History Quotes / Zeerust

-->-- '''Captain Proton and the Planet of Lesbians'''

-->-- Blurb for ''Plan7Of9FromOuterSpace''

-->-- Blurb for '''Plan 7 of 9 from Outer Space'''

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->This outfit represents what the future used to look like.
-->-- The description of the [[https://www.mariowiki.com/File:SMO_Satellaview_Suit.png Satellaview Suit]] in ''VideoGame/SuperMarioOdyssey''

->That's me; both hands on the keyboard, one foot in [[UsefulNotes/TheForties the Swing Age]]. If I could afford it, I'd drive a car with tail fins.

->'''Captain Janeway'''(discussing the Captain Proton holodeck adventures): This is how you've been spending your free time?\\

'''Doctor''' Oi! Listen, in the year 5000, ''this'' was cutting edge!
-->--On K-9, ''Series/DoctorWho'' ("School Reunion")

->'''Rose''': [at K-9] Why does he look so disco?\\
'''Doctor''' Oi! Listen, in the year 5000, this was cutting edge!
-->--''Series/DoctorWho'', "School Reunion"

'''Jay:''' She's okay, the ''song'' is horrible...and the, um, elderly Wookie is getting off to it.\\
'''Mike:''' In the virtual reality helmet, which is basically a 1960's hair dryer.\\

->As the shark lies there, Bond checks out the device on its back, which upon closer inspection appears to be a combination light switch/intercom panel. It even has rabbit ear antennae coming out of it. I hope SPECTRE is prepared for 2009, when sharks transition to digital.

->Back to the wedding scene. Now, I'll tell you what ''really'' bothers me: It's them '''''[[BerserkButton GREEN PLASTIC DRUM CYMBALS!]]''''' Why do they have to have [[AC:space]] cymbals? Is it to remind us that we're in ''[[AC:the future]]?''\\\
Look, the cymbal goes back to prehistoric times, and you're askin' me to believe that all the way from then up to the last coupla' years they started makin' drum cymbals in ''transparent green plastic?!''

->What the hell is all '''''THIS''''' shit? There's metallic sea sponges everywhere, there's titanium rocket jockstraps, headless parrots with bottle caps, floating eyeballs entrapped in glass lids! How is this all happening!? Oh, ''of course!'' It's the year '''2010'''!

->Look at all the great things mankind has achieved on Earth. War, crime, and lawyers have been abolished. Every housewife has an automatic dishwashing robot. Atomic power stations provide safe and efficient energy to billions. Computers are so powerful that only five are needed worldwide. Hunger and famine have been eliminated through the invention of Soylent Green. DDT has wiped out malaria-carrying mosquitoes and those pesky birds that used to crap all over everything. UsefulNotes/McDonalds franchises can be found everywhere from the Moon to the bottom of the ocean. Why, we were making our first leap into interstellar space by 1990!

-->-- {{The Mighty Boosh}}, ''Eels''

-->-- ''[[MST3K Mystery Science Theater 3000]]'', "The Phantom Planet"

->Back to the wedding scene. Now, I'll tell you what ''really'' bothers me: It's them '''''[[BerserkButton GREEN PLASTIC DRUM CYMBALS!]]''''' Why do they have to have [[AC:space]] cymbals? is it to remind us that we're in ''[[AC:the future]]?''\\\

Look, the cymbal goes back to prehistoric times, and you're askin' me to believe that all the way from then up to the last coupla' years they started makin' drum cymbals in transparent green plastic?\\\
And if any of you faggots post a comment sayin' it's supposed to be [[{{Technobabble}} some kinda semi-transparent green metal alloy that reverberates sound much better]] than traditional cymbals, well then '''[[PokeThePoodle you ain't gettin' sent a pizza roll]], you got it?!''' Because we've consistently seen ''Star Trek'' characters playing traditional wood, wind and stringed instruments all throughout ''Star Trek''! Riker even played a fuckin' trumpet! None o' these instruments have been turned into a transparent green plastic!

->Look at all the great things mankind has achieved on Earth. War, crime, and lawyers have been abolished. Every housewife has an automatic dishwashing robot. Atomic power stations provide safe and efficient energy to billions. Computers are so powerful that only five are needed worldwide. Hunger and famine have been eliminated through the invention of Soylent Green. DDT has wiped out malaria-carrying mosquitoes and those pesky birds that used to crap all over everything. McDonalds franchises can be found everywhere from the Moon to the bottom of the ocean. Why, we were making our first leap into interstellar space by 1990!

->Elements of the past and future, combining to make something not quite as good as either.

