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* WholePlotReference: This episode's plot is a sci-fi version of ''Literature/RipVanWinkle''.
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* WholePlotReference: This episode's plot is a sci-fi version of ''Literature/RipVanWinkle''.''Literature/RipVanWinkle''.
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* DelayedReaction: When Trevor first appears after his first vanishing in 1960, his wife is upset about him leaving but agrees to take him back. When he returns in 1970, he's rocked to find her now married to another man and her snapping she had to move on with him leaving her. It's only after her tirade that it hits Theresa that Trevor looks ''exactly'' the way he did back in 1949 and his own shock seeing his reflection convinces her something unusual is happening.
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* SlowToTheRealization: When Trevor first appears after his first vanishing in 1960, his wife is upset about him leaving but agrees to take him back. When he returns in 1970, he's rocked to find her now married to another man and her snapping she had to move on with him leaving her. It's only after her tirade that it hits Theresa that Trevor looks ''exactly'' the way he did back in 1949 and his own shock seeing his reflection convinces her something unusual is happening.
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* SlowToTheRealization: When Trevor first appears after his first vanishing in 1960, his wife is upset about him leaving but agrees to take him back. When he returns in 1970, he's rocked to find her now married to another man and her snapping she had to move on with him leaving her. It's only after her tirade that it hits Theresa that Trevor looks ''exactly'' the way he did back in 1949 and his own shock seeing his reflection convinces her something unusual is happening.
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-->'''The Control Voice:''' Our lives follow a long and winding path through time. But what happens if we're forced off the course of our own destiny?
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-->'''The Control Voice:''' Life is, at best, an uncertain path. Perhaps, we should be grateful with what we have, for even these riches may disappear along the way.
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* PopularHistory:
** Very much in evidence here, though it begins in a fairly low-key way. The music is pretty much NothingButHits. On New Year's Eve 1949, Trevor [=McPhee=] turns off the radio while it is playing swing music. When he travels forward in time to New Year's Day 1960, he looks at 1959 issues of ''Magazine/TimeMagazine'' and ''Life'' featuring Vice President UsefulNotes/RichardNixon, UsefulNotes/FidelCastro and International Brotherhood of Teamsters leader Jimmy Hoffa on the cover. At the Tiki Isle Bar and Grill, the Patsy Cline song "Leaving' On Your Mind" is playing on the radio. On New Year's Day 1970, Trevor finds that his now ex-wife Theresa and her new husband Ray are 40-ish hippies and runs into his former physician Dr. Golden at a protest against UsefulNotes/TheVietnamWar outside a Marine recruitment office. When he goes to the Tiki Isle to drown his sorrows, the Music/JeffersonAirplane song "White Rabbit" is on the radio. On New Year's Day 1980, Trevor arrives in the middle of a disco at the Tiki Isle where the Van [=McCoy=] song "Do the Hustle" is being played. The disco patrons wear jumpsuits, strapless gowns, leisure suits, bell bottoms and gold medallions and chains. Trevor's final jump to January 1990 averts this trope, considering that it was only six years before the episode was made.
** Very much in evidence here, though it begins in a fairly low-key way. The music is pretty much NothingButHits. On New Year's Eve 1949, Trevor [=McPhee=] turns off the radio while it is playing swing music. When he travels forward in time to New Year's Day 1960, he looks at 1959 issues of ''Magazine/TimeMagazine'' and ''Life'' featuring Vice President UsefulNotes/RichardNixon, UsefulNotes/FidelCastro and International Brotherhood of Teamsters leader Jimmy Hoffa on the cover. At the Tiki Isle Bar and Grill, the Patsy Cline song "Leaving' On Your Mind" is playing on the radio. On New Year's Day 1970, Trevor finds that his now ex-wife Theresa and her new husband Ray are 40-ish hippies and runs into his former physician Dr. Golden at a protest against UsefulNotes/TheVietnamWar outside a Marine recruitment office. When he goes to the Tiki Isle to drown his sorrows, the Music/JeffersonAirplane song "White Rabbit" is on the radio. On New Year's Day 1980, Trevor arrives in the middle of a disco at the Tiki Isle where the Van [=McCoy=] song "Do the Hustle" is being played. The disco patrons wear jumpsuits, strapless gowns, leisure suits, bell bottoms and gold medallions and chains. Trevor's final jump to January 1990 averts this trope, considering that it was only six years before the episode was made.
