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Nothing but Hits

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Nothing but Hits	comment	If your show is set anytime after 1930 but prior to the Present Day, then at some point a radio will be heard. It will only be playing well-known songs that, with hindsight, are seen as the coolest or most iconic of their era. Never any of the novelty singles, one-hit wonders or any form of Teen Pop that would have been on genuine radio stations of the period. If a movie marquee is seen, it will be showing a well-known classic of the period. Newspaper headlines will be the stories that everyone remembers, and televisions will always be showing either a famous opening sequence (MAS*H, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, etc.) or a famous scene (such as the chocolate factory scene from I Love Lucy). As a corollary, the radio will almost always be playing current hits of the period in question, especially if the scene is a flashback set ten years or more prior to the main action of the show. After all, how is the audience supposed to know the flashback takes place in 1982 if the characters are inconsiderate enough to be listening to hits of the '60s or '70s on an oldies station... or, even worse, to the hits of 1987? In addition to giving a clear indication as to the time period of a scene, this allows the audience to only be exposed to elements of pop culture that have aged relatively well. After all, if even the most iconic songs of a decade often seem rather dated and silly nowadays — due to changing tastes, Values Dissonance, etc. — then the throwaway hits of a given summer that were promptly forgotten would be rather painful for a modern audience to experience. Unless they are deliberately picked from the worst of the worst. Oldies radio stations in the real world do the same thing: What you loved when you were 15 is different from what you want to hear on an oldies station when you are 40. To use one common example: many a love song written from a male perspective prior to The '90s now comes across as stalker-ish, if not outright sexist or misogynistic, in its attitude toward women when heard with modern ears. Of course, the above doesn't apply just to period pieces. Vintage films set in their contemporaneous times (especially if they're from The '80s or later) will more often than not have a soundtrack consisting of current pop songs for the tie-in merchandising, and in hindsight they will themselves come off as this trope. (Consider the embarrassing VHS description for the 1984 musical Purple Rain, which was not updated for the DVD rerelease more than a decade later: "...a now soundtrack by the hottest bands around!") note and, ironically, except for Prince and the Revolution themselves, features bands that are now very obscure and forgotten by everyone but '80s pop-music buffs. This is likely to occur in a "Mister Sandman" Sequence, though in that case the song would likely be playing on the film's soundtrack rather than within the scene itself. A sub-trope of Small Reference Pools. Related to Nostalgia Filter and Popular History. See also Bad to the Bone. Examples
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Nothing but Hits / int_11c85002	comment	Season 4 episode "The Hellfire Club" uses "California Dreamin'" for a montage — not the original The Mamas & the Papas version from the 60s most viewers would be familiar with, but a Cover Version by The Beach Boys which was a modest hit in 1986 but is now largely forgotten.
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Nothing but Hits / int_11e3f224	comment	Everybody Hates Chris epitomizes this trope, it takes place in the '80s (1982â€“87 to be precise) and almost every single popular '80s song you can think of is heard at some point.
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Nothing but Hits / int_18562e34	comment	Everybody Wants Some!! is meant to be a Spiritual Successor to Dazed and Confused but set in 1980, so fittingly it has a similar mix of iconic late '70s to early '80s hits.
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Nothing but Hits / int_1be627ce	comment	The Twelve: The series has twelve World War II characters waking up in the 21st century. They're put in a fake '40s hospital to avoid culture shock during their recovery, complete with a radio playing '40s hits. The first suspicion that something is wrong comes when one of them notices the radio is not playing commercials.
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Nothing but Hits / int_1ca82882	comment	Plenty of familiar hits like "Rock Around the Clock" and "Johnny B. Goode" can be heard in American Graffiti, though there are also such (now) obscure rock and R&B singles as the Five Satins' "To the Aisle" and the Heartbeats' "A Thousand Miles Away". (Granted, that film was only a decade removed from the period it depicted...)
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Nothing but Hits / int_1f86ee96	comment	Christine uses this as a sign that there's something wrong with the car in question. Even set in September 1978, the red Plymouth Fury plays music straight from the '50s.
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Nothing but Hits / int_23553960	comment	Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain uses this heavily, being set in 1984 and having radios set around guard posts playing mostly hits from the '80s that still haven't aged and inexplicably on the hands of Soviet troops.
