I Want My Jetpack/Quotes
Hsu: 2001 is OVER. All your hopes and dreams for 2001--dashed! |
"Wait a minute, those existed in the 50s?! What a rip-off! I want one! I demand one right now!" —Spoony, during his riffing on Captain Z-Ro
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Dear BBC. Well it's now 30 years down the line, and I'm no closer to owning a robotic housemaid. Tomorrow's World? Tomorrow's horseshit, more like! —Ed Byrne: , Mock the Week, "Unlikely letters to be read out on Points of View"
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Leo McGarry: My generation never got the future it was promised... Thirty-five years later, cars, air travel is exactly the same. We don't even have the Concorde anymore. Technology stopped. |
Doctor Thirteen: Ugh. Universe and future, like they're one and the same... it's so bright and shiny sci-fi. I'm waiting on that jet-pack they promised us in the sixties. |
You can't say everyone's got a water buffalo when everyone does not have a water buffalo! We're going to get nasty letters saying 'Where's my water buffalo?' 'Why don't I have a water buffalo?' and are you prepared to deal with that?! I don't think so! Just stop. Being. So. SILLY! —Archibald Asparagus, Veggie Tales
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I walked up on to this stage, when we all know I should have FLOWN. Via jetpack! Who's with me?... Are my shoes electric? No. Does my pillow comb my hair at night, while I am sleeping? No, sadly, it does not. So where, I ask you, is the hoverboard technology we all saw in Back to The Future 2 over twenty years ago! —Shawn Spencer, Psych
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Stupid Department of Jetpack Suppression... |
[The iPhone] can contact nearly anyone in the world, locate me on aerial maps, and plot directions to any location in the country. It is unquestionably the future, and you would have crashed your stupid flying car anyway. |
Mark: This isn't the future! THIS IS THE LOUSY STINKIN' NOW! —A filler comic from Stong Radd's webcomic-to-be
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Where's my hovercraft? —They Might Be Giants, "The World Before Later On"
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I'm going to write a story set after The Singularity, a million years hence, when we are all intergalactically-empowered immortal sentiences in the Beyond, and people will STILL BE COMPLAINING ABOUT NOT HAVING SODDING JETPACKS. |
Boy: It's 2011. I want my flying car. |
It wasn't that long ago that...we had a future that we could clearly imagine. The future wasn't tomorrow, next week, next year, or next century. It was a place with a form, a structure, astyle [sic]...The future was a world with a distinct architecture. It had its own way of speaking. It had its own technology. It was for all intents and purposes a different land where people dressed differently, talked differently, ate differently, and even thought differently. It was where scientists were wizards, where machines were magically effective and efficient, where tyrants were at least romantically evil rather than banal, and where the heavens were fairyland [sic] where dreams could literally come true... —Tales of Future Past
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In five years, we're gonna have flying cars and hoverboards and self-lacing shoes... it better happen. Otherwise they should have made it the year 3000. Even if they made it 2100, we'd all be dead. It wouldn't make a difference anyway. Better to be a mystery than to be wrong! |
Hobbes: A new decade is coming up. |
How can we breathe with no air? Where's Grandpa Max? If this is the future, does everybody have jetpacks? Who won the last five world series? No seriously, where are the jetpacks? —10-year-old Ben, Ben 10: Ultimate Alien
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I thought by now we'd live in space —Daniel Amos, "(It's the Eighties, So Where's Our) Rocket Packs"
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O'Malley: How did you know these were rocket pants? |
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