Brick Joke / Animated Films

• Asterix: The Mansions of the Gods: Asterix and Obelix first appear arguing over who gets to catch a boar, later having much the same conversation (substituting a legionary for the boar).
• Barbie in Rock 'n Royals: Early on, Erika sarcastically tells Princess Aubrey and Princess Genevieve there are centaurs at Camp Pop. When she learns about the bet and tells them there's something important they must know, one of them asks if Camp Pop really has centaurs.
• The Book of Life: The bubble-clucking chicken ends up this way in the beginning while Maria, Manolo and Joaquin are children. The whole movie takes place, and far on the outskirts of town, just before the camera zooms in for the end, the bubble-clucking chicken makes another appearance.
• Cars:
  • A minivan couple visits Radiator Springs, apparently lost. The residents ask them to buy something there, but they don't. The rest of the movie happens. Then after the credits, the couple appears again still lost in the desert and the husband has seemingly gone crazy.
  • After the opening race, Lightning McQueen's pit crew gets fed up with his ego and quits en masse. Lightning gives his former pit chief a parting shot, calling him Chuck. The pit chief yells "And my name's not Chuck!" In the closing credits, the pit chief is identified as "Not Chuck".
• Coraline: One scene has Coraline visit Spink and Forcible, who give her a bowl of saltwater candy that is decades older than Coraline, so old the candies have melted together. Coraline tries to get a piece of candy out only to accidentally send the whole bowl flying onto the ceiling, where it gets stuck. When Coraline is leaving their flat, it falls to the floor and shatters.
• Despicable Me: When Gru first meets Miss Hattie, he subtly insults her by saying that she has a face "como un burro" (like a donkey), which she takes as a compliment. Later, she angrily hits him the Spanish-English dictionary, now knowing what he really said.
• Disney Animated Canon:
  • Aladdin:
    • In the first movie, Iago looks forward to Jafar taking the throne because it means he can force the Sultan to eat the disgusting crackers he keeps shoving in his mouth. Much later, after Jafar has taken over Agrabah, that's exactly what we see him doing.
    • Aladdin: The Return of Jafar: As the final battle starts, Jafar's "master" Abis Mal gets thrown out a window. Then we get the huge fight with Jafar, his death, a Disney Death for a hero, the movie's closing scene and the credits...before cutting back to Abis Mal hanging from a tree, pathetically asking if this means he won't be getting his third wish from Jafar.
    • Aladdin and the King of Thieves: When Aladdin mentions his father, Genie turns into a waiter and asks him if his father would like chicken or sea bass at the wedding, only for Aladdin to explain that his father disappeared and won't be coming. Later, when Aladdin tells Genie that his father is the King of Thieves, Genie seriously demands Aladdin's father to let him know one thing... before turning into a waiter and asking if he wants the chicken or the sea bass.
  • Beauty and the Beast
    • Before "Be Our Guest" starts, Cogsworth is flung into some batter. A minute later, he emerges from a pie.
    • After Maurice leaves to save Belle, Gaston tells Le Fou to not leave a spot by their house until they come back. When they do eventually arrive, we see Le Fou, blue with frostbite, finally leave his spot.
  • Big Hero 6: Hiro and Baymax go to the police station to report being attacked by Yokai... leading to Baymax using up a good deal of one cop's tape to patch up some holes in his body. Then, much later during the credits, we see that they bought that cop a new tape dispenser at some point (complete with a gift bow!).
  • Brave:
    • Merida tells the witch she'll buy all her carvings. Much, much later in the movie (after the credits) the crow comes up to the castle to deliver all of them.
    • There's also how Merida pointed out to Elinor (while Elinor was a bear) that, as a bear, she's covered with fur, so she's not technically naked. Now skip ahead to the end of the movie, where Elinor's finally returned to her human form and she's totally naked under the tapestry that Merida had fixed.
