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11->''"With dated '60s references like these, we won't have much of a life in reruns!"''
12-->-- '''[[HypocriticalHumor Babs Bunny]]''' (imitating [[WesternAnimation/RockyAndBullwinkle Rocket J. Squirrel]]), ''WesternAnimation/TinyToonAdventures''
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14Many works that are intended to be "contemporary" end up displaying so many cultural quirks that later audiences mistake it for a [[PopularHistory deliberate exaggeration of the era by a work made much later]]. Works that are explicitly set in the PresentDay avoid this by proudly declaring the era that the work is intended to reflect, but other works attempt to be more creative in their references, in order to trick the audience into thinking that the current era of the work is supposed to be the same time period of decades later. This article describes the effect on audiences when that attempt fails and the audience is ''painfully'' aware of how old the work is.
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16Topical humour can be especially vulnerable to changing trends/fashions, as they rarely include a dating method. Such jokes often invert DontExplainTheJoke because the explanation is necessary to make it funny again. As the years pass, the number of people who remember the reference shrinks until the punchline becomes an artifact of their generation ("I haven't heard that joke for years!"). Historians studying an era, however, [[GeniusBonus may find it hilarious]] and these jokes can liven up an otherwise dullish history lesson as you become [[SmallReferencePools one of the few people knowledgeable of the time period]].
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18Dismissing a work simply because it is "dated" would be an AppealToNovelty. Just because a work is dated in some way [[Administrivia/TropesAreTools doesn't necessarily mean it isn't relevant or entertaining to modern audiences]], even notwithstanding the kitsch or nostalgia factor. Obviously any medium can be dated by their technical limitations, such as older films and TV shows done in black-and-white, but that relies on an audience with highly-specific knowledge. Some audiences (such as those who have spent too long on Website/ThisVeryWiki) may find [[DiscreditedTrope the very tropes in use]] may be recognisable of an era -- such as the NinetiesAntiHero. Neither the technical limitations nor the tropes common to an era of storytelling should be used to establish if the work had inadvertently dated itself to a narrow range of years. Instead, these works are judged based on the way their content and plot calls to mind specific cultural trends.
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20Compare AnachronismStew (when the work has elements from across several different decades), OnceOriginalNowCommon (when a concept was new in its day but is now well-established and evolved beyond that), TwoDecadesBehind (when a work feels like it was intended to be the PresentDay, but was actually produced many years after the relevant period it seems to be based on), ValuesDissonance (when a work's moral elements make it inaccessible to modern audiences) and ValuesResonance (when a dated work's moral messaging manages to feel relevant today). ProductionLeadTime and TheShelfOfMovieLanguishment can result in a work feeling dated before it even gets officially released. {{Zeerust}} is when a work's depiction of the ''future'' becomes dated, without necessarily saying anything about the work's present day, so all works with a far-future setting belong there, not here.
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22Subtropes include FailedFutureForecast (which dates the work between the issue in question becoming relevant and it being resolved in real life) and FashionDissonance (when this is caused by clothing and hairstyles alone).
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24'''Important Sidenote''': To avoid questionable examples, do not add a work less than 10 years old unless the situation is especially unusual. (Being completely overtaken by events by time of airing, and being called "instantly dated" by the press, have both qualified in the past.) For most works, it won't be particularly clear which ones really do bleed their production date out of every pore until roughly a decade has passed. However -- also remember that while older references zing over the heads of younger consumers, newer references zing over the heads of older consumers, too. So references from modern times can ''sometimes'' be accurate, and [[Administrivia/ExamplesAreNotRecent TV Tropes does not know time]].
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28!!Examples, organized by both decade and media:
29[[index]]
30* [[UnintentionalPeriodPiece/The70s 1970s]]
31* [[UnintentionalPeriodPiece/The80s 1980s]]
32* [[UnintentionalPeriodPiece/The90s 1990s]]
33** ''UnintentionalPeriodPiece/HomeAlone1''
34* [[UnintentionalPeriodPiece/TurnOfTheMillennium 2000s]]
35** [[UnintentionalPeriodPiece/TurnOfTheMillenniumLiveActionFilms Live-Action Films]]
36** [[UnintentionalPeriodPiece/TurnOfTheMillenniumVideoGames Video Games]]
37* UnintentionalPeriodPiece/SpecialCases (either [[LongRunners works which span multiple decades]], or are OlderThanRadio)
38** ''UnintentionalPeriodPiece/CalvinAndHobbes''
39** ''UnintentionalPeriodPiece/TheSimpsons''
40[[/index]]
41
42!!Other examples:
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46!! [[TheFifties 1950s]]
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48[[folder:1950s Comic Books]]
49* ''ComicBook/{{Superman}}'' story "ComicBook/TheSuperDuelInSpace" has America to launch the first manned space ship in 1958. The real first manned flight into space in history was taken by Russian Yuri Gagarin only three years later.
50[[/folder]]
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52[[folder:1950s Films]]
53%%* ''Film/TheWomanOnPier13'' dates to a very specific point in time when the Cold War was America's biggest concern, and [[RedScare communists were the biggest bogeymen]]. After the fall of the Soviet Union, people are no longer concerned with the spread of Communism as an ethos, and in fact, many people in traditionally-capitalist nations have actually embraced some of Communism's ideals. %How do we know this isn't a period piece?
54* ''Film/RearWindow'': World-traveling photographer LB Jeffries (played by [[Creator/JimmyStewart James Stewart]]) is stuck in his apartment for weeks because of a broken leg. He can't take the boredom so he looks out his window to watch his neighbors across the courtyard. If it had been at least 5 years later, he would have just watched television to pass the time, but [=TVs=] weren't in every home in 1954[[note]]It was only late that year when more American households had a TV set[[/note]]. Also, later advances in medicine would have required a far more severe injury than a broken leg to confine him to his home -- if anything, getting out and staying active would be ''encouraged''.[[note]]The 1998 made-for-TV remake of the film reflects these advances in medicine—the main character, here a former architect named Jason Kemp, was played by Creator/ChristopherReeve, in his first role after the 1995 horseback riding accident that left him a quadriplegic.[[/note]]
55%%* ''Film/WillSuccessSpoilRockHunter'' takes place in an [[{{Camp}} extremely played-up version]] of the period in which it was made -- accurately predicting how people in the future would remember the fifties. %Lacks details
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58[[folder:1950s Literature]]
59* The book ''Literature/TheBlueNosedWitch'' was published in 1956 and so is this for modern reading. The group of trick-or-treating children Blanche groups up with are allowed to be out [[FreeRangeChildren alone on Halloween night]] without any adults with them. Blanche, outside of her [[RobeAndWizardHat witch's hat]], is dressed fairly ordinary for a girl of the time in a black wide-skirted dress, Mary Jane shoes, and knee socks, which leads to the adults at the party only being slightly concerned that she's out at midnight by herself. Some of the treats mentioned as given out are jelly doughnuts, apples, and caramel apples--and none of them are wrapped or otherwise sealed, something discouraged now since the scare of RazorApples. And along with three {{Bedsheet Ghost}}s, a pirate, a cowboy, and a WitchClassic, one of the children [[ValuesDissonance is dressed as a "gypsy"]] as a costume, something that's heavily discouraged as a {{National Stereotype|s}}.
60* A couple of Creator/IanFleming's ''Literature/JamesBond'' stories from ca. 1959 reference the anti-Batista forces in revolutionary Cuba with some sympathy, which wouldn't be the case a year or so later. International travel, while common for Bond, is also much slower than it would be in real life (with an airline flight between London and Istanbul involving multiple stops) and copious smoking on planes and trains.
61* ''Literature/RallyRoundTheFlagBoys'' has suburban housewives organizing committees to welcome a new [[UsefulNotes/SuperiorFirepowerSurfaceToAirMissiles Nike installation]], which leads to a fight between soldiers and GreaserDelinquents. Throwaway references include a HenpeckedHusband comparing trying to make a date with his wife with "like trying to get tickets to ''Theatre/MyFairLady''."
62* John Updike's ''Literature/RabbitRun'' is set in 1959, and as if to hammer it home, it lingers on cultural moments like specific episodes of ''Series/TheMickeyMouseClub'' and, among other things, spends a page and a half averting NothingButHits by listing every single song that comes onto the radio and ads for period products as well as the news, involving the Chinese invasion of Tibet. At the time, it seems to have been just trying to capture the banality of Rabbit's ordinary life. Reviewers also note its pre-sexual-revolution treatments of masculinity and sex.
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65[[folder:1950s Live-Action TV]]
66%%* ''Series/LeaveItToBeaver''.
67%%%* ''Series/ILoveLucy''
68%%* ''Series/TheHoneymooners'', though the show was always slightly more realistic than other sitcoms around at the time.
69%%* ''Series/FatherKnowsBest''.
70* ''Series/TheTwilightZone1959''. Though most of its seasons were aired in the early '60s, it still comes off as '50s for the most part, with a lot of commentary on the UsefulNotes/ColdWar and RedScare in many episodes. There is of course still some ValuesResonance to be found in some episodes though, so it varies from episode to episode.
71* Creator/RogerEbert wrote that starting in the 1950s, television made it possible for pop-cultural fads to spread like wildfire and then burn out just as quickly as other, "cooler" fads replaced them. He could swear to this since he was an adolescent during that decade and watched quite a lot of TV, and he could date his childhood pop-culture phenomena -- ''Series/DavyCrockett'', ''Series/TheMickeyMouseClub'', ''Franchise/{{Zorro}}'' -- not just to the mid-1950s, but to the exact year and sometimes to the exact month.
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74[[folder:1950s Music]]
75* The original version of "Santa Baby" as sung by Eartha Kitt refers to a "[19]'54 convertible", changed in some covers to "I want a new..." or even "''outer space'' convertible." In the 1960s or 1970s, it'd be closer to this trope, but 1954 isn't a particularly sought-after year for any mainstream American car since styling tended to be at an awkward stage between the flowing Art Deco of the first postwar generation and the long, low finniness of the late '50s, and wheezy old flathead engines and flaky first-generation automatic transmissions proliferated.
76* In the Clovers' 1959 song "Love Potion Number Nine" the lyrics go: "''I told her that I was a flop with chicks / I've been this way since 1956''". Wow, that guy's been a flop with the girls for a looooong time...
77** The year stayed at 1956 in The Searchers cover in 1965 (which is the version often heard on oldies stations). This turns a three-year dry spell into a nine-year "I'd better step back and take a hard look at what's wrong with my life" serious problem. If anything, it makes even more sense that the guy is desperate enough to hunt down a gypsy ([[ValuesDissonance now considered an ethnic slur for Romani people]]) for a love potion.
78** Later covers of the song avert this; you can change it to 1996 or 2006 and the song's no longer dated... for a little while.
79* "It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas" (1951) becomes more dated as time goes on, particularly the verse which talks about what the assorted kids would like to receive. "A pair of Hopalong boots and a pistol that shoots is the wish of Barney and Ben." Setting aside the fact that very few children have been named "Barney" since the 1960s (the name "Ben", while still relatively common, is not as popular as it was at the time either), a pistol would not be an appropriate Christmas gift for little boys in this day and age. Also, how many people singing the song these days even know what "Hopalong boots" ''are''?[[labelnote:*]]They're basically cowboy boots modeled off of the ones worn by Franchise/HopalongCassidy, a fictional cowboy hero popular in the fifties. Never mind that cowboy boots for suburban kids, Hopalong Cassidy-branded or otherwise, are pretty fifties as they are...[[/labelnote]] The girls in the song don't fare much better, since "dolls that will talk and will go for a walk" have long since ceased to be impressive. At least the line about "Mom and Dad can hardly wait for school to start again" is still pretty relevant...
80* The R&B song "Kansas City" mentions the 12th Street and Vine intersection which no longer exists in that city due to redevelopment. In its place is a park with a commemorative plaque and parking spaces painted like piano keys.
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83[[folder:1950s Theatre]]
84* ''Theatre/BellsAreRinging'' necessarily takes place before the rise of answering machines, which had already begun in the 1960s. It has a subplot involving fake orders placed in bulk for recordings of classical music in "all three speeds" (33, 45, and 78 RPM, the latter of which died out around 1958). There's also a ListSong rattling off the names of 1950s celebrities (which, like a number of similar songs from Music/ColePorter musicals, had a few lines revised during the original Broadway run).
85* ''Theatre/DamnYankees''. Most obviously, the protagonist roots for and then plays for the original Washington Senators, which moved after 1960 to become the Minnesota Twins.
86* ''Theatre/FlowerDrumSong'' lays on the 1950s slang and fashions in music and dress a bit heavily. Immigration quotas complicate the love plot, which is resolved with the help of a TV western. The lyrics to "Chop Suey" are a laundry list of people and things popular in America at the time. Notably, the film adaptation made in 1961 changed the references to Bobby Darrin and Sandra Dee to make it seem more current.
87* ''Theatre/LilAbner'' is vintage 1950s satire about atomic bomb testing and scientific optimism. The song lyrics allude to a fair number of advertising slogans of the time; "Progress Is The Root Of All Evil," whose title is a cross between an old proverb and a General Electric slogan, is about 1950s trends and failing to keep up with them.
88* ''Theatre/TheMostHappyFella'', despite being set in the 1920s, is commonly supposed to take place in the 1950s, when it was written. This is largely because the musical deliberately dropped the contemporary political topics of the 1924 play on which it was based, including all references to Prohibition.
89* John Osborne's plays ''Look Back in Anger'' and ''Theatre/TheEntertainer'' were cutting edge in their coarse language and format, depiction of working-class Englishmen and the seedier side of British culture, ushering in the "Angry Young Man" era in British literature. They have a much more mixed reputation today, partly because [[GenreTurningPoint of how much stuff they influenced]], but also their [[TooBleakStoppedCaring often overwhelming pessimism]], their rather complicated treatment of women, and most of all, their dated topicality. Particularly true of ''The Entertainer'', whose plot focuses on the long-defunct music hall tradition and myriad references to the Suez Crisis of 1956.
90* Much like other plays written by Creator/AgathaChristie, ''Theatre/TheMousetrap'' has become a period piece, due to how technology has progressed since 1952. During the play's snowstorm, the landline phone in Monkswell Manor is the ''only'' direct method of communication to and from the Manor. Today, much of the play's plot could be avoided, with the invention of the Internet and Cell Phones.
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93[[folder:1950s Western Animation]]
94* The 1959 ''Merrie Melodies'' cartoon "The Mouse that Jack Built" (a parody of ''Radio/TheJackBennyProgram'' featuring the show's main cast as mice) is chock-full of late 50s references, but one that would go over the head of people who don't know one World War from the other[[note]]increasingly likely, as both those wars are from the early 20th Century and fade into history[[/note]] is when Jack is speaking to Ed, the vault guard, who has evidently been in there a long time by the 1959 date that is assumed. Jack assumes Ed means UsefulNotes/WorldWarII (which had been over for 14 years by this time), but then Ed drops a reference from UsefulNotes/WorldWarI.
95-->'''Ed:''' Halt! Who goes there?\
96'''Jack:''' It's me, Ed.\
97'''Ed''': Oh, hello, Mr. Benny. How are things on the outside? We win the war yet?\
98'''Jack:''' Oh, uh... yes. Yes, we did.\
99'''Ed:''' That's good. What do you think they'll do with [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm_II,_German_Emperor the Kaiser]]?
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101
102!! [[TheSixties 1960s]]
103[[folder:1960s Comic Books]]
104* The Franco-Belgian comic ''ComicBook/AchilleTalon'' (also known as ''Walter Melon'') was written in the '60s and finished in the '90s. The comic was mainly a gag strip with a main character that had an unclear mind and encyclopedic knowledge. Pretty much 90% of the jokes in those comics would barely even work well (unless you can still laugh with jokes about people that mock old cars that have cars themselves that scream the 1960s). The dialogue is also unbelievably dated, not helped by the fact that the comic used a complex vocabulary for its time (the Spanish translator of the comic had to come up with a new joke whenever the original joke didn't translate well into Spanish) and a lot of neologisms that don't catch on with modern viewers.
105* In ''The Beaver Patrol'', another Franco-Belgian comic, the 5 main characters are invited by the Iranian government for a vacation. This story (published in two parts entitled ''The Haunted Bus'' and ''The Ghost'') was written in 1967 and 1969, at a time Iran was still on friendly terms with the West. The Iranians were portrayed in a positive light, while the Kurds were portrayed as savage raiders. After the Islamic Revolution in 1979 and 9/11, those portrayals would be reversed in Western media.
