Frequently Asked Questions About Time Travel
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Frequently Asked Questions About Time Travel is a 2009 British science fiction comedy with a gloriously small canvas: three mates, an ordinary pub and a tear in time that will not stay shut. Chris O'Dowd, Dean Lennox Kelly and Marc Wootton play Ray, Pete and Toby, whose quiet night out turns into a tangle of paradoxes, doubles and narrow escapes. This quiz covers the film from every side: the story and its twists, the people who made it, the songs on the soundtrack, the stories its writer told from the set, and what the critics made of it on release. Some questions follow the cast and the writer into the work that came next. It is written for anyone who has seen the film, sometimes billed as FAQ About Time Travel, and for fans of British comedy and time-travel stories who enjoy a mix of easy openers and deeper cuts.
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Q 01In FAQ About Time Travel, which part of the pub hides the time leak the three friends stumble through?
The men's toilets
The men's toilets hold the rift, a setting so mundane that writer Jamie Mathieson said watching its taps filmed in close-up was the moment the shoot felt real.
Q 02In FAQ About Time Travel, what are the agents from the future who kill artists at their creative peak called?
Editors
Editors, in Cassie's warning, eliminate artists at their peak to preserve cultural standards, and one of them turns out to be hunting the three men in the pub.
Q 03What does a badly wounded Ray spill on the fateful notebook page to reset the timeline in FAQ About Time Travel?
Beer
Beer, fittingly for a story set almost entirely in a pub, makes the page illegible and snaps the three men back to the start of their night with their memories intact.
Q 04Writer Jamie Mathieson gave FAQ About Time Travel's three male leads a model of which screen time machine?
A DeLorean
A DeLorean went to each actor to mark the start of shooting, and Mathieson later found Dean Lennox Kelly using his, still boxed, to prop open a dressing-room door.
Q 05Which star of the Scary Movie films plays Cassie, the woman from the future, in FAQ About Time Travel?
Anna Faris
Anna Faris, top-billed when the project was announced, joined the shoot later than her three male co-stars, who had already begun filming without her.
Q 06The production office of FAQ About Time Travel stood on 007 Drive, a road inside which famous British film studio?
Pinewood Studios
Pinewood Studios hosted the shoot, and writer Jamie Mathieson noted that his road crossed Goldfinger Avenue on a lot that felt more like a factory than a dream palace.
Q 07What do Ray, Pete and Toby write on a page of Toby's notebook in FAQ About Time Travel?
A letter to Hollywood
A letter to Hollywood, mocking bad films, is the evening's joke, until the three men suspect that this scrap of paper is the reason somebody wants them dead.
Q 08The poster for FAQ About Time Travel copies the lead actors' pose from the posters of which film series?
Back to the Future
Back to the Future also shaped the script: writer Jamie Mathieson listed the series among his influences, beside Philip K. Dick, Terry Pratchett and Frasier.
Q 09Chris O'Dowd, who plays the sci-fi fan Ray in FAQ About Time Travel, was already known as Roy in which sitcom?
The IT Crowd
The IT Crowd, a Channel 4 comedy that ran from 2006 to 2010, made him famous as Roy Trenneman, so the show was still on air when the time-travel comedy reached cinemas.
Q 10In FAQ About Time Travel, which job has Ray just been fired from before his night out with Pete and Toby?
Theme park guide
Theme park guide was Ray's job until his sacking, and the film's publicity paints all three men as stuck in dull work with no prospects.
Q 11How far into the past does the first trip through the time leak take the friends in FAQ About Time Travel?
Thirty minutes
Thirty minutes is all the pub's rift manages at first, just far enough for the three men to run into earlier versions of themselves and risk a paradox.
Q 12When Cassie says she is from the future in FAQ About Time Travel, what does Ray assume is really going on?
A prank by his friends
A prank by his friends is Ray's first guess, because his obsession with the subject is so well known; Pete and Toby deny having any part in it.
Q 13The pale blue outline lettering of FAQ About Time Travel's opening credits copies which comic-book film series?
Superman
Q 21In FAQ About Time Travel, the second time traveller Millie introduces herself by claiming to be Cassie's what?
Mentor
Mentor is only her cover story: Millie has really been sent to kill the three men at the moment of their greatest potential.
