History Main / LawOfTimeTravelCoincidences

* ''Series/{{Blackadder}}'': This happens in the special episode "Back and Forth" when Blackadder uses a time machine, but he cannot set a specific date, because Baldrick forgot to label the dials with numbers, so it's pure luck where and when they end up, and appropriately, the dials are labelled like reels on a fruit machine. One event is TheDayTheDinosaursDied, and a dinosaur (presumably the last one) is killed by Baldrick's underpants. Blackadder happens to travel in the time machine to the Battle of Waterloo and accidentally kills the Duke of Wellington just before he is about to deliver his master plan, thus dramatically altering the course of history. Blackadder also notes that the time machine appears to be tracking their DNA through time when he realises that many of the people they meet are extremely similar to his modern-day counterparts (and played by the same actors).

** ''Film/BackToTheFuture1'': Doc types in "November 5, 1955" into the time machine, the day he came up with the Flux Capacitor. Marty ends up going back to that day, which also happens to be the exact same day his parents met.

* ''Film/BackToTheFuturePartII'': Discussed when Doc finds out that Old Biff travelled to the same day, November 12, 1955, that Marty departed from in the first film. It's also the day of the Enchantment Under the Sea Dance where Marty's parents fell in love and the historic thunderstorm that stopped the town clock. Doc ponders if the date could have some "cosmic significance" but shrugs it off as an incredible coincidence.

* ''Series/Loki2021'': Invoked by the rogue Loki Variant, who is able to avoid attracting [[TimePolice TVA]] attention by hiding at apocalyptic moments in time -- you can't alter the timestream enough to make a noticeable difference if everyone you're affecting is dying in an hour anyway. After Loki deduces this, he and Mobius test this by visiting Pompeii and making a scene in the town just as Mount Vesuvius erupts. [[spoiler:It's later shown the TVA itself invokes this by sending everything from the errant timelines they "prune" to an apocalyptic event at the "end of Time", where they are devoured by [[{{Cumulonemesis}} Alioth.]]]]

* ''Series/HannahMontana'': In "The Way We Almost Weren't," Miley and Jackson are waiting for their dad to finish eating at a retro New Mexico diner, with Robbie wanting to tell a significant sentimental story about it that the two aren't in the mood to listen to. In the process, Miley almost gets struck by lightning and falls back into their trailer. When Jackson and Miley exit the trailer after the lightning strike, they realize they've been sent back in time to the day their parents met. Unfortunately, their parents [[MissedHimByThatMuch keep unwittingly missing each other's meeting]], which ends up [[TemporalAbortion putting their own existences in jeopardy]]. [[spoiler:While Miley ends up managing to get both Robbie and Susan to meet in the past, it's ultimately subverted when it turns out [[AllJustADream the whole thing was just a dream]] Miley had after being knocked out by the near lightning strike. The dream motivates her and Jackson to go back and listen to Robbie recount how their parents met at the diner, which is the story he wanted to tell in the first place.]]

* ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog2006'': An ambiguous case of this on top of the other [[TimeyWimeyBall time travel shenanigans]]. In most cases of Sonic, Shadow, or other instances space-time travel, their destinations are pre-determined. The one time it seems to be a coincidence is when Silver and Shadow accidentally induce Chaos Control at the same time, opening a time-space rift. Shadow's dialogue implies this instance wasn't an intentional case, but he realizes that they will learn the truth if they go through the portal and into the past. Somehow, the portal takes them to the exact day that [[spoiler:the disaster occurs in Aquatic Base that causes Solaris to split into Iblis and Mephiles. With the two hedgehog ending up in the past, Shadow has to seal Mephiles into the Scepter of Darkness himself, and Silver assists with sealing Iblis into Princess Elise. Their actions end up creating a StableTimeLoop and [[YouAlreadyChangedThePast changing the past at the same time]]. Mephiles absorbs Shadow's power in the future after he's accidentally unleashed and Silver leaves behind the blue chaos emerald that Elise has the start of the game's story]]. It's unclear if Silver or Shadow intentionally wanted this portal to go to this exact moment before or after travelling through it.

