Timey-Wimey Ball: Difference between revisions

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{{quote| ''"Time travel, it's a cornucopia of disturbing concepts."''}}

* The plot of a ''[[Pinky and The Brain]]'' episode, in which the mice try to obtain a "World Domination Kit" from the future. It doesn't even ''try'' to make sense, but suffice to say it ended with the lab full of hundreds of Pinkys and Brains, and the ending tune changed to "They're Pinkys, they're Pinkys and the Brain Brain Brain Brain Brain Brain Brain [[Overly Long Gag|Brain Brain Brain]]."

** A short summary for all the non-Americans who can't see the video: {{spoiler|The Prince and his three attendants, one of whom is named Schlorb, crash land on a planet. Tek Jansen arrives (and to clarify arrives means appear out of nowhere with a time machine) from the future to protect them. Then a second Tek Jansen arrives from further in the future and shoots the first Tek Jansen. Tek explains that in five minutes the first Tek would have eaten a couple of berserker berries, gone insane, and attacked them. He then eats the berries and goes insane. A third Tek Jansen arrives from sometime and shoots the second Tek. He says that Schlorb explained everything to him, but does not remember when. A fourth Tek arrives from the future and sends the third Tek into the past because Schlorb has an important message for him. A fifth Tek accidentally arrives naked with some lady on top of a console. The fourth Tek leaves (and to clarify leaves means disappear with the time machine) with them. A sixth Tek walks on screen with two clean shirts and does not recognize the Prince or his attendants. A seventh Tek arrives and shoots the sixth Tek because one of the shirts had too much starch in it. The seventh Tek is then eaten by a slime monster. An eighth Tek arrives in some sort of armor and asks if he was eaten by the slime monster yet. The kids say yes and Tek leaves frustrated. [[Overly Long Gag|A ninth Tek arrives and says that he is pretty sure that he needs to take Schlorb into the past, and proceeds to do so. A battered tenth Tek arrives and warns the kids to stay out of caves, then leaves. An eleventh Tek arrives and says he knows of a great cave that they can camp out in. A twelfth Tek arrives, shoot the eleventh Tek, hands the group an egg beater, tells them to hand it to the next Tek that appears, and leaves. The Prince points out that this is pretty fucked up. A thirteenth Tek arrives fighting a giant egg. Tek grabs the egg beater and leaves, still fighting the egg. A fourteenth Tek arrives and explains that all this time travel has opened a chrono-rift in the space-time continuum. He is going to go fix it, but he wants the kids to do exactly what the next Tek tells them to. He leaves. But then a large group of Teks arrive all pointing in different direction. They proceed to fight each other, and the episode ends on a cliffhanger]]. This all happens in two minutes.}} You got all that?

* In ''[[Transformers Armada]]'', after {{spoiler|Thrust shoots Starscream with the [[BFG|Requiem Blaster]],}} we see a shot of Rad as an eight year old waking up in his parents' car and asking tiredly where the Mini-Cons are (implying his "present" mind was momentarily in his past body). Then cut to all the kids - possibly in an alternate future - being told by a slowly dying Hot Shot that the Transformers have all been eaten by Unicron because they didn't know that {{spoiler|the Mini-Cons were servants of Unicron}} and were led to their doom. After this, cut to the kids now being at the moment of the Mini-Cons' creation millions of years ago {{spoiler|1=inside Unicron. Rad then touches High Wire's hand and frees him (and by assocation all the other Mini-Cons) from Unicron's control by reminding them of their past/future happiness together.}} The Mini-Cons then know to go to Earth after they leave Cybertron to meet Rad and the other humans. Cut back to the humans returning mere moments before {{spoiler|Thrust shoots Starscream, whereupon High Wire and his teammates [[Combining Mecha|combine into Perceptor]] and knocks the gun away, causing Thrust to miss Starscream completely.}} And none of this is EVER EXPLAINED.

** Then there's Professor Farnsworth's time machine in "The Late Philip J. Fry", which could only go forward in time. When Farnsworth, Fry and Bender returned to a new, identical universe (making the Big Bounce theory true) It's impossible to know if the killing of the fish or Hitler did anything to Universe Two because they didn't get to stop in the 31st century to find out. They had to go around again to finally make a stop at Universe 3. This leads to all sorts of crazy implications as to what happened to the time traveling crew in the 2nd universe...do they kill their Universe 4 selves?

*** [[Flat What|What?]]

** The problem with the "Crocker wouldn't have become obsessed with Fairies" outcome rings hollow when, watching the Secret Origin episode again, the viewer sees that Cosmo was the one who wound up getting Crocker's childhood screwed up...

*** Then again, if Timmy wasn't present to wish what had caused Crocker such misery, Cosmo likely wouldn't have had the opportunity to travel back in time and screw up Crocker's childhood.

**** If only! The Gödel metric manages to have closed timelike loops in a universe that has ''no singularities'' and is even topologically ''simply connected''. No, I cannot visualize that either.

* [http://reason.com/blog/2009/10/14/they-say-you-cant-fight-the-fu The Higgs-Boson, according to some people.]

** Fortunately, Git preserves even changes to history (perhaps in a form of [[San Dimas Time]]), so you can revert your edits to history.

*** Unfortunately, unlike saner [[DVC Ses]], it then voluntarily discards some parts of the history just before you want to look it up (if you merge two branches and later split them again, you have little chances to know what was originally where after a month or so)

 

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