Line #7 PlayingWith/WhatYearIsThis


1	'''Basic Trope''': [[Laconic/WhatYearIsThis A time-traveler asks a passerby what year it is after traveling.]]
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3	* '''Straight''': Alice and Bob are sent back in time and ask a local, Robert, what year it is.
4	* '''Exaggerated''': Alice and Bob travel somewhen, ask a passerby what year it, leave, and do it again until they're in the year they're aiming for.
5	* '''Logical Extreme''': Alice demands Robert tell her the current month, day, and year in the Gregorian calendar system; the time in both Coordinated Universal Time and the local time zone down to the second; and the position of the moon, as of the exact point when she is done talking.
6	* '''Downplayed'''
7	** Alice asks for the date or weekday, and maybe even the month, knowing or assuming they can't be too far in the past and that that question draws less suspicion.
8	** Alice goads Robert into a conversation until he discloses information on current events that indicate what time they've traveled to.
9	* '''Justified'''
10	** TimePolice Officers Alice and Bob have to follow protocols to make sure that they are in the right time period.
11	** Along with knowing the year, Alice also has to confirm that people still speak English in the future so they can communicate.
12	** Alice is a {{Robot}} and needs to recalibrate her internal clock after the time shift.
13	* '''Subverted'''
14	** Robert gives them same date they left; so it turns out Alice built a [[{{Teleportation}} Teleporter]] instead of a TimeMachine and they're just two states over.
15	** After catching Robert's attention, Bob compliments him and asks where he got his hat.
16	* '''Double Subverted'''
17	** The teleporter took Alice and Bob to AnotherDimension where the Gregorian calendar was never invented and they're actually a few centuries off from when they think they are.
18	** Bob deduces what year they are in because the store Robert names is closed in the future.
19	* '''Inverted''': Robert has seen a lot of time travelers in his time and asks Alice and Bob what year they've come from.
20	* '''Parodied'''
21	** Alice and Bob appear to have gone back to DarkAgeEurope, but "Sir Robert" reveals its a RenaissanceFair twenty years in the future.
22	** Alyx and Beep traveled back to the same year from a more distant future and ask Alice and Bob what year it is.
23	** Alice and Bob traveled back to TheBigRottenApple and Robert is a {{Jerkass}} who just tells them to piss off.
24	* '''Averted'''
25	** Alice's mom gives {{Exposition}} of what her plans were that day before Alice can ask where or when she is.
26	** Alice and Bob don't come across anyone in the time they travel to.
27	* '''Defied''':
28	** Alice and Bob knew what time they were going to before they got there.
29	** Alice has a universal clock that tells her when she has gone to and doesn't bother to ask Robert.
30	* '''Zig-Zagged''': ???
31	* '''Enforced''': Alice and Bob are characters in a historical EdutainmentShow and [[ViewersAreMorons need to make sure the kids know what time period they're learning about]].
32	* '''Lampshaded'''
33	** Robert tells Alice and Bob what year it is but comments on how odd their question is.
34	** Bob explains to Alice that time travelers ask the locals what year they're in all the time.
35	* '''Discussed''': "Bob, we can't just ask them what year it is. Who does that? We can't draw suspicion on us."
36	* '''Conversed''': "You built a clock into that thing, right Alice? Because I don't want to go around asking old-timey strangers what day it is."
37	* '''Invoked''': Alice didn't tell Bob what year they're going to just so she can do a StockPhrase.
38	--> '''Bob:''' You still haven't told me; where did we go to?
39	--> '''Alice:''' You mean "''When'' did we go to?"
40	--> '''Bob:''' ''({{beat}})'' You didn't not tell me just so you could do that one bit, did you?
41	* '''Exploited'''
42	** Alice and Bob travel to a time period where time-travel is [[CasualTimeTravel publicly available]] and this would be a reasonable question.
43	** Robert is an undercover TimePolice officer and arrests Alice and Bob in a sting.
44	* '''Played for Laughs''': Alice's faulty time machine gave Bob a little HarmlessElectrocution and he asks her what year he's in when he regains consciousness five minutes later.
45	* '''Played for Drama'''
46	** Robert's answer confirms that the time machine brought Alice back to [[TimeTravelEscape the day her father died]].
47	** Bob asks Robert for the year, only to recognize Robert as [[OneDegreeOfSeparation his estranged grandfather]] [[DisappearedDad who left his mother as a child]].
48	** The villain pushes Alice through a time machine while trying to [[SavingTheWorld Save the World]], and future Bob's innocent response confirms to her that there are hours left until TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt
49	* '''Played for Horror''': Alice and Bob ask Robert what year it is, but Robert...
50	** ...[[ItsQuietTooQuiet doesn't talk back]] and [[CheshireCatGrin just smiles]].
51	** ...[[DeadGuyOnDisplay isn't alive]].
52	** ...[[SkinWalker isn't human]].
53	* '''Implied''': ???
54	* '''Unparodied''': Alice and Bob have already gotten the year from Robert and relay it to Alyx and Beep when they ask them.
55	* '''Untwisted''': ???
56	* '''Deconstructed''': Robert gets confused on how anyone could not know what the year is and walks away uncomfortable.
57	* '''Reconstructed''': It was New Year's Day, so Robert gives Alice and Bob the benefit of the doubt that they lost track of time and tells them the new year.

Context PlayingWith / WhatYearIsThis