  • The Emperor's New Groove
    • In the beginning of the movie, Yzma tells Kronk to "Pull the lever", and it sends her down a trap door into a moat with an alligator as she shouts, "WRONG LEVER!". Then she angrily storms back in saying, "Why do we even HAVE that lever?" and smacking an alligator who was clinging to her. About ¾ of the way through the movie when Pacha and Kuzco walk back into the palace to enter Yzma's "Secret Lab", the first thing shown is a drenched Kuzco walking back in grumbling, "OK, why does she even HAVE that lever?" and smacking an alligator who was clinging to him. This ends up being an Overly Long Gag and a Brick Joke in the tie-in series; every single time someone pulls that switch, they will always pull the wrong one and comment on how it still hasn't been fixed.
    • In one of the opening scenes, Kuzco has an elderly man thrown out a window for an incredibly petty reason. A few scenes later, Pacha helps the man down from the banner that broke his fall. And many scenes after that, a much-amended Kuzco is apologizing to the man...who brushes the ordeal off.
  "...It wasn't the first time I've been thrown out a window, and it won't be the last! What can I say? (proudly) I'm a rebel."
  • Frozen II: During a confrontation with the Northuldra people, Olaf mentions that he doesn't wear clothes because he finds them restricting. At the end of the movie, he finally wears clothes at Anna's coronation, and they look incredibly awkward on him.
  • The Hunchback of Notre Dame: Early on, an old man is freed from a cage and falls into a stockade saying, "Dang it!". During the climax of the movie, the stockade's knocked loose and he's free. Then he falls into the sewers and shouts "DANG IT!"
  • The Lion King:'
    • In the first film, following Scar's self-righteous speech at the beginning of the movie, Zazu comments that the villain would "make a very handsome throw rug." 3 years later, a short clip of a stressed Hercules shows him tossing a familiar lion's pelt onto the floor in frustration. One of the many shout outs to previous movies.
    • In The Lion King 1 ½, Timon and Pumbaa attend the presentation of baby Simba, and Pumbaa warns Timon that "I don't do so well in crowds" before demonstrating why. At the end, when Timon's mother rewinds the movie and dozens of Disney characters gather in the theater to join them, Pumbaa tells Timon "I still don't do so well in crowds" as the screen fades to black.
  • The Little Mermaid: Ariel's Beginning: During the prologue, a pair of overweight mermaids try to catcall King Triton, to which he sheepishly gestures back. Much later, during the finale, the same, now-elderly merpeople perform the scenario again.
  • As part of her last instructions to Moana, Gramma Tala tells her to grab Maui by the ear to make him shut up. She tries, but Maui has Super-Strength.
  • Mulan: Remember how Mulan does her chores at the movie's beginning? At the end, we see that the chickens now associate Little Brother with food.
  • Robin Hood (1973): Lady Kluck jokes that when Maid Marian married Robin, that will mean King Richard will have "an outlaw for an in-law". At the end when Robin and Marian get married, King Richard himself makes the same remark to Friar Tuck.
  • Sleeping Beauty has a scene where a minstrel gets drunk on wine and sleeps away under a banquet table. Later, while the three good fairies are putting the castle to sleep, the minstrel wakes up from his stupor, only to be put back to sleep by Merryweather.
  • The Donald Duck Short Rugged Bear: In order to hide from Donald and other hunters, Humphrey the Bear throws the bearskin rug in Donald's cabin into a chest and pretends to be the rug for the rest of hunting season. At the end of the short, it's revealed that the original "rug" was another live bear in disguise as well.
• Home (2015):
  • During a "pee break", Oh takes a bite out of a urinal cake, thinking it's a "blue mint." When the rest stop is blown up, a urinal crashes to the ground a short distance away, followed by a urinal cake with a bite taken out of it.
  • Tip hit a Boov with a booby trap that covered him in glitter, and he still has it on during the Dance Party Ending.
  • In addition to going "Number One" and "Number Two" like humans, the Boov also go "Number Three". The events of the climax almost make Oh go Number Three.
