History Main / DiscoDan

[[caption-width-right:300;The 80's called, they want their leisure suit back.]]

* In 2019 Wrestling/ImpactWrestling redebuted Johnny Swinger, a 25+ year veteran by that point, as a delusional out-of-touch goofball who thinks it’s vaguely sometime between the mid 80s and 1993 and speaks only in inside wrestling references and lingo from that period.

* In 2019 ImpactWrestling redebuted Johnny Swinger, a 25+ year veteran by that point, as a delusional goofball who thinks it’s vaguely sometime between the mid 80s and 1993 and speaks only in inside wrestling lingo from that period.

* Website/TheOnion's "[[http://www.theonion.com/articles/area-mans-popculture-references-stop-at-1988,469/ Area Man's Pop Culture References Stop at 1988"]].

* "90s Kid" on ''WebVideo/AtopTheFourthWall'' is out of touch and obsessed with Creator/RobLiefeld-esque [[UsefulNotes/TheDarkAgeOfComicBooks 1990s comic books]]. Note that he met with WebVideo/EightiesDan mentioned above to trade soft drinks, so for one crossover you got twice the Disco Dan fun!

* Michigan J. Frog in the WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes short ''WesternAnimation/OneFroggyEvening'' is a Disco Dan from TheGayNineties brought up to TheFifties and later TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture. He dances around in a top hat and sings the popular Tin Pan Alley music of his era.
* Motor Ed from ''WesternAnimation/KimPossible'' behaves like an [[TheEighties '80s]] rocker, [[VerbalTic seriously]], often goes into air guitar riffs, [[CatchPhrase seriously]], and even quits his job because he loves his mullet, [[OverlyLongGag seriously]].
* The gang from ''Franchise/ScoobyDoo'', of course, didn't upgrade [[WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooWhereAreYou their '60s-era clothing or slang]] for decades, until the latest batch of TV movies and ''WesternAnimation/WhatsNewScoobyDoo'' series gave them a makeover. This is {{lampshade|Hanging}}d in ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooAndTheCyberChase'', where the gang meets video-game doubles of themselves who still dress like in the original ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooWhereAreYou'' series. Shaggy's wardrobe never ''did'' catch up with the times, a fact he comments on himself in ''Scooby-Doo and the Alien Invaders''. The revival ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooMysteryIncorporated'' has several characters very much rooted in disco-styling and the era, including Shaggy himself. But the whole setting sort of exists in the 1970s and the 2010s at the same time (it's heavy on the RetroUniverse aesthetic), so it may be perfectly justified.
* In ''WesternAnimation/TheProudFamily'', Uncle Bobby still performs to this day as an old-school Funk singer straight out of the Seventies, complete with the characteristic heavy rhythmic "Owwww!" tone in his voice (which even Lionel Richie quit doing by the 80s) and which he uses even when speaking "normally".
* Quagmire from ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' lives by the swinger lifestyle of the [[TheFifties '50s]] and [[TheSixties '60s]] (or, he used to, before [[{{Flanderization}} they amped up his sexual perversion]] and made him Brian the dog's SitcomArchnemesis). It makes sense when it's revealed that [[OlderThanTheyLook he was actually born in 1948 and stays young by ingesting carrots]].
* The ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' character known only as [[{{Yuppie}} "the '80s guy"]] who lives his life like [[Film/WallStreet Gordon Gekko]] despite his perfect grasp of his temporal location. He even gets Fry to embrace his lifestyle while performing a hostile takeover of Planet Express and nearly pulls off a flawless pump-and-dump to Mom Corp. Only his sudden death from boneitis stops him from succeeding. The DVD commentary for the episode reveals that his name is [[spoiler:Steve Castle, an appropriate name for an '80s business guy]].
* Finn, one of the Dark Hand enforcers from ''WesternAnimation/JackieChanAdventures'', dresses in a '70s disco suit and displays some Disco Dan tendencies at times. This aspect of his personality really shines through in an episode where he travels back in time to the '70s, where he actually has to be physically dragged out of the time period while he shouts "I wanna stay!"
* In ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls'', the Boogie Man (as in, ''the'' Boogie Man, [[ThingsThatGoBumpInTheNight the nocturnal demon who scares children]]) is like this. In fact, the most vital part of his EvilPlan to plunge Townsville into eternal night involves blocking out the sun [[ItMakesSenseInContext with a Disco ball the size of the Death Star]], and turning Townsville into an eternal disco night club. [[DontExplainTheJoke Because he is]] [[{{Pun}} the Boogie Man.]]
* Eddy from ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy'' keeps a disco ball, polyester suits, and various Music/TomJones and Music/BarryWhite records in his room. While the show takes place in an AmbiguousTimePeriod (however it's heavily implied to be in the 2000s), it's clear that Eddy is still way behind the times. Eddy is unusual in that he is only 12 and thus is likely too young to have even experienced the 70s.
* ''WesternAnimation/MuchaLucha'' has Senor Hasbeena, a teacher at the '''''[[NoIndoorVoice FOREMOST WORLD-RENOWNED INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF LUCHA]]''''' who constantly spouts 70s slang in a rather [[LargeHam hammy]] voice. He even has a signature move called [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin The Funky Disco Ball]]. According to the episode "Woulda Coulda Hasbeena," he was actually a pretty successful luchador in the 1970s until a mysterious flash (later found out to be [[spoiler:his future self performing his signature move]]) distracted him during a championship match with Kid Up And Coming, resulting in him losing the championship; hence why he's stuck in the 70s.
* Even though ''WesternAnimation/{{Archer}}'' exists in a bizarre AnachronismStew of a world, Rip Riley stands out as one of these. Archer even calls him on it during a plane ride, accusing him of trying too hard with his "Sky-captain of yesteryear" look.

