History Main / ThisIsGoingToBeHuge

* Mark Gruenwald famously predicted that the new wave of Marvel heroes introduced in the 1993 annuals would go on to become major players in the MarvelUniverse, with him taking [[TakeThat a dig]] at ComicBook/SquirrelGirl in the same speech. None of the annual heroes caught on except for [[Comicbook/CaptainMarVell Genis-Vell]], while Squirrel Girl remains a fan favorite to this day.

* Similarly ''Film/TheMummyReturns'' has [[AcePilot Izzy]] replaced his airplane offscreen with a literal airship (as in it was small boat held in the air by a gasoline powered balloon envelope) he makes a remark that airplanes are now a thing of the past when showing it. The Film is in 1933 just 4 years the Hindenburg brought the end to airships as a form of passenger travel.

** Mr. Peanutbutter gets a gig fundraising for "the next President of the United States": John Edwards.

* Near the beginning of ''Film/TheWolfOfWallStreet'', Jordan has obtained his stock broker's license and is eager to start his first day as a "master of the universe". Unfortunately, said day turned out to be [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Monday_(1987) Black Monday]], at the time the biggest stock market crash since the Great Depression. Jordan ends up losing his job shortly afterwards and his outlook is so bleak he even considers becoming a stockboy at a grocery store.

* In the special 200th episode of ''WebVideo/AtopTheFourthWall'' that took a look at [[spoiler: ''ComicBook/OneMoreDay'']] (which came out in 2007), when a character whose a video game designer appears in one scene Linkara mentions in-character that he's the writer for ''VideoGame/MassEffect3'', and that people are going to love the ending he's writing.

* In a case of SelfDeprecation, in ''VideoGame/LuigisMansion3'', Professor E. Gadd presents his latest invention, a holographic red headset he calls the [[UsefulNotes/VirtualBoy Virtual Boo (or VB)]], which he predicts will "fly off the shelves". The real "VB" (or Virtual Boy) was one of the biggest game console flops in history and only lasted eight months on the market.

* ''Series/GamingInTheClintonYears'': George Wood believed the UsefulNotes/VirtualBoy would sell better than the UsefulNotes/PlayStation. The latter sold over 100 times as many units as the former.

** In "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS5E1HomersBarbershopQuartet Homer's Barbershop Quartet]]", which was set in the early '80s, Homer says of Music/DexysMidnightRunners, "We haven't seen the last of them!" ([[AmericansHateTingle While DMR had more success in the UK than the US]], Homer, as an American, is unlikely to have gone on to hear a single song of theirs besides "Come on Eileen"). The Italian dubbing for the episode substitutes Music/DuranDuran to DMR, making the joke pointless since the original line-up came back together in early '00s.

** NBC tried to adapt The Simpsons to the Middle East. Despite the fact that one of the main characters drinks beer and eats pork (both are forbidden in the Quran, the holy book of the Islamic religion). Despite changes to the show (beer being passed off as soda and scenes with pork being edited out), Al Shamsun only had 34 episodes.

* ''WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty'':
** The leader of the Zigerion's attempt to steal Rick's recipe for concentrated dark matter does this, when [[spoiler:Rick knows and feeds them a recipe for a massive explosion]]:
--->'''Prince Nebulon:''' ''This is going to be such a mindf-''

* ''Series/GamingTheClintonYears'': George Wood believed the UsefulNotes/VirtualBoy would sell better than the UsefulNotes/PlayStation. The latter sold over 100 times as many units as the former.

* ''Series/GamingInTheClintonYears'': George Wood [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yApQi0yRpqc apparently believed]] that the UsefulNotes/VirtualBoy would be ''more successful than the UsefulNotes/PlayStation''.

** ''Film/TheMummyTombOfTheDragonEmperor'' has a scene where Rick and his son Alex compare their different guns. It includes a moment where the latter pulls a out a [[CoolGuns/SubmachineGuns PPS-43]] saying that it is "future technology". In reality the gun's future was over almost as soon as it was adopted. The Soviets already invested heavily in the PPSh-41 by that time and so the PPS-43 only has one-third as many built as its bigger brother and mainly issued to troops that needed a more compact weapon than PPSh-41. By the time of the film's setting (1946-1947) the was already out of production and in about 2-3 years the RedsWithRockets would adopt the now iconic AK to use as their standard-issue rifle which would become the most widely produced firearm peroid.

