1999 AD Kitchen of the Future

[frohman3]

It even watches your calorie intake. Not bad.

[Mitchewith2ls]

This is the future, how come the kid is running through the house and playing instead of using his cell phone?

[thehiphophead1994]

Lol this music sounds like it from Ed Edd and Eddy lmao

[absolutt]

At least the woman is correctly allocated to the KITCHEN.

[FaerieCrone]

@absolutt Well that's all fine and dandy if you can afford to have only one income coming into the home...it just isn't that simple anymore and things are too expensive. I would love to be 'just a housewife'. Can't do it. Need the second income.

[absolutt]

@FaerieCrone You mean you need extra money for all the things which your TV, magazine, and internet tells you to buy?

[FaerieCrone]

@absolutt No dear, I'm talking about helping to pay the mortgage and the bills, food etc. We're not all high maintenance princesses, you know. I don't buy crappy women's magazines or go to the beauty salon. I go out to work because I have to.

[dgware]

They thought those nasty green disco-era kitchen appliances would still be fashionable in '99? Ha!

[metaxus2]

Does everyone live houses the size of shopping malls in 1999 or something? Last time I checked it doesn't take nearly 2 whole minutes for a kid to *run* from the bathroom to the kitchen.

[spaceye]

cheeseBURGER, bitch!

[Anrkist713]

If the food isn't ready by the time they are done counting down, they kill her and find a new servant. That's why the kid was skipping seconds, it keeps mom on her toes and lightning fast in the kitchen.

[zakaroonie]

Wow....guess people could use that portion control calorie thing!!!

[twinjl]

kid missed 114, retarded kids of the future...

[aduecey]

Children of the future look to be rather annoying and easily amused.

[vidform]

This is interesting to watch so many years later. In the next 50 years, I wonder what people will think about our current predictions of the future. Just a few years ago, AOL was the biggest thing around. Now we don't hear about them anymore. We thought Furbies and Aibo were going to be the pets of the future. Most people didn't think we'd have a black president by now. And we never knew someone would be crazy enough to purposely fly a plane into a skyscraper (9/11). I love my iphone.

[kev3d]

@vidform In the future, all Presidents will be black Furbies named AOL.

[PotheadPundit]

damn! Muthafuka counts slow as shit

[90Graff]

I wish I could place dinner orders, ha.

[salexo9]

"How about some lunch?"

He can't even select it himself from the computer menu! That's the wife's job...

[koshermal]

I hope their idea of the modern microwave was a lot better than what we have.

[derman077]

Were they wrong or were they lying?

[koshermal]

@derman077 It's not impossible.

[chevon1920]

Ok, that looks really gross. I wouldnt even want to walk into that kitchen. Why the hell couldn't that lazy bastard husband make his own lunch, he wasn't even at work

[HowardFair]

Is that Diana Rigg? Whoever it is she should slap her lazy husband. It only takes two minutes to make dinner and the guy still can't do it. These people just ended up being food for the Morlocks so I suppose it doesn't matter.

BTW, June 2nd was a Wednesday in 1999, pretty much the only thing in this that they could be sure of getting right but didn't.

[nonearthlychildren]

Bullshit. Neither one of them are sending nude jpegs to their Facebook whores. They got the whole internet thing wrong.

[zenobia13]

Isn't that William Daniels doing the voiceover? He's still with us!

[beanio12]

That food looks horrible..... we SHOULD warn them that they'll all die in 2000, but.... ehh who cares. I love this alternate future!

[lpayne5001]

Why aren't they still making promos like this? I want a look into my shitty life in 2042!

[xanadu247]

So who loads the food into the dispensers?

[ilovemayo123]

i've watched this a lot times and it just has this creepiness too it. maybe its the music i dont know.

[TheLDG1981]

That's a pretty big microwave. Damn!

[HaoWenXiang]

Isn't it a bad thing to take everything for granted as if the world was an endless cornucopia of instant pleasures? These houses have the efficiency, aesthetic, and bleak look of an jetliner galley.

