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A Touch of Petulance

by Ray Bradbury
On his way home on the train, Jonathan Hughes meets Jonathan Hughes + 20 years and receives a warning that his marriage to a lovely young bride will end in murder.
— Michael Main
Me, thought the young man. Why, that old man is . . . me.
“A Touch of Petulance” by Ray Bradbury, in Dark Forces, edited by Kirby McCauley (The Viking Press, August 1980).

The Ray Bradbury Theater (s04e06)

Touch of Petulance

by Ray Bradbury, directed by John Laing
A faithful adaptation of Bradbury’s 1980 story of a man who returns to his warn his younger self about the future course of his marriage.
— Michael Main
We are one, the same person: Jonathan Hughes.
The Ray Bradbury Theater (s04e06), “Touch of Petulance” by Ray Bradbury, directed by John Laing (USA Network, USA, 12 October 1990).

On the Bus

by William Grewe-Mullins
A man on a bus gives advice to his younger self.
— Michael Main
You’re going to need a lot of dog food.
“On the Bus” by William Grewe-Mullins, in Black is the New Black, 28 June 2010.

SpongeBob SquarePants Mini 68

Lessons Learned

[writer and director unknown]
SpongeBob and faithful Patrick use the boxy time machine from “SB-129” to travel back and give advice to their younger selves.
— Michael Main
Patrick, with this time machine, we can go back to the past and make our young selves wiser!
“Lessons Learned” [writer and director unknown] (SpongeBob SquarePants Mini 68, Nickelodean (USA, 14 June 2011).

Marley and Marley

by J. R. Dawson
Somewhat jaded 28-year-old Marley comes back through time to take care of 12-year-old orphaned Marley.
— Michael Main
He told me all the horrible things that would happen if I broke any Time Laws. Worlds would collapse. I would turn inside out. Important people would die and important things wouldn’t happen.
“Marley and Marley” by J. R. Dawson, Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, November/December 2017.

Oona Out of Order

by Margarita Montimore
On Oona Lockhart’s 19th birthday, her mind leaps into her 51-year-old body where she learns that she’s fated to leap into a random year on every coming birthday, living each year once in a normal manner except for her discontinous consciousness.
— Michael Main
Do I ever find any kind of stability? Or do I live life year after year like some kind of existential hobo?
Oona Out of Order by Margarita Montimore (Flatiron Books, February 2020).

Fantasy Island (r3s01e07), pt. 2

The Bromance

by Mary Angelica Molina and Adam Belanoff, directed by Laura Belsey
Brian Cole, a hard-core survivalist, faces his greatest challenge: working with and understanding his own young self.
— Michael Main
I might be you, but I’m not a moron.
Fantasy Island (v3s01e07), seg. 2, “The Bromance” by Mary Angelica Molina and Adam Belanoff, directed by Laura Belsey (Fox-TV, USA, 14 September 2021).

The Adam Project

by Jonathan Tropper et al., directed by Shawn Levy
In 2050, time jet pilot Adam Reed steals a jet and heads back to 2018 to save his stranded wife, but he gets waylaid in 2022 where his 12-year-old self is the only hope to save the mission.
— Michael Main
Young Adam: I mean if this is happening to me, that means that it already happened to you—right?—unless it works more like a multiverse where each ripple creates an alternate timeline—
Middle-Age Adam: It isn’t a multiverse! My god, we watch too many movies.
The Adam Project by Jonathan Tropper et al., directed by Shawn Levy (Netflix, worldwide, 11 March 2022).

Remainder

by Alex Sobel
The setting is necessarily vague, but it seems that in the future, doctors may recommend limited time travel to seek closure for a lost personal relationship.
— Michael Main
She wants to go back more, as far as possible. Maybe before he was sick, even. But two years is the limit the doctor from the company gives her, his voice serious, concerned.
“Remainder” by Alex Sobel, Daily Science Fiction, 7 September 2022 [webzine].
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