106* ''ComicBook/LegionOfSuperHeroes'' story arc "ComicBook/TheDeathOfLightningLad", which came out at the start of 1963, presumes that John F. Kennedy will be re-elected for a second term. JFK was assassinated less than one year later.
107* ''ComicBook/{{Supergirl}}'' story "ComicBook/TheUnknownSupergirl": In the final issue of the storyline, published in February 1962, Supergirl is introduced to President John F. Kennedy, who would be assassinated only one year later in real life.
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110[[folder:1960s Comic Strips]]
111* The Hungarian gag strip ''ComicStrip/{{Jucika}}'' that ran from 1959 to 1970 referenced cultural phenomena of the time, like supply shortages following the 1956 revolution, crummy infrastructure, life under the oddities of "Goulash Communism", vintage technology, UsefulNotes/YuriGagarin, and the comic's eroticism and {{Fanservice}} in general don't feel special compared to the off-the-wall adult cartoons published later. A Hungarian exhibit about fashion and commercialism under socialism was even titled "What Did Jucika Buy?" because her name is so firmly tied to that era. Had the creator not died so early or if another artist had taken over, the strip would likely have kept up with the changing times and looser censorship of later decades, especially since it was intended to be more explicit than the publisher at the time had allowed. Still, the comic's international popularity boost beginning in 2019 shows most strips have a timeless appeal. The artist's other ongoing cartoon, the pro-Soviet political-military satire ''Joe and Ivan'' is very much a product of its time, though.
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114[[folder:1960s Films]]
115* ''Film/TheApartment'': The film is remarkably timeless for something made in the early 1960s, but a few things show their age:
116** Miss Kubelik's occupation as an elevator operator was already pretty archaic at the time and has now become completely extinct. With the exception of very old buildings.
117** The fact that new episodes of ''Series/TheUntouchables'' are airing is a plot point; ''The Untouchables'' would air its last new episode in May 1963.
118** Bud has all of four channels to choose from when he watches television (though this would remain relevant until the mid to late '80s, by which time cable TV would become more widespread).
119* ''Film/{{Bullitt}}'': The police department watches in dramatic, stony silence as game-changing evidence in the case is printed by the Xerox Magnafax Telecopier, a then-revolutionary fax machine that nevertheless took minutes to send a document. You would also not find an airport even two decades later with security as lax as in the film's climax, where a character is able to carry a gun in and out of an airplane and through an airport without anyone noticing.
120* ''Film/TheComputerWoreTennisShoes'': The enormous and clunky computer that costs $10,000, the fashions, and the short-range bug that the students use to spy on Higgins. They all give the movie a 60s-70s feel for modern viewers.
121* ''Film/CoolHandLuke'', despite being technically set in the 1950s, instantly feels more associated with the 60s. The applicability to the Vietnam War is everywhere -- especially with its anti-establishment themes, and Luke being a disaffected former soldier. The film's famous line -- "what we got here is a failure to communicate" -- has been interpreted as a metaphor for Vietnam. Creator/RogerEbert felt the film was a huge product of its time.
122--> "The year 1967 was at the center of the Vietnam era, and Luke was against the establishment."
123* When Dr. Grimsdyke goes for his makeover in ''Film/DoctorInClover'', Robert tells him to lose the moustache as they're right out now. Just one year later, moustaches became a craze after Music/PaulMcCartney grew one.
124* ''Film/EasyRider'': The main characters receive (murderous) persecution for being counterculture bikers in the DeepSouth. In more modern times, "outlaw" culture has become embraced in the South, and bikers dressed like them wouldn't be seen as anything particularly noteworthy.
125* ''Film/If1968'': Conditions for pupils and staff are rather spartan, but this no longer applies. Private school fees have been rising faster than inflation since the 1970s, and a lot of the extra money has gone on a "facilities arms race" to the point that such venues nowadays are reported to be ''very'' comfortable. And that's ''not'' venturing into the film's treatment of its AxesAtSchool finale, which proved already controversial for its time, but it would be completely unfeasible nowadays.
126* Creator/WaltDisney attempted to avert this with ''WesternAnimation/TheJungleBook1967'', specifically the vultures. Hence, the vultures ''talk'' like Music/TheBeatles (and are caricatures of them) but sing like a barbershop quartet, as Walt felt that a bunch of Beatles {{exp|y}}ies would date the film. Suffice it to say that a Beatles-style number would have aged far better, but considering that barbershop dated back to the early 1880s at a time when the Beatles were still a fairly new fad, [[ItWillNeverCatchOn how was Walt to know that?]]
127* ''Film/LoveWithTheProperStranger'': Quite progressive and un-dated in many ways, but clearly made before abortion was legalized in New York state in 1970.
128* ''Film/MagicalMysteryTour'', and not just because it starred the Beatles. Pretty much everything about it, from the bus painted in the most psychedelic colors possible to the fashions to the "experimental" (in reality incomprehensible) plot, screams 1960s.
129%%* ''Film/MidnightCowboy''
130* ''Film/TheMillionDollarDuck'', which is about a duck that lays golden eggs, gets most of its conflict from [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_Order_6102 Executive Order 6102]], which prevents a private citizen from owning large amounts of gold. The law was repealed in 1974.
131* ''Film/{{Revolution|1968}}'' captures the feeling of the 1960s, even though the topics in the {{documentary}} might seem old-fashioned nowadays.
132* ''Film/OneTwoThree'' ''literally'' became a period piece ''during'' shooting -- when the production started, the UsefulNotes/BerlinWall had not been erected yet, and shooting could happen at the Brandenburg Gate. However, as filming continued, and they needed to film a chase between Creator/JamesCagney's character and his companions and some East German policemen that continued over the border between East and West Berlin, UsefulNotes/EastGermany very unobligingly decided to put up the Wall. The film is written and performed as if still in the pre-wall period.
133* ''Film/PeepingTom'' is instantly recognizable as an early '60s piece from the fashion and vibrant color palette -- which resembles the notable pop art of the era. Pornography is portrayed as a secretive thing that a respectable gentleman has to whisper for when the newsagents are empty -- and it's paralleled to the protagonist's voyeurism. The film technology is also state of the art for the '60s, and Mark watches his films back on a projector -- showing that it was made before videotape was invented.
134* Notorious Z-movie ''Film/TheySavedHitlersBrain'' is a weird case, in that chunks of it were filmed in the early '60s, and other chunks were filmed in the late '60s. However, the fashions and costumes were not kept consistent, so it's very easy to figure out the years when some parts were filmed: sometimes, the characters wear clipped haircuts with suits and ties like extras on ''Series/MadMen'', and other times, they look like members of Music/TheMonkees.
135* Most of the plot of the 1966 film ''Film/WalkDontRun'' (actually a remake of 1943's ''The More the Merrier'') turns on how shocking and scandalous it is for an unmarried woman to sublet a room in her apartment out to a man. When a newspaper reporter hears the tale of how Steve wound up renting a room from Catherine, he says he's going to write a juicy story about it. Then Catherine's fiancée Julius, a low-ranking diplomat, decides that Steve and Catherine ''have to get married'' in order to avoid scandal and social embarrassment and damage to Julius's career. All because Steve rented out Catherine's guest bed. It's impossible to imagine the movie being made even a few years later when the swinging 1970s were underway and nobody would have batted an eye at such a living arrangement.
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138[[folder:1960s Literature]]
139* In the foreword to ''The Warriors'' (upon which [[Film/TheWarriors the 1979 film]] is based), Sol Yurick notes that at the time the book was written, gangs had limited access to guns and cars, both of which would have considerably shortened the timeline of events (and elevated the body count).
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142[[folder:1960s LiveActionTV]]
143* ''Series/TheAvengers1960s'' is the sort of TV show that could only exist in the '60s -- where James Bond had just taken off and spies were cool. Second-Wave Feminism was in, resulting in sexy {{Action Girl}}s like Cathy Gale, Emma Peel, and Tara King. The hairstyles and fashions of the female characters scream the 1960s, particularly Emma's SpyCatsuit. The show's tongue-in-cheek, NarmCharm tone was so heavily a product of the 60s that attempts to revive the series in the 70s failed -- as did a film adaptation in 1998.
144* ''WesternAnimation/TheBananaSplits'', especially during the song segments. For example, in the "San Francisco" version of ''Wait 'Till Tomorrow'', as well as the "Pop Cop" segment (which doesn't feature the Splits), you can see various, then-current styles of cars from the time.
145* ''Series/TheBradyBunch'' bleeds its late 1960s/early 1970s origin, due to FashionDissonance and being a touch too conservative for the '70s proper. This is lampshaded in the ''Brady Bunch'' movies, where they have this same attitude in ''the 1990s''.
146* ''Series/Car54WhereAreYou'': The theme song makes mention of the arrival of Soviet premier UsefulNotes/NikitaKhrushchev at New York's Idlewild Airport in September 1960; Idlewild was renamed John F. Kennedy International Airport in December 1963, and Khrushchev was removed from power in 1964.
147* ''Series/TheManFromUNCLE'' lives and dies on its Cold War setting and the oddity of a spy organization employing both American and Soviet agents. Notably, the 2015 film version didn't even try to translate the premise into the present day and is simply set in the '60s.
148* ''Series/MissionImpossible'' clearly dates itself by a combination of two factors: on the one hand, while the conflict with the Soviet Bloc could carry the stories into the 1980s, several episodes dealing with Nazis keep it from going later into the 1970s as concerns about Nazis plotting a fourth Reich faded from popular culture. Also, many episodes mention then-extravagant amounts of money that would be considered rather paltry in the 2010s thanks to fifty years of inflation.
149** One episode has Barney's invention of the week be a chess computer capable of winning a major tournament, which would have been incredible in the late 60s, but computer programs capable of playing chess became easily commercially available in the late '80s, and a computer program capable of besting a recognized grandmaster was demonstrated in the Deep Blue v Kasparov matches of 1997, making Barney's creation no longer wondrous.
150%%* ''Series/TheMonkees''.
151* ''Series/ThePrisoner1967'', although how unintentional it was is debatable, and the series' influence is such that it probably shaped later perception of the '60s. Nonetheless, the show criticizes Cold War power structures (with the major implication that Number Six's captors may be his own "side" and his retirement from spy service as a "matter of conscience"), and has an overall tone that can only be described as 'psychedelic', features very 1960s fashions (most notably Number Six's jacket, the multicolored capes seen on a few characters, and the prevalence of lava lamps). The finale includes (without giving away too much) the music of Music/TheBeatles ("All You Need Is Love") and a character, thematically representing universal youth culture, calling everyone "dad" or "baby". Not all episodes are period pieces, however: one in particular, "[[Recap/ThePrisonerE6TheGeneral The General]]", turned out to be quite prophetic with regards to the rise of digital culture and the Internet; it just does so involving a computer the size of a room that spits out printouts.
152* Depending on the episode, ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'' has this going on alongside its {{Zeerust}}. Between the color palette, the miniskirts, the UsefulNotes/ColdWar-esque Fed/Kling politics, the civil-rights-era Aesops, and Chekov's ''Monkees'' hair, it comes across as some kind of Neo-'60s even when they ''aren't'' confronted with space hippies.
153* ''Series/RowanAndMartinsLaughIn'', with the colorful sets and go-go dancers with painted-on comic messages.
154* Given that ''Series/{{Thunderbirds}}'' was made in the '60s, this was going to be inevitable. Modern British viewers may be a little miffed at the main airport being called "London Airport", unaware that back in the day, this was actually the name for Heathrow Airport before Stansted and Gatwick acquired "London" status. There are also several references to Cape Kennedy.
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158* Music/TheFugs: They were once the most audacious rock band out there because they were the first to openly sing about sex, drugs, and politics. As a result, a lot of their material is nowadays heavily dated because so many imitators have come in that it lost all of what made it special in the first place. And, of course, there are many references to the Vietnam War, Kennedy, Nixon, Communism...and so on.
159* "Happy Together" by Music/TheTurtles includes the line "If I should call you up, invest a dime..." Telephone booths often cost 50 cents nowadays, and even they are becoming obsolete as cell phones are becoming more commonplace.
160* "Mustang Sally" sung by Wilson Pickett: "I bought you a brand new Mustang, 1965..."
161* "Magic Bus" by Music/TheWho manages to still sound reasonably timeless until it betrays the fact that it was written before British currency was decimalized with "[[UsefulNotes/OldBritishMoney Thruppence and sixpence]] every day just to drive to my baby".
162* The Music/ElvisPresley song "Return to Sender" (1961) has a lyric in which the singer gets the letter returned to him stamped "no such number/no such zone". The "zone" is a reference to postal zones, a way of routing letters in large cities that was introduced in 1943 and retired in the 1960s in favor of modern-day ZIP codes.
163** If you know that ZIP actually stands/stood for "Zone Improvement Program" (which is why it's "ZIP Code," not "Zip Code"), it's still pretty clear, but most people who know that are old enough to remember zones outright.
164** "Bossa Nova Baby" has the line "Loan me a dollar and I'll buy some gas." Nowadays, $1 worth of gas ''might'' get you around the block.
165* Music/TheBeatles' "Taxman" from ''Music/{{Revolver|Beatles Album}}'' refers to contemporary tax rates = "One for you, nineteen for me." (a 95% supertax on earnings for British subjects in the top income bracket) and contemporary politicians -- "Mr. Wilson" and "Mr. Heath" refer to UsefulNotes/HaroldWilson and UsefulNotes/EdwardHeath, who were the leaders of the Labour Party and the Conservative Party, respectively.
166** "[[Music/SgtPeppersLonelyHeartsClubBand Everyone you see is full of life]]/It's time for tea and ''"Meet the Wife''"." (''"Meet the Wife''" was a popular BBC TV sitcom of TheSixties.)
167** The song "Revolution" from ''Music/TheWhiteAlbum'' has the line "If you go carrying pictures of [[UsefulNotes/MaoZedong Chairman Mao]] you ain't gonna make it with anyone anyhow". Back in the 1960s and 1970s, Maoism was a bit more popular and widespread among leftist youth than it is now.
168** "Back in the U.S.S.R." has "a period piece" written all over it. In addition to the obvious fact that the [[UsefulNotes/SovietRussiaUkraineAndSoOn U.S.S.R.]] was disbanded in 1991, the song is written as a parody of Music/TheBeachBoys 1965 hit "California Girls", has a Music/ChuckBerry ShoutOut (to 1959's "Back in the U.S.A.") for a title, and contains a reference to "Georgia on My Mind" (originally written in 1930, and popularized by Music/RayCharles in 1960).
169** "Happiness Is a Warm Gun" has since become this with increased debates on gun control worldwide since the sixties. Most glaringly, The Beatles' home country became subject to this in 1997 when the Firearms (Amendment) Act banned handguns in the United Kingdom.
170** "Polythene Pam" features the lyric "She's the kind of a girl that makes the 'News of the World'". The News of the World was a popular British tabloid newspaper that focused on celebrity scoops and gossip that had shut down in 2011, dating the song.
171* Many believe that Music/PhilOchs has largely been swept under the rug due to his habit of lifting song ideas from newspaper headlines (for a great example of this, listen to "Outside of a Small Circle of Friends"). The result is that many of his references are lost in time to all but those who were alive back then (and paying close attention to the news) and young fans who are unusually savvy in regard to the events of the time. Unfortunately, the result is that Ochs remains relatively unappreciated as one of the true pioneers and innovators of the folk/protest music movement of the sixties.
172** "Love Me, I'm a Liberal" (1966) [[ValuesResonance has aged rather well]], being a general-purpose indictment of the BourgeoisBohemian [[RuleAbidingRebel who claims to be all for progressive social causes, but backs out in disgust the moment those causes threaten to affect their lives or meaningfully change society]], and sees actual progressive rebels as immature rabble-rousers. However, by nature of having to talk about those social causes, it falls into this, referencing things like popular black entertainers of the time, the assassinations of politicians and civil rights leaders, Hubert Humphrey being named Vice President, Les Crane, and the Korean War. There are more than a few attempts to update the song for more modern times--Ochs himself did one performance in 1971 where he updated a few verses, such as changing mentions of Korea to mentions of Israel.
173* A lot of Music/FrankZappa's works are period pieces, most blatantly with ''Music/WereOnlyInItForTheMoney'', which satirizes the hippie movement.
