Line #16 Quotes/Zeerust


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4	->''[[ComicBook/Marvel2099 2099]]. Strange era. At once the future but somehow...'' dated.
5	-->-- '''ComicBook/KangTheConqueror''', ''ComicBook/DoctorDoom''
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7	->'''Rose''': Why does he look so disco?\
8	'''Doctor''': Oi! Listen, in the year 5000, ''this'' was cutting edge!
9	-->--On K-9, ''Series/DoctorWho'' ([[Recap/DoctorWhoS28E3SchoolReunion "School Reunion"]])
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11	->''We are living in the future. I'll tell you how I know''\
12	''I read it in the paper fifteen years ago''\
13	''We're all driving in rocket ships and talking with our minds''\
14	''Wearing turquoise jewelry and standing in soup lines''
15	-->-- '''John Prine''', "Living In the Future"
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17	->''Everything'' is chrome in the future!
18	-->-- '''Spongetron''', ''WesternAnimation/SpongebobSquarepants'' episode SB-129
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20	->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.
21	-->-- '''Creator/GKChesterton''', ''Literature/TheNapoleonOfNottingHill''
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23	->Any Resemblance To Actual Future Is Purely Coincidental
24	-->-- ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' [[CouchGag title caption]], "Forty Percent Leadbelly"
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26	->You will BE AMAZED by the INCREDIBLE FUTURE OF 2009 with its {{jetpack}}s, {{flying car}}s, [[DomedCity domed cities]], alien monsters and [[MasterComputer vast electronic superbrains]]! Where [[RetroRocket rocketships]] TRAVEL TO THE STARS and [[SexBot alluring robot girls]] cater to [[FanService YOUR EVERY DESIRE!]] You will GASP AT INCONCEIVABLE MARVELS like [[CommLinks mobile telephones]], [[FuturisticSuperhighway interstate highways]], [[OurDoorsAreDifferent automatic sliding doors]], [[SpaceStation artificial satellites]], and {{weapons of mass destruction}}!
27	-->-- Blurb for ''Fanfic/Plan7Of9FromOuterSpace''
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29	->'''Captain Janeway''' (discussing the Captain Proton holodeck adventures): This is how you've been spending your free time?\
30	'''Tom Paris''': Well, I've been studying how past generations viewed the future.\
31	'''Captain Janeway''': And?\
32	'''Tom Paris''': Well, it didn't work out quite as black and white as they imagined.
33	-->-- ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'': "Bride of Chaotica!"
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35	->"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 Film/SoylentGreen. 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!"
36	-->-- ''[[Film/TheAdventuresOfCaptainProton Captain Proton]] and the Planet of Lesbians''
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38	->Elements of the past and the future, combining to make something not quite as good as either.
39	-->-- ''Series/{{The Mighty Boosh}}'', "Eels"
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41	->It is the distant future: the year 2000. We are robots. The world is very different ever since the robotic uprising of the late '90s.
42	-->-- '''Music/FlightOfTheConchords''', "Robots"
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44	->This outfit represents what the future used to look like.
45	-->-- The description of [[https://www.mariowiki.com/File:Satellaview_ad.jpg the]] Platform/{{Satellaview}} [[https://www.mariowiki.com/Crazy_Cap#/media/File:SMO_Satellaview_Suit.png Suit]] in ''VideoGame/SuperMarioOdyssey''
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47	->'''[[FishOutOfWater Hunter]]:''' According to ''[[WhereNoParodyHasGoneBefore Cosmic Frontier]]'', this is what the modern human man wears!\
48	'''Vee:''' ''(checks the back of the book)'' This was written in the 90's about the year 2008...\
49	'''Hunter:''' Yeah! Can't wait for ''that'' new year's party.
50	-->-- ''WesternAnimation/TheOwlHouse'', "Thanks to Them"
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52	->''"Forget about your Chrysler! In the future, everyone will have their own helicopter! Even the poor!"''
53	-->-- [[https://youtube.com/shorts/dBS0EMX920w?feature=shared "What People in the 50's Thought The Future Would Be Like"]] by '''[[https://www.youtube.com/@kylegordonisgreat8611 Kyle Gordon]]'''
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56	[[folder:Real Life]]
57	->''”The future looks and sounds so much like the 80's.”''