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Nothing but Hits / int_2b7741f7	comment	American Dreams used this motif while actually playing the songs live as they happened on American Bandstand, with Guest Stars as the singers of the day. (Of course, a few of the songs were never played on Bandstand). The show was notorious for its musical anachronisms. The very first scene in the entire series features Stevie Wonder's "Uptight (Everything's Alright)" playing while the caption reads, "Philadelphia, 1963"... not only three years before the song we're hearing was recorded, but arguably the biggest three-year gap of the rock era in terms of how music changed.
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Nothing but Hits / int_2e2efbf9	comment	A non-musical one: in the first film, Marty spends his first night in 1955 with his mother's family, watching an episode of The Honeymooners. Of course, one reason why The Honeymooners only lasted 39 episodes as a standalone sitcom is that in the fall and winter of 1955â€“56 it regularly got trounced in the ratings by The Perry Como Show in the same Saturday night time slot.
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Nothing but Hits / int_38d6e212	comment	Mafia III nicely subverts this. Lots of iconic songs from the late '60s appear, however there are plenty of more obscure ones and songs that were popular at the time but largely forgotten. Many songs from earlier in the decade and the '50s also appear. Overall the radio stations provide a pretty believable experience.
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Nothing but Hits / int_4b790c7b	comment	Iron Man 3 opens with "Blue (Da Ba Dee)", heralding a flashback to New Year's Eve, 1999.
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Nothing but Hits / int_4fc3c258	comment	Subverted in Donnie Darko. It does use some '80s nostalgia tracks like "Head Over Heels" by Tears For Fears but also some more obscurish songs like "The Killing Moon" from Echo & The Bunnymen. Most of what's shown on TV is coverage of the 1988 election and the film shown in the theater is a double bill of The Evil Dead and The Last Temptation of Christ rather than some current film.
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Nothing but Hits / int_5425ce75	comment	Grand Theft Auto also subverts this, with the appearance of hit music usually lower or equal than the obscure and dated music of its appropriate era. They did, however, in occasion play it straight in Grand Theft Auto III for one of the radio station exclusively plays tracks from Scarface OST.
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Nothing but Hits / int_56cb92c3	comment	Guardians of the Galaxy (2014) has main character Peter Quill listen to the Awesome Mix Vol. 1, a mixtape of his mother's favorite songs from the '70s. Because it's a greatest hits mixtape, of course, it plays this trope hard, with songs such as "Escape (The Pina Colada Song)", "Ain't No Mountain High Enough", "I Want You Back", and "Spirit in the Sky". (There are, of course, lesser known songs like "Hooked on a Feeling", "Ooh Child", and "Come and Get Your Love".) The sequel averts this trope a little harder.
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Nothing but Hits / int_64e4c87	comment	The House of the Devil, which isn't set in the early '80s so much as it is specifically designed to look and feel like it was originally filmed during that period. Three '80s singles are listened to by characters. "One Thing Leads To Another" by The Fixx is well-remembered enough to show up on many '80s hits compilations. The other two singles, "One Of Our Submarines" by Thomas Dolby and "The Breakup Song (They Don't Write 'Em)" by The Greg Kihn Band, on the other hand, are a bit more obscure.
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Nothing but Hits / int_6c2c4bf3	comment	X-Men Film Series: X-Men: Days of Future Past: All your favorite tunes from the The '70s. The first thing Wolverine hears in 1973 is Roberta Flack's "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face"; Quicksilver listens to Alice Cooper's "Hello Hooray" and Jim Croce's "Time in a Bottle"; the disco in Paris is playing Claude FranÃ§ois' '70s hit "Stop au nom de l'amour." X-Men: Apocalypse: The song selection leaves no doubt that the story is set in The '80s. Metallica's "Four Horsemen" plays when Archangel is "born," and the Eurythmics' most famous song, "Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)," is heard during Quicksilver's rescue of Xavier's students. Both were released in 1983. An Egyptian cover of A Flock of Seagulls' "I Ran (So Far Away)," a smash hit in 1982, is blaring from a boombox at the Cairo market. Men Without Hats' "The Safety Dance," another classic from that year, accompanies the deleted mall scene.
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Nothing but Hits / int_6c64f8ac	comment	The 2002 adaptation of White Teeth uses a number of hit songs contemporary to the setting of each episode (1974â€“92); mainly non-diagetically for dialogue-free scenes, and in the opening titles and end credits.
