Top 10 Uses of Foreshadowing in TV

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  • @simin6827
    @simin6827 8 років тому +786

    clicked on this just cuz i saw john locke, lost is by far my favorite show

  • @intwernet
    @intwernet 8 років тому +99

    After all these years, LOST still gets the attention. No wonder it is the best show ever

    • @mrsirrrrrr
      @mrsirrrrrr 3 місяці тому

      Brotha I don’t know if we watched the same show but the ending ruined the entire thing

  • @BakerbrothertvOfficial
    @BakerbrothertvOfficial 8 років тому +110

    *Message to WatchMojo.*
    The spoiler alerts at the beginnings are pointless.
    Unless you list for WHICH shows/movies. _(Or announce the film title before the spoiler!)_

  • @jmwild1
    @jmwild1 8 років тому +84

    The bigger Buffy foreshadowing was the shared dream with Faith at the end of season 3: "Miles to go, Little Miss Muffet counting down from 730." 730 is 365*2, or two years from that finale to the death of Buffy sacrificing herself to save Dawn.

    • @NerdyGeeky
      @NerdyGeeky 8 років тому +5

      I was thinking this as well! Much better foreshadowing in that scene.

    • @waldolumberjack3169
      @waldolumberjack3169 8 років тому

      Yeah

    • @kaileylindsey5026
      @kaileylindsey5026 7 років тому +1

      jmwild1 came here to say exactly this!

    • @jmwild1
      @jmwild1 7 років тому +9

      Yes I know, not just Little Miss Muffet but "be back before Dawn" in Restless, as well as the clock reading 7:30, and the crazy guy confronting Dawn and saying "curds and whey" in Real Me.

    • @roonarific1086
      @roonarific1086 7 років тому +7

      it all ties in, the 5/01 thing above too, not just for the rough date of Buffy's death but the number of days thing. 730 at the end of season 3, and down to 501 midway through season 4 in the body swap ep shown above, and Tara even notes that the clock is wrong in the Restless dream. The expiration thing should have been highlighted properly in the list, as they only pointed out one small element.

  • @ida305
    @ida305 8 років тому +391

    There was literally a countdown in HIMYM where numbers from 50 to 1 appear in the episode until Marvins death is finally revealed but you went with the thanksgiving scene as the foreshadowing??

    • @MsSarcasticSmirk
      @MsSarcasticSmirk 8 років тому +2

      Where's the countdown??

    • @MsSarcasticSmirk
      @MsSarcasticSmirk 8 років тому +2

      nvm, Googled it :P

    • @brandongriffeth977
      @brandongriffeth977 8 років тому

      I can't find it, link?

    • @brigittesteiner4839
      @brigittesteiner4839 8 років тому +9

      hidden numbers in backgrounds or props user by the characters

    • @Matt-jk8lw
      @Matt-jk8lw 8 років тому +35

      A better foreshadowing would be the 40 days speech of Ted from the Time Travelers episode. They basically revealed the ending of the show through that scene.

  • @myenemysenemy1043
    @myenemysenemy1043 8 років тому +87

    Arrested Development deserves top spot, if not for the foreshadowing of Buster losing his hand, then for countless other examples where the writers demonstrate they knew where they were going.

    • @spapolicy
      @spapolicy 8 років тому +2

      so true!!

    • @paulm2163
      @paulm2163 6 років тому +4

      That was the genius and the downfall of AD. Too many of the jokes were lost on a lot of people because they were often done subtly as either foreshadows or call backs either from the same episode or several episodes apart. Even now watching my DVD I catch new ones I'd missed before.

    • @Jeremy-jm3fe
      @Jeremy-jm3fe 6 років тому +1

      My Enemy's Enemy This video was only doing one example per show though, it wasn't about the quantity of foreshadowings.
      Breaking Bad and Arrested Development both have various uses of foreshadowing, but I suppose they went with what is more interesting.

    • @thehumanity0
      @thehumanity0 5 років тому

      Look at Banner Michael!

  • @tomkelly338
    @tomkelly338 8 років тому +730

    Not gonna mention that the teddy bear was half burnt up just like how gustavo frying died?

    • @tomkelly338
      @tomkelly338 8 років тому +18

      Fring*

    • @akameny1
      @akameny1 8 років тому +27

      +Tom Kelly the half messed up face is also brought back in the last season when Jesse was beat up on only half of his face

    • @MrShannonite
      @MrShannonite 8 років тому +7

      +Tom Kelly Glad I scrolled down, I was going to mention this as well.

    • @chriss.9398
      @chriss.9398 8 років тому +11

      +Tom Kelly Yeah its pretty clever that it was in fact foreshadowing many different things. Talk about symbology..

    • @nitsan2823
      @nitsan2823 8 років тому

      Wow I never realised that

  • @adammurray6015
    @adammurray6015 8 років тому +90

    Breaking Bad Season 2: Jesse cooks breakfast for Jane. She wakes up, and Jesse is disappointed he didn't get to surprise her with breakfast in bed.
    He says 'I was hoping you wouldn't wake up'. Jane says 'What, ever?'

