#misreading the show's set time frame by 21 whole years is something you can enjoy too much

[pigspeetsandhooflikefeets]

My favourite inaccurate read on Batman Beyond is that I thought the show took place in 2019, not 2040. For over two seasons of the show.

Simply because the first sentence towards the plot of the show on Wikipedia was "The story begins in the then-distant year of 2019.". I never really paid enough attention (despite being insanely absorbed) in the ACTUAL show to see that was one of TWO timeskips in the first episode.

So the entire time I was thinking "damn Terry is not ready for Covid next year" and "I can't believe Terry was born in 2002" and "Terry I thought we agreed to never forget" in the episode Terry quite literally accidentally causes twin towers (shaped like a tuning fork) to fall