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An adult digs up their old record collection out of the attic and their kid asks what they are. The parent nostalgically names all the singers of their day whose works have been put to their vinyl discs. Then the kids says, "No, I mean, what are records?" A subtrope of Technology Marches On, initially fueled by the novelty of the notion that a format of media could actually become obsolete. It bears mentioning that it started cropping up in fiction before 1990, and the characters unfamiliar with records were full-grown adults, meaning that in its earliest form the trope ran on shameless hyperbole. Even in the 21st century, though, its realism is dubious. Most young people do indeed know what a vinyl record is (from more recent media depictions if nothing else), even if they never listened to or owned one themselves and don't know whether a "seven inch" was an album or a single, or whether 45 rpm came before or after 33 1/3. Modern DJs still use them, for instance, and their appearance in pop culture is almost ubiquitous. They've also been undergoing a resurgence of popularity among audiophiles, hipsters, indie music fans and even teenagers since 2007 (Sony is even pressing records again), thanks to their retro appeal and their exemption from the abuses of the Loudness War, and even outsold CDs for the first time in over 30 years in 2019. Consequently, while they still haven't overtaken streaming in terms of revenue, their renewed semi-popularity started to be acknowledged in mainstream media at the end of the 2010s, making this a Discredited Trope with regards to records themselves. This trope can also be used for 8-track tapes, of course (arguably more understandable, since many people know of 8-track but don't know what the actual cartridge looks like). It likely already applies at least to some degree for both cassette tapes and videocassettes, as both are no longer being made en-masse and generally only appeal to niche markets. Wikipedia reports that whereas 442 million cassette tapes were sold in the U.S. in 1990, by 2016, the number was just 129,000. The last major Hollywood film to be released on VHS in the United States, Cars, was in 2006.note If you want to get technical, the format persisted for slightly longer in other countries, with the last VHS release in the world being a South Korean release of Inception in 2010. In this age of legal streaming and downloading of music, movies, video games, and other software, sooner or later the whole notion of going into a store and buying a physical object with stored data will be part of the history books (well, the history e-books if paper books also become obsolete due to e-readers). Basically, what Before My Time is to cultural references, this trope is to technology. Ironically, this trope may be responsible for more people knowing just what records and other stuff are, if they saw this being used in media and wanted to know just what the joke was. Also, the fact that something is not in active use anymore doesn't mean people will have no idea what it is. Papyrus hasn't been used for centuries, and people still know what it looks like and what it was used for. Not to be confused with the record label of the same name, owned by David Wilcox. Contrast Technologically Blind Elders, the inverse. See also Popularity Polynomial, when a trend is popular in one generation, becomes neglected, and later is rediscovered as nostalgic by the next generation. |
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Tower Prep showed where this trend might be going. When they find a record, CJ and Suki ask what it is. Gabe responds that "it's kind of like a hard copy of a MP3." Never once were CDs mentioned, showing that CDs might quickly become the new records. | |
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Happens with The Creatures in one of their game nights. While playing a video game version of Family Feud, one of the questions was "Name something someone would plug in." Nova enters "VCR" and is annoyed when he receives zero points for that answer, claiming that people still own VCR's even if they're not popular anymore. | |
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Cowboy Bebop (2021). Faye Valentine looks in her Identikit, which stores any records of her past, finds only a VHS tape, and says: "What the fuck are you?" Fortunately, unlike the anime, Spike and Jet appear to have no problem getting hold of a machine that can play it. | |
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In Nightworld: Lost Souls, Victor and his son Jesse discover an old device in a disused room. Victor comments, "Looks like an old phonograph." Jesse says, "What's that?" Victor says, "An old record player." Jesse says, "What's that?" Victor says, "Never mind." | |
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This is Apollo's reaction in "A Present for Mom" on The Pajanimals when Mr. Happy Birthday offers him a jazz record as a present for the Pajanimals mom's birthday. | |
