With time travel, I could buy sports, movie, and TV show almanacs. Then I could come back and...

[JVS]

post spoilers constantly. It would be great.

[datasuspect]

1. um, yeah

they covered that in the 80s.

some minor michael j. fox movie or something.

[JVS]

2. I don't remember him spoiling the results

[datasuspect]

3. i can call hollywood then

and see if we can set up a meeting.

i'm thinking we can get judd hirsch for this.

[HopeHoops]

4. Back to the Future II - exactly the plot

[kentauros]

5. Or you could make massive amounts of money

working as a continuity expert :P

[JVS]

6. "Mr. Selznick, if you do not let me onto the set a lightbulb will feature prominently in a shot of..

1864 Atlanta!"

[kentauros]

7. I'm guessing that's Gone with the Wind

;)

I don't know that movie by heart, but it is often either funny or disruptive when you see boom mics in shots :P

Being as one of my fave shows has to do with a genie, someone that knew of all the future contradictions could have made that show more popular than the one about the witch :P

What other famous movies have glaring problems?

[raccoon]

8. What if something fubared and you couldn't get back? and were trapped in the 1950's, '40's, etc.?

Why, if you're a guy you might end up fighting in Europe or the Pacific.

That's the thought I always have about time travel. No, not being drafted, but the thought of what if I couldn't come back.

[JVS]

9. If that happens, then I know one word that will make me a fortune: plastics