Top 10 Moments of Foreshadowing in Sitcoms We Can't Believe We Missed

oh I never thought I'd miss a hand so much welcome to miss Mojo and today we're counting down our picks for the times when situational comedies dropped hints at later story developments for this list we're only looking at liveaction shows but beware of potential spoilers ahead he creeps and crawls in the midnight hush number 10 Sheldon and the psychic The Big Bang Theory no one would accuse Sheldon Cooper of being open to new things when his friend Penny takes him to a psychic in season 7 he is not into it he is also not there for personal advice about his partnership with longtime girlfriend Amy he should give himself to this relationship once he does all his other Pursuits will come into Focus not to mention he has some professional issues to work out however the psychic annoys him when she says his goals professional included will only come to fruition once he commits to his relationship Shin do you hear that I mean Amy is the key to your happiness yes exactly personally and professionally everything will fall into place once you commit to her that actually turns out to be incredibly true Sheldon and Amy not only get married but they win a joint Nobel Prize in the series finale we won [Applause] the number nine Kenneth is Immortal 30 Rock Kenneth parcel is the devoted NBC page whose optimism and eccentric worldview make him a stand hand out among a cast of oddballs I remember the day he was born he looked up at me and he said Mama I am not a person my body's just a flesh vessel for an immortal being whose name if you heard it would make you lose your mind but throughout the series one running joke about him stands out though implied many times that Kenneth is an immortal being it isn't actually confirmed until 30 rocks series finale A friend of mine has been worried they'll be bringing in new page rules like age limits and age verification indeed in the episode last lunch's epilog all these jokes pay off it takes place in the distant future Kenneth is still at NBC and hasn't aged a day in many many decades while it's not exactly a shocker it is a gratifying reveal that puts the running gag into a whole new perspective so the whole show just takes place here at 30 Rockefeller Plaza is that right Miss lemon yes sir it's based on stories my great grandmother told me I know and I love it number eight Beetlejuice community in Tim Burton's 1988 classic Beetle Juice the titular demon is summoned when his name is spoken Thrice throughout the first three seasons the writers of community find inconspicuous pieces of dialogue to shove the moniker into across three separate episodes I'm chaperoning tomorrow's dance you should come maybe your study buds will go what's the the blond's name bitter butter Beetle Juice BR yes by the third time it's a lot of three we know fans may not even realize what they had been said up for those underwear made out of they look luxurious oh they're an organic soy cotton blend this gfer must be real special don't you usually wear the stripey turquoise Beetle Juice numbers what does she mean usually but sure enough an actor playing Beetle Juice then passes by here's another running joke that pays off in an unexpected and truly ridiculous way then again unexpected and ridiculous jokes have always been what community does best you didn't have to dress up oh we were wearing this when you called yeah when we dress up you'll know it there's nothing in your playlist but spooky party the Beetlejuice soundtrack and NPR Podcast number seven Chloe friends it's arguably the defining moment of Ross and Rachel's relationship well technically they were on a break but the point stands early in this classic season 3 episode of Friends Joey and Chandler discussed their shap attraction to Chloe who would become known to fans as the Xerox girl Chloe switch with me there's some guys here got a crush on you okay that hurt us hi guys I haven't seen you since this morning this is not the first time we're hearing about her either you know you're fooling around with her and you get all these like mental images in your brain you know like El mcferson or that girl at the Xerox place with the belly button right oh but what we didn't realize was how integral to the the plot she would be well it's now clear the writers had big plans as we now know in a bit of dramatic irony it's Ross who drunkenly hooks up with her after he and Rachel have a fight he goes out with the two guys meets the now Infamous woman and the rest is history do I know why we're rushing yeah you know the uh the girlfriend I told you about last night well it turns out that she uh she wants to get back together with me I found it that's so great for you guys number six kicking the dog the good place the first season of this Kristen Bell LED sitcom features some pretty incredible lamp shading on the part of the writers and then it hit me they're never going to call a train to take us to the bad place they can't because we're already here the in congruous and impractical elements of the good place are written off as a side effect of the manipulative Eleanor's unearned presence in the utopian afterlife however it turns out the glitches aren't actually glitches guys whose dog is that whose dog is that see this is one of those glitches I was talking about nice try puppy in other words Michael punting someone's dog into the sun isn't a bug it's a feature when we finally realize this is actually the bad place and Michael is a demon intent on torturing our cast of characters moments of casual cruelty like this take on new meaning he played us like a fiddle oh dip Elanor I told you that first night that we were in a prank show oh yeah you did great job man number five most kids get headlight shits Creek in a lot of ways this Canadian classic is about a formally Rich family having