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They Don't Make Them Like They Used To
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Most cultures have this feeling, particularly among the elderly. If anything, Americans tend to reject it more than most cultures. Often older things are over-engineered, which causes them to last longer and endure hard usage. A business that has been producing an item for awhile starts to find ways to either reduce cost, or improve some other important attribute (such as reducing weight), often at the cost of reducing durability for the end user. Once a product has been around long enough, multiple businesses compete in a race to the bottom to produce the cheapest product that will hold together long enough to leave the shop. This applies to everything from microwaves to things as mundane as shoes. (Shoes made with older technology cost more, but they also tend to last longer). Older cars were made under the theory that, in a crash, the car should show as little damage as possible, and hence were made of thick steel; the body panels were often not load-bearing and could be easily removed. Newer cars (i.e. engineered in the last 30 years) are designed to simply fall apart in a crash, keeping the occupants safe by allowing the car's frame to absorb the energy involved in a crash by crumpling and going to pieces instead of transmitting the energy to the occupants. Of course, this does destroy the car. There are also maintenance issues. It used to be the "shadetree mechanic" could fix an engine with basic tools, but newer cars require complicated and expensive tools. On the other hand, these efficiencies and cost reductions have allowed more people to afford a car; the U.S. population increased by 55% from 1960 to 2000, but the number of licensed drivers more than doubled over the same period. This also highlights the selective enforcement of this and other Nostalgia Filter-related tropes. Though there are far more cars on the road, and far more miles driven, fatalities have remained level (fatalities-per-mile in the U.S. have decreased by 75% over the last 50 years), although mostly due to legal enforcement of safety measures and tighter laws on some subjects (e.g. mandatory seat belts and lower alcohol limits for drunk driving). Houses are another good example. Sometimes after a major disaster—like a hurricane—all the houses built before a certain date will have survived with minor damage, while newer houses are destroyed. This shows something of a survivorship bias; the older houses had to survive the previous hurricane, leaving only the most durable to face this one (this applies to cars as well). Due to the evolution of building codes, sometimes the newest houses also survive. In flooding situations, barring really record-breaking floods a rather similar selection process will take place, though in this case it's more a case of where the houses are built; the locations least at risk from flooding will be built upon first, with development spreading into more vulnerable areas as the town grows, or, again, the old houses on the floodplain were destroyed in the previous flood. Another housing example is the old breezeway. Older houses were built with a breezeway to take advantage of prevailing winds to cool the house in the summer. Newer houses have air conditioning and so the builders don't bother with the breezeway. Guess which is cooler if the power goes out in the summer? For large structures like bridges, this is caused by a combination of factors. Good engineers realized their knowledge of materials and engineering techniques was incomplete, and tended to make things much stronger than calculations called for (the Brooklyn Bridge is over-engineered by almost an order of magnitude). At the same time, less well-designed structures have collapsed or been replaced. Another factor is (steel reinforced) concrete. Most building materials have a "shelf life" of several millennia unless some rather unusual things happen to them - after all, they are stones that survive being exposed to the elements in nature as well. The big exceptions are limestone (which cannot handle acids), concrete (some types of which decay and degenerate under certain conditions) and steel (which rusts). Steel reinforced concrete structures only last a century or so without maintenance before the rust starts popping apart the concrete and weakening the structure beyond repair. There is nothing keeping the Roman aqueducts from lasting another millennium (barring human intervention) because there is nothing in them that could rust, degrade or fall apart. Compare Older Is Better and Invincible Classic Car. |
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At one performance of the original production of Fiddler on the Roof, a house-set collapsed onto the stage as Zero Mostel, playing Tevye, walked by. Ever a showman, Mostel looked at the collapsed house, then quipped "They don't make them like they used to," prompting a big laugh from the audience. | |
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In The Simpsons episode "Lisa vs. Malibu Stacy", Abe complains that toys in the store are junk and were built to last when he was young. It's subverted when he tries to demonstrate and clearly has to put in a lot of effort before the toys break. Eventually, the security guards grab him and escort him from the store. | |
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At the end of the first Cool Cat cartoon, the eponymous character sees that Col. Rimfire's elephant is motorized and tells us "They just don't make elephants like they used to!" | |
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Quoted word for word by Yoshihiro Shimazu in Samurai Warriors 2 after defeating an enemy officer. | |
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Tends to pop up a fair bit in Garfield. Examples include: One time, Garfield tried to climb a tree but the bark sloughed down. His comment: "They don't make trees like they used to." When Garfield broke a Ming vase, he said "Ming, schming. They don't make'm like they used to." Garfield attempted to cling onto a screen door, only to punch a hole through it. Guess what his response was. |
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At the end of The Transformers episode "Only Human", one of the two villains of the week, a man who has spent the whole episode being referred to as "Old Snake", laments how they don't make terrorists like they used to while inadvertently revealing his true identity of Cobra Commander. | |
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Mr Fixer from ''Sentinels of the Multiverse" thinks this way about wrenches. Then again, he's a Costumed Non Super Hero who uses the tools in his machine shop as Improvised Weapon, and old wrenches are better for a good Wrench Whack than modern ones, so it's a Justified Trope. | |
