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{{trope}}
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Want something to appear cool, edgy and cutting-edge? Why, just put "2000" on the end of it, or some other [[Random Power Ranking|arbitrary multiple of one thousand]].
A trope that rose to prominence in the lead-up to the new millennium. Since that was
For a similar device, see [[Title: the
▲For a similar device, see [[Title the Adaptation|Title: The Adaptation]]. Compare [[Super Title 64 Advance]]. May be coupled with [[Thing-O-Matic]]. For another area with arbitrary multiples of 1000, see [[Pinball Scoring]].
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== Anime and Manga ==
* The original name of ''[[
* ''[[Pokémon: The Movie 2000
== Comic Books ==
* British sci-fi comic ''[[
* There was a "future [[Archie]]" set of comics, usually one-shots within the digests, called ''Archie 3000''.
* ''[[Camelot 3000]]''.
* The ''[[The Simpsons (
* ''Alien Pig Farm 3000''
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* ''Holocaust 2000''; Later released on DVD as ''Rain of Fire'', a different but equally [[Non-Indicative Name]].
** At least "Rain of Fire" doesn't sound like they were rounding up Jews and Gypsies into turn-of-the-millennium concentration camps.
* ''[[
* ''Heavy Metal 2000''
== Literature ==
* From ''[[Harry Potter (
** Subverted in that the next year's model is the 2001 [[Don't Explain the Joke|(as opposed to the 2100, 2500, 3000...)]]
*** It actually makes sense (car models are referred to by year, after all) until you realize the books they appear in take place in 1991 and 1992, respectively.
* [[The Nineties]] gave us the [[Cyberpunk]] [[Subculture]] magazine, ''Mondo 2000''. According to the editors, the name was deliberately chosen to give the magazine an "expiration date", embracing the fact that this morning's "[[Cutting Edge]]" is tomorrow's [[Zeerust]].
* In ''[[
== Live Action TV ==
* In ''That Peter Kay Thing'', Marc Park- an arrogant pop star- releases a Christmas album called, "Christmas 2000", swearing that he's not doing it to cash in on the millennium craze. The interviewer points out that it's actually Christmas 1999.
* ''[[Mystery Science Theater 3000]]'' was originally going to be titled ''Mystery Science Theater 2000''. Best Brains changed the title because the year 2000 was too soon in the future (though the 2000 was meant to be a version number, someone just thought it meant the year).
* On ''[[Will and Grace]]'', Jack has a one-man show called "Just Jack!" which he later updates to "Just Jack 2000!"
* In an episode of ''[[Frasier]]'', he throws a party that nobody comes to. It turns out that his neighbor (who lives in apartment number 2000) has lured all the guests to his own party, with a banner reading "Winston Party 2000". Frasier is determined to respond in kind, until it is pointed out that "Crane Party 1901" doesn't sound quite as edgy and 'party of the future'-like.
** Another episode featured a vacuum cleaner called the Dirt Scourge 2000. When Daphne tries to clean Marty's chair, the vacuum breaks due to sheer ammount of dirt. Frasier quips: "Dirt Scourge 2000, no match for the Dirt Pile 1957."
* There used to be an Australian science and invention documentary series called ''Beyond 2000''. (The format was based on The BBC's ''Tomorrow's World''.)
** It used to ''Towards 2000'', until the show got a make-over in 1985 and the producers decided 2000 was too close to be aiming "towards" any more. The show still exists, but has changed name again, to ''Beyond Tomorrow'', since "beyond 2000" now also seems old-fashioned...
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* As [[Knight Rider|"KITT"]] is an acronym for '''K'''night '''I'''ndustries '''T'''wo '''T'''housand, the French title was ''K2000''.
** And speaking of which: [[The Movie]] ''[[Knight Rider]] 2000''.
* [[Home Improvement (TV series)|Home Improvement]]'s "Binford 6100" line of products.
* The children's version of ''[[Wheel of Fortune]]'' was called ''Wheel 2000'', despite airing in 1997.
* A short-lived remake of the classic [[Nickelodeon]] game show ''[[Double Dare (1986 TV Show)|Double Dare]]'', that aired throughout the appropriate year, was titled Double Dare 2000.
* In January 1999, ''[[The Big Spin]]'' was briefly renamed ''Big Spin 2000''.
* In a ''[[
* From ''[[Whose Line Is It Anyway?]]'', Ryan Stiles has used the name "XK-5000" a couple of times for imaginary inventions.
* In ''Raggs'', every single contraption made has a multiple of 100 or 1,000 slapped on the end of it.
* During the first season of ''[[Survivor]]'', Dr Sean made a useless handcrafted fishing pole which he dubbed the "Superpole 2000".
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== [[Music and Sound Effects]] ==
* One of the band Silverchair's bigger hits was the single ''"Anthem for the year 2000"'', which seemed to be a bit of a hit out against governments that promised to fix things in the medium to long term future.
* In a possible subversion or [[Shout
* Hum's first album was ''Elektra 2000''
* The [[
* The Eurodance group Daze had a single ''Sex 2000'' in their 1999 album They Came to Rule.
* E-mu named the second generation of their Proteus sound module Proteus 2000. It was released in 1999.
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* The Prophet 2000, Sequential Circuits' first sampler (with 2000 definitely meaning nothing but hypermodern), was released as early as 1985.
* Japanese synth manufacturers seemed to love four-digit numbers for their virtual-analog synths in the late 90s: Roland JP-8000 (Jupiter-8 [[X Meets Y|meets]] Trope2000) and Korg [[MS 2000]] (MS-20 [[X Meets Y|meets]] Trope2000).
* The album ''Sessions 2000'' by [[Jean Michel Jarre]]. On the other hand, it was released in 2002, and [[Exactly What It Says
* [[Alternative Metal]] band [[Powerman 5000]].