  • One of the Brain Boov suggests Playing Possum to ward off the Gorg. Even at the end, she's still pretending to be dead.
  • Oh invited the entire galaxy to his party. Which is why the Dance Party Ending includes species we've never seen arriving on Earth.
• Hoodwinked!:
  • As the four protagonists tell their day's accounts, pay close attention because a small detail in one character's story that seems bizarre or out-of-place will be explained when another character's story is told.
  • In the entire mine cart sequence in "Be Prepared", everything about Red's ride is what you would expect... until a giant avalanche comes rushing over the tracks, nearly collecting her cart. Granny Puckett's story has a scene of her using explosive charges to escape from the Bandit's henchmen in a ski race on the upper mountain.
  • The porcupine with the Chronically Crashed Car. First the car is crushed during Kirk's tree-cutting spree. And then at the end, when Kirk, driving his schnitzel truck (which has been outfitted with tank treads), crashes into a tree, said tree is uprooted and lands on the same guy's car.
  • Also, the fisherman on the river bank that the Wolf floats by after Red tricks him into falling into the water. He looks bored and looks like he has been sitting there all day. He's seen again, still at the same position, when the cable car lands in the river and blows up after Granny releases the grip. Dozens of disturbed fish fetch up on the shore around him.
• The Incredibles: When Mr. Incredible goes to see Edna Mode to get a new costume made, he initially requests that his new look feature a stylish cape. Edna refuses and gives a long list of superheroes who died perfectly avoidable deaths as a result of having a cape. One of said deaths is getting the cape caught in a jet turbine. Syndrome dies as a result of getting his cape caught in a jet turbine.
• At the end of the Incredibles 2 credits, the Underminer's tunnel machine pops up and drives away along the bottom of the screen.
• Kubo and the Two Strings: During the boating scene, Beetle has Kubo shoot an arrow at a fish and it sinks. During the fight against one of Kubo's aunts, he returns with the fish he caught.
• The LEGO Movie 2: The Second Part: In the beginning of the movie, when the DUPLO aliens invade Bricksburg, President Business leaves the heroes to fend for themselves by going golfing. He doesn't reappear in the film until the epilouge, when he comes back from his 5-year golfing trip.
• Leo:
  • When Leo tells Squirtle he dreams of roaming free in the Everglades, Squirtle scoffs at the idea that Leo could survive in the untamed wilderness, saying he'll be reduced to surviving in a discarded beer can. When Squirtle goes to rescue Leo, one of the first places he looks is a discarded beer can, but there's just a mouse inside it.
  • When Leo is depressed that he's near the end of his natural lifespan, Squirtle somewhat jokingly suggests he starts exercising to get healthier and live longer, like blinking a little more. Leo promptly does so and immediately passes out from exhaustion, but when he meets even older members of his species much later in the film, they make fun of his comparatively fast blinking.
  • During the Good-Times Montage, One scene has Leo listening to Mia on the phone telling him about she learned that dangerous microorganisms can accumulate in open water. When Leo ends up stranded in the Everglades, he refuses to drink from a puddle alongside the other tuataras, specifically citing this earlier lesson.
  • Squirtle tries to instil some "wisdom" on Anthony by telling him where babies come from, but messes up by assuming humans have the same reproductive strategy as turtles. This gets a punchline near the end of the movie, when Mrs. Salinas comes back from maternity leave with her newborn, and Anthony is confused why she only has one baby.
    Anthony: I guess she didn't bury the other eggs deep enough in the sand.
  • Near the beginning of the movie, Mrs. Salinas is starting her yearly reading of Charlotte's Web. Squirtle bemoans the book because it always gets the kids teary-eyed, and crying is for weaklings(with Leo agreeing). When Ms. Malkin replaces her, one of the first things she does is suck up the book in her portable vacuum. At the end of the year, Ms. Malkin ejects the book from the vacuum and finishes it; Leo and Squirtle also get tearful at the ending, Squirtle loudest of everyone in the class (with snot bubbles coming out of his nose).