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Nothing but Hits / int_6ce0d19c	comment	In Quantum Leap, just about any tune that you hear playing on the radio or performed in front of an audience will be an instantly recognizable tune from the era contemporary to the date of the leap. The same goes for movies and television.
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Nothing but Hits / int_7070c9db	comment	One of the cuts David Fincher made to Zodiac before it hit theaters was a blank-screen audio montage that denoted the passage of time between 1973â€“77 with a "nothing but hits" soundtrack spanning the era, though it does not appear in the final version. The Director's Cut restores this, utilizing well-known songs by Roberta Flack, Wild Cherry, Bachman Turner Overdrive and other ubiquitous hits.
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Nothing but Hits / int_75584731	comment	Parodied in Tropic Thunder. Seriously, do we ever need to hear "For What It's Worth" in a montage about The '60s again? Ironically, the scene in question is actually taking place in roughly our own time. The main characters are actors filming a Vietnam War story on location in Southeast Asia.
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Nothing but Hits / int_77582c7b	comment	X-Men: Days of Future Past: All your favorite tunes from the The '70s. The first thing Wolverine hears in 1973 is Roberta Flack's "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face"; Quicksilver listens to Alice Cooper's "Hello Hooray" and Jim Croce's "Time in a Bottle"; the disco in Paris is playing Claude FranÃ§ois' '70s hit "Stop au nom de l'amour."
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Nothing but Hits / int_791fca44	comment	BioShock used a lot of famous music that people are likely to recognize as being from the 1940s and '50s — the game itself takes place in 1960. A lot of the songs were hits, like Papa Loves Mambo and La Mer.
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Nothing but Hits / int_7dd3fcb6	comment	Dazed and Confused. Most of the tracks featured in the music-heavy film are fairly iconic of '70s rock and well-known today.
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Nothing but Hits / int_7e793c21	comment	Watchmen uses some famous period pieces to date its flashbacks. For example, in the opening credits, a photo-montage of the in-universe history of superheroes, is set to "The Times They Are A-Changin'".
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Nothing but Hits / int_7f5bc680	comment	The Fallout series is set in an alternate universe post-apocalypse with many references to '50s culture, including a collection of period appropriate songs, most prominently featured in Fallout 3 where the player can tune into Three Dog's radio show for some easy listening while wandering the Capital Wasteland.
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Nothing but Hits / int_87d872e0	comment	The Newsreader: In the series premiere, Dale Jennings listens to "Kyrie" by Mr. Mister on his car radio, which was a #1 hit single in 1986, the year Season 1 is set in. In the fifth episode, the iconic "The Safety Dance" by Men Without Hats is the Background Music when Helen and Dale take part in a photo shoot. The Season 2 trailer note the official YouTube link is geoblocked for everyone who lives outside of Australia song is "Electric Blue" by the Australian band Icehouse, which peaked at #1 in Australia (and #7 in the USA) in 1987.
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Nothing but Hits / int_8f4ee60f	comment	Back to the Future A non-musical one: in the first film, Marty spends his first night in 1955 with his mother's family, watching an episode of The Honeymooners. Of course, one reason why The Honeymooners only lasted 39 episodes as a standalone sitcom is that in the fall and winter of 1955â€“56 it regularly got trounced in the ratings by The Perry Como Show in the same Saturday night time slot. Invoked by the Cafe 80s store Marty enters in Back to the Future Part II, as the cafe is deliberately going for the '80s throwback aesthetic and as such has "Beat It" playing when he walks in. An inversion occurs in one of the opening scenes of Back to the Future Part III. Marty comes out of the restroom at a drive-in theater dressed like a cheesy 1950s cowboy. He comments that he doesn't think Clint Eastwood would ever wear such a thing, and "Clint Eastwood" is the name he chooses to go by for the rest of the movie. When he says this, he gestures to the movie posters showcasing what movies are currently showing at the drive-in. The two movies are Revenge of the Creature and Tarantula!, two '50s monster flicks, but also the first two movies Eastwood ever appeared in.