It's one thing if you have trouble getting over Music/TheBeatles breaking up. This trope would be about people who act as though they are still around, plaster posters all over their homes, compare every other rock song in existence unfavorably to Beatles songs, and may only listen to other music as long as it's nothing past 1980 (or by ex-Beatles). These people are basically trying to [[IRejectYourReality bend reality back to the way they want it by sheer force of will]]. And that's with a band who are still relatively popular and influential; those who are besotted by something that is DeaderThanDisco can be even worse.

Most likely has a FunnyAfro.

* Johnny Fever on ''Series/WKRPInCincinnati'' is a borderline example of this trope. Having been a DJ for over a decade, he's settled into a preferred playlist (especially once he was liberated from the "Beautiful Music" straitjacket of WKRP's previous format) and so would much rather play deep cuts of Carl Perkins or Pink Floyd than the top-40 pop and rock hits that Andy Travis, the program director, has to all but order him to play. He later becomes an almost literal example of this trope in the persona of "Rip Tide" when he was hired under false pretenses to do a disco-revival show (the episode aired in 1981, soon after Disco had [[DeaderThanDisco passed its expiration date]]), and became the personification of every cheesy '70s disco trope rolled into one stoner DJ, which ends up [[SplitPersonalityTakeover causing him to lose control and turn into his disco persona while on the air at WKRP]].

* One of the zombies in ''VideoGame/PlantsVsZombies'' is a disco dancer, dressing in stereotypical white leisure suit and afro hairstyle. ''[[VisualPun Literally]]'' DeaderThanDisco. (This was originally a Michael Jackson expy but legal issues forced a change.)

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[[caption-width-right:276:Disco is not dead. [[Film/MysteryMen Disco is life]].]]