** ''Film/TheMummyTombOfTheDragonEmperor'' has a scene where Rick and his son Alex compare their different guns. It includes a moment where the latter pulls a out a [[SubmachineGuns/CoolGuns PPS-43]] saying that it is "future technology". In reality the gun's future was over almost as soon as it was adopted. The Soviets already invested heavily in the PPSh-41 by that time and so the PPS-43 only has one-third as many built as its bigger brother and mainly issued to troops that needed a more compact weapon than PPSh-41. By the time of the film's setting (1946-1947) the was already out of production and in about 2-3 years the RedsWithRockets would adopt the now iconic AK to use as their standard-issue rifle which would become the most widely produced firearm peroid.

* Near the beginning of ''Film/TheWolfOfWallStreet'', Jordan has obtained his stock broker's license and is eager to start his first day as a "master of the universe". Unfortunately, said day turned out to be [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Monday_(1987) Black Monday]], then the biggest stock market crash since the Great Depression. Jordan ends up losing his job shortly afterwards and his outlook is so bleak he even considers becoming a stockboy at a grocery store.

* Near the beginning of ''Film/TheWolfOfWallStreet'', Jordan has obtained his stock broker's license and is eager to start his first day as a "master of the universe"...while the current date of October 19, 1987 appears on screen. As Jordan explains in the next scene, this date was later dubbed [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Monday_(1987) Black Monday]] and was then the biggest stock market crash since the Great Depression. Jordan ends up losing his job shortly afterwards and his outlook is so bleak he even considers becoming a stockboy at a grocery store.

* Near the beginning of ''Film/TheWolfOfWallStreet'', Jordan has obtained his stock broker's license and is eager to start his first day as a "master of the universe"...while the current date of October 19, 1987 appears on screen. As Jordan explains in the next scene, this date was later dubbed [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Monday_(1987) Black Monday]] and was then the biggest stock market crash since the Great Depression. Jordan ends up losing his job shortly afterwards and his outlook is so bleak he even considers becoming a stockboy at a grocery store, though he does manage to find success in stocks albeit in a different way.

* In ''Film/SLCPunk'', a punk in the 1980s proudly shows off his hyper-new laser disc player and explains what it is. Laser discs never caught on.

* In ''Giant-Size X-Men'' #3, {{Wolverine}} predicts to the newly-assembled Comicbook/XMen that Thunderbird will outlast them all. Thunderbird is killed in their second mission, in Uncanny X-Men #95.

* A pimp in ''Film/{{Fanboys}}'', set about six months before the release of ''Film/ThePhantomMenace'' thought a nine-year-old Anakin and Jar Jar Binks would be so popular, he had them tattooed on his back, flashing gang signs. Given that the two characters were [[TheScrappy one of the most polarizing elements]] of ''The Phantom Menace'', one could only imagine his reaction.

** In season four, Nucky is in Florida where he meets a young salesman who is trying to sell him on investing in a local real estate project. Real estate development in Florida was a very popular investment at that time but Nucky is too smart to invest in this pipe dream. The Florida real estate boom of the 1920s ended in a massive bust and it would take decades for the market to recover. Ironically, Nucky later buys land in Florida but for the more sensible goal of using it as a front for his liquor smuggling operation. One major character who falls victim to this 'cannot lose' investment opportunity is gangster Arnold Rothstein and he is very unhappy about it.
* There's a similar joke in ''Series/DowntonAbbey''; Lord Grantham, scouting around for ways to make back the money he lost investing in the recently-nationalised Canadian Grand Trunk Railway, notes that "There's a chap in America, what's his name, Charles Ponzi, who offers a huge return after 90 days." This prompts a {{Facepalm}} from Matthew, who's just been trying to explain the folly of get-rich-quick schemes.

