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This trope occurs when, while making a story set during the recent past, the contemporary culture of the production seeps in where it wouldn't have existed. It varies whether this becomes more obvious or less in the ensuing years. Sure, many period works are Anachronism Stews anyway, but it's pretty noticeable when a fad shows up in the wrong time period. One extremely noticeable example would be the '70s fashions and hairstyles on Happy Days; a relatively minor one is Dudley Dursley having a PlayStation in a scene set in the summer of 1994, when the PS1 wasn't available until the following year.
Bellisario's Maxim can sometimes be applied with regard to location shoots and incorrect background details. Sometimes there just isn't time or money to get everything right. It's also impossible to control everything when working in a public setting; for instance, you might have to put up with pedestrians and other people who aren't part of the film's crew (and therefore aren't in period costume) appearing in the background if you don't have the money or clout to get exclusive use of a public area. And even if you do, changing the street signs, billboards, and skyline isn't an option for a film made on location. Still, it's fun to spot them...
Of course, much of this assumes that casual viewers will actually notice the discrepancies. There will always be somebody who does, but assuming that every person watching will have an encyclopedic knowledge of every past era is a bit presumptuous. Most people tend to think of only specific aspects of a given past era – be they technology, entertainment, fashion, businesses, social norms, historical events, or even personal experiences – when they think about one at all. In fact, this trope exists in part because (at least in visual media) getting every detail right is hellaciously and often prohibitively expensive; a production might simply not have the budget or time to assure the provenance of every single prop, or to produce dozens if not hundreds of meticulously-researched, historically-accurate costumes, especially when the local rental outfit can provide “good enough� for one-fiftieth the cost. For similar reasons, this trope is very common in fan fiction – there's no reason that a hobbyist writer should pore over every detail and make sure it is timely if the work is still acceptably "modern-day".
Reality Is Unrealistic may result if this trope is invoked unintentionally, simply because something that is presumed to be contemporary has actually been around for quite a while.
A Sub-Trope of Anachronism Stew. Often overlaps with Hollywood Costuming and 20 Minutes into the Past. Next Sunday A.D. can sometimes involve inversions of this, depending on how rapidly changes come about in the future. (For example, it seems pretty safe to have people using YouTube two years from now, but who knows?) See also Long-Runner Tech Marches On.
Compare Comic-Book Time and Retro Universe. Creator's Culture Carryover would be the equivalent trope geographically.
Contrast Popular History, Two Decades Behind, and Unintentional Period Piece.
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Happy Days spin-off Laverne & Shirley freely let modern styles seep into its period setting.
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Superman: Birthright (2003) was supposed to be the new canonical Super Hero Origin of the Man of Steel, who in the ongoing books has been Superman for "about ten years". It includes instant messaging and the Department of Homeland Security. Of course, Comic-Book Time can smooth these problems over. When John Byrne wrote the previous origin, he had Jonathan Kent talking about Sputnik in 1956. By the time it got retconned this had occurred in 1964, so no problem.
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The Social Network:
The movie takes place in late 2003 and 2004, yet many of the visible laptops clearly are from the modern day. Somewhat ironically in a bit of an inversion they mostly appear to be Windows 98, even though XP had been out for several years at that time and would no doubt be more standard among such a tech-savvy crowd.
In one scene, students are shown clearly playing Fallout 3, which in 2003 was trapped in Development Hell and was widely believed to have been canceled, and ultimately wasn't released until 2008.
Mountain Dew cans are shown with a design introduced in 2005.
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Grease 2 continues in the same vein - Michelle Pfeiffer rocks the kind of big, feathery hair you could only see in The '80s.
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The first Fear Street movie is set in 1994, yet numerous songs on the soundtrack were released afterwards, the latest being White Town's "Your Woman" from 1997. More egregiously, one of the characters is seen using a computer with Calibri font, even clearly labeled as such. Said font did not exist until 2007, a good thirteen years after the setting.
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Fist of Fury is set some time in the early twentieth century (1908 or the 1930s, depending on who you ask), but makes no effort to disguise background occurrences of 1970s clothes and cars. This may have been because of budget limitations.
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The kids are in possession of posters for The Thing (1982). While contemporary reception to the movie views it as a beloved classic, it was commercially and critically massacred upon release and almost cratered the career of John Carpenter. Given how immensely unpopular the movie was among even dedicated sci-fi and horror fans at the time, it's extremely unlikely that genre-savvy teens would proudly hold onto this memorabilia in 1983.
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YIIK: A Post-Modern RPG is supposed to take place around the Turn of the Millennium, as its name implies, yet it makes reference to Super NES JRPGs like Chrono Trigger and Lufia II: Rise of the Sinistrals as if they were venerated classics and adult characters wax nostalgic about how important they were to them as kids. In real life, console RPGs were just starting to take off internationally with the release of Final Fantasy VII, and the games mentioned would have been about four years old at most, making it impossible for the characters in question to have played them as children and still be young adults. The creator's previous game, Two Brothers, also gets namedropped in dialogue and plays a major role in resolving the game's plot, despite being almost two entire decades away from conception, let along release. The most glaring example though is the protagonist himself, who dresses like a typical hipster, which have several years to go before existing. Also, most infamously, Satoru Iwata has a gravestone stating the real-life date he died.
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Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain:
Set a year (Ground Zeroes) and ten year (The Phantom Pain) after Peace Walker, has Snake and his operatives equipped with an iDroid, a smartphone-esque device with projection instead of screen (the name of which is an obvious Portmanteau of "iPhone"/"iOS" and "Android", to boot), with user interface that more like 2015 instead of 1984. This is jarring because the immediate chronological game, the first Metal Gear, has basically contemporary technology, with Solid Snake simply equipped with a radio transceiver.
The soundtrack uses licensed 80s music to give a feel of that time, but most of the songs are a few years into the future after 1984. The most anachronistic one is The Cure's "Friday I'm In Love", which was released in 1992. It's difficult to handwave this, since it's not clear how MSF's advanced tech would have made Robert Smith write the exact same songs when he was eight years younger.
When exploring the Mother Base, there will be posters of Idol Paz occasionally plastered around walls. However the artwork for the poster, rather than the era appropriate art style uses the one that is more in line with the modern day bishojo design.
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Jeeves and Wooster takes place in a Genteel Interbellum Setting as it is, but the episodes where Bertie vacations in New York have a particularly jarring example — the World Trade Center is clearly visible in establishing shots of the city. (Also Harsher in Hindsight.)
