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* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: One of the film's sub-plots revolves around the protagonist having a long-overdue VHS tape he needs to return to a video rental store (and he does, [[{{Determinator}} come hell or high water]]). From TheNewTens forward, pretty obviously Melvin Smiley would either have an account with a streaming service that had ''Film/KingKongLives'' in its library, or would have purchased a digital copy (and if he stil goes through a lot of trouble for a VHS tape, a {{Handwave}} about him being ''that'' much of a FanOfThePast or it being a collectible would have been required). As well, the video rental store, at least in the United States of America, has almost completely gone the way of the dodo.

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* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: One of the film's sub-plots revolves around the protagonist having a long-overdue VHS tape he needs to return to a video rental store (and he does, [[{{Determinator}} come hell or high water]]). From TheNewTens forward, pretty obviously Melvin Smiley would either have an account with a streaming service that had ''Film/KingKongLives'' in its library, or would have purchased a digital copy (and if he stil goes through a lot of trouble for a VHS tape, a {{Handwave}} about him being ''that'' much of a FanOfThePast or it being a collectible would have been required). As well, But by the mid-2010s, the video rental store, at least in the United States of America, has almost completely gone the way of the dodo.dodo, in favor of online video streaming.
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* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: One of the film's sub-plots revolves around the protagonist having a long-overdue VHS tape he needs to return to a video rental store (and he does, [[{{Determinator}} come hell or high water]]). From TheNewTens forward, pretty obviously Melvin Smiley would either have an account with a streaming service that had ''Film/KingKongLives'' in its library, or would have purchased a digital copy (and if he stil goes through a lot of trouble for a VHS tape, a {{Handwave}} about him being ''that'' much of a FanOfThePast or it being a collectible would have been required).

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* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: One of the film's sub-plots revolves around the protagonist having a long-overdue VHS tape he needs to return to a video rental store (and he does, [[{{Determinator}} come hell or high water]]). From TheNewTens forward, pretty obviously Melvin Smiley would either have an account with a streaming service that had ''Film/KingKongLives'' in its library, or would have purchased a digital copy (and if he stil goes through a lot of trouble for a VHS tape, a {{Handwave}} about him being ''that'' much of a FanOfThePast or it being a collectible would have been required). As well, the video rental store, at least in the United States of America, has almost completely gone the way of the dodo.
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* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: One of the film's sub-plots revolves around the protagonist having a long-overdue VHS tape he needs to return to a video rental store (and he does, [[{{Determinator}} come hell or high water}}). From TheNewTens forward, pretty obviously Melvin Smiley would either have an account with a streaming service that had ''Film/KingKongLives'' in its library, or would have purchased a digital copy (and if he stil goes through a lot of trouble for a VHS tape, a {{Handwave}} about him being ''that'' much of a FanOfThePast or it being a collectible would have been required).

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* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: One of the film's sub-plots revolves around the protagonist having a long-overdue VHS tape he needs to return to a video rental store (and he does, [[{{Determinator}} come hell or high water}}).water]]). From TheNewTens forward, pretty obviously Melvin Smiley would either have an account with a streaming service that had ''Film/KingKongLives'' in its library, or would have purchased a digital copy (and if he stil goes through a lot of trouble for a VHS tape, a {{Handwave}} about him being ''that'' much of a FanOfThePast or it being a collectible would have been required).
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* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: One of the film's sub-plots revolves around the protagonist having a long-overdue VHS tape he needs to return to a video rental store (and he does, [[{{Determinator}} come hell or high water}}). From TheNewTens forward, pretty obviously Melvin Smiley would either have an account with a streaming service that had ''Film/KingKongLives'' in its library, or would have purchased a digital copy (and if he stil goes through a lot of trouble for a VHS tape, a {{Handwave}} about him being ''that'' much of a FanOfThePast or it being a collectible would have been required).

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