Near the start of "Evicted!", Finn shoos a worm off his bed. At the end of the episode, after Finn and Jake reclaim their tree house, they find dozens of the same type of worm crawling around the living room, and Finn says accusingly "Did you guys get on the bed?" This is once again referenced in the Season 4 episode "King Worm", where it ends with resolving either the same situation, or a similar situation from the end of "Evicted!", kicking the King Worm out of their house.
Near the start of "The Other Tarts", Princess Bubblegum mentions that she needs to find a replacement for the Royal Tart-Toter, who's getting old and senile. The episode ends with the blind, deaf, and delirious Tart-Toter barging into the Back-Rubbing Ceremony and going into a pseudo-philosophical rant.
At the beginning of "Varmints", Bubblegum asks Peppermint Butler to leave her alone with Marceline. As the two watch the pumpkin patch at the end of the episode, Pepbut nervously says "Can I come out now?"
The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron, Boy Genius: In "Maternotron Knows Best", Jimmy's robot duplicate of his mother makes Carl and Sheen fill out a long series of application forms to prove that they're really friends of Jimmy. We don't see them again until the very end of the episode, where they've been filling out the forms well into the night.
In the episode "With Friends Like Steve's", Stan awakens to mentally insane teenager Barry holding a gun to him. When Stan asks where Francine is, it is revealed that she is buried alive in the back yard. At the end of the episode, Stan is driving Barry home and remarks to Steve, "I'm hungry, let's go dig up your mother so she can make us breakfast".
In "Great Space Roaster" Steve mentions a nonsensical entry in Roger's diary reading "Million dollar idea: DiaRhea Perlman", two years later in "The Unbrave One" Roger mentions his terrible idea for a chain of Rhea Perlman themed restaurants called, wait for it, "DiaRhea Perlman's".
In Hurricane, a trope namer of the sorts where as a hurricane is heading for Langley, Francine complains to Stan about doing housework at these times. In which Stan explains that since he’s always inside all day, he thought about taking things off his To-Do List.
But Stan still refuses to listen, as he spots his old college javelin floating by him, “Remember?” He plans to use that javelin to stab the bear so it’ll attract the shark, for the family to escape, but once again his plan fails, and ends up stabbing the Javelin at Francine. Even the bear was ashamed of him.
In "There Will Be Bad Blood", we are treated to a cow literally jumping over the moon — only to drift uncontrollably into space. The final gag of the episode? The cow comes back. In a painful, fiery way.
In "The Long Bomb," it's mentioned that the Bazooka Sharks' mascot is played by an Asian woman named Lee Tran, and the fact that someone else is wearing the costume is what alerts Stan to the terrorists' plot. At the very end of the episode, a Bound and Gagged Asian woman hops out onto the field, and Hayley identifies her as Lee Tran.
In "The 42-Year-Old Virgin," Ray reminisces about what he ate after his first kill. At the end of the episode, when Stan kills Bad Larry, Ray gives him a corn dog, saying he will never forget it.
Two brick jokes occur in “The Kidney Stays in the Picture”. At the kitchen, Roger tells Steve about a scary story of how hospitals take out kidneys.
Roger: You’ll walk into your room, and there’ll be plastic sheets on your floor, before you can react, a man in a ski-mask will tie you in a chair, with an Indian-grated belt, he got on vacation in Santa Fe. They’ll turn on some Huey Louis, and then cut the damm thing out with a rusty key-hole saw. No antiseptic, no novocain, no nothing! Just the song “Hip to be Square”, drowning out your boyish screams…
And later, as Stan and Francine traveled back in time, they help Roger create the formula to invent ecstasy. Roger was so happy he offers to take on any favor of their choosing. Later when Stan was able to perform the kidney transplant, a surgeon asks Stan how he got the other kidney, in which he responds how he “called in a favor”, which cuts back to Roger doing his earlier-mentioned kidney operation upon the restricted man, Francine slept with, as Roger grooves out to “Hip to be Square”.
At the beginning of "Bully for Steve", Stan sees Steve wearing an oversized shirt and says "A homosexual giant called, he said wants his shirt back", only for said giant to call and tell him he found it. Later, to keep Francine from finding out he'd been bullying Steve, Stan says out of desperation, "I'm having an affair with a homosexual giant".
American Dragon: Jake Long: At the beginning of "Bring It On", Professor Rotwood was escorting students through the museum when he accidentally broke a statue. He quickly told the students they saw nothing. Neither him nor the incident have been mentioned again until the end credits, when he phoned his mother for bail money because he was arrested for it.
In the teaser to one episode of Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Steve makes fun of Dr. Weird by posing as him and shouting "Fill me with BBQ sauce because I'm dumb as hell!" A few episodes later...
Dr. Weird:GENTLEMEN! THERE'S A CHANCE THIS WILL WORK! Steve: Actually, you said there's no chance this will work. Dr. Weird: [looks back to a contraption pumping him full of BBQ sauce] FOOL! THAT WILL NEVER WORK!
Arcane: A somewhat dark one. During the first episode, Ekko is asked about where he learned about Jayce's apartment, and he says that Jayce came by and bought a bunch of stuff they had on display and didn't even try to haggle for it. In the final episode, Silco comes to Jayce with a list of demands for peace to be made between Piltover and the Undercity (which would become Zaun). Jayce agrees to all of it with the condition that Silco hand over Jinx to be judged for her crimes. Later, Silco talks to himself/Vander's statue and notes that Jayce didn't even try to haggle in regards to Silco's demands.
In a season 2 episode, annoyed with his valet Woodhouse, threatens to punish him by making him eat a big bowl of spider webs. However, the episode ends with him never carrying out that threat. Jump ahead to season 4, where Woodhouse leaves Archer stranded in Montreal; when Archer finally returns home and is pissed off, guess what Woodhouse's punishment is?
Archer: Woodhouse! I'm gonna check that bowl!
The very first episode opens with a not-so-heinous scene of Archer goofing off in an "Electric Torture by the KGB" training scenario. Late in season two, guess what he's faced with?
Archer: Kinda wishing I'd paid more attention to my training right now. Which is, uh, pretty rare for me.
In "Mole Hunt," Archer sleeps with a flight attendant who later shows up in "Skorpio" giving Lana and Malory a withering look as they are discussing Archer's spanking fetish. Guess what she did with Archer.
In "Honeypot", there is a lemur in Archer's apartment, presumably owned by one of the prostitutes in schoolgirl outfits Archer had hired, that later bites one of them on the face. Later in the episode, we discover Woodhouse's "fondness" for a boy who died in the war, Reggie Thistleton. Later, in "Job Offer", we see that Woodhouse has kept the lemur, and named it "Reggie".
In "Dial M for Mother," while pushing a stroller through a park, Trinette has a confrontation with the assassin Mannfred at a playground. After Mannfred threatens her with a pistol, Trinette tells him that the baby's father knows Krav Maga, which "Training Day" establishes is used by ISIS agents. In season two's "Blood Test," its revealed that Trinette believes Archer to be the baby's father (it's really Cyril).
Calzado in Season Three episode "El Contador" makes mention of "Hunting the Most Dangerous Game". Archer, being Archer, assumes he means jai alai which was last mentioned in the Season One episode "Honeypot" as a most dangerous game.
In "A Going Concern," Archer discovers a sex toy in his mother's desk, the color of which he describes as "aubergine." In "Double Trouble", Pam mentions that "nobody cares about your stupid eggplant" when accused of rifling through Malory's desk, and a season later in "Lo Scandalo," before his death in Malory's condo, Savio Mascalozoni apparently inserted a toy into himself in an act that Archer describes as "sodomy by rubber eggplant." The season after that, in "Live and Let Dine," a celebrity chef points out aubergine and eggplant are the same thing.
In "Blood Test," Archer, when a litre of blood is taken from him, expresses that he doesn't know how much blood that very common unit of measurement would contain. The brick comes back in Season Four's "Sea Tunt, Part I" when he knows about more obscure units of measurement like the fathom and the league and is able to convert between them mentally on the fly.
In "Training Day", Archer gives Cyril his underwear gun with the warning that it could go off "for like, no reason." Four seasons later in the second part of "Palace Intrigue", Archer shoots Cyril to prevent El Presidente's wife from revealing they had slept together.
Archer: Look at that. The gun went off. For, like, no reason.
The ending of "Diversity Hire" had Conway Stern reveal that the name he gave the gang was just an alias. Five seasons later in "Three to Tango" it's revealed that his name actually is Conway Stern.
