a vehicle can indeed describe themselves as being still while the world around them move with justification.

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bb2OCVAiDgY A local Ohio news station's coverage of]] [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CSX_8888_incident the 2001 CSX 8888 incident]][[labelnote:*]]A CSX locomotive ran uncontrolled through Ohio for 66 miles and two hours while hauling 47 cars, some holding hazardous chemicals, before being stopped by another locomotive by coupling to the back of the runaway and slowing it down so that it could be stopped manually. [[/labelnote]] described it as "like something you'd see in a Hollywood action movie". Cut to 9 years later, the incident actually did [[VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory insprie]] a Hollywood action movie, namely ''Film/{{Unstoppable}}''.

Contrast FunnyAneurysmMoment (when something that was once amusing or awesome is now tinged with tragedy thanks to a RealLife or in-story tragedy), DudeNotFunny (when something is considered in bad taste to mock or even mention, no matter what the circumstance), HilariousInFlashback (where a glimpse of the characters' past contrasts amusingly with their established personalities and situation), HarsherInHindsight (when something dramatic or depressing is now worse due to a RealLife or in-story tragedy), UnintentionalPeriodPiece (in the cases where a work that was current when made almost only makes jokes that no current reader can understand) and TwoDecadesBehind (when the writer thought it was current but wasn't), and finally IfItWasFunnyTheFirstTime (in cases where a RunningGag is overused or a joke is only funny once). A "dated reference" is when a single joke (or only a handful) in a series is no longer funny because nobody alive remembers why it was funny, but is Administrivia/NotATrope as it is mostly covered by UnintentionalPeriodPiece and TwoDecadesBehind.

* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4m4KZHDVWRE This]] student PSA from 1995 accurately predicts all the possibilities that the internet will offer by the time the students are in college.

* From 1989 through 2004, Disney/MGM Studios in Orlando, Florida had an attraction called The Magic of Disney Animation which had a short film at the beginning called ''Back to Neverland'' (not to be confused with Disney's direct-to-video Peter Pan sequel ''Return to Neverland''), starring Creator/RobinWilliams and the late Walter Cronkite. In it, Robin is a huge fan of ''WesternAnimation/PeterPan'' and actually becomes an animated Lost Boy, and he defeats Captain Hook with a little help from both Tinkerbell and his quick improvisational comedy skills. Doubly hilarious in hindsight in that not only [[WesternAnimation{{Aladdin}} would he later get a chance to really show off his improvisational skills in a full-length Disney film]][[note]]where that video even had a ShoutOut, as the Genie dresses like Robin did in a scene[[/note]], but first he would also get the chance to actually [[Film/{{Hook}} be Peter Pan himself]] (courtesy of Creator/StevenSpielberg and [=TriStar=] Pictures).

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* HilariousInHindsight/{{Other}}

* HilariousInHindsight/{{Anime}}

* HilariousInHindsight/{{Film}}

* HilariousInHindsight/ProfessionalWrestling

Unfortunately, there is no trope or term for when something that was funny is remembered to have been so by people still alive, but is no longer funny because of a later event that simply invalidates the joke - which now falls flat - rather than in a way that is disturbing (in other words, not a FunnyAneurysmMoment but a similar concept in which a specific event causes a normal joke to '''''unexpectedly''' and '''instantly''' become'' a dated reference[[note]] BlandInHindsight and/or NoLongerTrueInHindsight[=?=] UnintentionallyKilledAJoke[=?=] StaleInHindsight[=?=])[[/note]]. Yes, this does happen, ranging in obscurity from [[Ride/PiratesOfTheCaribbean "Pirates?" "...of the Carribean!"]] "Somebody's been to [[Ride/DisneyThemeParks Disneyland]] too many times!" from Film/CaptainRon, a relatively obscure [[TheNineties 1992]] family comedy film (thus predating the reference which would currently be considered funny), to [[Series/TheApprentice "You're Fired!"]] ''[[MemeticMutation "Money, Money, money, money..."]]'' after the [[UsefulNotes/DonaldTrump 2016 US Presidential Election]] in uses of the meme that aren't HarsherInHindsight or a FunnyAneurysmMoment.

