History Quotes / AnachronismStew

->'''Mickey:''' What's a horse doing on a spaceship?
->'''Doctor:''' What's eighteenth-century France doing on a spaceship? Get a little perspective!

->''"Admitting that genius which has familiarized itself with all the relics of an ancient period can sometimes, by the force of its sympathetic divination, restore the missing notes in the "music of humanity," and reconstruct the fragments into a whole which will really bring the remote past nearer to us, and interpret it to our duller apprehension,–this form of imaginative power must always be among the very rarest, because it demands as much accurate and minute knowledge as creative vigour. Yet we find ladies constantly choosing to make their mental mediocrity more conspicuous, by clothing it in a masquerade of ancient names; by putting their feeble sentimentality into the mouths of Roman vestals or Egyptian princesses, and attributing their rhetorical arguments to Jewish high-priests and Greek philosophers."''

->'''Utahraptor:''' ''(narrating)'' '''HISTORY FOR YOU IS A BIG PARTY WHERE EVERYONE JUST HANGS OUT TOGETHER, ISN'T IT?'''
->'''T-Rex:''' F- [[YeOldeButcheredeEnglishe Forsooth]]

->''"A coal-powered bullet train.'' That's ''progress."''

->''"It’s 2009, and we happen to be very proud of that. ''The Dark Knight''’s just come out on Blu-Ray, La Roux’s firmly in the charts, and dinosaurs remain a problem. So get used to it, you fucking div! Now, let’s hop on our Penny Farthings and solve some crimes."''

->'''Pat:''' Hey, you wanna know what was an awesome weapon used in the sixteen-hundreds?
->'''Mat:''' What?
->'''Pat:''' SICK, GIANT ASS [[RingsOfDeath RING-BLADES!]]
->'''Mat:''' YEAH!
->'''Pat:''' Yeah, in Western Civ we learned all about the ring-blade wars.
->'''Mat:''' France versus Acapulco! In the ring-blade wars!

->'''Meredith Viera:''' Crowds lined the Mall today as the Holy Roman Emperor Winston Churchill returned to the Buckingham Senate on his personal mammoth.

->''"I only have one question. How does it know it's called a duckbill if ''ducks don't exist yet?''"''

-->'''Creator/VerityLambert:''' How gorgeous would that be: a [[Series/DoctorWho 20th Century police box]] on the surface of an alien planet!
-->-- '''Film/AnAdventureInSpaceAndTime'''

-->-- '''Sid''', IceAge: Continental Drift

->'''Prehistoric Policeman:''' This stone crime, it's rampant. You know, sometimes I think the whole advance into stone technology has been a bit of a double-edged sword.
->'''Prehistoric Policewoman:''' Double-edged what?
->'''Prehistoric Policeman:''' No idea.
-->-- ''ThatMitchellAndWebbLook''

->'''Prehistoric Policeman:''' This stone crime, it's rampant. Honestly, sometimes I think the whole advance into stone technology has been a bit of a double-edged sword.

->'''Prehistoric Policeman:''' No idea

-->-- ''DoctorWho'', "The Wedding of River Song"

-->-- ''SamuraiChamploo''

->''"Know you not, [[PrideAndPrejudice Miss Bennet]], that Mr. Darcy has been freestyle disco champion of all Derbyshire these last eleven years?"''
-->-- ''ThatMitchellAndWebbLook'', "Posh Dancing"

-->-- ''WebVideo/TwoBestFriendsPlay [[SoulSeries Soul Caliber V]]''

-->-- '''Peter Schickele''', on {{PDQ Bach}}'s ''Iphigenia in Brooklyn''

-->-- '''GeorgeEliot''', ''SillyNovelsByLadyNovelists''

->It's bloody weird having half the Tudor nobility riding around on MOTORIZED BICYCLES!
-->--'''Queen Elizabeth I''', ''Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus''

-->--''SamuraiChamploo''