In "Skytanic", Lana angrily remarks that "My vulva is as smooth as a veal cutlet!" when Archer implies otherwise. In Season 5's finale, Cheryl is grossed out at being forced to check Lana's dilation progress, but also comments that she is smooth. Lana happily accepts the compliment.
In "Skin Game," the episode where Katya reappears as a cyborg, Archer becomes extremely unnerved by the presence of Katya's new removable vagina in his sink. Then in "Reignition Sequence," Archer and Lana are dating, and the rest of the group call Katya to have sex with Archer so that they will break up. He convinces her to leave, however, just as Lana arrives for their dinner date. For a moment, Archer and Lana have a bit of a fight, and when Archer reassures her that he is a changed man...
Lana: Then why... is there a vagina... in the SINK?!
In "Blood Test," Lana declares the last person on Earth she would have a baby with is Archer. Come "Arrival-Departure" three seasons later, guess who Lana reveals the sperm donor was...
In his first appearance billionaireCloudcuckoolander Rudolph Mintenberg asks if he can hunt Atomic Puppet for sport. He asks them the same question in their next few visits to his mansion, until in "Mintenberg's Armour", where he fights Atomic Puppet with Powered Armor and excitedly exclaims that "after all this time, I get to hunt you for sport!".
When Atomic Puppet first battles the Muck Monster, Mudman, AP calls him a "dirtbag", to which Mudman responds by saying that Dirtbag's actually his cousin. Several episodes later, Atomic Puppet encounters the redneck superhero Dyna-Moe, who tells them he's been kicked out of his hometown by his archenemy Dirtbag. They ask if he's means Mudman, and Dyna-Moe says that's Dirtbag's cousin".
Avatar: The Last Airbender: The episode "Avatar Day" involved Sokka losing his boomerang after getting ambushed. He spends the first portion of the episode depressed over it and then seemingly forgets about it until during the climax he's randomly reunited with it, excitedly yelling "Boomerang, you do always come back!"
In season 3 among the other compartments in Aang's modified glider is a snack compartment, for if he gets hungry. Mid flight?
Aang: "Whaddya know? It did come in handy."
In the same show, the episode "The Cave of Two Lovers" features the nomads singing the eponymous song:
Nomad: ..."a mountain divides them apart!"...and, uh, I forget the next part, but then it goes..."SECRET TUNNEL!..."
[half an episode later]
Same Nomad: Hey, I just remembered the rest of that song! "AND DIED..."
Made even funnier in that he remembers the part about death just as they're talking about possibly becoming lost in the cave forever.
In the season 1 episode "The Spirit World (Winter Solstice, Part I)", Sokka is kidnapped by a spirit and taken into to the spirit world. When Aang saves him at the end of the episode, Sokka remarks that he really needs to use the bathroom. In the season 3 episode "The Avatar and the Firelord", Aang's behavior during his spirit vision of Roku prompts Katara to ask if the spirit world has bathrooms...to which Sokka responds that he knows for a fact that it does not.
In the same episode, Iroh uses his smelly sandal as a track for Zuko, who, 2 and a half seasons later, uses it to track him with June's shirshu.
The first series had a Running Gag about a unbelievablyhapless cabbage vendor who gets his cart of cabbage destroyed everytime he encounters the main heroes, which keeps happening all across the world. Come The Legend of Korra, which takes place 70 years later, a businessman is arrested for assisting terrorists. The name of the guy's enterprise? Cabbage Corporation.
Politician: "Not my Cabbage Corp!'''
In Barbie in a Mermaid Tale 2, the lead Stargazer vows revenge on Eris despite his shrunken size and slower swimming speed. It takes him the rest of the movie to get there, but he does so at a crucial moment to bite her nose.
In Beast Wars, the first season finale has Rattrap ask Optimus Primal if he died, could he have his quarters. Primal dies at the end of the episode and spends the first two and a half episodes of the second in that same position. When he finally comes back and saves the other Maximals from the Predacons, Primal declares the one of the first things he's going to do is have Rattrap clean his junk out of his quarters. Rattrap's response? "What can I say? The guy was...dead."
Early on in "Steak Night", Cricket mistakes a street performer for a robot in disguise when he does the robot dance. Later on, he fights an actual robot.
Crossed with Chekhov's Gun in "Remy Rescue". Tilly is asked to watch Vasquez tied up, but leaves to go find a board game allowing him to escape unguarded; once she returns, she suspiciously retreats into the vents. Near the end as Remy is being hustled to the helicopter, Tilly bursts out of the vents and glomps onto Vasquez, allowing him to free Cricket long enough so he can save Remy.
In "Homeshare Hoedown", Cricket uses Gloria's phone to book a Share BnB appointment; in the end, he realizes Gloria will be getting the money instead of him because of it.
In the Halloween Episode, Bill gives Cricket and Remy porcelain horses instead of candy; Remy tries to eat his, but is forbidden. Later on, Remy is shown actually eating the horse.
In "Bill-iever" after Cricket destroys the garden with Gramma's scooter, a cornstalk gets stuck to it and is left poking out the garage door. That same cornstalk allows Phoenix to alert Bill toward who really destroyed the garden.
In the BoJack Horseman episode "After the Party", Wanda tells BoJack a joke very similar to the Trope Namer, only with a bag of mulch instead of a brick, and she doesn't tell the other half of the joke until much later in the episode, in order to make a point to BoJack.
Bounty Hamster. Lampshaded in "The Good, the Bad, and the Adorable". A group of cute critters accidentally take off on a huge rocket engine and fly around the entire planet returning just in time to run over the Big Bad at the crucial moment, whereupon Marion pops up and says, "Bet you forgot about those guys, huh?"
Buzz Lightyear of Star Command: In the episode "Tag Team", when Buzz comes to after falling unconscious after crashing into some Pedian slug guano while chasing Warp, he jokes about his suit having to be burned after Commander Nebula says he can't have it back. At the end, it's revealed they did indeed have to burn his suit.
Castlevania (2017): The first fight is a bar fight between Trevor and some random peasants, who repeatedly kick him in the balls. At the end of the first season is a fight between Trevor and Alucard, where Trevor eventually pays it forward by kicking Alucard in the balls, to no effect.
Alucard: Please. This isn't a bar fight. Have some class.
"Holes, Part 2": When the guard arrives to escort the herd to trial, Glendale panics and begins to dig at a wall with a spoon. She is entirely absent from the following scenes, but this is only brought up when, after the herd returns to the surface at the very end, she emerges from the ground after having finished digging her tunnel, and the herd is horrified to realize that they forgot about her.
"Ride the Whaletaur Shaman!": When Durpleton extends his neck to be able to stand on the sea floor, a sea urchin and a sea anemone are nearby and the urchin tries to describe him to the anemone. At the end of the episode, Durpleton's body is still standing on the sea floor and the urchin is still trying to describe him.
"The Last Lullaby": A bunch of characters kidnapped by Glendale throughout the series can be seen inside her pocket dimension.
In Season 1 "Hot Oven", Owen and Paige decide to tease Molly about inviting Brendan over by wanting to welcome him with a dance. Near the end of the episode, when Molly wants Cole to change the subject when Paige asks Brendan if he's willing to wear a wire when talking to Bitsy, Cole tells his parent to show Brendan their dance.
In Season 1 "Live It Up Tonight", Owen tells Paige that he'll get through the surprise audit quickly because he's organized and honest and Paige adds he's like that in the bedroom too. Later on after they get the receipt for Anita, Anita tells them she'll inform Mayor Whitebottom that the park manager is an honest man and Paige adds he's an organized and honest man in the bedroom.
In the episode "Pins, Spins and Fins! (Shark Story Cut for Time)", a man working at a bowling alley (high from huffing shoe spray) has a hallucination where one of the bowling balls tells him to burn down the local retirement home. At the very end of the episode, a newspaper headline reveals that 88 people died in the burning home because the fire department was busy saving an abandoned amusement park (which Donna accidentally set on fire).
In "The Men in Me", Justin Bieber concerts are described as being for "little white boys, white girls and a rainbow of pedophiles". At the very end of the episode, Cleveland and Junior attend a Bieber concert, and a caption reveals that it was part of the world's largest To Catch a Predator sting (Cleveland is currently awaiting trial).
Code Lyoko: In the episode "Image Problem", Jérémie jokes about the scanners having negative health effects in reference to Yumi/XANA being devitalized before she can tell the group what happened. Some 15 episodes later, XANA impersonating Franz Hopper "confirms" that the scanners have a negative effect.
