The basic idea is quite simple: Woody Allen wanted to use slapstick from a bygone era and how better to integrate it than in a film set in the future? The classic jokes don’t stop: the banana joke, the mirror joke, robot pantomime, the inflated man joke. Pulled from the masters of the genre like Buster Keaton, the Marx Brothers and Laurel & Hardy movies, Allen’s 1973 film is loosely based on H.G. Wells’ When the Sleeper Awakes.

It tells the story of The Happy Carrot health food store owner Miles Monroe who ends up in an immortality institution and is revived 200 years later in the year 2173. As the only member of society without a known biometric identity he is forced to navigate this foreign land alone. When he goes off on his own, he begins to explore this brave new world that has Orgasmatron booths to replace sex and confessional robots. The absurdity of this film is hard to trump and even though it has aged a bit, the dust only makes it more entertaining.