Q 22In FAQ About Time Travel, Pete glimpses a massacre at the pub; what marks out the other Pete he sees there?
A beard
A beard sets the other Pete apart, and the vision of slaughter is what finally shakes the group's resident cynic out of his disbelief.
Q 23During their jumps through time in FAQ About Time Travel, the three men find the pub hosting a party themed around what?
Their future selves
Superman supplied the look: the titles appear against a backdrop of outer space, a grand entrance for a comedy that then barely leaves one British pub.
Q 14Which American cable network's film arm co-produced FAQ About Time Travel with BBC Films?
HBO
HBO Films, the American network's film arm, shared the production with BBC Films, and the writer's blog named both backers while the cameras were still rolling.
Q 15Whose power ballad Total Eclipse of the Heart is heard on the soundtrack of FAQ About Time Travel?
Bonnie Tyler
Bonnie Tyler, the Welsh singer, released the Jim Steinman song in 1983, and it joins several other 1980s chart hits on the comedy's soundtrack.
Q 16FAQ About Time Travel writer Jamie Mathieson later scripted four Doctor Who episodes for which actor's Doctor?
Peter Capaldi
Peter Capaldi's Doctor starred in all four, starting with Mummy on the Orient Express and Flatline in 2014; a later one was co-written with showrunner Steven Moffat.
Q 17Dean Lennox Kelly, the cynical Pete of FAQ About Time Travel, was known as Kev Ball in which Channel 4 series?
Shameless
Shameless kept him until the start of its fourth series, when he left alongside Maxine Peake, who played his on-screen girlfriend.
Q 18At the end of FAQ About Time Travel, Cassie steps out of a portal and leads the three men into what?
A parallel universe
A parallel universe awaits after she warns that the damage to time is spreading and that the group has fourteen hours to save the world.
Q 19How did Jamie Mathieson earn his living for six years before FAQ About Time Travel went into production?
Stand-up comedian
Stand-up comedian was still his trade in the spring of 2006; by that autumn he had an office at a film studio and a first script about to be shot.
Q 20Which British newspaper's critic called FAQ About Time Travel the worst film of the week on its release?
The Guardian
The Guardian's Peter Bradshaw was the harshest voice in a mixed reception; Empire, by contrast, found the comedy quirky and engaging.
Their future selves are the costume theme, a hint that three ordinary pub regulars will one day matter far more than they imagine, and the party is where they meet Millie.
Q 24In FAQ About Time Travel, what does Toby assume Ray is doing when Ray describes meeting Cassie?
Pitching a film plot
Pitching a film plot is all Toby hears, a natural mistake for the member of the trio whose great obsession is cinema.
Q 25Empire's review said FAQ About Time Travel sometimes stumbles into the territory of which cult TV comedy?
Red Dwarf
Red Dwarf came to the reviewer's mind because the action is split between a pub and the future, though he still praised the script as smart.
Q 26Marc Wootton, the geeky Toby of FAQ About Time Travel, became Mr Poppy in which British family film series?
Nativity!
Nativity! reached cinemas the same year as the pub comedy and cast him as an unruly classroom assistant, the role he is now best known for.
Q 27Chris O'Dowd went from FAQ About Time Travel to playing Officer Rhodes in which hit American comedy?
Bridesmaids
Bridesmaids, released two years after the pub comedy, cast him as the policeman who pulls over Kristen Wiig's Annie and ends up winning her heart.
Q 28Eskimo Disco cover which rock anthem by the Swedish band Europe on the FAQ About Time Travel soundtrack?
The Final Countdown
The Final Countdown became a global hit in 1986 even though the band doubted it, finding it unlike their earlier, more aggressive guitar sound.
Q 29Which vocal group's hit version of Rivers of Babylon features on the soundtrack of FAQ About Time Travel?
Boney M.
Boney M. turned a 1970 song by the Jamaican reggae group the Melodians into one of the best-selling singles in British chart history.
Q 30After Cassie says the time leak is fixed in FAQ About Time Travel, the three men enter which version of the pub?
A post-apocalyptic ruin
A post-apocalyptic ruin greets them, proof that her repair has not held, and it is here that Pete slips away through the rift alone, returning dishevelled and traumatised.