History Main / ElderlyFutureFantasy

* ''Series/{{Cheers}}'': In "[[Recap/CheersS5E26 I Do, Adieu]]", Creator/ShelleyLong's last episode. As Diane is caught on the horns of a CareerVersusMan dilemma on the eve of her wedding to Sam, Sam has an extended fantasy of them as an elderly married couple. (They're HappilyMarried and he's too decrepit to move.). After Sam decides the CareerVersusMan dilemma for Diane by insisting she chase her dreams of a writing career, the episode ends with a second fantasy sequence in which an elderly Sam and Diane are dancing together in their home.

* ''ComicStrip/OffTheMark'': [[https://www.offthemark.com/cartoon/leisure-hobbies/food-drink/1997-12-01 This strip,]] based on ''Literature/GreenEggsAndHam'', features an elderly version of Sam-I-Am offering the equally-elderly nameless Tall Guy[[note]]named "Guy-Am-I" in [[WesternAnimation/GreenEggsAndHam2019 the 2019 Netflix series]][[/note]] Green Prunes and Bran, only for him to turn them down.

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheBossBaby'', the Boss Baby warns Tim that if he doesn't help him with his mission, he will turn into a ''real'' baby and live him with him forever as his brother. He tells him that every Christmas, every birthday party, he will be there. This culminates with him telling them that they will grow old together and a vision of the two of them going gray with wrinkly faces, then facing each other down on scooters on a barren plain, Tim thrusting his walker at the Boss Baby and the Boss Baby thrusting a cane back, before colliding in a mushroom cloud.

* ''WesternAnimation/HeyArnold'': After he and Gerald get into a fight in the episode "Part Time Friends", Arnold has a dream where they run into each other on the bus as old men and get onto ''another'' fight about what caused the fight that ended their friendship in the first place.

* Marinette and Adrien, the two protagonists of ''WesternAnimation/MiraculousLadybug'', are victim to a [[TwoPersonLoveTriangle Two Person Love Square]]. Their {{Muggle}} friends are LockedOutOfTheLoop, however. To them it seems they are with each other and just can’t seem to get together. So, at one point they imagine what the lives of the protagonists will be like at old age, long after having settled down. It includes having had at least three children, a dog, and a hamster whose name is arguably the biggest {{Unreveal}} in the entire show.

** In "Mr. Always Right", Buster is infuriated by the Brain being right all the time and imagines himself and the Brain as old men at a retirement home. In his fantasy, the Brain incorrectly guesses it would rain that day, and Buster smugly rubs it in his face that he was finally wrong, only for it to immediately start raining. Buster then wonders if it's possible the Brain will never make a mistake for as long as he lives.

** In "[[Recap/ArthurS3E8PopularGirlsBustersGrowingGrudge Buster's Growing Grudge]]", Buster gets mad at Binky for stealing a joke he planned to open his history report with, and Arthur worries that he'll never let it go. He then imagines Buster still holding his grudge on his first day of college, as President of the United States, and as an old man.
** In "Buster Makes the Grade," Buster is at risk of having to repeat third grade unless he passes an upcoming test. He first imagines himself as a middle-aged man still in Mr. Ratburn's class, with the now-elderly teacher lamenting that "there's always next year." Later, when his friends' attempts to help him study fail, Buster has another fantasy about himself as an elderly man going to see Arthur, who's become the principal of the school (and remains middle-aged instead of old, despite them being the same age). Principal Arthur tells Buster that they're going to permanently demote him to ''preschool'', which scares him enough to take his classwork seriously and pass the exam.
* ''WesternAnimation/BigCityGreens'': In “Fast Foodie”, after gaining a lot of weight from a steady diet of fast food, Cricket gets stuck in Burger Clown’s kiddie slide, and pictures himself spending the rest of his life there, ending up as an old man (with a long white beard on his ''butt'', somehow).

** [[https://www.gocomics.com/garfield/1995/06/18 This stro[]] has Garfield and Odie as older versions of themselves. Odie sneezes, making him lose his teeth. Garfield laughs at him, only for his own teeth to fall out as well. Both put each other's teeth in their mouths and spit them out after realizing they both have the wrong choppers. It's then shown that it was a dream Garfield is having. He then checks Odie's teeth, much to his relief that it was just a dream.

** [[https://www.gocomics.com/garfield/1995/06/18 Another]] has Garfield and Odie as older versions of themselves. Odie sneezes, making him lose his teeth. Garfield laughs at him, only for his own teeth to fall out as well. Both put each other's teeth in their mouths and spit them out after realizing they both have the wrong choppers. It's then shown that it was a dream Garfield is having. He then checks Odie's teeth, much to his relief that it was just a dream. Currently serves as the page image.

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** [[https://www.gocomics.com/garfield/1995/06/18 Another]] has Garfield and Odie as older versions of themselves. Odie sneezes, making him lose his teeth. Garfield laughs at him, only for his own teeth to fall out as well. Both put each other's teeth in their mouths and spit them out after realizing they both have the wrong choppers. It's then shown that it was a dream Garfield is having. He then checks Odie's teeth, much to his relief that it was just a dream.

* The ''WesternAnimation/TazMania'' episode, "Bushlad's Lament" is set 62 years in the future, where a now 75-year-old Francis X. Bushlad, still having not completed his manhood ritual, has to capture an equally-elderly Taz in order to take his father's place as the Chief of the Mudpeople. When he finally succeeds, the episode's events are revealed to be AllJustADream of the present-day Francis, who berates the writers for this ending and points out the unfired ChekhovsGun of the 16-ton weight that had been dangling over the characters' heads for most of the episode. The writers retaliate by [[AnvilOnHead dropping it on him repeatedly]].

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheBossBaby'', the Boss Baby warns Tim that if he doesn't if he doesn't help him with his mission, he will turn into a ''real'' baby and live him with him forever as his brother. He tells him that every Christmas, every birthday party, he will be there. This culminates with him telling them that they will grow old together and a vision of the two of them going gray with wrinkly faces, then facing each other down on scooters on a barren plain, Tim thrusting his walker at the Boss Baby and the Boss Baby thrusting a cane back, before colliding in a mushroom cloud.

Characters may have some kind of conflict in one way or another. It could be any kind of bad habit or worse. Whatever the case, more than likely it will be a sustained conflict with both parties at each other's throats, with neither willing to back down from having their way. Meanwhile, one character falls asleep and dreams (or just simply have a fantasy) about the future, where decades have passed and the characters are now elderly. They may be older (and not necessarily wiser), but one thing hasn't changed: the problems from a long time ago still haven't been resolved.

** [[https://www.gocomics.com/garfield/1995/06/18 Another]] has Garfield and Odie as older versions of themselves. Odie sneezes, making him lose his teeth. Garfield laughs at him, only for Garfield to lose his teeth. Both put each other's teeth in their mouths and spit them out after realizing they both have the wrong teeth. It's then shown that it was a dream Garfield is having. He then checks Odie's teeth, much to his relief that it was just a dream.

* ''WesternAnimation/BigCityGreens'': In “Fast Foodie”, after gaining a lot of weight from a steady diet of fast food, Cricket gets stuck in Burger Clown’s kiddie slide, and pictures himself spending the rest of his life there, ending up as an old man (with a long white beard on his ''butt'', somehow)