* Similarly, an episode of ''Series/ThirtyRock'' featured Andy Richter as Liz's brother who, thanks to a "really bad skiing accident", thought it was still 1985 and that he was still a teenager despite him being a 40-year-old man. At the end of the episode, he found out the truth and held up a cocktail, complaining "I could've been drinking these for ''years''!" What's sad is that it's based on an actual form of amnesia, in which the afflicted victim is unable to remember information for very long i.e. ''minutes''. The only discrepancy is that the brother would only forget everything at the end of the day.

* In ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'''s pilot episode, Buffy recognizes a vampire by his disco-era clothing. Joss Whedon later said he considered having vampires generally dress according to when they died, but regretfully discarded that idea as too cumbersome and silly.

* In the ''Series/{{Community}}'' episode "Modern Warfare", Jeff encounters an afro-ed, rollerblading Disco Dan trying to bring disco back, and mocks him. Later in the episode, when it turns into a [[PaintballEpisode Paintball Apocalypse]], the guy has apparently succeeded in bringing disco back, and now leads an army of rollerblading, disco-dancing paintballers.

* In the middle-late [[TheSeventies 1970's]], there was a resurgence of 1950's rock-and-roll style music that most people who were young at the time found puzzling and anachronistic. Bands like Showaddywaddy stalked the stages of shows like ''Series/TopOfThePops'' in crepe shoes, Teddy-boy suits and duck's arse hairstyles, performing songs that felt twenty years (at least) behind the times. Viewers of the normally intended demographic were puzzled, but their parents -- who'd been young in the 1950's -- basked in the warm glow of recognition and nostalgia. Pan forward another twenty years and note there was a surge of popular music that evoked the [[TheSixties 1960's]]. It was even ''called'' the "second summer of love" [[note]]The first Summer of Love having been 1969)[[/note]]. It has been speculated that the programme-shapers and opinion-formers of both periods had been going through a collective mid-life crisis pining for their own lost youth, and had generated a revival of the music of their youth which appealed not so much to the young as to those of their own generation.

* Jon from ''ComicStrip/{{Garfield}}'' is a fan of disco. In the animated special, ''[[WesternAnimation/GarfieldSpecials Garfield Gets a Life]]'', he's not even aware that it isn't popular anymore. In ''1991''. ("You learn a dance, then zango! -- 14 years later, they change it!") Somewhat funnily, this even works as a ContinuityNod--there are early comics where Jon was interested in disco back when it was still popular.

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* ''Series/CobraKai'': Johnny Lawrence is permanently stuck in the bubble that is the 80s. He drives an old Pontiac Firebird, only listens to hair metal music, and constantly watches old movies like ''Film/IronEagle''. He's also hopeless with modern technology and social media; he uses a 5-year-old LG flip phone, and doesn't even know what Website/{{Facebook}} ''is''.

** Some people from [[Recap/DoctorWhoS11E2InvasionOfTheDinosaurs "Invasion of the Dinosaurs"]] plan to literally revert modern-day Earth back to prehistory using TimeTravel technology.
** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E3Gridlock "Gridlock"]]: The Cassinis are a pair of old women who live over five billion years in the future, yet decorate their FlyingCar with stereotypical '30s-'40s décor.
** HollywoodMidlifeCrisis jokes are nothing new for the Doctor, but when the Twelfth Doctor starts going around playing electric guitar, wearing a hoodie and swapping his sonic screwdriver for a pair of sonic sunglasses, it comes across like he's desperately wishing he was still in the late 70s. (Which, considering his personality is RevisitingTheRoots to a more distant and moody 70s-style Doctor after the dorky {{Hipster}} boys of the previous decade, he is doing on a meta level, too.)

