Line #39 Main/ProgressiveEraMontage


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5	[[caption-width-right:310: Dances and fashions come and go, but dancing and style are forever.[[note]]1925 is the Charleston in 1930s clothing, 1945 is Swing in 1950s clothing, 1965 is the Shake in late 1960s clothing, 1985 is the [[Music/MichaelJackson "Beat It" dance]], 1995 is [[Music/{{Madonna}} "Vogue"]], and 2015 is...whatever in 2011 clothing.[[/note]] ]]
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7	A {{Montage}} where a character or a scene shifts from one era to another. A MisterSandmanSequence may or may not occur on a particular era, may it be a person, a place, or an item. The one thing that this montage is very prevalent of is that the atmosphere of the setting, architecture and art styles, technology, clothing and hairstyle, and occasional background music sequentially changes. One of the most common usage is a product or a subject going through each decade in the 19th, [[The20thCentury 20th]] and 21st centuries, due to these centuries undergoing rapid changes in all aspects of life.
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9	Often employed to make the point that "[[WhileYouWereInDiapers X has been around a lot longer than you]], so you'd best respect it, son."
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11	Doesn't necessarily have to do with the ''actual'' Progressive Era, which was from about the 1890s to the 1920s.
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14	!!Examples:
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21	* The [[http://www.americangirl.com/play/beforever/index.php "Pass It Along" promotional video]] for [[Literature/AmericanGirlsCollection American Girl's]] [=BeForever=] revamp shows girls from the present [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin passing things along]] to characters from the Historical lineup, the latter of them showing their new meet outfits.
22	* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9WjeH6VlTA This]] SuperBowlSpecial for the Audi A6 has Creator/JasonStatham [[HeroStoleMyBike stealing a succession of cars]] dating from TheSeventies up to the present day, presented in the manner of an action movie of each era. In a way it also illustrates the [[TechnologyMarchesOn advancements in film camera technology over the years]].
23	* A Bank of America commercial [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KjRXJYc5I14 "Portraits"]] shows an elderly couple and their whole family through various milestones in reverse (anniversaries, grandchildren born, [[UsefulNotes/TheBritishInvasion second British invasion]], new puppy, etc.), ending with the now young couple setting up a camera for a photo.
24	* A British [[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=H3JdhT-CCls Burger King ad]] shows a man walking through every decade from TheSixties forwards, passing Whopper ads like posters and billboards. When he finally reaches Burger King in TheNewTwenties, he orders [[BaitAndSwitch a Chicken Royale]].
25	* A Carmax commercial, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bosB1W7KIBQ "Instant Offer,"]] sees a woman prop up a "For Sale" sign on the window of her car, and suddenly imagines the car sitting in the same spot for years; from surges in futuristic city development to what appears to be an alien apocalypse.
26	* The Clorox commercial [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZeQUxSjHwU "Laundry Timeline"]] shows the ever-changing laundry room in which the great-grandmother, then the grandmother, then the mother has done the laundry.
27	* The Cherry Ripe [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gk4eqZwbpdM "Feeding the Soul"]] ad does this in reverse, starting with a woman eating a Cherry Ripe in the modern day and gradually moving back through various eras to the 20s.
28	* A Doritos commercial, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RE0r8feQ2es "Nacho Cheese Forever"]], shows two young men shopping at a shoe store when the clothes, accessories, and even electronics they own begin to rapidly change as if they entered a time machine.
29	* A 2017 UK Ford advert about the new Ford Focus has Creator/KeeleyHawes driving down the street while discussing how some things change but others remain constant. We see a hardware store turn into a video rental place and then a whole foods shop, a phone box disappear to be replaced by a guy on his mobile, and then a guy texting or [=IMing=], and a glimpse into a classroom which goes from blackboard to overhead projector to interactive multimedia.
30	* Frigidaire's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kgXk2QkErhA "More than 90 Years of Innovation"]] commercial shows the company's innovations through the years.
31	* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h16y4m2TJsg This Gilette body razor commercial]] does this with the changing facial hairstyles as the era progresses.