174* Scott [=McKenzie=]'s OneHitWonder "San Francisco (Be Sure to Wear Flowers in Your Hair)", dates from a very specific time, namely the spring and summer of 1967 in San Francisco, popularly known as the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Summer_of_Love "Summer of Love"]]. Similar songs like "Let's Go To San Francisco" (The Flowerpot Men), "San Franciscan Nights" (Music/TheAnimals), and "California Dreamin'" (Music/TheMamasAndThePapas) have dated for the same reasons.
175* ''The Ventures' Christmas Album'' has holiday standards arranged around hooks from contemporary pop hits like "I Feel Fine", "She's Not There", and "When You Walk in the Room", making it unmistakably mid-1960s.
176* Whilst the Music/TheBeatles' original ''Sergeant Pepper's'' album (1967) is viewed today as a timeless classic, the many imitators that were rushed out by other record companies to cash in on its success have dated badly. Music/{{The Rolling Stones|Band}}' ''Music/TheirSatanicMajestiesRequest'' and Music/TheMoodyBlues' ''In Search of the Lost Chord'' -- both intended to cash in on the mood and themes of Sergeant Pepper -- today sound like pastiches of Sixties pop music with few memorable songs. Other [[CaptainErsatz Pepper imitations]] which now sound like standard products of their own decade include Music/TheSmallFaces' ''Music/OgdensNutGoneFlake'' and Music/PinkFloyd's ''Music/ThePiperAtTheGatesOfDawn'' and Music/TheHollies' ''Evolution'' and ''Butterfly'' [[note]] Yes, Music/TheHollies did put out ''two'' albums during 1967. You cannot say Clarke/Nash and Co weren't prolific...[[/note]].
177* "Kay" by John Wesley Ryles, a 1968 country music song about a broken-hearted taxicab driver. Two of his customers are soldiers who tell the protagonist "how they hate that war in Vietnam". When Daryle Singletary covered the song in 2002, he changed the line to "how they won that war in Afghanistan".
178* Creator/{{Motown}} band The Marvelettes had a hit in 1962 with "[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telephone_exchange_names Beechwood 4-5789]]", however [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telephone_exchange_names telephone exchange names]] (like the title is) were phased out later that same decade.
179* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KKGApcWVMx4 小林 旭  ~自動車ショー歌~]]'' (which translate to ''Automobile Show Song'', with the ''Sho-ka'' doubling as a FunWithHomophones, as it also means "song") is a snapshot of the car culture of '60s Japan, as it lists off a bunch of automobile brands and companies that were known among the general populace back then; many of which have since been either discontinued or have faded out entirely. Examples include Packard,[[note]]which had already gone out of business by then but were still common among the rich[[/note]] Opel,[[note]]pulled out of the Japanese market in 2006[[/note]] and Bellett.[[note]]An Isuzu car. Isuzu has stopped making automobiles excluding trucks and buses since 2002.[[/note]] Particular mention goes to the prominence of American brands and the comparative lack of German brands. This song shows just how American cars dominated the import car market in Japan. Had this song been made today, there would be a lot more mention of German brands such as BMW and Porsche as they've overtaken The Big Three in terms of its popularity in Japan since the 70s.
180* Creator/AllanSherman:
181** Many of his songs satirized 1960s culture, some popular ("Al 'n Yetta", "Pop Hates Music/TheBeatles") and some social ("Downtown", "The Rebel"), and even the songs with broader topics tend to have passing mentions of products and politics from the era. As a result, a lot of jokes tend to get lost on modern listeners.
182** The first gift in "The Twelve Gifts of Christmas" is a Japanese transistor radio. After The70s, transistor radios lost most and eventually all of their market shares to (in chronological order) boomboxes, Walkmans, portable CD players, [=MP3=] players, and smartphones.
183* The 1961 song "Sad Movies (Make Me Cry)" references newsreels and color cartoons, neither of which have been regularly shown in theaters since the end of that decade.
184* Music/SimonAndGarfunkel's "A Simple Desultory Philharmonic" is awash with references to characters from the 50s and 60s, including writer Creator/NormanMailer, Maxwell Taylor, John O'Hara, JFK/LBJ-era Defense Secretary Robert [=McNamara=], Music/TheBeatles, Music/{{The Rolling Stones|Band}}, Creator/LennyBruce, novelist Creator/AynRand, record producer Music/PhilSpector and more.
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188* ''Theatre/TheBoysInTheBand'' is ''very'' much a look at the [[{{Gayngst}} self-loathing, dread and neurosis]] in a pre-Stonewall gay culture -- especially since it hit the stage in 1968, one year before the Stonewall Rebellion. In fact, when Creator/WilliamFriedkin adapted the play for the screen in 1970, right when gay liberation and pride were on the rise, he was excoriated for putting together a "throwback" to the days of gay shame.
189* The original version of the musical ''How Now, Dow Jones'' is filled with topical and cultural references highly specific to 1967. (These were extensively revised for the show's 2009 revival.)
190** The plot is driven around a young woman who's frustrated because her fiancé won't marry her until the Dow Jones Industrial Average rises above 1,000.[[note]]In real life, it didn't reach 1,000 for the first time until late 1972. The Dow was last under 1,000 back in 1982.[[/note]]
191** Many jokes rely on the audience being familiar with Lane Bryant (a women's clothing store popular at that time) and ''Film/TheGraduate''.
192** One scene that requires a set, costumes, and actors that aren't used anywhere else in the production is a parody of a then-current Dreyfus Fund commercial featuring a lion emerging from the subway and moving along Wall Street.
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195[[folder:1960s WesternAnimation]]
196* ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooWhereAreYou'', thanks in no small part to the bubblegum pop background music during some chase scenes (starting with the second season in 1970 -- which makes this show a good candidate for the 1970s entries as well!).
197* ''WesternAnimation/RockyAndBullwinkle'' ironically has had a much longer life in reruns -- appearing in syndication through the 1960s, '70s, and '80s, on {{Creator/Nickelodeon}} in the early 1990s, and occasionally elsewhere since then -- than the show poking fun at it in the page quote (''WesternAnimation/TinyToonAdventures'' hasn't been seen much on TV since the mid 2000s, other than briefly rerunning on [[Creator/DiscoveryFamily Hub Network]] in 2013).[[note]]It helped that The Program Exchange offered the series to stations for free on a trade basis.[[/note]] ''Rocky & Bullwinkle'' even had a new series debut on Amazon Prime in 2018.
198** For that matter, even the backup segments for the moose and squirrel's show have shown a much livelier afterlife through reruns and revivals than ''Tiny Toons''. ''WesternAnimation/MrPeabodyAndSherman'', for instance, have had a theatrical animated film and their own spin-off animated TV series (on Netflix).
199* ''WesternAnimation/TheFlintstones'' and ''WesternAnimation/TheJetsons'', despite taking place in the past and the future respectively, have enough 1960s pop culture references that they come off as "The 1960s [[RecycledInSpace With Cavemen]]" or "The 1960s [[RecycledInSpace With Flying Cars]]".
200** The 1980s ''Jetsons'' revival is a weird double example, essentially being 1980s pop culture references in a [[ZeerustCanon 1960s-style future]]. This also applies to ''WesternAnimation/JetsonsTheMovie''.
201* Fellow animated sitcom ''WesternAnimation/TopCat'' falls under this too from its sixties slang to the running gag of Top Cat constantly using Officer Dibble's now obsolete police phone.
202* The 1967 ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' short ''Daffy's Diner'' has Daffy using DDT to give the rubber mice he cooks a more authentic flavor. DDT would be banned in the early 1970s.
203* ''WesternAnimation/FrostyTheSnowman'' begins with a scene where the group of children attend school on Christmas Eve, which was common in the United States until the mid-'60s. However, the special was produced in 1969.
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210[[folder:2010s Advertising]]
211* The Nando's ad "Last Dictator Standing", due to depicting Robert Mugabe as still in charge of Zimbabwe but showing UsefulNotes/MuammarGaddafi as one of the dead dictators he's reminiscing about, could only have been made between Gaddafi's overthrow and death in the 2011 Libyan Civil War and Mugabe's 2017 ouster in a MilitaryCoup and death in 2019.
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215%% * ''Anime/OsomatsuSan'' is filled to the brink with {{Shout Out}}s to anime released in the first half of the 2010s such as ''Manga/AttackOnTitan'' and ''Manga/{{Haikyuu}}''. It also has a lot of focus on mid-2010s Japanese culture.
216* Around the time of UsefulNotes/BarackObama's presidency in the United States (2009-2017), a plethora of manga and anime referenced Obama or Obama-like stand-ins as bosses, mayors, leaders... and as the United States' president of the time (if set on every-day Earth), etc., usually in settings outside Japan -- for example, ''Anime/TigerAndBunny'' in 2011 and ''Anime/MobileSuitGundam00'' as mentioned in UnintentionalPeriodPiece/TurnOfTheMillennium, thus giving away the "era" they were created in. In some cases, same or similar slogans from his campaign would be included as blatant additions, such as America from ''Hetalia'' yelling "Yes we can!" in one of his character songs from the time. This occurred roughly in the range of 2008 to 2015/16, though it peaked from 2009 to 2012/13.
217* The 2013 ''Anime/Dream9SuperCollaborationSpecial'' positions ''Manga/{{Toriko}}'' as a peer and competitor to ''Manga/OnePiece'' and ''Manga/DragonBall''. At the time, ''Toriko'' was being pushed as a rising star and a potential successor to internationally famous LongRunners like ''Bleach'' and ''Naruto,'' which were beginning to wind down. Unfortunately, the special ended up basically being ''Toriko'''s last gasp in terms of notoriety; its anime adaptation was canceled a year later and the manga modestly concluded in 2016, with no sign of a spinoff, continuation, or big multimedia success to follow, and it hasn't had any luck showing up in crossovers since then. Anyone watching it today will probably wonder what this third series is, when ''One Piece'' and ''Dragon Ball'' are still very much in the public eye.
218* At one point, the characters in ''Literature/ASistersAllYouNeed'' talk about how manga adaptations of light novels are more popular than the novels themselves overseas. While that might have been true for the early [=2010s=] when the novel volume this discussion occurs in was released ([[NoExportForYou as light novels were notorious for not being licensed outside Japan]]), the mid to late part of the decade saw a massive boom in the export of light novels to foreign shores. This reference to a time before light novels became readily accessible overseas, and the sheer amount of name-dropping of other novel series that were popular at the time, places this series firmly in the early [=2010s=].
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221[[folder:2010s Comic Books]]
222* ''ComicBook/{{Faith|ValiantComics}}'' dates itself firmly to the early '10s thanks to the title character's constant gushing reverence for Creator/JossWhedon, who was at the time enjoying a brief return to the spotlight as the writer and director of ''Film/TheAvengers2012''. Midway through the decade, his ex-wife exposed him as a serial adulterer and a toxic figure on set. Combined with the disastrous release of ''Film/JusticeLeague2017'', fans revisting his older works to find examples of ValuesDissonance and UnfortunateImplications, and finally confirmation from various actors dating back to ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' that he had engaged in extremely abusive behavior against actors on a regular basis, Whedon fell out of favor in geek circles like the ones Faith inhabits. Incidentally, Faith's last outing, ''ComicBook/FaithDreamside'', was released in 2019, and she has not had an ongoing, or even a miniseries, since then.
223* ''ComicBook/{{Memetic}}'' is a horror comic book written in 2014 about a deadly internet meme that spreads uncontrollably, mutates people and causes the civilization's collapse. Said meme, the "Good Times Sloth", is in the format of "Advice Animals" (animal picture with a caption in Impact font) which has fallen out of favor since then. Also, the unnamed black US president is clearly Barack Obama.
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227%% * [[http://ruthe.de/cartoon/3099/datum/asc/ Self-referential meta version of the trope. Yeah.]]
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230[[folder:2010s Fan Works]]
231* ''Fanfic/GarfieldRoyalRescue'': The fanfic's premise of Garfield crashing Prince William's wedding to Kate Middleton makes it rather apparent that it could've only been written during the early 2010s, specifically during 2011 when said wedding was a huge pop culture talking point.
232* ''Fanfic/SuperSmashBrothersGuardiansArise'': The fanfic was written in the context of the early 2010s with aspects that haven't aged well. Much of the humor present in the fanfic is perpetuated with gay jokes and Internet memes of the era; the former being slightly outdated by increased sensitivity towards the LGBT+ community and the latter due to being instantly dated to the time period, which is especially jarring since it's a ''post-apocalyptic dystopian fic taking place a century after the supposed year of 2010''. The story also playfully bashes ''Literature/TheTwilightSaga''; which still gets backlash these days, albeit not as pronounced. Much of the cast's canonical material also instantly dates it to the status of the franchises of the time period; Pit's characterization in the fanfic can be seen as jarring post-''Uprising'', and the ''Franchise/FireEmblem'' aspects, from plot, worldbuilding, and characterization, can be seen as lacking a bit of awareness now that access to the franchise's material through later games and ''VideoGame/FireEmblemHeroes'' became more accessible and had a NewbieBoom.
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235[[folder:2010s Films -- Animation]]
236* Due to ''WesternAnimation/RockosModernLifeStaticCling'' being stuck on TheShelfOfMovieLanguishment from 2017 to 2019, some of the references to "modern" trends were outdated by the time the film was finally released:
237** While selfie sticks are still in heavy use, they are now considered a nuisance and are even banned at Ride/DisneyThemeParks and other venues.
238** Hoverboards, which are featured in one part of the film, quickly lost popularity once they started exploding without warning.
239** The BlandNameProduct version of the [=iPhone=] that Filburt and Heffer go nuts over at the start of the movie has a ninth version, which was skipped for the [=iPhone=] X.
240* In ''WesternAnimation/TheLegoMovie'', the hit pop single Emmett loves, "Everything is Awesome," is a parody of the optimistic, party-centric electro-pop that dominated the first half of the 2010s. By contrast, Wildstyle views Batman's angsty, less trendy music as more legitimate art due to its pessimism. By the final years of the decade, bubblegum electro-pop had mostly fallen out of favor and had been replaced with the more cynical sound of trap and emo-pop music, which also would render obsolete the contrast between popular music and darker styles like Batman's. Similarly, Emmett's favorite TV show, ''Where Are My Pants?'' is a more kid-friendly parody of the crude, bawdy, laugh track-reliant sitcoms of the 2000s (i.e. ''Series/TheBigBangTheory'', ''Series/HowIMetYourMother'', and ''Series/TwoAndAHalfMen''), which were already on the way out and which would become substantially less popular as the 2010s continued, being replaced by dramedies.
241* ''WesternAnimation/{{Megamind}}'' has everyone, including Megamind himself, use flip phones instead of smartphones. Also, a reference that specifically dates the film is Megamind's "No You Can't" posters, which acts as a direct parody of Barack Obama's "Hope" poster and his "Yes We Can" slogan.
242* ''WesternAnimation/TheNutJob'' also dated itself right out of the gate by using "Music/GangnamStyle" (complete with an animated Music/{{PSY}} in the credits!) nearly two years after the song's heyday (the movie came out in January 2014).
243* ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitansGoToTheMovies'', while largely a parody of superhero films as a whole, has a scene joking about Creator/StanLee's OnceAnEpisode cameos in the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse. While [[DiedDuringProduction Stan Lee's death]] ''by itself'' wouldn't qualify, Lee [[RunningGagged already planned his final cameo]] to be ''Film/AvengersEndgame'', so subsequent ''MCU'' films would have been without him even if he were still alive. This dates ''[=TTGTTM=]'' to firmly before 2019.
244* ''WesternAnimation/WreckItRalph'''s soundtrack contributions from Music/{{Skrillex}} (who even makes an animated cameo) date the film to the height of the early-to-mid-2010s ElectronicDanceMusic boom, especially when {{Dubstep}} (the genre Skrillex made songs for) was one of the most popular [=EDM=] genres in America.
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247[[folder:2010s Films -- Live-Action]]
248* ''Film/BattleLosAngeles'' is an AlienInvasion film that's fundamentally rooted in UsefulNotes/TheWarOnTerror, with the aliens portrayed as using weapons and tactics eerily similar to insurgents in Afghanistan and Iraq (to the point that a popular fan theory claims that the aliens, whose motives are kept a mystery, invaded Earth out of desperation) while the protagonists are [[SemperFi United States Marines]] who had previously fought in that war and who themselves use the same weapons and tactics that they did over there. Furthermore, its aesthetic and portrayal of the Marines and aliens as being on roughly equal footing in terms of unit-level combat also evokes the military and sci-fi shooters of the era, which were designed for competitive balance to keep things fair for the player.