    • @muriloalvesbarcellos8235
      @muriloalvesbarcellos8235 5 років тому +12

      There is more, few episodes before WW watch Jane die, Walter White is teatching someone to put the baby to sleep, putting in side position so he not sufocate in case of vomit

    • @italy0666
      @italy0666 5 років тому +12

      not to mention when Jane and Jesse are in the car and he says something romantic and she says: I think I just threw up in my mouth......... lol

    • @Anon-nv7bp
      @Anon-nv7bp 4 роки тому +2

      I heard that season 2 is the only season of Breaking Bad that they wrote from start to finish. Makes sense that it had the most foreshadowing.

  • @MarysMindMarysWorld
    @MarysMindMarysWorld 8 років тому +1221

    I clicked only because of Lost tbh

    • @Turvings
      @Turvings 8 років тому +2

      Yeah

    • @scoobytwenty327
      @scoobytwenty327 8 років тому +24

      The Jacob vs The Man in Black can't be considered foreshadowing since the writers admit Jacob's character didn't even exist in their until season 3 and MIB until season 5.

    • @duel4ever2012
      @duel4ever2012 8 років тому

      +Mary's Mind Me too XD

    • @duel4ever2012
      @duel4ever2012 8 років тому

      +Summer B Well, it's one great show. I hope you enjoy it.

    • @liligloo
      @liligloo 8 років тому

      Same lmfao

  • @biget11
    @biget11 8 років тому +21

    The Wire is constantly overlooked, especially by Watchmojo, and it's another case here. One of the best foreshadowing scenes ever was when D'Angelo was teaching Wallace and Bodie how to play chess. Bodie keeps bringing up pawns (what he is considered that early in the season) and D'Angelo says that pawns are out of the game early, and that they get capped quick. When he says that, the camera pans to Wallace, who is later murdered early in the series because he was viewed as a useless pawn. Then Bodie says, "Unless they some smart ass pawns". Of those three characters, Bodie lived the longest. There's also D'Angelo mentioning how the king doesn't have to do much, and as you see Avon, the leader of the Barksdale organization, never gets any blood on his own hands, his soldiers do it for him and protect him, just like chess. There's even more foreshadowing that maybe wasn't done intentionally, like that fact that when Bodie was in the shootout that ultimately killed him, he was shooting diagonally, like how a pawn attacks, but I'm not sure if David Simon made that intentional or not. But the whole chess scene, especially the discussion of how pawns operate, was complete foreshadowing of things that would happen four seasons down the road

  • @MPMatott
    @MPMatott 8 років тому +92

    The Futurama one isn't real foreshadowing. It's after the fact editing. The originally aired pilot episode did not have Nibbler's shadow. That was added into the DVD and Comedy Central rebroadcasts of the pilot after they made the time travel episode. Although certainly clever, it's more in line of a retcon than foreshadowing.

    • @Logan_Baron
      @Logan_Baron 8 років тому +11

      Thanks for the clarification. It never really seemed like it was planned out that way ahead.

    • @geminirox8635
      @geminirox8635 8 років тому +25

      every bit of research i've done suggests his shadow was there since original air date. Can you prove otherwise?

    • @Irishhound
      @Irishhound 6 років тому +2

      @@geminirox8635 it does. Having watched Futurama from the start, recording it on vhs, and having the dvds... it is not in fact and edit.

    • @soolly357
      @soolly357 6 років тому

      @@Irishhound than upload it why dont you

    • @Irishhound
      @Irishhound 6 років тому

      @@soolly357 i do not have the knowledge as to how you do that with a vhs.

  • @72killawargod
    @72killawargod 8 років тому +378

    For the pink teddy bear in breaking bad, it also foreshadows Gus frings death.

    • @brucenatelee
      @brucenatelee 6 років тому +4

      Half his body, right?

    • @orlandocalder1645
      @orlandocalder1645 6 років тому +2

      I was just about to comment this

    • @neromauritzen8917
      @neromauritzen8917 6 років тому +4

      Brucenatalee And the missing eye on the doll/Gus

    • @geekwhoeatsrice
      @geekwhoeatsrice 6 років тому +3

      In the end we can find a bit of that teddy bear in almost every character. The loss of one side to the other.

    • @orlandocalder1645
      @orlandocalder1645 6 років тому

      @@geekwhoeatsrice That's very true

  • @ajfox84
    @ajfox84 8 років тому +124

    Wow, I never noticed that Ben camera thing...Neat. That was one sad episode.

    • @1221kary
      @1221kary 6 років тому

      i dont get it

    • @DDnufcGamer
      @DDnufcGamer 5 років тому +4

      1221kary he always carried his camera around, which means all the scenes he had no camera he wasn't really there. However it's so subtle you don't really notice.
      He died in that episode and Cox is imaging him there to help him cope and to help himself learn to forgive and open himself to friends for help. It's a pretty sad episode especially for Scrubs,

  • @spencernielsen392
    @spencernielsen392 8 років тому +32

    Not going to mention that Walter White is also wearing a fuzzy pink sweater or that Gus gets burnt like the teddy bear? As well as the black-and-white openings appear in the episodes "737" "Down" "Over" and "ABQ."

  • @PsychoGaming805
    @PsychoGaming805 8 років тому +106

    Man, I miss LOST so much.

    • @BeautifulBizarre
      @BeautifulBizarre 7 років тому +2

      YaBoyPsycho
      Dude same

    • @cmbuelow
      @cmbuelow 3 роки тому

      LOST will be back someday. The number of streaming services and the need for content guarantees it

    • @payne5173
      @payne5173 3 роки тому

      Ayyyyy physco you watched lost!