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2012 saw two separate Soundwave toys hit the market. The one that turns into a tape player released as part of the high-end, collector-oriented "Masterpiece"; the kid-oriented one is based on his armored car form from Transformers: Fall of Cybertron. | |
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The Ghost and Molly McGee: In "The Unhaunting of Brighton Video", Molly and her friends Libby and Ollie investigate a ghost at an abandoned video rental store. Molly confidently offers to explain how video tapes work to a confused Libby and Ollie, only to attempt operating one like a tablet and giving up when it doesn't work. Ollie soon after mistakes a VCR for some kind of toaster, to the disgust of the store's resident ghost. | |
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Cliff Huxtable in The Cosby Show does a variation on this. Cliff has a huge collection of old jazz records that he keeps in his basement as a form of "offspring repellent". If the kids come down there, he invites them to listen to his jazz records. They always refuse and run away. | |
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Inverted in an episode of House where a man has just awoken from a vegetative state after ten years and asks what an "Ip-odd" is. | |
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The Simpsons Also in Season 13 episode "Gump Roast", at Homer Simpson's roast, Krusty begins reading telegrams from people who couldn't be there: In a Season 27 episode, Bart and Lisa find a pile of old cathode tube television sets and say that "they're like TVs, but they seem to go on forever." Ironically, they're like the TV the Simpsons used to have in earlier seasons. In "The Sound of Bleeding Gums" (Season 33), Lisa learns that her late mentor, Bleeding Gums Murphy, has a son she never knew about, and his spirit advises her to look him up in the phone book. |
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In Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., while Coulson is explaining a time loop the team is trapped in: | |
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One episode of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1987) had the Turtles take cover behind a stack of boxes. Raphael looks into the boxes and the following conversation takes place: | |
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Used briefly in the opening monologue of The Drowsy Chaperone, when the Man in the Chair says that when he feels blue, he likes to listen to his records - yes, records. | |
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Teen Titans Go! has Cyborg tell the other Titans they couldn't program a VCR...and being the Teen Titans, none of the others have any idea what a VCR is. Starfire (being an alien) and Beast Boy (being the youngest) have excuses but Robin at least seems old enough that he should know what they are. Rule of Funny is obviously the reason why. | |
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Another Code: In Journey into Lost Memories, Ashley and Matthew find a floppy disk when investigating the disappearance of the latter's father. 16-year-old Ashley is familiar with the storage format, while 13-year-old Matthew isn't, prompting Ashley to describe it being similar to a USB stick. Though given the time period of the story (2007), it's likely this has more to do with his affluent upbringing rather than his age. | |
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In the Darkwing Duck episode "Paraducks", Darkwing and Gosalyn are trying to find a villain in a record store, and Gosalyn asks, "What are records? Are they big CDs?" | |
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In the Pilgrennon's Children novel Pilgrennon's Beacon, which is set 20 Minutes into the Future, Pilgrennon shows Dana an old computer with a mouse, and she doesn't know what it is. She's used to using touchscreens with a stylus. | |
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In Smoke and Mirrors, while trapped in a Haunted House, an irritable TV actor makes a reference to putting another record on. Which leads to this exchange between the sound guy and the producer's two pre-teen daughters: | |
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Spider-Man 2099 in Spider-Man: Edge of Time. Apparently there aren't even toasters in the future. | |
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Animaniacs: In a story from Issue #32, Dot invites some girls for a slumber party and tries to offer records for entertainment but her guests, not being cartoon characters from 1930s like her, don't know what records are. | |
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In an episode of The Mr. Peabody & Sherman Show, Peabody tries to do a show about his vinyl record collection, but Sherman has no idea what he's talking about and assumed the episode was about world records instead. | |
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Runaways (2017): Molly's parents, who died when she was very young, left a videotape for her to find once she was old enough to seek more information about them. The problem? She's only 14 and when she finds the tape, she has no idea what it is. | |