249* ''Film/TheBlingRing''. Even discounting the fact that it's BasedOnATrueStory, the film is very much a satire of the celebrity worship and youth culture of the late 2000s that held on through the early 2010s, complete with a cameo by Creator/ParisHilton [[AsHimself As Herself]].
250* ''Film/BulletToTheHead'': Jimmy's refusal to drink anything but Bulleit Bourbon, which is treated as an obscure brand, so he brings a bottle to bars and pays for a glass to drink it with. Shortly after the film's release, the brand's distribution greatly expanded, causing it to become quite common. Today, it seems a bit odd for Jimmy to be so obsessed with a mainstream brand and have such a hard time getting it.
251* ''Film/TheCabinInTheWoods'', [[TheShelfOfMovieLanguishment filmed in 2009 and released in 2012]], was a satire of the horror genre as it existed in the '00s and early '10s (an era that horror fans both then and now regard as an AudienceAlienatingEra), the scenario that the protagonists find themselves dropped into being derivative of any number of Platinum Dunes-style teen {{slasher movie}}s from that period (many of which were literal remakes of older films). Both the humor and the broader story concern the fact that cookie-cutter slashers like this are the only horror stories that [[spoiler:the [[EldritchAbomination Ancient Ones]], figures meant to represent mainstream moviegoers,]] want to see, with the [[PunchClockVillain Controllers]] lamenting how they'll never get to do something more interesting than just the tried-and-true {{zombie|Apocalypse}} [[HillbillyHorrors redneck]] {{torture|Porn}} family. By the end of the 2010s, the horror genre had undergone a radical transformation, with a slew of more artistic, boundary-pushing films being released to critical acclaim and mainstream success to the point that the 2010s came to be seen as a GoldenAge for the genre, and many of the tropes that this film lampooned having being {{discredited|Trope}} in the years after it came out.
252* The 2011 slasher parody ''Film/{{Detention}}'', which is crammed with jokes about TorturePorn films, fad diets, contemporary pop & indie rock, text-speak, and the wave of '90s nostalgia that was rising at the time. The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JLVUlb7fpF8 opening scene]] is almost as much a MisterSandmanSequence for 2011 as what we see later in the film for 1992, with the line "your lack of faith in the durability of Music/{{Kesha}} is disturbing" ringing HilariousInHindsight given how quickly she vanished from pop culture (or HarsherInHindsight, given [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kesha_v._Dr._Luke precisely how and why she vanished]]). One of the film's subplots also involves a millennial teenage girl and her Generation X mother undergoing a FreakyFridayFlip, with the resulting generation gap being PlayedForLaughs; one scene has the mother (in her daughter's body) remarking about how her generation never had any great crises or struggles, to which the teenagers around her (thinking that she's still her daughter) respond by bringing up [[UsefulNotes/TheWarOnTerror 9/11, the war in Afghanistan]], Hurricane Katrina, [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking and the death of]] Creator/HeathLedger -- all historic touchstones for those who grew up during the 2000s.
253* ''[[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6522668/ Diamantino]]'' is a wacky genre-busting European co-production about the world's best soccer player. Not only the titular character is a sort of AffectionateParody of Cristiano Ronaldo, but the film also deals with topics that became major concerns in Europe in the 2010s, such as the migrant crisis and populist movements pushing resentment against the EU. It also deals with topics like queer culture and shows Diamantino instantly becoming a meme as soon as he fails the decisive penalty kick in the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018_FIFA_World_Cup 2018 World Cup]] finale, or at least an alternative version of it.
254* The Irish film ''Dive'' was filmed in 2017 and released in 2018, but became dated immediately after its first week. The reason? The plot deals with a champion swimmer who becomes pregnant. Abortion was illegal in Ireland since the signing of the 8th Amendment of the Constitution of Ireland, which gave the unborn fetus the same rights as a living human, thereby making abortion illegal, in September of 1983. Exactly one week after the premiere of the film, the 26th Amendment to the Irish Constitution passed, which repealed the prior amendment and legalized abortion in the country.
255* The Cuba-set (and Cuba-shot) opening scenes of ''Film/TheFateOfTheFurious'', released in 2017, were made during the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuban_thaw Cuban Thaw]], a period of warming relations between the U.S. and Cuba during the later years of the UsefulNotes/BarackObama presidency, and Dom’s positive comments on Cuba reflect some of the shift in attitudes during the period. By the time the film opened, UsefulNotes/DonaldTrump (who strongly opposed Cuban relations) had taken office, and his administration began reversing the Cuban Thaw just months later. By the time [[Film/{{F9}} the sequel]] was released, most pre-Thaw restrictions and sanctions were back in place and the U.S. had once again named Cuba a state sponsor of terrorism.
256* ''Film/EscapeRoom2019'' was produced at the height of the late-2010s escape room fad-- a fad that would come to an abrupt end in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic making many people avoid most forms of indoor gathering. Escape rooms, which involve multiple participants solving a puzzle to find their way out of a locked room, were hit hard by this, and while they still exist they are nowhere near as popular in the years immediately before the pandemic.
257* ''Film/FoundFootage3D'' was released in 2016, but due to its long production cycle, the film inadvertently dates itself to no later than 2014 in a few ways. The plot revolves around the making of the first 3D found footage film; in real life, ''Film/ParanormalActivity: The Ghost Dimension'' took that crown in 2015. Scott Weinberg, the journalist interviewing the cast and crew, is also stated to come from [=FEARnet=], a website and cable network which shut down in late 2014 after being acquired by Comcast[[note]][=FEARnet=] was a partnership between Comcast, Creator/{{Lionsgate}}, and Creator/SonyPictures; the latter two pulled out in 2014 and left Comcast in full control.[[/note]] and merged with the TV network Chiller (which would cease to exist after 2017). The opening crawl also explicitly establishes the [[ShowWithinAShow Film Within a Film]] ''Spectre of Death 3D'' as taking place in 2014.
258* ''Film/GodBlessAmerica'', released in 2011, is a dark satire of late 2000s/early 2010s American culture. Among the (literal) targets of this pop-culture satire is a PompousPoliticalPundit in the vein of [[Series/TheOReillyFactor Bill O'Reilly]], a SpoiledBrat featured on a ''Series/MySuperSweetSixteen''-type show, a [[ActivistFundamentalistAntics militant fundamentalist church]] in the vein of the Westboro Baptists, and everybody on the set of a reality singing competition based on ''Series/AmericanIdol''. Most of these subjects would largely fall out of fashion in the years following, while others would even come to be considered totally innocuous, making the film's portrayal of them as everything wrong with American society come off as quaint or just plain weird.
259%%* The New Zealand-made film ''[[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1592531/ The Holy Roller]]'' has [[HarsherInHindsight sadly become this]], thanks to the Canterbury earthquakes of 2010 and 2011.
260* ''Film/TheInternship'', which appropriately involves an internship program at Google (while it is far from being simply a 90-minute ad for the company, it is depicted in a positive light), was released in 2013, near the end of a period marked by an absolute fascination with Silicon Valley. Nowadays, big tech giants are more likely to be shown in a decidedly negative light, alternately criticized either for amplifying fringe groups or for draconian censorship policies.
261* One of the main characters in ''Film/IronSky'' is a US President [[NoCelebritiesWereHarmed based on]] UsefulNotes/SarahPalin, which manages to date it to the brief moment in the late '00s and early '10s when Palin was a major political figure. By the time the film was released in 2012, she was already at the tail end of her fame and was only taken seriously by her diehard supporters; the entire joke was about how ridiculous the idea of Palin becoming President would be. Nowadays, she's barely a blip on the cultural and political radar, rendering the joke quite dated.
262* The 2015 LiveActionAdaptation of ''Film/JemAndTheHolograms2015'', which updates the story of ''WesternAnimation/{{Jem}}'' to depict the protagonists' rise to fame as occurring chiefly through social media and Website/YouTube. A lot of the subject matter of the film is built entirely around its portrayal of NewMedia.
263* ''L.A. Slasher'' is a horror-comedy parodying the celebrity culture of the late 2000s and early 2010s, particularly RealityTV stars that the titular [[SlasherMovie slasher killer]] views as having no talent or worth to society. What makes it particularly notable is the fact that, while it was released in 2015, [[TheShelfOfMovieLanguishment after a long period sitting on the shelf]], most of the targets of its satire (such as ''Series/TeenMom'', Creator/ParisHilton, and a young Music/JustinBieber) had already ceased to be relevant by the time it was filmed... in '''2012'''.
264* 2012's ''Film/LiberalArts''. Its emphasis on the ''Film/{{Twilight}}'' saga's popularity and HypeBacklash makes it obvious it came out during the late 2000s-early 2010s.
265* 2010's ''Film/Piranha3D''. The podcast ''Disaster Girls'' referred to the film as a snapshot of the Von Dutch/Ed Hardy spring break pop culture excess of the 2000s made at the last moment in time when that culture was mainstream. Specifically, they point to the film as an extended piss-take on that entire culture in how it presents its participants as getting literally skewered and torn apart. Its parody of ''Girls Gone Wild'', an infamous series of sleazy softcore porn videos from the late '90s and '00s which went bankrupt in 2013, is a reference point likely to be lost on anybody born after 1995, who, in an age of easily available [[TheInternetIsForPorn hardcore porn on the internet]], may scratch their heads at the appeal of buying [=DVDs=] of topless college co-eds making out on spring break.
266* ''Film/PitchPerfect'', released in 2012, showcased the emergence of what would be eventually termed as "pop feminism", from its theme of empowerment to the "anti-rape whistle" joke, while the antagonists are some stereotypical 2000s-era fratboys.
267** The sequels didn't have much luck either with them prominently featuring songs that were currently on the charts, which dated them seriously to whichever year they were being produced.
268* ''Film/PopstarNeverStopNeverStopping'', a feature-length parody of Music/JustinBieber and early-mid 2010s pop culture in general. Many of its protagonist Connor's tribulations are exaggerated versions of real things that Bieber did during that time that helped make him a tabloid punchline. There are also jokes about smart devices, hoverboards, Music/{{Macklemore}}'s "Same Love", [[UsefulNotes/TheWarOnTerror the raid on Osama bin Laden's compound]], and Apple's heavy-handed promotion of Music/{{U2}}'s 2014 album ''Songs of Innocence'', while Connor's girlfriend Ashley Wednesday is the star of a film franchise adapted from a series of {{dystopia}}n [[YoungAdultLiterature YA novels]]. Unfortunately for the film, things had changed enough by the time of its premiere to make it look irrelevant.
269* Carrying on from Creator/SeltzerAndFriedberg's past parody films in [[TurnOfTheMillennium the latter half of the 2000s]], their 2013 film ''The Starving Games'' is basically "Early 2010s: TheMovie", which, apart from ''Film/TheHungerGames'' (the source material that's the most obvious being primarily parodied in the film), features references to: ''VideoGame/AngryBirds'', ''WebAnimation/TheAnnoyingOrange'', ''Film/{{Avatar}}'', ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheFirstAvenger'', ''Series/DowntonAbbey'', ''VideoGame/FruitNinja'', "Music/GangnamStyle", ''Film/HarryPotterAndTheDeathlyHallows'', ''Series/HereComesHoneyBooBoo'', ''Film/IronMan2'', ''Film/TheHobbitAnUnexpectedJourney'', ''Film/TheExpendables2'', ''Film/SherlockHolmesAGameOfShadows'', and ''Film/{{Thor}}''.
270** ''Film/ScaryMovie 5'' was similarly criticized for this, with its primary parodies being of horror films that wound up somewhat forgotten (''Film/{{Mama}}'' and ''Film/ParanormalActivity'', the latter a StockParody at the time), as well as non-horror films of the era like ''Film/RiseOfThePlanetOfTheApes'', ''Film/BlackSwan'', ''Film/{{Inception}}'', ''Film/TheHelp'' and, most egregiously, ''Literature/FiftyShadesOfGrey'', which was still just a novel at the time. It also includes a parody of ''Film/EvilDead2013'', a movie that opened just one week earlier.
271** ''Film/VampiresSuck'' is a parody of the ''[[Literature/TheTwilightSaga Twilight]]'' saga released in 2010, when the franchise was at the height of its popularity ''and'' the detractors were at their most vocal, and it was a mild box office success. The film's very existence puts it here since while ''Twilight'' still has fans and detractors even today, it's not the hot topic it was when ''Vampires Suck'' was released, and it's very unlikely the film would be made today, let alone be a success.
272* ''Film/Scream4''.
273** Just as [[Film/{{Scream}} the original films]] were a reaction to the {{slasher movie}}s of [[TheEighties the prior decade]], so was this one a reaction to the [[TheRemake remake]] and TorturePorn trends of the 2000s, with an appropriately updated set of "rules" for modern horror movies. Said trends largely died out not long after its release, with the 2010s witnessing a "horror renaissance" with a slew of films that broke OutOfTheGhetto and won critical acclaim. The killers film their massacre and plan to [[MurderDotCom upload it to the internet]], anticipating the online video boom of the 2010s... but they do so with webcams and digital cameras that have to be edited later as opposed to livestreaming (a technology that, in real life, was used for a number of infamous {{spree kill|er}}ings later in the decade). Social media is name-dropped, but only as something that teenagers use, when just five years later, Sidney would likely be using it heavily to promote her book.
274** And in keeping with the series' {{postmodernism}} and MetaFiction, it also happens InUniverse, with the [[ShowWithinAShow Film Within a Film]] ''Stab 6'' featuring Ghostface taunting two victims through Website/{{Facebook}}. One of the people watching it remarks that it sounds like a stupid attempt by some hack writer to keep the series "hip", causing the other to reply "[[ComicallyMissingThePoint I guess now it would be]] Website/{{Twitter}}."
275* ''Film/SpiderManHomecoming'': Peter's classmates, and Peter himself, are shown making use of drones, which were a fad in the late 2010s that quickly died down after legislation shut down their usage in public spaces. Though modernising Peter's story to represent the youth of today is a generally common part of his mythos, this in particular stands out as one that doesn't age well simply because it looks dated only a few years later.
276* ''Film/SpringBreakers'', much like the aforementioned ''The Bling Ring'', is a satirical take on the party-hard pop culture of the late 2000s and ''very'' early 2010s. Creator/JamesFranco's character in particular, a PrettyFlyForAWhiteGuy rapper/drug dealer, is a distillation of every GlamRap stereotype of the era, specifically towards Houston rapper Riff Raff.
277* The Creator/EddieMurphy comedy film ''Film/AThousandWords'' was made in 2008 but [[TheShelfOfMovieLanguishment released in 2012]]. It features flip phone ProductPlacement, the novel ''The Shack'' is referred to as a hot trend when it was already five years old by the time the movie came out, and the protagonist is a wealthy literary agent whose job was basically made redundant as e-books were incredibly popular at the time the film was released.
278* The 2012 film version of ''Film/TheThreeStooges'' attempts to be an updating of the famous comedy team, but ending up dating itself severely not only by its several instances of CringeComedy (including a number of {{Groin Attack}}s) among other moves to look relevant but also by including the cast of ''Series/JerseyShore'' [[AsHimself as themselves]] for a portion of the film. ''Jersey Shore'' would be canceled later that year (though a sequel series later premiered in 2018).
279* ''Film/TragedyGirls'' is a satire of a particular type of TrueCrime fan that proliferated in the 2010s, the film's {{Villain Protagonist}}s Sadie and [=McKayla=] being two teenage girls who are [[MonsterFangirl obsessed with murderers]] in a manner that recalls the real-life "UsefulNotes/{{Columbine}}r" communities of that era. Much of that culture died out after the Parkland shooting and the March for Our Lives in 2018, a year after this film came out, with the online true crime community (at least its more mainstream segments) coming to regard the sort of idolization being parodied here as tasteless.
280* The latter-day Creator/MichaelBay ''Film/TransformersFilmSeries'' films were made during a time when Hollywood was pushing as hard as possible to get a piece of the Chinese market, which in those days, was seen as a huge untapped resource. Most of them kept it reserved to a few odd choices (i.e. actors well-known in China, or plot elements specifically chosen to not piss off the Chinese government), but these films stick out for featuring a ''lot'' of product placement for Chinese products, including in places where it would make no sense for those products to feature (i.e. a Chinese ATM displaying clearly Chinese text in a scene taking place in Texas). This went a step further with the finale of ''Film/TransformersAgeOfExtinction'', which not only takes place in Hong Kong, but goes so far as to feature the good guys being helped out by a local Chinese military garrison (something that ''no'' Hollywood film could get away with only a few years later, when China's attempts to exert control over Hong Kong became a hot-button topic). Just a few years after ''Film/TransformersTheLastKnight'' (which, incidentally, turned out to be a box office disappointment in China), relations between China and the US became increasingly fractious, and the government began sharply cracking down on which films would make it into the country. This brought this era of filmmaking more or less to a close for the foreseeable future, leaving the films as an artifact of a rather odd period.
