History Main / ThatNostalgiaShow

Some series are set in the present, or TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture, or they're meant to have a sort of timelessness to them (which make it awkward whenever someone brings out [[TechnologyMarchesOn a cassette tape or a payphone]]), or else they're set in [[PeriodPiece the distant past]], so far back that no-one who was alive at that time would be alive to shout "Hey! That's not how it was back in my day!"

* Creator/AdamSandler's ''Film/TheWeddingSinger'' (1998), which uses the '80s setting for some lazy jokes and nothing else.

* ''Series/Pen15'' does this for the TurnOfTheMillenium, taking place in the year 2000.

* ''Series/TheKidsAreAlright'' was made in 2018, even though it was set in 1972.

* While ''VideoGame/MafiaTheCityOfLostHeaven'' and its sequel ''VideoGame/MafiaII'' were straight period pieces (the first was set during UsefulNotes/TheGreatDepression, the latter during UsefulNotes/WorldWarII and TheFifties), ''VideoGame/MafiaIII'' is set in 1968, just barely getting in under the 50-year rule (it was made in 2016) but otherwise indulging in it for all it's worth. The soundtrack is composed of NothingButHits, the collectible items include issues of ''Magazine/{{Playboy}}'' (complete with [[IReadItForTheArticles the articles]]) and ''Hot Rod Magazine'', and the social strife of the time period, particularly the UsefulNotes/CivilRightsMovement and UsefulNotes/TheVietnamWar, figures heavily into the plot.

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* Creator/WaltDisney was enamored with the [[TheGayNineties 1890s]] (he was born two years after they ended, in 1901) and set many of his cartoons in that period, such as WesternAnimation/MickeyMouse's ''The Nifty Nineties'' and WesternAnimation/DonaldDuck's ''Crazy Over Daisy''. Even Donald's iconic outfit is a Gay Nineties throwback!
** Although ''Disney/LadyAndTheTramp'' doesn't quite meet the deadline (it was released in 1955, 65 years after the decade it was meant to invoke), it fits this trope in all other ways.
** 1946's ''Disney/MakeMineMusic'' features the animated short "Johnnie Fedora and Alice Blue Bonnet", which features horse-drawn carts that wouldn't be in style since the 1890s.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheIronGiant'' is set in the '50s from the perspective of the late '90s, and is rich with nostalgia for the decade's pop culture and kitschy aesthetics, albeit taken hand-in-hand with satire of the UsefulNotes/ColdWar paranoia of the time.

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* Three of Broadway's biggest hits of the mid-20th century were ''Life With Father'', ''Film/IRememberMama'' and ''Theatre/TheMusicMan''; all were based on the childhood recollections of Clarance Day Jr., Kathryn Forbes and Meredith Wilson, respectively, and all were eventually made into motion pictures as well (though by the time Wilson's piece reached the stage it was almost a PeriodPiece).

* ''WesternAnimation/TheIronGiant'' is set in the '50s.

* The ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAuto'' series, whenever it does a setting in the past, often rests heavily on this. ''[[VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoViceCity Vice City]]'' and its prequel ''[[VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoViceCityStories Vice City Stories]]'' are the best examples of this, set in pastiches of '80s UsefulNotes/{{Miami}} designed to allow people to live a gangster lifestyle straight out of ''Film/Scarface1983'' or ''Series/MiamiVice'', with a period soundtrack of NothingButHits and plenty of broad satire of the culture and politics of the time. ''[[VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoSanAndreas San Andreas]]'' does something similar, except for UsefulNotes/LosAngeles in 1992 at the height of the GangstaRap era, breaking the 20-year rule for this trope (it was released in 2004, just over a decade after it takes place) but definitely indulging in its spirit. ''[[VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoLibertyCityStories Liberty City Stories]]'' doesn't qualify, though, as it is set in 1998 but otherwise uninterested in the time period beyond exploring the backstories of characters from ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoIII'' (which was released and set in 2001) and making a few jokes about ''Film/TheMatrix'' and {{boy band}}s on [[Radio/GTARadio the radio]].

Now, just slapping a "June 5th, 1976" on an establishing shot isn't enough. The show's time period has to be readily evident. If it's set in [[TheSixties the 1960s]], they should listen to The Beatles and protest the Vietnam War. If it's set in [[TheSeventies the 1970s]], some mention of disco and classic rock should come up. If it's set in [[TheEighties the 1980s]], everyone should be blowing out their hair and wearing neon. If it's set in [[TheNineties the 1990s]]...you get the idea. It doesn't necessarily need to be TheThemeParkVersion of its decade, but it should be pretty blatant.

* ''The Lords of Flatbush'', a 1974 film starring Creator/SylvesterStallone and future [[Series/HappyDays Fonzie]] Henry Winkler, looks at 1958 Brooklyn working-class kids.

* ''Film/TheRoaringTwenties'' is a 1939 film that looks back on [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin TheRoaringTwenties]] -- though it begins in 1918, at the very end of The Great War.

* WaltDisney was enamored with the [[TheGayNineties 1890s]] (he was born two years after they ended, in 1901) and set many of his cartoons in that period, such as MickeyMouse's ''The Nifty Nineties'' and DonaldDuck's ''Crazy Over Daisy''. Even Donald's iconic outfit is a Gay Nineties throwback!

* ''TheHollywoodKnights,'' a 1980 film featuring early appearances by [[Series/TheNanny Fran Drescher]], [[TheDanza Tony Danza]] and Creator/MichellePfeiffer, examines Halloween night, 1965, and the last night of a drive-in that is the favored hangout of the car club of the title.

* ''TheIronGiant'' is set in the '50s.

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* Three of Broadway's biggest hits of the mid-20th century were ''Life With Father'', ''I Remember Mama'' and ''TheMusicMan''; all were based on the childhood recollections of Clarance Day Jr., Kathryn Forbes and Meredith Wilson, respectively, and all were eventually made into motion pictures as well (though by the time Wilson's piece reached the stage it was almost a PeriodPiece).

* {{Billy Joel}}'s 1983 album ''An Innocent Man'' is made up almost entirely of 1950s-style songs. The video for "Uptown Girl" keeps the theme as well.

* The 1980s ''IndianaJones'' movies were set before WorldWarII. The fourth one, however, moves into PeriodPiece territory.

** By extension, it also gets its name from the lesser-known spin-off, ''That '80s Show''.

* StephenKing's ''Franchise/TheDarkTower'' series has actually ''turned into'' this, being largely set in the '70s and publishing from 1982 to 2012.

* ''Film/StandByMe'' is set in 1959 and attempts to mark the transition from TheFifties to TheSixties--from Innocence to Experience--reflecting the coming of age of four Oregon youths (and the youths of director Rob Reiner and author StephenKing).

* The 1971 film ''Summer of 42'' was screenwriter Herman Rauscher's almost-autobiographical look back at his own summer vacation of 29 years previous.