32	* FTX Bitcoin's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BH5-rSxilxo "Don't Miss Out"]] ad features Creator/LarryDavid, throughout history, saying how various ideas and inventions [[ItWillNeverCatchOn will never be popular]], even though [[ThisIsGoingToBeHuge everyone else disagrees]]. In other words, [[TagLine don't be like Larry]].
33	* A Guinness commercial entitled [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHIAQuyktGg "noitulovE"]] travels backward in time ''500 million years'', as three men revert from modern humans each enjoying a glass of Guinness to prehistoric mudskippers drinking out of a disgusting waterhole.
34	* The 2008 Hovis Bread Commercial, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_suyZb5mDk "Go On, Lad!"]] focuses on a boy who, in 122 seconds (referencing Hovis being 122 years old at the time of the advert), walks down on history lane from the Victorian Era to the present day as he walks down through significant events on British history.
35	* The Hyundai Ioniq 5 commercial [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkEbXigKZQA "History Of Evolution"]] sees Creator/JasonBateman immersing himself through different time periods to show how the first vehicles weren't the fastest, the first maps weren't accurate, and the first electric vehicles weren't up to their potential.
36	* An IHOP commercial, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EmMNGBzzdac "The Future of Bacon,"]] has a man standing on the rooftop of an IHOP building to announce the chain's Steakhouse Premium Bacon, which is said to be 5 times bigger than regular bacon and is so great that the culinary invention will last 100 years into the future.
37	* A [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f6eZ3WQCjhA 2015 advertisement]] for Lloyds Bank does this with the black horse from the bank's logo, being foaled in 1765, then being ridden or pulling a load throughout the next 250 years.
38	* The Mercedes-Benz SL commercial [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88w-BtxZmfs "Timeless"]] focuses about the said car as it drives through the 1950s up to the present day while the style of the car, the music, and the fashion of the woman driving it all change with the times.
39	* A 1992 [[http://youtu.be/MndXguWucJU Miller Lite ad]] directed by Creator/JamesCameron (!) uses then cutting-edge morphing to transform a couple from late '60s hippies through '70s disco to '80s punks in one smooth dance. They revert to present day (early 90s) as they sit back down at the bar-- and then hint at a cute {{Zeerust}} future when the girl is shown wearing a "necklace" of shiny stones that orbit her neck...
40	* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I2JbRYrmf74 This Nike ad]] for the 2004 World Series, showing two brothers watching the Red Sox from 1918 to 2004.
41	* Pepsi:
42	** The 2009 Pepsi Commercial [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ABUKnCKzM8 "Pass"]] transcends from TheGayNineties to the present day focusing the said product consumed by young people as it is passed on through various generations.
43	** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TG4giyL-4Sk Another Pepsi commercial]] from 2002 featuring Music/BritneySpears shows Pepsi "commercials" from the 1950s through 2002, using actual Pepsi {{jingle}}s from their respective eras.
44	* Creator/{{Sony}}'s [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39pK2MV_sfs "#4ThePlayers" video,]] in which a group of British teens grow up playing Platform/PlayStation consoles from 1995 to the present day. All the while, the artists whose posters adorn their walls and magazines change from Music/{{Blur}} to Music/{{Kasabian}} to Music/TinieTempah, the fashion goes from "[[Series/TheFreshPrinceOfBelAir Fresh Prince]]" to '00s "chav" fashion and beyond, and the London Eye, the Gherkin, and the Shard emerge on the UsefulNotes/{{London}} skyline outside their window.
45	* The Sprint [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kdS0cyKXrgA Galaxy Forever commercial]] has a Sprint employee inform two customers that when they lease a Samsung Galaxy S9, not only can they get another for a friend, but with Galaxy Forever, the two women can upgrade to the newest Galaxy every year, like pre-ordering for the future. Both women ask if it's really every year, eventually transporting to the far future where almost everyone, including spokesperson Paul, exist as holograms. When the two women ask once again, a futuristic robot clarifies that [[OverlyLongGag yes, it's every year]], and asks why no one is getting this.
