History Main / ThisIsGoingToBeHuge

** In an episode, the publicity firm is hired by an enthusiastic RichIdiotWithNoDayJob to introduce professional [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jai_alai jai alai]] in the United States, convinced that it is going to be huge. Draper flat out tells the client that he is delusional, but since he insists he instructs his coworkers to [[AFoolAndHisNewMoneyAreSoonParted shake him down]]. This is TruthInTelevision; at the time ''Mad Men'' is set jai alai was expected to be the next big thing. While it had faddish popularity in the US in the early 70s, ultimately various factors like "it's really heavily mob controlled" drove spectators away in hordes.

->''"Kickstarter sensation, the UsefulNotes/{{Ouya}}, they're gonna make games for that thing for the rest of eternity! Mark my words, every game that comes out from now until the end of time will also come out on the Ouya. Gonna outlive [[Creator/SonyInteractiveEntertainment Sony]], Creator/{{Nintendo}}, [[UsefulNotes/{{Colecovision}} Coleco]], [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jose_Canseco Canseco]], Creator/{{Jaleco}}, all of the heavy hitters. Anyways, I can't wait to be playing Ouya games in fifteen years, or even, like, five months! Written in Sharpie on the bathroom wall of '''history'''!"''

* In the special 200th episode of ''WebVideo/AtopTheFourthWall'' that took a look at [[spoiler: ''ComicBook/OneMoreDay'']] (which came out in 2007), when a character who's 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.

** ''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.

*** Funny enough, the film was originally supposed to be "a very important gay rights movie" when Alexander Payne was writing the script before Adam Sandler took over.

* 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 set in 1933, just four years before the Hindenburg brought the end to airships as a form of passenger travel.

* ''Series/ColdCase'' had a '70s disco dancer's reason to break with his conservative Jewish father is that without his strict supervision he "will live forever, like disco". An hour later, he is dead.

* 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-nationalized 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.

->''"Kickstarter sensation, the Ouya, they're gonna make games for that thing for the rest of eternity! Mark my words, every game that comes out from now until the end of time will also come out on the Ouya. Gonna outlive [[Creator/SonyInteractiveEntertainment Sony]], Creator/{{Nintendo}}, [[UsefulNotes/{{Colecovision}} Coleco]], [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jose_Canseco Canseco]], Creator/{{Jaleco}}, all of the heavy hitters. Anyways, I can't wait to be playing Ouya games in fifteen years, or even, like, five months! Written in Sharpie on the bathroom wall of ''history''!"''

* ''Series/ColdCase'' had a '70s Disco dancer's reason to break with his conservative Jewish father is that without his strict supervision he "will live forever, like Disco". ''An hour later'', he is dead.

* 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 set in 1933, just 4 years before the Hindenburg brought the end to airships as a form of passenger travel.

* At the end of ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxyVol2'', Kraglin gives Starlord a Zune [[spoiler:to replace his destroyed Walkman]]. Starlord, amazed that it can hold ''hundreds'' of songs, says that it's going to revolutionize the way we listen to music. He's right, in a way, but the Zune didn't last too long. Played doubly strong here: not only do we, the audience, know that Zunes were crushed by Apple's iPod, but anyone living on Earth at the time of the movie could tell him the same thing (it takes place in 2014).

** In a later episode, Sheldon, having trouble choosing between buying an X-Box or a Play Station, realizes that he has always picked the losing format. Along with the previously mentioned Zune, he also chose Betamax over VHS and DVDHD over UsefulNotes/BluRay.

* ''Manga/TheKurosagiCorpseDeliveryService'' features a commercial from a mid-eighties cryogenics company foreseeing that Betamax would reach a billion sales by 2052.
** To the post-millennials on the site wondering what Betamax is... ''[[AppealToObscurity Exactly]]''.

* 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 some of the most polarizing elements]] of ''The Phantom Menace'', one could only imagine his reaction.

* In ''Series/HappyDays'', both Richie and Howard believe that the United Nations will put an end to all wars.
* In ''Series/MooneBoy'' (set in the early 1990's) Martin's science teacher describes the solar system, mentioning for no particular reason that [[PlutoIsExpendable Pluto will always be a planet]].

* On ''WebAnimation/HomestarRunner'', a running gag in Marzipan's Answering Machine 17.2 (released on [[AprilFoolsDay April 1st, 2016]]) is Homestar leaving messages gushing about various fads that came and went during the seven-year gap between this and the last edition of Marzipan's Answering Machine, including planking, the Ouya, Google Glass, and Jeremy Lin.

** 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 for DMR, making the joke pointless since the original line-up came back together in early '00s.
** 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).

*** HarsherInHindsight now that both Cosby and Kodak have also fallen, to scandal and bankruptcy respectively. Pray for Jazz.

->''"Kickstarter sensation, the Ouya, they're gonna make games for that thing for the rest of eternity! Mark my words, every game that comes out from now until the end of time will also come out on the Ouya. Gonna outlive Sony, Nintendo, Coleco, [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jose_Canseco Canseco]], Jaleco, all of the heavy hitters. Anyways, I can't wait to be playing Ouya games in fifteen years, or even, like, five months! Written in Sharpie on the bathroom wall of ''history''!"''

->''"Kickstarter sensation, the Ouya, they're gonna make games for that thing for the rest of eternity! Mark my words, every game that comes out from now until the end of time will also come out on the Ouya. Gonna outlive Sony, Nintendo, Coleco, Canseco, Jaleco, all of the heavy hitters. Anyways, I can't wait to be playing Ouya games in fifteen years, or even, like, five months! Written in Sharpie on the bathroom wall of ''history''!"''

* Done in ''Series/ColdCase'' in a brilliant example of FiveSecondForeshadowing paved with {{black comedy}}. A '70s Disco dancer's reason to break with his conservative Jewish father is that without his strict supervision he "will live forever, like Disco". ''An hour later'', he is dead.

* This is Birling's opinion on the maiden voyage of the Titanic in ''Theatre/AnInspectorCalls''.

* In the ''[[VideoGame/{{Mafia}} Mafia: Definitive Edition]]'' "Great Deal", after an intense firefight, the Salieri family successfully makes a deal with William Gates' illegal distillery to distribute his product and everyone celebrates believing they will become incredibly rich. The mission takes place on September 22nd, 1933: less than three months later, the 21st Amendment is ratified and Prohibition ends, making everything they just went through completely pointless. They still managed to make enough money during that short period of time to later diversify their activities for a post-Prohibition world, but it's definitely not the huge payout they hoped for.

* ''VideoGame/PlantsVsZombies2ItsAboutTime'': The Dodo Rider Zombie's Almanac states that he believes [[DumbDodoBird dodos]] are the future of transportation. Everyone else keeps telling him there's no future in dodos. Considering that Dodo Rider Zombie is fought during the Ice Age, and that Dodos eventually die out, it looks like everybody else was right.

* In ''Series/StrangerThings'', there's great concern over the new mall in Hawkings pushing older, more established local business out, with massive sales and ongoing foot traffic there. Modern viewers will know that malls have been slowly dying out for many years, not counting the UsefulNotes/COVID19Pandemic which has outright pushed malls into a [[NothingIsTheSameAnymore risk situation]].

* 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. None of the annual heroes caught on except for [[Comicbook/CaptainMarVell Genis-Vell]]. Ironically, at the time, he said that ComicBook/SquirrelGirl was the sort of thing he'd want to avoid, since at the time, she was seen as a one-note gag who'd probably never appear again. She popped up again in the 2000s and would go on to be exactly the sort of major player that the 1993 cast didn't become.

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