Brick Joke / Web Original

• When The Angry Video Game Nerd reviewed Bible Games for his 17th episode, he remarked how Bible Buffet is batshit insane, but so insane that he actually kind of likes it. Flash-forward 129 episodes and a full 11 years later when he kicks off his review of Planet of the Apes by deciding he's going to gather up all the bad games he has and launch them into space: among the games that get to stay are Contra, Captain Skyhawk, and after a Beat, Bible Buffet.
• The Chronicles Of Vocaloid Randomness: In "Jobs", Kaito suffers a concussion from one of the Tuna Fighters' tuna cans. In the later episode "Books", he mentions how much of a beautiful "concussion free day" it is, right before getting hit in the head with a book.
• Climate Town: "What Your Bank Really Does With Your Money" starts with a Toy Story joke, and then he seems to move on from Toy Story for the rest of the video only for the final segment to startlingly start with:
  Rollie: What we've got to do is turn the act of lending to fossil fuel companies into a PR nightmare. And not the kind of nightmare where it's like, "oh my teeth are falling out" we're talking about the "oh my toys are alive and they want to murder me" kind of nightmare.
  Woody: We toys can see eeeeeverything
  Sid: *screams*
• Freeman's Mind does this over two episodes. In Episode 2, 'Gordon' notices the helmet of his HEV suit has gone missing... He probably won't need it, right?
  • In Episode 13 he muses that he's a first generation Morlock since he's spending so much time underground. In Episode 48 he calls the soldiers surface dwellers as he guns them down.
  • In the pilot episode, Gordon mentions how he wishes he'd been a pilot after seeing an attack helicopter at Black Mesa. 13 years real-time later, in Season 2 Episode 13, after being hunted by attack helicopters in the City 17 canals: "I don't want to be a pilot anymore."
• Hell's Paradise: In the first episode, Jarid hits a Zombie with his backpack before being tackled by a different one. In the second episode, Keane notices that that particular zombie has its neck broken and asks how it was killed.
  Keane: Who killed this one? Its neck is broken.
  Jarid: Oh, that was me.
  Keane: How?
  Jarid: I hit him with my backpack.
  (beat)
  Keane: What the hell is in your backpack?
• In Yu-Gi-Oh! The Abridged Series there are many of these. One starts in episode 14: Atem warns the man attacking Tea that he looks damn good in a tutu. A few years later we get episode 53. Kaiba is forced to admit it: he does look damn good in a tutu (we even get a card/photo to prove it).
• In Stupid Mario Brothers "The Interactive Adventure", Luigi ended up inheriting a mansion. In the first episode of Season 4 he sold it for a life supply of USB flash drives, so he could never run out of memory. In Episode 53, Mario returns after he gains his memory back, prompting Luigi to suggest a flash drive.
• Skippy's List has examples:
  113. There is absolutely no need to emulate the people from Full Monty every time I hear the song "Hot Stuff".
  131. No dancing in the turret. This especially applies in conjunction with rule #113.
• 4chan had a few people do these—one example where someone mentioned something about Code Geass, then someone posted a Slowpoke picture saying he'll respond in two years. Two years later, he responded. He has continued to do so every year on the same date since then.
  • A similar time travel post was done once.
• Code MENT has a few of these:
  • In episode 3, Milly says that Kallen is being "indicted" to the Student Council. Five episodes later...
    Lelouch: Induction!
    Milly: Huh?
    Lelouch: Induction—to formally admit to an organization or group. You said "indicted". Indictment—the formal accusation that a person has committed a crime.
    Milly: But that was three months ago. And now all you did is prove that you didn't know both words at the time.
    Lelouch: D'oh!
  • And another:
  • In Episode 6:
    Guilford: Hell, I stole your watch before you got in here.
    Jeremiah: So that's where that thing went.
    Guilford: Yeah, I lost it though.
    Jeremiah: Dammit, that was a Rolex!
  • Then later:
    Lelouch: You see a Rolex I lifted off some guy yesterday? You'd better not be touching my stuff.
  • In a later episode:
    Lelouch: Suzaku, listen very carefully. I'm about to get seriously effed right now, so I need you to relay a message. Tell the girl with green hair in my room to NOT TOUCH MY STUFF!!!'
  • After meeting C.C. dressed in Lelouch's "One" clothes later:
    Lelouch: Blargh! Who are you?!
    C.C.: [unmasks] You really are a moron, aren't you? Well, what do you have to say for yourself?
    Lelouch: [...]
