The Astounding World of the Future

By Queuebot in Everything Else on Jun 1, 2009 at 2:16 pm


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Voted Best Short Film at the New York Comedy Festival, a tongue-in-cheek look at the thin line between Utopia and dystopia.

– via buzzfeed

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  1. seefish3
    Jun 1st, 2009 at 3:24 pm

    I had to stop at the Prozac joke. It was funny, but it was making me cry.

    I’m going to micro a Burrito, and then eat my phaser.

  2. Edward
    Jun 1st, 2009 at 3:49 pm

    Everything that the announcer said is true.

    If we are unhappy, it is because we do not choose to be happy. Thank-you for this post. I am resolving to further appreciate how good I have it and share that feeling of joy with others.

  3. Kermtzu
    Jun 1st, 2009 at 4:32 pm

    Where’s my flying car?

  4. SydneyClaire
    Jun 1st, 2009 at 5:21 pm

    Edward +1

  5. Frau
    Jun 1st, 2009 at 7:32 pm

    I LOL’d at 1:20

  6. Ali S.
    Jun 1st, 2009 at 8:39 pm

    Whoa. That blew my mind. Now that I think about it Edward has the right attitude! *high five*

  7. Video Game Dork
    Jun 1st, 2009 at 9:33 pm

    It started out funny, but was depressing by the end. Esp the part with grandma. D: Still, I do love a good parody that used the old-timey wonder presentation. (Like Fallout :P )

    As for Edward’s comment, having a positivie attitude certainly is a great thing and to be commented. However, not all people who are unhappy ‘chose to not be happy’. To claim that does a disservice to people who’ve had bad things happen to them, and/or difficult mental issues.

  8. Nick
    Jun 1st, 2009 at 9:53 pm

    I think I am going to have to go top myself now :(

  9. Johnny Cat
    Jun 1st, 2009 at 10:49 pm

    A good dose of intelligent cynicism now and then is great for the spirit.

  10. DaveL
    Jun 2nd, 2009 at 12:27 am

    I grew up reading a ton of old school sci-fi so this is particularly profound and funny to me. It’s probably why I switched to the high tech and low life of cyberpunk stories.

  11. Larfin Jackarse
    Jun 2nd, 2009 at 4:19 am

    “In a every solution lies a problem”.
    I think Norman Gunston said that.

  12. Foreigner1
    Jun 2nd, 2009 at 6:18 am

    I can remember a time when we were told that in the Year Two-Thousand, we effectively would live in a Jetson-style world. But as this magical Year came near, we only got the upcoming Doom of the Y2K-Bug that would Rrrrip through our electronized world and destroy us all. Our military even was put on High Alert and rather short after that we got 9/11. And in the meantime we got Bush-Jr, Osama, Balkenende, Berlusconi and a climate-disaster that still is getting worse and worse. And by now, the US-car-industry has gone Bust with countless joblosses, a larger than life housing-crisis and a foodproblem mainly because of obesity prevalences of at least 20% in the US. So we’re also changing into the humans as portrayed in WALL-e and we’re by now well on our way to make our planet uninhabitable with most animals on it labelled “Extinct”.

    Yesss- Take those Space Age Pills and Be Happy, ’cause This Is That Future…! :-)

  13. skidworth
    Jun 2nd, 2009 at 12:19 pm

    i was gonna suggest this as a link, so i came to see if it had been posted. sure enough, i still had to watch it. so clever.

  14. seefish3
    Jun 2nd, 2009 at 2:39 pm

    Thanks, Edward and Foreigner1 ! That cheered me right the F#@k up!


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