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Nothing but Hits / int_9799ebfe	comment	An inversion occurs in one of the opening scenes of Back to the Future Part III. Marty comes out of the restroom at a drive-in theater dressed like a cheesy 1950s cowboy. He comments that he doesn't think Clint Eastwood would ever wear such a thing, and "Clint Eastwood" is the name he chooses to go by for the rest of the movie. When he says this, he gestures to the movie posters showcasing what movies are currently showing at the drive-in. The two movies are Revenge of the Creature and Tarantula!, two '50s monster flicks, but also the first two movies Eastwood ever appeared in.
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Nothing but Hits / int_9d41fc3d	comment	The villain in Despicable Me 3 is a former 1980s child star who is obsessed with the pop culture of that era. Naturally, there are tons of well known hits from that decade heard in the film.
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Nothing but Hits / int_a29544ab	comment	In Apollo 13 the teenage daughter's radio was playing during almost every scene where they showed Lovell's family, clearly to sell yet another late '60s/early '70s classic rock movie soundtrack.
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Nothing but Hits / int_aeaf3d1b	comment	Nearly everyone in Life on Mars listens to The Who, Led Zeppelin, Eric Clapton, Lou Reed or Santana, well-remembered artists of the '70s. (One key exception being Gene Hunt, who hates rock music but will quietly admit to liking Roger Whittaker.note The episode in question, which had hitherto played the trope straight in featuring the likes of T. Rex and Slade, plays out to one of Roger Whittaker's songs.)
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Nothing but Hits / int_b1072514	comment	The movies Forrest Gump and Remember the Titans used only well-known songs in their soundtracks, and a hell of a lot of them; there are enough songs included that roughly 90% of each movie contains a hit song, and no two scenes in either flick re-use the same tune. Except for the times when it's in-universe in Remember The Titans, such as when the team sings "Ain't No Mountain High Enough" or "Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye". Remember the Titans also plays with this trope. When things look bad for the Titans, the film's original score is used. When things begin to look better, then they start to use late '60s/early '70s classic rock.
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Nothing but Hits / int_b7db5642	comment	Stranger Things: A notable zigzag in the first episode: when Eleven sneaks into the diner, Benny the diner owner is playing Jefferson Airplane (probably meant to give Benny some characterization as a former hippie), but not "White Rabbit" or "Somebody To Love" as one might expect, but the less well-known "She Has Funny Cars" from the same album, Surrealistic Pillow. Only a while later do we hear the much better known "White Rabbit". Jonathan Byers is established as the '80s version of a music hipster by listening to, and name checking, The Smiths, The Clash and Echo & the Bunnymen among others. It stretches plausibility that a high schooler in a small town in Indiana, before the internet, would have even heard of these bands at the time. If Hawkins were located on the Ohio border near Cincinnati, Jonathan could have heard those bands on the pioneering and influential modern rock station WOXY-FM, but Hawkins' exact location in Indiana has never been confirmed. Indiana itself didn't get its first modern rock station until 1992. "Should I Stay or Should I Go?" by The Clash, which figures heavily into the plot, was released a year before the events of the show. Averted when Episode 5 ends with "Nocturnal Me" by Echo & the Bunnymen, which is from the same album as the far better known "The Killing Moon." A few '80s standards are heard, including "Africa" by Toto, "Hazy Shade of Winter" by The Bangles, "I Melt with You" by Modern English, "Waiting for a Girl Like You" by Foreigner, and "Time after Time" by Cyndi Lauper. Notable aversions: Lesser-known songs by both Joy Division and New Order are also used in the series. Season 4 episode "The Hellfire Club" uses "California Dreamin'" for a montage — not the original The Mamas & the Papas version from the 60s most viewers would be familiar with, but a Cover Version by The Beach Boys which was a modest hit in 1986 but is now largely forgotten.
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Nothing but Hits / int_b9b2268a	comment	In a similar vein, Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny is set in 1969 and features "Magical Mystery Tour" by The Beatles and "Space Oddity" by David Bowie.
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Nothing but Hits / int_bacd8204	comment	The Wood has '80s rap and R&B hits during the flashbacks to 1986.
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Nothing but Hits / int_bbf9a9e0	comment	A somewhat odd example happens in The Wackness and Hardball (that Keanu Reeves baseball flick), where The Notorious B.I.G. is constantly played.
