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* For the Music/TheSmashingPumpkins in their [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4aeETEoNfOg ''1979'' music video]], if you look closely at the pinball machine in the window of the front of the convenience store, you'll notice it's a Gottlieb Pinball/TeedOff, which wasn't built until 1993.
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* For the Music/TheSmashingPumpkins in their [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4aeETEoNfOg ''1979'' music video]], if you look closely at the pinball machine in the window of the front of the convenience store, you'll notice it's a Gottlieb Pinball/TeedOff, which wasn't built until 1993.
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Compare ComicBookTime and RetroUniverse. WeAllLiveInAmerica would be the equivalent trope geographically.
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Compare ComicBookTime and RetroUniverse. WeAllLiveInAmerica CreatorsCultureCarryover would be the equivalent trope geographically.
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* ''Series/{{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, [[http://vignette2.wikia.nocookie.net/logopedia/images/d/d2/Logo_Garuda_Indonesia.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20150813112548 distinguishable by its unique font]]. In 2002 (the year Flight 421 actually crashed), Garuda Indonesia were using [[https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/fc/4d/23/fc4d234a73163bca2fd7acaa034fd76f.gif 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 ''WesternAnimation/{{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.
** 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, [[http://vignette2.wikia.nocookie.net/logopedia/images/d/d2/Logo_Garuda_Indonesia.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20150813112548 distinguishable by its unique font]]. In 2002 (the year Flight 421 actually crashed), Garuda Indonesia were using [[https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/fc/4d/23/fc4d234a73163bca2fd7acaa034fd76f.gif 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 ''WesternAnimation/{{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 sixth movie features the destruction of London's Millennium Bridge, which shouldn't exist yet it being, you know, ''before the millennium''.
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** The sixth movie features the destruction of London's Millennium Bridge, which shouldn't exist yet it being, you know, ''before the millennium''.was completed in 2000.
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* A hallmark of Creator/WilliamShakespeare's plays as well as the plays of his contemporaries, as they deliberately did not concern themselves with what would now be known as "historical realism". Notable examples include Cleopatra playing a game of billiards, a game not invented until over a thousand years after her death.
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* A hallmark of Creator/WilliamShakespeare's plays as well as the plays of his contemporaries, as they deliberately did not concern themselves with what would now be known as "historical realism". Notable examples include Cleopatra [[Theatre/AntonyAndCleopatra Cleopatra]] playing a game of billiards, a game not invented until over a thousand years after her death. death, and several characters in ''Theatre/JuliusCaesar'' referring to chiming clocks almost a millennium and a half too early. A more subtle example is that Theatre/{{Hamlet}}'s caution around accepting the ghost's story is partly due to the ghost espousing Catholic ideas to the Protestant Hamlet, despite the play being set around 200 years before the Reformation.
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'''''Fanfic/MyImmortal'''''
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* Creator/StephenKing's ''Series/StormOfTheCentury'', set in 1988, nonetheless has a prominent Product Placement scene involving a late '90s Mac laptop.
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* Creator/StephenKing's ''Series/StormOfTheCentury'', set in 1988, nonetheless has a prominent Product Placement ProductPlacement scene involving a late '90s Mac laptop.
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* ''Franchise/TheWalkingDeadTelevisionUniverse'': 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.
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A SubTrope of AnachronismStew. Often overlaps with HollywoodCostuming and TwentyMinutesIntoThePast. NextSundayAD sometimes involves [[InvertedTrope inversions]] of this, depending on how things turn out in the future (for example, it seems pretty safe to have people using Website/YouTube two years from now, but who knows?).
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A SubTrope of AnachronismStew. Often overlaps with HollywoodCostuming and TwentyMinutesIntoThePast. NextSundayAD sometimes involves [[InvertedTrope inversions]] of this, depending on how things turn out in the future (for example, it seems pretty safe to have people using Website/YouTube two years from now, but who knows?).
knows?). See also LongRunnerTechMarchesOn.
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** The two most likely explanations are: the filmmakers wanted to show the rise of the far-right could happen here today, in modern liberal Berlin (it is certainly happenning elsewhere); or filming such a show was already so complicated with distancing and bubbling measures due to COVID-19 that full set dressing was unaffordable / impractical and the streets were mostly empty anyways. (Note that nobody mentions [[TooSoon the Spanish Flu]]). Except for the fact low-floor articulated buses and modern sanitation vehicles pass ''in the foreground''.
