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Anachronisms are funny. As are [[I Want My Jetpack|"prophecies"]] uttered by people who are in a position to lose a great deal of influence, money or credibility if they are wrong.
The best thing about [[Alternate Universe
Oftentimes, be it a medieval setting or anything else where things we know about have no business existing, something abundantly familiar to our modern audience is put forth as a hypothetical. The punchline is that no one thinks it could possibly be popular, allowing us to laugh at how wrong people's predictions of the future really are, and pat ourselves on the back for being so clear-eyed.
Compare [[Vindicated by History]], [[Call Forward]] and [[Who Would Want to Watch Us?]], which is specific to TV shows, and [[Historical
People reinventing things that ''did'' catch on didn't know [[
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