OK, I noticed way back in the '70's that in Jesus Christ Superstar, there is this line, sung to the newly-captured Jesus: You'll escape in the final reel.

I always thought that was funny since movies hadn't been invented yet.

Of course now it's anachronistic in a different way, since movies aren't on reels any more.

But then I heard JCS again the other day and found this line: Did Mohamed move the mountain, or was that just PR? and realized for the first time that Mohamed was 9th century, another anachronism. What an idiot, I thought to myself, for not catching *that* till now. I mean I do know al(most) the songs al(most) the way through, I've sung that line a zillion times and never caught the anachronism.

I searched the Forum and found no threads on this topic, so if you've posted other ones you've noticed before, here's a chance to tell the stories all over again, newly.

Slight thread creep, to Musical Anachronisms in Soundtracks: My dad always minded that The Sting was mostly set to ragtime, since it was set decades after ragtime was big. At least they *had* ragtime then, though. In fact that was the example he used when teaching me the meaning of the word Anachronism.