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Billions has billionaire hedge fund manager Bobby Axelrod decide to takeover a snack foods company because he's mad that the current CEO changed his favorite childhood snack's recipe to cut down on costs, resulting in an inferior taste. | |
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In all parts of the Metro 2033 saga, military-grade 5.45mm ammunition is much more powerful than the "dirty" rounds produced in the ramshackle post-nukes factories, so much so that it's used as Practical Currency. | |
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Defenders of the Earth: Ming the Merciless once created robot duplicates of the heroes to frame them. When one of the heroes noticed an arm falling off his robot double, he commented they don't make him like they used to. | |
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In Ace Combat 5: The Unsung War, the Wardog Squadron's mechanic examines enemy planes they have shot down and expresses surprise at the fact that someone is still making them like this. This serves as a subtle hint at the true nature of the Wardogs' opponents, as Pops is actually a former Belkan pilot, who recognized the stripped-down blueprints his country's engineers came up with during the Belkan War fifteen years earlier to compensate for wartime shortage of spare parts. | |
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In the Batman: The Animated Series episode "Be A Clown", Batman escapes from the Joker's complicated deathtrap, prompting this comment from the Joker: "They don't make straitjackets like they used to. I should know!" | |
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BattleTech: This was a common sentiment in the early 31st century. The two centuries of intense warfare that raged across the Inner Sphere after the collapse of the Star League had devastated manufacturing capabilities so that many pieces of technology had been lost. For example, the MAD-2R Marauder had been built with Ferro-Fibrous armor, Double Heatsinks, and Extended Range PPCs. The MAD-3R, produced less than a century later, had none of these on it because none of them could be made anymore. This situation eventually began to be averted after the Gray Death Legion mercenaries discovered the Helm Memory Core, an ancient database filled with lost information. By the 3050s, the Inner Sphere was fully able to build lost Star League tech again and by the 3060s had started to produce equipment that was superior. | |
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Invoked in Victoria where the T-34 is (erroneously) held up as superior to contemporary tanks because of its great reliability. | |
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On Rocky and Bullwinkle's "Fractured Fairy Tales" the Prince attempts to enter the castle of Sleeping Beauty, breaking his sword on the overgrowth surrounding it and lamenting "They don't make broad swords like they used to." After easily getting through with the help of a lawn-mower, he adds triumphantly, "These they make like they used to." | |
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In Little Shop of Horrors, Orin, the sadistic dentist, pulls out an antique drill: | |
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Implied in Back to the Future Part II when Marty suggests landing on Biff's car to cripple it. This is actually very accurate. | |
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Bozo: The World's Most Famous Clown and his young pal Butch are disguised as a horse and are horse-napped by the villains Big Shorty and Short Biggie. In making a getaway, Bozo's and Butch's costume splits in half, prompting Short Biggie to comment "They just don't make horses like they used to!" | |
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One death scene of Space Ace is during the part where Dexter turns into Ace; pressing the fire button at some parts of the Trash Robots scene will cause Ace to try to shoot his target, only to cause half of the space station to blow up. | |
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Warhammer 40,000: The Adeptus Mechanicus holds that humanity once held all knowledge, and that tying to recreate it rather than find an STC is heresy. Therefore their machines and weapons are often millenia old (as are the better-functioning parts of Imperial infrastructure) and every loss nigh-irreparable. | |
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In the climax of the 1989 Batman film, the hero clings to an unstable cathedral ledge, while Joker stomps out the bricks around him yelling "They don't make them like they used to, eh, Batsy?!" | |
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Star Wars Rebels: Old Soldier Captain Rex, a veteran of the Clone Wars, never misses an opportunity to throw shade at how Imperial Stormtrooper armor sucks compared to the old Clone Trooper armor. | |
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Beast Wars gave us this exchange in "Agenda: Part 3," which doubles as an in-joke. | |
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Andromeda: When the crew of the Eureka Maru first step aboard the Andromeda, this is how they react. In that case, the Andromeda is the high-technology product of a fallen civilisation, which can't be matched by the rough-and-ready technology of the present time. | |
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Played with in Ghostbusters (1984) when Peter and Ray are discussing the unusual architecture of Dana's building: | |
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Scotty says this to Kirk in Star Trek V: The Final Frontier re the malfunctioning Enterprise-A. | |
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Steve 1989 MRE Info: Steve prefers some of the older menu items, such as vintage coffees particularly US Coffee, Instant, Type 1. Regarding crackers, he says: The entire video about the 1992 Meal, Ready to Eat, Individual Menu #8 Ham Slice is particularly nostalgia-laced. |
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Played with in Soul Music, when the protagonists visit a mysterious antique shop. | |
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Watchmen features Nite Owl I a.k.a. Hollis Mason, who has a great love of old, petrol-powered cars (with the advent of Dr. Manhattan, new models become powered by lithium batteries). The sign for his repair shop even features the line: "Obsolete Models a Specialty." Appropriate for the residence of a retired masked hero. | |
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In It's a Good Life, if You Don't Weaken our main character has this feeling about old buildings, museum exhibits, and well...ok, everything. | |
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One episode of Pokémon: The Original Series, "Wired for Battle" in the Johto series, starts with an elderly fellow and his Scizor easily defeating Team Rocket in battle. | |
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