History Main / HistoricalLongevityJoke

* ''Series/TheWestWing'': In the season two episode "[[Recap/TheWestWingS2E12TheDropIn The Drop In]]", when Leo is trying to get President Bartlet to approve a missile shield and he and Mrs. Landingham, the President's secretary, engage in SnarkToSnarkCombat about it:

* ''Series/TheWestWing'': In the season two episode "[[Recap/TheWestWingS2E12TheDropIn]]", when Leo is trying to get President Bartlet to approve a missile shield and he and Mrs. Landingham, the President's secretary, engage in SnarkToSnarkCombat about it:

* In 'VideoGame/AnimalCrossingNewHorizons'', Cranky villagers (who are portrayed as being slightly older than other villager types) will occasionally joke about whether they'd recognize any fossils the player dug up from "back in the day."

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* UsefulNotes/RonaldReagan also made one of these jokes [[SelfDeprecation at his own expense]]. During the 1992 Republican National Convention, he combined it with the [[Memes/USPolitics "you're no Jack Kennedy" meme]], saying of UsefulNotes/BillClinton, "This fellow they've nominated claims he's the new UsefulNotes/ThomasJefferson. Well, let me tell you something. I knew Thomas Jefferson. He was a friend of mine. And Governor, you're no Thomas Jefferson."

* ''Series/TheMuppetShow'': When not making fun of the show, Statler and Waldorf often make fun of how old each other is, like having dated Queen Victoria or gone to school with Shakespeare.

* A variant with Hungarian mathematician [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Erd%C5%91s Paul Erdős]], who joked he was "two and a half billion years old" because [[DatedHistory Earth was two billion years old when he was a child, and four and a half billion years old in his adulthood]]. His students would ask him what dinosaurs looked like, and he (eventually) came up with the answer "I can't remember -- I was already too old by then".

* ''Series/TwoAndAHalfMen'': When Alan tells Charlie the husband of one of his hookups is at the door, Charlie mentions he should've told him "he was a Civil War veteran."

* UsefulNotes/RonaldReagan also made one of these jokes at his own expense. During the 1992 Republican National Convention, he combined it with the [[Memes/USPolitics "you're no Jack Kennedy" meme]], saying of UsefulNotes/BillClinton, "This fellow they've nominated claims he's the new UsefulNotes/ThomasJefferson. Well, let me tell you something. I knew Thomas Jefferson. He was a friend of mine. And Governor, you're no Thomas Jefferson."

-->--''[[Series/{{Chespirito}} El Doctor Chapatín]]''

** Another episode has Alan dating an older woman, which leads to Charlie making a ton of these jokes at his brother’s expense. At one point he describes her as "richer than God. Which she probably knew since he was ''this'' tall".

** Another episode has Alan dating an older woman, who Charlie describes as "richer than God. Which she probably knew since he was ''this'' tall".

-->'''Lou:''' Antiques, huh! Back in my day, we had no use for antiques!\\

-->'''Lou:''' In my day, dinosaurs didn't skate around with a bunch of ninnies in costumes.\\

* In the ''WebVideo/TheAnnoyingOrange'' TV show, Orange loves making jokes about Grandpa Lemon's age.

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* One episode of ''Series/TheDrewCareyShow'' has Drew helping a senior member of the Winfred-Louder board write a speech. Drew suggests throwing in a joke about how the board member has been around for so long that he can remember when they used to greet each other by saying "Hail Caesar!"
* ''Series/MidsomerMurders'': Barnaby once asks his sergeant how old he thinks Barnaby is. He replies that he's done speed dating, not carbon dating.

-->'''Dick:''' Wait a second, you had a youth, too?!
-->'''Mary:''' Yes, Dick.
-->'''Dick:''' Well, what was it like, or can you still remember?
-->'''Mary:''' It was wonderful. We lived in log cabins we built ourselves. Oh, and when Mr. Lincoln came to town, we were all aflutter!

-->'''Mike:''' Oh, come on, they're not that old. They're fine.
-->'''Servo:''' Oh yeah? It mentions the lightbulb as a "charming theory."
-->'''Crow:''' Yeah! And Congress is spelled with an "f." What is it, ''Congreff''?
-->'''Mike:''' Well, I used them when I was a kid. They seemed fine then.
-->'''Crow:''' The periodic table has three elements in it, Mike!
-->'''Servo:''' There's a volume for the letter ''epsilon''.
-->'''Crow:''' There's a mailing address for Macchu Pichu.
-->'''Servo:''' It's got a picture of Stonehenge!
-->'''Mike:''' So?
-->'''Servo:''' ''Under construction?!''