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In the Cowboy Bebop episode "Speak Like a Child", Spike and Jet receive a Betamax tape for Faye in the mail. They are initially stumped as to what it is. Even when they are told to find a VCR to play it, they go through the ruins of Tokyo to find the electronics museum and return with one for VHS. What's particularly funny is that Ed, who is younger than either Jet or Spike, is the only one familiar with such archaic tech. | |
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Garfield's nightmare of being old materializes as him being old enough to remember records. One strip has a mouse asking Garfield this about a photo album. A TV example. |
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In the King of the Hill episode "Just Another Manic-Kahn Day", Bobby and Joseph find a box of Hank's old record albums. Bobby knows what they are but Joseph picks up a record and says: "The computer these things go into must be huge!" | |
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An early example: Married... with Children. When Kelly asks "What's a record?" Bud's response is, "For you? The second date." | |
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Inverted by Mayor on The Powerpuff Girls, who tries to play a CD on an old-fashioned record player (and proceeds to mistake the horrible scratching noises that ensue for "techno music"). | |
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Scooby-Doo and Guess Who?: In "The Internet on Haunted House Hill!", when Velma says the titular house is haunted by the ghost of a guy who used to run a newspaper, Scooby asks what newspapers are. | |
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Related: A My Cage strip involved Norm getting weird looks for having a portable CD player with him at the gym instead of an MP3 player. | |
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Inverted in Homestuck when Terezi places a record-themed CD on a gramophone, causing it to scratch. | |
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Subverted in one Retail strip, where a customer asks a worker if there's a music store, with the worker responding there's a store that sells vinyl records nearby. The customer then asks if they sell CDs, with the worker asking why they would sell an outdated media format like that (Around the time the strip ran, vinyl records were experiencing a resurgence in popularity). | |
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Mickey Mouse Clubhouse: One episode has Mickey and his friends discover a cave that holds a giant golden record inside, thus making the cave "a big old record player". When Goofy asks what a record player is, Mickey describes it as an "ancient machine". | |
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Averted in Melody. The title character loves old music, but neither she nor the protagonist has anything on vinyl. | |
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Averted on Peppa Pig. When Peppa and her little brother George find a record player in Granny and Grandpa's attic, both seem to immediately recognize it for what it is and Peppa asks them to play the record they found with it. | |
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Joueur du Grenier had a gag where Fred explains what a newspaper is to the younger members of the audience, with Seb asking if he could possibly make it any more condescending. | |
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A series in Crankshaft revolved around Ed trying to replace his copy of Rhapsody in Blue. The clerk at the store, who is at least in her 20s, had never heard of a record before. This was in 1988. | |
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In Phoebe and Her Unicorn, Marigold (a centuries-old unicorn) offers to take Phoebe (a little girl) to a record store. "What's a record?" In a different strip, Phoebe isn't sure what a "radio" is. Marigold's reaction in both cases: "I'm old." | |
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Kids React To... (and occasionally Teens React) demonstrates this trope with things like the first Gameboy, Walkmans and Typewriters, among other things. This noticeably subverts the trope fairly often, as many of the kids and teens (even as young as 6 years old) recognize the items and their function through Pop Culture Osmosis or having them in their families and just need some coaxing to figure out the details of using them. | |
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Briefly discussed in Dragon Ball Z Abridged. Future Trunks has never heard country music before and doesn't know what a fax machine is. Pretty much everyone raises their eyebrows at the former, while Krillin comments that the latter at least makes sense. It turns out that in his Bad Future, the Androids went out of their way to wipe out all country music out. | |
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Molly of Denali: In "Turn On the Northern Lights," Trini is astonished that Grandpa Nat's rotary phone is a phone at all, since it doesn't text. | |
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In The Sarah Jane Adventures serial "The Man Who Never Was", Sarah Jane's old editor tells her kids he still uses a typewriter. Sky's response is an innocent "What's a typewriter?" Justified because Sky was born circa 2011 and aged up by phlebotinum. | |