  • When Leo realizes neither him or Squirtle knows how to do math, he wishes the school would move the class pets around to different grades so they can learn more stuff. He gets his wish at the end when they're transferred to a kindergarten class (on Ms. Malkin's request).
• Megamind:
  • Bernard, the curator at the Metro Man Museum, is zapped into a small cube with Megamind's dehydration gun and kept in his pocket, and Megamind spends much of the movie impersonating him. The real Bernard doesn't reappear until the credits, where he is accidentally rehydrated while Minion washes Megamind's laundry.
  • In an early scene, snarky Damsel in Distress Roxanne complains that the titular villain's gimmicks are getting old, and he needs to make things more exciting. The thing is, Megamind has a habit of mispronouncing and misinterpreting words. So later in the movie, while exploring Megamind's lair (with Megamind, disguised as Bernard) she opens a door marked "EXIT" to reveal a deep pit full of alligators, some random toys on the ground, and a disco ball hanging overhead: "Bernard, you were right about that room being exciting!"
  • Because of Roxanne, Megamind tries to make Metro City a better place... in his own alienated way. Such as solving the garbage problems by shooting each garbage bag (and a street cat) with a Dehydrator, a weapon that turns everything it hits into a crystalline cube, an effect that can be reversed by pouring water at it. Later, when Roxanne storms out of a restaurant while it's raining, all of the garbage returns to it's original state, and the cat runs right past her.
• Monsters, Inc.:
  • Monsters, Inc.:
    • Mike and Sulley are arguing about Boo on Scare Floor F, when Mike realizes mid-sentence that everyone is watching. He tries to spin his line "Put that thing back where it came from or so help me...!" as practice for the company play. During the credits, the cast performs "Put That Thing Back Where It Came From Or So Help Me: The Musical."
    • Mike then tells confused Scare Floor workers and CDA agents, "we'll need ushers." At the end, a CDA agent is working as an usher.
  • Monsters University:
    • Towards the beginning of the movie, a slug monster who was trying (emphasis on "trying") to make it to his first class on the first day of school? Well, during the stinger after the credits, we find out that the slug finally made it to class... but it turns out it took him the entire school year for him to get there.
    • Another one appears in the ending credits: Near the beginning, there is a poster from a student who's lost an eyeball asking for passersby to help find it. Towards the end of the credits, another poster comes up from another student who has found an eyeball. Hopefully, the two of them will come across each other's posters.
• My Little Pony: A New Generation:
  • At the showcase of CanterLogic's anti-pegasus and -unicorn devices, a pony attached to balloons accidentally floats out of the exhibit. He's seen floating in the background at various points in the movie, before he finally returns to the ground after the climax and asks what he missed, only to turn and panic at the sight of a unicorn, two pegasi, and an earth-pony-turned-alicorn.
  • One earth pony is so terrfied of Izzy that he jumps into the waters around Maretime Bay. During the "Mob Song", he finally climbs out — only to fall back in again.
  • When complaining to himself that he can do stuff just as well as Hitch, Sprout tries to prove it by shutting a filing cabinet, only for the drawer above it to open. When it cuts back to him later that cabinet drawer is still open.
  • As the earth ponies panic at the sight of Izzy, Hitch rescues a foal from being trampled, but accidentally gives him to a pony who isn't his parent. The same foal is later seen with his actual parents during Sprout's song.
• Ne Zha: During the birthday party and the ensuing battle, the heavenly guardians and their sea demon prisoner are shown twice to be waiting in a hidden chamber, waiting for Li Jing's signal to come out. In a post-credit scene, they're still waiting in the half-collapsed chamber and realizing that they don't know what the signal actually is.
• Over the Hedge:
  • At the start of the film, Hammy says he buried some nuts in the woods and runs off to find them. At the end of the film, he finds them... and there were apparently enough to fill the whole log.