[hollandturbine]

Should we warn them about the Y2K bug that is going to make that kitchen kill them?

[ballebanan]

If my computer told me I couldn't have my cheeseburger, I'd throw it out the window.

[aboutashow]

If my dad demanded that from my mom, she'd KILL him. We're eating cheese OMELETTE and that's final!

Luckily my dad's not like that :)

[weeneldo]

I'm really surprised that the phrase:

"make your own fucking cheeseburger"

doesn't appear in this clip.

[lllburgundylll]

That kitchen soo did not happen ...rotfl

[XxXwaitingforuXxX]

if all you needed was a microwave oven to make food... then what was with the saucepans on the wall?

[freakahurt]

the woman speaks like elizabeth montgomery in bewitched wich proves its not really 1999 cause no ones gonna speak like e montgomery or dick york . mommy mommy i want some pies , ok honeycoming in a minute!! crap...

[mavric17]

You Americans don't know ground beef.

[shadeshiver17175]

Caren, 43, -white- mother, parttime homemaker..1967..America..raci­sm? No?

[tr41]

@shadeshiver17175 : Hmmm... That would be "wife" not "white"...

[simonjeste]

lol "a few SECONDS" in the microwave, wow, what is this Back To The Future 2?

[94IAW]

We don't even have that!

[JerryBarryLover]

they sure did overestimate scientists then lol :)

[Kevbox2008]

Now I know where Skype came from!! ;^)

[dandestructo]

spoilt americans. where are their skills?

[recto89]

I saw this on CNN's Cambell Brown The Future on Christmas eve

[AZUFO1123]

great song lol cheese burgers em :O)l ol

[Rachman1337]

They could've at least moved away from the awful 60's Dick Van Dyke show style, GawD!

[hfu1973]

This was way off frankly, particularly the idea that most food is stored in frozen portions and automatically cooked and served - they clearly didn't see the cult of the celebrity chef coming!

What these sort of prediction programmes never get right is the fashions - these are always just a slightly more space-age version of the fashions of the day. And computers are always controlled with big knobs!

[tr41]

@hfu1973 : It seems to me like this shows a mistaken prediction of what people wanted or needed in the future, we could have automated food prep like in this clip, but the gain wouldn't be worth the added complexity and loss of flexibility over a normal kitchen setup.

I suspect that the people in this clip soon would get over the novelty after a little while and start to crave some meal that was not iced and nuked, so to say.

[Ingridthepoet]

Y'know the where almost spot on here...we can see eachother thru a screen with a cam and get food in just a few minutes with a microwave

[Kirby444]

This film isn't even in the IMDB. I have now added it, though. This deserves credit!

[abbiesaurusrex]

I love how the way they communicate in the house is by friggin computer! This is funny!

P.S. That kid needs to learn the distance between second. Wittle tool. ;)

[beepandbop]

That mom is really hot

[Kirby444]

@beepandbop Her name is Marge Dussy. I can find out nothing about her at all, and I have tried everything I know... And I know a lot. She is a mystery woman...

[beepandbop]

Nice, forgive me for asking, but if she is a mystery woman, how do you know her name?

[Kirby444]

It's in the credits at the end of the film!

[baconhead2008]

I wish making food was that easy.

[chevon1920]

@baconhead2008

It is, go get a stouffer's dinner and put it in the microwave. But we don't know how that food was supposed to taste so maybe there was a difference.

[baconhead2008]

How sexist! The dad and the kid order the mom around to make their food.

[CptApoIIo]

Hahaha

I guess they predicted me eating my Hot Pocket just now pretty accurately...

[rpm2004]

@CptApoIIo yeah but if your computer suggested you eat that then I think it's obtained AI and is trying to kill you.

[Tsubahi]

I look at prices of food on the computer today, too!:)

[Smackdown5]

They weren't wrong lol

[Smackdown5]

Lol the plates being lowered without touching them is too much... I mean 1999?? We still don't have that today and not to mention thats when it was thought that a 500Mhz processor was powerful. lol

[catdee15]

The computer is a good idea =]

[jpepperman95]

Did they really think people would want to eat TV dinners for every meal?

