History Recap / InsideJobS1E5TheBrettfastClub

* AnAesop: Don't live in the past. Nostalgia might be nice, but the actual past probably wasn't as rosy as your memories of it.

* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: To try to make amends with Brett, Reagan rents and binge-watches multiple '80s hit films to see what she's been missing...and she still doesn't quite get the appeal. It's quite common for people who haven't been there when those movies were at their peak popularity to not be as invested in them later in life. It wasn't until Reagan watches ''The Growing Years'' that she begins to connect the dots.

** The merchandise JR dumps on the table at the beginning includes ''Franchise/CareBears'' and ''Franchise/MyLittlePony''. Reagan tries to hook up a Simon toy, but fails. A Toys/{{Cabbage Patch Kid|s}} is one of the toys Brett brings out to fight the cast.

** At the end of the episode, Brett and Reagan watch ''Film/TheGoonies'' and walk away spooked by how ablest the movie can be. Even Brett, who's established for having [[NostalgiaFilter a massive nostalgia-boner]] for TheEighties, can't bring himself to defend it.

* ReferenceOverdosed:

* ShoutOut: Nearly everything in Still Valley is a reference to the pop culture scene of the 1980s, with tons of quotes alluding to famous media of the decade.

** Andre warns the others not to get hit by the Nostalgia Max, or they'll become "a stunted {{manchild}} like Creator/ChrisHardwick."

* ShoutOut:

** When Reagan binges on classic movies, a song plays that declares said classics with getting remakes "again, and again, and again until you die!" An extended version plays over the credits and takes even more digs at the concept.

* ValuesDissonance: InUniverse, with the differences between TheEighties and the 2020s on full display. Brought up outright even by Brett with respects to ''The Goonies'' (see above).

** The town is stuck in [[NineteenEightyFour 1984].

* AnachronismStew: The town of Still Valley is stated to be stuck in the year 1984 but there are a few inconsistencies of them having things from after that year such as a Blockbuster Video, which first opened back in 1985. The same can be said for the majority of the films Reagan binges which were either released theatrically or on VHS after 1984.

* AnachronismStew: The town of Still Valley is stated to be stuck in the year 1984 but there are a few inconsistencies of them having things from after that year such as a Blockbuster Video, which first opened back in 1985.

* BaitAndSwitch: At one point, Brett notes that the whole plot of them being government agents trying to retrieve an alien from a group of '80s kids is a lot like that movie ''Film/MacAndMe''.

** Myc's plot is a parody of "kid adventure" '80s works like ''Film/TheGoonies'', ''Film/ETTheExtraterrestrial'', and ''Series/StrangerThings''. The precocious and adventurous children find an alien in the woods and take him home in the hope of befriending him, but Myc is a foul-mouthed {{jerkass}} who mooches off their hospitality, and the kids eventually realize that he isn't worth keeping around. When Myc falls off a cliff he is silhouetted by the moon as in ''E.T.''

** The climax takes a lot of cues from ''Franchise/{{Ghostbusters}}''; Reagan builds a machine that looks like the franchise's Proton Pack to fight Brett, whom she refers to as Slimer.

* TakeThat: When Reagan binges on classic movies, a song plays that declares said classics with getting remakes "again, and again, and again until you die!" An extended version plays over the credits and takes even more digs at the concept.