2042
MTV's "The Real World" finally ends after 47 seasons -- producers blame uncontrolled genetic experimentation for turning modern man into some kinda robot who's no longer constitutionally able to "start getting real."

After years of war, rattlesnakes and humans sign agreement whereby rattlesnakes will only bite humans who already have rattlesnake tattoos on them, though this merely serves to codify an already more or less de facto condition.

Bill Gates back in prison for sticking up liquor store.

Y2.042K bug wipes out half of civilization.
2042