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The 2000s The Baby-Sitters Club graphic novels downplay this. The technology level makes it clear that the books take place in the 1990s—more specifically, the late '90s judging from how characters watch what is most likely the remake of The Parent Trap on DVD. (The one exception is a smartphone in book 9.) However, the fashion sense has been made more neutral. In contrast with the books' flashy 1980s/1990s clothes, the characters dress in clothes that weren't unreasonable for 12 year olds in the 1990s, yet are more appealing to 2000s children.
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No Country for Old Men set in 1980 contains many instances of modern day brand names and logos appearing, such as a of a Carl's Jr. in El Paso (Carl's Jr. had not expanded to El Paso in 1980), many car alarms are heard going off after a car explodes (car alarms of the type were not prevalent until the mid 80s), and there are several firearms used in the film that would not be developed for another few years.
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The spiritual sequel, Umineko: When They Cry is, if anything, worse at keeping to its 1986 setting. Not only do they reference Cardcaptor Sakura again, people cosplay as Touhou Project characters, and some of the characters have even played Higurashi or watched it on a flatscreen TV in the anime.
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In America is ostensibly set in the '80s, but in order to create a "timeless feel," the director deliberately left in anachronisms like shots of Jessica Alba's L'oreal billboard in Times Square.
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Whit Stillman's Metropolitan is meant to be set circa-1974, but the hairstyles of the characters, clothing, cars, and background music are clearly of an era no earlier than 1989. Stillman said he wanted to do the film as a period piece, but couldn't.
In one scene you can see a The Cure poster on one character's wall ... the band didn't form until 1978.
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The Big Lebowski was made in 1998 but takes place in 1991, mainly so there can be meaningless allusions to the Gulf War like the Dude saying "This aggression will not stand" and having a dream with Saddam Hussein as a bowling alley attendant. There's a minor flaw in this; there's a scene where Jesus Quintana, a registered sex offender, has to identify himself to his neighbors as such. While California did have a sex offender registration at the time, notifying the public of local sex offenders wasn't made a big deal until the passage of various forms of Megan's Law in 1994 onward.
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We Summon the Darkness: The $100 bill on the top of the stack that Bev picks up is the large-portrait design introduced in 1996, though the film is set in 1988. Strangely, the bill on top of the stack she leaves in the tray is period appropriate.
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When They Cry:
Higurashi: When They Cry is set in 1983, but nothing except the dates of past events and lack of cellphones and internet access really agrees with that. The most blatant example is a reference to the Cardcaptor Sakura anime in the game version of Watanagashi, which didn't premiere until 1998. The American release calls it Card Master Sakura, using a Captain Ersatz which would not be limited by real-life dates. It's unclear whether this is a deliberate Translation Correction, an accidental Translation Correction, or whether the original Japanese version already used the Captain Ersatz. Anime-wise, there's a reference to Maria Watches Over Us, even though the original novels weren't published until 1998. In Watangashi, in most medias, the doll tends to resemble a Rozen Maiden.
The spiritual sequel, Umineko: When They Cry is, if anything, worse at keeping to its 1986 setting. Not only do they reference Cardcaptor Sakura again, people cosplay as Touhou Project characters, and some of the characters have even played Higurashi or watched it on a flatscreen TV in the anime.
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Harriet the Spy takes place in the 1960s and is somewhat open about its setting (Harriet is excited about the first woman in space, which occurred in 1963). However, some modern trends are portrayed, such as Harriet treating a pocket radio like an iPod complete with earbud, and Harriet taking a selfie with a boy.
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Articles about Half-Life 2 and Hitman: Blood Money despite the game taking place before either was released.
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Mayday:
Count the number of times that they had episodes covering plane crashes in the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s where you can see cars from the 2000s. One particularly egregious case is the Pan Am Flight 103 episode, as the opening segment documenting a German police bust on two terrorists working for the PFLP that happened two months before the Lockerbie bombing shows 21st century cars.
In the episode about the Tenerife jumbo jet collision, which takes place in 1977, the air traffic controllers have, of all things, a modern personal computer in their office.
Also one of the jets taxiing is a Cessna 525, while a plane shown taking off is a narrow-body with winglets - a 737 NextGen or an Embraer E-Jet. Cessna 525 first flew in 1991, 737 NextGen in 1997 and E-Jet in 2002. (This is in the regular ep, not the 90-minute special.)
In many episodes, the passengers tend to be shown in generic modern clothes and hair rather than in obvious contemporary fashions. May be somewhat justified in that given that this is an ongoing show with a limited budget that requires many actors and extras, they would not only need to provide a lot of period clothing but also do many contemporary hairstyles/wigs. Notably averted in a few episodes, such as "Munich Air Disaster" and "Grand Canyon Disaster", as the clothing is of the appropriate era (which is the 1950s).
A subtle one occurs in the Grand Canyon episode: in 1956, the controller uses a modern "taxi into position and hold" command. Moreover, the first officer repeats his command as he heard it; this was introduced after the Tenerife disaster. In the 1950s, the ATC commands were acknowledged with simply "OK" or "Roger". A more obvious one in the same episode is where, despite it being 1956, the ATC tower has a functional computer monitor in the tower, similar to the anachronism found in the Tenerife episode.
In the Garuda Flight 421 episode, during the waterborne evacuation, one of the cabin walls near the exit doors displays the Garuda Indonesia logo. However, the logo displayed is incorrect, since it is the current one, distinguishable by its unique font. In 2002 (the year Flight 421 actually crashed), Garuda Indonesia were using a different logo◊ that was adopted in the mid-1980s, and only transferred to the current logo in 2009 as part of a re-branding. This error also appears in the Garuda Flight 152 episode.
The same type of logo error happens in the Air Canada 797 episode, as although the plane is in the 1965-1993 livery, the logo on the headrest covers in the cabin are of the 2005-2017 variant.
A common anachronism in the series is the "airliner placeholder", where either defunct airlines or airlines that did not exist until later are used to fill out the background at airports.
In "Titanic in the Sky", when Qantas Flight 32 was backing away from the gate at Singapore Changi Airport, several aircraft can be seen parked at the gates around the Airbus A380. However, the aircraft parked range from airlines that fly to Changi in real life but with a completely wrong aircraft type (three Air France aircraft are seen in the scene, one of which is an Airbus A320; in reality, Air France operates only one flight to Singapore from Paris, not with an Airbus A320 but with a Boeing 777) and airlines that never flew from Singapore and went out of existence way before the date of the accident (multiple Pacific Southwest Airlines aircraft, mostly Boeing 737-200s are seen; FYI, PSA never even flew out of the continental United States during its operational life span and the airline went out of service in 1988.)