->'''Mickey:''' "What's a horse doing on a spaceship?"
->'''Doctor:''' "What's eighteenth-century France doing on a spaceship? Get a little perspective!"
-->--''Series/DoctorWho'', "The Girl in the Fireplace"

->''Exactly where he got his text we do not know. Most Greek scholars that I've talked to seem unaware that Iphigenia ever was in Brooklyn.''
-->-- Peter Schickele, on {{PDQ Bach}}'s ''Iphigenia in Brooklyn''

->Admitting that genius which has familiarized itself with all the relics of an ancient period can sometimes, by the force of its sympathetic divination, restore the missing notes in the "music of humanity," and reconstruct the fragments into a whole which will really bring the remote past nearer to us, and interpret it to our duller apprehension,–this form of imaginative power must always be among the very rarest, because it demands as much accurate and minute knowledge as creative vigour. Yet we find ladies constantly choosing to make their mental mediocrity more conspicuous, by clothing it in a masquerade of ancient names; by putting their feeble sentimentality into the mouths of Roman vestals or Egyptian princesses, and attributing their rhetorical arguments to Jewish high-priests and Greek philosophers.
-->'''GeorgeEliot''', ''SillyNovelsByLadyNovelists''

->''Know you not, [[PrideAndPrejudice Miss Bennet]], that Mr. Darcy has been freestyle disco champion of all Derbyshire these last eleven years?''
-->''ThatMitchellAndWebbLook'', "Posh Dancing"

-->-''Webcomic/DinosaurComics''

->'''Ling-Ling:''' "A coal-powered bullet train. ''That's'' progress."
--> ''GuiltyParty''

->''It’s 2009, and we happen to be very proud of that. ''The Dark Knight''’s just come out on Blu-Ray, La Roux’s firmly in the charts, and dinosaurs remain a problem. So get used to it, you fucking div! Now, let’s hop on our Penny Farthings and solve some crimes.''
--> [[http://lucienyoung.wordpress.com/2011/02/23/trailer-for-new-tv-show/ Lucien Young]]

->'''Pat:''' Yeah, in western siv we learned all about the ring-blade wars.

--> WebVideo/TwoBestFriendsPlay [[SoulSeries Soul Caliber V]]

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-->--'''Queen Elizabeth I''', ''[[MontyPythonsFlyingCircus Monty Python's Flying Circus]]''

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->'''Barney:''' Hey, Fred. How can we celebrate Christmas if Jesus isn't born yet?
->'''Fred:''' Just eat your fucking cereal.
-->TheNostalgiaCritic imitating [[TheFlintstones Fred and Barney]], ''Nostalgic Commercials''

--> TwoBestFriendsPlay [[SoulSeries Soul Caliber V]]

-->-''DinosaurComics''

-->--''DoctorWho'', "The Girl in the Fireplace"

->''HISTORY FOR YOU IS A BIG PARTY WHERE EVERYONE JUST HANGS OUT TOGETHER, ISN'T IT?''
--> '''[[PalsWithJesus God]]''', ''DinosaurComics''

->''Know you not, Miss Bennet, that Mr. Darcy has been freestyle disco champion of all Derbyshire these last eleven years?''

-->''Exactly where he got his text we do not know. Most Greek scholars that I've talked to seem unaware that Iphigenia ever was in Brooklyn.''
--->-- Peter Schickele, on {{PDQ Bach}}'s ''Iphigenia in Brooklyn''

-->It's bloody weird having half the Tudor nobility riding around on MOTORIZED BICYCLES!\\
--'''Queen Elizabeth I''', ''[[MontyPythonsFlyingCircus Monty Python's Flying Circus]]''

-->''"This work of fiction is not an accurate historical portrayal... LIKE WE GIVE A F@%#! [[MST3KMantra Now shut up and enjoy the show!]]"''\\
--''SamuraiChamploo''

-->'''Mickey:''' "What's a horse doing on a spaceship?"
-->'''Doctor:''' "What's eighteenth-century France doing on a spaceship? Get a little perspective!"\\
--''DoctorWho'', "The Girl in the Fireplace"