* ''WebVideo/TFSAtTheTable'': Zig-zagged in the one-shot special campaign "The Eye of Jupiter," the party realizes they've been sent back in time, not of their own volition. They get hints that make it clear that they've been sent back into Ancient Rome, with the audio recording device they have on them specifying Napoli. Their client then tells them what treasure they need to reclaim and how they got there, while also adding that they only have a day before "everything literally goes to hell." Naturally, they're in Pompeii, the day before the Vesuvius eruption, so the party was sent there by a force who pre-determined the time and location but are unaware of it until they arrive. [[spoiler:As it turns out, the treasure they're stealing, the titular Eye of Jupiter, is the cause of the volcano erupting, and the one they steal it from is the guy who was the infamous supposedly masturbating man, who now has a more dignified statue of himself flexing after they lead him out of the city's gates.]]

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'': In "[[Recap/FuturamaS3E19RoswellThatEndsWell Roswell that Ends Well]]," the Planet Express crew fly into space to watch a supernova. However, Fry when pops some popcorn in a metal container in the ship's microwave at the same time as the supernova, it ends up sending them all back to 1947, the day of the [[RoswellThatEndsWell the Roswell, New Mexico UFO incident]] (which they accidentally end up being the cause of, among other incidents).

* ''Website/SCPFoundation'': [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-3780 SCP-3780]] is titled "Who Shot JFK?" and features this as its primary plot hook; the place and time of John F. Kennedy's assassination has become a nexus for time travelers who are trying to prevent his death, and the Foundation has to ensure that JFK actually dies to preserve the timeline. Occasionally, the Department of Temporal Anomalies are foiled by versions of themselves from ''other'' timelines.

* ''Series/LegendsOfTomorrow'': In "[[Recap/LegendsOfTomorrowS7E10TheFixedPoint The Fixed Point]]", the Legends travel to the day that Archduke Ferdinand was assassinated to try and prevent it, but find out this particular event is so popular among time-travelers that want to prevent UsefulNotes/WorldWarI that there's a bar set up for them where they can wait in line for their turn to try and save the Archduke. All their attempts are doomed to fail though as the assassination is a fixed point in history guarded by a reformed Thawne who actively thwarts the time travellers.

* Usually averted in ''Series/QuantumLeap'', where Sam's time-traveling missions (as determined by an unknown entity) only involved fixing the lives of normal people, never celebrities. However, once he tried to prevent UsefulNotes/JohnFKennedy's assassination, and succeeded only in saving his wife (who, in the original timeline, had also been killed). Another episode involved Dr. Beckett saving the life of none other than Creator/MarilynMonroe, albeit only prolonging her life for long enough so she could be in ''Film/TheMisfits''.
* ''Series/QuantumLeap2022'' is more comfortable with venturing into major events than the original series; its run had episodes set during the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1989_Loma_Prieta_earthquake 1989 Loma Prieta Earthquake]] and the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1992_Los_Angeles_riots 1992 LA Riots]].

* ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'': The Season 6 episode [[Recap/SupernaturalS06E17MyHeartWillGoOn My Heart Will Go On]] has the angel Balthazaar prevent the ''Titanic'' from sinking off-screen, reducing it to a historical footnote; he claims he did this in order to prevent Music/CelineDion from rising to prominence, [[spoiler:but in reality, Castiel ordered him to do it so that 50,000 new souls could be created for the eventual war against evil he's intending to lead]].

* ''Series/TheUmbrellaAcademy'': Season 2 takes place in 1963, and as such, The Kennedy Assassination factors into the plot; [[spoiler:when the Hargreeves family returns to the present in Season 3, it's revealed that they are now known as the "Kennedy 6", alleged communist sympathizers that are thought to be responsible for JFK's death.]]

Time-travellers just can't seem to avoid trouble. If they visit a time and place that's close to a famous event, they're almost guaranteed to arrive right before it happens. If they visit the Cretaceous, it's on TheDayTheDinosaursDied. If they visit Europe in 1939, it's at the beginning of UsefulNotes/WorldWarII. If they visit Pompeii, it's just before Mount Vesuvius erupts. Et cetera. This can also apply to fictional historical events that are very significant in the story. Sometimes, the time-travellers will even [[BeenThereShapedHistory cause the events]].