This also happens in "Speed Trap", where when Flight 706 is on the ground, out of the cockpit window you could see a plane's tail with the Air China logo on it. This is a very obvious anachronism since back in 1971 (a year the episode explicitly stated the accident occurred), Air China didn't even exist as it was founded in 1988.
Yet again, also appears in "Fatal Delay", as when Spanair 5022 was taxing on the apron, you can see a PSA 737 and a AirWest DC-9 in the background.
A minor anachronism, but many of the Boeing documentation in the past (such as repair manuals, logbooks, documents and such), especially in episodes set before 1997, display the post-1997 Boeing logo which included the sphere and ring logo of McDonnell Douglas after the latter merged with the former.
In the Swissair Flight 111 episode, a passenger is shown watching Tarzan on the in-flight entertainment system. The accident happened on September 2, 1998, while the movie wouldn't be released until the following year.
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The trope name is taken almost literally in 24-Hour Party People, a film set from 1976 to 1992 but where the makers seemingly made no effort to disguise outdoor location shots. The main characters drive around what is obviously Manchester circa-2001 in period costume and cars, past satellite dishes, anachronistic cars, buildings and billboards. Given the irreverent self-referential style, it was probably a deliberate decision not to get too detailed.
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Shenmue, set in 1986, lets the character win Hang-On and Space Harrier games that can be used on the character's Sega Saturn, a system which did not exist in 1986. Almost certainly intentional, though; Shenmue comes from Sega, who would know when their own games came out, and since home systems in 1986 couldn't do arcade-perfect ports of them (the arcade versions of both came out in 1985), it would have had to be done anachronistically (though it must be noted that these games' ports were two of the most important titles for the Sega Master System in 1986).
Similarly, there is the range of Sega-themed toys available from the gashapon (capsule toy) machines, again most certainly intentional.
Ryo and Fukuhara both have Virtua Fighter posters in their rooms, seven years before the first game came out.
Ryo's watch is explicitly a Timex Indiglo, not available until 1992 at the earliest. The model of Timex Expedition (Timex T433914E), on which the design of Ryo's watch is based, was not released until 1998.
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The 2005 version of Fun with Dick and Jane, set in 2000, includes a convenience store with a sticker on the door stating that those born before "today's date in 1983" cannot buy either alcohol or tobacco. Problem is, in all US states, the legal age for purchasing alcohol is 21, and the legal age for tobacco purchases was 18 at the time of both the film's release and the time of the film.note (Tobacco was changed to 21 in 2019 by then President Trump.) In 2000, someone born on that date in 1983 would only be turning 17, too young to buy either product.
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In the Harry Potter books, the internal chronology dates the events of Harry's time at Hogwarts to the 1990s. The only notable anachronism in the books is a mention of Dudley owning a PlayStation in what should be August 1994, when the system was not yet available — and this only because J.K. Rowling can't do math and didn't realize the anachronism until fans pointed it out.
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"What Price Gloria?" was set in 1961 but filmed in 1989, and it shows. The women do look early-Sixties, but the boss' office and suit are MUCH closer to Wall Street than Mad Men.
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Despite Growing Up being set in The '90s, there are a few anachronisms referencing contemporary history:
The school world map shows South Sudan, which didn't secede from Sudan until 2011.
The animation of the protagonist studying the Periodic Table shows elements 113-118 with their new symbolsnote Nh - nihonium, Fl - flerovium, Mc - moscovium, Lv - livermorium, Ts - tennessine, and Og - oganesson, but they wouldn't be formally named until 2011 for elements 114 and 116 and 2016 for the rest.
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Sid & Nancy, made in the mid-eighties, but set in the late-seventies (of course), has some rather obvious 'eighties cars, including an '80-82 Cadillac limo in 1975, a facelifted Mk III Escort van and an '84-'85 Honda Civic. Strangely the latter does have correctly lettered number plates for the year ('old' P-reg in British car parlance).
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The Squid and the Whale:
The film is set in 1986 but contains a shot of an ambulance with a 9/11 memorial on the back, a poster for WWE wrestler The Hurricane whose gimmick debuted in 2001, and many cars that post-date the setting.
The subway trip depicted in the film is also anachronistic. In 1986, the trains would have been covered in graffiti, and the service depicted didn't exist until 2004.
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In Hotel Dusk: Room 215, Kyle has a digital pager in 1979, back when pagers weren't generally in use outside of hospitals and fire departments due to their short range and bulk.
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United 93, set on 9/11, includes a billboard advertising the film Chicken Little, UPS' 2003 logo and a 2004 Embraer Jet.
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X-Men: First Class:
Charles Xavier uses the word "groovy" when chatting up a girl at a bar early on; a term which wouldn't become popular until the final couple of years of the decade.
When frustrated, Havok is heard to mutter, "Whatever..."
The Macross Missile Massacre fired at the end of the movie includes Harpoon and Tomahawk missiles, which entered service in 1977 and 1983 respectively.
Moira and Raven are often seen in miniskirts, which weren't designed until 1965, i.e. three years in film's future. To name just a few hairstyle and clothing anachronisms.
Some of the US sailors are wielding M16s, which were not officially adopted until the following year.
At the strip club, Angel takes Erik and Charles into a separate room for a "bed dance" (as evidenced by the fact the two men are shown reclining on a bed). Bed dances (a somewhat rare variant of lap dancing) weren't introduced until at least the 1990s.
Pinball geeks will note that Havok and Darwin are playing Gottlieb's Fun Land, which came out six years after the movie's events.
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The video game-themed Kamen Rider Ex-Aid normally averts Pac Man Fever, but there's a noticeable exception that crosses with this trope: a Flash Back to 2010 shows the main character playing Tekken 7: Fated Retribution, a game which didn't come out until 2016note This is more than likely intentional, since Bandai Namco is the Kamen Rider franchise's biggest sponsor and the home release of Tekken 7 was on the horizon when that episode aired.
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The school bus scenes in The Wonder Years. Look out the bus windows and play "Spot The '80s Car".
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At the end of Dirty Dancing the characters dance to the movie's big hit single, "(I've Had) The Time of My Life", which sounds very contemporary to 1988 for a movie set in 1963, with obvious synthesizers in its arrangement.
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My Name is Khan has one of the child character introduced with a PSP. Except that scene is quite far before the 9/11 attacks.