281* ''Film/{{Unfriended}}'':
282** The original film is built around an [[ShownTheirWork extremely accurate]] depiction of social media, computer technology, and various websites as they existed in the mid-2010s. Given the rapid pace at which the internet changes, people watching the film now would likely notice how all of those things have been redesigned in various ways just a few short years after it came out. One website shown in the film, the Website/YouTube competitor [=LiveLeak=] that emphasized graphic, uncensored content, went offline in 2021. Perhaps most notably, the film depicts teenagers regularly using Website/{{Facebook}}, which in 2015 was still thought of, like social media in general, as a website where teenagers were the main demographic. Over the next few years, Facebook would lose much of its young userbase to competitors like Snapchat, [=TikTok=], and Website/{{Twitter}} due to the company's many scandals, as well as to its subsidiary Instagram, such that by the '20s it had earned a reputation as a site for their AmazinglyEmbarrassingParents instead.
283** The sequel ''Film/UnfriendedDarkWeb'', meanwhile, is rooted mainly in contemporary UrbanLegends about UsefulNotes/TheDeepWeb, which became notorious in the '10s as the home of a BlackMarket where drugs, weapons, child porn, and other illegal services can be found and purchased -- and, according to the legends, where one could find [[MurderDotCom livestreaming]] {{snuff film}}s and worse.
284* Though primarily set in the UsefulNotes/TheWarOnTerror era, ''Film/{{Vice|2018}}''[='=]s political views are influenced by [[UsefulNotes/DonaldTrump Trumpian]], reactionary conservatism, particularly in the clips of the film's [[FocusGroupEnding focus group]] at the end.
285* ''Film/{{Zoolander 2}}'', much like the aforementioned ''A Thousand Words'', was criticized as this for ''the previous decade'' when it was released in 2016. The movie's merciless mocking of the fashion world was seen as not only mean-spirited (in spite of the fact many of the industry's leading figures [[AdamWesting joined in]]) but fairly dated at a time when the "supermodel culture" was experiencing a huge comeback, thanks to the rise of social media (Instagram especially) as a major self-promotion platform for models.
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289* Who was Creator/ClintEastwood talking to [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clint_Eastwood_at_the_2012_Republican_National_Convention at the RNC]]? [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manti_Te%27o#Girlfriend_hoax Manti Te'o's girlfriend]].
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293* ''Literature/{{Kire}}'' tries so hard to be cool and hip it ultimately falls into this trope. The main character has a [[Franchise/StarWars Darth Vader]] alarm clock (it's not unusual, but it does give him a distinctive "90s kid" vibe) and a superfluous amount of "Music/JustinBieber is [[TakeThat totally lame]]!" comments.
294* The book ''Alice in Tumblr-Land'', a modern retelling of fairy tales, which relies on the existence of Tumblr, [=OKCupid=], Facebook, Instagram, Website/YouTube, etc. for most of its humor. It's painfully dated to the mid-2010s and as such will fail to be relevant within a couple of years.
295* ''Literature/OMGShakespeare'' is a series of books that attempt to modernize the works of Creator/WilliamShakespeare by making everything into text and text-speak. The constant use of slang and emoji will likely quickly date them to being released circa 2015.
296* The ''Literature/OrigamiYoda'' series is full of early-mid 2010s pop-culture references and views. Examples include the much-disliked [=FunTime=] program showing an educational parody of ''Music/GangnamStyle'' (though to the book's credit, the characters do mention that the song came "a few years back") and Professor [=FunTime's=] actor receiving a role in "the upcoming ''Franchise/StarWars'' movie" (meaning that the events in the book took place sometime before 2015, when ''Film/TheForceAwakens'' came out).
297* Ben Aaronovitch has lamented that the London Metropolitan Police reinvents itself so often that the meticulously researched ''Literature/RiversOfLondon'' books can usually be dated precisely to the year before they were published. However, because the time elapsed in the books is much shorter than the time it takes to write them, they've gradually become ''intentional'' period pieces: ''Lies Sleeping'' (2018) opens with a police report that dates the novel to 2014, and later namechecks Michelle Obama as First Lady.
298* Ernest Cline's ''Literature/ReadyPlayerOne'', published in 2011, is set TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture but otherwise reflects much of the worldview of the late 2000s/early 2010s time period in which it was written and grew popular, most notably the prevalence of {{nostalgia|Filter}} for TheEighties (it takes place largely in a {{cyberspace}} world rooted in its creator's '80s nostalgia) and the ascendancy of the internet and geek culture within the mainstream during that time. Of particular note is how this trope affected the book's [[Film/ReadyPlayerOne2018 film adaptation in 2018]], by which point Silicon Valley tech companies and geek culture had been embroiled in various controversies that clouded the once unambiguously positive view that many people had of them. The resulting film (which was [[SelfAdaptation co-written by Cline]]) wound up softening the specific '80s focus of the OASIS in favor of a broader pool of pop culture references, as well as toning down some of Wade's nerd tendencies and giving a more morally gray take on the OASIS' UsefulNotes/SteveJobs-esque creator James Halliday.
299* ''Literature/TheUltraViolets'' suffers heavily from this. The book series is bogged down by constant references to pop culture, most of which have become dated since the series' release. One notable example comes from the second book, where the villain quotes a Music/{{Rihanna}} song when enacting their evil plan.
300* The TimeTravel novel "A Girl in Time", by Australian author John Birmingham, was clearly written during the 2016 US Presidential election - the middle third is set in November 2019, in the midst of a dystopian Trump presidency where political dissenters are sent to work on building the Mexican wall and communication with them is tightly proscribed, as well as gun control being significantly loosened to the point open-carry is permitted in Seattle.
301* ''Literature/FuturisticViolenceAndFancySuits'' was written in 2015 and set TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture. Much of it is still relatable, but even just over five years later it's managed to date itself to concepts that were popular in 2015. The greater public owns self-driving cars (which might yet become popular but were mostly put on hold just a few years later after killing and injuring a number of people during tests and early adoption); more glaring is a reference to Creator/JadenSmith as an action star (now unlikely as his star has faded with several bombs and obvious evidence of his father's {{nepotism}}).
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305* Creator/SpikeTV's failed 2011 pilot for ''Alternate History'' explores a world where [[AlternateHistoryNaziVictory America lost the Second World War and came under the control of the Nazis]]. What puts it squarely into this trope is the conclusion, which predicts that the Nazis' iron-fisted police state will be eroded by the rise of the internet, enabling people across the continent to connect with each other, spread awareness of Nazi crimes, and organize protests. It's a heavy-handed reflection of the optimism surrounding social media and the tech industry at the turn of the decade, as well as the [[RippedFromTheHeadlines in-the-moment perception]] of UsefulNotes/TheArabSpring. Then there's the Nazi internet itself, which has glimpses of websites like [[Website/{{Facebook}} "Fascpage"]] (but no equivalent to Website/{{Twitter}}) and [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ask.com "Ask Himmler"]] (shown with equal prominance to [[Website/{{Google}} "Goobbel"]]).
306* ''Series/{{Arrowverse}}'': References to 2010 pop culture aside (starting from the first episode of ''Series/{{Arrow}}'' that makes jokes about ''Series/{{LOST}})'' and then-president Obama, followed by the sister show ''Series/TheFlash2014'' featuring a nerd among the main cast who regularly references ''Series/TheBigBangTheory''), the building blocks of the shows draw inspiration [[ComicBook/New52 from the books]] Creator/DCComics were putting out at the time and the [[TrueArtIsAngsty general tone DC's editorial were pushing]]. ''Arrow'' is a DarkerAndEdgier adaptation that focuses on a YoungerAndHipper Oliver Queen (as he was in the New 52), that also downplayed the Green Arrow-Black Canary romance (at the time, the two were broken up), and Oliver's political opinions, which are almost all gone (New 52 Green Arrow was notably uncharacteristically apolitical). ''The Flash'' similarly focuses on a YoungerAndHipper Barry Allen (who was resurrected a few years prior and took lead focus away from his successor ComicBook/WallyWest) and has his ''The Flash: Rebirth'' backstory, while the extended Flash Family DemotedToExtra or unadapted (they were ExiledFromContinuity at the time to maintain sole focus on Barry). ''All'' of this would become awkward within their own lifetimes, as ''ComicBook/DCRebirth'' saw a return of Green Arrow's politics and the Arrow-Canary ship, while also seeing the return of Wally West and, later, the Flash Family. With ''ComicBook/InfiniteFrontier'' also seeing Wally West take over the mantle of the primary Flash, the show's continued use of Barry as the lead stands somewhat as TheArtifact of the time it was created as a result.
307* A funny one occurred on ''Series/NCISLosAngeles'' when the subject of one episode involved Libyan government agents sent by UsefulNotes/MuammarGaddafi killing a rebel propagandist and trying to use his identity to lure the rebel leadership into an ambush. Obviously written and filmed when the Libyan Civil War seemed (from the outside) to be deadlocked, by the time the episode aired on October 11, 2011, the rebels would be more properly called "the Libyan government", having been recognized as such internationally in September, with Gaddafi the one on the run who should be wary of ambushes (he would be captured and killed just nine days after the episode aired, on October 20). The references to UsefulNotes/TheArabSpring also clearly date the episode.
308* ''Series/HouseOfCardsUS'':
309** Despite beginning in 2013, the show's portrayal of the US Congress was pretty clearly based on its makeup before 2010. [[VillainProtagonist Francis Underwood]] is initially portrayed as a "Blue Dog" Democrat[[note]]The "Blue Dogs" are the moderate-to-conservative Southern wing of the party, composed mainly of those Southern Democrats who didn't cross the aisle to the Republicans during the '80s and '90s but still trended to the right of the national Democratic Party's positions[[/note]] from South Carolina who serves as the Majority Whip of the House of Representatives since the Democrats are the majority party in the House when the show begins. The "wave" elections of 2010 and 2014 saw virtually all the Blue Dog Democrats swept from both chambers of Congress and replaced with Tea Party Republicans, and the Democratic Party wouldn't gain control of the House again until 2018, now dominated by unabashedly left-leaning figures.
310** In general, some [[https://www.vox.com/culture/2017/5/30/15694916/house-of-cards-review-season-5-netflix reviewers]] have argued that the show's depiction of American politics is pretty dated to the pre-[[UsefulNotes/DonaldTrump Trump]] era. The show is known for its deeply cynical attitude towards the UsefulNotes/AmericanPoliticalSystem's "consensus politics" that followed the Cold War, generally portraying the Republican and Democratic parties as interchangeable groups of establishment figureheads who care more about money and power than about the people they're supposed to represent and only want to maintain the status quo at all costs. That attitude quickly went out of fashion as the Tea Party and Occupy movements that sprung up as a reaction to "neocons" and "neolibs" gained political influence and became finally obliterated after Donald Trump's highly controversial election and presidency brought political polarization to new heights and led to a new wave of active political engagement on both sides of the aisle. This became even more pronounced after Trump's horrendous handling of the Covid-19 Pandemic and his attempt to overturn the results of the 2020 Election, which culminated in a mob of his supporters storming the Capitol Building. [[note]]Although Trump and the GOP initially disavowed the attack (some republicans even claiming it to be a false flag perpetraited by the FBI or Antifa), now years later, they've become more and more willing to defend the rioters, even calling them political prisoners.[[/note]]
311** The presidential election in the middle of the fifth season (released in 2017) firmly weds it to the previous year's real-life presidential election, with the fictional FBI director stating that the bureau "would never involve itself in a presidential election" while all but staring into the camera.
312** Walker's resignation at the end of season 2 while facing impeachment over a minor crime would be a hard sell after Donald Trump's impeachments in 2019 and 2021. Most people would think "Walker would never be impeached for such a small crime" (or at least "There's no way he would voluntarily resign") given the nature of the allegations against Trump, and the fact that his own party ultimately stood by him.
313* In season 2 of ''Series/TheMiddle'', Frankie obsesses over the "Royal Wedding" of William and Kate, firmly fixing the episode in 2011.
314* While ''Series/BroadCity'' has a semi-gentrified aesthetic that could date it badly, there are a few moments that stand out as very 2010s:
315** In a Season 1 episode, Lincoln tells a gay character "I'm not getting married until everyone can get married", dating it to before 2015.
316** The montage in the first episode of Season 3 features Abby wearing a white and gold dress at the same time as Ilana wearing a blue and black dress, referencing a meme that was mostly popular in early 2015.
317** A Season 3 episode shows Ilana temporarily working at Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign headquarters, instantly dating the episode to 2016.
318** A couple of episodes in Season 4 immediately date to 2017: In the first instance, Ilana gets upset when she has to remove her impractical Obama-themed nails ("It's like they're leaving office all over again!"). She then realizes in the latter episode that she hadn't been able to have an orgasm since Trump was elected. Speaking of the Donald, [[TakeThat his name]] [[CensoredForComedy is censored every time it's spoken aloud]] for the entire season.
319* The pilot of ''Series/{{Terriers}}'' has a smartphone with a sex tape on it as a MacGuffin, and the novelty of it being able to record video is repeatedly remarked upon, putting it firmly in the tail end of the 2000s/beginning of the 2010s.
320* In ''Series/Warehouse13'', practically [[ProductPlacement everybody's cellphone is a BlackBerry]], and there's a noticeable shift from using the ones with tactile switch keypads to touchscreen phones between seasons 3 and 4, firmly rooting the series in the early 2010s when [=BlackBerry=] began to abandon its flagship product. There are more intentional references to the time period, like the "Got Your Six" lapel pins, Pete and Claudia's fondness of internet memes, and of course newspaper dates, but the transition from cellphones to smartphones was something the writers couldn't have planned for.
321* ''Series/ParksAndRecreation'':
322** The Season 2 episode "Sister City" features a group of delegates from Venezuela visiting Pawnee as part of an exchange program, with the episode openly mocking Venezuela's then-President UsefulNotes/HugoChavez. Chávez died in office just four years after that episode aired, instantly dating it. The same episode subtly references the Venezuelan economic boom that occurred during Chávez' tenure, with the delegation frequently bragging about their town's prosperity, and showing off their wealth by spending money in frivolous ways; this instantly became dated after Venezuela's economy collapsed during Nicolás Maduro's presidency, and the country's economic hardships subsequently became the subject of many headlines.
323** In general, the show's characters and premise are [[https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/8xyw5v/parks-and-recreation-is-the-america-we-were-promised-hillary-clinton-leslie-knope-essay a pretty good encapsulation of the social and political climate of America in the early-2010s]]. The cheery bureaucrat Leslie Knope is largely a poster girl for [[UsefulNotes/BarackObama Obama]]-era liberalism, to the point that she keeps a portrait of then-Secretary of State UsefulNotes/HillaryClinton framed in her office. Her boss Ron Swanson, meanwhile, is largely reflective of America's then-burgeoning libertarian bloc, which championed "small government" conservatism while supporting socially liberal policies (particularly LGBT rights). Both factions took a pretty big beating in the following years, as the libertarians were (for the moment) eclipsed by the rise of a more reactionary brand of conservative populism with the Tea Party-led 2014 midterm elections and UsefulNotes/DonaldTrump's 2016 campaign, while Leslie's idol Hillary Clinton faced an unexpected challenge from the progressive movement led by UsefulNotes/BernieSanders and was eventually defeated by Trump in one of the biggest political upsets in American history. But this in turn ''has'' been somewhat subverted (at least for Leslie's side) as of [[TheNewTwenties 2020]], when Leslie's ''other'' favorite politician, then-Vice President UsefulNotes/JoeBiden, ran and won against Trump, albeit with slightly more progressive policies than Obama (largely due to the influence of progressives such as Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on the party platform).
