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Time Release Capsule

Episode Number: 29    Season Num: 2    First Aired: Saturday August 27, 2005    Prod Code: n/a
Lloyd realizes that Pickford High School's time capsule is the key to returning the Diffy's to the future, he tells Phil to warn them from taking their time travel vaction in the year 2121.

Cast and Crew

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Writer: Michael Curtis
Director: Fred Savage
Star: Ricky Ullman (Phil Diffy),  Amy Bruckner (Pim Diffy),  Alyson Michalka (Keely Teslow),  Lise Simms (Barbara Diffy),  Craig Anton (Lloyd Diffy)
Recurring Role: Michael Mitchell (Owen)
Guest Star: Ben Savage (Himself),  Kevin West (Mr. Angst),  Brandon Smith (Li'l Danny Dawkins)

Notes

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Apparently Pim is still Science Club President from when in Versa Day, when Phil in Pim's body made her become the president. (edit)

Quotes

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Pim: Start forkin' over the green stuff! The higher the domination, the sooner this bell stops ringing! (edit)
Phil: I thought being remembered a hundred years from now wasn't important. But I'd give a hundred years of memories just to remember the most important, special, wonderful person I've ever met...Keely Teslow. (edit)

Trivia

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Goof: When Pim throws the sack of money into the capsule thinking it will go to the future with her, she is wrong. It would only make it to the future if it remained in its spot. Naturally someone would take it out of the capsule some time after that. The note would go to the future unnoticed because no one has any reason to remove it from the capsule. Also the paradox of Pim never existing in the past, and never raising the money in the first place also explains the fact of the money never making it to the future. (edit)
Goof: Lloyd says that he found the capsule on one of his and Barbara's famous picnic dates. Although in the flash back at the end of the episode he says that they are going to rent a time machine. Why would they do this if Phil and Pim weren't born yet? (edit)
Goof: Scientifically, if something is engraved (or in this case, printed) on a tree near its trunk, especially at the base, it will stay the same height above ground, no matter how tall the tree grows, even in one century. (edit)
In a hundred years, H.G. Wells Jr/Sr High School was torn down and replaced with a park, when this change occured is unknown. (edit)
Goof: Did the family rent or buy the time machine? According to the theme song and the promos that preceded the premiere of the show, the family rented a time machine. But according to this episode, Lloyd bought the time machine from a store that sold used time machines (and water slides) while he and Barbara were dating. So which was it? (edit)

Allusions

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Keely: (sing-songy) Twenty-first Century Phil!

When Keely says this, she does so in a sing-songy way, similar to the show's theme song/lyrics. However, she replaces "22nd Century Man" with "21st Century Phil." (edit)
Time Release Capsule is a play off of a medical term usually used for aspirin capsules. (edit)
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Community Reviews (12)

 
10.0
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Time Release Capsule
"Exciting"
the school was going to burry a time capsule and found out that they were the ones opening it in the future
Continue » Posted Jan 16, 2006 2:36 am PST
10.0
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Time Release Capsule
"A very special episode"
My favorite episode of the series!
Continue » Posted Dec 23, 2005 3:06 am PST

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10.0
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Time Release Capsule
"Well written"
Phil's dad realizes that if Phil sends a note into the Time Capsule at H.G. Wells, then they could avoid the whole time travel fiasco altogether! One catch- Keely and Phil wouldn't remember each other...
Continue » Posted Nov 12, 2005 11:22 pm PST
10.0
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Time Release Capsule
"Tearjerker"
You see so many connections how Phil sort of knows Keely and is used in future and the past! This has to be one of the greatest episodes of anything possible. One word: Pheely!
Continue » Posted Nov 8, 2005 2:32 pm PST
8.9
Great
Time Release Capsule
"Exactly why I watch this series"
Phil finds out that the time capsule Barb and Lyodd found in the future is being buried at Phil's school so they want him to write a note in it telling them not to get a time machine. Will Phil do it?
Continue » Posted Oct 9, 2005 11:25 am PST
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Season Number: 2
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