Simpsons, "Future-Drama"

'''"Future-Drama." The Simpsons.''' Fox-TV, first aired 17 April 2005. Production Code GABF12, episode 350, season 16. Mike B. Anderson, dir. Matt Selman, script. . **+Falling into Professor Frink's basement lab, Bart and Lisa get a view of their future through an "astrology machine": a large viewscreen with many controls, looking classic S.F. high-tech. Cf. and contrast looking into past in William Tenn's (pseud.) "Brooklyn Project" (1948, q.v. under Fiction). Marge has a line explicitly relating science and magic (cf. and contrast A. C. "Clarke's Third Law," that really advanced technology can't be distinguised from magic). Note also opening on couch, where toy vehicles enter and transform, in the manner of Transformer toys, into the Simpsons.