Mr. Peabody and Sherman, The Movie

[Xerus]

That's something I've always wondered too.

I remember on that short-lived, under-rated Cartoon Network show Time Squad, they went back in time via a teleportation device, but to get back to their headquarters, Larry the Robot would teleport them back via a button in his circuits.

I remember in a Cartoon Network bloopers special. Time Squad was watching stuff on a screen until an old Peabody and Sherman cartoon suddenly appeared as a joke. And Larry says, "For the last time, we did not rip off that show!"

 

[D'Snowth]

I remember in a Cartoon Network bloopers special. Time Squad was watching stuff on a screen until an old Peabody and Sherman cartoon suddenly appeared as a joke. And Larry says, "For the last time, we did not rip off that show!"

I remember that special too; but both had quite a few striking similarities... basically, the entire concepts for both were TOO similar: going back in time to correct history. Not only their, both of their introduction episodes more-or-less involved the adoptions of Sherman and Otto, respectively... and there's another similarity, both shows having a red-headed, bespectacled boy.

Though there were actually more differences than similarities...

* Peabody and Sherman went back in time at their own free will; the Time Squad went back in time on missions to correct history.
* Peabody and Sherman "worked" alone as they went back in time; there were multiple Time Squad units in their universe.
* Peabody's Improbable History was not intended to be educational; Time Squad was.

 

[minor muppetz]

After watching a bunch of them, I cam to the conclusion that they just wind up walking through the same door that sent them there that was somehow always there and no one, especially the historical figures, know it's there. There is one episode, I forget which one, where that's distinctly obvious.

I saw at least one, I think the one with Robinson Cruesoe, where after going into the machine they are shown being sent through the air to their location.