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Techmoan once mentioned in a video that he is often asked why the cassette decks he features sometimes have a backwards play button and the fast forward and rewind symbols reversed, and occasionally even had people assume that the buttons had been removed and installed incorrectly and asking how to flip them back. He then explained that the reason those buttons are arrows is because they originally indicated what direction the tape moves in. Some early decks featured the tapes moving the "wrong" way and others flipped the deck upside down so the buttons could sit at the top of the device. | |
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In Gravity Falls: Legend of the Gnome Gemulets, various NPCs want you to get several of some kind of item for them because they lost these things one way or another. Soos lost some floppy disks, and when he asks you to look for them, he explains they're an old form of data storage and that they're really good for keeping things secret since most computers don't have a way to read them any more. Wendy wants cassette tapes that her dad apparently threw out the car window on a road trip, but she doesn't feel the need to explain what they are, though she does make it clear through context (specifically mentioning that her dad "doesn't appreciate good music"). | |
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An episode of Batman Beyond has Terry going to the home of a Science Fiction writer, and finding a typewriter. He pokes at it and asks, "What is this? Some kind of word processor?" | |
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In The Many Half-Lived Lives of Sam Sylvester, Sam's dad finds a Time Capsule containing cassette tapes, which Shep has never heard of. She says dubiously, "That really plays music?" | |
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Fallout 3 - Three Dog says "I'm your friendly neighborhood disc jockey. What's a disc? Hell if I know, but I'm gonna keep talking anyway." But Fallout is very Zeerust, so records were not replaced with tapes, CDs, and MP3s, but with holo-based cassette tapes the size of 45s. There's also the fact that Three-Dog hails from a post-apocalyptic Washington, DC. |
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In "not slow not bad" from Utopia (US), Grant discovers an old Ameritech telephone directory book and, most likely having looked up phone numbers entirely using the Internet, mutters to himself asking what it is. | |
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One-Third Nerd: When Dodge mentions magazines and newspapers, Izzy asks, "What are they?" Dakota explains, "Newspapers are how people used to find out things before cars but after dinosaurs." Mom explains that newspapers still exist and she reads one online, causing Dakota to grumble that they shouldn't be called newspapers if they're digital. | |
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Arthur: Played straight in "Francine Frensky, Superstar". (Note: This was one of the earliest episodes of the show, the first season of a program that would run into the 2020s.) The kids shoot blank looks at Mr. Ratburn when he talks about Thomas Edison's invention, the phonograph, and prompts the following exchange: This may explain why, in the later episode "Popular Girls" (Season 3), during a spring break day camp, one group of Arthur's classmates brings in vintage/antique things, and when Jenna demonstrates a record player, the kids all "Oooh" in awe. In "Unfinished" (Season 10), Arthur is looking for a replacement copy of the long out-of-print book 93 Million Miles in a Balloon. When his mother does an online search for anything relating to the book, she finds out a movie adaptation was produced and can be rented on 16 millimeter. Arthur asks "What's 16 millimeter?" The scene then changes to Arthur and his friends about to watch the movie on a noisy old 16mm film projector... |
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Conversed and defied in the first episode of Odd Taxi. During a doctor's visit, Odokawa mentions listening to cassette tapes to fall asleep, which perplexes Shirakawa who's over a decade younger than him. Goriki tries to joke that her surprise is because her generation doesn't know what cassettes are, but Odokawa flatly points out that media depictions of the format means she likely at least knows about them despite never using them, just like how he and Goriki know about phonographs and telephone magnetos. | |
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The Nanny had this little tidbit: | |
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Parodied in Steven Universe: Teenager Sadie mistakes Steven asking what is on a specific VHS for him asking what is a VHS. She explains that it's basically a box-shaped DVD. Steven actually owns a VCR and a decent collection of tapes. | |