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** The two most likely explanations are: the filmmakers wanted to show the rise of the far-right could happen here today, in modern liberal Berlin (it is certainly happenning elsewhere); or filming such a show was already so complicated with distancing and bubbling measures due to COVID-19 that full set dressing was unaffordable / impractical and the streets were mostly empty anyways. (Note that nobody mentions [[TooSoon the Spanish Flu]]).UsefulNotes/TheSpanishFlu). Except for the fact low-floor articulated buses and modern sanitation vehicles pass ''in the foreground''.
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** The two most likely explanations are: the filmmakers wanted to show the rise of the far-right could happen here today, in modern liberal Berlin (it is certainly happenning elsewhere); or filming such a show was already so complicated with distancing and bubbling measures due to COVID-19 that full set dressing was unaffordable / impractical and the streets were mostly empty anyways. (Note that nobody mentions [[TooSoon the Spanish Flu]]). Except for the fact low-floor articulated buses and modern sanitation vehicles pass <i>in the foreground<i>.
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** The two most likely explanations are: the filmmakers wanted to show the rise of the far-right could happen here today, in modern liberal Berlin (it is certainly happenning elsewhere); or filming such a show was already so complicated with distancing and bubbling measures due to COVID-19 that full set dressing was unaffordable / impractical and the streets were mostly empty anyways. (Note that nobody mentions [[TooSoon the Spanish Flu]]). Except for the fact low-floor articulated buses and modern sanitation vehicles pass <i>in ''in the foreground<i>.foreground''.
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** The two most likely explanations are : the filmmakers wanted to show the rise of the far-right could happen here today, in modern liberal Berlin (it is certainly happenning elsewhere); or filming such a show was already so complicated with distancing and bubbling measures due to COVID-19 that full set dressing was unaffordable / impractical and the streets were mostly empty anyways. (Note that nobody mentions [[TooSoon the Spanish Flu]]). Except for the fact low-floor articulated buses and modern sanitation vehicles pass <i>in the foreground<i>.
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** The two most likely explanations are : are: the filmmakers wanted to show the rise of the far-right could happen here today, in modern liberal Berlin (it is certainly happenning elsewhere); or filming such a show was already so complicated with distancing and bubbling measures due to COVID-19 that full set dressing was unaffordable / impractical and the streets were mostly empty anyways. (Note that nobody mentions [[TooSoon the Spanish Flu]]). Except for the fact low-floor articulated buses and modern sanitation vehicles pass <i>in the foreground<i>.
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* The German series Eldorado KaDeWe / KaDeWe Our Time is Now is intentionally egregious. Set in the time period between 1918 and 1932-ish, only the main characters, those who they interact with and a few extras wear clothing and ride in vehicles (roughly) appropriate to the period. Street scenes and the interior of the titular store are filmed in the 2020s. In one shot Bin men in period attire shovel useless Paper Marks into modern dumpsters, in another Fritzi has an emotional breakdown riding a modern U-Bahn, in yet another the stores' pin-up Hedi walks into the store straight past one of those giant iPhone-like LED screens showing (historically real) film of the (historically real) Hedi Kron, whether it is an actual advert for the store or set dressing we do not know.
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* The German series Eldorado KaDeWe [=KaDeWe=] / KaDeWe [=KaDeWe=] Our Time is Now is intentionally egregious. Set in the time period between 1918 and 1932-ish, only the main characters, those who they interact with and a few extras wear clothing and ride in vehicles (roughly) appropriate to the period. Street scenes and the interior of the titular store are filmed in the 2020s. In one shot Bin men in period attire shovel useless Paper Marks into modern dumpsters, in another Fritzi has an emotional breakdown riding a modern U-Bahn, in yet another the stores' pin-up Hedi walks into the store straight past one of those giant iPhone-like LED screens showing (historically real) film of the (historically real) Hedi Kron, whether it is an actual advert for the store or set dressing we do not know.
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* Despite ''VideoGame/GrowingUp'' being set in the 90s, there are a few anachronisms referencing contemporary history:
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* Despite ''VideoGame/GrowingUp'' being set in the 90s, TheNineties, there are a few anachronisms referencing contemporary history:
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alphabetizing and crosswicking Growing Up
* Despite ''VideoGame/GrowingUp'' 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 symbols[[note]]Nh - nihonium, Fl - flerovium, Mc - moscovium, Lv - livermorium, Ts - tennessine, and Og - oganesson[[/note]], but they wouldn't be formally named until 2011 for elements 114 and 116 and 2016 for the rest.