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Higurashi: When They Cry is set in 1983, but nothing except the dates of past events and lack of cellphones and internet access really agrees with that. The most blatant example is a reference to the Cardcaptor Sakura anime in the game version of Watanagashi, which didn't premiere until 1998. The American release calls it Card Master Sakura, using a Captain Ersatz which would not be limited by real-life dates. It's unclear whether this is a deliberate Translation Correction, an accidental Translation Correction, or whether the original Japanese version already used the Captain Ersatz. Anime-wise, there's a reference to Maria Watches Over Us, even though the original novels weren't published until 1998. In Watangashi, in most medias, the doll tends to resemble a Rozen Maiden.
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On the DVD commentary for The Godfather director Francis Ford Coppola points out two longhaired hippie-looking men in the background inside the hotel when Michael arrives in Las Vegas in what's supposed to be the early Fifties.
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Metal Gear:
In Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater, Snake's mullet won't be a thing for another twenty years. There is no explanation for modern-looking Japanese instant ramen or the modern day biscuit Calorie Mate showing up in the game either.
Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker is set in 1974, but:
There is a pop song in the game, sung by one of the characters, which is a modern J-Pop production complete with digital synthesisers and Auto-Tune. This can be handwaved as non-diagetic, especially because an alternate version of the song exists in the story which uses a lush 70s-style soft-pop production with a dense string arrangement.
Several of the guns didn't come out for a few years after the setting. A lot of this can be handwaved as being MSF developed tech.
The Product Placement items have a modern appearance, even for the consumer products that did exist in the 1970s.
Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain:
Set a year (Ground Zeroes) and ten year (The Phantom Pain) after Peace Walker, has Snake and his operatives equipped with an iDroid, a smartphone-esque device with projection instead of screen (the name of which is an obvious Portmanteau of "iPhone"/"iOS" and "Android", to boot), with user interface that more like 2015 instead of 1984. This is jarring because the immediate chronological game, the first Metal Gear, has basically contemporary technology, with Solid Snake simply equipped with a radio transceiver.
The soundtrack uses licensed 80s music to give a feel of that time, but most of the songs are a few years into the future after 1984. The most anachronistic one is The Cure's "Friday I'm In Love", which was released in 1992. It's difficult to handwave this, since it's not clear how MSF's advanced tech would have made Robert Smith write the exact same songs when he was eight years younger.
When exploring the Mother Base, there will be posters of Idol Paz occasionally plastered around walls. However the artwork for the poster, rather than the era appropriate art style uses the one that is more in line with the modern day bishojo design.
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Homicide Hunter: Lt. Joe Kenda, since it covers cases from all through Kenda's career, frequently runs into this in the recreations. All the vehicles are contemporary to when the show was produced (2011 - on), and thus you see may a case set in the late 1980s where police cars not only have modern styling but LED lightbars and a supposedly low-income hotel has a 42" LCD flatscreen TV in the lobby.
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The film is set in 1986 but contains a shot of an ambulance with a 9/11 memorial on the back, a poster for WWE wrestler The Hurricane whose gimmick debuted in 2001, and many cars that post-date the setting.
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Turning Red is set in 2002. However, Mei's stuffed animal collection is decidedly modern-looking, and includes plushes directly inspired by Pusheen the Cat (2010) and Squishmallows (2017). Additionally, Priya is shown reading a book which is a pastiche of Twilight (2005).
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Jorel's Brother is supposed to be set during The '80s or the early 90's. Although it did feature several elements of those eras at first, it's often inconsistent, as some episodes have characters using the internet, computers (albeit only primitive ones), smartphones, and flat-screen televisions. Everytime a year is set on an episode, it's completely different.
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The Roaring Twenties (1939) starring James Cagney came out in the late 30s. They didn't even try. Literally, it was a conscious decision not to recreate the actual look of the actual 20s. The two female leads sport some fashion elements of the '20s, but overall still look like they're from the '30s.
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In Resident Evil 2 (Remake) you can find a USB flash drive in the shape of a police badge to unlock the magnum. While USBs were around since 1995, they were not widely used in 1998 when the game takes place, especially not enough to have novelty designs or to be able to be used on a standard Windows 95 machine.
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Black Widow (2021): The opening scene is set in 1995 and shows that Yelena has a plush toy of Twilight Sparkle from My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic. While My Little Pony was a popular brand around this time and started in 1983, Twilight and Friendship Is Magic first appeared in late 2010. Moreover, that toy depicts Twilight with wings, which she did not have until 2013.
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Several of the diegetic songs in Our Ladies (2019), such as "Truly Madly Deeply" by Savage Garden and "Tubthumping" by Chumbawamba are from 1997, despite the film being set in 1996.
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Harry Potter: The films clearly reflect their 2000s production years, in spite of being set in the 1990s (the gravestones of Tom Riddle Sr. and Harry's parents indicate this), as the books are.
The sixth movie features the destruction of London's Millennium Bridge, which was completed in 2000.
The fifth movie, when Harry is taking Dudley home, clearly shows the car numberplate "MA 06 KBH" in the background, and the "06" means it's part of the February 2006 issue ("56" would have meant August 2006). A little later, flying to his trial at the Ministry of Magic, Harry passes a completed Canary Wharf development (in the book's year of 1995), and the London Eye (not erected until autumn 1999). Oyster Cards (2003) also featured briefly. According to which fans you believe, these are either glaring anachronisms which detract from the film, or evidence that the film has been updated to our time.
The movies are also filled with noughties fashion since 2004, or what the characters wear when dressed as Muggles — it's not glaring, and hard to describe, but an obvious example would be the wide-horizontal-stripes jumpers that Hermione and Ron kept wearing in the sixth one: hot at the time of filming, not really around in the nineties.
Watching Goblet of Fire creates a weird sort of nostalgic dissonance for those who grew up reading both the books and seeing the films in theaters. The entire male student cast has "emo boy band" style shaggy haircuts, which were very in vogue in 2005 when the film was released, but nothing at all like the hairstyles teenage boys would have worn in 1994, when the film is set. These haircuts are largely absent from the next film, as they would have, strangely, looked dated in 2007, despite the film being set in 1995, but the hair styles still aren't 90's hairstyles.
Lavender Brown also wears 2000s clothing, seeing how not only the movies but the books as well take place in the '90s.
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Hairspray (1988) shows features of Baltimore, such as overhead street signs, that would not exist for decades.
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In one scene, students are shown clearly playing Fallout 3, which in 2003 was trapped in Development Hell and was widely believed to have been canceled, and ultimately wasn't released until 2008.