** ''HilariousInHindsight/XMenApocalypse''
** ''HilariousInHindsight/XMenDaysOfFuturePast''

Contrast FunnyAneurysmMoment (when something that was once amusing or awesome is now tinged with tragedy thanks to a RealLife or in-story tragedy), DudeNotFunny (when something is considered in bad taste to mock or even mention, no matter what the circumstance), HilariousInFlashback (where a glimpse of the characters' past contrasts amusingly with their established personalities and situation), HarsherInHindsight (when something dramatic or depressing is now worse due to a RealLife or in-story tragedy), UnintentionalPeriodPiece (in the cases where a work that was current when made almost only makes jokes that no current reader can understand) and TwoDecadesBehind (when the writer thought it was current but wasn't), and finally IfItWasFunnyTheFirstTime (in cases where a RunningGag is overused or a joke is only funny once). A "dated reference" is when a single joke (or only a handful) in a series is no longer funny because nobody alive remembers why it was funny, but is NotATrope as it is mostly covered by UnintentionalPeriodPiece and TwoDecadesBehind.

Unfortunately, there is no trope or term for when something that was funny is remembered to have been so by people still alive, but is no longer funny because of a later event that simply invalidates the joke - which now falls flat - rather than in a way that is disturbing (in other words, not a FunnyAneurysmMoment but a similar concept in which a specific event causes a normal joke to '''''unexpectedly''' and '''instantly''' become'' a dated reference[[note]] BlandInHindsight and/or NoLongerTrueInHindsight[=?=] UnintentionallyKilledAJoke[=?=] StaleInHindsight[=?=])[[/note]]. Yes, this does happen, ranging in obscurity from [[Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbean "Pirates?" "...of the Carribean!"]] "Somebody's been to [[Ride/DisneyThemeParks Disneyland]] too many times!" from Film/CaptainRon, a relatively obscure [[TheNineties 1992]] family comedy film (thus predating the reference which would currently be considered funny), to [[Series/TheApprentice "You're Fired!"]] ''[[MemeticMutation "Money, Money, money, money..."]]'' after the [[UsefulNotes/DonaldTrump 2016 US Presidential Election]] in uses of the meme that aren't HarsherInHindsight or a FunnyAneurysmMoment.

Unfortunately, there is no trope or term for when something that was funny is remembered to have been so by people still alive, but is no longer funny because of a later event that simply invalidates the joke - which now falls flat - rather than in a way that is disturbing (in other words, not a FunnyAneurysmMoment but a similar concept in which a specific event causes a normal joke to '''''unexpectedly''' and '''instantly''' become'' a dated reference; BlandInHindsight and/or NoLongerTrueInHindsight[=?=] UnintentionallyKilledAJoke[=?=] StaleInHindsight[=?=]). Yes, this does happen, ranging in obscurity from [[Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbean "Pirates?" "...of the Carribean!"]] "Somebody's been to [[Ride/DisneyThemeParks Disneyland]] too many times!" from Film/CaptainRon, a relatively obscure [[TheNineties 1992]] family comedy film (thus predating the reference which would currently be considered funny), to [[Series/TheApprentice "You're Fired!"]] ''[[MemeticMutation "Money, Money, money, money..."]]'' after the [[UsefulNotes/DonaldTrump 2016 US Presidential Election]] in uses of the meme that aren't HarsherInHindsight or a FunnyAneurysmMoment.

Contrast FunnyAneurysmMoment (when something that was once amusing or awesome is now tinged with tragedy thanks to a RealLife or in-story tragedy), DudeNotFunny (when something is considered in bad taste to mock or even mention, no matter what the circumstance), HilariousInFlashback (where a glimpse of the characters' past contrasts amusingly with their established personalities and situation), and HarsherInHindsight (when something dramatic or depressing is now worse due to a RealLife or in-story tragedy).

This is the opposite. It's when a later event, such as a current event or something that happened in the series, is ''funnier'' than it originally was. This is what your literature teacher would call "[[LifeImitatesArt Life imitating Art]]". There's a decent list in this [[http://www.collegehumor.com/article/3351727/seven-jokes-that-came-true College Humor]] feature and another one in this [[http://www.cracked.com/article_19146_8-absurd-jokes-that-predicted-real-life-events.html Cracked.com]] feature.[[note]]As of the end of 2016, the article has become its own ninth example[[/note]]