Time Tubs

Tag Area: Time Machine
Novel

TimeRiders 1

TimeRiders

Three new recruits to the Timeriders agency are the only defense against a time-travelling mastermind and an apocalyptic future. —Gareth Gordon
The agency was set up to be ready for what they knew was coming: future time travellers, those who'd want to change the past and rewrite the present—terrorists, religious fanatics, megalomaniacs, the criminally insane.
Three blurry people appear in a bright light with a cityscape and a UFO behind them.
  • Science Fiction
  • Audience: Young Adults
  • Definite Time Travel
Feature Film

Hot Tub Time Machine

Three middle-aged losers (along with a nephew) head back to their teenaged bodies at a ski resort twentysome years earlier. —Michael Main
Yes, exactly. You step on a bug and the fucking Internet is never invented.
An equation! Old mug shots of the four cast members plus alcohol plus squirrel equals young mug shots and a hot tub.
  • Science Fiction
  • Comedy
  • Definite Time Travel
Novel

Timeriders 2

Day of the Predator

A time-travel accident strands a Timeriders agent, a group of kids, and a disguised assassin in the Cretaceous era. —Gareth Gordon
Around the patches of jungle, herds of huge beasts Liam couldn't begin to name grazed lazily in the late-afternoon sun.  Between the slowly meandering groups of giants, smaller packs of fleet-footed beasts flocked and weaved in an endless zizzagging race.
'My God,' whispered Kelly. 'This is really . . . just . . . incredible.'
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  • Science Fiction
  • Audience: Young Adults
  • Definite Time Travel
Cartoon

SpongeBob SquarePants Mini 67

Time Machine

  • [writer and director unknown]
  • (SpongeBob SquarePants Mini 67, Nickelodean (USA, 14 June 2011)
In the first of three time travel mini-episodes—each around one minute long—SpongeBob and Patrick put their hot tub time machine through the works, hoping to find Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy in their prime. —Michael Main
Will they get it right? Will SpongeBob and Patrick get to see their superheroes in their super-prime?
Cartoon character Sponge-Bob and his starfish pal Patrick sit in a time travel tub on the sea floor.
  • Superhero
  • Comedy
  • Definite Time Travel
Feature Film

In the Shadow of the Moon

Nine years after a gruesome mass murder, the case is reopened in the face of a copycat. As you might expect, Detective Thomas Lockhart poo-poos the notion that time travel is the only explanation for the set of present-day keys that were in the sealed evidence box of the nine-year-old case. —Michael Main
Last year? How in the hell did she have these keys in 1988?
An image of Boyd Holbrook (as Locke) blends into a nighttime scene of modern Cleopatra Coleman (as Rya) walking down an old-time city street.
  • Science Fiction
  • Mystery and Crime
  • Definite Time Travel