    C.C.: Oka—
    Lelouch: DON'T TOUCH MY STUFF!!!
• The Phase novels in the Whateley Universe love the Chekhov's Gun tropes, so this pops up regularly. In the fourth Phase book, Phase considers the problems of a mutant-website-only web-spider. In the fifth book, Phase uses this as a trap. In the first Tennyo story, we learn something of her backstory, which is further fleshed out in a later Team Kimba adventure. Years later (real time), her backstory is weaponized against her in the seventh Phase story.
• The Animutation Irrational Exuberance starts by presenting a series of anthropomorphic fruit mascots under the slogan "Fruit Sells", such as "Rotten Apple Joe" ("Rotten Apple Computers"), "Applegrape Joe" ("Fruity Loom Incorporated"), and "Banana Joe" ("Banana Public Inc."). About halfway through, more fruit-themed mascots are presented, and the last one is..."fitness guru and short-shorts pioneer" Richard Simmons.
  "This was an incredibly large setup for such a cheap joke.
  That's what makes it funny."
• Captain Hammer's "Everyone's a Hero" song in Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog is cut short by Dr. Horrible's Freeze Ray. Horrible goes on to sing his own song before Hammer unfreezes—and when he does, he completes the line he was in the middle of.
  Captain Hammer: Everyone's a hero in their—
  Hammer: [a whole song later, and after punching Horrible across the room] WAAAAAAAAAY!
  • The musical also starts with Horrible practicing a very forced Evil Laugh. This comes up again just before his attack on Hammer, when he nails it.
• Glasgow disappears at the beginning of the second Marvel arc of We Are Our Adventuring Avatars, and disappears from the plot for a while. When inside Brainiac's ship, the fate of the city becomes abundantly clear: It's part of his collection now.
• Used at the end of Suburban Knights. At the beginning, The Nostalgia Critic rounds up everyone at his house by tricking them into thinking that they won a car. At the end, however, everyone leaves after he finds yet another thing he wants their help in looking for. The very last scene?
  Chester A. Bum: Oh my God, I won a car!
  • Comes back again in To Boldly Flee:
    JesuOtaku: Oh my god, you guys, I won a car!
    [beat]
    JesuOtaku: I don't check my mail that often.
  • Also in the The Stinger, where Sci-Fi Guy is revealed to have survived...from his house being blown up 20 minutes in the movie.
• What If? has a post discussing what would happen if Earth's oceans were drained through a portal to Mars. A Running Gag throughout the post is the suggestion that the Netherlands will somehow slowly take over the world. In the following post, Randall discusses what would happen to Mars. The post concludes with the Netherlands colonizing Mars as well. A few more posts down the line, we get to see what happens when gravity is misapplied to a mountain in space—it ends up impacting not Earth but Mars, AKA New Netherlands.
• I'm a Marvel... And I'm a DC: At one point during the After Hours storyline, Professor Xavier mind reads Lance, Lex Luthor's L.M.D. Lance at Batman and Nick Fury's request, mentioning at one point that Lance has the Black-Eyed Peas' "My Humps" playing in the background of his head. Part 3 of the following season's Happy Hour storyline begins with a Joker-controlled Lex saying the lyrics to "My Humps" in an amusing monotone when Batman and Spider-Man attempt to interrogate him.
• Early on in Return of the Cartoon Man, Peter asks Roy and Karen to "cut to the chase," and the scene immediately cuts to them chasing each other around the house. Much later, Roy interrupts Karen's exposition, looks at the camera, and says "Let's cut to the chase." The scene immediately cuts to the climactic chase sequence.
• Dragon Ball Z Abridged has one where the Superfriends are talking about intervening in the plot. Off-screen, Aquaman suggests using whales. Several episodes later, Nappa "sinks" the whales, which prompts a Big "NO!" from Aquaman.
  • Nail and Lord Guru are introduced in a Cutaway Gag in Season 1 where Nail complains that he wishes something exciting would happen on Namek, "I don't even care what." In the next season, Frieza and his men invade Namek.
  • Goku charges up the spirit bomb, which draws energy from all life on the planet. Then he decides it could use a little more energy, which kills a deer and orphans its nearby child. Later, just as Vegeta is about to get nailed by it, he comments "What smells like deer?"
  • When Piccolo is fighting Freeza in his third form Freeza says he'll hit his glubok sooner or later. Later when he's distracting Freeza while Goku is charging his spirit bomb:
  Piccolo: No no NO AUGH MY GLUBOK.