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Nothing but Hits / int_c43df4d8	type	Nothing but Hits
Nothing but Hits / int_c43df4d8	comment	Doctor Who isn't known for featuring music or TV shows of the day (with a few present-day exceptions), but in the serial "Remembrance of the Daleks" (set at the time that the very first Doctor Who story aired IRL), Ace leaves a room and the camera cuts to the next scene just as the TV announcer is introducing "a brand new science-fiction show called Doctor..." (click) The same story (which is set in 1963) has "Do You Want to Know a Secret" and "A Taste of Honey" by The Beatles. In "Father's Day", Pete's car radio plays several hits of the late '80s, including "Never Gonna Give You Up".
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Nothing but Hits / int_cf10c600	type	Nothing but Hits
Nothing but Hits / int_cf10c600	comment	A non-period example in TRON: Legacy: The mothballed jukebox, dusty and unused since Flynn's Arcade closed in 1983, immediately starts blasting hits from when it was last active (Journey's "Separate Ways" and the Eurythmics' "Sweet Dreams Are Made of This").
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TRON: Legacy	hasFeature	Nothing but Hits / int_cf10c600
Nothing but Hits / int_dab7c96c	type	Nothing but Hits
Nothing but Hits / int_dab7c96c	comment	Played straight in an ironic sort of way in Pleasantville, where we hear Buddy' Holly's "Rave On" on a jukebox at exactly the time (April 1958) and place (a teen hang-out) that song would have been heard in real life — but probably NOT in Pleasantville, where anything the least bit unorthodox or controversial (which rock and roll certainly was back then) literally didn't exist.
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Nothing but Hits / int_e24fdfdb	comment	The Big Chill and its use of vintage Motown songs to the point of making oldies cool again.
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Nothing but Hits / int_ea4f62db	type	Nothing but Hits
Nothing but Hits / int_ea4f62db	comment	Family Guy: Spoofed in "Family Guy Through The Years" during the 1970s segment; when Quagmire returns from The Vietnam War, he recalls that during his entire stay there the only song he ever heard was "Fortunate Son", to the point it drove him mad. Also during a disco scene in the same episode, the Walter Murphy song "A Fifth Of Beethoven" is heard.
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Nothing but Hits / int_f16adb7	type	Nothing but Hits
Nothing but Hits / int_f16adb7	comment	In Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, the movie starts with Elvis singing the song "Hound Dog". Welcome to The '50s, folks.
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Nothing but Hits / int_f38b1d2f	type	Nothing but Hits
Nothing but Hits / int_f38b1d2f	comment	X-Men: Apocalypse: The song selection leaves no doubt that the story is set in The '80s. Metallica's "Four Horsemen" plays when Archangel is "born," and the Eurythmics' most famous song, "Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)," is heard during Quicksilver's rescue of Xavier's students. Both were released in 1983. An Egyptian cover of A Flock of Seagulls' "I Ran (So Far Away)," a smash hit in 1982, is blaring from a boombox at the Cairo market. Men Without Hats' "The Safety Dance," another classic from that year, accompanies the deleted mall scene.
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Nothing but Hits / int_f4bc8de	comment	Let Me In (the American remake of Let the Right One In), set in 1983, indulges in this with songs by Culture Club, David Bowie and Blue Ã–yster Cult playing in the background.
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Nothing but Hits / int_f8d91deb	comment	Since the main character in Good Morning, Vietnam was a radio disc-jockey, the music heard evokes the film's mid '60s time frame, with hits of the day.
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Nothing but Hits / int_ff2165b	type	Nothing but Hits
Nothing but Hits / int_ff2165b	comment	Cold Case's flashbacks use only well-remembered hits to help define the feeling of the historical period. They can also occasionally skew toward the anachronistic; for example, they once used Glenn Miller's "String of Pearls" (which Jerry Gray, its composer, didn't even write until 1941) in an episode centered around the 1938 broadcast of The War of the Worlds. Averted in one episode where a plot-related and heard in-universe song was composed specially for show.
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Nothing but Hits / int_ffc6ca91	type	Nothing but Hits
Nothing but Hits / int_ffc6ca91	comment	The Goldbergs ends each episode with a scene set to an '80s hit, sometimes relevant to the plot of the episode.