* Referred to in-universe in ''VideoGame/JadeEmpire'', where the PlayerCharacter has to play a part in a play. The play is set hundreds of years ago, during the foundation of the [[FarEast Jade Empire]], but it's got some satirical digs at [[StateSec the Lotus Assassins]], who were only formed two decades ago.
* The ''Franchise/ToyStory'' segment of ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsIII'' is set around the TurnOfTheMillennium (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.
* ''VideoGame/MetalGear'':
** In ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid3SnakeEater'', [[EightiesHair 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.
** ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolidPeaceWalker'' 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 AutoTune. 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 ProductPlacement items have a modern appearance, even for the consumer products that ''did'' exist in the 1970s.
** ''Videogame/MetalGearSolidVThePhantomPain'':
*** 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, 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 Music/{{The Cure|Band}}'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.
** 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 symbols[[note]]Nh - nihonium, Fl - flerovium, Mc - moscovium, Lv - livermorium, Ts - tennessine, and Og - oganesson[[/note]], but they wouldn't be formally named until 2011 for elements 114 and 116 and 2016 for the rest.
* Referred to in-universe in ''VideoGame/JadeEmpire'', where the PlayerCharacter has to play a part in a play. The play is set hundreds of years ago, during the foundation of the [[FarEast Jade Empire]], but it's got some satirical digs at [[StateSec the Lotus Assassins]], who were only formed two decades ago.
* The ''Franchise/ToyStory'' segment of ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsIII'' is set around the TurnOfTheMillennium (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.
* ''VideoGame/MetalGear'':
** In ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid3SnakeEater'', [[EightiesHair 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.
** ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolidPeaceWalker'' 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 AutoTune. 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 ProductPlacement items have a modern appearance, even for the consumer products that ''did'' exist in the 1970s.
** ''Videogame/MetalGearSolidVThePhantomPain'':
*** 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, 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 Music/{{The Cure|Band}}'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.
* In ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil2Remake'' 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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* ''VideoGame/MetalGear'':
** In ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid3SnakeEater'', [[EightiesHair 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.
** ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolidPeaceWalker'' 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 AutoTune. 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 ProductPlacement items have a modern appearance, even for the consumer products that ''did'' exist in the 1970s.
** ''Videogame/MetalGearSolidVThePhantomPain'':
*** 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, 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 Music/{{The Cure|Band}}'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.
* Referred to in-universe in ''VideoGame/JadeEmpire'', where the PlayerCharacter has to play a part in a play. The play is set hundreds of years ago, during the foundation of the [[FarEast Jade Empire]], but it's got some satirical digs at [[StateSec the Lotus Assassins]], who were only formed two decades ago.
* The ''Franchise/ToyStory'' segment of ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsIII'' is set around the TurnOfTheMillennium (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.
** In ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid3SnakeEater'', [[EightiesHair 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.
** ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolidPeaceWalker'' 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 AutoTune. 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 ProductPlacement items have a modern appearance, even for the consumer products that ''did'' exist in the 1970s.
** ''Videogame/MetalGearSolidVThePhantomPain'':
*** 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, 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 Music/{{The Cure|Band}}'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.
* Referred to in-universe in ''VideoGame/JadeEmpire'', where the PlayerCharacter has to play a part in a play. The play is set hundreds of years ago, during the foundation of the [[FarEast Jade Empire]], but it's got some satirical digs at [[StateSec the Lotus Assassins]], who were only formed two decades ago.
* The ''Franchise/ToyStory'' segment of ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsIII'' is set around the TurnOfTheMillennium (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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* In ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil2Remake'' 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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** ''VisualNovel/HigurashiWhenTheyCry'' is set in 1983, but nothing except the dates of past events and lack of [[CellphonesAreUseless cellphones]] and internet access really agrees with that. The most blatant example is a reference to the ''Manga/CardcaptorSakura'' anime in the game version of ''Watanagashi'', which didn't premiere until 1998. The American release calls it Card ''Master'' Sakura, using a CaptainErsatz which would not be limited by real-life dates. It's unclear whether this is a deliberate TranslationCorrection, an accidental TranslationCorrection, or whether the original Japanese version already used the CaptainErsatz. Anime-wise, there's a reference to ''Literature/MariaWatchesOverUs''. In Watangashi, in most medias, the doll tends to resemble a ''Manga/RozenMaiden''.