  • In episode 14, Frieza mentions that, because he's faced so many heroic types trying to stop his evil ways, he keeps a mental tally of all the clichéd phrases they throw at him. Cut to episode 27 when Goku appears and after confirming the guy is Frieza he gladly proclaims "Imma deck you in the schnoz!". Frieza remains stunned for a bit before saying "I'm... sorry, that's a new one."
  • When he finds out that Gohan has stolen his dragon ball, Vegeta's scream of rage can be heard across the planet, across space, in the afterlife, and 20 years later in the Bad Future Trunks comes from. When History of Trunks: Abridged came out, that scream can be heard at the appropriate scene.
  • In episode 2, Piccolo comes up with a plan to defeat Raditz, but it requires Goku to distract him for five minutes. He acknowledges that Raditz was able to beat them up in less than one minute but tells Goku "I'm sure you can handle it." In episode 29, almost four years later, Goku has a plan to defeat Freeza, and he needs Piccolo to distract him...for five minutes.
    Goku: And considering how bad he was kicking my butt... Ah, I'm sure you can handle it.
    Piccolo: Did... you just hold a grudge?
  • On first contact with Future Trunks, Bulma — unaware of his true identity — offers to "be his mommy", with everything that implies; Trunks appears to take it in stride, but screams in utter horror internally. A number of episodes later, this dialogue happens:
    Piccolo: Oh, by the way, [Future Trunks]'s your son. No harm in telling you; damage already done.
    Bulma: Oh, wow, he grows up to be a cutie! And— (Beat) ...oh my god, I solicited my son for sex.
  • The biggest one begins with episode 1, when Goku introduces Gohan as his son, everyone's shocked at the fact that Goku, who has such childlike innocence, wouldn't even know how to make a baby. Flash forward all the way to episode 56, eight years later, when Chi Chi reveals she's pregnant with Goten, Goku quickly teleports to Bulma in a panic, proclaiming "Bulma! Sex makes babies!"
  • In the "Revenge of Cooler" special, Goku tells the bird he revives to "teach a dinosaur to ride a ball!". In episode 40 of Abridged, cue that same bird (named Toriyama) telling Android 16 he did so.
  • There's an in-world version in Revenge of Cooler as well: Cooler remarks that if Freeza failing to completely exterminate the Saiyans comes back to bite him, that's his fault. The next scene is decades later, when Cooler hears that a Saiyan has killed his brother.
    Cooler: Well, I do hope somebody picks up that phone.
    Sauza: Wha-
    Cooler: Because I f*cking called it!
  • Abridged has an example that ended up becoming Meta by happy coincidence. Throughout the Android Saga, Android 17 wants to steal a truck for their trip to find and kill Goku; when they learn that he's at Master Roshi's island, 17 declares that he now wants to steal a boat. Then came Dragon Ball Super, in which 17 says that he wants to take his wife and children on an ocean cruise. The final episode of Abridged Season 3 brings it full-circle with a scene where 17, revived by Shenron, remarks "I never did get that boat...", turning his appearance in Super into the payoff for their own gag.
  • In the Spinoff Two Saiyans Play, when Krillin is playing Among the Sleep. During episode 4, Krillin finds a picture of a woman with spiky hair and wonder if she's Vegeta's mom. Later he finds the game's monster for the first time and he yells "OH, FUCK, IT'S VEGETA'S MOM! IT'S VEGETA'S MOM!". Then all the way to the end of episode 6, and the end of the game itself, as Krillin is watching the end credits...
    Vegeta: (Slams door open) Heard you were talking shit about my mom!
• Hellsing Ultimate Abridged:
  • In Episode 2 when Integra lists off the various complaints the Hellsing Organization is facing, Alucard flatly refuses to apologize for the sexual harassment complaints. Episode 7 reveals that's because Integra herself is the far worse offender in that department.
  • In Episode 4 the Queen calmly asks Integra to record the Major's dying moment so she can replay them for her own amusement. It's easy to miss, but in Episode 10 Integra does just that.
• At the start of one episode of Endless Saturdays, Robert mentions having a webseries called Bionicle vs Transformers, which has one comment. At the end, he abandons the online news show the trio is working on to continue work on Bionicle vs Transformers, after finding out it has received another two comments.
• SF Debris: during the Star Trek V: The Final Frontier review, Chuck refers to one character's field of holes in the ground as "dry ice mines", due to the smoke they emitted. About ten minutes later, another character is described thusly:
  "Admiral Bob doesn't know his ass from a dry ice mine."