* Technology and music-wise, [[WebAnimation/HomestarRunner Strong Bad]] seems stuck in the 1980s or 1990s. Considering how he's been slowly upgrading his computers, it's possible that he is changing with the times, but he's fifteen years behind the curve. He marvels at his [[UsefulNotes/AmericanCustomaryMeasurements 45-pound]] laptop's 5-minute battery life and has no idea what a mouse is. Old Timey Strong Bad is worse; he's still using the telegraph in 1936, decades after it had been rendered obsolete by the telephone. Then there's the Videlectrix guys, who release UsefulNotes/Atari2600 style games in the present day without realizing that they're ridiculously out of touch until they're tasked with developing the ''Homestar Runner'' game and try controlling a UsefulNotes/{{Commodore 64}} with a UsefulNotes/{{Wii}}mote.
-->"[[{{Anime}} It's]] called Japanimation! At least it was last time I checked... which was 1987."
** Strong Bad's latest computer, the Compé, appears to bringing him a bit closer to the present, but only slightly: while it has a flat-screen monitor, it has what looks like 256 colors and pixels as big as fists. Which means it's, what, 1991? When the Compé was compressed by [[ScheduleSlip six years worth of dust]] into an older-style computer, he considered it a step up.
** He also seems to be in a state of denial about how outdated the tech he uses really is; when The Paper begins to fail, he cries out "Why do all my 30 year-old electronics keep breaking on me?"
* ''Disco Bear'' from ''WebAnimation/HappyTreeFriends''.

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* ''Webcomic/TheInexplicableAdventuresOfBob''

* In ''Roleplay/SurvivalOfTheFittest'' v4, we have Joshua Krakowski, who has been literally described as "The Living Anachronism" due to his clear 90s influence, right down to using [[TotallyRadical 90s slang]] and looking like a SurferDude. Daniel Vaughan also has tendencies of this, as he clearly is a little too fond of the 80s. Naturally, he and Josh get along quite nicely.
* Creator/BradJones of ''WebVideo/TheCinemaSnob'', has created a character called WebVideo/EightiesDan. His videos are parodies of 80s style sitcoms, with canned laughter and a feel good theme song, and feature the time displaced Dan subjecting his less than enthusiastic roommates and neighbors (including a R.O.B. the Robot) to the joys of 80s pop culture. Bonus points for him actually being named "Dan".
* "90s Kid" on ''WebVideo/AtopTheFourthWall'' is out of touch and obsessed with Creator/RobLiefeld-esque [[UsefulNotes/TheDarkAgeOfComicBooks 1990s comic books]]. Note that he met with WebVideo/EightiesDan mentioned above to trade soft drinks, so for one crossover you got twice the Disco Dan fun!
* ''WebVideo/TheAngryVideoGameNerd'' lives in a basement full of old video game consoles, doesn't own anything made after TheNineties and uses a Commodore 64 and a rotary phone. [[RuleOfFunny The former can browse the internet and play modern games (they just take about five years to start up), and the latter can play smartphone games despite not having any kind of screen.]] The ''Franchise/MegaMan'' episode, made in honour of his 10-year anniversary on Website/YouTube, later reveals that he's "kept up with the times" by updating his vinyl collection and getting a cell phone. The vinyls are now on cassette tapes, and the cell phone is a forty-year-old Motorola digital personal communicator.
* [[CuteGhostGirl Evelyn]] from ''Podcast/LessIsMorgue'' died in 2004, and pretty much all of her interests originated around that time. She also has an obsession with 1980s cartoon Middle-Aged Tree Men.

* Website/TheOnion's "[[http://www.theonion.com/articles/area-mans-popculture-references-stop-at-1988,469/ Area Man's Pop Culture References Stop At 1988"]].
* WebVideo/GameGrumps' Danny is an example [[{{Downplayed}} to an extent.]] He's not stuck in the past; however, he does seem to prefer that age, constantly bringing up songs, references or slang of the time. Also, he sucks at modern games, with [[HilarityEnsues hilarious results]] considering what his show is about. Arin put it best.
-->'''Arin:''' Game Grumps, starring Arin "Sucks at games" Hanson and Dan "hasn’t played a video game since 1987" Avidan.