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** ''VisualNovel/HigurashiWhenTheyCry'' is set in 1983, but nothing except the dates of past events and lack of [[CellphonesAreUseless cellphones]] and internet access really agrees with that. The most blatant example is a reference to the ''Manga/CardcaptorSakura'' anime in the game version of ''Watanagashi'', which didn't premiere until 1998. The American release calls it Card ''Master'' Sakura, using a CaptainErsatz which would not be limited by real-life dates. It's unclear whether this is a deliberate TranslationCorrection, an accidental TranslationCorrection, or whether the original Japanese version already used the CaptainErsatz. Anime-wise, there's a reference to ''Literature/MariaWatchesOverUs''.''Literature/MariaWatchesOverUs'', even though the original novels weren't published until 1998. In Watangashi, in most medias, the doll tends to resemble a ''Manga/RozenMaiden''.
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** ''VisualNovel/HigurashiWhenTheyCry'' is set in 1983, but nothing except the dates of past events and lack of [[CellphonesAreUseless cellphones]] and internet access really agrees with that. The most blatant example is a reference to the ''Manga/CardcaptorSakura'' anime in the game version of ''Watanagashi'', which didn't premiere until 1998. The American release calls it Card ''Master'' Sakura, using a CaptainErsatz which would not be limited by real-life dates. It's unclear whether this is a deliberate TranslationCorrection, an accidental TranslationCorrection, or whether the original Japanese version already used the CaptainErsatz. Anime-wise, there's a reference to ''LightNovel/MariaWatchesOverUs''. In Watangashi, in most medias, the doll tends to resemble a ''Manga/RozenMaiden''.
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** ''VisualNovel/HigurashiWhenTheyCry'' is set in 1983, but nothing except the dates of past events and lack of [[CellphonesAreUseless cellphones]] and internet access really agrees with that. The most blatant example is a reference to the ''Manga/CardcaptorSakura'' anime in the game version of ''Watanagashi'', which didn't premiere until 1998. The American release calls it Card ''Master'' Sakura, using a CaptainErsatz which would not be limited by real-life dates. It's unclear whether this is a deliberate TranslationCorrection, an accidental TranslationCorrection, or whether the original Japanese version already used the CaptainErsatz. Anime-wise, there's a reference to ''LightNovel/MariaWatchesOverUs''.''Literature/MariaWatchesOverUs''. In Watangashi, in most medias, the doll tends to resemble a ''Manga/RozenMaiden''.
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* ''Film/SidAndNancy'', made in the mid-eighties, but set in the late-seventies ([[Music/SexPistols of course]]), has some rather obvious 'eighties cars, including an '80-82 Cadillac limo in 1975, 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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* ''Film/SidAndNancy'', made in the mid-eighties, but set in the late-seventies ([[Music/SexPistols of course]]), has some rather obvious 'eighties cars, including an '80-82 Cadillac limo in 1975, a facelifted MkIII 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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** Or maybe All the characters are [[DeadAllAlong ghosts haunting modern - day Berlin]], repeating their doomed lives in an endless loop, supported by the fact they don't age any despite the show racing through a 15-year period featuring lean times, hard work and one characters' heroic substance abuse, which tend to put age on you.
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** Or maybe All the characters are [[DeadAllAlong ghosts haunting modern - day Berlin]], repeating their doomed lives in an endless loop, supported by the fact they don't age any despite the show racing through a 15-year period featuring lean times, hard work poverty and one characters' heroic substance abuse, which tend to put age on you.
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* The German series Eldorado KaDeWe/KaDeWe Our Time is Now is intentionally egregious. Set in the time period between 1918 and 1932-ish, only the main characters, those who they interact with and a few extras wear clothing and ride in vehicles (roughly) appropriate to the period. Street scenes and the interior of the titular store are filmed in the 2020s. In one shot Bin men in period attire shovel useless Paper Marks into modern dumpsters, in another Fritzi has an emotional breakdown riding a modern U-Bahn, in yet another the stores' pin-up Hedi walks into the store straight past one of those giant iPhone-like LED screens showing (historically real) film of the (historically real) Hedi Kron, whether it is an actual advert for the store or set dressing we do not know.