-->-- {{The Mighty Boosh}}, '''Eels''

!!!RealLife

->You can tell when a Hollywood historical film was made by looking at the eye makeup of their leading ladies, and you can tell the date of an old science fiction novel by every word on the page. Nothing dates harder and faster and more strangely than the future.
-->-- '''Creator/NeilGaiman'''

!!!Fictional
->''We are living in the future. I'll tell you how I know''\\
''I read it in the paper fifteen years ago''\\
''We're all driving in rocket ships and talking with our minds''\\
''Wearing turquoise jewelry and standing in soup lines''
-->-- '''John Prine''', "Living In the Future"

->''Everything'' is chrome in the future!
-->-- '''Spongetron''', ''WesternAnimation/SpongebobSquarepants'' episode SB-129

->The human race, to which so many of my readers belong, has been playing at children's games from the beginning, and will probably do it till the end, which is a nuisance for the few people who grow up. And one of the games to which it is most attached is called, 'Keep tomorrow dark,' and which is also named (by the rustics in Shropshire, I have no doubt) 'Cheat the Prophet.' The players listen very carefully and respectfully to all that the clever men have to say about what is to happen in the next generation. The players then wait until all the clever men are dead, and bury them nicely. Then they go and do something else. That is all. For a race of simple tastes, however, it is great fun.
-->-- '''Creator/GKChesterton''', ''The Napoleon of Notting Hill''

->Any Resemblance To Actual Future Is Purely Coincidental
-->-- ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' [[CouchGag title caption]], "Forty Percent Leadbelly"

->You will BE AMAZED by the INCREDIBLE FUTURE OF 2009 with its jetpacks, flying cars, domed cities, alien monsters and vast electronic superbrains! Where rocketships TRAVEL TO THE STARS and alluring robot girls cater to YOUR EVERY DESIRE! You will GASP AT INCONCEIVABLE MARVELS like mobile telephones, interstate highways, automatic sliding doors, artificial satellites, and weapons of mass destruction!
-->-- Blurb for '''Plan 7 of 9 from Outer Space'''

->'''Captain Janeway'''(discussing the Captain Proton holodeck adventures): This is how you've been spending your free time?\\
'''Tom Paris''': Well, I've been studying how past generations viewed the future.\\
'''Captain Janeway''': And?\\
'''Tom Paris''': Well, it didn't work out quite as black and white as they imagined.
-->-- ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'': "Bride of Chaotica!"

->Look at all the great things mankind has achieved on Earth. War, crime, and lawyers have been abolished. Every housewife has an automatic dishwashing robot. Atomic power stations provide safe and efficient energy to billions. Computers are so powerful that only five are needed worldwide. Hunger and famine have been eliminated through the invention of Soylent Green. DDT has wiped out malaria-carrying mosquitoes and those pesky birds that used to crap all over everything. McDonalds franchises can be found everywhere from the Moon to the bottom of the ocean. Why, we were making our first leap into interstellar space by 1990!
-->-- '''Captain Proton and the Planet of Lesbians'''

->Back to the wedding scene. Now, I'll tell you what ''really'' bothers me: It's them '''''[[BerserkButton GREEN PLASTIC DRUM CYMBALS!]]''''' Why do they have to have [[AC:space]] cymbals? is it to remind us that we're in ''[[ViewersAreMorons the future?]]''\\\

And if any of you faggots post a comment sayin' it's supposed to be [[{{Technobabble}} some kinda semi-transparent green metal alloy that reverberates sound much better]] than traditional cymbals, well then '''[[PokeThePoodle you ain't gettin' sent a pizza roll]], you got it?!''' Because we've consistently seen ''Star Trek'' characters playing traditional wood, wind and stringed instruments all throughout ''Star Trek''! Riker even played a fuckin' trumpet! None o' these instrumenets have been turned into a transparent green plastic!

->Back to the wedding scene. Now, I'll tell you what ''really'' bothers me: It's them '''''GREEN PLASTIC DRUM CYMBALS!''''' Why do they have to have [[AC:space]] cymbals? is it to remind us that we're in ''[[ViewersAreMorons the future?]]''\\\

->''"The future ain't what it used to be."''

->'''Mike:''' Diahann Carroll sings something.
->'''Jay:''' She's okay, the ''song'' is horrible...and the, um, elderly Wookie is getting off to it.
->'''Mike:''' In the virtual reality helmet, which is basically a 1960's hair dryer.
->'''Rich:''' With a blast shield.
->'''Mike:''' [[Film/ANewHope With the blast shield down, I can't see anything.]]
->'''Rich:''' How am I supposed to jerk off?

->''"Nothing says 'yesterday' like something that said 'tomorrow!'"''

->''"That's me; both hands on the keyboard, one foot in the Swing Age. If I could afford it, I'd drive a car with tail fins."''