* ''Fanfic/ThePalaververse'': In "The First Stitch'' (https://www.fimfiction.net/story/396274/the-first-stitch) Rarity suffers a time magic accident and lands right before her nation is founded, and tries not to mess it up.

* ''Series/HannahMontana'': In "The Way We Almost Weren't," Miley and Jackson are waiting for their dad to finish eating at a retro New Mexico diner, with the diner holding significant sentimental value to Robbie that the two aren't in the mood to listen to. In the process, Miley almost gets struck by lightning and falls back into their trailer. When the two exit the trailer after the lightning strike, they realize they've been sent back in time to the day their parents met. Unfortunately, their parents [[MissedHimByThatMuch keep unwittingly missing each other's meeting]], which ends up [[TemporalAbortion putting their own existences in jeopardy]]. [[spoiler:While Miley ends up managing to get both Robbie and Susan to meet in the past, it turns out [[AllJustADream the whole thing was just a dream]] Miley had after she got knocked out after being almost struck by lightning. The dream motivates her and Jackson to go back and listen to Robbie recount how their parents met at the diner, which is the story he wanted to tell in the first place.]]

* ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog2006'': An ambiguous case of this. In most cases of Sonic, Shadow, or other instances of traveling through time and space, their destinations are pre-determined. The one time it seems to be a coincidence is when Silver and Shadow accidentally induce Chaos Control at the same time, opening a portal to the past. Shadow's dialogue implies this instance wasn't an intentional case, but he realizes that they will learn the truth if they go through the portal and into the past. Somehow, the portal takes them to the exact day that [[spoiler:the disaster occurs in Aqua Base that causes Solaris to split into Iblis and Mephiles. With the two hedgehogs ending up in the past, Shadow has to be the one that has to seal Mephiles into the Scepter of Darkness, and Silver assists with sealing Iblis into Princess Elise]]. It's unclear if Silver or Shadow intentionally wanted this portal to go to this exact moment before or after travelling through it.

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* ''Film/TheFinalCountdown'': The nuclear aircraft carrier U.S.S. Nimitz is near Hawaii when it's transported through time by an electromagnetic storm. It ends up a short time before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7th, 1941.

* ''Literature/{{Timeline}}'': A medieval history teacher and his students, working in an archaeological dig at a (fictional) ruined castle in France, travel to 1347 - mere days before the castle was taken by the English during UsefulNotes/TheHundredYearsWar. The trope is played even more straight when they return to the present and kick the [[spoiler:{{Jerkass}} CorruptCorporateExecutive that built the time machine]] into the time machine, sending him to the same place... in 1348, just as the Black Plague arrives. Since he never comes back, they assume he caught it and died. TheFilmOfTheBook condenses this and just has the guy thrown into the FinalBattle in 1347, right in time to get a sword strike to the head.

* ''Series/{{Blackadder}}'': This happens in the special episode "Back and Forth" when Blackadder uses a time machine; but he cannot set a specific date, because Baldrick forgot to label the dials with numbers, so it's pure luck where and when they end up; and appropriately, the dials are labelled like reels on a fruit machine. One event is TheDayTheDinosaursDied, and a dinosaur (presumably the last one) is killed by Baldrick's underpants. Blackadder happens to travel in the time machine to the Battle of Waterloo and accidentally kills the Duke of Wellington just before he is about to deliver his master plan, thus dramatically altering the course of history. Blackadder also notes that the time machine appears to be tracking their DNA through time when he realises that many of the people they meet are extremely similar to his modern-day counterparts (and played by the same actors).

** In 600 AD, it's the abduction and assassination of Queen Leene, and subsequent escalation into war with Fiend-kind that eventually leads to Frog fighting Magus.
** In 1999 AD, the party fights Lavos on the day that it emerges from the Earth to cause the apocalypse.

** DiscussedTrope in the aftermath of Robo taking TheSlowPath to fix Fiona's forest--back in the "present day" (of the story), he wonders if there is some "Entity" directing the party to arrive at key moments in history but given that there's no proof all he can make of the thought is idle philosophizing; afterward, a time portal opens up just in time for [[spoiler: Lucca to save her mother from being permanently crippled by one of Taban's inventions, but in a way that still inspires the younger Lucca to take up the path of a scientist so there is no OntologicalParadox]].