  • @Troelslychau
    @Troelslychau 8 років тому +82

    Watchmojo in 2025, " top ten actors looking surprisingly good while crying"

  • @pineaux291
    @pineaux291 8 років тому +492

    No stag killing a direwolf in the first episode of Game of Thrones? Or Tywin Lannister skinning a deer later in the season?

    • @trunks0K0K
      @trunks0K0K 8 років тому +7

      They were pretty good but they can't Include everything lol.

    • @aserillll
      @aserillll 8 років тому

      No

    • @Matt-ws4kg
      @Matt-ws4kg 8 років тому +1

      +Aseril Whats you favorite word?

    • @caleblf1012
      @caleblf1012 8 років тому

      +Peanut butter lover word up its word girl

    • @Lyoshi157
      @Lyoshi157 8 років тому

      +Sidney Adelaar I know right, they should have included at least one

  • @Leanashe23
    @Leanashe23 8 років тому +59

    In The Simpsons double episode Who Shot Mr. Burns? ... In the first episode Mr. Burns reveals his plans and the whole crowd approach and glare at him.. He then mocks them and says "...but who here has the guts to stop me?"... After he says that each member of the crowd backs off and looks down at their feet... All except for Maggie - she continues to glare at him.

    • @dahhunta7969
      @dahhunta7969 8 років тому +4

      oh my god that's amazing Matt Groening you genius

  • @DukeDukeGo
    @DukeDukeGo 8 років тому +210

    isn't the teddy bear also a foreshadow to Gus' blown off face?

    • @RedBlackFilms
      @RedBlackFilms 8 років тому +30

      Yeah, the cold opens weren't exactly foreshadowing anything about the plane crash, basically just doing that "X Amount Of Time Earlier" thing.
      The bear was extremely specific on foreshadowing Fring's demise. Walter caused the plane crash, he caused Fring too.

    • @TwistedTruth16
      @TwistedTruth16 8 років тому +8

      Don't forget about that Tiki Skull with half a face in Gale's apartment.

    • @benzenefire
      @benzenefire 7 років тому +8

      RageUnicorn not to mention the names of the episodes with those cold opens - "Seven Thirty Seven", "Down", "Over", "ABQ"

    • @graceoneill8117
      @graceoneill8117 7 років тому

      Double foreshadowing

    • @seankauder9721
      @seankauder9721 6 років тому +3

      Cant get over that the episode where Gus dies is called "Face Off"
      lmao

  • @Nightknight1992
    @Nightknight1992 8 років тому +13

    that scrubs episode is probably the best sitcom episode of all time. also the leftovers is full of foreshadowing, its so well done^^

  • @Mrcockington
    @Mrcockington 8 років тому +35

    Arrested development had so many great and subtle foreshadowings, that I think it's ridiculous that it only got an honorable mention

    • @thehumanity0
      @thehumanity0 5 років тому +2

      The whole show is just one big foreshadowing piece of irony

  • @coffeeaddict9605
    @coffeeaddict9605 6 років тому +4

    That scene in How I Met Your Mother gets me every time. It's so well acted, Lily crying while trying to get through the news, and Marshalls "I'm not ready for This," just feels so genuine.

  • @GabrielBadwolf
    @GabrielBadwolf 8 років тому +67

    Supernatural, the first ever episode where there was a demon back in season 1, the one with the demon causing plane crashes. At one point in the episode Sam said to Dean that demons flinch at the name of God. Well the very first plane the stewardesses talked to the pilot addressing him by name and then the demon came in with black eyes; the pilot's first name was Chuck. The pilot Chuck also after surviving the first plane crash later crashed a small plane into a field in Nazareth. Later fast forward 5 seasons at the very start of season 5 as lucifer escapes from the cadge God rescues the boys to put them on another plane that's about to crash. Fast forward to season 11 and we find out who God had been hiding as the whole first 5 seasons.

    • @jackiejeffords5991
      @jackiejeffords5991 6 років тому +10

      Omg I love Supernatural and I never noticed that!!!

    • @DenaL112
      @DenaL112 6 років тому +7

      Gabriel Badwolf just a coincidence. They originally planned to never reveal God because it was supposed to end with Swan Song.

    • @thehumanity0
      @thehumanity0 5 років тому +1

      @@DenaL112 No, but they vaguely revealed "Chuck" was basically God at the end of season 5, I'm pretty sure they planned that the whole time even if you consider they didn't plan past Swan Song. Pretty sure he vanished at the end of season 5 in one last scene and also he was "the writer" of the cosmic events going on.

    • @OverdramaticAngel
      @OverdramaticAngel 5 років тому

      @@thehumanity0 Yeah, he vanished at the end of Swan Song. It never outright _said_ he was God but literally everything adds up to it. It was a fantastic example of "show, don't tell". I still get the shivers thinking about Chuck singing before revealing himself to Sam and Dean.
      ...I really feel like rewatching Supernatural now. Oh, oh! If you're a superfan and have a little extra money, they've designed a bracelet with custom charms! The charms are for a limited time and they be releasing them throughout the year. I got Cas's necktie and the Impala license plate.