* In ''Series/MooneBoy'' (set in the early 1990s) Martin's science teacher describes the solar system, mentioning for no particular reason that [[PlutoIsExpendable Pluto will always be a planet]].

** One episode's stinger shows a flashback to 1993 where a man is offered a job to be the actor in a VHS game called ''Pile of Bullets''. His wife persuades him to take the job since according to her VHS games are gonna be at least as big as ''Franchise/StarWars''. She even convinces him to give up his job at [[ItWillNeverCatchOn Apple Computers and the silly stock options they were giving him]].

* ''Film/BoardwalkEmpire'':

* In ''Series/ShanghaiKnights'', [[Creator/OwenWilson Roy O'Bannon]] wastes most of his money writing false biographies of himself under a pen name. When [[Creator/JackieChan Chon Wang]] finds out, he is disgusted with Roy, but Roy claims he has invested the rest into something that will revolutionize travel - zeppelining. When Chon is still not convinced, Roy claims that it's at least more likely to happen than some crazy invention called an "[[ItWillNeverCatchOn automobile]]".

** In "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS19E11That90sShow That '90s Show]]", Homer chooses records over [=CDs=], a typewriter over a computer, and Enron stock over Microsoft stock when splitting his and Marge's possessions (became a bit HilariousInHindsight in TheNewTens as [=CDs=] were replaced by the introduction of Mp3 files and online streaming and records making a niche resurgence).

** One episode's stinger shows a flashback to 1993 where a man is offered a job to be the actor in a VHS game called "Pile of Bullets". His wife persuades him to take the job since according to her VHS games are gonna be at least as big as Star Wars. She even convinces him to give up his job at [[ItWillNeverCatchOn Apple Computers and the silly stock options they were giving him]].

* In the WebSite/SFDebris review of the ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'' episode "Timeless", there's a little skit involving Creator/SteveJobs and Creator/GeorgeLucas having a conversation in 1998. Steve asks George if he wants to partner up to acquire a touchscreen company so they can use it on phones. Lucas [[ItWillNeverCatchOn dismisses him]] because he's too busy working on ''Film/ThePhantomMenace'', the "greatest movie ever made" which he expects will win him several Oscars.
* In the special 200th episode of ''WebVideo/AtopTheFourthWall'' that took a look at [[spoiler: ComicBook/OneMoreDay]] (which came out in 2007), when a character whose a video game designer appears in one scene Linkara mentions in-character that he's the writer for ''VideoGame/MassEffect3'', and that people are going to love the ending he's writing.

** In the episode "Homer's Barbershop Quartet", which was set in the late '80s, Homer says of Music/DexysMidnightRunners, "We haven't seen the last of them!" ([[AmericansHateTingle While DMR had more success in the UK than the US]], Homer, as an American, is unlikely to have gone on to hear a single song of theirs besides "Come on Eileen"). The Italian dubbing for the episode substitutes Music/DuranDuran to DMR, making the joke pointless since the original line-up came back together in early '00s.
** In the episode "That '90s Show", Homer chooses records over [=CDs=], a typewriter over a computer, and Enron stock over Microsoft stock when splitting his and Marge's possessions (became a bit HilariousInHindsight in TheNewTens as [=CDs=] were replaced by the introduction of Mp3 files and online streaming and records making a niche resurgence).
** ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' offers a slightly sneaky version of this trope in an early episode in which Creator/BillCosby compares {{Jazz}} to [[Creator/EastmanKodak Kodak]] film and "the New Coke: It'll be around forever (Heh heh heh!)"

** In the episode "Homer's Barbershop Quartet", which was set in the late '80s, Homer says of Dexy's Midnight Runners, "We haven't seen the last of them!" ([[AmericansHateTingle While DMR had more success in the UK than the US]], Homer, as an American, is unlikely to have gone on to hear a single song of theirs besides "Come on Eileen"). The Italian dubbing for the episode substitutes Music/DuranDuran to DMR, making the joke pointless since the original line-up came back together in early '00s.