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This is taken to incredibly ridiculous levels in Harry Potter fanfiction. Now, moving the action forward a bit so that Harry starts Hogwarts around the same year the writer turned eleven is one thing; even the Warner Bros. films have anachronistic London landmarks, technology, and cars despite the gravestone of Harry's parents making this impossible, and in any case there must be some fanfiction writers whose parents are younger than Harry (born 1980) would be by now, so wanting to Write What You Know as far as pop culture references are concerned isn't going to break Willing Suspension of Disbelief all by itself. But fics set in the Marauders' era (canonically the 1970s) seeming to take place in the Present Day so as to accommodate Author Appeal, on the other hand, is significantly less forgivable. Even ignoring the timeline, you'd think that anyone would realize that a movie which came out last year couldn't possibly have been around when Harry's parents were at school... you'd think...
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Oliver Beene was nominally set in The '60s, but characters had attitudes and fashions more at place in the 2000s.
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In Quantum Leap, Sam leaps all around the timeline of his own life.
At times, he would end up in New York in a time before the World Trade Center was built, but in any establishing shots of the city, the towers would be there.
In the pilot episode, he's supposed to be in the '50s, but a modern vehicle can be seen in the background.
"What Price Gloria?" was set in 1961 but filmed in 1989, and it shows. The women do look early-Sixties, but the boss' office and suit are MUCH closer to Wall Street than Mad Men.
Zig-zagged in the 1991 episode "Glitter Rock", set in 1974. The fictional rock band King Thunder looks plausibly like a Glam Rock group from 1974, but sounds more like a Whitesnake knockoff from a full decade later.
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The Sims:
The Sims 3 takes place two generations before The Sims 2, but is still the modern day, even more-so than The Sims 2 was (for example, the game without expansion has the players using Blackberry esque cellphone in contrast of the Nokia esque keypad cellphone, which later in the University Life expansion pack of The Sims 3, replaced with touch screen smartphones). This is especially odd because The Sims, which takes place in between the two games, has a distinct 1970s aesthetic (and still with then-modern technology). The Sims 3 seems to be trying to go for the World War 2 era feel, but everything is distinctly late 2000s. Considering the world is set in a Fantasy Counterpart Culture, we can let it mostly slide.
Then The Sims 4 simply ignores any continuity or plot introduced by the previous games and its spinoffs, relegating them into Mythology Gag.
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Wonder Woman (2017):
Cyanide Pills were first used during World War II, not World War I.
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The Sims 3 takes place two generations before The Sims 2, but is still the modern day, even more-so than The Sims 2 was (for example, the game without expansion has the players using Blackberry esque cellphone in contrast of the Nokia esque keypad cellphone, which later in the University Life expansion pack of The Sims 3, replaced with touch screen smartphones). This is especially odd because The Sims, which takes place in between the two games, has a distinct 1970s aesthetic (and still with then-modern technology). The Sims 3 seems to be trying to go for the World War 2 era feel, but everything is distinctly late 2000s. Considering the world is set in a Fantasy Counterpart Culture, we can let it mostly slide.
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Then The Sims 4 simply ignores any continuity or plot introduced by the previous games and its spinoffs, relegating them into Mythology Gag.
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The Toy Story segment of Kingdom Hearts III is set around the Turn of the Millennium (as evidenced both by the release date of the movie and by video game boxes like "Amazing Jam 2001"), but Rex is into 2010s-style JRPGs and some enemy toys are pastiches of popular 2010s toylines.
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Jake and the Never Land Pirates has the season 3 special Battle for the Book! establish the show as taking place in the 1920's, as the Darlings are the same age as in Peter Pan. Despite this, some earlier episodes had the characters use items that wouldn't be invented for several more decades, including electric guitars, Telstar footballs, and skateboards.
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Grease has several of examples of this trope, but very noticeably in fashion - Sandy's iconic outfit and perm are 100% The '70s and have nothing to do with the styles of The '50s.
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Bloodsport is set in 1975. The fashions, decor and technology are clearly of 1988. What's more, the flashback sequence with the young Frank, which takes place in the '60s, also clearly has the fashions, decor and technology of 1988.
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The Pickwick Papers was set in 1827-28, but was written in 1836-37. Dickens seemed to forget this at times. (At one point Mr. Jingle mentions he has written an epic poem about the July Revolution in France; in the next edition of the novel Dickens added a footnote to the effect that Jingle must be a prophet, since the Revolution happened in 1830.)
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The episode of Coronation Street aired on 19 April 2022 had a character find some money hidden away by someone who was murdered in June 2019. But that money is in the form of £20 notes of a design that first appeared in February 2020, so the notes should've been of the old design.
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Being Human hit a similar musical snag. The final episode of series 1 (which aired in March 2009) had a flashback that took place "two years earlier" (making it early 2007), but then had the song "Mercy" by Duffy playing on the radio in the diner (released in February 2008). When fans told director Colin Teague about his, he tried to explain it away by saying that it was a local late night radio show which was playing up-and-coming artists.
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When Billy is introduced in "MADMAX", Scorpions' "Rock You Like a Hurricane" plays in the background. Though this is historically accurate (the song was released in 1984, the same year the season was set), the version used in the show is a 2011 re-recording, possibly due to licensing issues.
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This can happen sometimes with Glee fanfiction written in 2012 or 2013 that takes place during season 1 (which would be late 2009/early 2010). It's in recent enough memory that most fanfic writers can avoid it fairly easily, but sometimes the fics feature technology, movies, or songs that weren't out at that time, or even artists or actors who hadn't made it big yet.
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M*A*S*H:
The show contained frequent references to popular culture that didn't exist until after The Korean War.
Eternal Sexual Freedom, anti-war and post-women's-lib attitudes, which would have been quite out of place in the early 1950s, were portrayed as commonplace. While the male characters may well have been womanizers, the female characters would have been far more circumspect about it being widely known.
Haircuts and styles that were in style in the 1970s and 1980s appear in the show, but these haircuts would not have been acceptable for anyone in the Army at any point in the twentieth century.
A 1969 issue of The Avengers shows up in one episode.
This perhaps lampshades the fact the war the show's makers really wanted to portray was Vietnam - but TV producers vetoed this as being too soon. American viewers in the early 1970s would have had no doubt which controversial Asian war was being satirized with extremely black humor, which added to its popularity.