[theonlyantony]

What about Ainsley Harriot then?

[ChickenPissInTheRoad]

The computer one was quite accurate, but if you think about it, there has been hardly any improvement on kitchen technology since the late 60's...

[wcability109]

Well look at a stove today compared to a 1960s one. The go fkn beep.

[fdburke]

I suppose, then that once they're taken care of Mom relaxes in her private study with her OrgasmaTron. Which, coincidentally, is also made by FordPhilco (lousy gas mileage, but check out the chrome!)

[Stupidtrain]

Why the fuck is there a table in their kitchen?

[Druidbw]

Tables were ALWAYS in the kitchen before 1980!

[Davpronk]

Wow, incredible!

[Teflon65]

Microwave ovens were around since 1947, but housewives supposedly didn't want them, because they dried out the food. Microwave ovens were available on passenger trains, to heat up food for the dining cars. Also, the earliest idea of a flat screen TV I recall seeing was on the old Twilight Zone episode, "Eye of the Beholder".

[newmantopia]

When he said "taken for granted comfort" I was very struck. Quite poignant.

[Mishelley166]

1:21 - 1:30

That's what we need now, lol.

[TechForThought]

their home is ginormous

[kevkevinkev]

Close. But it's more like "In the future people will eat frozen food without any concern of the nutritional content and get really fat."

[qazwas2001]

"society rich in leisure..."

You need the microwave so you can put more hours in at work for straight time because of the union contract you no longer have, and because you need two incomes to support a family of three. They left that part out.

[tidmfc]

I'd love to know who's blowin that wild soundtrack.

[faeriegirl84]

The future is bleak. A man can't even choose his own luncheon cheeseburger without getting lectured by his computer.

[MrModulator]

Funny thing is that it is still the woman doing the "cooking" in this video, even if cooking means operating a computer.

[vicodin75]

woman cook? lol

[MrModulator]

What I mean is that the gender roles were still set. The man doesn't bother with making food and women still does all the cooking in this future vision. Kinda funny...

[vicodin75]

I know what you mean but I was joking because woman dont usually cook now days like before, those were the days I guess :( lol j/k

[Travieso78702]

Wow, her family is kinda rude. Don't they say "thank you" or "you're welcome".

[mmr11027]

The creators must have thought of this when they made the clip-after all, manners are pretty much out of date these days. Please and thank you are phrases quickly going the way of the dodo.

[dreeezer]

I saw furniture by Jacobsen and Kjaerholm, what in 2009, still is the most desirable furniture!

[pascalbg]

That one is too much; computers controlling kitchen and stuff. All that is possible though but like really expensive so only for really rich people.

[airodyssey]

0:53 ... June 2, 1999 was a Wednesday, not a Tuesday :-P

[Asiadventure]

I watched this in my first-grade class in 1970. I remember how some students argued that few could afford the seemingly expensive computers shown in the movie. I said at the time that someday computers would be as ubiquitous as TVs and telephones in the home. Well, here I am surrounded by 4 PCs in my home office - where I also do a lot of online shopping as shown in the film. I've not yet bought the wall-size, flat-screen TV seen in the film - but that's next.

[nilbud]

Get a projector or wait until next year for the 3d flat screens

[Landroid2]

How big is their house that it takes the kid almost 2 minutes to RUN to the kitchen and whats funnier is that the dad just walks there in the same amount of time as the kid. lol

[theoriginalcrazydave]

Yeah, Wink Martindale as the dad. And, is that Alexander Scourby narrating?

[Kirby444]

It is totally Scourby as the narrator, the man who recorded the Bible for the blind and the handicapped! You can read his name in the credits at the end of the third film for yourself... As if the way he pronounces his words didn't already convince you!

[AjayBaskauskas]

apparently, children will have no conceivable understand of the length of seconds in the 1999.

