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Enter the Time Capsule, an object specifically designed to withstand the elements and hopefully will be dug up and opened some number of years after its burial. "Specifically designed" is the keyword here; anything from the past is obviously going to be of interest to an archeologist, but it only counts as a time capsule if the one burying it intended it to be as such.
 
Compare [[Write Back to Thethe Future]], which is essentially this trope [[X Meets Y|meets]] [[Stable Time Loop]]. See also [[Dead Man Writing]], [[Video Wills]].
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** Incidentally, the show's cast also buried one of these in [[Real Life]]...but it was dug up by a construction worker shortly afterward.
* In ''[[Monk]]'', the burial of a time capsule ends up being the reason why the world's oldest man was killed. {{spoiler|The killer put a confession to a previous murder inside, knowing it wouldn't be read for a hundred years. Then, the mayor told the world's oldest man that if he was still alive in five years, they would dig the capsule up and add to it.}}
* ''[[Parks and Recreation]]'': Plans for a Pawnee time capsule are derailed when someone demands to put in ''[[Twilight (Literaturenovel)|Twilight]]''. Leslie calls for a town meeting to debate the matter, and everyone in town wants to put something in the capsule as well. In the end, Leslie just puts a video of the meeting, to show future generations how passionate the people of Pawnee were in 2010.
* The kids put one together in an episode of ''[[Salute Your Shorts]]''.
* In ''[[Summer Heights High]]'' the teacher, Mr. 'G', buries a time capsule in which he discards some of the students' items in order to make room for pictures of himself.