In an episode of Dexter's Laboratory, Dee-Dee torments Dexter by using a label-maker to claim stuff as her property. At one point, she labels the toilet as hers, leaving Dexter with no choice but to go on the living room floor. At the end, after the parents send Dexter to his room (It's a Long Story), they wonder why the floor's wet.
Disenchantment: At least once in each season, an old man pops out from a window to criticize something in the story in a thinly veiled moment of Self-Deprecation and Breaking the Fourth Wall. Each time a flaming arrow pierces his chest mid-sentece, defenestrating him. And yet he somehow lives.
Furthermore, a literal brick joke happens in the finale. God drops a brick, the one which Jerry used to temporarily kill him, from Heaven down to Earth in an apparent throwaway gag. However, when the aforementioned old man appears, it clonks him, instead of the usual arrow, in what is his last appearance.
Happens in a 1953 Donald Duck cartoon "Rugged Bear". Earlier, Humphrey the Bear hides out in Donald's cabin by stuffing the bear rug in a chest and taking its place. In the end of the cartoon, when Donald finally leaves, the bear "rug" from earlier pops out of the chest, thanking Humphrey for taking his place.
Near the beginning, Dewey is seen hot-wiring Donald's houseboat so he and his brothers can drive it to Cape Suzette while their uncle is away. Near the end, the houseboat explodes, with Dewey realizing he left the engine running, warranting the Ducks' move to McDuck Manor.
As the boys gush about Scrooge's fantastic adventures, Huey claims that he found the Chupacabra and that it turned out to be a shaved bear. Later, while the boys wander through the artifacts in Scrooge's garage, Huey sees a painting of him with the bear and shouts "I knew it!".
Brier Beauty of Ever After High jumping out a window on a whim is already pretty funny. Prince Daring catching her, because it's "kind of (his) thing" is hilarious.
A notable one appears in "Hex Games". Early on, there's a scene where Francis skateboards down a dangerous ramp and is flung into outer space. Near the end, Vicky refuses to fulfill her end of a bet with Timmy and says he has a better chance of "some loser, 12-year-old wasteroid falling from the sky and plowing me into the ground", at which a flaming Francis reenters the atmosphere and crushes her.
In "Transparents!", Mr. Crocker sets a trap for Timmy's fairies (who are posing as his parents) by disguising a trap door as a parking space for them to park in, but Timmy, seeing through the trick, steers the car into the adjacent spot. At the end of the episode, Principal Waxelplax prepares to leave the school in her car and accidentally backs up into Crocker's phony spot.
In "Something's Fishy!", Timmy demonstrates his merman powers by calling a giant squid, but nothing happens. At the end, the giant squid does show up, making him the new "accursed one" in Cosmo's place.
In "Dream Goat" when Timmy, feeling guilty about lying, asks his parents if he hypothetically revealed he was the goatnapper, Dad demonstrates how he'd react: he Screams Like a Little Girl and faints. Then later when Timmy reveals on TV that he's responsible for Chompy's disappearance, after his parents do a Spit Take, Dad screams like a little girl and faints, staying true to his word.
The episode "Pipe Down" is practically littered with these. The main one starts with the start of the episode where a loud test of the Meteor Warning System occurs on TV. Timmy eventually gets sick of loud noises and wishes for silence. The next afternoon, a meteor is discovered to be racing towards Earth; the warning is activated but no one can hear it. Timmy spends the rest of the episode playing Charades (which he is earlier shown to be terrible at) with Cosmo and Wanda to wish the meteor out of existence.
In the first episode "Wizboy" when Kyle comes upon a "summon a griffon" spell from his spell book, Fanboy sees the spell and recites it aloud, freaking Kyle out that a griffon will be coming, but nothing happens. That same griffon Fanboy summoned from the book actually does shows up near the end of the episode to take Kyle away.
In "Dollar Day" after the boys enter the Frosty Mart, Fanboy trips and his brain comes tumbling out of his head. Later on when trying to think of a way to pay Lenny, Chum Chum comes over with Fanboy's brain and puts it back where it belongs, giving him another idea.
In "I, Fanbot" after Fanboy swaps brains with Oz's robot, Oz suggests a better solution at putting the robot's brain into Fanboy's body which he turns down. Oz actually does put the robot brain into Fanboy's body for safe-keeping in preparing for an angry mob; the result causes Fanboy's body to become obsessively smart and build a rocket which he eventually takes off in.
In the episode "Road to Germany", there is a cutaway where Stewie is playing with a "European See & Say" which gives patently absurd sounds to various animals (such as a cow saying "Shazooooo!") followed by Stewie expressing his dissatisfaction at the inaccuracy. Later in the episode, Brian and Stewie have to travel back in time to Nazi Germany to rescue Mort after the latter wandered into Stewie's time machine while looking for the bathroom. However, they have no idea exactly what time or place they'll end up in. Only that Mort will be there when they arrive. Shortly after they get to Nazi Germany and wonder aloud where and when they are, a nearby Cow says "Shazooooo!" to which Stewie responds "We're somewhere in Europe".
In the episode "Lois Kills Stewie", when the family is tied up in rope, they decide to pass the time by starting a celebrity rumor. Peter suggests that Rob Schneider takes illegal immigrants from Home Depot and pays them to choke him in the shower. Later, it's shown to be apparently true.
Immigrant: Señor Rob Schneider, you must come see the news! Rob Schneider: I'm not paying you guys to watch TV, now get in the damn shower!
In "Brian Sings and Swings", Peter, thinking Frank Sinatra Jr. is a bad influence on Brian, calls his "mother", Mia Farrow. She shows up at the end to give Frank a spanking.
In "When You Wish Upon A Weinstein", Peter worries about entering a synagogue with his Christian upbringing, with a group of nuns being alerted of such to illustrate the point. Then at the end, the Griffins seek refuge from an angry mob inside a bus. Guess who's in there waiting to whack Peter with rulers.
In "Trading Places", a cutaway gag shows Peter working as a police sketch job and making racist drawings (which got him fired). Later in the episode, when Chris gets off work and asks if his day can get any worse, he's promptly mugged by a man with Peter's drawing for a head.
In "Believe It or Not, Joe's Walking on Air", Cleveland states at the beginning that he hates shows that cut from the story to "some bullcrap". The scene then cuts to an image of Adolf Hitler riding a unicycle juggling. Later in the episode, Peter says that they have to "re-cripple" Joe (who during the episode had surgery to get new legs), and says it's the right thing to do, "like taking out Hitler". It then cuts back to the clip of Hitler riding the unicycle, but this time Peter runs in, knocks him off, and punches him in the face, stating to the viewer, "See? We had a plan for that all along".
In one of the longest brick jokes, in "To Love and Die in Dixie", Peter and Brian have painted the car to resemble the General Lee. When they try to jump in it, Brian just slams into the door and is knocked unconscious. Three years and a cancellation later in "The Fat Guy Strangler", during the standoff with Patrick, Peter is being held captive. Brian picks up a rock, throws it, it hits Peter in the head, and they have this exchange.
Peter: You missed! Brian: No I didn't. That's for rolling up the damn window when I tried to jump into the General Lee.
In "The Father, the Son and the Holy Fonz", we see a couple coming from a fertility clinic and the husband tells his wife to image a baby boy floating past them in a bubble, only for Stewie to go past them rolling in a disinfectant bubble, which prompts the husband to tell her to imagine Lindsay Lohan doing a crabwalk naked. Later, Peter opens his door to see just that.
A different Brick Joke was done in the form of a deleted scene: Peter tries to get into Hinduism, but tackles the guy believing that the red dot on his forehead was from a sniper rifle. Later, the Hindu guy shows up with blood on his forehead, telling Peter "You were right!" before collapsing.
In "Peterotica", a man drives through the Kool-Aid Man's house, promoting him to remark that it's actually annoying from the other side of the wall. Later, when Carter throws Peter off a train, he too crashes into Kool-Aid's house just as he's finished plastering his wall.
In "Dog Gone", Brian is drunk in a pizzeria talking to the father fromFamily Circus. Brian gets mad and goes on a tirade about how all he ever does is judge other people, in the end telling him to "fuck your wife in the face", the father saying that he's going to do that exact thing. Later in the episode, Peter is reading a newspaper and comments on how shocking today's Family Circus is.
"Meg Stinks!" starts with the James Woods High School principal explaining College Day is where seniors go to choose where they get HPV. In the end, Meg says she got accepted into college and on her first night, she got HPV.
