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TIL that the song from the time machine episode was a parody of "Zager And Evans - In The Year 2525" (youtube.com)

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 5 months ago (11 children)

It was also the opening theme song to an old scifi show from decades ago.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Oh Woah, one of these?

Two lines of the song are sung by the inmate Murphy in the 1992 film Alien 3 immediately prior to his death. Brief snippets are played in "The Time Is Now", the second-season finale of the TV show Millennium, which depicts an apocalyptic event. The song was rewritten and used as the introductory theme for the 2000 TV series Cleopatra 2525. In 2010, it was parodied as "In the Year 252525" in the seventh episode of Futurama's sixth season, "The Late Philip J. Fry", as Fry, Professor Farnsworth and Bender travel forwards through time to find a period in which the backwards time machine has been invented.[18] The song acts as an aesthetic theme to the film Gentlemen Broncos.[19] The BBC Radio series 2525, a sketch show set in the year 2525, featured a cover of the song with its first lyric as its introductory theme.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Cleopatra 2525 is the one I'm talking about. I always feel like that show is older than it actually is.

[–] theburninator 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

2000 was indeed decades ago

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

That it was.

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