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The Colbert Report: One episode had Stephen interviewing an NYU art history major. The conversation went something like this: In another episode, he explains that "for you young, hip kids", a gramophone was a type of record player, which is like a CD player, which is like an iPod, which, "for you young, extremely hip kids", is kind of like a record player. |
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Invoked in Car Talk: The Musical, in the form of a joke designed to fly right by anyone under 40. A man is lamenting that, at age 45, he's too young to have a heart attack. His boss tells him, "Hey, 45 is the new 78." Anyone in the audience who laughs has gray hair. | |
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Phineas and Ferb: Lampshaded (like so many other things) in episode "Phineas and Ferb's Clip-Tastic Countdown", when Dr. Doofenshmirtz complains about a Monkeys on a Typewriter joke by pointing out how unlikely it is that any of the kids watching at home will know what a typewriter is. Also, Linda seems to be the only person in the entire Tri-State Area who remembers analog and disposable still cameras. |
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Bloom County: Opus took it to a large extreme, where a person wearing a brown outfit seemed to be completely unfamiliar with what a newspaper was, even when Opus tried explaining what it was three times when selling the Bloom County local newspaper. The guy, when Opus could give the simplest explanation he could give (paper), also mentions that it "feels like Kleenex." Another strip had Binkley asking his father what he meant by "winding" a watch. |
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The week of Valentine's Day in 2012 had an 80s themed week for the UK Deal or No Deal. It featured an interesting twist involving a cassette necklace. According to Noel Edmonds, this could have been a problem to younger viewers who wouldn't know what cassettes were. | |
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Garfield and Friends: One of the earliest uses of this trope was an episode entitled "The Record Breakers". Jon was trying to impress a potential date with his record collection but Garfield and Odie inadvertently broke his player. She didn't know what records were; unfortunately, neither did the clerk at the electronics store. The antiques dealer needed a hint. Note: Said dealer was an old man who was a kid the last time he listened to a record and he only listened because his grandfather introduced him to them. Exaggerated even more in another episode, where people acted like they were already in a No-Paper Future. When Jon cut up all his credit cards after Garfield had abused them one time too many, he tried to buy a new wastebasket with cash. The clerk had no idea what paper money was... and, as it turns out, no one would accept cash as legal tender. Even the police had to take the money to a lab to verify that it was, in fact, money. |
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More than one streamer/let's player has found themselves stuck in one particular optional puzzle in The Room 3 due to said puzzle requiring dialing a number on a rotary dial, which the vast majority of younger generations have never had to do. | |
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On Llama Llama, when the band cancels for Grams's birthday party in "Band Together" due to having the flu, Mama Llama tells Llama Llama that they'll play Grams's favorite song on an old-school vinyl or a CD. Llama asks what those are; she chuckles and describes them as "ancient technology, but they'll play the kind of music we're looking for." | |
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The Onion: The Onion has a video satire called "Historic ‘Blockbuster’ Store Offers Glimpse Of How Movies Were Rented In The Past" with all the actors playing out this trope. Lampshaded in a profile of the year's incoming freshman college students: "Chalkboards, paper books, and VHS tapes are all items they’ve been told they don’t remember or recognize." |
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Star vs. the Forces of Evil: Marco once called a typewriter a "vintage laptop". | |
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In The Rocketeer episode of Escape from Vault Disney!, Ryan has an aside where he explains to younger viewers what a cassette tape is. | |
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In "Olivia Makes Memories" from Olivia, Olivia and her brother Ian find their Grandma's time capsule. Grandma discovers that the camera in it still has film in it and tells Olivia as much, and Olivia asks her "What's film?" She is then shocked when Grandma tells her that she has to wait two minutes for it to develop. | |
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In the NCIS episode "Power Down", a blackout forces the team to work with less advanced technology than they're used to. This includes a device called a mimeograph (not stated in dialogue), an old-style photocopier that only Gibbs knows how to use. | |
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In an episode of The Cleveland Show, Cleveland takes Rallo to a record store ("it's where insufferable people come to find obscure music no one likes") and Rallo asks "where do they keep the MP3s?" Cleveland tells him that records have a warm sound you can't reproduce digitally, then puts on a hissing, skipping record. "Takes me back". | |