In "Farmer Guy", the Griffins' pictures are placed on a "Known Meth Distributors" poster alongside a live-action photo of Jodie Sweetin. At the end of the episode, we hear Sweetin knocking on Peter's door asking for some meth.
In "Tales of a Third Grade Nothing", when Angela mentions she recommended Peter for a promotion, Peter says that he had eaten a fortune cookie which said that an obvious lesbian would bring great news. He also mentions it said a grand piano would fall on him and then looks up to make sure he is safe. He then leaves the room as nothing falls on him, but one does a few minutes later.
At the beginning of the episode, Peter unintentionally sets fire to and blows up a children's hospital while attempting to destroy a competitor's billboard to impress Angela. At the end of the episode, when Peter asks Angela if he is getting promoted, she informs him that he will be going to jail for destroying the hospital.
Futurama: At the beginning of an episode, Fry entered the game show "Who Dares to be a Millionaire?" and the first question was about which instrument is used to hammer a nail. Option A: a hammer; Option B: a nail. Before Morbo had a chance to say what Option C was, Fry answered "nail". Near the episode's end, Fry tried to destroy an invention by hammering a nail on it... with another nail.
Near the beginning of the episode "The Six Million Dollar Mon," there is a seemingly throwaway joke about the spiciness of LaBarbara's cooking-and another one where Roberto tries to steal and eat her skin. At the end, Hermes is saved when Roberto tries to eat his skin and is killed by the spice.
In "How Hermes Requisitioned His Groove Back", we see an old man waiting in line at the Central Bureaucracy for his birth certificate. Cut to "Lethal Inspection", aired 10 years later, the old man finally gets to Central Bureaucracy, only to have a heart attack right there.
In the episode "The Binky Show", one of the fish featured on Binky the Clown's game show Name That Fish is allegedly named Walter. In the second Garfield segment for that episode, "Don't Move!", the Tropical Fish store features a wall display with several kinds of fish drawn on it... one of which is labeled "Walter."
In the episode "Attack of the Mutant Guppies", Garfield & Nermal contend with mutant guppies, who they defeat by tricking them into stomping each other down a sewer hole. Said guppies then appear in a subsequent US Acres Quickie out of a well; after scaring that show's cast off, one guppy turns to his fellows and says "Come on, lets see if we can get a spot on the ''Muppet Babies".
Garfield Goes Hollywood has a roller-skating bear that Jon, Garfield, and Odie see as one of the acts when they enter Pet Search. Later, there is a man named Herbie who spent 18 years training his pigeons to tap-dance, but when he presents them, they immediately fly away...and, to add insult to injury, the roller-skating bear skates into the scene and knocks into him. In the exact same special, when Jon happily says that there is only one more act after theirs, Garfield comments that with their luck, it would be a dog that plays five instruments at once. Take a guess what the last act of the show was. (Although, he got disqualified because he was actually a human in a dog suit.)
In Golan the Insatiable, towards the end of the first third of the episode "Golan the Impregnable", Golan gets wasted by drinking a whole keg and tossing it into the sky so high we don't see it come down. Towards the very end of the episode, the keg comes falling down and crushes Keith, putting him in a coma. Ironically, this is exactly what Dylan was trying to do with the croquet mallet before Keith tricked her into putting it down and then tried to hit her with a rock when she was off guard. By the time it falls, its presence was likely forgotten as no attention was given to the act when Golan tossed it.
In the pilot episode of Goof Troop, P.J. and Pistol make a bet to see whether their father will bust a gut or a spleen when he sees the dent the Goofs made to his boat. Later, when Pete has a Freak Out after seeing the dent, P.J. gives Pistol a quarter from the bet.
The Goofy cartoon "Teachers Are People" has Goofy forcing an unruly student to hand in his various weapons, including a ticking hand grenade, which Goofy puts in a bucket of water. At the very end of the short, the grenade finally goes off.
The very first episode, “Tourist Trapped,” Dipper is concerned that Mabel’s new boyfriend, Norman, is a zombie. When he tries to show her the page in his journal on zombies, he accidentally flips to the page on living gnomes. Later in the episode, it turns Norman actually WAS a bunch of gnomes, stacked up in a Totem Pole Trench.
In "The Hand That Rocks the Mabel", Stan steals a clown painting from Bud Gleeful. Sixteen episodes later, in the season finale "Gideon Rises", the Gleeful Family takes over the Mystery Shack and Bud is comfortably leaning on that exact clown painting.
In "Legend of the Gobblewonker", there's a flashback which shows Stan making the kids paint fake money (and end up in the county jail moments later), and Stan comments "You call that Ben Franklin? He looks like a woman!" Six episodes later in "Irrational Treasure", Dipper and Mabel find secret government documents and Mabel points out one revealing that Ben Franklin secretlywasa woman.
In "Scary-oke", Mabel jokingly tells Dipper not to "raise the dead or anything like that" at her party. When zombies break into the party later:
Mabel: Dipper! What is the one thing I asked you not to do tonight?
Dipper: Raise the dead...
Mabel: And what did you do?
Dipper: Raise the dead...
In "The Love God", many of Mabel's past crushes appear in visions to her, including an unnamed boy seen briefly in the first episode whom she passed a note to asking if he liked her. Here, he enthusiastically ticks all three options on the note:
During Helga's dream sequence in "Magic Show", she finds that Phoebe became best friends with someone named Gloria, who dresses the same as Helga but looks sweeter and cuter. Come "Helga's Boyfriend", and Stinky ends up dating Gloria and proves she actually exists, which stumps Helga.
"Suspended" features Harold trying to dig a hole to get back into the school during his suspension. However, Principal Wartz catches Harold in the act and adds another week to the suspension, telling him to fill the hole back in. At the end of the episode, Wartz decides Harold has learned his lesson and waives the rest of the suspension, only to fall into the hole while chasing down Wolfgang, who was also suspended.
Mark first learns about his powers when he accidentally tosses a bag of trash sky-high. The following episode begins with that trash bag landing in the United Kingdom. For bonus points, the characters in the UK were brought up in a Seinfeldian Conversation in the first episode's first scene.
I didn't know they had a Burger Mart here.
An example with a dark twist: in the show's first episode, the Batman analogue Darkwing left a pair or criminals tied up on the roof of a building they were breaking into, intending to return and interrogate them further after he attended an urgent meeting with his super hero group. Darkwing never returned because he was brutally killed when the meeting turned out to be a trap. In the second season Mark flies by the area... and there's a shot of the remains of two bodies on the roof, still where Darkwing left them.
In Jackie Chan Adventures episode Viva Las Jackies, animal tamers Helmut & Ulf (parodies of Siegfried & Roy) mention that they are tired of training tigers and instead will have auditions for a juggling bear. By the episode Monkey a Go-Go, they have found their bear.
Jellystone!: In "VIP Baby You Know Me", Fleegle of the Banana Splits threatens Shag by, among other things, giving the Ruggs' restaurant a one-star review. At the end of the episode, the rest of the Hillbilly Bears show up, none too pleased that the Banana Splits gave them such a review... and proceed to beat the crap out of them.
Johnny Bravo: In the first Christmas episode, Johnny mistakes Santa Claus for a burglar and breaks his arm. He is forced to take over Santa's job for the night and does surprisingly well, but Santa leaves warning him that he's still mad. In the second Christmas episode that aired almost five years later, when Johnny meets Santa again, Santa suddenly punches him out and says they're finally even.
In "Wild Cards", The Joker plants bombs all over the Vegas Strip and tells the world about it, and hires the Royal Flush Gang to stop the Justice League from disarming them. Everyone in Vegas evacuates, except for an old woman who doesn't notice what is going on and continues to play a slot machine, even when a battle happens in her casino. In the very last scene, it cuts to the old woman, who gets a jackpot and yells, "It's about time!"
In "Dead Reckoning", Deadman possesses Superman while he's telling Wonder Woman about a restaurant ("They have milkshakes so thick...*possess* I need your help!" "That IS thick.") Near the end of the episode, when Deadman finally leaves, Supes picks up right where he left off ("...You need a spoon to eat them. (Beat) What am I doing in Africa?")
At the start of the theme song, Mr. Cat crushes a flower with a mallet causing Kaeloo to get angry. At the end of the song, she finds him and beats him up for it.
In the middle of the episode "Let's Play Golf", Kaeloo mentions something about pennyloafers coming back in style. At the end of the episode, Mr. Cat asks her if pennyloafers are really coming back in style.