46	* A Tivo commercial titled [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yWDj8plWKiE "Fast Forward"]] shows a young couple about to watch ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'', but the guy accidentally [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin fast forwards]] 20 years into the future, where they now have Tivo Stream 4K and [[KidFromTheFuture a daughter]].
47	* A 2024 Cadbury's ad commemorating 200 years of Dairy Milk, remakes [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TfMt3HN8tuY a 2018 ad]] about a girl trying to buy a bar of chocolate for her mother, only [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGeXG4wP0gk this version]] starts in 1824, and then sees the fashions and technology (and, of course, the Dairy Milk wrapper) gradually move forward.
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51	* ''ComicBook/TheSandman1989'': In "Men of Good Fortune", Dream of the Endless has the medieval peasant Hob Gadling made immortal so they can meet once per century to discuss Hob's life experiences. The montage shows their meetings from 1389 to 1989 as the world changes around them.
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55	* The end credits of ''WesternAnimation/WallE'' shows the evolution of art, starting with cave drawings and hieroglyphs and culminating with Creator/VincentVanGogh-style art.
56	* The opening scene of ''WesternAnimation/WreckItRalph'' progresses through 30 years as evidenced by the change of video game platforms.
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60	* In ''Film/{{Cavalcade}}'', the years between 1918 and 1933 are portrayed rather negatively in a single montage that shows drinking, dancing, strident political demagoguery, and--horrors!--gays and lesbians.
61	* ''Film/{{Detention}}'' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-uAvsj4gMk does this in reverse]] to highlight Elliot's time warp from the present day (2011) back to 1992. In order, he stops in 2008 with the Music/PussycatDolls playing and his classmates wearing HipHop-inspired fashion, in '05 with The Bravery playing and his classmates dressed like {{Emo Teen}}s, in '03 with Music/FiftyCent playing and everyone in Von Dutch trucker caps, in '98 with the Music/BackstreetBoys playing and everyone dressed like either a BoyBand member or Music/BritneySpears, and in '94 with Music/{{Hole}} playing and everyone [[{{Grunge}} wearing flannel and denim]]. When he finally arrives in '92, someone's listening to Music/PublicEnemy and the fashions of TheEighties are still lingering, especially on the ValleyGirl Sloan who looks like a dead ringer for [[Film/{{Clueless}} Cher Horowitz]] (but whose attempt to find service on her CellPhone immediately marks her as a fellow time-traveler). The only constant is Elliot with his gray hoodie.
62	* ''Film/GangsOfNewYork'' famously ends on one of these, showing New York City as it grows from the 1860s to the modern day, set to U2's "The Hands That Built America." Despite the movie being released in 2002, the last shot shows the pre-9/11 NYC skyline, complete with Twin Towers. Creator/MartinScorsese insisted on keeping them in because, as he put it, "the people in the film... were part of the creation of that skyline, not the destruction of it."
63	* In ''Film/{{Oldboy\|2003}}'', a progressing series of TV news fragments is shown to present the duration of Oh Dae-su's captivity in a single hotel room with only a TV set as means of contact with the outside world.
64	* The opening montage in ''Film/{{Watchmen}}'' depicts the evolution of {{superhero}}es from TheForties up until TheEighties, with [[BeenThereShapedHistory important historical scenes]] shown in-between.
65	* The opening credit sequence of the film ''Film/TheJackal'' showed a montage of images from Russian history set to pounding Industrial music, starting with the Bolshevik Revolution, through Stalin's industrialization and [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarII The Great Patriotic War]], and on up through the fall of the Soviet Union toward the present day.
66	* The opening of ''Film/{{Searching}}'' showcases the evolution of social media in the 21st century against the backdrop of Margot's childhood, with various incarnations of Website/YouTube, AOL Instant Messenger, Website/{{Facebook}}, Instagram, and even [[JumpScare screamer videos]] and [[UsefulNotes/AdobeFlash Flash games]] going by as Margot grows into a teenager.
