"Hi is looking stunned in the second panel here because of his teenage son's act of disrespectful rebellion: rocking out to a song released in 1975."
— The Comics Curmudgeon, on a song which was over three decades old at the time (regarding this
◊ Hi and Lois strip)
◊ Hi and Lois strip)"Step 5: The violin, the drums, and the kjvynabyrsk might make it all feel a little bit old-fashioned, but this can easily be fixed by adding a DJ who pretends to scratch. In real life, of course, this is thirty years old, but in Eurovision it will give your number a contemporary feel."
—Petra Mede, in "Love Love Peace Peace", the interval act of the Eurovision Song Contest 2016
"Does anyone else our age even listen to [90's Music]? Or it is just mostly 30-year-olds who tend to write characters in our age group?"
— Lionel, Dear White People
"But there's an even bigger problem with being a copy of a copy of a show that premiered in 1987: you end up completely disconnected from everything happening on primetime TV in the 2000s. I'm not saying Enterprise should have made misguided attempts at being "contemporary", with shaky hand-held cameras, or multiple scenes unfolding in split screen, or plot threads lasting for years (though, when the show was circling the drain, they did experiment with a season-long arc). But the simple fact is, the medium constantly evolves, and viewers constantly want something fresh and original. And it's getting harder and harder to do a TNG-style show with self-contained episodes that still feels fresh and original."
"The reason it's so hard to fit contemporary references into The Simpsons is because even though Homer and Marge are boomers, they have the cultural trappings of the writers' parents, so they are essentially a greatest generation couple. They were anachronistic even in the 90s."
—Haus of Decline on Twitter
"The '50s. Y'know, back when everything was like a sitcom from The '70s."
—Phineas Flynn, Phineas and Ferb