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* The German series Eldorado KaDeWe/KaDeWe KaDeWe / KaDeWe Our Time is Now is intentionally egregious. Set in the time period between 1918 and 1932-ish, only the main characters, those who they interact with and a few extras wear clothing and ride in vehicles (roughly) appropriate to the period. Street scenes and the interior of the titular store are filmed in the 2020s. In one shot Bin men in period attire shovel useless Paper Marks into modern dumpsters, in another Fritzi has an emotional breakdown riding a modern U-Bahn, in yet another the stores' pin-up Hedi walks into the store straight past one of those giant iPhone-like LED screens showing (historically real) film of the (historically real) Hedi Kron, whether it is an actual advert for the store or set dressing we do not know.
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* The German series Eldorado KaDeWe / KaDeWe Our Time is Now is intentionally egregious. Set in the time period between 1918 and 1932-ish, only the main characters, those who they interact with and a few extras wear clothing and ride in vehicles (roughly) appropriate to the period. Street scenes and the interior of the titular store are filmed in the 2020s. In one shot Bin men in period attire shovel useless Paper Marks into modern dumpsters, in another Fritzi has an emotional breakdown riding a modern U-Bahn, in yet another the stores' pin-up Hedi walks into the store straight past one of those giant iPhone-like LED screens showing (historically real) film of the (historically real) Hedi Kron, whether it is an actual advert for the store or set dressing we do not know.
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* The German series Eldorado KaDeWe / KaDeWe KaDeWe/KaDeWe Our Time is Now is intentionally egregious. Set in the time period between 1918 and 1932-ish, only the main characters, those who they interact with and a few extras wear clothing and ride in vehicles (roughly) appropriate to the period. Street scenes and the interior of the titular store are filmed in the 2020s. In one shot Bin men in period attire shovel useless Paper Marks into modern dumpsters, in another Fritzi has an emotional breakdown riding a modern U-Bahn, in yet another the stores' pin-up Hedi walks into the store straight past one of those giant iPhone-like LED screens showing (historically real) film of the (historically real) Hedi Kron, whether it is an actual advert for the store or set dressing we do not know.
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** Or maybe All the characters are ghosts haunting modern - day Berlin, repeating their doomed lives in an endless loop (supported by the fact they don't age any despite the show racing through a 15-year period featuring lean times and one characters' heroic substance abuse, which tend to put age on you.)
** The GDR-era U-Bahn trains and 1980s vehicles are most likely still in service however.
** The GDR-era U-Bahn trains and 1980s vehicles are most likely still in service however.
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** Or maybe All the characters are [[DeadAllAlong ghosts haunting modern - day Berlin, Berlin]], repeating their doomed lives in an endless loop (supported loop, supported by the fact they don't age any despite the show racing through a 15-year period featuring lean times times, hard work and one characters' heroic substance abuse, which tend to put age on you.)
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** The GDR-era U-Bahn trains and 1980s vehicles are most likely still in service however.
** The GDR-era U-Bahn trains and 1980s vehicles are most likely still in service however.
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* The German series Eldorado KaDeWe / KaDeWe Our Time is Now is intentionally egregious. Set in the time period between 1918 and 1932-ish, only the main characters, those who they interact with and a few extras wear clothing and ride in vehicles (roughly) appropriate to the period. Street scenes and the interior of the titular store are filmed in the 2020s. In one shot Bin men in period attire shovel useless Paper Marks into modern dumpsters, in another Fritzi has an emotional breakdown riding a modern U-Bahn, in yet another the stores' pin-up Hedi walks into the store straight past one of those giant iPhone-like LED screens showing (historically real) film of the (historically real) Hedi Kron, whether it is an actual advert for the store or set dressing we do not know.
** The two most likely explanations are : the filmmakers wanted to show the rise of the far-right could happen here today, in modern liberal Berlin (it is certainly happenning elsewhere); or filming such a show was already so complicated with distancing and bubbling measures due to COVID-19 that full set dressing was unaffordable / impractical and the streets were mostly empty anyways. (Note that nobody mentions [[TooSoon the Spanish Flu]]). Except for the fact low-floor articulated buses and modern sanitation vehicles pass <i>in the foreground<i>.