Also, that dude was like "Cheese Omelette?! Fuck that! Make me a cheeseBURGER, bitch!" looks like Urbild had the same interpretation

[marshalauth]

That kids counting was way off he went from 70 to 80 and the 13 to 16.

[receiver2005]

i like the soundtrack..... -_- hahaha ~~weird~~

[Moshm4n]

These guys are not far off. Cell phones, e-mail, paying bills online. Neat stuff.

[Kevbox2008]

It's amazing how accurate they were back then. My only question is: Why doesn't microwaved food look as good as it does in this video???

[urbild]

Damn, I that clip really makes me nostalgic for 1999. What a great year!

[explodingpirate]

i wish i had a wife that put up with my demands like that.

[AAMLfan]

I'm surprised they didn't think of a machine or robot that could carry out the son and husband's annoying orders instead.

[eetsummorr]

THe computer is real slow at typing...lol

[WKRPinCINN]

did people wish that in the future, you wouldn't have to lift a finger to make a sandwich? "most foods will be frozen and then microwaved"? where did these people think family meals would take place, in an airplane kitchen?

[urbild]

"Make me a cheeseburger, bitch!"

"And get me a beer!"

Yeah, the more things change, the more they stay the same.

[Crunkmonkey69]

That house is way too damn big if it takes that kid that long to run around it

[Crunkmonkey69]

did anyone notice how slow the kid was counting

[dfirest1]

In all honesty, i think we all have come home from work, and just wanted to push two buttons and get food without a second thought.

[dfirest1]

Dinner looks yummy don't it? Just like high school food, but not as tasty

[killadah727]

okay, we arent that lazy!

and that big oven and comp. setup would be a huge waste of space. they should have known we would go for space above looking "futuristic"

[Charles2337]

lol frikin sexist.

[fyrenwater]

Well, they predicted TV dinners and frozen dishes. That push-button machine thing is a tad overboard, though!

That sink thing was just bizarre. How efficient did they think a mist and blow-dryer would be?

[Shippingshit]

That's what I was thinking: TV Dinners.

[Noillypratt]

Wink Martindale!

[monkeychi1]

Yeah, I thought that was him!

[ThisisThelma]

cheese omlet?

cheese BURGER!

[AbdulRahmanKSA]

we already have half of these things nowadays ..

internet connection with almost every info you can get about cooking ..

[ScarSymmetric]

we have all this technology, sept its either expensive in total, not desired or just completely inefficient.

would you want a computer deciding your food?

family interaction down to webcams and children perminantly behind computers?

oh, too late

[AbdulRahmanKSA]

^ QFT

well said man !

[cky83]

That's a grade "A" milf right there.

[Dreaded88]

1967 and they imagined so much mediocre tools and gadgets that have come true, but none of the important stuff we used to dream about!

Where's the Moonbase! Where-the-fuck is the Moonbase!

I wanna live on the Moonbase dammit!!!

Gimmie either Shadowbase, or Moonbase Alpha!

[TheAntiFeminist]

Where-the-fuck is the Moonbase! LOMFL!!!!

[timely16]

Yet the computer console has turn knobs and no keyboard, and the screen resolution is terrible. So, as always, they overpredict some things and underpredict others. They predicted that we would have cameras all over the house, but they didn't predict cell phones, which are a far more useful innovation.

[morgs2020]

walk in oven

[morgs2020]

Milf of the future

[curlygirl07]

I'd rather die than give up homemade food.

But, still, they're not too far off about frozen convenience food.

[Dreaded88]

You notice they never show you one of the Homes of the Future in a bad neighborhood!

Don't tell me they can completely eliminate grafitti!

[Kelbirk]

Grafitti didn't exist at that point.

[Dreaded88]

Hmm... where's Judge Dredd when you need him!?!

[NilMortifey]

He's coming the year after to slaughter the family and steal their oven.

[ubergerard]

advance in technology but no advance in society

a wife or a maid?

[1happiness]

A pity in 2008 A.D. the world isn't as advanced as what the people from 1967 A.D. have thought.