to get used to living as a bunch of Regular People apparently there's a lice outbreak in your class oh my God ew it's probably Kelsey she's such a horse girl this makes for some hysterical moments like when Alexis who was incredibly privileged goes through the childhood right of passage that is having headlice can everyone stop saying lice please I've got to go back and change all the sheets again okay how do I know that she didn't give me her lice David you don't have lice nobody here has lice no no you do but what's remarkable is that this development is hilariously foreshadowed the season before in the estate sale episode Alexis revealed she doesn't know how to ride a bike when told that most kids learn how to do so she counters that they also get headlights riding a bike is a pretty basic skill is it though I think that most kids learn how to ride a bike yeah well most kids also get headlight sorry if the opportunity never presented itself well they do say new experiences broaden your horizons number four triplets Parks and Recreation foreshadowing in a sitcom never seems like that in the moment sometimes a weird throwaway joke can suddenly become incredibly meaningful in retrospect Ben we're having twins no you're not cuz look who's hiding over here triplet triplet take this weird blind date Leslie nope goes on in season 2 Amy polar's real life now ex-husband will Arnette plays a very inappropriate MRI technician who insists on giving her her first ever scan at the time his comment about her having enough room in her womb for triplets just reads as creepy and it is got ample room in there honestly if you wanted to you could go triplets right off the bat lesie you got a big industrial sized oven but lo and behold it also turns out to be a sign of things to come indeed the sixth season of parks and wck sees Leslie and her husband Ben learn that she's pregnant with you guessed it triplets if if we do this right we can be parents to oneir of the Supreme Court this is insane this is amazing I always knew we were one in a million and now we got the proof number three kooky guy with a camera scrubs Brendan Fraser is Unforgettable in his three appearances as the Beloved Ben Sullivan whom Dr Cox diagnoses with leukemia in the first season two seasons later Ben returns but their reunion is shortlived early in the episode The Duo talk about how C will be the kooky guy carrying a camera until the day he dies so you still doing the whole Kookie guy who brings his camera everywhere thing till the day I die well less than 10 minutes in the character no longer has his prized object this is pointed out in his last scene and suddenly that little back and forth exchange makes so much sense there was your camera aren't you AR you going to take some pictures pictures of what yeah crying baby covered in chocolate people singing happy birthday to my son he actually passed away off screen and Dr Cox has merely been imagining his presence since where do you think we are the final Revelation is an emotional gut punch made all the more poignant by this foreshadowing number two wedding day How I Met Your Mother fans have gone back and forth between feeling satisfied and cheated by the fact that the titular mother Tracy is forly introduced late in the game just to pass away not long after in a Twist reveal even then in what can only be called the worst of times all I could do was thank God thank every God there is or ever was or will be but it turns out the signs while subtle are there for the reading perhaps no episode gets our antenna up more than vvus in it t and Tracy are discussing Robin and Barney's wedding day and the surprise appearance of the bride's mother in a Flash Forward in a moment like that when what's really happening is too intense to deal with sometimes it's best to leave it unspoken and just enjoy each other's company instead a comment about a mom never missing her daughter's wedding prompts a tense and emotional moment between the two of course we know now it's because Tracy is terminally ill and wouldn't see her own daughter's nuptuals unfold mother is to miss her daughter's wedding okay no come on before we continue be sure to subscribe to our Channel and ring the bell to get notified about our latest videos you have the option to be notified for occasional videos or all of them if you're on your phone make sure you go into your settings and switch on notification ations number one loose seal a rusted development the way this show goes out of its way to foreshadow Buster losing his hand to a seal is actually a level of unhinged rarely Seen On TV Lucille watch out for lucal I don't care about Lucille they L and then a seal bites off his hand there's that hilarious chair in the shape of a hand he's so fond of that just seems like the kind of weird thing Buster would have before you know his fate though but that's not all there's a news story about a different seal attack that seems a lot more intentional in hindsight they may have been built by the same developer and a seal attack meat one surprise bther coming up and let's not forget the very well-placed Army ad that reads arm off when Buster sits in front of it those are just some examples the amazing thing is how none of them really feel out of the ordinary for Arrested Development look who's back let's all say hello hello hi and while you're at it let's all give me a big hand which instance of sitcom foreshadowing did you catch when you first saw it tell us in the comments actually I'm Tracy still Ted and that kids is the true story of How I Met Your Mother what I'm kidding do you agree with our picks check out the this other recent clip from M Mojo and be sure to subscribe and ring the bell to be notified about our latest videos [Music]

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Length: 13min 17sec (797 seconds)

Published: Fri Apr 26 2024