** Or maybe All the characters are ghosts haunting modern - day Berlin, repeating their doomed lives in an endless loop (supported by the fact they don't age any despite the show racing through a 15-year period featuring lean times and one characters' heroic substance abuse, which tend to put age on you.)
** The GDR-era U-Bahn trains and 1980s vehicles are most likely still in service however.
** The two most likely explanations are : the filmmakers wanted to show the rise of the far-right could happen here today, in modern liberal Berlin (it is certainly happenning elsewhere); or filming such a show was already so complicated with distancing and bubbling measures due to COVID-19 that full set dressing was unaffordable / impractical and the streets were mostly empty anyways. (Note that nobody mentions [[TooSoon the Spanish Flu]]). Except for the fact low-floor articulated buses and modern sanitation vehicles pass <i>in the foreground<i>.
** Or maybe All the characters are ghosts haunting modern - day Berlin, repeating their doomed lives in an endless loop (supported by the fact they don't age any despite the show racing through a 15-year period featuring lean times and one characters' heroic substance abuse, which tend to put age on you.)
** The GDR-era U-Bahn trains and 1980s vehicles are most likely still in service however.
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* ''Burning Love'', an Italian {{Mockumentary}} from 2015, is supposedly set between 2004 and 2006, but contains references to ''Series/BreakingBad'' (first aired in 2008), the Ice Bucket Challenge (which was a trend during the summer of 2014) and the Charlie Hebdo shootings (from early 2015). Also, all the NewscasterCameo scenes are clearly set in the then current news studios instead of recreating the ones from the original time period. Due to the ludicrous argoment of the movie, it's probably done on purpose.
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* The ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory'' segment of ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsIII'' is set around the TurnOfTheMillennium (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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* The ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory'' ''Franchise/ToyStory'' segment of ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsIII'' is set around the TurnOfTheMillennium (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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** A notepad late in the game has a list of some Deus Ex tropes, despite Wiki/TVTropes barely existing back then.
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** A notepad late in the game has a list of some Deus Ex tropes, despite Wiki/TVTropes Website/TVTropes barely existing back then.
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The BellisariosMaxim can sometimes be applied with regard to location shoots and incorrect background details. Sometimes there just isn't time or money to get ''sees First Time in the title'' right. It's also impossible to control everything when working in a public setting; you may have to put up with pedestrians and other people who aren't part of the film's crew (and therefore aren't in 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...
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The BellisariosMaxim can sometimes be applied with regard to location shoots and incorrect background details. Sometimes there just isn't time or money to get ''sees First Time in the title'' ''everything'' right. It's also impossible to control everything when working in a public setting; you may have to put up with pedestrians and other people who aren't part of the film's crew (and therefore aren't in 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...
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The BellisariosMaxim 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; you may have to put up with pedestrians and other people who aren't part of the film's crew (and therefore aren't in 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...
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The BellisariosMaxim can sometimes be applied with regard to location shoots and incorrect background details. Sometimes there just isn't time or money to get ''everything'' ''sees First Time in the title'' right. It's also impossible to control everything when working in a public setting; you may have to put up with pedestrians and other people who aren't part of the film's crew (and therefore aren't in 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...
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** When Billy is introduced in "MADMAX", Music/{{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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** When Billy is introduced in "MADMAX", Music/{{Scorpions}}' Music/{{Scorpions|Band}}' "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 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.
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** The government agents' weapon of choice appears to be the Heckler & Koch MP5k, [=MP5k=], which is period-accurate, as that gun came out in 1976. What isn't are the MP5k-PDWs [=MP5k-PDWs=] (the ones with folding stocks), which didn't come out until 1991. Some MP5Ks [=MP5Ks=] even have stocks from the Heckler & Koch UMP45; [=UMP45=]; the UMP45 [=UMP45=] didn't come out until 1999.
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* ''Series/StrangerThings'':
** 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 Music/TheSmiths 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 Music/JoyDivision: 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 ''Film/TheThing''. 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 Creator/JohnCarpenter. 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", Music/{{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.
** 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 Music/TheSmiths 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 Music/JoyDivision: 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 ''Film/TheThing''. 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 Creator/JohnCarpenter. 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", Music/{{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 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 Music/TheCure'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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*** 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 Music/TheCure's Music/{{The Cure|Band}}'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.