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This is a question that really cannot be asked of fans of The Lion King. Its soundtrack has the distinction of being the first album released in the Nielsen SoundScan era (since 1991) to sell 1 million copies in the vinyl format. It achieved the milestone in 2014. | |
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Subverted in an episode of Kim Possible, where the grandmother gave Kim's younger brothers a collection of vinyl records. They've never seen records before, but know what they are, which made them excited to receive them. | |
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Batman: Wayne Family Adventures: In "Newsflash", Damian and Jon are confused when Clark mentions changing in phone booths to save the day, which has largely become a Discredited Trope thanks to the rise of cellphones. | |
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Inverted in an episode of Daria where Daria is saddled with a babysitting gig. In one scene, the kids are listening to an old record about bouncing on the bed and singing along. note This episode aired in 1997 and the kids aren't even ten yet. Daria notes how badly scratched the record is and asks why their parents don't just buy them the CD. | |
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Scooby-Doo! Team-Up: Subverted in "Scooby Doo, When Are You?", a prehistoric Time Machine brings the gang to The Flintstones' time. In some aspects, the stone age is more modern than the gang expected but the record player makes Shaggy comment to Scooby that they must be really prehistoric. | |
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Regular Show: Done in a Christmas Episode when the Park Crew have to make their way through some caverns and get past the challenges. At one point they come across an old pinball table that they need to play to continue. Oddly, Mordecai and Rigby don't know what it is despite being avid gamers and arcade goers, but Benson says it was "something before their time" and takes up the challenge. | |
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Downplayed in Ojamajo Doremi. In the eighth episode of Sharp, when traveling back in time about 20 years, Doremi is familiar with phone booths, since they still exist in the 2000s. However, she is thrown off that there's no slot for phone cards and that they instead require you to deposit coins. | |
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Rugrats averted this, as Chuckie could sometimes be seen playing records (like in "Down the Drain" and "Chuckie's Bachelor Pad"), and Angelica was seen breaking Chuckie's records for kicks in "Give and Take." Then again the series takes place in the early to late 1990s, not too long after records began being displaced. | |
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Used liberally in Futurama pretty much anytime old technology is mentioned or found. | |
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Some Touhou Project fanart uses this as the premise of a joke by having Sanae (who was in high school when she crossed over to Gensokyo) explain modern technology to other residents... and be a victim of it herself on occasion when confronted by more recent arrivals. (Case in point, a 2022 picture where she considers the 16-year-old Wii to be recent.) | |
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The Nostalgia Chick explains books in this fashion. | |
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Mikayla from The Most Popular Girls in School is constantly called a Gremlin. Her reply in one episode is "I was born in 2003. I have no idea what a 'Gremlin' is." | |
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The Amazing World of Gumball: In "The Ghouls", Alan and Leslie find a videotape at a park and pick it up, reading "It could be the last thing you ever watch"; Alan is more concerned because of littering. They initially mistake it for a book made of plastic ribbon, and try to use it as a yo-yo, until a Samara Expy has to explain everything for them, and leads them to their school's art room which has a VCR. This ignorance is purely for this sake of this one scene, as video tapes have been shown being used regularly in their class and a whole previous episode was based on the kids recording things with a tape-based camera. | |
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Acapulco: Maximo has to explain to his Gen-Z nephew what a payphone is. He describes it as a smartphone glued to the wall that you have to put coins in. | |
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Home Improvement: In an episode Jill offers the boys "her old 45s" for a party, to which one of them responds; "You're giving us guns?" In another episode: Brad calls a record player a "machine that plays the black round things that spin", Tim corrects him and later Mark tells Tim that he read about record players in his history class. |