* ''Series/{{Blackadder}}'': This happens in the special episode "Back and Forth", when Blackadder uses a time machine; but he cannot set a specific date, because Baldrick forgot to label the dials with numbers, so it's pure luck where and when they end up; and appropriately, the dials are labelled like reels on a fruit machine. One event is TheDayTheDinosaursDied, and a dinosaur (presumably the last one) is killed by Baldrick's underpants. Blackadder happens to travel in the time machine to the Battle of Waterloo, and accidentally kills the Duke of Wellington just before he is about to deliver his master plan, thus dramatically altering the course of history. Blackadder also notes that the time machine appears to be tracking their DNA through time, when he realises that many of the people they meet are extremely similar to his modern-day counterparts (and played by the same actors).
-->'''Blackadder:''' We've started to affect history, and that's dangerous. We've already wiped out the dinosaurs, and killed Robin Hood, God only knows what will happen next.

* ''Series/HannahMontana'': In "The Way We Almost Weren't," Miley and Jackson are waiting for their dad to finish eating at a retro New Mexico diner, with the diner holding significant sentimental value to Robbie that the two aren't in the mood to listen to. In the process, Miley almost gets struck by lightning, and falls back into their trailer. When the two exit the trailer after the lightning strike, they realize they've been sent back in time to the day their parents met. Unfortunately, their parents [[MissedHimByThatMuch keep unwittingly miss each other's meeting]], which ends up [[TemporalAbortion putting their own existences in jeopardy]]. [[spoiler:While Miley ends up managing to get both Robbie and Susan to meet in the past, it turns out [[AllJustADream the whole thing was just a dream]] Miley had after she got knocked out after being almost struck by lightning. The dream motivates her and Jackson to go back and listen to Robbie recount how their parents met at the diner, which is the story he wanted to tell in the first place.]]

* ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'': In the double episode "[[Recap/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS03E11PastTensePartI Past]] [[Recap/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS03E12PastTensePartII Tense]]", Sisko, Dax and Bashir beam down to earth and accidentally end up in the then-past just before the major then-historical event of the Bell Riots. When Bell himself is killed protecting Sisko and Bashir, the two of them must ensure these riots follow the historical record to prevent history fron changing.

** "[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1959S4E10NoTimeLikeThePast There's No Time Like the Past]]": This is done intentionally at first, as a man goes back in time to attempt to warn the people of Hiroshima about a nuclear bomb in 1945 (hours before it hit), prevent the sinking of the RMS Lusitania (hours before it was torpedoed), and kill UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler before UsefulNotes/WorldWarII. But when he decides to stop trying to change the past and go live in 1881, this trope still comes into play. He arrives the day before President UsefulNotes/JamesGarfield is assassinated, but decides to let it happen. Then it turns out he arrived a few days before a huge fire killed some children at the local schoolhouse, and he struggles with whether or not to prevent it, only to end up causing it when he does try to intervene.

* ''WebVideo/TFSAtTheTable'': Zig-zagged in the one-shot special campaign "The Eye of Jupiter," the party realizes they've been sent back in time, not of their own volition. They get hints that that make it clear that they've been sent back into Ancient Rome, with the audio recording device they have on them specifying Napoli. Their client then tells them what treasure they need to reclaim and how they got there, while also adding that they only have a day before "everything literally goes to hell." Naturally, they're in Pompeii, the day before the Vesuvius eruption, so the party was sent there by a force who pre-determined the time and location, but are unaware of it until they arrive. [[spoiler:As it turns out, the treasure they're stealing, the titular Eye of Jupiter, is the cause of the volcano erupting, and the one they steal it from is the guy who was the infamous supposedly masturbating man, who now has a more dignified statue of himself flexing after they lead him out of the city's gates.]]