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Aldrivers, Devourer of Cos: In episode 7, Wendy showed a tweet of her roasting where in it, she declared she was the one who orchestrated 9/11. While the date of her tweet does match the date of the event, Twitter was only released in 2006, 5 years after the events of 9/11.
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In the Swissair Flight 111 episode, a passenger is shown watching Tarzan on the in-flight entertainment system. The accident happened on September 2, 1998, while the movie wouldn't be released until the following year.
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The movie Megan is Missing is set in 2007, but features technology more common now: most glaring is that the characters have video chats on their phones. While smartphones with this feature did exist in 2007, it seems unlikely that the characters would have such a phone at 13/14 years old at that time. It was probably done for ease of storytelling, and possibly slightly justified as the characters are mentioned as living in a relatively wealthy area of California.
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The Queen, set in 1997, features a Nokia 6210 mobile phone and lots of cars that postdate the film's setting.
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Vice: In the 1970s, Donald Rumsfeld makes a poker analogy about missing his flush draw while everyone else thinks that he's got pocket kings. This is a Texas Hold'em reference, which did not become mainstream until the poker craze of the 2000s. In the 1970s, draw poker variants were still the standard form of poker.
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The Hurt Locker was made in 2009, but set in 2004. The movie features, among other things:
Gears of War (released in 2006) being played on an Xbox 360 (released in 2005).
References to YouTube (which launched late in 2005).
Soldiers wearing new digital pattern camouflage uniforms (introduced in 2005, didn't really become standard until 2007).
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Done on purpose in one episode of Get Smart. The Unseen baddie of the week had used a de-aging ray on some scientists, reverting their brains to when they were children. One scientist talks about watching Captain Kangaroo, but that show wasn't on when the scientist in question was a child, proving that she's not really under the effects of the ray and that she's the bad guy.
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Ryo and Fukuhara both have Virtua Fighter posters in their rooms, seven years before the first game came out.
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The Day of the Jackal, released in 1973, but set in France in 1963, has many location shots of early-70s Paris, and scenes with several French cars that are a few years too early, such as the 1965 Renault 16, restyled 1967 Citroen DS, and 1969 Peugeot 504, as well as an SNCF locomotive that was introduced in 1969.
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A minor example in Cool Runnings, which was made in 1993 and set in 1988. At one point, the flag of The New Russia is anachronistically included amongst the flags of the nations competing at the 1988 Winter Olympics. Period-appropriate Soviet flags and insignia are seen elsewhere in the film, however.
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Life on Mars (the UK version, that is) has a glaring error only noticeable to roadgeeks — a WRTL 2600 streetlight like this one◊ was seen in one shot — and it wasn't even around in 1973. More noticeable anachronisms that the production team forgot to cover up in post include cable TV junction boxes at the roadside and modern air conditioning units on the side of buildings.
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Referred to in-universe in Jade Empire, where the Player Character has to play a part in a play. The play is set hundreds of years ago, during the foundation of the Jade Empire, but it's got some satirical digs at the Lotus Assassins, who were only formed two decades ago.
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Back to the Future Part II (1989): In 1985-A, when Marty finds out that his house is occupied by another family, a poster for Dirty Dancing can be seen on the wall, which wasn't released until 1987.
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A notepad late in the game has a list of some Deus Ex tropes, despite TV Tropes barely existing back then.
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Animal House: The film is set in 1962, yet several of the extras during the parade scene have late 1970s hairstyles and clothing.
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My Immortal, providing the current page quote, has a big case of this. Ebony positively breathes 2005-2006 emo and scene culture, despite the story being loosely based on a series that takes place in the 90s. Tara's response to these claims is simply "shut up."
When Ebony travels back in time to when the Marauders were at Hogwarts, its explicitly said to be set in the 80s (actually the 70s in canon, matching how the entire timescale of the series seems to have been moved forward a decade). An authors note even calls out the anachronism of Hedwig singing "Welcome to the Black Parade".
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The House of Night provides an example that applies to what's supposed to be contemporary fiction, likely caused by the fact the books were written and published between 2007 and 2014 but the writer and/or editor forgot the books themselves take place over the course of only about a year: Zoey is 16 in Book 1 (Marked) and turns 17 in Book 3 (Chosen); the first spin-off book (Loved) is set a year after Redeemed and features Zoey's 18th birthday (which falls on December 24th). Marked is presumably set in 2007, the year of publication, which would mean most of the books take place in 2007 or 2008, while Loved takes place around 2009 (the use of flip-phones and so on in the earlier books make the time period obvious). Yet the later books feature things like iPads (first one was launched in 2010) and references to Game of Thrones (first aired in 2011), as if it's the 2010s rather than the late 2000s.
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Stranger Things:
Flashlights used in various nighttime searches produce very modern blue-white beams of light. Ironically, they'd have been a lot less noticeable if they hadn't been in use next to period-correct devices which produce beams of light in a visibly much redder spectrum. The boys' bike headlights used orange gels to correct this. They were left in place for daylight scenes and can be plainly seen behind the lenses throughout.
Many cars seen in the background of scenes came out well after 1983; a 1988 Volvo 240 can be seen in a parking lot in Episode 4, and behind it a 1997–2002 Subaru Forester is parked. The government cars are 1983–1986 LTD Crown Victorias, and the Hawkins Power vans have 1986 and 1992 Chevy Van models alongside the period-appropriate 1983 vans.
Jonathan, in a flashback scene, has put The Smiths on a mixtape for Will. An American living in the sticks in 1983 would likely not have heard of them until they released their first album the following year. But more to the point, during the time of the flashback, they wouldn't even have released their first single. This is also true of his liking Joy Division: that's more plausible as their albums had been issued stateside and the band was a critical favorite, but they never made an impact outside of UK and Europe.
The kids are in possession of posters for The Thing (1982). While contemporary reception to the movie views it as a beloved classic, it was commercially and critically massacred upon release and almost cratered the career of John Carpenter. Given how immensely unpopular the movie was among even dedicated sci-fi and horror fans at the time, it's extremely unlikely that genre-savvy teens would proudly hold onto this memorabilia in 1983.
The Military Police officers stationed at Hawkins National Laboratory carry the Beretta 92FS as their sidearm. The Beretta first entered into service in 1985 (though the 92 series was first developed in 1975), whereas the show is set in 1983. However, the government agents carry the Colt M1911, which was standard issue for the military at the time.
When the kids learn that Eleven can tune a walkie-talkie to a frequency that lets them hear Will, Lucas says that the walkie is just picking up a baby monitor's noise. Baby monitors weren't commonly used at that time; the first Fisher-Price baby monitor came out in 1985.