    • @alysiamerdavid-wasser9165
      @alysiamerdavid-wasser9165 4 роки тому

      You all can SAY that Chuck was meant to be God, but *in Swan Song* , they showed US, the viewer, how badly Chuck was unraveling. That isn't foreshadowing. It's a red herring.

  • @Orochi2345678
    @Orochi2345678 8 років тому +8

    Nibbler's shadow is one of the best bits of foreshadowing in cartoon history.

  • @AhmedGhazwan
    @AhmedGhazwan 8 років тому +58

    I see a LOST (Locke) Thumbnail, I instantly watch! XD

  • @deborahmoore970
    @deborahmoore970 8 років тому +89

    I can't believe they didn't use doctor who's bad wolf!

    • @ayayla7846
      @ayayla7846 5 років тому +2

      nor any other scene from Doctor Who, really and there is quite a bit of foreshadowing...next to Bad Wolf, there's Silence in the Library/Forest of the dead for example

    • @taylacarlson6969
      @taylacarlson6969 5 років тому +6

      I think the craziest foreshadowing was in the Pompeii episode where the soothsayer says to the doctor that “she is returning” talking about rose. And then turns to Donna and tells her “there is something on your back” talking about the episode later in the season Turn Left where a creature latches itself onto donnas back and forces her to not ever meet the doctor

    • @Hi-uv7nn
      @Hi-uv7nn 5 років тому

      IKR

  • @136jab
    @136jab 8 років тому +23

    fun fact, there was equal foreshadowing for Xander being gay as there was for Willow... Joss Whedon originally wasn't sure which one would eventually actually be gay.

  • @BruceCinema1337
    @BruceCinema1337 8 років тому +11

    The pink teddy bear was also a foreshadowing of Gus Frings fate. Teddy with a half burnt face, Gus with a half blown off face.

  • @GingerTyPerior
    @GingerTyPerior 8 років тому +88

    No Gravity Falls mystery wheel?

    • @iamthe7yearold587
      @iamthe7yearold587 8 років тому +12

      That show is so stupid.

    • @aserillll
      @aserillll 8 років тому +8

      No

    • @TheKillzone32
      @TheKillzone32 8 років тому

      +GingerTyPerior Is better the twin brother ones

    • @comb528491
      @comb528491 8 років тому +26

      +Josh Caswell That show may have been one of the best shows on TV. Saying it's stupid just implies that you haven't seen it.

    • @PkmnTrainerMario619
      @PkmnTrainerMario619 8 років тому

      +comb528491 Or that you have seen it, just harshly criticizing.

  • @ejva2000
    @ejva2000 8 років тому +20

    I saw the Doctor and River and almost burst into tears :P

    • @JupiKitten
      @JupiKitten 8 років тому +1

      thats still my favorite episode with waters of mars following only a hair behind.

  • @MsBeronica
    @MsBeronica 8 років тому +74

    I just came here for Lost

    • @fulcrumofficial8391
      @fulcrumofficial8391 8 років тому +5

      Me too. And yet they missed a lot of the foreshadowing. Especially in the last season when everyone was telling Jack to let go.

  • @Chazzerzgirl354
    @Chazzerzgirl354 8 років тому +21

    The lack of Doctor Who (River and the Doctor) is upsetting.

  • @RobertGreenwald
    @RobertGreenwald 8 років тому +8

    You didn't mention how the titles of episodes 1,4,11 and 13 of the second season of Breaking Bad were each a word that when all four combined said "Seven-Thirty Seven Down Over ABQ"

  • @OldRedandGold
    @OldRedandGold 8 років тому +12

    Woah. I'm a mass Buffy fan. I thought I knew near everything about the series. Thanks Mojo!

    • @datickywickygurl
      @datickywickygurl 8 років тому +4

      +Rainstorm Night Radio Ikr! I knew they foreshadowed her death in Graduation Day pt 2 and Restless, but I never caught that credit card thing. Cool :D

  • @M22-u4x
    @M22-u4x 8 років тому +5

    Erm....the Buffy thing goes back further than that. Buffy and Faith have some kind of joint dream while they're both in a coma in season 3 (Episodes - Graduation Day 1&2) and Faith says "Little miss muffet counting down from 7-3-0". 730 or 2 years, a homeless man would refer to "curds and whey" in reference to Dawn, there would be another reference in the dream Faith has earlier in the episode WatchMojo referenced. So pay attention.

  • @cuccamunga
    @cuccamunga 8 років тому +10

    "mad men was still in it's heyday in the 5th season..." uh mad men never left it's heyday. high quality from beginning to end.

  • @FruityGroovy
    @FruityGroovy 8 років тому +4

    Another thing about the Marvin's death is that in that episode, there are different numbers hidden in plain sight all throughout the episode, starting at 50, and counting down to 0, when Marshall hears the bad news of his father's death.

  • @con8200
    @con8200 8 років тому +41

    Why on Earth was Doctor Who's River Song not on here?!

    • @Hi-uv7nn
      @Hi-uv7nn 5 років тому +2

      IKR and they teased it in the beginning too

  • @ihateunicorns867
    @ihateunicorns867 8 років тому +97

    To be fair, you could do a top 10 just for Buffy.

    • @cassandrebaumann1802
      @cassandrebaumann1802 8 років тому +1

      True.

    • @Cardianist
      @Cardianist 8 років тому +18

      There are so many better instances of foreshadowing in Buffy than this expiration date.

