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    A Twirling Timeline of Fictional Time Travel

    The Alternate History of the Discovery of America

    Timegasms Are Not Pretty
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    Image of Jrsy Devil's Advocate® Jrsy Devil's Advocate®
    08/27/09

    In reply to A Twirling Timeline of Fictional Time Travel
    What about The Fantastic Journey??
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    Image of Grey_Area Grey_Area
    08/27/09

    In reply to A Twirling Timeline of Fictional Time Travel
    Lovely.
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    Image of thursdaynext27 thursdaynext27
    08/27/09

    In reply to A Twirling Timeline of Fictional Time Travel
    I want this poster.

    So this would be Life on Mars UK, since Life on Mars US would have a 2nd curve going forward a bit.
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    Sunshineyness promoted this comment thursdaynext27 was starred thursdaynext27 was unstarred
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    08/27/09

    @thursdaynext27: Well, would US even count since it was all just a hyper-space induced dream?
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    Image of Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H. Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.
    08/27/09

    @Sunshineyness: UK was all a coma-induced dream, so there ya go...
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    Image of Sunshineyness Sunshineyness
    08/27/09

    @Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.: Yeah, but at least UK version was more ambiguous about it.
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    Image of clivex clivex
    08/27/09

    In reply to A Twirling Timeline of Fictional Time Travel
    If Buck Rogers is in the 25th century, shouldn't he join the timeline before 2500 and not after? That's the 26th century there boys...
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    Image of Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H. Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.
    08/27/09

    @clivex: Buck was definitely in the 2400's, yes.

    Duck Dodgers was the 1/2 century.
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    Image of Sunshineyness Sunshineyness
    08/27/09

    In reply to A Twirling Timeline of Fictional Time Travel
    Oh wow... there's a lot of omissions. I don't see Time After Time, La Jette (though I guess 12 Monkeys lets it count) Somewhere in Time, The Philadelphia Project, or Final Countdown to name a few...

    But still really cool. I'd love a poster sized version of this to hang on my wall.
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    Edited by Sunshineyness at 08/27/09 9:25 AM Sunshineyness was starred Sunshineyness was unstarred
    Image of 1Grand_Marquis 1Grand_Marquis
    08/27/09

    @Sunshineyness: The Philadelphia Experiment is there. And I can't believe "Time Bandits" was included - that cracked me up!
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    Image of Sunshineyness Sunshineyness
    08/27/09

    @1Grand_Marquis: Oh yeah, you're right and on a closer inspection so is Time After Time.

    Still surprised that Somewhere in Time isn't on there...
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    08/27/09

    In reply to A Twirling Timeline of Fictional Time Travel
    MUST.

    HAVE.

    POSTER.
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    Image of closeencounter closeencounter
    08/27/09

    In reply to A Twirling Timeline of Fictional Time Travel
    Where's Journeyman, or Quantum Leap?? Both about nothing but time travel. Or maybe I'm just not getting this "map".
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    reddingofish promoted this comment closeencounter was starred closeencounter was unstarred
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    08/27/09

    @closeencounter: He seems to have left out all time travel TV shows like Time Tunnel and Time Trax.
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    Image of se7a7n7 se7a7n7
    08/27/09

    @closeencounter: Where's Idiocracy?
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    Image of Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H. Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.
    08/27/09

    @reddingofish: But he put in LoM UK and several ep's of Trek TOS and TNG.
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    Image of bookwench bookwench
    08/27/09

    @closeencounter: +1
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    Image of laughingacademy laughingacademy
    08/27/09

    In reply to A Twirling Timeline of Fictional Time Travel
    So, the lines to the right of the yellow timeline represent trips to the past, and those to the left are future-bound, yes?

    Shouldn't the line for "Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery" be light purple for deep freeze? Both Austin and Dr. Evil underwent forms of cryogenic suspension to get from the 60s to the 90s.

    And why the hell is the line for "The Spy Who Shagged Me" light blue for alien tech? Both Dr. Evil's time tunnel and Austin's VW bug were human-made, to the best of my recollection.

    (Takes deep breath and remembers Basil Exposition’s advice: "I suggest you don't worry about those things and just enjoy yourself.")
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    Edited by laughingacademy at 08/27/09 8:17 AM laughingacademy was starred laughingacademy was unstarred
    Image of Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H. Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.
    08/27/09

    @laughingacademy: Basil's advice is good, but there's no excuse for making such an obvious mistake about the deep freeze.
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    Image of Denza Car Denza Car
    08/27/09

    In reply to A Twirling Timeline of Fictional Time Travel
    Lame.
    No Doctor, no Voyager and Relativity, no Enterprise, no Futurama, no Seven Days, no Babylon 5, no Odyssey 5...

