Blues Brothers 2000
Fantasia 2000
I’m somewhat reluctant to include the many films post-1995 that used that because at that point it was closer to contemporary than futuristic.
Looking Backward: 2000–1887 published 1888
Also William Wallace Cook’s 1903 A Round Trip to the Year 2000.
I dont think that really happened. The Wizard did ask Dorothy to bring him the Wicked Witches broomstick.
Everything on YouTube is now an AI-generated lie. Trust nothing.
In 6th grade, we were writing our own (very short) books for English class. A classmate was doing a science fiction story, and he was using me as a sort of impromptu science advisor. He wanted a far-future year to set his story in, and suggested 1990. I had to point out to him that that was next year.
Then again, the Hugo and Nebula-winning Forever War had humanity exploring the Oort Cloud, discovering small black holes there, figuring out how to use those black holes to make an FTL drive, developing and implementing those drives into ships, and then using them to get ourselves into a war with aliens, all within five years after the publication of the book, so maybe my classmate didn’t do too poorly, after all.
The ultimate example of this was Cyril Kornbluth’s “The Rocket of 1955,” originally published in 1945.
This trope has a close relative in Next Sunday A.D., which is completely indistinguishable from the present, but claims to be happening in the future anyway (Yes, that should be the other way around. No, it won’t be fixed.).
The Annals of Improbable Research used to have a section where readers could submit examples of superfluous “2000s”.
It very recently occurred to me that K.C. and the Sunshine Band’s " I’m Your Boogie Man" is a play on “boogeyman”
This one is more of a “never noticed it”, but Don Henley has a song called ‘Johnny Can’t Read’. It’s not the biggest hit, but fans will know it. Anyway, at the end he references a bunch of pop references:
Sitcoms, t.&a.
Johnny’s mind is blown away
Cop shows, horror flicks
Johnny’s brain is full of bricks…
and at the end he says what sounds like “woka woka”. Could Mr. Henley be referencing the honorable Fozzie Bear?
See also the song “Robots” by Flight of the Conchords. The distant future, the year 2000…
In 2004, The Jetsons travelled back from the “far future” of The Year 2000 to ask Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law to represent them.
Not really. “20 minutes into the future” has a world that’s very similar to the present, just with a few advances to specific technologies or the like. Forever War had a date that was very close to the present, but a world that was extremely different.
I’ve seen the original Naked Gun movie probably close to 100 times (more if we count watching YouTube reactors reacting to it).
It wasn’t until this year that I noticed, in the aftermath of Drebin’s attempt to “save the queen” by tackling her, winding up with him laying on top of her on a table with her legs up in the air (in a sexually suggestive manner), there are several newspaper articles about it, and each article features them in different poses (one has a picture suggestive of missionary position, one has her on top, and one has her on her stomach, with him draped over her from behind). The mostly SFW video can be seen here.
I’ve never seen that movie, but that’s hilarious.
“And they call that news!”
The headline on Variety (the last paper) is NIX PIX SHPLIX QUEEN.
In Pinball Wizard by The Who, one of the lyrics is “I thought I was the Bally table king”. It dawned on me the other day that it uses a double meaning of “Bally” as a manufacturer of pinball machines, and “bally” as British slang (Merriam Webster says it’s euphemism for “bloody”).