Authors Nick Hurwitch and Phil Hornshaw dive through the wormhole of your favorite time travel movies, TV shows and stories to attempt to make sense of timelines, time machines and paradoxes.
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Episode 18: FAQ About Time Travel
Finally, we’ve come to the smoking hot British-comedy-about-a-time-travel-bathroom of time travel, “FAQ About Time Travel.”
By popular demand, we’re diving into the 2009 comedy that mixes a bit of a “Shawn of the Dead” vibe with some time travel tropes, some “Back to the Future” gags, and some generally nerdy discussions of why Hollywood puts out a bunch of crap sequels instead of great sci-fi movies, because jeez.
All the knowledge of every sci-fi movie ever can’t save “FAQ” from getting lost in its time travel ideas, however. Still pretty funny, though!
(It’ll make sense when you listen.)
Listen to Episode 18 here:
In this episode:
* Hey, our (other) book is on sale.
* “Timeless,” it’s not bad
* Oh the Huge Manatee!
* “FAQ About Time Travel,” although it doesn’t really answer any
* Nerding Out at the Bar
* Time Leak. That’s a joke about pee, isn’t it.
* Avoiding yourself because paradoxes
* Getting lost in time
* That One Really Good Idea
* Getting “Edited”
* There are, uh, a lot of timelines here
* The future is an antecedent to the past but also that doesn’t really work
* Wants to Be a Loop Story But Isn’t One
* It gets a 5/7
* Next time: “Deja Vu“!
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