67	* The opening titles in ''Film/SoylentGreen'' play under a photo montage showing technology advancing through the 20th century, getting bigger and more environmentally destructive, ending in the mess that is the movie's setting.
68	* In ''Film/TheTimeMachine2002'', the time travel through the 20th and 21st century is in effect portrayed in this form. At first it's from the viewpoint of the protagonist in the time machine, from where he witnesses the development of automobiles and via a nearby shop window also the changes in fashion. Then the scene segues into an AstronomicZoom, showcasing the development of airplane flight and finally space flight.
69	* The introduction to ''Film/ValerianAndTheCityOfAThousandPlanets'' shows the evolution of a human SpaceStation into the eponymous city in space, and its role as a diplomatic nexus first for [[NationsOfTheWorldMontage human races]], then [[FirstContact alien ones]].
70	* The TitleSequence of ''Film/WingCommander'' does an audio version of Mankind's history of space exploration up until the declaration of war with the Kilrathi.
71	* ''Film/XMenApocalypse'' has [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PIljdgfKqow just before the title a montage]] showing all the technology and events that happened between the DistantPrologue's ancient Egypt and the movie's 1983 setting.
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75	* Creator/EdwardRutherfurd's novels, such as ''Sarum'', ''Russka'' and others, goes on like this, where every chapter goes to a new era and a new generation. Sometimes a single object or locale links the two sides of the transition, as when a medieval artisan completes a painting that he's proud to think will forever grace a chapel ... only for his Reformation-era iconoclast descendant to righteously smash it to bits in the next scene.
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79	* ''Series/TheBigBangTheory'' opens with a rapid-fire montage showing nothing less than the entire history of the universe, the lyrics to the theme describing a hot, dense globe of matter exploding and expanding, the planets forming and congealing, humans evolving and civilization developing. (The [[SecondVerseCurse rarely heard second verse]] goes into more detail, describing prehistoric animals.) [[MundaneMadeAwesome It ends with the sitcom's five main characters sitting on a couch and staring at their TV.]]
80	* The original ''Series/{{Cosmos}}'' has the famous "Some of the Things that Molecules Do" sequence, a line animation depicting evolution from one-celled organisms to modern humanity. The second iteration uses it as well.
81	* ''Series/StarTrekEnterprise''[='s=] intro shows the history of human exploration starting with the Age of Sail and ending with the NX-01 ''Enterprise'' leaving orbit and warping out.
82	* The episode "Fragments" of ''Series/{{Torchwood}}'' has a montage of Capt. Jack's personnel file being copied into newer technology (first written with a pen, then typed on a typewriter, then copied onto progressively more advanced computers) through the entire 20th century.
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86	* Music/BillyJoel's [[WeDidntStartTheBillyJoelParodies oft-parodied]] "We Didn't Start the Fire" is this trope in song form, recounting famous (and infamous) events from Joel's birth in 1949 up until the present day of 1989. Because of the year it was released, it wound up becoming an inadvertent chronicle of most of the major events of the UsefulNotes/ColdWar. The point of the song was to argue that people have ''always'' felt like the world was on the edge of chaos, with Joel having gotten the idea after hearing a young man talk about how it was "a terrible time to be 21" while waxing nostalgic over TheFifties (a decade he didn't live through) as a time when "nothing happened", to which Joel responded by bringing up UsefulNotes/TheKoreanWar and the Suez crisis.
87	* The Hold Steady’s song "Positive Jam" runs through the entire history of the 20th century, leading up to the founding of the band.
88	* Music/TheWho:
89	** During live performances of ''Quadrophenia'', during the instrumental title track, footage is shown from World War II up to the early-mid 1960's, when the story takes place.
90	** On their 2012-13 tour performing Quadrophenia, during the song, "The Rock", a montage of events that have happened from the era the story takes place in up to the present (including the Vietnam War, Nixon's resignation, the deaths of Elvis Presley, Keith Moon and John Lennon, Margaret Thatcher becoming Prime Minister of England, Prince Charles & Princess Diana's wedding, the Berlin Wall coming down, Waco, Princess Diana's funeral, Columbine, the new millennium, 9/11, John Entwistle's death, Hurricane Katrina and the Occupy Wall Street movement) is shown.