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* PopularHistory:
**PopularHistory: Very much in evidence here, though it begins in a fairly low-key way. The music is pretty much NothingButHits. On New Year's Eve 1949, Trevor [=McPhee=] turns off the radio while it is playing swing music. When he travels forward in time to New Year's Day 1960, he looks at 1959 issues of ''Magazine/TimeMagazine'' and ''Life'' featuring Vice President UsefulNotes/RichardNixon, UsefulNotes/FidelCastro and International Brotherhood of Teamsters leader Jimmy Hoffa on the cover. At the Tiki Isle Bar and Grill, the Patsy Cline song "Leaving' On Your Mind" is playing on the radio. On New Year's Day 1970, Trevor finds that his now ex-wife Theresa and her new husband Ray are 40-ish hippies and runs into his former physician Dr. Golden at a protest against UsefulNotes/TheVietnamWar outside a Marine recruitment office. When he goes to the Tiki Isle to drown his sorrows, the Music/JeffersonAirplane song "White Rabbit" is on the radio. On New Year's Day 1980, Trevor arrives in the middle of a disco at the Tiki Isle where the Van [=McCoy=] song "Do the Hustle" is being played. The disco patrons wear jumpsuits, strapless gowns, leisure suits, bell bottoms and gold medallions and chains. Trevor's final jump to January 1990 averts this trope, considering that it was only six years before the episode was made.
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A man in 1949 finds that every time he falls asleep, he wakes up 10 years farther into the future.
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A man in 1949 finds that every time he falls asleep, he wakes up 10 years farther into the future.future.
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* TheConstant: Trevor [=McPhee=] travels forward in time to 1960, 1970, 1980 and 1990. He meets his wife Theresa, who eventually divorces him due to his unavoidable absences, in every time period. Trevor also meets Theresa's new husband Ray Carter in 1960, 1970 and 1980. As Ray died in 1988, he only sees a video recording of him in 1990. Trevor's son Mark, who was conceived during his brief sojourn in 1960, is present from 1970 onwards.
* KidFromTheFuture: A variation occurs. After getting into a minor car accident on December 31, 1949, Trevor [=McPhee=] returns home the next morning to find that it is January 1, 1960. He and his wife Theresa - who thought that he abandoned her - have sex before he is sent another ten years into the future. In 1970, he finds that he has a nine-year-old son named Mark who was conceived that night. He meets Mark again as a 19-year-old in 1980 and as a 29-year-old in 1990. By the time of this last encounter, Mark is four years older than his father.
* NewspaperDating: Trevor [=McPhee=] realizes that he has traveled ten years into the future when he sees issues of ''Magazine/TimeMagazine'' and ''Life'' dated 1959.
* PopularHistory:
** Very much in evidence here, though it begins in a fairly low-key way. The music is pretty much NothingButHits. On New Year's Eve 1949, Trevor [=McPhee=] turns off the radio while it is playing swing music. When he travels forward in time to New Year's Day 1960, he looks at 1959 issues of ''Magazine/TimeMagazine'' and ''Life'' featuring Vice President UsefulNotes/RichardNixon, UsefulNotes/FidelCastro and International Brotherhood of Teamsters leader Jimmy Hoffa on the cover. At the Tiki Isle Bar and Grill, the Patsy Cline song "Leaving' On Your Mind" is playing on the radio. On New Year's Day 1970, Trevor finds that his now ex-wife Theresa and her new husband Ray are 40-ish hippies and runs into his former physician Dr. Golden at a protest against UsefulNotes/TheVietnamWar outside a Marine recruitment office. When he goes to the Tiki Isle to drown his sorrows, the Music/JeffersonAirplane song "White Rabbit" is on the radio. On New Year's Day 1980, Trevor arrives in the middle of a disco at the Tiki Isle where the Van [=McCoy=] song "Do the Hustle" is being played. The disco patrons wear jumpsuits, strapless gowns, leisure suits, bell bottoms and gold medallions and chains. Trevor's final jump to January 1990 averts this trope, considering that it was only six years before the episode was made.
* TheSlowPath: Trevor [=McPhee=] would go to sleep and wake up ten years in the future every time. Once she figures out what is going on, his lover spends the rest of her life trying to figure out how to save him.
* StarfishAliens: A group of worm-like fluorescent aliens nab a hapless human through a wormhole so they can use his body as a host to experience Earth through his senses. It turns out that they also have no concept of time, only being and non-being. Luckily they're friendly enough to return their host to his original time when it's explained to them.
