Time Machine

by Simon Rich

Just one of many fun gags in Simon Rich’s second collection, Free-Range Chickens.

As soon as my time machine was finished, I traveled back to 1890, so I could kill Hitler. . .

“Time Machine” by Simon Rich, in Free-Range Chickens (vandom House Trade Paperbacks, May 2009).

Inside Out

by Pete Docter, Meg LeFauve, and Josh Cooley, directed by Pete Docter and Ronnie Del Carmen

Admittedly, the time travel in Inside Out is just one throwaway Bing Bong joke, but in my opinion it cements the central role of the time travel meme within the popular culture of my lifetime.

— Michael Main

Once, we flew back in time . . .

Inside Out by Pete Docter, Meg LeFauve, and Josh Cooley, directed by Pete Docter and Ronnie Del Carmen (Cannes Film Festival, 18 May 2015).

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