    • @cassandrebaumann1802
      @cassandrebaumann1802 8 років тому

      Kaiser Kailer Ikr

    • @ihateunicorns867
      @ihateunicorns867 8 років тому +15

      Kaiser Kailer Absolutely. Dawn's appearance alone has several: Faith making the bed for "Little Miss Muffet" … Buffy's dream where Tara tells her to "be back before dawn". …

    • @warreng675
      @warreng675 8 років тому +1

      I think you could do X-files as well

  • @god617
    @god617 8 років тому +39

    hold the door!

    • @thehumanity0
      @thehumanity0 5 років тому +5

      That would be number 1 if this list was made a few months later.

  • @Reck
    @Reck 8 років тому +194

    More Breaking Bad foreshadowing.
    Walt estimates he needs $737000 to put both of his kids through college, so starts making meth.
    The plane that blew up was a 737.

    • @anejrdreybekk5968
      @anejrdreybekk5968 6 років тому +23

      I dont think you know what foreshadowing is

    • @frenchfriz4616
      @frenchfriz4616 6 років тому +1

      @@anejrdreybekk5968 lol

    • @dillonhitt
      @dillonhitt 6 років тому +7

      also, the episode titles where the bear is shown, when put together, read "737" "Down" "Over" "ABQ (Albuquerque)"

  • @KyleStoughton
    @KyleStoughton 8 років тому +6

    Buster's hand in Arrested Development was fantastic. As was Oscar as his dad. Heck, the whole show is great.

  • @Tactiic
    @Tactiic 8 років тому +96

    GRAVITY FALLS - STAN HAVING A TWIN.

    • @cab47attacks
      @cab47attacks 6 років тому +7

      Or the lithograph of Bill showing up for a split second at the end of the theme in every episode.

    • @mysteryjones9423
      @mysteryjones9423 6 років тому +2

      there was so much stuff that they missed in gravity falls

    • @the_kawaii_corner4419
      @the_kawaii_corner4419 6 років тому

      Thank you!!! I was waiting for that one!

  • @rickycarrillo7821
    @rickycarrillo7821 8 років тому +58

    Doctor who is the master of foreshadowing.

    • @ounti2618
      @ounti2618 8 років тому +18

      dont know if it count as foreshadowing but the face of bo reveal gave me goosebumps

    • @justicaar
      @justicaar 8 років тому +1

      yeah, holy shit. sooo good

    • @CinnamonRoseCaramel
      @CinnamonRoseCaramel 8 років тому +1

      That was seriously the best! I was a shocked little nine year old when they revealed that!

  • @grimedoctor
    @grimedoctor 8 років тому +2

    One of my favourite foreshadowing events was in the UK programme Misfits, where every main character works out what their power is after a freak storm in the first episode, except for Nathan, who seemingly doesn't have one. He spends all season trying to figure it out, and he eventually gives up. By the end of the season, we end up assuming he doesn't adopt a power like the rest, and in the last episode he dies whilst saving all the other cast members. His friends respectfully bury his body, and hold a funeral. As they leave, the camera pans down to his body in the casket, where he suddenly wakes up, and we learn that all along he had the power of immortally, and is trapped underground alive.
    But his power is hinted at in the intro of every episode, in a short clip where all the main protagonist's shadows are cast upon the floor. Each shadow exhibits a vague reference to each members powers, and one of the shadows (presumably Nathan's) just topples from vertical to horizontal.
    And in a mid season episode, Curtis (another main cast character) manages to change the past with his time travel power to the point he never meets the rest of the group, and in this newly created timeline he passes by the community service where they all met, only to discover a memorial of them all dead, because he was never there to save them from a psychopath like he did in the first episode. Nathan then approaches the memorial from off screen, with visible injuries, and when Curtis asks him why he wasn't killed, he claims he doesn't know, and that paramedics claimed he was "practically dead when they found his body"
    Such clever throwaway details to the answer of a question that burned through your mind throughout the whole first season, I love sly hints like that :)

  • @spacewaifuu
    @spacewaifuu 8 років тому

    THANK YOU for mentioning Futurama, that one was SO good omg. When I re-watched the series I noticed the detail of the shadow in the pilot episode and I was amazed by the fact that little detail (as much as the fact Fry is his own grandfather) were something intented to have used later.

  • @georgewagner1564
    @georgewagner1564 8 років тому +41

    Chuck being god anyone?

    • @basicallybriley9325
      @basicallybriley9325 6 років тому +2

      George Wagner we all already knew that. It was well known before the reveal.

  • @joemama62
    @joemama62 5 років тому +2

    Lost's foreshadowing of the struggle between black and white was not completely revealed until the end of season five, with the first hint of it in an early episode of season one. That has to be one of the longest foreshadowing moments in this list! And it was definitely planned - you can see it throughout the show, but very subtly.

  • @DavidD31312
    @DavidD31312 8 років тому +10

    I thought the HIMYM one would have to do with the countdown to Marvin's death.

  • @Kynk
    @Kynk 8 років тому +25

    did you guys not catch the countdown from 60, or something like that, in the how I met your mother episode where Martin dies?

    • @soolly357
      @soolly357 6 років тому

      Did u not hear what they said at the start? They said only one foreshadowing.....not alll

  • @diegogama9062
    @diegogama9062 8 років тому +7

    Top 10 moments from Lost please!