Near the beginning of the episode "Let's Play Trap-Trap", during a game of Trap-Trap, Mr. Cat asks if he can team up with Kaeloo for the game. Kaeloo happily hugs him and tells him it was very nice of him to want her on his team. Later in the episode, Kaeloo gets angry at Mr. Cat and is about to beat him up as usual, and he asks her if she can hug him again.
In Episode 14, at the beginning, Kaeloo tries teaching Stumpy how to recycle stuff, and Stumpy remarks "This recycling business is a nightmare!" When things descend into chaos as a result of Kaeloo taking the Green Aesop too far, Stumpy tells Mr. Cat "I told you recycling was a nightmare!"
In Episode 113, Kaeloo finds out that Stumpy regularly abuses his possessions, like stomping on his video game console because it didn't work, or slamming a door repeatedly because it wouldn't close properly, and takes him to court for "mistreating" them. At the beginning of the trial, Stumpy angrily threatens to sell the objects on the internet. Later, when it looks like the court is about to rule in favor of the objects, Stumpy begs and pleads them for forgiveness and promises not to sell them in the internet.
In one episode, Olaf is a supervillain who wants revenge on the superhero Ratman (Stumpy) and asks Mr. Cat how to get to Ratman's apartment. Mr. Cat gives him a list of "directions" which tell him to go to the 32nd floor of the building and jump out the window. Later, the main four are having a conversation inside the building, which is interrupted by the sound of glass breaking and Olaf's screaming.
Early in Episode 241, Nombril is excited to get on a train and wants to be first in line so all the passengers on the train will pay attention to her. When she boards the train later in the episode, the only people inside are her and her family, and Nombril is sad that there's nobody to look at her.
In an episode of King of the Hill, Hank tries to flush his late father's ashes down a bar's toilet, but he can't because the owner says every time someone flushes ashes down the toilet, he always has to pay the plumbing bill. Later, when they succeed in doing so, Hank gets the bill in the mail the next day.
The Legend of Tarzan episode "New Wave" has Professor Porter climbing into a tree to have a heart-to-heart with Tarzan. After this conversation ends, Tarzan swings off and the Professor wonders how he'll get back down. At the end of the episode, night has fallen and we cut back to the Professor still in the tree.
In "The Impatient Patient", Daffy Duck is a delivery-man with a telegram for someone named "Chloe", but he gets sidetracked by a bad case of the hiccups. When Daffy visits the nearby Dr. Jerkyl for help with a cure, the doctor decides to scare the hiccups out of Daffy by turning himself into a hulking brute. When the brute introduces himself as "Chloe", Daffy suddenly remembers the telegram and hastily reads it (it turns out to be a "Happy Birthday" message from "Frank N. Stein") before fleeing for his life.
In "Porky The Gob" starring Porky Pig, Porky is in the Navy onboard a battleship. The Commander is taking roll call after reveille, when the bugler sounds the mess call. The Commander shouts, "Last one in the mess hall is a softie!" Unfortunately, Porky stumbles and gets that dubious honor. During the rest of the cartoon, Porky saves the day by capturing an enemy sub; at the end, he is honored at an awards ceremony, and then the mess call is played again. The Commander says the same thing; this time it looks like Porky might make it there first, but he leaves his award behind and has to rush out to get it before going back.
Another example is the classic Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner short Stop, Look, and Hasten! One of Wile E Coyote's schemes to catch the road runner is to install a large metal wall in the middle of the road. The wall is underground until Wile E activates it, causing it to immediately spring up. Naturally the wall fails to activate at the crucial moment allowing Road Runner to run past and forcing Wile E to give chase. Several more failed attempts are made to capture the Road Runner. At the end of the episode Wile E eats some leg muscle vitamins, making him fast enough to match speed with the Road Runner. A short chase follows, ending with the Road Runner running right over the metal wall Wile E had previously set up, at which point the promptly springs up and Wile E Coyote runs face first into it.
In another Coyote cartoon, "Beep, Beep", the coyote rigs a glass of water with explosives, but the Road Runner holds up a sign that says, "Road Runners can't read and don't drink." After a few gags, the Coyote attempts to catch the Road Runner on rocket-powered roller skates, but he gets dragged through the desert until he is bedraggled and thirsty. He sees the rigged water glass and raises it. Kaboom.
"Little Red Walking Hood" had Egghead passing through the scenes continuously and unannounced as the story unfolds. At the end, when the Wolf asks who he is, he says "I'm the hero of this picture!" and crowns the Wolf with a mallet.
(blooper) Bunny!, a 1991 Bugs Bunny cartoon, shows a brief dance clip with Bugs, Daffy, Elmer and Yosemite Sam. Then we see several outtakes of the dance routine. In one, Bugs stops suddenly, shouting, "Hold it, Doc! There's a loose floorboard." Later, after Elmer tries to shoot Bugs and Daffy with a real rifle instead of his prop gun, Daffy goes ballistic on Elmer (with Bugs trying to get the camera to cut). Daffy proceeds to storm off after telling Elmer, "Expect to hear from my attorneys about this unfortunate incident." He then steps on the loose floorboard, which whacks him in the face.
Throughout 1938's "The Major Lied 'Til Dawn," an elephant appears who is trying to remember something, putting lie to the adage Elephants Never Forget. At the end of the cartoon he finally remembers. He remembers to say "That's all, folks!"
Megas XLR loves this trope. It occurs almost Once per Episode. In the pilot, for example, Coop misfires a missile, which strikes a PoPTV satellite. When the bad guys combine their Mechs into a ridiculously huge final robot and is about to crush the cast said satellite crashes into it.
The first episode has a scene where Jenny is playing hacky sack and accidentally kicks her sack into space. Later, she gets an alert about an asteroid about to crash into Earth. Normally it's the sort of asteroid that just burns up in the atmosphere, but this one can make it through because its mass has been slightly increased...by a hacky sack.
Also in "Grid Iron Glory", whilst auditioning for the cheerleader squad, Jenny accidentally throws a cheerleader up so high, she doesn't come down. At the end, after the Iris Out, said cheerleader falls onto the black screen and asks "What did I miss?".
In "Swarm of the Century", one of the many instruments Pinkie Pie gathers is a trombone. It was NOT part of the parade Pinkie drove the Parasprites out of Ponyville with, but at the very end, when the ponies return to Ponyville and discover it's now in ruins, Pinkie plays the stock Losing Horns on it.
In "Ponyville Confidential", Sweetie Belle and Scootaloo are under the mistaken impression that the way they will use the school newspaper to get their cutie marks is by making arts and crafts out of the paper, and Scootaloo patches up a bird's nest with it. Later, when the CMCs become writers for the school newspaper, Scootaloo, desperate for a story, decides to go to the same birds nest to get a story, but falls out of the tree and ends up covered in mud.
A multiple-episode spanning example: In "Party of One", Fluttershy and Rainbow Dash make up a story about having to house/cave sit a bear who lives in a cave that's like a house so that they don't have to go to Pinkie's party. Over a season later, in "Too Many Pinkie Pies", It turns out that there really is a bear who lives in a house-like cave.
In "Princess Twilight Sparkle - Part 1", During a flashback to a time over a thousand years prior, when the story of how Celestia and Luna first used the Elements of Harmony to petrify Discord is revealed to Twilight Sparkle, the draconequus can be seen casually snacking from a bag of seeds as he scoffs at the princesses claims to be able to defeat him. He makes a mess as he eats, spreading the seeds everywhere. In "Princess Twilight Sparkle - Part 2", Discord reveals that he is surprised the seeds took so long to germinate, and were the direct cause of the Everfree Forest invading Equestria, over a thousand years after he sowed the seeds, and right in front of the princesses even.
Discord sets up another one in "Three's A Crowd" when he feels weak and asks for a fainting couch. All the ponies immediately look at Rarity.
Rarity: What?
At this point, Rarity's couch has become a Running Gag.
Speaking of running gags, in "P.P.O.V. Pony Point of View", there's a running gag where Twilight keeps preventing Spike from eating snacks meant for others all throughout the first and second acts. The episode ends withher handing him a sundae.
In "Parental Glideance", Scootaloo is visiting Rainbow Dash's parents as part of a school report on Rainbow Dash. For lunch she gets Rainbow Dash's favorite childhood meal, half of which she sticks in her scrapbook. At the end of the episode when she gives the report, her teacher knocks her grade down because "there was a moldy sandwich in your report."
