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Sunday, February 10, 2008 at 9:46 PM yeah--don't step on any butterflies. —bguirk |
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Sunday, February 10, 2008 at 9:47 PM Just travel through wormholes. You'll be all right. —pookie |
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Sunday, February 10, 2008 at 9:49 PM Wormholes ala Stargate SG1, or Farscape? (nerd alert) —Masteel |
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Sunday, February 10, 2008 at 9:51 PM ala John Wheeler —pookie |
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Sunday, February 10, 2008 at 10:04 PM trek had some worm holes. —bguirk |
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Sunday, February 10, 2008 at 10:21 PM FREAK OUT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11 —plurry |
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Sunday, February 10, 2008 at 10:36 PM Someone has raped my thread... :-( —acm323 |
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Sunday, February 10, 2008 at 11:04 PM Your fault for having bangs. —ZT Spice |
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Sunday, February 10, 2008 at 11:34 PM "Time travel is impossible!"
"But Professor, you time traveled yourself, remember? When we went back to Roswell?"
"That proves nothing! And furthermore, you'd think I could remember a thing like that! Plus, who are you, anyway?" —TortillaFactory |
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Sunday, February 10, 2008 at 11:48 PM
Edited Sunday, February 10, 2008 at 11:48 PM Someone post season 6, Treehouse of Horror V, section 2: Time and Punishment The best I could manage was a synopsis. In this parody of Ray Bradbury's A Sound of Thunder, Homer accidentally creates a time machine after a failed attempt to fix a broken toaster. Every time Homer pushes the toaster's lever, he is transported to prehistoric times until the toast pops up, at which point he returns to the present. During his first visit to the past, he realizes that he could cause unpredictable changes in the future by changing anything in the ancient past, but absent-mindedly kills a mosquito. This results in Ned Flanders becoming a megalomaniacal Big Brother-type dictator, forcing everyone on the planet to have his personality. After being taken to a "re-neducation" center, Flanders performs lobotomies on the Simpson family but Homer travels back to the time of the dinosaurs again in an attempt to set things right. Every effort goes wrong: Homer sits on a prehistoric fish that had just evolved to walk on land, resulting in Bart and Lisa being giants. Then later he infects the dinosaurs with a deadly cold virus and they all drop dead. This effort comes close to perfection as Bart is polite, the family is wealthy and Patty and Selma are dead, making it seemingly Homer's perfect world. However, Marge does not know what a doughnut is, sending Homer screaming to the toaster; within a few seconds of his leaving, it begins to rain doughnuts. Another version of the house seems normal until Willie bursts in, claiming that he can help Homer return to his own world. However, Maggie kills Willie with an axe to his back, after which she takes out her pacifier and proclaims, in a deep voice (provided by James Earl Jones), "This is indeed a disturbing universe." Returning to the prehistoric era for one last time, Homer takes out his frustration by smashing everything he sees with a baseball bat. After several changes, Homer eventually arrives to a present where everything seems normal. However, the family members now eat with frog-like prehensile tongues, which Homer decides is close enough.[2]
Homer: I'm the first non-brazilian to travel back in time!
Homer: You know, Marge, I've had my share of troubles, but sitting here
now with you and the kids in our cozy home in this beautiful free
country...it just makes me feel that I'm really a lucky guy.
Lisa: Dad! Your hand is jammed in the toaster!
[everyone screams; Homer runs around]
Homer: Aah! Get it off! Get it off! [slams it into things] Get it off
of me!
[throws it off, sighs, slumps down to floor]
Bart: Dad! It's in there again!
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Monday, February 11, 2008 at 4:29 AM Time traveling was fine in theory until Ashton Kutcher got involved. —Beat It! |
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Monday, February 11, 2008 at 9:42 AM there was a great This American Life about a physicist who actually built a time machine. There's some sort of law of the universe catch though where it can only go back to the time where you turned it on--it's not like you can recreate back to the future--unless you had it plugged in/turned on back in the 50's. —bguirk |
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Thursday, February 14, 2008 at 4:26 PM >>There's some sort of law of the universe catch though where it can only go back to the time where you turned it on That happened in Primer, too. —chix0r |
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Thursday, February 14, 2008 at 4:42 PM That happened in Primer, too. —chix0r This guy actually built the machine. He's one of the few black physicists. I'm sure ano can correct my mistakes. —bguirk |
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