  • @epickithri
    @epickithri 8 років тому +3

    im a bit surprised honestly to have not seen Charmed on this list when Wyatt puts up the shield around Chris which kinda foreshadowed how that would be a huge plot point for one of the episodes where Wyatt's morality got twisted and that whole shield thing made sense as Chris could breach it cause the kid had read him evil up till after he was saved.

  • @ApoasDemon
    @ApoasDemon 7 років тому +3

    season 1: "...and winter is coming"
    season 6: winter comes
    HELLOOO!?!?!?

  • @graceoneill8117
    @graceoneill8117 7 років тому +1

    Breaking Bad has a TON of awesome foreshadowing. But the best foreshadowing is the New Hampshire license plate on the car Walt drove after he escaped to New Hampshire. It says LIVE FREE OR DIE, which is also the title of the first episode of the final season. It foreshadows the fates of the two main characters, because Jesse "Lives Free" and Walt "Dies." The most amazing/heartbreaking foreshadowing ever

  • @NBACoDGaming
    @NBACoDGaming 8 років тому +5

    Saw John Locke, clicked instantly

  • @scary2hell
    @scary2hell 8 років тому +6

    the arrive of Dawn was foreshadowed multiple times on Buffy the Vampire Slayer

  • @jalbaugh24
    @jalbaugh24 8 років тому +22

    I thought the bear symbolized Gus as well

  • @bsbgirl85
    @bsbgirl85 8 років тому +8

    lol It wasn't just the credit card's expiration date. They had many hints over the five seasons showing Buffy was going to die. That was just ONE of them.

    • @ZBWorth
      @ZBWorth 8 років тому +3

      +bsbgirl85 I'm watching Buffy for the first time at the moment, but I have a sort of basic knowledge of some of the major plot points. The foreshadowing in that show is ridiculous and I love it. I always felt that the expiry on Joyce's card would have worked better as a foreshadow of her death though, not Buffy's.

    • @bsbgirl85
      @bsbgirl85 8 років тому +3

      I never thought of that, I agree it would of been better if they did that for Joyce. I can't think of all of them but another foreshadow was when Buffy and Faith talked to each other in that dream after she put Faith in a coma. Faith said something like "Little Miss Muppet counting down from 730," or something like that, showing that Buffy would die in 730 (or whatever number it was) days. I think they had hints in the S4 season finale episode, and a lot more in S5 as well.

    • @ZBWorth
      @ZBWorth 8 років тому +1

      bsbgirl85 Yeah there's been a LOT of hints towards Buffy dying, especially the entire episode revolving around how past slayers died (I'm currently in Season 5)

  • @DenniWintyr
    @DenniWintyr 8 років тому +4

    In Buffy the "little miss muffet counting down to 730", and "Be back before Dawn" in seasons three and four respectively, about season five, should've made the list instead.

    • @datickywickygurl
      @datickywickygurl 8 років тому +2

      +Denni Bryant Also during the same scene as the "Be back before Dawn" line, Buffy looks at a clock and the time says "7:30" and Tara says "That clock is all wrong" because it was no longer 730 days (2 years) until her death-- she only had 1 year left. I totally agree with you. If WM had included that foreshadowing instead, Buffy would have had the #1 spot on this list.

  • @whollyrocks
    @whollyrocks 8 років тому +1

    With the death of Marvin Erikson, it should have included the counting down seen throughout the episode. In the background, you can clearly see random objects counting down to the moment that Marvin's death is revealed. It's so cool to rewatch

  • @Kranitoko
    @Kranitoko 8 років тому +6

    The thing is the bear appeared to be a future foreshadowing with Gus though... half burned face.

  • @alexisv625
    @alexisv625 6 років тому

    Futurama one was the best implementation in recent animation history. Well done Matt.

  • @zani3306
    @zani3306 5 років тому +3

    On Buffy faith predicted dawn would come like 2 years before she did.

  • @trigea
    @trigea 8 років тому +1

    started tearing up from just the clip from scrubs... right in the feels

  • @LucianoPrestes86
    @LucianoPrestes86 8 років тому +3

    Oh, come on! Arrested Development has the most foreshadowing in a TV show ever! There are at least 6 or 7 references for Buster losing his hand.
    Also, the pink teddy bear in Breaking Bad is a reference for Gus's death.

  • @nataliep3744
    @nataliep3744 8 років тому +1

    *considers rewatching Lost but knows how much of a commitment it is*

  • @austincanas621
    @austincanas621 8 років тому +8

    no doctor who? that whole shows filled with foreshadowing

  • @ALittleBitEccentric
    @ALittleBitEccentric 8 років тому +4

    (possible Walking Dead spoiler)
    Two weeks ago in the walking dead when they were killing the saviors in their base Glenn found a wall of pictures of peoples faces that had been smashed in by Lucille, which is going to happen to him later in the season.
    Also this was foreshadowed at the start of season 5 when they were in Terminus.

    • @nickwagmeister3952
      @nickwagmeister3952 8 років тому

      Nah they're not gonna do it like the comics my theory is Daryl is gonna die because 1 he's in movies tv shows and even a video game all in the makings and right now beside michone he is the closest to Rick... and Glenn already scared us multiple time ESPECIALLY last year with the fake death anyways if it's not Daryl I think it will be Abraham or Morgan either or negan gonna smash someone's head in! 😳

  • @creussdrey7413
    @creussdrey7413 8 років тому +58

    Best use of foreshadowing in manga: One Piece

    • @warrioramina9832
      @warrioramina9832 8 років тому +1

      Absolutely!

