Post by snacky on Feb 14, 2014 6:36:28 GMT
I love it when Murdoch Mysteries makes a joke that only people from the future would get.
For instance...
When Brackenreid holds the xray plates in front of his...reproductive organs. Cocaine, heroin, and opium are all considered fashionable medicines for pain. Quack medicine abounds, a la "the gold cure".
When Murdoch predicts motorized vehicles will be too noisy and obnoxious to catch on.
When a doctor proclaims women have 19% less brain capacity than men because their mental energy gets sapped by their reproductive organs. And anyone who denies this "fact" is of the type that dismissed Darwin.
When George bought IBM stocks. He advises putting the Widows and Orphans fund into Coca Cola, Bell Telephones, General Electric, and Ford.
With the advent of computers (which would be too big to be practical), "workers would be living a life of luxury, with machines doing the work for them." Yeah, right. William believes in the future of analytical engines, but he doesn't realize the implications of Pendrick's "miniaturization".
When George proposes using microwaves to cook food.
George isn't always right - in Twentieth Century Murdoch he doubts there will ever be a machine to compare finger marks, since "no machine will ever take the place of the keen eye of a policeman".
When William fails to see a future in coffee-drinking. Other future treats discovered: corn flakes, spam, peanut butter & jelly, hamburger, pizza, crackerjacks, snow cones, and donuts for cops.
When Murdoch doubts that watching sports will catch on or that players will be paid.
Shadow of Toronto CN Tower.
William's inventions include a lie-detector machine, call-recording, "telephonic probe" to find bullets in a corpse, bullet-proof vest, a method for modeling faces from skeletons, blood flourescing, night-vision goggles, image fax, gun silencer (muffler? baffler?), underwater sonar, 3D movies (using a stereoscope), seismograph, periscope, motion-sensor camera, bike gear-shift, recording device (with Tesla), noise-filtering of recording (with Alexander Graham Bell, pedal-powered bike lights, and the induction-balancing device (the metal detector, powered by bicycle!).
Games presciently discovered on MM: Scrabble, Hangman, Clue, Paint-by-Numbers, Frisbee, and Puzzlers (i.e. "gamers").
When William invents silly putty, Brackenreid wants to bring it home for his boys: William declares it isn't a toy.
George invents "the clapper", adhesive strips (tape), telephone tracing, and the 2-way mirror for police interrogation. He is also an early master of "photoshopping". William often dismisses George's ideas about the future, but George is the one who calls all the right investments! George has a sort of premonition of the cellphone as well. George intuits "Red Bull" and "Sliced Bread".
Dr. Grace - Type AB blood.
When Brackenried doubts lawn sprinklers will catch on.
Other anticipations of modern forensics: the desire for a database of pederasts, the collection of fingermarks for a database before any crime has been committed, infographics and other data visualization techniques (i.e. the "chart"), psychological profiling (the "portrait"), morgue toe tags, and geographical profiling. George does some "fashion profiling", lol.
Various allusions to the Internet and Internet culture - I-mail, telegraph romances, etc. Like coffee and gasoline-fueled cars, William just doesn't understand how this could catch on. Telegraphic "tweeting".
There are also foreshadowings of modern issues like traffic, noise pollution, and expansion of the subway system.
Repeated references to whether criminal cases will become a form of entertainment.
*list updated from comments 4/11/14.
Do any other MM historical in-jokes come to mind?
For instance...
When Brackenreid holds the xray plates in front of his...reproductive organs. Cocaine, heroin, and opium are all considered fashionable medicines for pain. Quack medicine abounds, a la "the gold cure".
When Murdoch predicts motorized vehicles will be too noisy and obnoxious to catch on.
When a doctor proclaims women have 19% less brain capacity than men because their mental energy gets sapped by their reproductive organs. And anyone who denies this "fact" is of the type that dismissed Darwin.
When George bought IBM stocks. He advises putting the Widows and Orphans fund into Coca Cola, Bell Telephones, General Electric, and Ford.
With the advent of computers (which would be too big to be practical), "workers would be living a life of luxury, with machines doing the work for them." Yeah, right. William believes in the future of analytical engines, but he doesn't realize the implications of Pendrick's "miniaturization".
When George proposes using microwaves to cook food.
George isn't always right - in Twentieth Century Murdoch he doubts there will ever be a machine to compare finger marks, since "no machine will ever take the place of the keen eye of a policeman".
When William fails to see a future in coffee-drinking. Other future treats discovered: corn flakes, spam, peanut butter & jelly, hamburger, pizza, crackerjacks, snow cones, and donuts for cops.
When Murdoch doubts that watching sports will catch on or that players will be paid.
Shadow of Toronto CN Tower.
William's inventions include a lie-detector machine, call-recording, "telephonic probe" to find bullets in a corpse, bullet-proof vest, a method for modeling faces from skeletons, blood flourescing, night-vision goggles, image fax, gun silencer (muffler? baffler?), underwater sonar, 3D movies (using a stereoscope), seismograph, periscope, motion-sensor camera, bike gear-shift, recording device (with Tesla), noise-filtering of recording (with Alexander Graham Bell, pedal-powered bike lights, and the induction-balancing device (the metal detector, powered by bicycle!).
Games presciently discovered on MM: Scrabble, Hangman, Clue, Paint-by-Numbers, Frisbee, and Puzzlers (i.e. "gamers").
When William invents silly putty, Brackenreid wants to bring it home for his boys: William declares it isn't a toy.
George invents "the clapper", adhesive strips (tape), telephone tracing, and the 2-way mirror for police interrogation. He is also an early master of "photoshopping". William often dismisses George's ideas about the future, but George is the one who calls all the right investments! George has a sort of premonition of the cellphone as well. George intuits "Red Bull" and "Sliced Bread".
Dr. Grace - Type AB blood.
When Brackenried doubts lawn sprinklers will catch on.
Other anticipations of modern forensics: the desire for a database of pederasts, the collection of fingermarks for a database before any crime has been committed, infographics and other data visualization techniques (i.e. the "chart"), psychological profiling (the "portrait"), morgue toe tags, and geographical profiling. George does some "fashion profiling", lol.
Various allusions to the Internet and Internet culture - I-mail, telegraph romances, etc. Like coffee and gasoline-fueled cars, William just doesn't understand how this could catch on. Telegraphic "tweeting".
There are also foreshadowings of modern issues like traffic, noise pollution, and expansion of the subway system.
Repeated references to whether criminal cases will become a form of entertainment.
*list updated from comments 4/11/14.
Do any other MM historical in-jokes come to mind?
