| 1 | * CrossesTheLineTwice - One episode did this with a joke where Ben puts David's goldfish into a food mixer (since they don't have a tank for it yet) and then accidentally switches on the mixer. At the end of the episode, the show broke the fourth wall with actor Creator/GaryOlsen explaining how they used a prop fish - and then went into this trope, with another scene where Olsen accidentally microwaves the real fish. |
| 2 | * HarsherInHindsight: |
| 3 | ** "The Man Who Knew Too Much", first shown in 1996, starts with Ben [[HollywoodMidLifeCrisis falling into a depression]] over his upcoming 38th birthday, at one point claiming "I'm going to die soon!" His actor, Creator/GaryOlsen, would die only four years later, aged just 42. |
| 4 | ** Ben's illness in Series 2's ''Bedtime for Bonzo'', in light of Gary Olsen's death from cancer in 2000 and the COVID-19 pandemic. |
| 5 | ** Even worse foreshadowing, the earliest pitch for the series had Ben as a widower. |
| 6 | * HilariousInHindsight: "The Millenium Experience" deals with a shortage of loo rolls, to the point that Ben has created a large stock of them. In 2020, the UsefulNotes/Covid19 pandemic would genuinely see a shortage of loo rolls, to the point of people keeping large stashes of them in their homes. |
| 7 | * RetroactiveRecognition: Bette is played by Creator/LizSmith, who would later be best known for playing Mrs. Cropley in ''Series/TheVicarOfDibley'' and Nana in ''Series/TheRoyleFamily''. |
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