* ''WesternAnimation/SonicTheHedgehogSatAM'': In "Blast to the Past, Part 1," Sonic and Sally uses the Time Stones to go back in time to stop Robotnik's coup from happening. Unfortunately, due to Sonic's intrusive thoughts about chili dogs, they are taken to the day ''Robotnik launched his coup''.
* ''WesternAnimation/TimeWarpTrio'': The Book's mechanisms randomly transport both sets of the trio -- Joe, Sam, and Fred, alongside their great-granddaughters -- to historically significant events that have some relevance to what was going on in their modern day at the time. For instance, discussing the palindrome "Able was I, ere I saw Elba" results in Fred, Joe and Samantha being transported back in time to meet UsefulNotes/NapoleonBonaparte, who was exiled on Elba at the end of his life.

* Discussed in ''Film/BackToTheFuturePartII'' when Doc finds out that Old Biff travelled to the same day, November 12, 1955, that Marty departed from in the first film. It's also the day of the Enchantment Under the Sea Dance where Marty's parents fell in love and the historic thunderstorm that stopped the town clock. Doc ponders if the date could have some "cosmic significance" but shrugs it off as an incredible coincidence.
* ''Film/TimeBandits'' has Kevin and the dwarves arrive on the ''Titanic'' not long before it sinks.

* ''Film/TheLastSharknadoItsAboutTime'' is a TimeTravel plot where, in order to prevent Sharknados from occurring in the first place, protagonist Fin and several other characters who are brought BackFromTheDead via TimeTravel end up encountering Sharknados at various points in history, even meeting King Arthur, George Washington and Billy the Kid throughout their journey.

* In ''Literature/DoomsdayBook'', time traveller Kivrin arrives at the start of the Black Death epidemic of 1348, twenty years later than she intended to arrive. The explanation is that history resists people from going to any time but specific dates, hence why she must arrive in 1348.
* This happens many times during ''Literature/TheMagicTreeHouse'' series. It's justified because the books are usually meant to take them to a specific event like the Pompeii eruption, but Jack and Annie [[ForgotAboutHisPowers often don't bother to read further in the book]] until said disastrous event is happening. Ironically, this is {{averted|Trope}} in the first book when the duo end up in the late Cretaceous, and there's not an asteroid in sight.

* In ''Literature/{{Timeline}}'', a medieval history teacher and his students, working in an archaeological dig at a (fictional) ruined castle in France, travel to 1347 - mere days before the castle was taken by the English during UsefulNotes/TheHundredYearsWar. The trope is played even more straight when they return to the present and kick the [[spoiler:{{Jerkass}} CorruptCorporateExecutive that built the time machine]] into the time machine, sending him to the same place... in 1348, just as the Black Plague arrives. Since he never comes back, they assume he caught it and died. TheFilmOfTheBook condenses this and just has the guy thrown into the FinalBattle in 1347, right in time to get a sword strike to the head.

* This happens in the special episode "Back and Forth" from ''Series/{{Blackadder}}'', when Blackadder uses a time machine; but he cannot set a specific date, because Baldrick forgot to label the dials with numbers, so it's pure luck where and when they end up; and appropriately, the dials are labelled like reels on a fruit machine. One event is TheDayTheDinosaursDied, and a dinosaur (presumably the last one) is killed by Baldrick's underpants. Blackadder happens to travel in the time machine to the Battle of Waterloo, and accidentally kills the Duke of Wellington just before he is about to deliver his master plan, thus dramatically altering the course of history. Blackadder also notes that the time machine appears to be tracking their DNA through time, when he realises that many of the people they meet are extremely similar to his modern-day counterparts (and played by the same actors).

* Invoked in ''Series/Loki2021'' by the rogue Loki Variant, who is able to avoid attracting [[TimePolice TVA]] attention by hiding at apocalyptic moments in time -- you can't alter the timestream enough to make a noticeable difference if everyone you're affecting is dying in an hour anyway. After Loki deduces this, he and Mobius test this by visiting Pompeii and making a scene in the town just as Mount Vesuvius erupts. [[spoiler:It's later shown the TVA itself invokes this by sending everything from the errant timelines they "prune" to an apocalyptic event at the "end of Time", where they are devoured by [[{{Cumulonemesis}} Alioth.]]]]