[Dirtfire]

All this can be done now, it's just that most people can't afford it. They overestimated how rich we'd all be.

More our failing than theirs.

[1happiness]

41 years and we haven't reached their expectations....i have noting more to say.

[DireSloth]

:58-1:38 in the Future, everyone will be myopic, requiring monitors that display GIGANTIC TEXT.

2:07, every house will have tubes with plates lowered haltingly by gnomes hidden within the walls!

We laugh at it now, but it's sometimes creepy how accurate parts of this video are...

[Dreaded88]

Hmm.. Overall you'd be correct, but the only gnome I have at my house is the one that stands out on the front lawn. That I know of, of course!

This is not to mention The Gnomes Of Zurich!

[Lunarvx22]

Cheese BURGER.

[lasersoup]

No-Cal Beer? Really?

[LittleLulu62]

Wheres Rosie the robot maid??? O_o

[force311999]

this was a Philco ford kitchen see the logo at 2:16  Philco ford went under when the predicta tvs bombed

[blip3452]

aaahhhhh they accuritly predicted that refrigerator that has a computer that tells what's inside the fridge and instant meals.

scary

[ronaldartwell]

damn that house was big as a football field. see how long it took that kid to get to the dinner table?

[WotWot]

Kinda like factory farming...

[JQ24]

I want cheeseburger dammit! Honey, of course I love, now get me a beer!

[jthelms]

I make dinner faster than that. They didn't predict Easymac.

[onicasmom]

I was 15 years old then, wow, they predicted the internet, email and online banking, remember i ONLY had a princess phone, no cell phone, LOL this is funny

[9mingus]

They knew how to treats their womens in the 60s.

[jsinsj1999]

the dad seems like a dick. he probably beats his wife

[dtifft]

The technology predictions back in 1967 were remarkably accurate, but how many families "of the future" actually sit around eating dinner together, in a formal dining room? Last I heard, most new houses today don't even bother to incorporate dining rooms.

[friskobens13]

Do familys sit at the table and eat dinner still? most parents are divorce before the kid are 3 now days.

[rocketqueencd]

wow i can't believe we're still gonna be dressing 60's style!

[Elhardt]

Don't forget about that avocado green kitchen color scheme. Glad to see that makes a comeback in 1999.

[MissLori]

Actually, women's fashions from the 60s made a comeback in the 1990s. Pretty scary, huh?

[jjns06]

Good to see kids of the future are still smart asses.

[lovefordmustang20052]

It's good to see that women of the future are still stuck in the kitchen and men still drink beer in the middle of the day!

[Dreaded88]

Now if they could've just ran a script ripped from All In The Family, then it'd look even more eerily real!

[am476]

wow... i can't wait for 1999!

[jpowell180]

(Wife) "Cheese Omlette?"

(Husband) "CheeseBURGER...with french fries and a niiiice cole bottle of beer...".

I am having that right now... :)

[Brilliantbeing]

I saw this film at the show as a youngster with my folks. It's amazing how accurate some of the predictions were.

[jrm0311]

So what does Mom do all day?

[Drivermatic]

Watch Oprah and Judge Judie

[Josh3455]

Pfft... its nothing like that... Now days the whole family just makes their own meal and go to seperate parts of the house and do whatever they are doing.... lol...

[friskobens13]

lol josh I agree with you! its been like that for a long time, I remember back in the 80s and early 90s we would sit at the table but then it faded away now everyone goes in there seperate rooms like you said lol.

[waterloo13]

thank god there is still fresh food available and not only frozen bite. can you imagine how a cold salad, defrosted in a microwave, tastes like...yikes!

[venom477]

almost 10 years later and it's still not like that

[atimic]

Anyone notice who's playing the father in this clip. It's Wink Martindale.

[brutledge23]

Not only noticed that, but also know that there exists a picture of myself wearing that same shirt. Fortunately, it was when I was young enough not to be blamed for my fashion choices....

Wow, crazy accurate, although not as goofy looking.