"I know you said the story was over for you, but that's the thing about stories. They never really end, do they? We're still telling the same stories we’ve always told, just with different names, different faces. And I have to say I’m kind of excited. After all these years, to be going back to where it all started. Back to 'The Matrix'."
— Smith, The Matrix Resurrections
"Repeat it, rеinstate it
Reheat it, rеcreate it
There's no need to feel frustrated
Simply just regurgitate it
For a guaranteed ratings smash
Dig it up out of the trash
Come on
Just reboot it!"
Reheat it, rеcreate it
There's no need to feel frustrated
Simply just regurgitate it
For a guaranteed ratings smash
Dig it up out of the trash
Come on
Just reboot it!"
— The Warners, Animaniacs (2020)
"I don't know why they bother trying to remake these classics, they are never as good as the originals."
— Hunter, Home Sweet Home Alone
"We're reviving a cancelled undercover police program from the '80s and revamping it for modern times. See, the guys in charge of this stuff lack creativity and are completely out of ideas. So all they do now is recycle shit from the past and hope that nobody notices."
— Dep. Chief Hardy, 21 Jump Street
"Nothing on this whiteboard makes any sense to you. In fact, it mostly just looks like ramblings of someone very close to running out of movie ideas. There are no less than seven instances of the word 'reboot'."
Hulu Executive: I like this idea, but are people still doing reboots?
Junior Executives: Let's see, Fuller House, Saved by the Bell, iCarly, Gilmore Girls, Gossip Girl. Party of Five, Party Down, One Day at a Time. Boy Meets World, How I Met Your Father, The Wonder Years. Battlestar Galactica. Doogie Howser, The Odd Couple. Perry Mason, Hawaii Five-O, Veronica Mars, Fresh Prince. Fraggle Rock.
Hulu Executive: Fraggle Rock. Makes me feel a little bit safer. What the hell, let's remake something original.
Junior Executives: Let's see, Fuller House, Saved by the Bell, iCarly, Gilmore Girls, Gossip Girl. Party of Five, Party Down, One Day at a Time. Boy Meets World, How I Met Your Father, The Wonder Years. Battlestar Galactica. Doogie Howser, The Odd Couple. Perry Mason, Hawaii Five-O, Veronica Mars, Fresh Prince. Fraggle Rock.
Hulu Executive: Fraggle Rock. Makes me feel a little bit safer. What the hell, let's remake something original.
Leela: Remember that show, All My Circuits?
Execu-bot: The one that got cancelled?
Leela:: New episodes of that! ...That's our pitch.
Execu-bot: The one that got cancelled?
Leela:: New episodes of that! ...That's our pitch.
"Wow! Another Mermaid Man reboot. It's how I always re-imagined the reboot would be remade!"
— SpongeBob SquarePants, "SpongeBob LongPants"
