T-Rex: What are flashbacks? Geez, it's like you weren't listening when I explained several weeks ago:

Narrator: SEVERAL WEEKS AGO:
T-Rex: Flashbacks are when you jump back earlier in a story!

Narrator: LITERARY TECHNIQUE COMICS
Narrator: today's technique
Narrator: FLASHBACK

Utahraptor: So "Back to the Future" contains a large flashback when they travel back in time?
T-Rex: Actually, no!

T-Rex: If you use a time machine, it DOESN'T count as a flashback. This makes flashbacks one of the few literary techniques that's nullified by time travel. Ironically, it's also one of the few literary techniques whose name alone would be an AMAZING title for a time travel story. "Flash forward" is the other one.

Narrator: MEANWHILE, IN TUDOR ENGLAND:
T-Rex: See, this doesn't count either, because "meanwhile" implies a parallel universe, or at the very least a conception of time in which all events happen simultaneously.
T-Rex: Flashbacks!!
T-Rex: THEY'RE HARD