Difference between revisions of "It's About Time"

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It's About Time is an event-exclusive questline in The Simpsons: Tapped Out. It was introduced in the Time Traveling Toaster content update.

Dialogue[edit]

Pt. 1[edit]

After completing The Time Traveler's Wife Pt. 2 *SHRIEK!* I missed my anniversary! I've got to travel back in time and remind myself! Isn't that EXACTLY what Future You said not to do? I've never liked Future Me. One day there'll be something about this guy I just didn't trust back now. I suppose there's no harm in helping you try something impossible like time travel. I've got texts on advanced astrophysics, cosmology-- OR we could binge watch movies about time travel. "Time-Priest", "Bad Physicists", and "Medical Intern Strange" are personal favorites. Task: "Make Homer Marathon Time Travel Movies". The job takes place at the Simpson House and takes 6 seconds. Hollywood has taught me a valuable lesson: thinking about how time travel works is hard, so let's just make it up as we go! C'mon, gang! Quest reward: 100 and 10

Pt. 2[edit]

After completing Pt. 1 Beware, Homer Simpson! You tamper with the very fabric of spacetime! Yeah. So? Well... most people would consider that bad. With the PARADOXES and the BUTTERFLY EFFECTS and the OH, NOW I'M MY OWN DAD. Shut up and help me find my time traveling toaster. I think it's packed with the rest of the Halloween junk. A time traveling toaster? That's the most preposterous thing I've ever heard! Now, my time traveling panini press on the other hand... Task: "Make Homer Travel Back in Time". The job takes place at the Simpson House and takes 6 seconds. After starting the job if Act 1 is active I've gone back in time millions of years! I can tell I'm still in Springfield, though. The dinosaurs here all talk about how they're going to leave this provincial backwater one day, but you know they never will. After starting the job if Act 2 is active Uh-oh. I appear to have overshot my time travel -- I'm in Ancient Egypt! Which, conveniently and for the purposes of this update, sat in the same location as modern-day Springfield! After starting the job if Act 3 is active Water everywhere... a storyline that seems hastily thrown-together and nonsensical... oh no, I'm in Waterworld!!! Or, I've traveled back to pirate times. Oh please let it be murderous pirates and not Tin Cup with gills... After finishing the task What gives?! I wanted to go back just to my anniversary, not centuries ago! I'll remember your minor quibble when I'm dancing around, clad only in my Nobel Prize medal. Quest reward: 100 and 10

Pt. 3[edit]

After completing Pt. 2 I think I'll trust my time traveling needs to my faithful old toaster. Here's your panini press back, Mr. Mad Scientist. I am not MAD, I simply-- What in glayvin have you done to my invention?! Made a gloopy sandwich in it. And for the record, you do sound pretty mad right now. Dad, are you sure you should be meddling with time? Probably not. Still gonna, though. Task: "Make Homer Meddle With Time". The job takes place at Homer's Workbench and takes 6 seconds. I collected so much cool stuff in the past, but none of it survived the journey back. What gives, stupid spacetime continuum? The only material objects that survive the journey are clothes. Because the alternative is too horrible to consider. If Act 2 is active What the heck is papyri? It's the plural of papyrus. What the heck is papyrus?! I'm just gonna collect these pieces of paper instead. After finishing the task Uh, Dad, I think you forgot to close the time door behind you! Quest reward: 100 and 10

Pt. 4[edit]

After completing Buried in Time Pt. 2 Hey, Frink, you fixed your panini press! It has sort of a lame "steampunk" vibe now. Yes, well, I had a lot of brass gauges sitting around. Purely accidental, of course. Then why are you wearing aviator goggles? All right, I admit it. I... I still think steampunk is cool. Anyway, I've altered the press to collect errant tachyons released by your temporal meddling. Ha ha! I'm sorry, but the nerd thinks a briefly-interesting subgenre from decades ago is still cool! Task: "Place the Panini Press". Schrödinger's cat! What was that gigantic explosion? Your stupid sandwich machine keeps breaking every time a sandwich gets made on it. It's not for cooking on you imbecile! Look! The tachyon emission blasted everyone back to their rightful time period. Once again, I have, through stupendous carelessness, solved all the problems I created with my inconceivable incompetence. You. Are. Welcome. Quest reward: 50/50/50 and 10

Pt. 5[edit]

After completing Chaos Theory Homer, perhaps you would consider donating these ancient artifacts to found a Springsonian History Museum? Hmmm... there's a lot of money in the museum game... Well, no. It would be purely non-profit. Hmmm... there's a lot of money in the non-profit game... No. There's none. Hmmm... there's a lot in none... Task: "Build the Springsonian Museum". It takes 6 seconds. Hey pally, those are some nice specimens. I could "disappear" a few things from the ol' exhibits here. We could make some good "money". Isn't that stealing? It ain't "stealing" so long as you use air quotes. Oh, right. I "understand". Quest reward: 500 and 10

Pt. 6[edit]

After completing Pt. 5 Marge, I'm sorry I forgot our anniversary. But this time I've got a solid excuse, involving time travel. Do I know you, sir? I'm Artie Ziff! And I would like to know what you are saying to this woman, Mrs. Artie Ziff! Oh, no! I've messed up the spacetime continuum, and now Marge is married to Artie Ziff! "Spacetime continuum"? I think you mean the "when-where thingamabob", which is what we call it in THIS thingamabob, thank you very much. Task: "Make Homer Check if He's Disappeared From Photos". The job takes place at the Simpson House and takes 4 hours. Dad? What are you doing home at this hour? Yeah, you don't get off work at the donut factory until seven. Okay, I may have lost Marge, but at least I still have my kids and what sounds like a way better job. But wait -- who's your mother? Hello, my tubby hubby! Augh! Vegas Marge! Quest reward: 100/100/100 and 10