    [en.wikipedia.org]
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    KhaiJB promoted this comment Denza Car was starred Denza Car was unstarred
    Image of KhaiJB KhaiJB
    08/27/09

    @Denza Car: you missed : Doctor Who was omitted for the sake of sanity, though he hasn't ruled out making a separate chart for the Time Lord
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    Image of reddingofish reddingofish
    08/27/09

    @Denza Car: I don't remember any time travel in Babylon 5. Lots of flashbacks for sure.
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    Image of KaZx KaZx
    08/27/09

    @reddingofish: sheridan went back in time with babylon 4 and became Valen
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    Bill-Lee promoted this comment Edited by KaZx at 08/27/09 9:26 AM KaZx was starred KaZx was unstarred
    Image of Fedaykin Fedaykin
    08/27/09

    @reddingofish: Babylon 4 station traveled through time with some of the main characters in Seasons 1 & 3.

    This chart seems more Earth-centric, though...
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    Dunny0 promoted this comment Fedaykin was starred Fedaykin was unstarred
    Image of Bill-Lee Bill-Lee
    08/27/09

    @KaZx: No, it it was Sinclair who traveled back in time to become Valen. Sheridan briefly traveled into the future.
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    Image of Srynerson Srynerson
    08/27/09

    In reply to A Twirling Timeline of Fictional Time Travel
    Groundhog Day should be on there as a single magenta point in 1993.
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    Image of Jrsy Devil's Advocate® Jrsy Devil's Advocate®
    08/27/09

    @Srynerson: And the same can be said for DayBreak..
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    Image of ThisDudeRufus ThisDudeRufus
    08/27/09

    In reply to A Twirling Timeline of Fictional Time Travel
    The eighties must have been boring. People were doing anything to get away.
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    Image of Dirk Anger Dirk Anger
    08/27/09

    In reply to A Twirling Timeline of Fictional Time Travel
    "The Doctah" is omitted for readability, just imagine he's everywhere in every point and meets everyone
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    tetracycloide promoted this comment Dirk Anger was starred Dirk Anger was unstarred
    Image of allium allium
    08/27/09

    @Dirk Angry: The Doctor is marked out in black.
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    Dunny0 promoted this comment allium was starred allium was unstarred
    Image of MS-18E Shadoblak MS-18E Shadoblak
    08/27/09

    In reply to A Twirling Timeline of Fictional Time Travel
    I don't see Futurama..
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    Image of Defendant Defendant
    08/27/09

    @MS-18E Shadoblak: The only actual time travel that ever took place was in in "Bender's Big Score." And we didn't actually get to see all of his travels. So we don;t know all of the times and places he traveled.
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    Jim Topoleski promoted this comment Defendant was starred Defendant was unstarred
    Image of Jim Topoleski Jim Topoleski
    08/27/09

    @Defendant: What about the episode where Fry screwed his grandmother during WWII
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    Image of KhaiJB KhaiJB
    08/27/09

    @Defendant: Roswell?
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    Image of speed321 speed321
    08/27/09

    @Defendant: You may have forgotten that Fry is his own grandpa. Which is quite a feat, because a few episodes and an entire movie depend on it, as I remember.
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    Image of laughingacademy laughingacademy
    08/27/09

    @Defendant: Since he’s including "deep freeze" as a means of travel, Fry's time in the cryogenics lab should count.
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    Image of evildead1971 evildead1971
    08/27/09

    @MS-18E Shadoblak: cause futurama is a cartoon... duh! the chart is for real life time travel
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    Image of estapler estapler
    08/27/09

    In reply to A Twirling Timeline of Fictional Time Travel
    didn't BTTF3 start in 1955, go back to 1855, and end in 1985?
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    Image of Dunny0 Dunny0
    08/27/09

    @estapler: Yup. This chart makes it look like they traveled to 1885 by unknown means, then went to 1985 before arriving in 1885.. unless I'm reading it wrong.
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    Image of estapler estapler
    08/27/09

    @Dunny0: Looks like they went from 1885 to 1995 and that's it. I'm pretty sure that Jennifer wasn't sleeping on her porch for ten years.
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    Image of Dunny0 Dunny0
    08/27/09

    @estapler: Maybe she's a heavy sleeper?
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    Image of Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H. Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.
    08/27/09

    @Dunny0: LOL. But you guys have a point, he's left out a loop.
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    Image of rabiera rabiera
    08/27/09

    In reply to A Twirling Timeline of Fictional Time Travel
    LOL!!! Talk about wibbly-wobbly-timey-wimey!
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    evildead1971 promoted this comment rabiera was starred rabiera was unstarred
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    08/27/09

    @rabiera: best comment ever
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    08/27/09

    @evildead1971: Thank you.
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