324** The Season 2 episode "Tom's Divorce" (released in 2009) has a joke about Ron being [[PopCulturalOsmosisFailure out of touch with popular culture]] when he tells Tom, who's down in the dumps after realizing he genuinely does like his wife Wendy (who was only in it as a CitizenshipMarriage) to "Take it down a notch. You've already won your Oscar, [=DiCaprio=]," with the joke being that Creator/LeonardoDiCaprio was one of the most infamous examples of being repeatedly [[AwardSnub snubbed at the Oscars]]. This, of course, became HilariousInHindsight in 2016, when [=DiCaprio=] finally won it for ''Film/TheRevenant''.
325* ''Series/{{Portlandia}}'', as explained in [[https://www.avclub.com/portlandia-was-the-perfect-obama-era-comedy-series-and-1822160135 this article]] by William Hughes of ''The Website/AVClub'', was firmly rooted in a period of Obama-era liberal optimism, and in [[AffectionateParody affectionately parodying]] the {{hipster}} culture of the time. Notably, the last couple of seasons wound up dealing with the growing cynicism and reactionary politics that eventually gave way to the Trump era.
326* One of the questions on ''Series/{{QI}}'' was "what has twenty legs, five heads, and can't reach its own nuts?" Jeremy Clarkson answers "Music/{{Westlife}}", a reference outdated enough not to get the klaxon; Jimmy Carr's answer, Music/OneDirection, does. In time, both answers will be equally outdated.
327* ''Series/ScreamQueens2015'''s second season heavily dates itself to 2016. They range from the superficial -- a TakeThat to ''Film/BatmanVSupermanDawnOfJustice'' and Denise dressing up as the [[Series/GameOfThrones Khaleesi]] for Halloween -- to the major. Denise goes into a coma and wakes up asking how Hillary Clinton is doing as the first female president -- as the series aired while the presidential election was going on.
328* Just as much as the original, the 2010s relaunch of ''Series/WhoseLineIsItAnyway'' is loaded with topical references. Especially notable is a "Scenes From a Hat" segment where one scene is "Facts you wish weren't true." Ryan Stiles simply says loudly and firmly, "The news,"[[note]]This was shortly after Donald Trump had been elected president[[/note]] takes a bow, and Aisha instantly moves to the next scene as if no one could possibly top that.
329* ''Series/LastManStanding''. ''Vox'' TV critic/reviewer Emily [=VanDerWerff=] [[https://www.vox.com/culture/2018/9/28/17911610/last-man-standing-review-season-7-explained-tim-allen-trump described it]] as a modern-day ''Series/AllInTheFamily'' in how it encapsulated the AngryWhiteMan mindset of the 2010s in the form of Creator/TimAllen's protagonist Mike Baxter, a conservative, Archie Bunker-esque, "man's man" suburban dad who finds himself increasingly confounded by a world whose [[DeliberateValuesDissonance changing social mores]] seem to be leaving men like him behind.
330* ''Series/PersonOfInterest'', with government surveillance central to its premise, could only have come out (at least as it did) in a narrow band of years around 2011 – long enough after 9/11 for the backstory to work, but before the Edward Snowden revelations. A first-season episode feels like a RippedFromTheHeadlines version of the Snowden case but predates it by over a year.
331* ''Series/SiliconValley'' was Creator/MikeJudge's satire of the titular tech industry hub as it existed in the 2010s, and as the decade wore on (as noted in [[https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/27/arts/television/silicon-valley-season-6.html this 2019 article]] by Fahrad Manjoo for ''The New York Times''), not only did it reflect the shift in attitudes that people had towards that industry, it frequently referenced and parodied the scandals that caused that shift. When the show premiered in 2014, it presented its protagonists more or less sympathetically, as geniuses on the path to success whose lives within the cultural bubble that was Silicon Valley made them, their [[SmallNameBigEgo puffed-up egos]], and their antisocial behavior merely quirky. By the time of the show's final season in 2019, when tech companies ranging from giants like Website/{{Facebook}} and Amazon to unicorn startups like Uber and [=WeWork=] had been battered by a seemingly ceaseless tide of controversy, its tone, while still comedic, was a lot less sympathetic to its characters. Their idealistic attitude about saving the world through technology was portrayed as increasingly hollow, easily discarded, and perhaps misguided from the start, and the question was not if their start-up company Pied Piper would be successful, but when and how [[BolivianArmyEnding it would all come crashing down]].
332* ''Series/{{Glee}}''. Though there were plenty of songs that were dated when they were performed on the show, the use of music that had just gotten big (or in some cases, music that got big [[ColbertBump from being on the show]]) firmly entrenches each season in the years it came out. Beyond that, the pop culture references and optimistic outlook very much reflect the Obama era surrounding it similar to ''Parks and Rec'' above.
333* An episode of the first series of ''Series/{{Rev}}'' managed to become this ''between filming and broadcast''. The plot of the episode revolved around Adam becoming jealous of a fellow reverend with a high media profile and trying to build one himself by appearing on ''The One Show'' (an early evening MagazineShow in the UK), with presenters Adrian Chiles and Christine Bleakley appearing [[AsHimself As Themselves]]. Unfortunately, several months before the episode was broadcast, Chiles and Bleakley both defected to rival network ITV and were no longer presenting the show by the time it aired.
334* ''Series/{{Girls}}'': The show's at-the-time groundbreaking portrayal of social media use is very firmly planted in the late-2000s/early-2010s. In addition to the [[TechnologyMarchesOn obviously dated page layouts and features]], platforms like Facebook and Twitter are portrayed as the main social media outlets for young people. Moreover, they are shown as being used mainly for socializing with friends and maybe getting your name out professionally - with nary a politician, viral “news” article, or conspiracy theorist in sight. Today, with social media being much more politicized and more about content creation/consumption than actually socializing with people (not to mention, many teens and 20-somethings have since abandoned Facebook and Twitter for platforms like Discord, [=TikTok=] and Twitch), the show’s portrayal of its use comes off as incredibly dated.
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338* "#SELFIE" by Music/TheChainsmokers is ingrained with early-mid 2010s culture, with lyrics about taking selfies with Instagram (Specifically Instagram circa 2014. It is normal for a trendy young person to just post a casual spur-of-the-moment selfie, with the obsessive Instagram culture that exists), [[Music/LanaDelRey "Summertime Sadness"]] and referring to another girl as "ratchet".
339* ”I Took a Pill in Ibiza” by Music/MikePosner. In the first verse, he says he did this to “show {{Music/Avicii}} he was cool”. Avicii committed suicide four years after this song was released.
340* "Gun Fight" by Music/SickPuppies references the American presidents Bush and Obama, which pins the song firmly from the late 2000s to early 2010s.
341* "Cost of Livin'" by [[Music/BrooksAndDunn Ronnie Dunn]] (2011) fell into this, as the hook mentions "Three dollars and some change at the pump / The cost of livin's high and goin' up", and even has an edit that says "four dollars". The song's premise of an older man pleading for a job is clearly a reflection of the zeitgeist of the Great Recession. In addition, the national US average for a gallon of gas fell into the $2.00-$2.50 range soon after. Though by 2022 it became somewhat less dated, with inflation in the US reaching levels not seen in four decades and average US gas prices over $3 per gallon (and well over $4 in some places).
342* "Beauty and a Beat" by Music/JustinBieber has the line "We gonna party like it's 3012 tonight." Three guesses when the song was made, and the first two don't count.
343* Though not within the normal 10-year cutoff, the 2017 anti-suicide song “1-800-273-8255”, by Music/{{Logic}} featuring Music/AlessiaCara and Khalid, qualifies because the title was then the actual phone number for the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline in the US. While the number remains in service for that very purpose, it was superseded in July 2022 by the three-digit code 9-8-8.
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347* ''VideoGame/TheBindingOfIsaac'' is filled with references to memes of the 2000s/early 2010s, which become increasingly out of place as ''[[UpdatedRerelease Rebirth]]''[='=]s expansions continued throughout the 2010s. Rage faces are found frequently and one of the items is literally just Shoop Da Whoop (and this item ''also'' has a chance of being dropped by a miniboss that has a permanent trollface for his expression), both of which are memes that had generally fallen out of style in the Internet's eyes even when ''Afterbirth+'' came out.
348* ''VideoGame/CallOfDutyBlackOpsII'':
349** One level is set on a luxurious floating city, with all sorts of the game's [[TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture crazy-futuristic 2025 technology]] present both in the city's security and the player's covert military tech... and a dance floor filled with people dancing to (and later infiltrators shooting it out to) dubstep from Music/{{Skrillex}}, a reflection of the mainstream popularity of electronic dance music (especially [=dubstep=], the genre [=Skrillex=] was famous for) at the time of the game's 2012 release.
350** The presence of David Petraeus as the Secretary of Defense became dated very quickly as the game was released three days after he resigned from his position as CIA Director.
351** The President is portrayed as not only being female but as a clear-cut {{Expy}} of Hillary Clinton, making it clear who they thought would be the president down the line, as it was widely believed she would be the next after Obama, only for her to lose the 2016 election.[[note]]To be fair though, she wouldn't have been able to be President by 2025 if she'd won in 2016 anyway, since, assuming she got re-elected and barring her becoming the first President since UsefulNotes/GroverCleveland to serve two non-consecutive terms, her second term would have ended the year before the game takes place.[[/note]]
352** The Website/YouTube and Website/{{Twitter}} interfaces depicted in the game now look very old with the two websites having updated its user interfaces several times by now.
353* ''VideoGame/DeathRoadToCanada'' contains multiple references to Barack Obama, who was president at the time of the game's release.
354-->'''Low Wits Character:''' Thanks a lot zombie Obama.
355* ''VideoGame/FarCry3'', released in 2012, features a dubstep-heavy soundtrack (especially in the "Kick the Hornet's Nest" quest, which incorporated a reggae-dubstep soundtrack to accompany burning marijuana fields with a flamethrower) and the main cast of privileged twentysomethings who could be seen as a commentary on then-sprouting "Instagram culture". The game also makes several references to ''Literature/AliceInWonderland'', a reflection of the {{Grimmification}} that was popular in the era. Furthermore, the description for the [=Z93=] makes a reference to Creator/FPSRussia, a then-prominent gun-focused [=YouTube=] personality who fell by the wayside in the mid-late 2010s after the rise of other gun channels and a slew of legal troubles that effectively killed the channel.
356* ''[[VideoGame/{{Forza}} Forza Horizon]]'', released in 2012, has a rather tragic example of this that happened right from the get-go. The soundtrack features two songs from Music/{{Lostprophets}} (namely, "Bring 'Em Down" and "We Bring an Arsenal"), something that would be [[HarsherInHindsight unthinkable]] just a few months later, where frontman Ian Watkins was arrested, charged, and sentenced to 35 years in prison for child molestation. The electronic station Horizon Bass Arena is filled with [[{{Dubstep}} brostep]] music that was very popular at the time but has since fallen out of style (Bass Arena in later games switched to {{house music}} and electronica to keep current), making listening to it now feel like a product of the time. In addition, the DJ on the rock station makes a crack about the MayanDoomsday when discussing [[TheRival Darius Flynt]]'s success in the competition, firmly pegging the game to the early 2010s when that was the subject of a great deal of media attention.
357* ''VideoGame/JurassicParkTheGame'' is mostly pretty good about avoiding this, but one thing that pins its release date ''specifically'' to the year 2011 is the fact that the accompanying manual claims ''Torosaurus'' is the mature form of ''Triceratops''. This was a short-lived, controversial theory that briefly gained mainstream attention while the game was in development.
358* ''VideoGame/PomGetsWiFi'' is filled to the brim with memes that were popular on Website/{{Tumblr}} in 2013, making it extremely dated to anyone who played it even a year later.
359* ''VideoGame/KanColle'' has a few lines uttered by ship girls that make references to Japanese pop culture when it first came out (2013), instantly dating itself to the very year. One of the characters makes a vague reference to ''Waratte Iitomo'', a popular TV show that aired at noon. The show ended a year after the game was released. Oops. This also counts as an EarlyInstallmentWeirdness, however, as subsequently added characters and additional lines to existing ones make little to no pop-culture references.
360* ''VideoGame/WatchDogs2'' was noted for this before it even came out. Given how reliant its story is on RippedFromTheHeadlines references to Silicon Valley tech culture, contemporary political and cultural controversies (especially concerning the impending Presidential election), and people like Martin Shkreli and Brock Turner, it is a game that is set in, and could ''only'' have been set in, the UsefulNotes/SanFrancisco Bay Area in the spring/summer of 2016.
361* Due to the user-generated nature of the game's content, many older ''Platform/{{Roblox}}'' places arguably fall under this trope. Many games from the late 2000s and early 2010s are a time capsule of whatever internet memes were popular at the time of their creation, most frequently Music/JustinBieber, ''Webcomic/RageComics'', and LeetLingo.
362* ''VideoGame/SaintsRowTheThird'', in the same vein as [[VideoGame/SaintsRow2 its predecessor]] was to 2008, is obviously dated to its 2011 release despite its apparent setting being much further than that (in-game hints suggest it's 2014), particularly in the music and fashion. This is especially evident in the dedicated Creator/AdultSwim radio station, which as ProductPlacement is obviously dated to what was big (or existent) late in 2011.
363** While several of the shows the songs come from continued running for several years afterwards (''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBrothers'' until 2018, ''WesternAnimation/{{Squidbillies}}'' until 2021) or are otherwise still relevant from reruns, the station's host is Jon from ''Series/{{Delocated}}'', a show that technically ended less than six months later, and several of the songs are either from or otherwise related to shows that stopped producing new episodes not too long afterwards, including:
364*** "Sports" from ''Series/TimAndEricAwesomeShowGreatJob'', which ended in 2010.
365*** A remix of the ''WesternAnimation/AquaTeenHungerForce'' theme -- even the show itself had stopped using the theme earlier in that year after it started [[OddlyNamedSequel2ElectricBoogaloo renaming itself]] with each new season until it ended in 2015.
366*** Cheesburger's "Winner", owing to their composing the theme song for ''WesternAnimation/{{Superjail}}'', which ended in 2014.
367*** [[Music/{{OFWGKTA}} Odd Future]]'s "Anarchy", foreshadowing for ''Loiter Squad'', which hadn't even begun airing at that point (and would go on to only air for two years before Odd Future moved on).
368*** [[FakeBand Dethklok's]] "The Cyborg Slayers" -- while the real people masquerading as the band are still making music, [[WesternAnimation/{{Metalocalypse}} the show in question]] ended regular seasons in 2012.
369*** And [[Music/BrianBurton Danger]][[Music/{{MFDOOM}} DOOM]]'s "Basket Case", the most dated of all, being made in 2005 and with voice clips from [[WesternAnimation/HarveyBirdmanAttorneyAtLaw a show]] that had stopped airing, much less producing new episodes, years before the game's release.
370** Conversely, several more recent and wildly successful shows or programming blocks, like the Creator/{{Toonami}} revival (mid-2012) or ''WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty'' (late 2013), are conspicuous in their complete absence.
371** Despite trading the crime story for an over-the-top SuperHero sci-fi comedy, ''VideoGame/SaintsRowIV'' manages to be just as dated as ''VideoGame/SaintsRow2'' was at the time of the game's 2013 release.
372*** The game features ''two'' radio stations dedicated to {{Dubstep}} and trap EDM, one of them [[ProductPlacement themed after]] Diplo's Mad Decent label. The former was at its commercial peak during the game's TroubledProduction[[note]]The game was originally an expansion pack for ''The Third'' named ''Enter the Dominatrix'', but it was cancelled when publisher Creator/{{THQ}} went bankrupt. Elements of it would be rolled into a new game, now under Creator/DeepSilver, with a "director's cut" original idea eventually seeing light as a DLC episode for ''IV'' featuring the characters retelling the story of the scrapped expansion.[[/note]] while the latter was just starting to overtake the commercial "brostep" sound in mainstream EDM circles. It even features a dubstep gun, directly modelled off a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hDlif8Km4S4 viral video]] by WebVideo/CorridorDigital.
373*** The game in general pastiches and parodies multiple franchises that were popular during the early 2010s. The superpowers harken towards ''VideoGame/{{Prototype}}'' and ''VideoGame/{{Crackdown}}'', while the Saints' spaceship and the loyalty missions (and optional romance) with your crew after breaking them out of the villain's [[LotusEaterMachine simulation]] are reminiscent of ''Franchise/MassEffect''. The prologue, named "[[Film/ZeroDarkThirty Zero Saints Thirty]]", is a spot-on parody of ''VideoGame/CallOfDuty'' and the glut of military-themed shooters in its wake, with linear, setpeace-heavy, and cover-driven gameplay. One DLC pack, "GATV", pokes fun at the game's [[VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoV biggest competitor]], which also launched in 2013 but would not receive a PC version for two years. Another features the cast of ''WebVideo/HeyAshWhatchaPlayin'' as DLC, a series that has since largely been OvershadowedByControversy in the wake of Anthony Burch's personal troubles. The Platform/{{Steam}} version even threw in as a PreOrderBonus weapons from ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2'', as the game was still Valve's main cash cow at the time.
