I was so sad when they didn't pick that up. I think it traveled to us through time from 1986.

That one is on my list. I haven't gotten to it yet, but I love those directors, so I'm very excited to look at it.

Best Years Of Our Lives and It's A Wonderful Life are one of my favorite one-two punches in cinema history. I will frequently watch both of them in the same night around the holiday season. So much bittersweet understanding of life in those films.

Well, the fish drop out of the sky after the storm abruptly drops out. I guess you can make an argument that there was a natural phenomenon. But I wrote a whole article about how God exists in this universe, so I'm on team deus ex.

My own experience with grandparents was that they were more reticent to talk about it when younger, but as they got closer to the end, they opened up more, perhaps sensing their stories shouldn't die with them.

Great post.

I actually think both BOB and Pacific have this problem in the early going the first time you watch them. But Pacific definitely settles out, and you really get to know the guys, especially the main three.

When I submitted this, before the final entry, it had a thing that said, "Warning, this discusses an episode of television that aired last night." But, like, nothing is airing right now, so unless Amy Schumer had a time jump…

Technically, it can happen. (There are tornadoes in snowstorms sometimes.) It's unlikely though.

We included Cast Away to suggest where the most likely cinematic influence on TV time jumps came from.

We probably could have counted that one, but it's still tricky, because the people back on the mainland have been living in that timeframe from the start of season five on, while the Sawyer jump happens in "LaFleur." We probably could have, just to have Lost on there, but I don't think it technically qualifies under…

Disqus just logs me out a lot, and then I decide not to fight with it.

Fringe doesn't quite qualify because it leapt forward for one episode, then leapt back. And then its actual time jump happened between seasons, which we decided not to count.

Looking for jumps that happened on screen, not between seasons. Ideally, it would have the "X YEARS LATER" text, too.

Not quite what we're looking for, since both instances condense a larger time frame than an episode/season would typically cover. We wanted the singular jump over several events.

We didn't count time jumps that happened between seasons, because then this list would have been way too long. We wanted only time jumps depicted directly on screen.

I'm not a real hockey fan OR a real Angeleno. I am the worst kind of poseur and monster.

It's certainly a tricky balancing act. I hate writing the "it's hard to tell off one episode" review, but it's sometimes necessary. FlashForward was another good case in point for this.

It's VERY unusual, particularly for a cable show, and 99.99% of the time (when it comes to cable), it's because the network is holding back something it knows kinda sucks. I have been trying to think of the last cable show to only send out one episode, particularly from one of the networks that really does rely on…

SPOILERS, of a necessity.