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94	* [[AlternateMusicVideo The original video]] for "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rWZr2F0qohA Safe and Sound]]" by Capital Cities features various clips of dances and wars from the past century in chronological order to show the interplay of human nature.
95	* Music/{{Cher}}'s [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1a73yQkjb0 rendition]] of "Ain't Nobody's Business" has her dancing the song as Eve at the beginning up to the disco era at the end, all wearing Bob Mackie's designs.
96	* In a similar fashion to ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' couch gag described below, the video to "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ub747pprmJ8 Right Here, Right Now]]" by Music/FatboySlim shows the evolution of man, starting from primordial aquatic lifeforms.
97	* Music/KeriHilson's "Pretty Girl Rock" features herself as various performers including Josephine Baker, Music/DonnaSummer, and Music/JanetJackson, from the 1920s to the present day as herself.
98	* The protagonist of the video to "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V66cr41DNnM Wir Sind Wir]]" by Paul van Dyk and Peter Heppner is observing (and documenting with his camera) the [[UsefulNotes/{{Germany}} history of Germany]] from directly after UsefulNotes/WorldWarII to the fall of the UsefulNotes/BerlinWall.
99	* The music video of ''Series/DawsonsCreek'''s theme song, "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJb5RvAs4BI I Don't Wanna Wait]]" by Paula Cole depicts the singer as an immortal woman transcending through TheMiddleAges to UsefulNotes/TheRenaissance, to TheCavalierYears, RegencyEngland, TheRoaringTwenties up to ThePresentDay, with numerous lovers from different time periods, all who whom died.
100	* The video to "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWTFG3J1CP8 Complete History Of The Soviet Union, Arranged To The Melody Of Tetris]]" by Music/PigWithTheFaceOfABoy fits this trope, even though it is taking a more surreal approach in representing the different eras. (For starters, at no point in the history of the [[UsefulNotes/SovietRussiaUkraineAndSoOn Soviet Union]] did giant ''VideoGame/{{Tetris}}'' blocks fall from the sky...)
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104	* The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5KdE0p2joJw launch trailer]] for ''VideoGame/{{Civilization}} VI'' starts with a man drawing a map and contemplates with his wife that they'll set sail to new places and adapt when they get there. When she asks that, the man, in procession, lights up the Colossus, arrives in China via the Silk Road, goes to war in Winged Hussar gear, tests out the Wright Brothers' flying machine, and then, facing an aerial dogfight. The last scene ends with wife embarking on exploring space with him saying that, to paraphrase it, the sky's the limit. Most other games in the series do the same.
105	* A [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vY7CgzISBJk promotional trailer]] for ''VideoGame/MetroidDread'' features Samus walking through settings from [[VideoGame/Metroid1 the]] [[VideoGame/MetroidIIReturnOfSamus first]] [[VideoGame/SuperMetroid four]] [[VideoGame/MetroidFusion games]], complete with the appropriate graphics from each game, as the video explains the events leading up to ''Dread''. It even features a {{Retraux}} rendition of Samus's Gunship from ''VideoGame/MetroidZeroMission'', which was otherwise unrepresented in the video.
106	* ''VideoGame/StarOceanTillTheEndOfTime'' does this for its intro sequence, showing spacecraft development, with ships from previous games in the ''Star Ocean'' series after running out of historical ones.
107	* The anime cutscenes added to the [=PS1=] port for ''VideoGame/ChronoTrigger'' begin with an opening TitleMontage that shows [[SpinningClockHands a dial with hands rapidly rotating]] to indicate the party's TimeMachine traveling through the different eras chronologically from prehistory onwards. Each era is denoted by a distinctive landmark overlooked by one (or more) of the party's main characters: Prehistory--Tyranno Lair (Ayla), Middle Ages--Magus' Keep (Frog), Present--Guardia Castle (Crono and Lucca), Future--Proto Dome (Robo). The exception is Antiquity, which shows the Kingdom of Zeal, something of a spoiler for the game, but with no overlooking character. [[spoiler:Because that character, Janus/Magus, would be doubly a spoiler, both in revealing his true identity hailing from that era, and the fact he can become a bonus party member.]]
