just…wow…
Somehow, I Imagined Napoleon Dynamite narrating that. 
You can always call on Yog-Sothoth. But beware the Hounds of Tindalos!
Here’s what Dragon Ball Z has to say on the matter:
Wait for your genius mother to build a time machine after the hero of the world dies of a heart attack and the last inventions of a manman bent on revenge go out of control and start killing random people, including the father you never knew and your mentor.
If I can ever figure out the very convoluted cycle of time travel in Chrono Cross, I’ll post that, too.
The Ancient One (T. A. Barron): Take a staff containing a shard of the Broken Touchstone into the presence of a very old living thing (a giant redwood will do nicely), and lose consciousness.
Castle Roogna (Piers Anthony): Use a magic potion on an animated tapestry showing the history of the kingdom to enter the tapestry and displace one of the characters into a flea.
Bearing an Hourglass (Piers Anthony: At the moment in time when the next (previous) Incarnation of Time is being born/conceived, take up the glowing Hourglass he leaves behind/ahead. Then change the sand to an appropriate color.
“The Red Queen’s Race” (Isaac Asimov): Instantly fission the entire contents of a nuclear power plant, and redirect the energy into sending a few kilograms of textbooks back to ancient Greece.
“Elsewhen” (Robert A. Heinlein): Listen to a special psychedelic hypnotic record, and, um, well, the details get murky from there.
“By His Own Bootstraps” (Robert A. Heinlein): Open a portal to your own time to bring yourself into the future where you can open the portal to bring yourself.
The Door into Summer (Robert A. Heinlein): Use a modified gravity-shield device to send both yourself and an equal weight of ballast randomly in opposite directions. Be sure to dress appropriately for your destination.
“Houston, Houston, Do You Read” (James Tiptree Jr.): On a close flyby of the Sun, pass close to an accumulation of microscopic black holes during a period of strong solar magnetic activity. Get rescued by a shipfull of young women who’ve never seen a man in their lives.
And don’t try to go to the bathroom in hyperspace.
Realize that the upstart, cottage industry you’ve started with your 3 buddies just isn’t rewarding enough to keep your interest. Move onto something a little more experimental in your garage, in hopes of creating a device that you can figure out an application for later. Push up those sleeves, and be resourceful, efficient, and dedicated. After a month or two, you’ll have a machine that utilizes room-temperature superconducters and copper tubing from your refrigerator that somehow allows ordinary objects to defy gravity by a considerable amount. For precise measurements and an efficient fungus collector, use a Weeble-Wobble™.
Now, Build a bigger one. In a storage facility.
Jump in, wait a bit, and jump out at point B.
After enjoying a relaxing afternoon, several hours in the future, return to the machine, wait a bit, and jump out at point A. Congratulations, you’re back home.
It might be tempting to hit the public library and use their computers to gain knowledge of the stock market, so proceed with caution.
Don’t be surprised if a future version of yourself drugs you and stuffs your body in the attic for a while either. Just stay put, he knows what he’s doing. Who can you trust, if not yourself? Right? RIGHT?
This is one of my favorite time travel stories along the entirety my personal timeline.
You could go visit the Guardian of Forever (but be careful not to accidentally change the past and erase the Enterprise), or accidentally do something around a ‘black sun’.
Or just spout a bunch of technobabble, including the words ‘chronotron’ and ‘flux’ and ‘quantum’ and push a button on the bridge. :rolleyes:
At any rate, however you do time travel (starship, jumping on top of a couch caught in an eddy in the space-time continuum, whatever), don’t forget to stop at the very end of the universe. There’s a good restaurant there, I hear.
Bart and Milhouse stopped time (for others, but not themselves) with a watch they
ordered from an ad in a comic book.
Dial up the coordinates for home on the Stargate when a sun between you and home is going nova.
This was probably inspired by The Girl, the Gold Watch, and Everything by John D. MacDonald (of Travis McGee fame). At any rate, the “gold watch” of the title was such a device. I seem to recall also that Spider Robinson also used such a device in one of his Callahan books, and duly credited MacDonald.
There’s an entire document discussing that. There’s no way you could summerize it here, even if you understood it.
No, you have to play a couple hours of TiVO’d history Channel on the era you’re interested in, and then jump into an electfied pool of water just as playback begins. The pool might have to be hooked to the TV.
Well, that or get two geeks to attach a time machine to a wheelchair and send some poor retarded kid into the past.
If you are a good student and promise not to use it for evil, you can get authorization for the Time Turner from Professor McConigal.
A Wrinkle in Time
Something to do with a Tesseract…
Kate and Leopold
Jump off of a bridge…
Hey, Chronos, I remember Houston, Houston, do you read?…neat short story - and oddly erotic at points, too…I thought I was the only person that had ever read that…
Actually, I think all you need is to step through the gate at the exact moment of a solar flare. For example, see this episode.
I don’t remember an episode which used the supernova method.
Have a little daemon you’ve summoned go into the future and bring you back a newspaper. Sell it to an acquaintance.
Get into the totally insulating suit that the guy at the Weapons Shop gives you. Don’t expect to enjoy the trip.
Be in the Castle Timeless when it breaks free and starts to slide around in time. Watch the corners.
(Re: Tiptree) Be John Delgado. Walk home.
Best. Story. Ever.
(Re: Time Cube) [singsong]Someone has been skimping on their medication.[/singsong]
I misremembered that ep, having only seen it once. Thanks.
And to think the Velvet Tiger wasted her talents stealing high-value items in transit. :rolleyes:
That might be the same watch used by Robert Bloch in That Hellbound Train.