The periodic table shown in the science classroom contains elements that would not be synthesized, let alone named, until ten or more years after the show's setting. Livermorium (Lv, atomic number 116) would not be synthesized until 2006, while its name was only officially approved in 2012.
The government agents' weapon of choice appears to be the Heckler & Koch MP5k, which is period-accurate, as that gun came out in 1976. What isn't are the MP5k-PDWs (the ones with folding stocks), which didn't come out until 1991. Some MP5Ks even have stocks from the Heckler & Koch UMP45; the UMP45 didn't come out until 1999.
In Season 2, Hopper goes hunting the Demodogs with an M4 carbine, introduced in 1994. His rifle also has a quad rail forend attachment, which wasn't introduced until around 2000.
Although they cut it very close, the Demogorgon figurine used in the first episode was first sold only one month after the beginning of the series.
Max labels the party as "stalkers," for following her around. This use of the word wouldn't come about until the early 1990s.
The school buses have white tops. This practice (which keeps the interior much cooler) didn't start until the early 1990s, and didn't become common until the 2000s. 1980s school buses were yellow all over.
Planck's constant (to six digits) is given as 6.62607, which is the modern value established in 2014. In 1985, scientists had set the value at 6.62617.
When Billy is introduced in "MADMAX", Scorpions' "Rock You Like a Hurricane" plays in the background. Though this is historically accurate (the song was released in 1984, the same year the season was set), the version used in the show is a 2011 re-recording, possibly due to licensing issues.
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The novel Brat Farrar by Josephine Tey was published in 1949, and mentions British characters going on holiday to France eight years earlier — which, if the novel is also set in 1949, would be very bad timing. This is part of what inspired Jo Walton to create her Small Change Alternate Universe where World War II went differently.
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Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker is set in 1974, but:
There is a pop song in the game, sung by one of the characters, which is a modern J-Pop production complete with digital synthesisers and Auto-Tune. This can be handwaved as non-diagetic, especially because an alternate version of the song exists in the story which uses a lush 70s-style soft-pop production with a dense string arrangement.
Several of the guns didn't come out for a few years after the setting. A lot of this can be handwaved as being MSF developed tech.
The Product Placement items have a modern appearance, even for the consumer products that did exist in the 1970s.
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In Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater, Snake's mullet won't be a thing for another twenty years. There is no explanation for modern-looking Japanese instant ramen or the modern day biscuit Calorie Mate showing up in the game either.
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The soundtrack uses licensed 80s music to give a feel of that time, but most of the songs are a few years into the future after 1984. The most anachronistic one is The Cure's "Friday I'm In Love", which was released in 1992. It's difficult to handwave this, since it's not clear how MSF's advanced tech would have made Robert Smith write the exact same songs when he was eight years younger.
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Freaks and Geeks:
In the Wild Teen Party episode (set in 1980, filmed in 1999), several of the male extras have obvious '90s bowl haircuts. In the DVD extras, Judd Apatow recalls having told the main character actors; "You got the part- don't cut your hair".
Some of the settings, such as the fast food restaurant Sam and Cindy visit in "Girlfriends and Boyfriends" look unusually hip and modern for 1980-1981. Justified, since (to preserve realism) the show generally used real-life locations for filming rather than studio sets.
Daniel's rusty, beat-up Firebird is a model that would've been new at the time.
In "Kim Kelly Is My Friend", Nick eats Fruit Roll-Ups, which wouldn't be introduced to the market until 1983.
When Sam dresses up as Luke Skywalker for the sci-fi convention, he's holding a toy lightsaber with a green blade, despite the fact that the first green-bladed lightsaber wouldn't be seen for another 2-3 years. Also, the toy itself is a more modern design that appeared in the late 1990's.
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Behind Enemy Lines (2001) is set at the end of the Bosnian War, which was in late 1995. However early in the film there is a reference to wanting to be with Britney Spears, who rose to prominence in 1999, and a character yells out "WILSON!" when a football flies off an aircraft carrier deck, a reference to Cast Away (2000). The main aircraft used in the movie, the Foxtrot model of the F/A-18 Super Hornetnote The E/F models of the Hornet are actually entirely new airplanes that were called an upgrade to convince Congress to buy it also wasn't yet active as of 1995 either. Its first prototype flight was actually the same year as the movie.
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SHAZAM! (2019) opens on a flashback to young Thaddeus Sivana in 1974 traveling to the family's cabin in his father's Cadillac, which was a 1980 model at the earliest.
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A fairly minor example, but the The Incredibles films takes place mostly in the 1960s, but features modern slang, computers, and VHS tapes. Justified in that the film is a deliberate Retro Universe.
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Doctor Who:
In the William Hartnell-era story "The Chase", Ian is shown singing along to the chorus of The Beatles' "Ticket to Ride", showing he already knows the lyrics. His abduction by the Doctor was in November 1963, and "Ticket to Ride" wasn't released until February 1965 (when "The Chase" was made). However, the time travel aspect of the series means the possibility that Ian may have heard the song somewhere down the line cannot be ruled out.
The Jon Pertwee era has a lot of notorious present-day future — it's presumably set 20 Minutes into the Future but the fashions, technology, cars, phones, social politics and zeitgeist are just 1971. It's so bad that there's an ongoing Fan Wank about whether this era happens in the '80s or the '70s, that the revival series chucks huge amounts of deliberately contradictory information into, just for laughs.
An example of present-day future — in "The Shakespeare Code", the Doctor babbles happily about Harry Potter, telling Martha that she's going to love getting to read the last book (which had not been released at that point and was at the time being heavily hyped). Problem is, Deathly Hallows was released in July 2007 in real life, and Martha's "home" time period is early 2008.note Martha's home time isn't specifically stated — which is why the writers forgot — but following the episode "Aliens of London", in which the Doctor tried to return Rose to the time she left and was a year out, all "present day" episodes must still be that year out, at least until "Planet of the Dead". There isn't a point where you can reverse this and say maybe a season took less than a year, because all the Christmas episodes from "The Christmas Invasion" to "Voyage of the Damned" take place on successive Christmases.
"The Eleventh Hour": At the beginning, as the out-of-control TARDIS is tumbling over London, the Millennium Dome and London Eye are clearly visible, in what is later revealed to be 1996. It could also be assumed that the TARDIS crashes through the sky in 2005 (the year of the last scene in the previous episode), then time-travels to/crash-lands in 1996.
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References to YouTube (which launched late in 2005).
