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A work set in the future will often take elements of the present day and refer to them as a way to show that it is our future and not a fictional place. One form this can take is for there to be a reference to a contemporary [[Long Runner]], and show that it is still going strong.
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This trope was popularised in [[The Eighties]], and the two most common film franchises joked about in the earliest examples were ''Rocky'' and ''Jaws'', the former because it had already produced an unusually large number of [[Numbered Sequels]], and the latter because it was often regarded as a [[Cash Cow Franchise]] remaking the same film over and over again, so conceivably they could carry on doing it forever.
 
Distinct from [[Oddly -Named Sequel 2: Electric Boogaloo]], which is where the ''work itself'' has a title which plays with the [[Numbered Sequels]] trope. Compare [[Sequel Snark]].
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== [[Film]] ==
* ''[[Back to Thethe Future (Filmfilm)|Back to The Future]] II'' had a holographic advertisement for ''[[Jaws (Filmfilm)|Jaws]] 19'', directed by Max Spielberg, with the tagline: "This time it's really, REALLY personal." All Marty has to say is, "The shark still looks fake."
* ''[[Spaceballs (Film)|Spaceballs]]'' features a reference to ''[[Rocky (Filmfilm)|Rocky]] 5000''.
* In ''[[Robot Wars (Filmfilm)|Robot Wars]]'', there was a background gag where a group of people are walkign through an abandoned city, and you can see a theater marquee with something like ''[[Puppet Master (Filmfilm)|Puppet Master]] 57''.
* In ''[[Airplane!]] II: The Sequel'', as Sonny Bono buys the bomb in the spaceport gift shop, a poster for ''Rocky XXXVIII'' is shown behind him.
* In ''[[Real Steel]]'' there is a promo for the [http://uk.gamespot.com/xbox360/hardware/xbox-360/images/6338377/1/?path=2011%2F277%2Fxbox720realsteel_97340_screen.jpg&caption=The%2BXbox%2B720%2Bad%2Bis%2Bvisible%2Bon%2Bthe%2Bright%2Bside%2Bof%2Bthis%2Bshot%2Bof%2Bthe%2Brobot%2Bboxing%2Barena.&blog=1&cvr=43E0 Xbox 720]
** In fairness, that would be the natural followup to the [[Xbox 360]].
* The Will Smith ''[[I Am Legend]]'' had an advertisement for a Batman/Superman crossover movie.
* ''[[Robot Jox]]'' had a movie theater marquee showing a ''[[Puppet Master]]'' sequel that was far ahead of the time. (Does anyone remember the exact number it showed?) Also counts as a [[Shout -Out]], since David Allen did special effects work on both movie series.
 
== [[Literature]] ==
* ''[[The Company Novels]]'' have an anglophilic character a few centuries in the future who's memorized the names of all three-hundred-and-some actors to play [[Doctor Who (TV)|the Doctor]].
* In a German novel called ''2049'', [[Captain Obvious|set in that year]], the protagonists see an ad for ''[[Star Wars]]'' - the fourth trilogy.
* "Ridiculous" isn't quite the word here given the low number and the actual franchise's reach, but one story of the [[Starfleet Corps of Engineers]] mentions an old (mid-21st century) film: Rocky VIII: The Clone Factor!
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== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* ''[[SCTV]]'' had ''Jaws 23'', in which the town of Amity has actually become dependent on shark attacks to draw the tourist trade.
* ''[[Red Dwarf (TV)|Red Dwarf]]'' has a passing mention of ''[[Friday the 13th (Filmfilm)|Friday the 13 th]]: Part 1,649''.
* This was a common gag in the [[Twenty Minutes Into the Future]] show ''[[Alien Nation (TV series)|Alien Nation]]''.
 
== [[Music]] ==
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== [[Video Games]] ==
* ''[[Deus Ex: Human Revolution (Video Game)|Deus Ex Human Revolution]]'', set in 2027, has a poster for a ''[[Final Fantasy]] XXVII'', a nod to Eidos' then-recent acquisition by [[Square Enix]]. Though given when the game takes place, and the actual rate at which the games have come out (14 as of 2011, with a 15th already being planned), the number isn't really "ridiculous", and if it keeps up the pace it's held, [[Square Enix]] might very well be putting out a 27th game around that time.
* ''[[Space Quest]] IV'', with its [[Time Travel]] theme, labelled its various time periods using ''sequel numbers''. The post-apocalyptic future into which Roger was initially thrown is identified as ''Space Quest XII''; the galactic mall in the ''Space Quest X'' period also tosses a reference to ''[[King's Quest]] XXXXVIII: The Quest For More Disk Space'' (back in the days before CD-ROM drives) stated to be by ''Roberta Williams III''.
* A PDA message in ''[[Doom (Video Gameseries)|Doom 3]]'' says "The new Quake-43 game blows my mind."
 
== [[Web Animation]] ==
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== [[Web Comics]] ==
* In ''[[SSDD]]'', a character [http://www.poisonedminds.com/d/20110516.html mentions watching] ''[[The Fast and Thethe Furious]] 527''.
 
== [[Web Original]] ==
* Yahtzee of ''[[Zero Punctuation]]'' invokes it in his ''[[Peggle (Video Game)|Peggle]]'' review:
{{quote| '''Yahtzee:''' Once your budget hits seven digits you're supposed to make Gun Battle Slap Fight Thirty-Seven for the Playstation Twelve...!}}
 
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* On an episode of ''[[The Jetsons]]'' George watches a clip from ''Rocky 912''.
* ''[[The Simpsons]]'' brought us ''Star Trek XII: So Very Tired'' a couple years before ''[[Star Trek Generations]]'' was released, which was the seventh in the franchise.
** But that movie featured the casts of both the original ''[[Star Trek: theThe Original Series]]'' and ''[[Star Trek: theThe Next Generation]]'', signaling that the franchise was moving in a radically different direction. The joke presumes that they were just going to continue releasing ''Star Trek'' sequels with the original actors (it should be noted that they ''did'' revert to the original ''characters'' by [[Star Trek (Filmfilm)|the 11th movie]]).
* ''[[Family Guy]]'': in ''Rocky VI'' (which came out before ''[[Rocky Balboa]]'' did) Rocky goes to Mars for a fight.
{{quote| '''Adrian:''' Rocky, please don't go to Mars and fight the Martian.<br />
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