* In ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'' double episode "[[Recap/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS03E11PastTensePartI Past]] [[Recap/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS03E12PastTensePartII Tense]]", Sisko, Dax and Bashir beam down to earth and accidentally end up in the then-past just before the major then-historical event of the Bell Riots. When Bell himself is killed protecting Sisko and Bashir, the two of them must ensure these riots follow the historical record to prevent history fron changing.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' episode "[[Recap/FamilyGuyS7E3RoadToGermany Road to Germany]]", Brian and Stewie travel back in time to Warsaw, Poland (though how they got to Poland from Rhode Island is never explained), September 1st, 1939, the date that Germany invades Poland and kicks off UsefulNotes/WorldWarII (the Germans did not reach Warsaw until a week later). They have time for one Jewish wedding before tanks start rolling in.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/{{Freakazoid}}'' episode "Freakazoid is History", Freakazoid is transported back to just before the attack on Pearl Harbor and decides to stop Japan's attack on Hawaii.

* ''VideoGame/Bayonetta2'': Bayonetta [[NostalgiaLevel ends up revisiting Vigrid]] from [[VideoGame/{{Bayonetta}} the first game]] [[spoiler:through Loki accidentally losing control of his time travel powers, throwing her 500 years into the past]]. Not only is she sent back to [[spoiler:the day of the Witch Hunts, but she also meets her mother, Rosa, and fights alongside her. This event also is the exact day that Rosa dies at Loptr's hands (disguised as Loki) and both young Balder and Bayonetta witness her death before heading back to the present to confront Loptr]].

* ''VideoGame/Bayonetta2'': Bayonetta [[NostalgiaLevel ends up revisiting Vigrid]] from [[VideoGame/{{Bayonetta}} the first game]] [[spoiler:through Loki accidentally losing control of his time travel powers, putting her 500 years in the past]]. Not only is she sent back to [[spoiler:the time of the Witch Hunts, but she also meets her mother, Rosa, and fights alongside her. This event also is the exact day that Rosa dies at Loptr's hands (disguised as Loki) and both young Balder and Bayonetta witness her death before heading back to the present to confront Loptr]].

* ''WebVideo/TFSAtTheTable'': In the one-shot special campaign "The Eye of Jupiter," the party realizes they've been sent back in time, with hints that that make it clear that they've been sent back into Ancient Rome. They are wary of where they are, as the audio recording device they have on them specifies Napoli. Their client then tells them what treasure they need to reclaim and how they got there, while also adding that they only have a day before "everything literally goes to hell." Naturally, they're in Pompeii, the day before the Vesuvius eruption. [[spoiler:As it turns out, the treasure they're stealing, the titular Eye of Jupiter, is the cause of the volcano erupting, and the one they steal it from is the guy who was the infamous supposedly masturbating man, who now has a more dignified statue of himself flexing after they lead him out of the city's gates.]]

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* ''ComicBook/BoosterGold'' has an InUniverse version of this. Booster has to travel through the DC Universe's timeline to stop villains from altering history. However, there are Fixed Points (such as ''ComicBook/TheKillingJoke'') that cannot be altered, no matter how badly one wants to.
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* ''Film/TheFinalCountdown''. The nuclear aircraft carrier U.S.S. Nimitz is near Hawaii when it's transported through time by an electromagnetic storm. It ends up a short time before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7th, 1941.

* ''VideoGame/Bayonetta2'': Bayonetta [[NostalgiaLevel ends up revisiting Vigrid]] from [[VideoGame/{{Bayonetta}} the first game]] [[spoiler:through some accidental time travel, putting her 500 years in the past]]. She not only [[spoiler:rewitnesses the Witch Hunts, but also meets her mother, Rosa, fights alongside her before her death, and sees her die a second time before taking a similarly time displaced Balder back to the present to confront Loptr]].

--> '''Blackadder:''' We've started to affect history, and that's dangerous. We've already wiped out the dinosaurs, and killed Robin Hood, God only knows what will happen next.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheTimeWarpTrio'': The Book's mechanisms randomly transport both sets of the trio -- Joe, Sam, and Fred, alongside their great-granddaughters -- to historically significant events that have some relevance to what was going on in their modern day at the time. For instance, discussing the palindrome "Able was I, ere I saw Elba" results in Fred, Joe and Samantha being transported back in time to meet UsefulNotes/NapoleonBonaparte, who was exiled on Elba at the end of his life.

Indexes: TimeTravelTropes, SpeculativeFictionTropes