->''"You can tell when a Hollywood historical film was made by looking at the eye makeup of their leading ladies, and you can tell the date of an old science fiction novel by every word on the page. Nothing dates harder and faster and more strangely than the future."''

->''"I think there is a world market for maybe five computers."''
-->-- '''Thomas J Watson''', CEO of Creator/{{IBM}} [attributed], 1943

->''"''Everything'' is chrome in the future!"''

->''"No wonder that people are becoming passive sponges -- absorbing but never creating. Did you know that the ''average'' viewing time per person is now three hours a day? Soon people won't be living their own lives any more."''
-->-- '''Creator/ArthurCClarke''', ''Literature/ChildhoodsEnd'' (1953). (As of 2007, the average American watches [[http://www.bls.gov/tus/charts/LEISURE.HTM 2.6 hours of television per day]].)

->''"Comic books and space films share the concept that the future will look like the Bauhaus gone berserk, all straight lines and no color"''
-->-- '''[[Creator/MissManners Judith Martin]], [[http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A26699-2004Oct12.html reviewing]] ''{{Film/Superman}}'''''

->''"The human race, to which so many of my readers belong, has been playing at children's games from the beginning, and will probably do it till the end, which is a nuisance for the few people who grow up. And one of the games to which it is most attached is called, 'Keep tomorrow dark,' and which is also named (by the rustics in Shropshire, I have no doubt) 'Cheat the Prophet.' The players listen very carefully and respectfully to all that the clever men have to say about what is to happen in the next generation. The players then wait until all the clever men are dead, and bury them nicely. Then they go and do something else. That is all. For a race of simple tastes, however, it is great fun."''

->''"The irony is that last century’s modernism cannot turn into a thing of the past without losing its identity, because it wanted so desperately to embody the future. Like the glass and steel cubes of modernist buildings, it cannot afford to become old, to become the past, because that is totally undermining its ''raison d’être''. When the future becomes the past, the one cancels out the other and the result is emptiness."''
-->-- '''John Borstlap''', ''The Classical Revolution: Thoughts on New Music in the 21st Century''

->'''Cpt. Webb:''' Log entry: March 16th, 1980...
->'''Crow:''' Oh, our old future.
-->-- ''[[MST3K Mystery Science Theater 3000]]'', "The Phantom Planet"

->'''Bill:''' It's the future of the past!
-->-- ''Podcast/{{Rifftrax}}'', ''Film/Plan9FromOuterSpace''

->"It is the distant future... the Year 2000."
-->-- '''Music/FlightOfTheConchords''', "Robots (The Humans are Dead)"

->''"[[ClusterFBomb What the hell is all this shit?]] There's metallic sea sponges everywhere, there's titanium rocket jockstraps, headless parrots with bottle caps, floating eyeballs entrapped in glass lids! How is this all happening!? Oh, of course! It's the year 2010!"''
-->-- '''WebVideo/TheAngryVideoGameNerd''', ''VideoGame/StreetFighter2010'' review

->''"Any Resemblance To Actual Future Is Purely Coincidental"''

->''You will BE AMAZED by the INCREDIBLE FUTURE OF 2009 with its jetpacks, flying cars, domed cities, alien monsters and vast electronic superbrains! Where rocketships TRAVEL TO THE STARS and alluring robot girls cater to YOUR EVERY DESIRE! You will GASP AT INCONCEIVABLE MARVELS like mobile telephones, interstate highways, automatic sliding doors, artificial satellites, and weapons of mass destruction!''

->''"We are living in the future. I'll tell you how I know''\\
''I read it in the paper fifteen years ago''\\
''We're all driving in rocket ships and talking with our minds''\\
''Wearing turquoise jewelry and standing in soup lines"''
-->-- '''John Prine''', "Living In the Future"

->"Look at all the great things mankind has achieved on Earth. War, crime, and lawyers have been abolished. Every housewife has an automatic dishwashing robot. Atomic power stations provide safe and efficient energy to billions. Computers are so powerful that only five are needed worldwide. Hunger and famine have been eliminated through the invention of Soylent Green. DDT has wiped out malaria-carrying mosquitoes and those pesky birds that used to crap all over everything. McDonalds franchises can be found everywhere from the Moon to the bottom of the ocean. Why, we were making our first leap into interstellar space by 1990!"

-->-- ''Plan 7 of 9 from Outer Space''

->''"We are living in the future. I'll tell you how I know''
-> ''I read it in the paper fifteen years ago''
-> ''We're all driving in rocket ships and talking with our minds''
-> ''Wearing turquoise jewelry and standing in soup lines"''

-->-- ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'': "The Bride of Chaotica"