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  • The Dinkleberg meme, you know, the one where Dinkleberg is blamed for everything? Well, try to watch the episode where Dinkleberg pretends to actually be evil and try not to laugh harder.
  • The plot of "Just the Two of Us" is a guy arranges it so that the girl he likes will be trapped with him in a world where they're the only two people around, only for her to eventually snap and turn on him. In 2016, someone decided to turn this 10-minute cartoon episode into a feature length film.
  • One of the timeline differences listed by Jorgen at the end of "It's a Wishful Life" was the Chicago Cubs winning the World Series, with many jokes from baseball fans invoking screenshots of this episode. Guess who won the World Series in 2016.
  • The episode "Power Mad!" has Cosmo and Wanda act out many programs inside the TV to keep Vicky distracted. One of the segments is a parody of the 50s sitcom I Love Lucy called "I Love Wanda" with Cosmo saying "Wanda, you've got some splainin' to do!". Just shy of two decades later, the short clip perfectly captures the essence of WandaVision, and is often used as the subject of memes about the latter.
  • Speaking of which, the laugh track-induced sitcom idea discovered on "Timmy TV" actually comes into fruition on The Fairly OddParents: Fairly Odder.
  • Speaking of "Timmy TV", a lot of what the executives say, such as adding new faces to boost ratings or even giving Timmy a catchphrase end up being extremely prophetic when we're introduced to a new character at least once per season. The kicker? The catchphrase they coin for Timmy ends up as his new catchphrase from Season 6 onward.
  • In the Season 5 episode "Future Lost", Timmy finds a children's sci-fi book of his dad's and points out how the world doesn't yet have stuff the story thought it would by the 21st century, like rockets to a moon colony, picture phones (in which they show two people communicating via video screen), and robots that do chores (such as mowing the lawn, taking out trash and vaccumming floor), leading Timmy to wish for that type of future. Within roughly a decade after the episode originally aired (2005), society would have smartphones allowing video calls, automated household machines for doing certain chores such as robot vaccuums, and while the moon hasn't become a livable environment yet, there have been plans and tests runs of, respectively, colonizing the moon and spaceships for sending private citizens up into space.
  • The episode "Something's Fishy" had a plot point about Wet Willie, the show's parody of Aquaman, getting his own movie and said movie being completely horrible. At the time this was just another example of enforcing the popular idea among non-fans that Aquaman is an uncool superhero, but around 13 years after this episode aired, Aquaman actually did get his own movie and it proved to be more commercially successful than the general public anticipated.
  • In the episode "Imaginary Gary", Teletubbies expies called "Teebie-Tubbies" appear in Timmy's mind as some of Timmy's five year old's toys. One is light blue, other has a square for antennae, and other is red with a hook shaped antennae. In the 2015 reboot of the Teletubbies, the Tiddlytubbies are introduced, and some of them hilariously resemble the Teebie-Tubbies: Mi-Mi is light blue, Nin has a square for antennae and Duggle Dee is red with a hook shaped antennae.
  • The gag in "Father Time" where a young Bill Gates gets the idea to name the (then non-existent) internet after Timmy- resulting in Timmy being named "Internet" when he gets back to the present- is already funny. The Amazing World of Gumball would later turn the internet into a minor character and have his real name be Timmy.
  • In the episode "9 Lives", after one too many botched attempts at superheroing lands him in the hospital, Timmy gets Catman to stop being a superhero by convincing him that he's down to his last life. 13 years later, Puss in Boots: The Last Wish would feature the titular character dealing with almost the same exact predicament, though this time, it's the real deal, and is Played for Drama.
  • The Oh Yeah! Cartoons short "Party of Three" has the following premise - a redheaded teenage girl notices that a kid she usually watches over is getting away with some crazy scheme and tries proving it to his parents, but always fails and the parents never find out. Also, the kid has a green-haired ally helping him out with the said scheme. Sound familiar?
  • A reverse example - Dragons being impervious to magic in the episode "Knighty Knight" (and thus Cosmo and Wanda, being fairies, are unable to help Timmy). About 12 years later, Pokémon would introduce the Fairy type, where this time it was the Fairies that were impervious to the attacks of Dragons, and said dragons being weak to fairy moves.
  • In "Timmy's Secret Wish!", All 1,000,001 of Timmy's wishes are undone as punishment for the collateral damage caused by many of them, wishes including Cosmo and Wanda's baby son Poof and by proxy his Evil Counterpart Foop. The aftermath of this event traumatizes Jorgen von Strangle to a degree where he's eating himself to death and seldom leaves his home. Surprisingly, this wouldn't be the last time a godly badass would sink into a deep depression after watching someone else be wiped from existence.
  • The episodes that depict multiple Crimson Chins from different eras are reminiscent of the Spiderverse movies.


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