Cutting Edge, a song in The Brave Little Toaster where The Master's new appliances gloat about how technologically advanced they are is amusing to watch now that Technology Has Marched On. Said "cutting edge" appliances are now all hilariously and amazingly obsolete (good luck even finding some of them in a thrift store), while the "outdated" toaster, lamp, vacuum, and electric blanket are all still popular and commonly used in homes.
In Disney's Cinderella, one of the heroine's evil stepsisters is named "Anastasia". Fast-forward about fifty years, and Anastasia becomes something of an evil stepsister to the Disney canon princesses, considering she was Don Bluth's answer to them, and Don Bluth used to work for Disney before leaving and establishing himself as a competitor. Even better, both Anastasias are/eventually become redheaded heroines with love interests with humble backgrounds.
One of the songs used in The Frying Nemo Saga, a series of YouTube Poop videos based on Finding Nemo, is "What A Wonderful World" by Louis Armstrong. In 2016, the film's sequel, Finding Dory, would use this song when Hank the septopus crashes a truck into the ocean to free all the fish inside of it.
In Fritz the Cat a character trying (in vain) to seem racially aware hilariously remarked "Why does a great actor like James Earl Jones always have to play black characters?" Five years later Star Wars: A New Hope hit theaters, with James Earl Jones portraying the presumed, and eventually confirmed White guy Darth Vader.
In Frozen (2013), Elsa has the ability to conjure ice and snow. Shortly after the movie came out, a "polar vortex" caused large swaths of the United States and Canada to be blasted with subzero temperatures and heavy snowfall. A lot of fans therefore jokingly blamed the polar vortex on Elsa's powers. That, or telling Mother Nature that when Elsa said "the cold never bothered me anyway," it wasn't supposed to be taken as a challenge. The first teaser for Frozen II would be released during the 2019 polar vortex.
Throughout the film, The Bowler Hat Guy/Goob, a middle-aged man, is seen carrying a notebook with a cartoon pony on the cover. A few years later, thanks to a certain cartoon, that sort of thing would become commonplace in the real world.
Mel Gibson voices the dashing John Smith, who reconciles two warring races and falls in love with a woman of a different ethnicity - and doesn't blast racial slurs at her.
Christian Bale is a mild, meek young soldier who doesn't seem like he would hurl verbal abuse at the Virginia Company's photographer. The Nostalgia Chick gleefully points this out.
Long before this movie, Benedict Cumberbatch narrated a documentary in which he had trouble pronouncing the word "penguin" as he does in this film (he pronounces the word as "pengwing" especially when he has to rattle of lines rapid fire).
In the movie, the fate of Dave the Octopus is that he gets trapped inside a snow globe. In both Splatoon and Splatoon 2, the fate of DJ Octavio, also an octopus, is that he gets imprisoned in a snow globe.
The eighth film Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf film, Dunk for Future, had Happytoon as a production company. They're the company that produces Happy Heroes, Huang Weiming's other long-running series. Later in 2022, it was announced that Happy Heroes would be getting a third movie, The Stones, that has Pleasant Goat production company Creative Power Entertaining as part of its crew, bringing it full-circle.
In the first movie, after Fiona realizes Shrek is an ogre, he remarks "You were expecting maybe Prince Charming?" We learn in the next movie that she really was expecting Prince Charming, and her not being rescued by said Prince Charming drives part of the plot.
In Shrek the Third, there is a scene in which several princesses, including spoofs of Rapunzel, Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty and Snow White, have a superhero-style battle against Prince Charming, all of whom are included in the Disney Princess line-up (though Rapunzel jointed the Disney lineup four years after Shrek The Third was made). In an actual Disney film, Ralph Breaks the Internet, the Disney Princesses help fight an army of Ralph clones with their own special abilities.
In The Simpsons Movie, Bart imitates Mickey Mouse by wearing a black bra on his head and saying "I'm the mascot of an evil corporation". Disney now owns most of 21st Century Fox's assets, which includes The Simpsons.
In Sleeping Beauty, Fauna suggests that they attempt to reason with Maleficent because she can't be all bad; Fauna also speculates that Maleficent isn't very happy, knowing nothing about love, kindness, and joy of helping others. In this movie, Maleficent is of course evil, but Fauna sort of predicts the remake, Maleficent, in which the titular character is driven to villainy as a result of being physically and emotionally broken; she unexpectedly finds herself helping Aurora, learns to be kind and love again, and pulls a Heel–Face Turn because of that.
The "censored version" of Asses of Fire is only one minute long because of all the raunchy content. In 2001, the DVD of Freddy Got Fingered has a three-minute "PG" version of the film as a bonus feature.
Rio: Nigel, a sulfur-crested cockatoo, is one in an endangered species. Eventually, The Week would specify a "good week" for "endangered species," by which it meant men bearing such a name as going out of vogue, meeting at a pub somewhere.
Toy Story: Rex, a toy dinosaur, mentions that he was made by an unnamed company that was bought out by Mattel. Fans have long noted his resemblance to the tyrannosaur from the already-discontinued "Dino-Riders" line (which featured human action figures that... well, rode on dinosaurs) and speculated that that's exactly what he was. Fast forward two years after the movie's release, and the company behind Dino-Riders, Tyco, was indeed bought by Mattel.
Toy Story 4: Woody telling Buzz about what a conscience (or "inner voice") is becomes this when Tom Hanks starred in Disney's Pinocchio remake as Geppetto.
Walt Disney saw Pollyanna make less money than expected, and commented, "I think the picture would have done better with a different title. Girls and women went to it, but men tended to stay away because it sounded sweet and sticky." Decades later, Disney executives would use the exact same logic to justify the retitling of one of the CGI films, which came off the heels of another underperforming film with a "girly" title.
Duke Weaselton in Zootopia is shown running a bootleg DVD stand, with mammal-versions of other Disney animated movies, including "movies that haven't even been released yet". One of these films is Giraffic, referencing a production which was in the works at the time known as Gigantic, but ended up being shelved indefinitely the following year. Giraffic has a caption which says "Weaselton Exclusive", and now, since the real film is never coming out, it's really true!
, a song in The Brave Little Toaster where The Master's new appliances gloat about how technologically advanced they are is amusing to watch now that Technology Has Marched On. Said "cutting edge" appliances are now all hilariously and amazingly obsolete (good luck even finding some of them in a thrift store), while the "outdated" toaster, lamp, vacuum, and electric blanket are all still popular and commonly used in homes.