58	-->--[=YouTube=] comment on [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwpjISq1VAc this video]], from ''Film/TheRunningMan''.
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60	->'''Creator/PeterDavison''': Look at this! I've invented the [=iPod=]! ''How many years before its time!'' C'mon, that looks like an [=iPod=], does it not?\
61	'''Creator/JanetFielding''': It looks like a Walkman. Sorry.\
62	'''Davison''': I think there might be a lawsuit pending.\
63	'''Fielding''': (I know where they [[AssShove should've put that sonic screwdriver]], I tell you now.)
64	-->--''Series/DoctorWho'', [[{{Recap/DoctorWhoS20E2Snakedance}} "Snakedance"]] audio commentary
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66	->His machines looked like the machines of his time, not the machines of our time. I have no doubt my machines will cause the same hilarity five hundred years from now.
67	-->--'''Creator/FrankHerbert''' in a radio interview, speaking of Creator/JulesVerne
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69	->Futurology is advertising pretending to be thought.
70	-->--'''Dale Carrico''', ''Amor Mundi''.
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72	->The future ain't what it used to be.
73	-->-- '''Yogi Berra''', '''Music/MeatLoaf''', and others
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75	->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.
76	-->-- '''Creator/NeilGaiman'''
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78	->Comic books and space films share the concept that the future will look like [[GermanicDepressives the Bauhaus gone berserk]], all straight lines and no color.
79	-->-- '''[[Creator/MissManners Judith Martin]], [[http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A26699-2004Oct12.html reviewing]] ''Film/SupermanTheMovie'''''
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81	->'''Cpt. Webb:''' Log entry: March 16th, 1980...\
82	'''Crow:''' Oh, our old future.
83	-->-- ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'', "The Phantom Planet"
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85	->We live in the most technologically-advanced, prosperous point of human existence thus far. To give you an idea of just how far we've come from previous peak of human potential--which we all know is [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1FjDPMife_Y "I Begin to Wonder"]] by Danni Minogue--it's that a 2003 video that at the time was praised for his futuristic vibe looks like an ad for the Lighting Effects Expo of 1989.
86	-->--'''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ylPh6M2LCWY Friendlyjordies]]'''
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88	->'''Mike:''' Diahann Carroll sings something.\
89	'''Jay:''' And the, um, elderly Wookie is getting off to it.\
90	'''Mike:''' In the Virtual Reality Helmet, which is basically a 1960's hair dryer.\
91	'''Rich:''' With a blast shield.\
92	'''Mike:''' [[Film/ANewHope "With the blast shield down, I can't see anything."]]\
93	'''Rich:''' "How am I supposed to jerk off?"
94	-->-- ''WebVideo/BestOfTheWorst'' on ''Film/TheStarWarsHolidaySpecial''
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96	->It even has rabbit ear antennae coming out of it. I hope SPECTRE is prepared for 2009, when [[SharkPool sharks]] transition to digital.
97	-->--'''''Website/TheAgonyBooth''''' on ''Film/NeverSayNeverAgain''
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99	->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 ''space'' cymbals? Is it to remind us that we're in '''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?!'''''
100	-->--'''[[WebVideo/RedLetterMedia Harry S. Plinkett]]''' reviews ''Film/StarTrekNemesis''
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102	->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?\
103	Oh, ''of course!'' It's the year '''2010'''!
104	-->-- '''WebVideo/TheAngryVideoGameNerd''', ''VideoGame/StreetFighter2010'' review
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106	->Nothing says 'yesterday' like something that said 'tomorrow!'
107	-->-- '''James Lileks''', [[http://lileks.com/institute/interiors/BHG/chpt2/9.html Interior Desecrators]]
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109	->That's me; both hands on the keyboard, one foot in [[TheForties the Swing Age]]. If I could afford it, I'd drive a car with tail fins.
110	-->-- '''Ben "Gryphon" Hutchins''', ''[[http://www.eyrie-productions.com/GW/ Gods Willing II: We'll Always Have Boston]]''
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