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Typo: cryonically NOT chronically!

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Square peg, round trope. Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer was a contemporary work. This is Values Dissonance at best.

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* ''TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy'' has several parts where social mores have not dated so well. One example is the alien from Betelgeuse who tries to pretend he's human, and English, by adopting what he thought was a very common name - [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Prefect Ford Prefect]]. While probably funny back when the first radio serial was released, the fact that he's named after a car that hasn't been around for nearly half a century completely ruins the joke, and to date ''no'' adaptation has changed the name to something like "Ford Focus" or "Ford Fiesta". Another possible example is the claim that humans are "ape-descended life forms" that "are so amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea". This was back when digital watches were fairly new but not totally ubiquitous, but reading it now, can you think of ''anybody'' in a developed world that is still that impressed with digital watches?
** The Quandary Phase of the radio series (based on ''Literature/SoLongAndThanksForAllTheFish'') alters it to "novelty cellphone ringtones ". This sets up a similar alteration later, where Ford hands cellphones with novelty ringtones out to a crowd. In the book, it was Sony Walkmen.
** Also, in the 2006 movie, Ford was referred to only by first name, preserving the joke.

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* ''Literature/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy'' has several parts where social mores have not dated so well. One example is the alien from Betelgeuse who tries to pretend he's human, and English, by adopting what he thought was a very common name - [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Prefect Ford Prefect]]. While probably funny back when the first radio serial was released, the fact that he's named after a car that hasn't been around for nearly half a century completely ruins the joke, and to date ''no'' adaptation has changed the name to something like "Ford Focus" or "Ford Fiesta". Another possible example is the claim that humans are "ape-descended life forms" that "are so amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea". This was back when digital watches were fairly new but not totally ubiquitous, but reading it now, can you think of ''anybody'' in a developed world that is still that impressed with digital watches?
** The Quandary Phase of [[Radio/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy the radio series]] (based on ''Literature/SoLongAndThanksForAllTheFish'') alters it to "novelty cellphone ringtones ". This sets up a similar alteration later, where Ford hands cellphones with novelty ringtones out to a crowd. In the book, it was Sony Walkmen.
** Also, in [[Film/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy the movie]], Ford was referred to only by first name, preserving the joke.

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