• The King of the Hill YouTube Poop Bobby's Sanity Meter is Low opens with an edit of an intro where the beer can Hank opens shoots out an arrow that sends Hank's head to the moon. One year later, the sequel Bobby Will Never be MLG has Bobby kicking Peggy up to the moon. Hank's head is still pinned there by the arrow.
• raocow keeps meeting old and beloved bosses from his earlier videos in the newer hacks he plays, specially Black Plague (a hilariously ugly Big Boo) and the Key Boss (a broken leftover). In some cases, their comebacks happen over half a decade after their original appearances.
• Early in Season 10 of Camp Should-A-Been, the counselors hold the entire semifinals in four minutes (parodying American Idol's new one-week semifinals format) and mention wanting to get back to the Rec Cabin to catch the Phillies game on ESPN-HD. The following season, an on-going gimmick was that anyone who mentioned Adele got hit with a tranquilizer dart, and the counselors themselves get tranq'd at the end, as they say they're ready to catch their plane back to Philadelphia.
• In the 10000 views celebration of The Most Stupid Deaths in Super Mario 64, Clone 4 says, in relation to their fight on Hyrule Castle, that if Link notices anything, they'll just leave a note blaming Clone 2. In the 20000 view celebration episode, Link finds Clone 2 and fights him for it.
• While driving away from Hol Horse and J. Geil in Vaguely Recalling JoJo, Kakyoin mispronounces the name of Polnareff's deceased sister (i.e. Sherry) as Cherry. Shortly after running into Judgement several episodes later, he encounters his sister's cannibalistic doppelgänger who is actually named Cherry.
• In part 3 of the reading of Even The Purest Light Creates A Shadow, Again A Fanfic Critic and RegretfullyYours talk about how Gray's first grade teacher hated his Show and Tell. In the made up ending the two critics did, Davis uses that to get Gray away from the group.
• Random Assault: Sometimes the hosts will have well-timed repeats of earlier jokes.
• Rooster Teeth has a pair of RT shorts released years apart, namely Pongo and Home for the Holidays, where a joke is set up and seemingly paid off in the original short and then, years later, is paid off for real when Joel discovers the identity of his girlfriend's adopted sibling.
  • From the Rooster Teeth Podcast, Burnie's Brick Joke (note: contains actual use of the trope).
• SuperMarioLogan:
  • In "Chef Pee Pee's Clone", after Chef Pee Pee gets out of the bathroom, he says, "I took an opposite of a Chef Pee Pee in there! They should call me Chef Poo Poo!". Guess what Junior names Chef Pee Pee's clone at the end of the video.
  • "Bowser Junior Loses Thomas!" begins with Junior playing with Thomas and a dinosaur toy. At the end of the video, when Chef Pee Pee finds Thomas and gives him back to Junior, Junior loses his dinosaur toy and calls for Chef Pee Pee to help him find it.
  • In "Black Yoshi's Girlfriend Problem!", after Delilah breaks up with Black Yoshi, she hooks up with Popeye, who tries to open up a can of spinach so he can beat up Black Yoshi. Unfortunately, he can't get the can open. At the end of the episode, Popeye returns, revealing he finally got the can open.
  • In "Cody the Magician!", Bowser Junior shoves the 6 of Clubs card up his ass when Cody tells him to do it. Later in the episode, when Cody's Ken doll does his escape artist trick, the card that was previously in Junior's ass appears in the tank, in Ken's place.
• During episode 6 of Don't Hug Me I'm Scared, the Red Guy (in an office of other Red Guys) goofs around with a File singing the lines "I am a file and you put documents in me". Later in the episode, a Teacher appears who is an animate file who sings the same lines, in the same slipshod "melody".
• From Froghand, in the Bojack Horseman Episode 02 Review, Froge writes for his first section "I guess I'm just horsing around". In the Episode 09 Review, he writes the same thing added on with another reference to the show:
  I guess I'm just horsing around.
  Did you laugh yet? Did you get it? It’s because horsing around is the name of the TV show and Bojack is a horse. Did you get it? Did you get it? Did you get it? Did you get it? Did you get it? Did you get it? Did you get it? And it’s just a page of this.
• Creator/Fistroman: He had a lot of troubles to using a Kendama but finally 10 years later he made it
• Petscop: Paul is unable to catch one of the pets in video 1, otherwise capturing all available pets there before heading to the area where most of the action takes place. In video 6, a similar pet (implied to be related to the uncaught pet) appears in the Newmaker plane, and Paul is actually able to catch it this time.