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Blood Diamond, set in 1999, but features clothes and cars from 2006 or so, while Danny uses a GPS released in 2004 in the climax.
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The '50s-set BBC series The Hour has beautifully researched clothing, but the younger women's hairstyles aren't authentically 50s, presumably because 50s-style perms look rather like 80s hair. Mrs Madden's gorgeous New Look outfits are also not quite contemporary with the other women's outfits.
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The Buddy Holly Story (1978) was made during Fender's CBS era (1965-85) and almost every guitar Holly plays is from that era, including a Telecaster (which he never played) and a Bronco (which didn't exist during his lifetime).
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Spirit: Riding Free takes place only a few years after the original Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron film. The new Spirit is Spirit and Rain's son. The girls don't dress anything like the 1800s and no-one acts like it's the 1800s.
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Upstairs Downstairs often uses patterns and colours in the clothing and sets that belong more in the late 60s and early 70s than Edwardian England. Particularly obvious examples appear in some of Lady Marjorie's dresses in the first season.
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What If…? (2021): Both the third and seventh episodes have characters using touch screen cell phones, despite them both taking place in 2010, back when they had yet to become a widespread public phenomenon.
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The Nameless Mod: The game is set in September of 2004 and was released in 2009. A few things slipped through however.
Many characters have Xbox 360s in their rooms, however, that wouldn't be released until November of 2005. The developers probably realized this, and changed the name of the object to "DVD Player", although it still uses the 360 textures.
Articles about Half-Life 2 and Hitman: Blood Money despite the game taking place before either was released.
A notepad late in the game has a list of some Deus Ex tropes, despite TV Tropes barely existing back then.
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Drew Barrymore's character in The Wedding Singer was one of the few in that movie without stereotypical '80s Hair, makeup, or clothing. This was likely done to be less a target of audience ridicule than the other characters, though ironically her 'Nineties hair' has itself since become sufficiently dated that modern audiences may not notice the discrepancy.
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Likewise The Old Curiosity Shop is set around 1824-26 and was written 1840-41. At one point a lawyer is described as "one of Her Majesty's attornies", but Queen Victoria wasn't crowned until 1837; it should have been "His Majesty", referring to George IV.
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When the party lands in Belgium, one can see a river boat named "Édith Piaf". The singer was three years old in 1918, and thus not a celebrity at that time.
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Gears of War (released in 2006) being played on an Xbox 360 (released in 2005).
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Narrowly averted in Marble Hornets: the sole video set in 1991 had to be taken down and re-edited because it featured a kid wearing a SpongeBob SquarePants T-shirt (the show came out in 1999).
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The Saga of Darren Shan was first published from 2000-2004. The author seems to not have had any time period in mind when he wrote the first book, which he didn't intend to make into a series, but the series ends up taking place over 18 years, and the ending implies that the last trilogy (which takes place over three years) would take place around the same time that the novels were released. That would set the first book in 1982 or '83, and a reference to the ending of the prequel series having taken place 17 years before confirms this, as that scene is set in the late '60's. The anachronism is that in the manga adaptation of the first book, the characters buy their tickets to the circus with Euros.
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The Walking Dead Television Universe:
Society ended in the show's universe in 2010, but starting in 2021-released episodes of the franchise, some slang from the late 2010's/early 2020's begins leaking into the writing.
In a 2014 episode, Beth plays "Be Good" by Waxahatchee, which came out in 2012.
During the early seasons which were sponsored by Hyundai, the characters always drove the latest real world model.
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The Omen (1976) is retconned by Omen III: The Final Conflict as having taken place in 1956, despite clearly having fashions and vehicles from around its release in 1976.
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One of the major criticisms about Eddie and the Cruisers is that the story is about the singer and band that were popular in the '60s, but sound an awful lot like 1980s Bruce Springsteen. Played with in that the reason their lost recording is so sought after is that it's implied to be way ahead of its time and does sound like 1980s (when the movie is set) Springsteen.
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Cold Case was often criticized for this. They went through a lot of effort to strive for historical accuracy, but occasionally would push it aside for the sake of Rule of Cool or Rule of Drama. The most common complaint was that the songs they used were a year or two off (for example, a story took place in 1984, but they used a song that was released in 1987).
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 Slayers X: Terminal Aftermath: Vengance of the Slayer (Video Game) / int_82a631b8
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Present-Day Past
 Tattletail (Video Game) / int_82a631b8
type
Present-Day Past
 The Nameless Mod (Video Game) / int_82a631b8
type
Present-Day Past
 The Warriors (Video Game) / int_82a631b8
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Present-Day Past
 Tropico (Video Game) / int_82a631b8
type
Present-Day Past
 Dies Irae (Visual Novel) / int_82a631b8
type
Present-Day Past
 Higurashi: When They Cry (Visual Novel) / int_82a631b8
type
Present-Day Past
 Hotel Dusk: Room 215 (Visual Novel) / int_82a631b8
type
Present-Day Past
 Rose Guns Days (Visual Novel) / int_82a631b8
type
Present-Day Past
 Umineko: When They Cry (Visual Novel) / int_82a631b8
type
Present-Day Past
 Brim’s Room (Web Animation) / int_82a631b8
type
Present-Day Past
 Cyberpunk Lab (Web Animation) / int_82a631b8
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Present-Day Past
 Game Dogs (Web Animation)
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Present-Day Past
 Hunter: The Parenting (Web Animation) / int_82a631b8
type
Present-Day Past
 Pink Bitch Club (Web Animation) / int_82a631b8
type
Present-Day Past
 The Gentleman Pirate (Web Animation) / int_82a631b8
type
Present-Day Past
 Ashens and the Quest for the Game Child (Web Video) / int_82a631b8
type
Present-Day Past
 Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware (Web Video) / int_82a631b8
type
Present-Day Past
 Talking Classics (Web Video) / int_82a631b8
type
Present-Day Past
 Winter of '83 (Web Video) / int_82a631b8
type
Present-Day Past
 MegaTokyo (Webcomic) / int_82a631b8
type
Present-Day Past
 Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids / int_82a631b8
type
Present-Day Past
 Harriet the Spy / int_82a631b8
type
Present-Day Past
 The LEGO Movie 2: The Second Part / int_82a631b8
type
Present-Day Past
 Turning Red / int_82a631b8
type
Present-Day Past
 What If…? (2021) / int_82a631b8
type
Present-Day Past
 Chrono Crusade (Manga) / int_82a631b8
type
Present-Day Past