In "Discordant Harmony," Discord decides to make his house a little less chaotic for Fluttershy's visit. He packs a group of singing tea bags into a box and ships them off for an "all-expense-paid trip around Equestria." At the end of the episode, when Fluttershy says she likes the chaos, he summons the box back - now covered in stamps and stickers from the tea bags' travels.
In “Battle on Ice”, when talking about Monty’s trusting nature, Oscar remarks that a con man sold Monty the Eiffel Tower, twice. Later in the episode, Viiola remarks that her only regret is that she’ll never see Paris, and Monty says, “That is too bad. I own quite a famous tower there, you know.”
In “Hall of the Mountain King”, early in the episode Thadius asks Goodtooth what he’s wearing and Goodtooth tells him that his horoscope said he would need a parachute today. At the end of the episode he takes off the parachute thinking he had been mistaken and immediately after ends up on a boulder shooting upwards into the sky with the rest of the villains.
In "A Lying Witch and a Warden," one of Luz's school projects gone awry was a baby griffon model that breathed spiders. When she, Eda, and King are flying to the Conformitorium, they pass a real griffon, who breathes spiders.
In "Enchanting Grom Fright," Luz mentions that she got kicked out of her last school dance for dressing like an otter. When asking Amity for her opinion on what to wear to Grom, one of her suggestions is an otter costume.
"Host-a-Palooza": When Squidina first tells Patrick about the guest hosts, he says that he hopes one of them is ice cream. At the very end of the episode, Patrick does call on a guest: a living ice cream cone.
"The Prehistoric Patrick Star Show": Patrick interviews fire on his show. When he gets launched out of a volcano and lit on fire, he proceeds to greet the fire again.
Early on, Mama Bass states how long Bubble Bass has gone without sunlight because he spends all his time in the basement. When Bubble Bass runs out of his house screaming, some clouds part and the sun comes out. A single beam of sunlight sets Bubble Bass on fire.
One of the clips that Bubble Bass accidentally edited into his review is of him cosplaying as the Cat Girl from his embarrassing desktop wallpaper from earlier in the episode.
"Family Plotz": GrandPat's Goldilocks story comes up again at the end, where he's napping in a coffin and Papa Bear returns to maul him.
"Movie Stars" has Patrick put too much butter on Bubble Bass's popcorn because it drowns out the taste of the rats. At the end of the episode, Bubble Bass is reduced to a skeleton from being eaten by the rats in his popcorn.
Bunny throws away a bunch of raw meat. At the end of the episode, Patrick sees some of it and mistakes it for a new ice cream flavor, scooping it up and eating it.
Plankton kicks out the group at the Chum Bucket for not buying any chum. When they meet up again at the end, he once again kicks them out.
Plankton: Maybe next time you should BUY SOME CHUM!
Penn Zero: Part-Time Hero: One gag in "Baby-Pocalypse" has Sashi throwing a spear at a presumably non-sentient rubber duck, puncturing it and causing it to sink. Several scenes later the team visits a local hospital to get Penn's arm re-attached to his body and Sashi ends up sitting next to the very same duck, who is now wrapped in bandages and glaring at her.
Often common in various Pinky and the Brain shorts, typically as the means of Brain's plan failing out of control. In the first short, "Win Big", Pinky confounds Brain with his Ralph Kramden antics, which Brain ignores. Eventually getting onto the game show to win money to fund his plan to take over the world, he gets to the final round, upon which the question involves—Ralph Kramden. Brain loses. (The episode is a Shout-Out not only to The Honeymooners episode where this happens, but a Cheers episode that was inspired by The Honeymooners one, all with the same approach to the brick joke.)
In the beginning of one episode of The Powerpuff Girls (1998), Mojo is refusing to pay for a baguette because it is too hard just before the girls pull him away to get his help with an evil alien that's invading. At the end of the episode, Mojo takes the alien down by whacking it over the head with the baguette.
One early example of Carrot's weirdness is when the kids find him mowing the roof of his house. We find out it's not (quite) so silly in "Back to Bortron 7", which reveals that Bortronian houses are designed to blend in with their natural surroundings and hence, have red grass on their roofs that needs mowing.
In "What's Up With Saturn's Rings?", Mindy and Sunspot wish that Saturn's rings were made out of cookies. In "Solar System Bake Off!", the kids bake a Saturn cake for the titular bake-off. They make the rings out of cookies.
Mindy: I always wanted Saturn's rings to be made out of cookies!
In "Carnival Knowledge", Rocko and Heffer decide to spend a day at a carnival. Little do they know it's full of rigged games. One game finds him trying to flip a frog onto a lilypad; pissed off by the frog's big mouth, he comes back with a wrecking ball and knocks it into the sky, forcing him to quit the game. Later, Rocko rides a roller coaster that goes so high that it leaves Earth's atmosphere. Guess who he finds up there, still calling him a loser? Then, after the disastrous roller coaster ride ends, a frustrated and spent Rocko decides to head home after being fleeced at every turn. Suddenly, there's a loud WHOOSH!, and the frog sails back down to Earth, landing perfectly on one of the lilypads. Shocked that someone finally beat one of his rigged games, the carnival's owner reluctantly gives Rocko a prize.
In "Who Gives A Buck?", Rocko and Heffer have difficulty finding a parking spot at the mall, and end up following a guy who turns out to be a little kid who's spent years trying to find his mom's car. Later in the episode they finally find a parking spot, and on their way to the mall pass a little old lady who mutters "Son? Have you found the car yet?!"
In "Teed Off", Heffer is seen goofing off at his job as a groundskeeper at the golf course by writing Crop Circles in the turf. At the end of the episode, a pair of aliens land in the golf course after dark to examine the crop circles, and one of them says "Who keep writing this stuff?!"
In the Christmas Episode, Ed Bighead is mad about not getting an invitation to Rocko's Christmas party, and Bev tries to assure him that the invitation probably got lost in the mail. At the end of the episode, the little elf shows up at Ed's doorstep with his invitation, which apparently really did get lost in the mail.
Rosie's Rules: In "Cat Mail," Abuela describes Gatita as soft like a cotton ball. Towards the end of the episode, Rosie gets the idea to mail a picture of Gatita made out of cotton balls to Abuela.
Ruby Gloom loves these. An early episode starts off with a game of hide and seek that is quickly forgotten as it becomes a murder-mystery. When the victim is finally found at the episode's end, it gets tagged by the seeker.
"At the Movies": The babies visit the Octoplex to see the The Dummi Bears in The Land Without Smiles. While the adults are distracted, Tommy leads the others into looking for a theater that shows a Reptar movie. Along the way, they make a huge mess at the snack bar and spill concessions everywhere. After the babies' antics cause the Octoplex to close early, one dissatisfied moviegoer complains about the popcorn tasting like soda pop.
In "Party Animals", during a costume party at Drew's house, the babies get chased by a partygoer dressed as a baby, who is asking them to pull his finger, before managing to trap him in the bathroom. At the end, after Angelica convinces the babies that everything they saw tonight wasn't real, she opens the bathroom door and is greeted by the man shouting "Hey, pull my finger!".
One episode of Scooby-Doo took place in a candy factory. At one point, the villain tries to trap Scooby and Shaggy by pouring a layer of taffy on the floor. Scooby manages to free himself, but Shaggy is forced to remove his shoes to escape. After the villain is captured, Shaggy and Scooby celebrate by eating the taffy. Scooby ends up eating Shaggy's shoes as well.
In the episode "Replaceable You", while Homer is talking to Roz, a beach ball falls out of nowhere into screen and Homer hits it off screen. A scene or two later, when they are in another room and Roz is meeting Mr. Burns, it falls back on screen in the room they're in, and Burns hits it off screen.
During "24 Minutes", Bart makes a phone call that accidentally gets crossed with that of Jack Bauer, so he leaves him a prank call. At the end of the episode, Bauer arrives to arrest Bart for the call.
We get a triple-whammy in "Hello, Gutter, Hello Fadder." In the opening, Moleman is seen being hassled by a pushy New Yorker, and is seen as defenseless. When he reappears later in the episode, he is revealed to be the king of the Mole People, and about to use an earthquake machine. His CMOA and Pre Ass Kicking One Liner, "No one escapes from the Fortress of the Mole People", is immediately dashed, as the bungee cord both Homer and Otto were on rebounds and sends them back to the surface, to which Moleman dejectedly says "Well, except for that."
An extreme example in the episode "Ned N Edna's Special Blend" where a billboard in the opening sequence says "Sleazy Sam's, Remember That Name". At the very end of the episode, a store owned by Sleazy Sam is opened.