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111	* Creator/SamAndMickey's ''The Real Housewives of Toys 'R' Us'' episode #2 flashes back to each time from the '60s to the New Tens that Barbie realized that she had become pregnant, with changing fashions and decor, and increasingly clearer video quality, illustrating the different decades.
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115	* In ''Webcomic/DarwinCarmichaelIsGoingToHell'', the angels visit Darwin a few decades too early, showing up in the 1950's instead of the 2000s. One strip has a different decade in each panel, as they become hippies, go to woodstock, do lots of coke in the 80's, etc.
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119	* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hr17Dn-Ikk 100 Years of Fitness]]'', a video progression showcasing 'fitness fads' from the 1910s stretching exercises up to 2010s Zumba.
120	* WebVideo/CutVideo's ''[[https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJic7bfGlo3qlgmccaaNAXTChp_Ny8CE4 100 Years of Beauty]]'' series shows hair and make-up styles for each decade since the 1910s, from the point of view of a single country, except the United States, which is done five times (twice for White American fashion, twice for African American fashion, and once for Native American fashion).
121	* This [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7JxfgId3XTs&list=WLEAEECECAE39CD8A4 2011 video]] of the East London Style does much, where the background music and the dancers' clothes changes over 100 years in just 100 seconds.
122	* Many Website/YouTube channels, such as [[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCfGA7Tm_UlF-2jc_c1-ozg TR3X PR0DÚCTÍ0NS]], [[https://www.youtube.com/user/jot900 JontyMaster]] and [[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCs2zikw6i2vC2QJ8ZvHnEpw DellFan Productions]], compile the history of {{Vanity Plate}}s for particular companies, often arranged chronologically. These videos inevitably become Progressive Era Montages.
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126	* The ''WesternAnimation/CartoonNetworkGroovies'' short "Musical Evolution" had WesternAnimation/JosieAndThePussycats performing in several different musical eras (and costumes) starting from 60s psychedelic funk, then going into 1970s disco music, late 70s-early 80s punk (think Music/DeadKennedys), the WildWest (country music a la Music/DollyParton), mid-to-late 80s Music/{{KISS}} style rock, and a 90s-2000s techno/EDM style. Watch it [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JvQY6tLMdL0&NR=1 here]].
127	* The opening title sequence of ''WesternAnimation/{{Dilbert}}'' starts with the Big Bang, then zooms in to Earth to show the title character as a single-celled organism, a succession of sea creatures, a land reptile, a caveman, and finally a modern office worker.
128	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'':
129	** When Fry gets frozen in the cryogenic tube in [[Recap/FuturamaS1E1SpacePilot3000 the first episode]], time starts slipping by, showing New York being destroyed by aliens, forests growing and humanity reverting back to the MiddleAges and [[MedievalStasis rebuilding New York with castles]], gets destroyed by aliens ''again'', and then the futuristic New New York springs up.
130	** It happens again in "[[Recap/FuturamaS6E7TheLatePhillipJFry The Late Philip J. Fry]]" when Professor Farnsworth [[OurTimeMachineIsDifferent builds a time machine that only goes forward]]; he, Fry, and Bender witness [[NaturalEndOfTime the end/beginning of the universe]] ''[[EternalRecurrence twice]]''.
131	* ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'', featuring Love Handel gives us a little [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mk6mGEst7mM history about rock]]. Anyone of you can tell where the colours came from...
132	* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': This is done in a couple of the {{Couch Gag}}s:
133	** One has Homer starting as a unicellular organism, becomes a fish, climbs out of the ocean, evolves into a human, walks through parts of human history, and ends up at his sofa, and Marge asking "Where have you been?".
134	** Another shows the Simpsons as the casts of {{Sitcom}}s from different eras.
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