• The Music Video Show has the host saying that "the world would not end if there isn't a song about playing video games all day." in Episode 3 And then Episode 25 features the host not only watching a music video about playing video games all day but the apocalypse happens. Episode 88 calls back to the latter episode.
  "I'll tell you why [the world ended.] Because three idiot kids made a song about playing video games all day."
• The top comment on this video of a song that is a fan song meant to be the calliope music from Candle Cove as described in the creepypasta. The creator even acknowledged it in his reply.
  "im 16...i hear low pitch calliope music"
  "Im currently 20 and I hear static. Wtf."
• In 2014, Tom Fawkes requested a certain game on ProtonJon's Fortune Cookie stream, but the one time it won the poll the sound was muted. Cut to the beginning of TRG Colosseum Direct's Chaos Fortune Cookie, where he donated a thousand dollars to request a game...
  Tom: JON I WANT HALO REACH!
• Technoblade: In the First Potato War video, he points out that Jerry, a villager in his island, is popping up everywhere in his island. At the end of the video, he says everything is solved, except for one thing...
• JWittz's "10 Weird/Creepy Pokédex Entries - Crown Tundra" starts with Archeops's Sword entry, and how it needs a 2.5-mile running start to fly after running 25 mph. Josh orders Archeops to use Fly and remarks on the running start. Nine other Pokédex entries later, Archeops finally takes off in The Stinger.
• StacheBros: In "Home Alone", Spike finds it suspicious that Old Man Toadsworth is salting the ground outside of Bowser's Castle because he believes it never snows in a lava keep like theirs. Near the end of the video, however, it actually does snow there.
• Minecraft Championship: During Rocket Spleef in MCC4, Tommy kills Katherine Elizabeth, which he celebrates by uttering the memetic phrase, "Just killed a woman, feeling good". Over a year later, in MCC14, Katherine kills Tommy in Battle Box, and celebrates by saying "Just killed a child, feeling good."
• ProZD has one as part of his "King Dragon" series of videos. "Sidetracked by sidequests" has Dennis getting distracted from the game's main story in his attempt to find all of the pinecone collectables in the game. Two years later, "facing the final boss after doing every single sidequest" has Dennis finally confronting King Dragon, only to one-shot him because he did every sidequest beforehand and is now overleveled... and then he reveals that he found all 900 pinecones.
• Jiwi's Machines: In Episode 4, Jiwi hides the fake cake that he made out of shaving cream on a shelf above the table. At the end, when he is eating the real cake by himself, the fake cake falls off the shelf and lands on him.
• Sabaton History: In the "Screaming Eagles" episode, Indy attempts to imitate an eagle in The Teaser—"AAAWK! AAAWK!"—which sends Joakim into helpless laughter. Then he does it again with no warning at the end of the episode. And then again over eighty episodes later in "The Unkillable Soldier".
• One video of Brandon Farris features Brandon so startled by a jumpscare, he randomly decides to take the mic cover off and shove it in his mouth. In the following video, he notes a hair from his beard caught in the cover from when he ate it.
• Title Pending: In the first and second episodes Cameron brings up that they need to finish quickly because he has a Fortnite tournament to attend to later and comments how inconveniently timed the situations are.
• Atop the Fourth Wall: The Movie: The Cinema Snob wants to show everybody Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom during Linkara's birthday party, but is interrupted when Allen arrives and tells them the news about the Caelestis. In The Stinger, the Snob finally gets around to showing the film to everybody, who are in near-catatonic silence from what they just saw.
• Jokes like these are incredibly common in SMPLive. Cooper's pitfall traps tend to be a recurring cause:
  • At one point, while chasing Poke around the Spawn Tree, Cooper manages to get led into his own trap.
  • The same one in front of the Spawn Tree laters gets used for a gag between Schlatt and Connor, where Schlatt runs up, excitedly telling Connor about how he just saw "Alvin and the Chipmunks 2", only for Connor to step on the Pressure Plate and send him hurtling down into the pit.
• Unwanted Houseguest: The random telephone somehow in the middle of Aberfoyle Woods. It was initially just a gag that allowed Doctor Wolfula and the Houseguest to communicate after the Shadow Demon had run the Houseguest out of Aberfoyle Manor. In Season 3 he remembers it and goes looking for it after his home phone line is cut. This sets up the plot of Season 3 as he ends up at Litchfield Asylum due to a Road-Sign Reversal.

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