374* ''VideoGame/Uncharted3DrakesDeception'', which came out in November 2011, takes place mostly in Syria and Yemen, which are portrayed as (relatively) stable, peaceful countries. The game was not changed in any way to reflect UsefulNotes/TheArabSpring, which began in the midst of the game's development in late 2010/early 2011 and has left both countries embroiled in conflict and civil war ever since.
375* ''VideoGame/PlaystationAllStarsBattleRoyale'' is very much rooted in 2012, given the presence of a number of franchises that were major players in that era, but have declined, had major overhauls, or fallen into obscurity since then. The biggest is the [[VideoGame/DMCDevilMayCry reboot version]] of Dante, whose game underperformed significantly the following year, but similar things could be said of the heavy representation given to ''VideoGame/{{Infamous}}'', ''VideoGame/{{Killzone}}'', or ''VideoGame/LittleBigPlanet'', none of whom fared especially well after 2012. The lack of ''VideoGame/CrashBandicoot'' or ''Franchise/SpyroTheDragon'' representation, which was controversial but somewhat understandable considering their respective low ebbs at the time, looks downright nonsensical after the smash success of their [[VideoGame/CrashBandicootNSaneTrilogy respective]] [[VideoGame/SpyroReignitedTrilogy remakes]]. Conversely, [[VideoGame/MediEvil Sir Daniel Fortesque's]] appearance made little sense at the time (a decently big name on the [=PlayStation=] in his day, to be sure, but his last original outing was in early 2000) but would turn out to be [[VideoGameRemake oddly prophetic]] years later.
376* Much like ''Playstation All-Stars'', ''VideoGame/{{LEGO Dimensions}}'' is rooted in its 2015-2017 lifespan. While the game does feature properties with active presence in pop-culture like ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'', ''Film/TheLordOfTheRings'', ''Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog'',''Franchise/ScoobyDoo'', ''Film/MissionImpossible'', ''VideoGame/{{Portal}}'' and ''Film/{{Ghostbusters|1984}}'', as well as classic properties like ''Franchise/BackToTheFuture'', ''Film/{{Beetlejuice}}'', ''Film/{{Gremlins}}'' and ''Film/TheGoonies'', other properties have declined, fallen into obscurity or endured major overhauls, examples being ''Franchise/ThePowerpuffGirls'' content being based on the [[WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls2016 2016 reboot]] and eventually forgotten; ''WesternAnimation/{{The LEGO Movie}}'', which is represented by the first film and ''WesternAnimation/{{The LEGO Batman Movie}}'', has been mishandled in its later years to the point where Warner Bros. sold the film rights to Universal; the ''Franchise/JurassicPark'' content is limited to 2015's ''Film/JurassicWorld'', with no mention of the later follow-ups ''Film/JurassicWorldFallenKingdom'' and ''Film/JurassicWorldDominion''; ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' had its owner, 20th Century Fox, being sold to Disney, and rebranded as 20th Century Studios; ''Ghostbusters'' is represented by its controversial [[Film/Ghostbusters2016 2016 reboot]]; and the ''Fantastic Beasts'' franchise is only represented by ''Film/FantasticBeastsAndWhereToFindThem'', with no mention of its follow-ups ''[[Film/FantasticBeastsTheCrimesOfGrindelwald The Crimes of Grindelwald]]'' or ''[[Film/FantasticBeastsTheSecretsOfDumbledore The Secrets of Dumbledore]]'', not to mention more recent controversies with series creator J.K. Rowling that would have ensured the game would accrue controversy if it so much as ''mentioned'' the series five years later.
377* This phenomenon is largely considered to be the reason why ''VideoGame/DikembeMutombosFourAndAHalfWeeksToSaveTheWorld'' was pulled from the Old Spice website (and effectively scrubbed from the internet, barring [[KeepCirculatingTheTapes unofficial fan backups]]) after its completion. The premise of the game is that the Mayan prophecies of the world being destroyed in 2012 will come true unless former NBA player Dikembe Mutombo can stop a series of events that will bring about its fulfillment. The game is dependent on events that took place in 2012, including the then-looming U.S. fiscal cliff deadline extension, the glut of teen horror movies like ''Film/{{Twilight}}'', the state of Florida constantly accruing errors in the voting process during the 2012 election campaign, Kate Middleton's pregnancy and the (short-lived) closing of Hostess, complete with a character singing a mournful melody for its failure (the company would relaunch and bring its products back to shelves just weeks later).
378* The [[VideoGame/BoxxyQuestTheShiftedSpires BoxxyQuest]] [[VideoGame/BoxxyQuestTheGatheringStorm games]] suffer of this because they rely an awful lot on the Internet culture back then when the games were released: ranging from the real life persons appearing in the work (WebVideo/RayWilliamJohnson and LetsPlay/PewDiePie being the big bad bosses of Website/YouTube by the virtue of having the most subscribers back then, moot still being in charge of keeping the 4Chan chuckleheads in line despite having stepped down from the site in 2015), the inspiration of some of the places visited (Chapter 5 being greatly influenced by {{Creepypasta}}s despite those having suffered a steep decline since the mid-2010s and by the 2020s the only ones still made being troll posts), and trends that were making new waves (WebVideo/FeministFrequency's Anita Sarkeesian as an insane cult leader using her army of Social Justice Warriors to take over Website/{{Tumblr}} to establish a feminist dictatorship, parodying what people ''thought'' she was actually trying to do) just to name a few. Hilariously, some of the criticisms by the game are still valid (Website/{{Reddit}}'s obsession over upvotes is still terrible, so is Website/{{YouTube}}'s administration in general and Website/{{GameFAQs}}' moderation being both overbearing and ineffectual, etc.), which says more about those sites than it does about the game.
379* ''VideoGame/PocketPlanes'': Released in 2012, the trivia entry for Taipei lists Taipei 101 as the 2nd tallest building in the world. It has since fallen lower on the list, with Merdeka 118 being the 2nd tallest building as of 2023.
380* ''VideoGame/CitiesSkylines'': Released in 2015, the game's mascot, Chirpy, is obviously inspired by Twitter's bird logo. Since Elon Musk purchased Twitter in 2022 and rebranded the website as "X" in 2023, the Twitter bird has been retired, though ''Cities: Skylines 2'', despite being released a few months after Twitter's rebranding as X, [[TheArtifact still retains the Chirpy mascot]] for use for its in-game Twitter/X-like feeds.
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384* This trope is lampshaded by Matt and Pat of ''WebVideo/TwoBestFriendsPlay'' during their playthrough of ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil4''. Early on Matt talks about how early previews of ''VideoGame/TheEvilWithin'' have been rather mixed during the PAX video game convention in spring 2014, and then says afterward "oh, wow, this is going to be weird to watch in a few years." Later when Matt brings up a then-current event of Wrestling/VinceMcMahon having lost millions of dollars, Pat comments "wow, you're really dating this video now." They even eventually make a comment on how the game manages to date itself with a line about how the word "terrorism" is "such a popular word these days" (Resident Evil 4 came out in 2005 when the War on Terror was still pretty relevant).
385* ''WebVideo/{{Kickassia}}'' features WebVideo/TheNostalgiaChick as a parody of UsefulNotes/SarahPalin in her role as Vice President of the titular microstate -- which some critics derided as dated even when it was first released (in mid-2010).
386* ''WebVideo/TheNostalgiaChick'':
387** Her overview of the ''Franchise/MyLittlePony'' franchise in February 2010 is instantly dated to before ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'', which came out that October, was made. A big part of the review is her comparing ''My Little Pony'' to ''Franchise/{{Transformers}}'' in that the latter had recognizable and identifiable characters, whereas the former was made up of interchangeable toys that girls liked to customize. One of the reasons ''Friendship is Magic'' was such a success is ''because'' of its developed and fleshed-out characters. What's more is that Lindsay does not mention the [[PeripheryDemographic "Brony" phenomenon,]] which would have been a big talking point had the review been done after the show had started.
388** Her video list of the "Worst (and Least Awful) Female Superhero Movies" shows that it was made before the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse had really taken off. It was uploaded in mid-2012, right around the time ''Film/{{The Avengers|2012}}'' was released. Notably, she doesn't talk about the controversy about Black Widow not having her own movie or the fact that she's suspiciously left out of merchandise -- or the similar issues with Gamora for the ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy2014'' movie. Conversely, the SmurfetteBreakout of ComicBook/PeggyCarter -- who got an expanded role in the comics, [[Film/AgentCarter a short film]] and her own [[Series/AgentCarter TV series]] -- is not mentioned at all. Lindsay also talks about the DevelopmentHell of the Comicbook/WonderWoman movie -- which was [[Film/WonderWoman2017 finally released five years later]] to worldwide acclaim. And overall the video shows it was made before the likes of ''Film/TheHungerGames'' (slightly after, in this case), ''Literature/{{Divergent}}'', ''Film/SnowWhiteAndTheHuntsman'' and other movies helped to make female-led action movies more accepted by the mainstream.
389* ''Website/TheOnion'': [[http://www.theonion.com/blogpost/when-youre-feeling-low-just-remember-ill-be-dead-i-31008 This article]] from 2013, a mocking commentary "by" UsefulNotes/DonaldTrump, is centered on the notion that the then-host of ''Series/TheApprentice'' would soon begin a rapid decline and fall out of the spotlight as he becomes a "pathetically impotent, papery husk of a once-powerful man." By the fourth anniversary of the article's publication, Trump had been inaugurated as the President of the United States -- something that the authors of the article clearly never imagined. The article was irreversibly dated to the period between 2008-2015 when Trump was most famous for being a reality show host and real estate mogul, as well as his promotion of conspiracy theories surrounding UsefulNotes/BarackObama. Technically, however, everything in the article still has the potential to become reality; just with radically different contexts surrounding Trump.
390* ''[[https://www.buzzfeed.com/etgarkeret/arctic-lizard The Arctic Lizard]]'', a satirical online short story by Israeli author Etgar Keret, unfortunately, falls into this. The story on its own is well written, but the massive amount of references to concerns in 2016 immediately dates it to that year. The story takes place in a dystopian future, during UsefulNotes/DonaldTrump's third term as US president, where after a war with Mexico (which leads to WorldWarIII), the government has set up a military unit composed exclusively of [[ChildSoldier teenagers]]. While Trump did get elected and fears of war were widespread, these mostly had to do with North Korea and Russia, as after Trump's election, Mexico made it clear that they didn't actually consider him a threat at all, meaning that a war would be unnecessary. As the story progresses, it is revealed that to get children to join the army, the government set up "Destromons Go", a thinly-veiled parody of ''VideoGame/PokemonGo'' (which is still popular today, but not to the same extent as when it was first released in 2016) and spawned extremely rare and powerful monsters at specific battle sites (with the titular Arctic Lizard being one that the protagonist has). As many were exasperated with the game's fanbase during its run, leading to a stereotype of the game's players being TooDumbToLive people caring only about Pokémon, the story also contains multiple [[TakeThat jabs towards the game]], especially at the climax, where the protagonist manages to successfully finish off the second-in-command of Al Qaeda but is quickly forgotten after his unit learns that one of the other soldiers found a rare monster at the same site.
391* ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'' tends to fall into this trope, both because the story was essentially a long conversation with its author and the audience, and because the comic itself was heavily shaped by internet culture (which changes very rapidly), with a large chunk of the story being told through online interactions between the characters. Earlier {{Call Back}}s and gags came from Hussie's writings in the early 2000s, but a good chunk of the story was written in the 2010s. As a result, many references both significant and otherwise became outdated. Whenever kids talk about {{Discredited Meme}}s, they usually mention that the joke fell out of favor a few years before the start of the comic (2009). Music acts like the Music/InsaneClownPosse are major characters or serve as inspirations for how other characters act. A character based on the mid-2010s perception of Website/{{Tumblr}}, a segment where dialog is done in the style of Website/{{Twitter}} posts with once-popular feed Horse_Ebooks immortalized as a steady stream of nonsense before its creator revealed it to be part of an AlternateRealityGame, a major villain based on mid-2010s urban culture (and somehow manages to use Blingee on real-life objects), and the credits told in Snapchat photos all point to the 2010-2016 era of internet shenanigans. The extremely interactive meta-narrative of the story can also point to this era, as a lot of contemporary media at this time had some sort of self-aware, {{Troperiffic}} angle to it.
392* "4chumblr" was a meme that arose from the FandomRivalry between 4chan and Tumblr. It featured {{Anthropomorphic Personification}}s of the sites. However, at the time Tumblr was a relatively new and niche website most well-known for its hipster and fashion blogs run by 20-somethings. While Tumblr still has a strong fashion blog fanbase, the image of the website has changed drastically. It's more associated with political, LGBT, and fandom blogs run by young teens joining those 20-somethings on the site. Not to also mention, in late 2018, many users began a mass migration away from Tumblr due to an incredibly controversial 18+ content ban. This would lead to the fall of Tumblr's popularity.
393* Due to its once-per-year update schedule (normally being a Halloween special), early episodes of ''WebVideo/HellsingUltimateAbridged'' became these as time wore on, due to their reference-heavy humor. Episodes 1 to 4, in particular, tend to show off the style of humor and references that were popular in the year they were released in, with references to several properties that were popular or had a ton of attention at the time, including ''[[Literature/TheTwilightSaga Twilight]]'', ''VideoGame/{{Portal}}'', ''WebVideo/EpicMealTime'', and ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic''. [[Creator/TeamFourStar Takahata101]] even considers the ''Epic Meal Time'' reference cringeworthy because of it, and [=KaiserNeko=] isn't a fan of their portrayal of Rip Van Winkle (a meme-spouting AttentionWhore SoapboxSadie who is essentially a giant TakeThat to 2013 Tumblr), considering it to be an OldShame. Indeed, in the marathon that aired prior to the grand finale, Taka and Kaiser both iterated that they considered Episodes 2 and 4 to be peak cringe for the series.
394* WebVideo/TheCinemaSnob frequently derides the [[PornParody porn parodies]] produced by the Wood Rocket company (mostly made around the mid-2010s) for, among numerous other reasons, constantly invoking this trope with lots of of-the-moment jokes that age poorly. A notable example is ''[[ParallelPornTitles Gnardians]] [[Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy2014 of the Galaxy]]'', in which the "Drax" parody makes fun of the Franchise/DCExtendedUniverse for not making a ''Franchise/WonderWoman'' movie -- by the time of the Snob review, ''Film/WonderWoman2017'' was just weeks from release, a fact which the Snob was more than happy to snark on.
395* Creator/BobChipman discussed this trope in [[https://www.escapistmagazine.com/v2/the-movies-of-the-2010s-decade-the-big-picture/ this episode]] of ''The Big Picture'', dedicated to the movies, good and bad, that he felt defined and best reflected the culture of the 2010s. He brought up how "cultural decades" rarely correspond to the actual calendar years, noting how most of what pop culture remembers as "the '60s" came during the years 1964-72, treating the first third of the decade as an extension of the 1950s while spilling over into the 1970s, and how "the '70s" were more or less over by 1978 depending on where one lived.
396* ''Webcomic/{{Free Spirit|2014}}'' mostly averts this by using references to '70s and '80s pop culture to fit with the time period in which [[Series/FreeSpirit1989 the show it adapts]] is set, but sometimes, then-current events are referenced to adapt the show to a modern setting:
397** "I Love Bread" references the ''Series/ThirteenReasonsWhy'' controversy and has Creator/OprahWinfrey's [[https://www.ispot.tv/ad/AtWY/weight-watchers-bread-featuring-oprah-winfrey ad for Weight Watchers]] as a plot device. It also mentions ''Series/CagneyAndLacey'' airing on This TV in the middle of the night, a practice which stopped after [=StartTV=] got the rights to the show.
398** "Robb's Not Dead" has a plot based on the Windows 10 Version 1809 update that deleted users' files.
399** "Cartoon Brew" references Butch Hartman's ''Noog Network'' streaming service and also features a parody of the ''WesternAnimation/ThundercatsRoar'' controversy using the ShowWithinAShow ''Extreme Lips''.