  • Another one involving Hammy comes back twice. RJ tempts Hammy into helping him by showing him a cookie, only to throw it away and say it's "junk", much to Hammy's disappointment. During the big heist later on, Hammy finds the cookie on the roof, and RJ has to put him back on track. Even later, Hammy enters Bullet Time, and he uses this opportunity to finally get his cookie.
  • When he pitches the idea of suburbia to the forest animals, RJ exclaims that humans have "food out the wazoo," to which Verne responds that he "doesn't know what a wazoo is or what kind of food comes out of it." Later, as they're eating out of the garbage cans, Verne very nearly eats a diaperinvoked, which RJ warns him "does come out of a wazoo."
• In PAW Patrol: The Movie, a hurricane's winds rip off Marty Muckraker's toupee. A scene later, the Patrol are driving towards the hurricane, and a toupee smacks into Rubble's face. (We later see him wearing it, much to Marty's displeasure.)
• Phineas and Ferb The Movie: Candace Against the Universe:
  • Among the long list of things the Cowards are afraid of are spiders and people who look like spiders. A spider cut-out is used to stop them from following Super Super Big Doctor and her troops later.
  • At the end of the movie, the elephant creature that went into orbit around Feebla-Oot ends up coming down on top of Mama.
  • The portal that originally took the kids to Doofenshmirtz Evil Incorporated ends up being inadvertently burned down by Lawrence just before Linda gets home.
• Piglet's Big Movie: During one of the flashbacks, Roo is drifting downriver and Eeyore tells Roo to grab his tail so he can pull him out. Roo tries, but misses. Later on at the end, Christopher Robins asks, "Where's Eeyore?" and it cuts back to him still hanging by the river asking Roo if he had grabbed on yet.
• Son of Batman: After Talia drops their son Damian with Batman, Damian demands to drive the Batmobile, arguing that he knows how to do it, but Batman refuses. In the next movie, Batman vs. Robin, at the beginning scene Damian (now as Robin) stole the Batmobile and is driving it by himself. Then in the next one, Justice League vs. Teen Titans, Damian is once again riding the Batmobile, but this time with Nightwing driving it.
• Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse: When Doctor Octopus introduces herself to Peter B. and Miles, she says "My friends call me Liv." In a later scene, Aunt May refers to Doc Ock as "Liv", implying the two have a history.
• The Super Mario Bros. Movie: At one point, Mario tells Peach that, unlike the Koopas in her world, his people keep turtles as pets and says that he'll buy her one if she comes to visit. Near the end, when Peach shrinks Bowser by force-feeding him a Mini Mushroom, Mario puts him in a jar and says "I told you I'd get you a pet turtle".
• A Town Called Panic features a literal example when Cowboy and Indian try to order 50 bricks to build a barbecue for their friend, Horse. They accidentally order 50 million bricks, and the day wears into evening as truck after truck deliver loads of bricks, until there is a pile as large as the house. Horse returns home to a brick-free yard, except for the newly constructed barbecue. His birthday party runs well into the night, and it is not until the lights are out at bedtime that we find out where the 49,999,950 other bricks have gone. They are neatly stacked on the roof, forming a cube larger than the house.
• Toy Story 3 has one set up in Toy Story, fifteen years earlier. The Squeeze Toy Aliens are obsessed with the claw game that they are taken from, revering it as "the Claw." This gets the gang in trouble in the first film, but a garbage claw saves them in the end of the third from incineration, with the same intonation of "the Claaaaaaaaaaw".
  • This particular example may be amalgamated with another from a previous film. The specific trio of aliens responsible for rescuing the main cast became "indebted" and "eternally grateful" (in their projections) to Mr. Potato Head after he saves them from being hurled out of a delivery truck's window during Toy Story 2, indicating that their climactic intervention in the following film is intended as a belated "repayment" for his previous act.
• In Turning Red, Ming's comment that she pays her taxes when she is confronted by the school security guard comes back at the end of the film with the reveal that she owes the city of Toronto 100 million dollars to rebuild the SkyDome and therefore is obligated to pay more taxes in her lifetime than any other resident.

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