* Quagmire from ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' lives by the swinger lifestyle of the [[TheFifties 50's]] and [[TheSixties 60's]] (or, he used to, before [[{{Flanderization}} they amped up his sexual perversion]] and made him Brian the dog's SitcomArchnemesis). It makes sense when it's revealed that [[OlderThanTheyLook he was actually born in 1948 and stays young by ingesting carrots]].
* The ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' character known only as [[{{Yuppie}} "the 80's guy"]] who lived his life like [[Film/WallStreet Gordon Gekko]] despite his perfect grasp of his temporal location. He even gets Fry to embrace his lifestyle while performing a hostile takeover of Planet Express and nearly pulls off a flawless pump-and-dump to Mom Corp. Only his sudden death from boneitis stops him from succeeding. The DVD commentary for the episode reveals that his name is [[spoiler:Steve Castle, an appropriate name for an 80s business guy]].
* Finn, one of the Dark Hand enforcers from ''WesternAnimation/JackieChanAdventures'' dresses in a 70's disco suit and displays some Disco Dan tendencies at times. This aspect of his personality really shines through in an episode where he travels back in time to the 70s, where he actually has to be physically dragged out of the time period while he shouts "I wanna stay!"

* Even though ''{{WesternAnimation/Archer}}'' exists in a bizarre AnachronismStew of a world, Rip Riley stands out as one of these. Archer even calls him on it during a plane ride, accusing him of trying too hard with his "Sky-captain of yesteryear" look.

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* Rolfe from [[http://showbizpizza.com/ Showbiz Pizza]] is this quite a bit. He sings Disco during shows and repeatedly says it's his favorite genre. Often made fun of by his hand puppet, Earl, because of it.

Usually, this is played for laughs. We get a funny character, who is a walking anachronism by simple virtue of denial. Bonus points if this character forces other people to act as though this reality is true. Curiously enough, more than a few of these characters have an affection for disco music, hence the title.

* The PlayerCharacter of ''VideoGame/DiscoElysium'' is, appropriately enough, a huge disco fan, or at least was, before [[AmnesiacHero he lost his memory]] after a massive drinking binge -- although the fact that he must have been a fan of the genre is one of the few things that he quickly discerns, judging from the outfit he finds strewn around his trashed hostel room, which consits of a [[ImpossiblyTackyClothes a forest green blazer, wide collar satin shirt, mustard-yellow bell bottom pants, high-heeled green snakeskin loafers, and a really horrible necktie]], and the fact that the smile that is frozen into his face is a imitation of the one a famous disco-star wore on his face back in disco's hayday. It is later shown that, in Revachol, disco is not seen as merely a music genre, but a state of mind similar to SexDrugsAndRockAndRoll. It also can be used as an adjective (e.g., ''"That is so Disco"'')

* ''Series/CobraKai'': Johnny Lawrence is permanently stuck in the bubble that is the 80s. He drives an Pontiac Firebird, only listens to hair metal music, and loves to watch old movies like ''Film/IronEagle''. He's also hopeless with modern technology and social media; he even uses a 5-year-old LG flip phone, and he doesn't even know what Website/{{Facebook}} ''is''.

* ''What We Do In The Shadows'' plays with vampire stereotypes by having the main cast be an extreme version of this -- stuck in the VictorianLondon time period of classic vampire icons like Dracula -- but then, hilariously, has a much more literal version of this trope with a menacing vampire family nearby who are stuck in TheSeventies (called "the Hustle Dynasty").

