There're a lot of angles people use when making time travel stories.
One of the goofiest was in one of the "Bill and Ted" movies.
They were standing there and they'd forgotten their keys.
One of them said, "Hey, why don't we go back in time, hide our keys in this bush, and then com back to now!"
Then the other guy looked under the bush and the keys were there waiting.
Then there was a Simpson's episode where they had a toaster that was also a time travel device.
The gag was they were riffing on one of Ray Bradbury's famous stories (the same one they copied for t