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The comic strip FoxTrot did this once. In fact, the example in the trope description exactly matches the dialogue of the strip in question. Also seen in Zits, Blondie (1930), and Dennis the Menace (US). | |
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In Star Trek: A Final Unity, Picard and his Away Team are on an alien planet when they find a paper clip. Being from a society that has never used paper documents, they are completely mystified by its purpose. They then end up using it for a purpose that used to exist at the time the game was made but has rapidly faded out from use even in our time: manually ejecting a device out of a computer, a-la CD-ROM drives. Data, being the smartest of the bunch, does seem to figure it out (if he's present at all) - but still doesn't seem to know that it's called a paperclip. |
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Ninjago: Played with. Lloyd (the youngest of the group) didn't know what a VCR was when first mentioned in discussion, but ends up recognizing one on sight as "That thing Master Wu watches old ninja movies on" and knows how to work it. | |
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Mike Pines: In chapter 9 of Falling Through The Breach Showtime, when Mike asks Gregory if he touched anything he wasn’t supposed to, Gregory answered that he only took the security badge and some weird thing. Dipper seeing that the weird thing was, in fact, a CD, was shocked that Gregory did not know what a CD was and felt old. Mike, who was from the 80s but aged down to a young adult, again commented that if Dipper was old, then he was ancient. | |
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In the My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic fan-animation Button's Adventures, Button's mother gives him an old Pong toy she used to play. Despite being a huge gamer, Button is completely stumped about such a simple game. | |
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Doctor Who pulls it quite often in the new series, as most people born sometime in the '80s or later have little to no frame of reference for Police Boxes (other than from the cultural impact of Doctor Who); improved communications technology, such as personal radios for police officers and the wider availability of home telephones note Not mobile phones, as is sometimes suggested; they were already on their way out when cellphones were still the size of bricks and cost several hundred pounds and the shift away from foot patrols made them largely redundant. | |
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Todd in the Shadows takes this line of reasoning with his review of Maroon 5's "Payphone". | |
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In the Henry Danger episode "Indestructible Henry, Part 1", Ray gives Henry and Charlotte an old VCR tape to watch, and both of them try to find the on button on the tape until realizing they can't even find a screen. Henry then believes that the reels are what you look into. | |
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The Spoony Experiment occasionally reviews old computer games, prompting Spoony to explain to the youngsters what things like floppy disks and BBSs were. | |
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Also inverted in Ask King Sombra, though this is kind of justified. | |
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Ed, Edd n Eddy: In "Quick Shot Ed": The Eds are rummaging through Eddy's attic, Ed finds a 7-inch 45rpm record and says: "I found a donut!" Eddy corrects him and says: "That's a record, chowderhead." Eddy has a turntable in his bedroom and is frequently seen playing records. His knowledge of everything is a bit... off. |
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Big Nate: Enforced as a result of the strip's Floating Timeline. In the 1991/01/15 strip, Nate and Ellen are seen handling records, with the comic giving the implication that they are about to play them. However, in the 2008/12/25 strip, when Uncle Ted gives Nate a Neil Diamond record for Christmas, Nate is confused about the gift and has to ask what it is. | |
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Ted Lasso: After Ted learns that Roy and Keeley have broken up, he asks the team's young kit manager Will to run to Ted's apartment and retrieve his breakup mixtape CD. Will asks Ted what a CD is, so Coach Beard decides to retrieve it himself. | |
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From South Park, when Stan is trying to convince the Goth Kids to buy their PlayStation 4 early instead of waiting until they're cheaper: | |
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In False Value, the otherwise tech-savvy Peter has no clue what Wicked is talking about when the old funfair showman says that the music "books" for his antique mechanical organ work like computer punch cards. A more archaic technology than most examples, but given Peter's usual interest in both computers and history, it's an embarrassing blind spot in his knowledge. | |