* The PlayerCharacter of ''VideoGame/DiscoElysium'' is, appropriately enough, a huge disco fan, or at least were, before [[AmnesiacHero he lost his memory]] after a massive drinking binge -- although the fact that he must been a fan of the genre is one of the few things he about himself that he does quickly discern, judging from the outfit he finds strewn around his trashed hostel room, which consits of a [[ImpossiblyTackyClothes a forest green blazer, wide collar satin shirt, mustard-yellow bell bottom pants, high-heeled green snakeskin loafers, and a really horrible necktie]], and the fact that the smile that is frozen into his face is a imitation of the one a famous disco-star wore on his face back in disco's hayday.
** In Revachol, Disco is not only about music, but it's also a state of mind, similar to SexDrugsAndRockAndRoll. It also can be used as an adjective. ''"That is so Disco"''

* James Donovan Halliday from ''Literature/ReadyPlayerOne'' is an EccentricMillionaire and [[UsefulNotes/VideoGameDesign game designer]] that was obsessed with the 1980s (the decade that he lived in as a teenager). He had an encyclopedic knowledge of nearly all movies, tv shows (animated and live-action), anime, books and games (be they video games, tabletop games and so on) and [[BadBoss would impulsively fire employees that did not share his obsessions]] (though his friend and partner Ogden Morrow would discreetly rehire them).

* Somehow, ''VideoGame/PaperMarioTheOrigamiKing'' managed to give this personality to a ''[[AnimateInanimateObject yellow hole puncher]]''. He ''loves'' disco, dances non-stop during his boss fight, and his [[BossSubtitles Boss Subtitle]] is the "Disco Devil". However, [[BewareTheSillyOnes do not let his kookiness fool you,]] his disco obsession makes him a ''very'' legitimate threat. [[spoiler:After all, he [[FaceStealer stole the faces]] of ''forty'' Toads to have them dance with him all the time and punched out the Sun to use it as his disco ball while also forcing a Toad DJ to play disco music for him under the threat of removing his face too.]]
* A minor character in ''VideoGame/PaperMarioTheThousandYearDoor'' is a Disco Dan of indeterminate species with a French accent who flirts with Goombella. Even more random than usual for the Mario-verse.

* The titular character of the ''VideoGame/LeisureSuitLarry'' series is permanently stuck in the 1970s in terms of style; in his case, it's partially justified. At the start of the series, Larry is a 38-year-old virgin who's been completely out of touch with the modern dating scene for most of his life; when he finally decides to remedy the situation, his idea of "cool" is over a decade out of date, more due to ignorance than willful disbelief. Later games, however, establish that even after coming to his senses, he maintains his "classic" look and tastes simply because he personally likes them.

* Somehow, ''VideoGame/PaperMarioTheOrigamiKing'' managed to give this personality to a ''[[AnimateInanimateObject yellow hole puncher]]''. He ''loves'' disco, dances non-stop during his boss fight, and his [[BossSubtitles Boss Subtitle]] is the "Disco Devil". However [[BewareTheSillyOnes do not let his kookiness fool you,]] his disco obsession makes him a ''very'' legitimate threat. [[spoiler:After all, he [[FaceStealer stole the faces]] of ''forty'' Toads to have them dance with him all the time and punched out the Sun to use it as his disco ball while also forcing a Toad DJ to play disco music for him under the threat of removing his face too.]]

* Somehow, ''VideoGame/PaperMarioTheOrigamiKing'' managed to give this personality to a ''[[AnimateInanimateObject yellow hole punch]]''. It ''loves'' disco, dances non-stop during its boss fight, and its [[BossSubtitles Boss Subtitle]] is the "Disco Devil". However, do not let its kookiness fool you, its disco obsession makes it a ''very'' legitimate threat. [[spoiler:After all, it [[FaceStealer stole the face]] of ''forty'' Toads to have them dance with it all the time and punched out the Sun to use it as it's disco ball while also forcing a Toad DJ to play disco music for it under the threat of removing his face too.]]

* WebVideo/GameGrumps' Danny is an example to an extent. He's not stuck in the past, however; he does seem to prefer that age, constantly bringing up songs, references or slang of the time. Also, he sucks at modern games, with hilarious results considering what his show is about. Arin put it best.