    • @DJCurry25
      @DJCurry25 8 років тому +1

      +Creuss Drey KYROS!

    • @sirus6880
      @sirus6880 8 років тому +2

      and GODa stated that there ia aforshadow on the first chapter which leads to the end of the series

    • @MetakJesu07
      @MetakJesu07 8 років тому +1

      +Creuss Drey Too true!

    • @alfonsowhite7613
      @alfonsowhite7613 8 років тому +4

      Oda is just a genius man

  • @gabrielmeckling8352
    @gabrielmeckling8352 8 років тому

    Watchmojo, maybe start putting a list of what shows or movies or games or whatever are going to be spoiled in the video and when. I know in videos like this spoilers are kind of a given, but it would be great to know if something I have yet to experience is gonna be spoiled in the video.
    Really love your content, keep up the good work :)

  • @Cyberlisk
    @Cyberlisk 8 років тому +9

    Really wondering why Fringe doesn't even get an honorable mention. :/

  • @ImCarpet
    @ImCarpet 2 роки тому +1

    *Spoilers* My favorite Foreshadowing is in the pilot of Breaking Bad. After Walt gets diagnosed with cancer the doctor tells him he'll have 2 years to live. The final episode of the series takes place almost exactly 2 years later.. Walt doesn't die of his cancer but instead of a gunshot wound.

  • @herogamer555
    @herogamer555 8 років тому +5

    WOAH WOAH WOAH, you use the flash forward as an example of foreshadowing of Marvin's death, but not the countdown going on in the background for the entire season leading up to his death? Really?

    • @DollaBoy2202
      @DollaBoy2202 8 років тому +1

      +herogamer555 Entire episode. Not entire season.

  • @PsychedeliKompot
    @PsychedeliKompot 6 років тому

    Babylon 5 has so much brilliant foreshadowing it could fill 2-3 of these videos. Seriously, watch the whole show a few times. In the first season it already foreshadows events for pretty much every later season of the show, and it keeps following that trend more and more in later seasons. Its the best executed foreshadowing I've ever seen on any scifi show or tv show in general.

  • @mickiekay
    @mickiekay 8 років тому +4

    You could add several scenes from Game of Thrones here too

    • @Erlisch1337
      @Erlisch1337 8 років тому

      plz go sit in the back of the bus

  • @zerobadideas
    @zerobadideas 8 років тому

    I know so many people who didn't notice the countdown in that episode of How I Met Your Mother, but it haunted me until the conclusion. That was very well done.

  • @lordalessan
    @lordalessan 8 років тому +14

    Friends: When Monica babysat her nephew Ben and accidentally bumped his head, he kept saying "Monica Bang...Monica Bang...Monica Bing..." Coincidence? I think not!

    • @nay1879
      @nay1879 4 роки тому

      Scraping the barrel abit there mate.

  • @biancalovesdisney
    @biancalovesdisney 8 років тому +2

    So much foreshadowing in HIMYM. love that show. Made me cry so much. Especially the finale

  • @joshmo1672
    @joshmo1672 8 років тому +3

    Dude, Mojo, you're getting rusty, about the Breaking Bad, the pink bear foreshadowed Gus's death. The scenes at the beginning of Season 2 to the end about the plane crash was just plot device. Gus was also introduced in two, the planes went in opposite directions, like Walt and Gus were starting to, Walt had his way Gus had his way and there was going to be an explosion that took one of them out. The bear was Gus!

  • @NerdyGeeky
    @NerdyGeeky 8 років тому +2

    Gravity Falls - The time traveller can be seen multiple times picking things up until his episode where he has to go through time picking up things left by the main two characters.

  • @BigEvil6686
    @BigEvil6686 8 років тому +4

    Before I start this video - if Buffy's mom's death isn't in the Top 5 of this list, I'll be pissed off.

    • @nametags
      @nametags 8 років тому +4

      No, but they include Buffy's death but neglect to mention that was also originally the end of the show before it switched networks

  • @Monsieur_Lebofski
    @Monsieur_Lebofski 7 років тому +1

    I know this video came out before season 7, but in The Walking Dead there is some amazing foreshadowing of Glenn's death back in the 12th episode of season 6. When attacking the Saviors' compound, Glenn notices photographs stuck to the wall of various Lucille victims, all with their heads beaten in. The following season, not only does he die in the same fashion at the hands of Negan, but his photo is also given to Daryl by Dwight. He tragically becomes one of the very photos he earlier witnessed.

  • @Isaac-od4rm
    @Isaac-od4rm 8 років тому +13

    i skipped to John Locke, then exited the video. why? because you cant tell me what i can and cant do.

    • @alicex8612
      @alicex8612 8 років тому +1

      I'm crying this comment is perfect!

  • @Phanthief95
    @Phanthief95 8 років тому +2

    14:00 The pink teddy bear also foreshadowed Gus Fring's death, as the teddy bear's face was blackened on its left side, the same side Gus lost his face when Hector blew himself up to kill Gus. The pink teddy bear was a double foreshadowing.