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Upon its initial release, the Soundwave from the Transformers: War for Cybertron Trilogy subline transformed into a hovercraft despite the robot mode being heavily inspired by the original tape deck design. Sure enough, the next release of the toy saw it heavily altered to allow Soundwave to become a cassette player. | |
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In an episode of Veronica Mars that aired in 2006, Veronica expresses surprise that "they still make vinyl". Piz tells her that they still put out dance music on vinyl, but being a record collector, he should know that vinyl was and is more extensive than that. In a previous episode he was seen with a copy of London Calling by The Clash, which he said was unscratched and cost him 99c, which implies it's an original pressing, but the cover is a little too pristine not to be new, which means the writers didn't have an excuse for their ignorance either. | |
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In a sidestory of Pokémon Reset Bloodlines, Gary Oak meets a retired trainer named Casey Snagem, who talks about having been beaten once by a Jigglypuff in a princess dress. When Gary gives him a funny look, it leads to the following: | |
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Locke & Key (2020): In season 2, Duncan and Bode come upon Rendell's old cassette tape collection. | |
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Family Guy: Brian tries to impress a girl in a club. Inverted on a cutaway featuring The Beatles: |
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This comes up in the episode "Purple Panther, Part 1" on LazyTown when the kids start a LazyTown Museum. Stingy brings in the mayor's old record player that he found lying around and none of the kids have any idea what it is, asking where you put the CD or connect the USB. | |
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In the Amphibia episdoe "Fort in the Road", after the Planters finds some sort of hidden factory, the ancient computer there keeps asking them to "insert disk", which confuses everyone there. | |
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School-Live!: Yuki doesn't know what a radio or Polaroid camera is despite being a high school student old enough to have seen them in their heyday. Her friends know what they are and Yuki isn't the smartest kid on the block anyway. Played for drama in the anime. Yuki took a picture with Megu-nee and the others, but blocked out the memory as Megu-nee died just afterwards. A few weeks later and she doesn't know what a Polaroid camera is anymore. |
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In My Wife and Kids the children are genuinely stunned and amazed that Michael was able to turn on the TV by pressing buttons on it rather than use the remote, even asking how he did it. | |
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Housepets!: Grape has trouble understanding how a video rental store works, and doesn't recognize a VHS tape when she picks one up, though at least she knows what a DVD is. Grape is later on the other end of the when Olive asks her what a Laserdisc is. |
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Joey in My Two Dads is trying to show the kids at a party thrown for his daughter that he's still cool. He refers to his Beatles album, to which two of the kids at the party reply with "Beatles?" and "Album?" as if they'd never heard either term before. CD's were still freshly popular at the time, not to mention that "album" usually means "collection of songs", and not "vinyl recording." Kids were still calling them "albums" even after CD's became popular. Not to mention that there probably has never been a time since the late 60's that the Beatles weren't considered one of the greatest bands of all time, even by those who have never listened to them. The idea of teenagers in the 80's who had never heard of the Beatles is laughable. | |
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Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur (2023): Lunella may be a scientific genius, but when her mom loans her a cassette player in the pilot, she has no idea what it is. | |
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OK K.O.! Let's Be Heroes: In "Know Your Mom", the 6-11 year old KO runs into a phone booth to make a call. He says "What the heck is this thing?" towards the phone then pulls out his smartphone. Later on in "Lord Cowboy Darrel", he asks Rad what a newspaper is when he sees Enid reading one. Except he knew what it was, and just liked messing with "old people". |
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An episode of Pokémon Journeys: The Series has Goh stumble upon one of the old phone booths that used to be everywhere in early seasons, and doesn't realize what it's used for until Team Rocket tells him, as the series has since moved on to characters using smartphones (or rather, Rotom Phones). | |
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In Honey, We Shrunk Ourselves (a straight-to-video sequel to Honey, I Shrunk the Kids), Wayne Szalinski describes the gramophone to his son as "an early record player". He then has to clarify that the record player was "an early CD player". | |
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