* The ridiculous ''Franchise/SpiderMan'' villain Turner D. Century acted like he lived in [[TheGayNineties the 1890s]], and his entire motivation was making things more like that period. The (somewhat) more serious Hammerhead talks and acts like he was a member of Al Capone's mob; he liked to go to the movies as a kid and the gangsters he saw on the big screen left a big impression on him. Hammerhead even has a vintage limo in ''WesternAnimation/TheSpectacularSpiderMan'', which is kind of badass.

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[[caption-width-right:222:Disco is not dead. [[Film/MysteryMen Disco is life]].]]

** HollywoodMidlifeCrisis jokes are nothing new for the Doctor, but when the Twelfth Doctor starts going around playing electric guitar, wearing a hoodie and swapping his sonic screwdriver for a pair of sonic sunglasses, it comes across like he's desperately wishing he was still in the late 70s. (Which, considering his personality is RevisitingTheRoots to a more distant and moody 70s-style Doctor after the {{Adorkable}} {{Hipster}} boys of the previous decade, he is doing on a meta level, too.)

* ''Series/CobraKai'': Johnny Lawrence is permanently stuck in the bubble that is the 80s. He drives an Pontiac Firebird, only listens to hair metal music, and loves to watch old movies like ''Film/IronEagle''. He's also hopeless with modern technology and social media; his cell phone is a 5-year-old LG flip phone, and he doesn't even know what Website/{{Facebook}} ''is''.

* ''Series/CobraKai'': Johnny Lawrence is permanently stuck in the bubble that is the 80s. He drives an Pontiac Firebird, only listens to hair metal music, and loves to watch old movies like ''Film/IronEagle''. He's also hopeless with modern technology and social media; his cell phone is a decades out-of-date flip phone, and he doesn't even know what Website/{{Facebook}} ''is''.

* The ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' character known only as [[{{Yuppie}}"the 80's guy"]] who lived his life like [[Film/WallStreet Gordon Gekko]] despite his perfect grasp of his temporal location. He even gets Fry to embrace his lifestyle while performing a hostile takeover of Planet Express and nearly pulls off a flawless pump-and-dump to Mom Corp. Only his sudden death from boneitis stops him from succeeding. The DVD commentary for the episode reveals that his name is [[spoiler:Steve Castle, an appropriate name for an 80s business guy]].

* The ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' character known only as "the 80's guy" who lived his life like [[Film/WallStreet Gordon Gekko]] despite his perfect grasp of his temporal location. He even gets Fry to embrace his lifestyle while performing a hostile takeover of Planet Express and nearly pulls off a flawless pump-and-dump to Mom Corp. Only his sudden death from boneitis stops him from succeeding. The DVD commentary for the episode reveals that his name is [[spoiler:Steve Castle, an appropriate name for an 80s business guy]].

* Somehow, ''VideoGame/PaperMarioTheOrigamiKing'' managed to give this personality to a ''[[AnimateInanimateObject yellow hole punch]]''. It ''loves'' disco, dances non-stop during its boss fight, and its [[BossSubtitles Boss Subtitle]] is the "Disco Devil". However, do not let its kookiness fool you, its disco obsession makes it a ''very'' legitimate threat. [[spoiler:After all, it [[FaceStealer stole the face]] of ''forty'' Toads to have them dance with it all the time and punched out the Sun to use it as it's disco ball.]]

* The PlayerCharacter of ''VideoGame/DiscoElysium'' is, appropriately enough, a huge disco fan, or at least were, before [[AmnesiacHero he lost his memory]] after a massive drinking binge -- although the fact that he must been a fan of the genre is one of the few things he about himself that he does quickly desern, judging from the outfit he finds strewn around his trashed hostel room, which consits of a [[ImpossiblyTackyClothes a forest green blazer, wide collar satin shirt, mustard-yellow bell bottom pants, high-heeled green snakeskin loafers, and a really horrible necktie]], and the fact that the smile that is frozen into his face is a imitation of the one a famous disco-star wore on his face back in disco's hayday.