So if they didn't have dials before why did they have that circular thing? Were they expecting dials to show up? That's pretty forward-thinking.

Of course back then everyone rented their phones from the phone company anyway so it's not like people were going to be stuck with an old useless clunker.

I'm going to start calling things yummy from now on.

Everyone in this film is dead now.

Before the Internet, Freepers kept in contact with each other by watching each other paint each other's pantries.