* SupernaturallyYoungParent: Trevor [=McPhee=] finds himself [[TimeDissonance unstuck in time]] when StarfishAliens with no concept of time use him as a host to explore the Earth, only to transport him 10 years into the future every time they return him to his planet. He fathers a son in 1959 when he's physically 25, and the last time they meet in 1989 his son is already 3-4 years older than him.
* TimeDissonance: The aliens abducting Jon Cryer's character transport him another decade into Earth's future every time they return him, because as it turns out, they have no concept of time. Once the concept is explained to them, it's no problem for them to return him to the right time.
* TimeTravelEpisode
* WholePlotReference: This episode's plot is a sci-fi version of ''Literature/RipVanWinkle''.
!!Tropes:
* TheConstant: Trevor [=McPhee=] travels forward in time to 1960, 1970, 1980 and 1990. He meets his wife Theresa, who eventually divorces him due to his unavoidable absences, in every time period. Trevor also meets Theresa's new husband Ray Carter in 1960, 1970 and 1980. As Ray died in 1988, he only sees a video recording of him in 1990. Trevor's son Mark, who was conceived during his brief sojourn in 1960, is present from 1970 onwards.
* KidFromTheFuture: A variation occurs. After getting into a minor car accident on December 31, 1949, Trevor [=McPhee=] returns home the next morning to find that it is January 1, 1960. He and his wife Theresa - who thought that he abandoned her - have sex before he is sent another ten years into the future. In 1970, he finds that he has a nine-year-old son named Mark who was conceived that night. He meets Mark again as a 19-year-old in 1980 and as a 29-year-old in 1990. By the time of this last encounter, Mark is four years older than his father.
* NewspaperDating: Trevor [=McPhee=] realizes that he has traveled ten years into the future when he sees issues of ''Magazine/TimeMagazine'' and ''Life'' dated 1959.
* PopularHistory:
** Very much in evidence here, though it begins in a fairly low-key way. The music is pretty much NothingButHits. On New Year's Eve 1949, Trevor [=McPhee=] turns off the radio while it is playing swing music. When he travels forward in time to New Year's Day 1960, he looks at 1959 issues of ''Magazine/TimeMagazine'' and ''Life'' featuring Vice President UsefulNotes/RichardNixon, UsefulNotes/FidelCastro and International Brotherhood of Teamsters leader Jimmy Hoffa on the cover. At the Tiki Isle Bar and Grill, the Patsy Cline song "Leaving' On Your Mind" is playing on the radio. On New Year's Day 1970, Trevor finds that his now ex-wife Theresa and her new husband Ray are 40-ish hippies and runs into his former physician Dr. Golden at a protest against UsefulNotes/TheVietnamWar outside a Marine recruitment office. When he goes to the Tiki Isle to drown his sorrows, the Music/JeffersonAirplane song "White Rabbit" is on the radio. On New Year's Day 1980, Trevor arrives in the middle of a disco at the Tiki Isle where the Van [=McCoy=] song "Do the Hustle" is being played. The disco patrons wear jumpsuits, strapless gowns, leisure suits, bell bottoms and gold medallions and chains. Trevor's final jump to January 1990 averts this trope, considering that it was only six years before the episode was made.
* TheSlowPath: Trevor [=McPhee=] would go to sleep and wake up ten years in the future every time. Once she figures out what is going on, his lover spends the rest of her life trying to figure out how to save him.
* StarfishAliens: A group of worm-like fluorescent aliens nab a hapless human through a wormhole so they can use his body as a host to experience Earth through his senses. It turns out that they also have no concept of time, only being and non-being. Luckily they're friendly enough to return their host to his original time when it's explained to them.
* SupernaturallyYoungParent: Trevor [=McPhee=] finds himself [[TimeDissonance unstuck in time]] when StarfishAliens with no concept of time use him as a host to explore the Earth, only to transport him 10 years into the future every time they return him to his planet. He fathers a son in 1959 when he's physically 25, and the last time they meet in 1989 his son is already 3-4 years older than him.
* TimeDissonance: The aliens abducting Jon Cryer's character transport him another decade into Earth's future every time they return him, because as it turns out, they have no concept of time. Once the concept is explained to them, it's no problem for them to return him to the right time.
* TimeTravelEpisode
* WholePlotReference: This episode's plot is a sci-fi version of ''Literature/RipVanWinkle''.
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