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A Brighter Summer Day / int_43b785f9	type	Nothing but Hits
A Bronx Tale / int_43b785f9	type	Nothing but Hits
Air (2023) / int_43b785f9	type	Nothing but Hits
Almost Famous / int_43b785f9	type	Nothing but Hits
American Graffiti / int_43b785f9	type	Nothing but Hits
Apollo 13 / int_43b785f9	type	Nothing but Hits
Atomic Blonde / int_43b785f9	type	Nothing but Hits
Captain Marvel (2019) / int_43b785f9	type	Nothing but Hits
Casino / int_43b785f9	type	Nothing but Hits
Cry-Baby / int_43b785f9	type	Nothing but Hits
Dark Shadows / int_43b785f9	type	Nothing but Hits
Dazed and Confused / int_43b785f9	type	Nothing but Hits
East is East / int_43b785f9	type	Nothing but Hits
Everybody Wants Some!! / int_43b785f9	type	Nothing but Hits
Fear Street / int_43b785f9	type	Nothing but Hits
Forrest Gump / int_43b785f9	type	Nothing but Hits
Grosse Pointe Blank / int_43b785f9	type	Nothing but Hits
I, Tonya / int_43b785f9	type	Nothing but Hits
Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny / int_43b785f9	type	Nothing but Hits
Jack Frost (1998) / int_43b785f9	type	Nothing but Hits
Jarhead / int_43b785f9	type	Nothing but Hits
Matinee / int_43b785f9	type	Nothing but Hits
Mischief / int_43b785f9	type	Nothing but Hits
School of Rock / int_43b785f9	type	Nothing but Hits
The Big Chill / int_43b785f9	type	Nothing but Hits
The Boat That Rocked / int_43b785f9	type	Nothing but Hits
The Hollywood Knights / int_43b785f9	type	Nothing but Hits
The Last Picture Show / int_43b785f9	type	Nothing but Hits
The Wood / int_43b785f9	type	Nothing but Hits
The World's End / int_43b785f9	type	Nothing but Hits
This Is England / int_43b785f9	type	Nothing but Hits
TRON: Legacy / int_43b785f9	type	Nothing but Hits
Watchmen / int_43b785f9	type	Nothing but Hits
Weird: The Al Yankovic Story / int_43b785f9	type	Nothing but Hits
X-Men: Apocalypse / int_43b785f9	type	Nothing but Hits
X-Men: Days of Future Past / int_43b785f9	type	Nothing but Hits
Born on the Fourth of July / int_43b785f9	type	Nothing but Hits
Christine / int_43b785f9	type	Nothing but Hits
AmericanCountryCountown	seeAlso	Nothing but Hits
Ptitlea4hwbksm	seeAlso	Nothing but Hits
GTA Radio (Radio) / int_43b785f9	type	Nothing but Hits
That Gosh Darn Hippie Show (Radio) / int_43b785f9	type	Nothing but Hits
American Horror Story: 1984 / int_43b785f9	type	Nothing but Hits
Ashes to Ashes (2008) / int_43b785f9	type	Nothing but Hits
Behind the Music / int_43b785f9	type	Nothing but Hits
Cold Case	seeAlso	Nothing but Hits
Cold Case / int_43b785f9	type	Nothing but Hits
Halt and Catch Fire / int_43b785f9	type	Nothing but Hits
Heartbeat / int_43b785f9	type	Nothing but Hits
My Mad Fat Diary / int_43b785f9	type	Nothing but Hits
New York Undercover / int_43b785f9	type	Nothing but Hits
Pose / int_43b785f9	type	Nothing but Hits
Quantum Leap / int_43b785f9	type	Nothing but Hits
Stranger Things / int_43b785f9	type	Nothing but Hits
The Americans / int_43b785f9	type	Nothing but Hits
The Assassination of Gianni Versace / int_43b785f9	type	Nothing but Hits
The Dropout / int_43b785f9	type	Nothing but Hits
The Newsreader / int_43b785f9	type	Nothing but Hits
The People v. O. J. Simpson / int_43b785f9	type	Nothing but Hits
The Vietnam War / int_43b785f9	type	Nothing but Hits
Top of the Pops / int_43b785f9	type	Nothing but Hits
Mr Burns: A Post-Electric Play (Theatre) / int_43b785f9	type	Nothing but Hits
Overused Sci-Fi Settings (Website) / int_43b785f9	type	Nothing but Hits
Remember the Titans / int_43b785f9	type	Nothing but Hits
Super 8 / int_43b785f9	type	Nothing but Hits

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