* A common gag in ''Series/TrueJacksonVP'' with [[TheDitz Lulu]] seeing anyone over 25 as old. [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold Amanda]] being her normal target like asking if when she went to sleepovers she wasn't afraid that a pterodactyl would take her.
* Happened OncePerEpisode in [[Series/{{Chespirito}} el Doctor Chapatín]]. When someone made a comment about his age, the doctor would angrily ask if he is implying that he is old. The man would deny it, [[DistinctionWithoutADifference just to make a worse comment about his age]].
-->Something tells me that you are the doctor that healed [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuauhtémoc Cuauhtémoc's feet]].
* On ''Series/TheNanny'', Niles occasionally makes these kinds of jokes about C.C. For example:
-->'''C.C.:''' The world was a different place when I was a girl.\\
'''Niles:''' Yes, they thought it was flat.
* One episode of ''Series/{{Frasier}}'' has Daphne's mother Gertrude complain about how people these days drive so recklessly, and how back in her day, everyone's driving was much better. Cue Roz's young daughter Alice innocently asking "Is that because you rode on dinosaurs?"
* ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer''. Giles is often on the receiving end of this, being an older StuffyBrit librarian among the younger Scoobies.
-->'''Giles:''' I'll be back in the Middle Ages [section of the library].
-->'''Jenny:''' Did you ever leave?
* On an episode of ''Series/MockTheWeek'' during the 2020 US presidential election, Ed Gamble opined that Joe Biden would be the better president to deal with the COVID crisis because of his previous experience with pandemics: having lived through typhoid and whatever killed the dinosaurs.

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* In one episode of ''WesternAnimation/SquirrelBoy'', Rodney evidently believes that Bob's childhood was during the time of cavemen.
* On ''WesternAnimation/TheProudFamily'', [[{{Jerkass}} Oscar]] claims that [[SassyBlackWoman Suga Mama]] is so old she survived some of the greatest disasters in the history of mankind: the Hindenburg, the Titanic, the meteor that wiped out the dinosaurs, [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking and 30 years of]] ''Series/TheJeffersons'' [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking reruns]].
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Rugrats}}'' subjects Grandpa Lou to a few jokes like this:
** This joke from "[[Recap/RugratsS2E4ShowdownAtTeeterTotterGulchMirrorland Mirrorland]]":
-->'''Lou:''' Antiques, huh! Back in my day, we had no use for antiques!\\
'''Didi:''' But Pop, I thought back in your day, there were no antiques.\\
(''Didi giggles'')\\
'''Lou:''' (''angrily'') Very funny! A fella could bust a gut around here!
** This joke from "[[Recap/RugratsS2E10ReptarOnIceFamilyFeud Reptar on Ice]]"...
-->'''Lou:''' In my day, dinosaurs didn't skate around with a bunch of ninnies in costumes.
-->'''Stu:''' ''(to Didi)'' In his day, the dinosaurs were ''real''.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Recess}}'': When Miss Grotke gives the kids a project to do on ancient civilizations:
-->'''TJ''': Ancient civilizations? Like back when [[SternTeacher Miss Finster]] was a kid?\\
''(all the kids burst into laughter)''\\
'''Miss Grotke''': Actually, TJ, we're going to go back ''thousands'' of years, not ''[[TheMiddleAges hundreds]]''. ''([[ActuallyPrettyFunny she starts laughing too]])''

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If the usage of this trope is followed by the revelation that Bob is ReallySevenHundredYearsOld and was actually living back then, it's a SubvertedTrope. If it was previously established that Bob is ReallySevenHundredYearsOld, this trope does not apply at all. It is also not just any joke about Bob being old, but has to include some reference to him being alive during a period in which no living person could have lived.

* One episode of ''Series/TheDrewCareyShow'' has Drew helping a senior member of the Winfred-Louder board write a speech. Drew suggests throwing in a joke about how the board member has been around for so long that he can remember when they used to great each other by saying "Hail Caesar!"