* Andre 3000 (aka Andre Benjamin) of [[
* Most likely deliberately subverted by Flight of the Conchords in their song ''The Humans are Dead'' which starts "The distant future...The year 2000..." and goes on to poke fun at various science fiction concepts. (Unless they really did write it when they were very, very young.)
* Pulp's 'Disco 2000' superficially plays this trope straight by using it in the song's name, but truthfully probably subverts it in being a more nostalgic, wistful song than the glitzy, futuristic title would suggest. It does lyrically look forward to the date: ''"Let's all meet up in the year 2000 / Won't it be strange when we're all fully grown"''. As sung by a 32-year-old in 1995.
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== Professional Wrestling ==
* When [[Professional Wrestling]] tag team The Legion of Doom made their [[World Wrestling Entertainment|WWE]] comeback in 1998, they were renamed "Legion Of Doom 2000". In reality, the only things that had been updated for the new millennium was their shoulder pads, which now had new and improved [[Spikes of Villainy]], and their manager, having swapped Paul Ellering for [[Ms. Fanservice|Sunny]].
* ''[[Wrestlemania]] 2000'' actually did take place in 2000, but it was a significant departure from the usual naming scheme; if it had been named like previous and future events, it would have been ''[[Wrestlemania]] XVI''.
* The short-lived unsuccessful WWE tag team Tekno Team 2000. They had a futuristic gimmick and were billed as being ahead of their time, but only lasted little more than a year.
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== Tabletop Games ==
* ''[[
** Justified by the fact that the game was actually set in the year 2000.
* ''[[Warhammer
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== Web Original ==
* [[
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* [[Ultra Super Death Gore Fest Chainsawer 3000]]
* The original name for the third [[Video Game/Gran Turismo|Gran Turismo]] game was "Gran Turismo 2000". It was changed to "Gran Turismo 3: A-Spec" when the year 2000 came and went by the time the final version was released.
* Gruntilda of ''[[Banjo
* The first ''[[
* Goblin and gnome [[Schizo
* The Poltergust 3000 from ''[[Super Mario Bros.|Luigi's Mansion]]'', as well as [[Punny Name|Professor E. Gadd's]] later Poltergust models.
* [[BFG]] 9000 in ''[[Doom (
* The Pip-Boy 2000, manufactured by RobCo Industries/Vault-Tec, is a handheld computer device used by the player character in ''[[
* ''Chessmaster *000''.
* ''[[
** There is also the Cow Mangler 5000, a sci-fi themed rocket launcher for the Soldier.
** Then they introduced the "Pomsom 6000" for the Engineer; a sci-fi themed pistol which has the ability to drain 10% of cloak or uber-charge on hit.
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* Williams' "Pinball 2000" platform, which was their last pinball platform before leaving the pinball business in 1999. It integrated a video screen into pinball. Ironically, after the year 2000, pinball went right back to using the familiar dot matrix displays that they had been using for most of [[The Nineties]].
* Chinese bootleg versions of ''[[Raiden Fighters]] 2'' and ''JET'' appended 2000 to the end of the title. They were actually released in 2000 though.
* ''[[
* ''[[
* The Henchman 800 and 1000 in ''[[
== Webcomics ==
* ''[[
* ''[[
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'''Vaporware:''' Yup.
'''Checkerboard Nightmare:''' I could have tacked "2000" onto the end of so many things. What a waste. }}
* [[Homestuck
* ''[[
* ''[[Penny Arcade (Webcomic)|Penny Arcade]]'' has the Fruit Fucker 2000.
== Web Animation ==
* In the DVD-exclusive ''[[Homestar Runner
== Western Animation ==
* ''[[
** The second episode is called "Weight Gain 4000", which is the name of a bodybuilding supplement used in the episode.
* ''[[
* ''[[The Simpsons (
** Another episode featured the Ultrahouse 3000.
* The cartoon ''[[
* ''[[Dilbert (
* ''[[
* On ''[[PB
* ''[[
** Lampshaded in "The Refund" when Darwin asks "Why is it 2000 anyway? It's not like it's the future anymore."
* In one episode of ''[[
* ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic
== Real Life ==
* Aircraft:
** Possibly the oldest example: the Reggiane Re.2000 fighter, which first flew in 1939.
** The [
** The Eurofighter Typhoon was known as the EF 2000 for a while.
*** It started out as "Jäger 90" (Hunter 90, fighter [aircraft] 90) in Germany.
* The ''Annals of Improbable Research'' kept a collection of these under the heading "Project AIRHead 2000".
* For some horrible reason, number plates in the Australian state of New South Wales had "Towards 2000" as their state motto for a while.
* [[Windows]] 2000, named after its year of release. Although this was dropped in the desktop versions with XP and Vista, the server versions kept the year theme with Windows Server 2003, 2008, and
* This trend was once annoyingly common in Internet usernames, to the point where ''Yahoo!'' would offer this (and 2001) as an alternative to a taken name during registration.
* Appliance manufacturers also seem fond of this: the ''TurboFry 2000'', among others.
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** The Walther WA 2000 sniper rifle
** The CZ 2000 weapon system
* The [
* In the Philippines, the hardtop version of the 1980 [
* In 1999, the Hostess company released ''Twinkies 2000'' to the store shelves. They weren't alone; [https://web.archive.org/web/20050902140204/http://www.uexpress.com/printable/print.html?uc_full_date=19991212&uc_comic=su several processed foodstuffs] had special millennium-branded releases that year.
* The Northern German holiday resort Ostseebad [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damp,_Germany Damp], built in the early [[The Seventies|70s]], used to be named Damp 2000 originally.
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