Who’s laughing now?
It’s easy to laugh at Y2K now we all know that the whole millennium thing went off without a hitch. In fact, lots of TV shows and movies have done just that; and sometimes they’ve done it very well. There’s an episode of ’Family Guy'in particular that based an entire show about what life would be like in a post-Y2K Quahog. I won’t spoil the story, but it involves Stewie mutating into a weird sort of octopus, a quest to find the only food source that can survive an apocalypse – the Twinkie – and Peter setting up New Quahog, where everyone gets to pick their new job out of a hat!
I love Family Guy, and have even invested in some digital printing kit in order to print out some classic stills to decorate my study; seeing as my wife won’t allow them anywhere else in the house! The Y2K episode or “Da Boom” to give it its proper title is one of my favourites, but Family Guy is far from the only TV show to reference the millennium bug. ’My Name is Earl'also did a great Y2K flashback episode, where Earl, Randy and Joy all convinced themselves they were the only people to have survived the millennium and proceeded to go crazy in Camden’s store – only to wake on January 2nd in the bed department surrounded by customers and a very angry manager!
Would you believe there is even a film called “Y2K”? It made the whole millennium thing seem a lot more exciting than a few computers going haywire, and featured a military team heading deep into the jungle to disarm a nuclear weapon that the computer experts hadn’t been able to reach and was going to launch at the stroke of midnight. Obviously, with a title like “Y2K” I had to rent it when I saw it online, but sadly it turned out to be a bit of a non-event. Kind of like Y2K itself!
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