400* Ironically for something intended to update ''Series/{{Seinfeld}}'' for TheNewTens, many tweets by the Twitter account [[https://twitter.com/seinfeldtoday?lang=en Seinfeld Today (aka Modern Seinfeld)]] fall into this. Some fall into this by default due to being centered around specific events and trends, while others are dated in other ways. One example is a RunningGag about Kramer's vehement dislike of then-mayor Michael Bloomberg's policies; Bloomberg would leave office in 2013.
401* YoutubePoop can occasionally run into this due to heavily relying on references, but other reasons can date it as well.
402** "[[https://youtu.be/q_LRPFy3Wgk Luke, It Is]]" by Creator/JimmyDavis uses WebAnimation/DaThings's short-lived review miniseries for a main source. Both the video and the original series were made before [=DaThings's=] transition in 2020, and as such prominently feature what's now her deadname.
403** "[[https://youtu.be/N9cwcLCTtyI Scrambled I Am]]" by Lendri Mujina, which uses the cartoon adaptation of ''Literature/GreenEggsAndHam'' from The70s, [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]] the character [[NoNameGiven who was never named]] still needing a display in a ShoutOut to ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBrosForNintendo3DSAndWiiU'', with the only name he could find to display being a dubiously-googled "Joey". Only one month after the video was posted, "Joey" was [[NamedByTheAdaptation finally given the official name "Guy-Am-I" after 59 years]] when the then-upcoming ''WesternAnimation/GreenEggsAndHam2019'' was revealed.
404** This has happened to Creator/WalrusGuy due to using his videos to lampoon Website/{{YouTube}} itself more than once. "[[https://youtu.be/RtFYJClmAqQ Widescreen Ruins YouTube Poop]]" has a joke about annotations -- a feature which [=YouTube=] removed -- along with, as the title suggests, the then-recent implementation of 16:9 video support. "[[https://youtu.be/HaODvNbkO4w Morshu Accidentally Gives Link Plastic Surgery Instead Of Lamp Oil]]" uses faked [=YouTube=] ads as a GagCensor, but [=YouTube=] changed how its ads were formatted in the late [=2010s=].
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408* ''WesternAnimation/BoJackHorseman'': Each season draws heavily on the state of Hollywood at the exact time it was made. Especially noticeable is "[[Recap/BoJackHorsemanS2E07HankAfterDark Hank After Dark]]", a parody of the Creator/BillCosby affair that serves as a bitter condemnation of people's tendency to not care when beloved public figures are accused of sexual deviancy. Two years later, the [=#MeToo=] movement blew the lid off this kind of thing in a big way for many people.
409* Creator/CartoonNetwork's ''WesternAnimation/{{MAD}}'' (which ran from 2010 to 2013) fell into this, since many of its parodies were of then-recent pop culture artifacts, not just popular media of the time like ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'', ''Literature/TheTwilightSaga'', ''Series/{{Glee}}'', ''Series/JerseyShore'', or ''Film/{{Avatar}}'', but media that was forgotten more quickly by the masses like ''Film/ILoveYouMan'', ''Series/{{Whitney}}'', ''Series/IHateMyTeenageDaughter'', ''WesternAnimation/EscapeFromPlanetEarth'' or ''Film/{{Hop}}''. Its depictions of celebrities are also pretty dated, making fun of Music/JustinBieber when he was still a teenage heartthrob, Music/LadyGaga when she was known for her weird outfits, and Creator/KristenStewart's stoic attitude back when she was ''[[IAmNotSpock only]]'' known as Bella Swan. Its recurrent gushing over Megan Fox didn't age too well either, as her sex symbol status and career would fade by the mid-2010s. The most striking example would be the final episode, which contained an extended parody of the sitcom ''We Are Men''. That episode aired on December 2, 2013... [[ProductionLeadTime almost two months after the sitcom it was based on ended]], having crashed and burned after only two episodes.
410* ''WesternAnimation/FishHooks'' has a few things that date it to the early 2010s. Many characters use flip phones, there's a character named Brandon Bubbler who is a parody of a young Music/JustinBieber, one episode called "Chicks Dig Vampires" is about Albert Glass pretending to be a vampire to win Esmargot's affections after seeing the girls get excited over teen vampire movies, clearly referencing the ''[[Literature/TheTwilightSaga Twilight]]'' craze of the late-2000s/early-2010s, another episode, "Oscar is a Playa", references "[[https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/inglip Inglip]]", a classic Webcomic/RageComics face. In one episode, Oscar and his friends read a magazine called "[[FlintstoneTheming Nintankndo Power]]", a parody of ''Magazine/NintendoPower'', which was discontinued in 2012.
411* The ''WesternAnimation/TotalDrama'' franchise was eventually canceled because of this trope. It was initially made as an animated parody of ''Series/{{Survivor}}'' as well as other similar reality TV game shows at the time. However, by the middle of the 2010s, reality TV was becoming much less popular, and while ''Survivor'' is still running as of 2020, it's not as relevant to modern pop culture as it once was, thus making what ''Total Drama'' was parodying in itself outdated. However, the series was UnCancelled in 2021, with the first of two new seasons being released two years later.
412** In a more specific example, ''Action'' (which aired in 2009) had many jokes about Courtney's personal digital assistant, a device that would become obsolete with the rise of smartphones.
413* ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitansGo'' has referenced several pieces of pop culture that would later become outdated within months to years after being broadcast:
414** "Friendship" is a spoof of the [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic Brony phenomena,]] dating itself mainly to the early half of the decade, as the fandom started to decrease in size once Creator/TheHub became Creator/DiscoveryFamily.
415** "Truth, Justice and What?" was created as a response to the resurgence in popularity of ''Franchise/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles'' due to [[WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2012 the 2012 cartoon]]. Like the above example, this is something that was mostly a phenomenon in the earlier half of the decade, as newer shows such as ''WesternAnimation/PAWPatrol'' and ''WesternAnimation/TheLoudHouse'' eventually took Nickelodeon's attention away from the franchise.[[note]]The franchise isn't completely dead, however, since it got [[WesternAnimation/RiseOfTheTeenageMutantNinjaTurtles another reboot on Nickelodeon]] not long after.[[/note]]
416** "[=BBBDay=]!" had a subplot about [[HappyBirthdayToYou how singing the "Happy Birthday" song will get you into legal trouble]]. Months after that episode aired, "Happy Birthday" was declared to be in the public domain.
417** "Teen Titans Roar!" is a spoof of the ''WesternAnimation/ThundercatsRoar'' controversy that occurred in 2018 [[ProductionLeadTime and was dated]] [[ScheduleSlip even when it came out]] since the episode premiered in 2020 when the PeripheryHatedom for ''Thundercats Roar'' was beginning to die off.
418** Several episodes reference then-popular dance moves like twerking (which also appears in ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitansGoToTheMovies'') and flossing (during a musical number in "The Chaff").
419* The first season of ''WesternAnimation/Animaniacs2020'' was [[ProductionLeadTime written in 2018]], and for many reasons society had already dramatically shifted during those two years. The show acknowledges this in the "Catch-up Song"; the Warner Siblings ask whether things in the real world still pertain to their 2018 script, such as whether [[UsefulNotes/DonaldTrump Trump]] is still president,[[note]]He was, but had lost the 2020 election less than 2-3 weeks prior, and caused all the political jokes that were made against him to become outdated exactly two months after premiering.[[/note]] and eventually resort to making wild guesses as to what the future looks like. Despite this, there are a few pieces that slip by, which include the "Reboot It!" song mentioning ''Series/TheXFiles'' and ''Series/MurphyBrown'', shows whose 2018 runs had ended prior to the year's end. The UsefulNotes/Covid19Pandemic also had a direct impact on the show, as it caused some of its segments to completely lose its relevancy in the process such as the one entitled "Gold Meddlers" that was written to tie in to the 2020 Olympics, which were postponed only 8 months prior to the show's debut, and the man-spreading-themed segment "Manny Manspeader," due to how the majority of U.S. theaters were still closed around that time, and the ones that weren't had to follow strict social distancing guidelines. Despite all of this, the ListSong of all the First Ladies by Dot Warner[[note]]Which does not mention then-First Lady-designate Jill Biden, & not taking into account all the other mistakes the song makes about them.[[/note]] at least shows that Melania Trump's first term would end in 2020 (which could have just been added in at the last minute).
420* ''WesternAnimation/TheAmazingWorldOfGumball'' episode "The Copycats" revolves around the Wattersons dealing with a Chinese family copying everything they do. A key plot point is that the Chinese family has an equivalent of everyone in the Watterson family except Anais. At the time it was produced, China was enforcing a policy limiting families to only have two children, and daughters tended to be aborted as sons were preferred. This policy came to effect in 2016, so it was still relevant when the episode premiered in 2017. This lasted until May 31st, 2021 when China proclaimed they've updated their policy to allow three-child families. However, this episode was a deliberate TakeThat at a series of Chinese advertisements that ripped off the series, and the knockoff family was a one-to-one parody of those ads.
421* Much like the Franchise/DCAnimatedUniverse was for DC in the 1990s and early 2000s, ''WesternAnimation/TheAvengersEarthsMightiestHeroes'', which ran from 2010-2012, is a glimpse of a different, pre-''Film/TheAvengers2012'' Marvel than what'd come afterward: Hank Pym and Janet van Dyne are main characters, Black Widow is only a recurring character, Carol Danvers is called "Ms. Marvel" and not "Captain Marvel", Loki is an unrependent villain, and several characters (including Kamala Khan, Miles Morales, and Spider-Gwen) don't appear, the Guardians of the Galaxy behave professionally, and characters related to the X-Men and Fantastic Four made guest appearances and cameos.
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425* "[[Creator/CharlieSheen Sheen]] or [[UsefulNotes/MuammarGaddafi Gaddafi]]?" was an informal trivia game where participants would try to guess whose mouth a crazy quote came out of. It was popular in the year 2011 when both men were front page news due to the former having an extremely well-publicized battle with both addiction and CBS' higher-ups and the latter engaging in very brutal attempts to suppress dissent, leading to more attention given to self-aggrandizing, delusional, and just plain bizarre statements they'd made. Nowadays, few people talk about or even remember these weird comments, and so the game has faded into obscurity.
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433* The 1931 film ''Film/BlondeCrazy'' involves a pair of con artists getting into and out of various other scams with other con artists. In one scene, the male lead's con artist buddy tries to get him to join in a ScammingTheBereaved con. The items being sold to the recently bereaved are...[[UsefulNotes/NonNaziSwastika good luck swastikas]].
434* Creator/CecilBDeMille's ''Film/ThisDayAndAge'' (1933): A group of boys take over a small town for a day. Innocuous enough, until a gangster murders their Jewish friend. Complaining that the law won't punish the criminal, they form a mob to capture him, even ''torturing him over a rat pit'', an action the film endorses. Then [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything they gather around a bonfire and sing patriotic songs]]. Thanks to its UnfortunateImplications, the movie was banned in several European countries for "strong Fascist tendencies" and has become virtually impossible to see today. Besides the movie's fascist implications, its celebration of teenaged vigilantes also became HarsherInHindsight after the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brooke_Hart Brooke Hart incident]] that same year, where a lynch mob made up mostly of college students stormed a jail where two murder suspects were held and hanged them.
435* ''Film/KittyFoyle'' (produced in 1940, but based on a 1939 novel) is soaked in 1930s sexism, which began to look extremely dated after America entered the war following Pearl Harbor. Kitty lives in an apartment building where men aren't even allowed to visit. Her co-workers yammer on about how all they want is a man. Her handsome doctor suitor, who is meant to be the more sympathetic choice in the LoveTriangle that forms the plot, plays solitaire with her on their first "date" as a test to make sure she isn't a GoldDigger. When he sees Kitty's less attractive roommates, he says "I've seen better specimens in a glass jar."
436%%* One of [[http://io9.com/5719453/gullivers-travels-will-make-you-seasick-in-the-cineplex io9's chief criticisms]] of the 2010 movie adaptation of ''[[Film/GulliversTravels2010 Gulliver's Travels]]'' was that it was "immediately dated" to 2010. The review called it "a ferociously shameless time capsule of 2010 pop culture."
437* WebVideo/SomeJerkWithACamera's "''[[Series/SabrinaTheTeenageWitch Sabrina]]'' Goes To [[Ride/WaltDisneyWorld Disney World]]" episode frequently references specific ads that were commonly played on the video's host site Platform/BlipTV during Fall 2013 to January 2014, such as "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gRZuOSkUEqA Towin' in a Winter Wonderland]]" and "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0aZ2u_LxB2k Blue Shield Floating Latina Mom Head]]". Quite unfortunately for him, these ads were switched for new ones the same day that the episode was put up, dating it from the very start.
438* The song [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xlblW0F9ro "Fake Fine"]] by Robert Grace dates itself to the first half of the UsefulNotes/COVID19Pandemic by including the line "I'm feeling great like Carole Baskin / Hope you know it's all an act / 'Cause it's so much easier to lie", referencing the then-current popularity of ''Series/TigerKing'' and the conspiracy theory regarding the disappearance of Baskin's husband that gained steam around this time. The chorus contains the words "it's a pandemic, it's a fucking disease", which would sound like a simple metaphor rather than an explicit comparison to the pandemic had the song been released earlier. Similarly, there's also the line "'Cause when you're sober, you just wanna stay at home", which can also be intepreted as referring to the pandemic.
439* The 2021 anime film ''Anime/WordsBubbleUpLikeSodaPop'' was ''already'' dated at release, as a major plot point had one of the main characters wear a mask everywhere, which is noted to be unusual, to cover up her braces and buckteeth. The movie was originally scheduled for release in May 2020 but delayed repeatedly for over a year by the UsefulNotes/COVID19Pandemic, which also turned mask-wearing into a global fact of life, thus instantly dating the movie to the pre-COVID times.
440* Music/{{Eminem}}'s "Gnat" is a goofy BoastfulRap in which Eminem compares himself to the UsefulNotes/COVID19Pandemic, in which (in a {{Metaphorgotten}} context) he expresses misery at the lockdown and has faith that the vaccine will come soon and end the nightmare. The song was released on 18th December 2020, only a couple of weeks before America's mass COVID vaccination program began. It also contains coded references to Eminem's loathing of the UsefulNotes/DonaldTrump administration and therefore his grudging support of the Democrats (in which he implies a lack of investment in Biden himself, but claims to be "ride or die for [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Squad_(United_States_Congress) The Squad]]"), which connects to the song going out at the same time as the Biden 2020 campaign released an ad using Eminem's classic "Lose Yourself", which at the time was seen as a shocking endorsement from an artist extremely protective of his brand. Biden would assume office just over a month later.
441* While ''WesternAnimation/{{Bluey}}'' is pretty good about keeping things timeless, the episode "Movies" features an example. A trailer ahead of the movie Bandit takes Bluey and Bingo to has a release date of April 2020; placing it right before the UsefulNotes/COVID19Pandemic caused numerous films to change their release schedule or shift to streaming and VOD. The episode itself aired in October of that year in Australia before [[ScheduleSlip being delayed to early 2021 in the US.]]
442** In "Dunny", Chili tells Bluey and Bingo that [[UsefulNotes/ElizabethII the Queen of England]] would not use the word that provides the episode's title. A year and a half after that episode premiered, Elizabeth would pass away and King Charles III would take her place, dating the episode to pre-2022.
443* The canceled New Warriors lineup of Marvel comics fell into this with the [[https://youtu.be/5PCWUCv1rnU teaser trailer]] garnering lots of flak for the concept of superheroes based around so-called woke buzzwords would have made this a period piece.
444* [[PlayedForComedy Joked about]] in Foxcade's ''VideoGame/DevilMayCry'' [[https://youtu.be/exKiuLyINHE Special Edition retrospective]] from Feburary 2021, in which he makes an offhand reference to Website/{{Reddit}}ors [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GameStop_short_squeeze buying up stock]] in [=GameStop=] en masse, putting hedge funds that were banking on the company failing into billions of dollars worth of debt, which was a major news story the month before. He immediately follows it with a caption reading [[LampshadeHanging "Super timely, not at all aged joke"]].
445* ''Webcomic/{{Freefall}}'' ran into this with an April 2022 strip where Sam suggests that Niomi could pay Florence's salary while they're on the space station by [[http://freefall.purrsia.com/ff3800/fc03732.htm minting an NFT of Florence's card as the first AI in a union]], a plan that Niomi considers underhanded and sneaky but workable. The real-life NFT market cratered not long afterwards.

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