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Trivia

• This episode marks the appearance of the Time Scooter since "The Big Bash" premiered 17 years ago.
• This is the first episode that deals with time travel.
• In this episode, when Roy and Viv promise Cosmo and Wanda no time traveling, Roy implies there will be a second season by saying "At least, not this season."
  • However, since the show was delisted from Paramount+ and Nickelodeon's website in early 2023 with no announcement of a second season, it's likely that the second season was cancelled.
• Viv has her own dance.
• The plot and title are references to the 1985 film “Back to the Future”.
• Vicky cancels the school dance because she fell in the jelly that Roy and his friends left in the gym.
• Ty and Rachel first met each other in 1996 at the Dimmsdale High School dance.
• Ty had a group of friends similar to Roy’s friends he called “Ty's Guys”.
• Rachel's yearbook appears to have a message that says "Where did the time go? See you next year and don't forget to plan ahead."

Allusions

• Back to the Future - The plot and title are references to the 1985 film “Back to the Future”. Cosmo and Wanda wear the same clothes that Doc Brown and Marty McFly wore in the movie.
• The Fairly Oddparents - the plot is similar to Father Time! in which both involve parents "never meeting and not having children".
• The Thundermans - the plot of this episode is similar to that of another Nickelodeon television show, episode: Save the Past Dance deals with time travel.
• The Simpsons - one of the '90s teens says "eat my shorts", Bart Simpson's catchphrase.
• Milk - all of the 90s teens looking like adults is explained away as "having something to do with milk". In the 90s, it was widely believed that drinking milk would make people grow more and their bones strong.
• Friends - Frams is a play on the 1994 American television series Friends, which was released 2 years before the episode's plot takes place.
• Vera Wang - When Zina's cellphone rings it's her wedding dress maker, Vera, a reference to the famous fashion designer.
• South Park - Viv says, 'Boo you, guys! I'm going home!' A reference to Eric Cartman's catchphrase, 'Screw you, guys! I'm going home.'

Goofs

• After making it so that Ty and Rachel never broke up at the school dance, it is shown that Viv and Roy don't exist. In Father Time! Timmy alters the past but does not physically disappear from existence.
  • In both Father Time! and Back to the Scooter, Cosmo and Wanda are unable to grant their godkids' wishes, as they do not exist.
• The song that Ty and his friends are dancing to is Barbie Girl by Aqua. The song was written in 1997, Ty and Rachel's school dance happened in 1996.

Running gags

• Cosmo doesn't know what peanut butter is.
• A cat off screen is heard yowling every an object is thrown.
• Vicky falls into the bush outside the Turner Residence.
• The word "fram" is used in place of "friend".

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