The Mary Poppins parody has the family's nanny, Sherri Bobbins, lose her umbrella to Grandpa Simpson at the end of the second act as he's last seen flying off with it. At the every end of the episode when she leaves them, she picks it up from an unconscious Grandpa, revealing that he crashed into the house sometime after that.
In "Lisa Goes Gaga", Lady Gaga's birds carry off Grandpa when she arrives at the train station. At the end of the episode we see them still carrying him through the air.
In "Beyond Blunderdome", Homer helps make a movie and suggests making the villain a dog. He explains that the viewers would suspect the dog if he had shifty eyes. Guess what appears at the very end of the episode?
"Sideshow Bob's Last Gleaming": Bob scoffs at the idea of the Springfield Air Show, disbelieving that anyone cares about "buzz-cut Alabamians spewing colored smoke from their whiz-jets to the strains of 'Rock You Like a Hurricane.'" Guess which song plays at the air show later in the episode?
Another one: "Homer's Enemy," Season Eight, Episode 23, introduced Frank "Grimey" Grimes. Homer believes Frank is his friend. Everything Homer does drives Frank mad with frustration and anger, ending with his death. Frank's tombstone features the nickname "Grimey," as Homer has accidentally convinced everyone Frank liked the nickname. Frank hated the name. Guess whose tombstone Homer kicks over during a tantrum in Season 15, Episode 2?
At the start of "Bart's Inner Child", Homer reads the classified ads and remarks that the Men's Shelter is throwing away their soiled mattresses before noticing the ad for Krusty's old trampoline. Upon picking up the trampoline and setting it up in the back garden, he reveals his fantasy for his own theme park consisting of the trampoline and various other pieces of junk including a maze made from mattresses. Milhouse exits the maze and remarks that it smells funny.
In "A Star is Burns", Jay Sherman demonstrates that he can belch louder than Homer. When Lisa asks how many Pulitzer Prize winners can do that, he responds, "Just me and Eudora Welty". In the next act, Krusty says he has a date with Eudora Welty and a loud belch is heard offscreen.
In "Itchy & Scratchy Land", Bart tries to find a souvenir license plate with his name on it and is dumbfounded that there's one for Bort, only to meet two people with that very name. Meanwhile, Homer and Marge visit T.G.I. McScratchy's, where New Year's Eve is celebrated every few minutes, and one of the waiters says to them "Please kill me". Later, employees in the backstage area are shown sending reports of another jumper on the roof of T.G.I. McScratchy's and a shortage of "Bort" license plates.
"Much Apu About Something" has three, all set up during the parade:
Bart starts a battle between the fire department and the police which has the fire department blast the police with foam. When the Quick 'N' Fresh catches fire, they're unable to put it out because they're out of foam. It's suggested they used it up during the parade.
The fight causes Wiggum to lose control of the police department's SWAT tank and crash into the Kwik-E-Mart. He comes mere inches from hitting Apu, but causes it to collapse anyway. After the Kwik-E-Mart is rebuilt, Wiggum crashes into it again because he was letting Ralph drive.
The parade also shows off a new statue of Jebediah Springfield which is incredibly lackluster. During the tag, Mayor Quimby has the statue destroyed. The act causes the SWAT tank to be destroyed by a ricochet.
In "Clown V. Board of Education", when Krusty gets inspired to open a clown college for kids, Little Debbie Dimples tries to tell him the most important element of comedy, but can't remember what it is. At the end of the episode, she comes back to reveal that it is timing.
In "Bart vs. Australia" Bart avoids getting kicked by a large boot as punishment for prank-calling and insulting Australia. On the episode menu on the third disc of the Season 6 boxset, Bart is shown wearing the boot. On the menu for the specific episode, he kicks off the boot into the air, and it lands painfully on his head, thus giving him the punishing kick Australia wanted him to get.
Smiling Friends: The episode “Frowning Friends” begins with Charlie mentioning that the “Renaissance Men” are coming to town. At the end of the episode they finally show up to kill the Frowning Friends, with Charlie lampshading that he had mentioned it earlier in the episode.
Throughout the pilot episode, Eric keeps calling everyone he comes into contact with a "dildo". During the beginning of the second act of the same episode, Eric yells for his mother, telling her that "Kitty's being a dildo!" Eric's mother delightfully responds with:
Eric's mother: Well, I know a certain kitty-kitty who's sleeping with mommy tonight!
In "Chef's Chocolate Salty Balls", upon learning that a film festival only screens independent movies, Cartman stands by his viewpoint that independent movies are about nothing else than "gay cowboys eating pudding". It seems as though this goes unheeded, as the first movie Stan and Wendy attend for their paper is about lesbians, but around twelve minutes in, there is a big gathering at the Bijou theater for what the director calls a "visionary new motion picture". Said visionary motion picture is about, and is titled, "Gay Cowboys Eating Pudding."
In The Movie, the boys use the promise of punch and pie to get other kids to join La Résistance. Way later, in "Super Best Friends", a Blaintologist hands out pamphlets for the Blaintology cult during a David Blaine performance. Guess what the pamphlet promises?
In "Jared Has Aides", Cartman pretends to be Butters and gets his parents angry by swearing at them over the phone. Later at the end of the episode, Butters' parents come to beat the stuffing out of him. Butters later refers to this very incident in "AWESOM-O", including somehow-realized knowledge of the setup.
In "The Biggest Douche in the Universe" Stan insults John Edwards, telling him he nominates Edwards for biggest douche in the universe. Later in the episode, John Edwards is abducted by aliens... who whisk him away to the Biggest Douche in the Universe Awards Show.
In "Lil' Crime Stoppers" the boys play Junior Detectives and Cartman demands that Butters provide a semen sample. It isn't until the end of the episode that he does, but the boys are now playing laundromat owners. Cartman asks Butters if he wants his pants cleaned.
In "The Poor Kid", the Agnostic foster parents make an offhand mention of a giant reptilian bird. It shows up at the end of the episode to deliver some Karmic (In)Justice.
In "Stunning and Brave", PC Principal accuses Kyle of hating Caitlyn Jenner and compares him to Brett Favre when he unenthusiastically rubbed his hands together when she appeared at the ESPYs. Near the end, when Kyle is being applauded for finally giving in and saying that Jenner is a hero, the scene cuts to the actual live footage of Favre doing so.
In The Spectacular Spiderman's first season, Peter gets a geeky-looking guy and an attractive woman out of a villain's path by webbing them up together, and quips that the guy can thank him later; the pair then look at each other bashfully. In the second season's Valentine's Day episode we see them again, with the woman joyfully accepting the man's marriage proposal.
In "Nature Pants", while trying to live in the wild SpongeBob gets stung by poison sea urchins that leave him all itchy. At the end of the episode, after he goes home and gets a Group Hug from his friends, it turns out SpongeBob still had some sea urchin toxin on him that leaves his friends itchy, too.
In "The Secret Box", the last thing SpongeBob suspects is in Patrick's secret box is an embarrassing picture of him from a Christmas party. Guess what Patrick reveals in the end?
In "Patty Hype", SpongeBob confesses to Mr. Krabs the one thing he misses about the Krusty Krab the most is a tiny, squeaky sound from rubbing two pickles together. In the end when Mr. Krabs is being chased by an angry mob of Pretty Patty customers, SpongeBob is in the Krusty Krab, rubbing those pickles and making them squeak, thus ignoring Mr. Krabs' pleas outside and leaving him to face the consequences.
In the beginning of "The Smoking Peanut", Mr. Krabs is seen abusing the concept of Free Day at the zoo, taking everything he can. At the end of the episode, it's revealed that the oyster got upset because her pearl was stolen. Guess who stole it?
In "Sandy, SpongeBob, and the Worm", the people of Bikini Bottom are trying to find a solution for the giant worm that has been terrorizing the town. Patrick comes up with the idea to take Bikini Bottom and push it somewhere else. Squidward protests that Patrick's plan would get them all killed, but they go through with it anyway. Cut to the end of the episode, where Sandy and SpongeBob trick the Giant Worm into falling into a canyon. Guess where the people of Bikini Bottom actually pushed the town?
Early on in "Plankton's Army" when Mr. Krabs encounters a robotic customer, he sends SpongeBob to clean up the men's room and he complies. SpongeBob is completely absent for most of the episode until the final scene once all is taken care of; he enters, mop in hand, asking what he missed.
