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* Overlapping with CompanyCrossReferences, characters can be seen reading ''WesternAnimation/TinyToonAdventures'' comics in a few episodes. ''WesternAnimation/TinyToonAdventures'' ran from 1990 to 1992, ending just after Batman: The Animated Series began.
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** The cover at the end of ''Beware the Gray Ghost'' explicitly has 1992 on the cover.

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** The cover magazine at the end of ''Beware the Gray Ghost'' explicitly has 1992 on the cover.
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** The cover at the end of ''Beware the Gray Ghost'' explicitly has 1992 on the cover.
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Added back the M16 example. It really contributes to the Ambiguous Time Period of the series.


* Out of police forces, some mooks can be seen equipped with [=MP40=] (a World War II-era SMG).

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* Out of police forces, some mooks can be seen equipped with [=MP40=] [=MP40s=] (a World War II-era SMG).SMG), but [=M16s=] assault rifles (designed in 1959, and more modern variants were still used at the time the show was produced) can be seen too.

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Removed the reference to M16 assault rifles. Variants of them were still used in Real Life at the time of the show's production


* Computers, VCR and video games are common, yet television broadcasts are in black and white.
** Not to mention things like digital phones, satellites and virtual reality.

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* Computers, VCR and video games are common, yet television broadcasts are in black and white.
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not to mention things like digital phones, satellites and virtual reality.reality, yet television broadcasts are in black and white. From its graphics, the FictionalVideoGame ''The Riddle of the Minotaur'' looks like it was made in late 70s-early 80s.



* Uniforms are 1960s-era and SWAT teams exist, but weapons are 1920s-70s, with M1921 or M1928 Thompsons and 100 round drum magazines being very common while police -- or at least patrol officers -- carry revolvers and shotguns for the most part. The first SWAT team was formed in Philadelphia in 1964, while LAPD formed its famous SWAT team in response to the Watts Riots in 1965 (there's also the Reserve Unit of the Shanghai Municipal Police, formed in 1925 and considered the UrExample of SWAT teams).
* Out of police forces, depending on the episode some mooks can be seen equipped with [=MP40=] (a World War II-era SMG) or [=M16=] (assault rifle designed in 1959).

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* Uniforms are 1960s-era and SWAT teams exist, but weapons are 1920s-70s, with M1921 or M1928 Thompsons and 100 round drum magazines being very common while police -- or at least patrol officers -- carry revolvers and shotguns for the most part. The first SWAT team was formed in Philadelphia in 1964, while LAPD formed its famous SWAT team in response to the Watts Riots in 1965 (there's also the Reserve Unit of the Shanghai Municipal Police, formed in 1925 and considered the UrExample of SWAT teams).
teams). In the occasional flashbacks set at most a decade earlier, police officers wear 1920s-era uniforms.
* Out of police forces, depending on the episode some mooks can be seen equipped with [=MP40=] (a World War II-era SMG) or [=M16=] (assault rifle designed in 1959).SMG).



* Charlie Collins' [[http://i.imgur.com/ojGoMtd.png driver's license]] was issued September 25, 1991, expires March 17, 1995 and lists his date of birth as March 17, 1946.

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* Various contradictions in in-universe dating:
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Charlie Collins' [[http://i.imgur.com/ojGoMtd.png driver's license]] was issued September 25, 1991, expires March 17, 1995 and lists his date of birth as March 17, 1946.



* The tech, fashions and architecture seem to take quite a jump forward by ''The New Batman Adventures'', despite it taking place only a few years after the original run.
** By the time you get to the flashbacks in ''Return of the Joker'', integrating DNA into microchips is possible.

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* The tech, fashions and architecture seem to take quite a jump forward by ''The New Batman Adventures'', despite it taking place only a few years after the original run.
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run. By the time you get to the flashbacks in ''Return of the Joker'', integrating DNA into microchips is possible.
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* Out of police forces, depending on the episode some mooks can be seen equipped with [=MP40=] (a World War II-era SMG) or [=M16=] (assault rifle designed in 1959).

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