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I guess that must be where the Tar Monster came from.

Incidentally, Ms. Silverman’s class was about tar pits today.

Pay attention in class, especially science class, because you will need the information later in the episode.

This trope is the awkward tendency of programs to use precisely what they learned in school (almost always science) earlier that episode, and to lampshade it through grating dialogue. Shows aimed at an older audience can make it slightly more subtle; even so, it usually comes out like this:

"Oh no! We're being attacked by Gef the Talking Mongoose. Wait a minute, say, Swotty

, weren't you studying how to defeat talking mongooses just this morning?"

"Oh yes, I totally forgot. How

of me!"

Common in Edutainment Shows. May be the payoff for a "Reading Is Cool" Aesop.

Compare Chekhov's News, Strange Minds Think Alike, Lecture as Exposition.

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• On page 12 of the Laff-A-Lympics special "The Man Who Stole Thursday," Tempus (the story's antagonist who caused the titular problem) appears at a hotel where a comic book convention is taking place and he checks in identifying himself as John Smith. Later when Tempus is apprehended, he is unmasked to be Yogi Bear's nemesis Ranger Smith (Dynomutt's arch-foe Mastermind has him under mind control) who was called as John by another Jellystone park ranger beforehand. The narrator quips "We told you who it was back on page twelve! You weren't paying attention."
• Invoked by Spider-Man in Marvel Adventures: Spider-Man Vol 2 #1. Learning about Genghis Khan's strategies in high school, he decides to use one of them against a corrupt Supreme Court Judge in the latter half of the story.

    Fan Works 

• The Arithmancer universe: Ancient Runes class is surprisingly helpful at driving the plot, especially in The Arithmancer (as well as Lady Archimedes regarding the ritual to take down Voldemort).
  • In the first two years at Hogwarts, Professor Babbling teaches various younger students, this time including Harry, Ron, and Hermione, to carve runes into wooden blocks during seminars. This helps Hermione to create, with Ron's help, wandless potions kits that even muggles can use, using wood-block runes to provide the magic required for the brewing process. It is used again in Chapter 57, where Ron carves runes to be charged with fortification spells to delay Professor Lupin from breaking out of the Shrieking Shack as a transformed werewolf. This manages to hold until the group reaches Dumbledore for help.
  • Later in the book, Professor Babbling teaches the Bliviklet spell to her third-year class to link runes together in Chapter 53, explaining its practical application for simple and temporary defensive and monitoring systems. This comes in handy four chapters later, when Ron uses the spell to alert him and the rest of the group the moment werewolf-Lupin breaks out of the Shrieking Shack. Ron:

    Entwined pair of runes,

    remember

    ? They're good for monitoring. When it breaks, we'll know

    Lupin got out

    .

• In the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2012) fic A Day Without Leonardo (AO3 link here), Splinter gives the remaining turtles guidance on being a leader and working together during the first chapter's training. All of his advice is later put to use in the second chapter when the turtles go up against a gang of Kraang.
• Everyday Craziness in Pontypandy: Early in "Valentine's Daze", Elvis teaches Gabby how to perform the Heimlich maneuver. At the end, Gabby uses this knowledge to help a choking girl; this girl, Svetlana, soon becomes Gabby's love interest.
• Early in episode 3 of The Scary Cases of Scooby-Doo, a teacher in Jay Thomas's class does a lecture on tar pits and their composition. Sure enough, the gang is called by Sheriff Stone about a Tar Monster haunting a construction site, and they soon come across one of those said pits over there.

  Jay: Incidentally, Ms. Silverman’s class was about tar pits today.

• Abram, the victor who only scored a 3 in The Victors Project, won his Games because of this. He spent his entire time in the Training Center at the edible plant station because no one would bully him there. It came in handy in his Thirsty Desert Arena.

    Music 

• The Dethklok song "Bloodrocuted" has the protagonist come up with the idea of using his own blood to electrocute his pursuers after having a brief flashback to his high school biology class, where he learned that blood conducts electricity.

    Podcasts 

• In In Strange Woods, while Lexy stops going to survival training after John Francis breaks his wrist, she takes what she learned to heart. She uses examples of dead reckoning and other things Howl taught to make a case for sending a search-and-rescue team in the final episode when the adults assume the kids would be fine.

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• Katawa Shoujo has this in Emi's route. Mutou, Yamaku's science teacher, takes Hisao aside for a short lecture about observing things (if you let him). Namely, that if you can't observe something directly, observe its effect on other things. This advice comes in very handy, as it unlocks new dialogue options when Hisao and Emi's relationship starts getting off-track.

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