"The Two Faces of Squidward" has a fish gain the ability to fly upon seeing handsome Squidward, and then proceed to lose his untied shoe. Later in the episode, the shoe falls through the roof of the Krusty Krab, causing SpongeBob to push Squidward into a pole to save him from being hit on the head with it.
Early in "The Krabby Kronicle", Mr. Krabs changes SpongeBob's story of Patrick watching a pole to him marrying a pole. At the end, Patrick and his "wife" appear at the Krusty Krab.
"A Place for Pets" has:
Midway through the episode, Plankton tries to hide in Spot to get a Krabby Patty, but his body is digested. During the song at the end, Plankton's body is still gone, with Spot licking his eye.
At one point, Squidward is carried through the ceiling by some scallops. At the end of the episode, he crashes back down.
"Temporal Edict": Jack Ransom orders Beckett Mariner to roll down the sleeves on her uniform before they leave on an away mission. Later on, after the episode's conflict is resolved, Ransom has her detained and taken to the brig because she never rolled her sleeves down. Mariner isn't too thrilled by this decision.
"Cupid's Errant Arrow": Barbara mentions a recent time-travel trip to 1920s Chicago while giving Brad a tour of the Vancouver. Later, when Cmdr. Docent is complaining about all the stressful situations that he's experienced, he mentions "traveling through time and killing a guy worse than Hitler".
Holo-Ransom dies trying to tell Boimler what Freeman is allergic to. It turns out to be chocolate, which gets Boimler tackled by Holo-Jet for attempting to give Holo-Freeman chocolate chip cookies.
In the opening scene, some characters are in the holodeck skeet-shooting with Leonardo da Vinci. At the end of the episode, da Vinci returns to shoot the villain from the holomovie.
Mariner mentions that Billups didn't even know who she was before the events of this episode and misnamed her as "Jen", a name which Mariner isn't even sure that anyone on the ship actually has. As she's leaving angry voicemails on Boimler's PADD at the end of the episode, another crewmember yells at her to be quiet and she yells back "Shut up, Jen!"
During the battle, Peanut Hamper beams herself into space rather than face the Pakleds. At the end of the episode, as the Titan warps away, she's still floating in the void.
Peanut Hamper: Help? Help?
"Strange Energies": T'Ana suggests hitting Ransom with a boulder early on, as it's how Kirk handled the Gary Mitchell situation. She shows up with one on a forklift at the end.
"Mugato, Gumato": One of the Ferengi poachers' first scenes is them tearing a Mugato baby away from its mother. The final scene shows mama and baby happily reunited.
When Static goes to Africa, he gets excited about seeing tigers but his father tells him there are no tigers in Africa. The villain of the episode is a leopard. In a later episode, the same villain shows up and Gear calls him a tiger because he has stripes instead of spots. At which point Anansi comments, "I too have often wondered about the stripes."
The recurring joke about having a treehouse instead of a gas station as a base.
In the episode "Catch and Release", the Gems are deciding what to do with Peridot, who is holed up in Steven's bathroom. When he states displeasure (because he has to use the bathroom every day), Pearl jokingly states that the only other option would be to keep Peridot outside on a leash, and then immediately starts genuinely considering the idea. Exactly three episodes later, after Peridot shoots her mouth off to Garnet about being fused, Garnet puts her on a child leash, with harness, and ties her to a fence like a misbehaving dog.
In the episode "Ocean Gem", after Lapis Lazuli gave thanks to Steven, he replied "No prob, Bob." Unfamiliar with the term, she replied "... It's Lapis." Fifty-seven episodes later, when Lapis was posing as a human in the episode "Hit the Diamond", she went by the alias of Bob.
In "What's Your Problem?", after the two split apart due to an argument in the last episode, a panicking, tearful Sapphire tries to use her Future Vision to see if Ruby will come back. At which point, she suddenly blurts out "Why would she be a cowboy?!" and starts crying even harder. In the next episode "The Question", Ruby decides to spend some time on her own and starts roleplaying as a cowboy, and even makes her big return still dressed as a cowboy.
In "Reunited", Ruby and Sapphire have a wedding ceremony to re-fuse into Garnet. When Garnet throws the bouquet, it flies upward and disappears into the stratosphere. Much later, during the reception, several of the Gems are just standing around chatting, and the bouquet drops into Bismuth's hands.
A long one. In the Season 1 episode "Nevermore", Dr. Light angers Raven, causing her to lose control to her dark side, growing in height and using shadow tentacles to drag Dr. Light under her cloak. When the other Titans snap Raven out of it, Dr. Light is uncovered from Raven's cloak, traumatized. Three seasons later, in "Birthmark", the Teen Titans are fighting Dr. Light again. Just as they're at a stalemate, Raven cheekily appears behind Dr. Light, again grown in height and wielding shadow tentacles (though staying in control this time). Dr. Light immediately goes pale and asks to surrender.
While the Titans are wandering Tokyo in the movie, Raven is handed a pack of "Super Twinkle Donkey Gum" at a newsstand. At the end, she appears on a billboard as the brand's new mascot.
In the Time Squad episode "Dishonest Abe", Buck jokes to the Lincoln gang about how he once unscrewed Larry's arms, causing them to fall off when he tried to pick up a tray. At the end, when Larry says that he hopes Buck and Otto have forgotten about making childish pranks, his arms suddenly fall off, making both of them laugh.
At the end of the pilot episode, "The Looney Beginning", Buster and Babs complain to the cartoonist asking him to give them a "Created by" credit. The Credits Gag at the end was "Created by Buster and Babs".
Early in "Hollywood Plucky", Buster and Babs are sitting at an abandoned bus stop in the middle of nowhere, due to faulty directions Plucky gave them. At the very end of the episode, after Plucky finally makes contact with Cooper DeVille, Cooper mentions that he already made the script that Plucky was pitching, only starring Buster and Babs. He found them at a bus stop while out driving.
In the short, "Jungle Bungle" from the episode, "Pollution Solution", when Acme Acres is being flooded due to global warming, Buster asks to book a reservation on Noah's Ark. In Steven Spielberg's next animated series, Animaniacs, in the cartoon, "Noah's Lark", Buster and Babs make cameo appearances as the rabbits that board Noah's Ark.
At the beginning of "Hog Wild Hamton", a commercial for the Acme Clearinghouse sweepstakes airs, featuring people who have won enough money to buy a new house. Hamton enters the sweepstakes only for the subscriptions to magazines that appeal to his interests. At the end of the episode, Hamton wins the sweepstakes, and a new house to replace the one that got destroyed as the result of Plucky throwing a Wild Teen Party behind Hamton's back.
At the beginning of "Two-Tone Town", Buster worries that when Tiny Toon Adventures gets cancelled, he and Babs will become has-beens forced to get jobs at Toonywood Squares. Guess how the episode ends.
In the VeggieTales episode, "Josh and the Big Wall", Bob the Tomato states that Larry is too exhausted to participate on the show, so he decided to let him sleep in. Guess who appears at the very end of the episode, in his pajamas from the Christmas Silly Song?
Larry: Hey, is it time for the show? [Cue the lights in the room being shut off]
For another example, "Josh and the Big Wall's" Silly Song, "Song of the Cebu", ends in failure due to the song not even being completed. Come "Madame Blueberry", it was apparently such a disaster that Archibald had decided to cancel "Silly Songs With Larry". The second sing-along video, "The End of Silliness?", involves Larry sulking at an ice cream parlor until Archibald comes to tell Larry that "Silly Songs" is back on the schedule.
A long one is played for drama in The Venture Bros. In "Past Tense", after a scuffle between Dr. Orpheus and the original Team Venture, Orpheus grabs Action Man's wrists and tells him he is two years and 17 days away from having a stroke. Sure enough, six seasons later in "Arrears in Science", he has that stroke, surrounded by Orpheus and Team Venture.
In the Wallace & Gromit short "A Grand Day Out", Wallace tests the moon's gravity by kicking a ball into the air, but it doesn't come down and floats through space. At the very end of the credits, we see the ball still floating through space.
Wander over Yonder: In "The Birthday Boy", Peepers consults the panel of booby traps for Lord Hater's Doom Arena; three in particular activate a meat tenderizer, a flamethrower, and a fleet of flying tigers. In the climax of the episode when Wander lets Hater win his "obstacle course", Hater gets hit with those three exact traps at once, in the aformentioned order.
During the events of "Panda's Sneeze", Ice Bear builds a robot clone of himself off-screen, which eventually escapes him and goes on a rampage. Later, after the contest, the robot comes back, destroys the cuteness trophy, and essentially kidnaps Nom Nom.
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