    • @Nalyvevo
      @Nalyvevo 8 років тому

      +Felix De La Cruz I wouldnt count that, I mean if he loved pink or teddy bears yea but i think youre giving more credit than deserved

    • @Phanthief95
      @Phanthief95 8 років тому +1

      Jheri Curl The teddy bear came from the plane explosion. Gus died from an explosion. The left side of the teddy bear's face was blackened. The left side of Gus's face came off in the explosion. It was definitely foreshadowing Gus's death.

  • @claytonbaker49
    @claytonbaker49 8 років тому +6

    They missed one....
    Monica and Chandler and there twins. When Ross' ex wife has Ben, Monica says ,"I want twins! They're so lucky to have two of them!" And bam! Last season, they adopt twins!

    • @msfriendsfan4ever788
      @msfriendsfan4ever788 8 років тому +3

      Not really, Monica and Chandler were never planned, the plan was that they would have a fling but then go back to being friends, but the showrunners changed it after seeing how much the fans loved Monica and Chandler as a couple.

    • @CinnamonRoseCaramel
      @CinnamonRoseCaramel 8 років тому +1

      I think more of the foreshadowing with that couple would be the beach episode where Chandler tries to convince Monica that he would be a good boyfriend for her

  • @PhilthyFork
    @PhilthyFork 8 років тому +1

    You could've done a lot better with this list.
    About Lost: They (the showrunners) had no idea where they were taking the show from episode to episode, let alone from season 1 to season 7. To say that they planned "Light vs. Dark" is like saying Jerry Seinfeld planned to be a comedian-- that's just the way it is. Every story has a protagonist and an antagonist. The extent of the planning of "light vs. dark" was the showrunners deciding it wasn't going to be all sun tanning and daiquiris on The Island.
    Arrested Development only getting honorable mention is the same reason it didn't last on TV: you're not catching all the jokes. Nearly the entire show is based on foreshadowing a bad/awkward/uncomfortable event, building up to it, then the payoff.
    It's not foreshadowing in House of Cards that Frank wants the presidency-- it's the entire story of the show.

  • @KoryGrayson
    @KoryGrayson 8 років тому +23

    No Steven universe O: when Ronaldo tells everyone the plot for the show and constantly brings them up and everything,??!?

  • @CanYouHackett97
    @CanYouHackett97 8 років тому

    When you rewatch Arrested Development you have to pay attention to everything because there is SO much foreshadowing, mostly for Buster losing his hand.
    Like when he sits on the bench and covers the Army advertisement so all you see is "Arm Off."

  • @DeadCardinal
    @DeadCardinal 8 років тому +8

    When you do these lists, can't you tell us which shows in the description, just the name of the Shows and what time they are in the video so we can avoid spoilers. Or make a spoiler annotation with the name of the show so we can pause or skip.
    Yeah, I know you say spoiler alert in the beignning but it's just a thought for future videos.

  • @spencernielsen392
    @spencernielsen392 8 років тому +2

    Buster's missing hand is only an honorable mention? That joke alone is worth re-watching the show to see how many times they foreshadow it!

  • @kat_trabue
    @kat_trabue 8 років тому +3

    No way anything could top River Song=Melody Pond on Doctor Who. Honestly that Doctor who didn't even make this list makes the whole thing null.

  • @LP-kt4sf
    @LP-kt4sf 8 років тому

    I'm not sure if this necessarily counts, considering the audience is already aware of Dr. Lecter's nature, but the first episode of Hannibal has an incredibly well thought-out use of foreshadowing in which Will Graham famously says, "I don't find you that interesting."
    Cut to the second season, and this is referenced when Graham follows it up with, "I don't want to kill you anymore, Dr. Lecter. Not now that I finally find you interesting."

  • @jacksonwaring7841
    @jacksonwaring7841 8 років тому +8

    No! No no no no, you cannot show q shot of David Tennent balling in the beginning and not have him in the goddamn list

  • @ironman85000
    @ironman85000 8 років тому

    They should do another top 10 list of foreshadowing, but make it only about Lost. Because there's SO MUCH cool foreshadowing in lost they could have talked about.

  • @jegraham440
    @jegraham440 8 років тому +4

    Wow! You included Babylon 5~!! Amazing! About time!

  • @Goctagon
    @Goctagon 8 років тому +2

    I never knew that Nibbler's shadow was in the very first episode. I thought the whole "Fry is the most important person in the universe" was made up for that episode, not planned out like that. Damn.

  • @charlit349
    @charlit349 8 років тому +4

    I saw flippin John Locke and had to come and watch

  • @JayScarim
    @JayScarim 8 років тому

    My favorite example of foreshadowing is in This is the End when Seth and James are planning Pineapple Express 2 and it literally becomes the actual ending to the movie. And in Scream when Randy tells us exactly what's going on: "the dad's a red herring. It's Billy."

  • @blackraid1
    @blackraid1 8 років тому +5

    im a simple guy , i see lost , i click

  • @StealthMaster86
    @StealthMaster86 8 років тому +1

    As amazing as the foreshadowing of the pink teddy bear because of the black and white flash forwards and what happens to Gus, but I have to give it to LOST. That scene with the backgammon is the whole story of the show. We might not have known it then, but as the show continued on, we know that scene is one of the most important scene in the whole series. It covers so much of the show. Jack vs Locke. Survivors vs Others. Jacob vs Man in Black.