History UnintentionalPeriodPiece / The70s

** Beyond the fashions and music of the [[Film/{{Carrie 1976}} '76 film adaptation]], one element that heavily dates the story today is the fact that absolutely ''everybody'' (save for [[OnlySaneEmployee Ms. Desjardin]] and [[TokenGoodTeammate Sue Snell]]) ignores the horrific bullying that Carrie goes through, with at least one of her teachers even joining in on it in one scene. In today's social climate, where youth bullying is seen as a national crisis, such behavior by Carrie's classmates would be cause for scandal. In particular, Carrie's humiliation in the opening shower scene leads to [[AlphaBitch Chris]] and [[GirlPosse her friends]] being given a week of [[GymClassHell boot-camp detention]] after school, but no legal reprimand. [[labelnote:To be fair...]] The principal does ''try'' to punish Chris and her flunkies by banning them from going to the prom, but is forced to back down when Chris threatens to have her lawyer daddy sue him and the school, which has unfortunately only become more accurate in the present day. [[/labelnote]] Had that happened today, they likely would've faced sexual assault charges. It's not for nothing that the [[Film/{{Carrie 2013}} 2013 adaptation]] placed a much greater focus on its anti-bullying message.

** In a third example, the neighbour who in 1966 saw young Carrie harshly rebuked by her mother for talking to the neighbour (who was sunbathing topless at the time), followed by hearing the noise of a heavy table falling over once Mrs. White dragged Carrie indoors, would be more likely nowadays to call either the police or Child Services, rather than stay out of the Whites' child-rearing decisions. The school staff also would be mandated to call Child Services after Carrie freaks out over getting her first period and indicates that she wasn't taught anything about sex and reproductive health by her mother, prior to sex-education classes being taught in school.

** Beyond the fashions and music of the [[Film/{{Carrie 1976}} '76 film adaptation]], one element that heavily dates the story today is the fact that absolutely ''everybody'' (save for [[OnlySaneEmployee Ms. Desjardin]] and [[TokenGoodTeammate Sue Snell]]) ignores the horrific bullying that Carrie goes through, with at least one of her teachers even joining in on it in one scene. In today's social climate, where youth bullying is seen as a national crisis, such behavior by Carrie's classmates would be cause for scandal. In particular, Carrie's humiliation in the opening shower scene leads to [[AlphaBitch Chris]] and [[GirlPosse her friends]] being given a week of [[GymClassHell boot-camp detention]] after school, but no legal reprimand. [[labelnote:To be fair...]] The principal does ''try'' to punish Chris and her flunkies by banning them from going to the prom, but is forced to back down when Chris threatens to have her lawyer daddy sue him and the school, which has unfortunately only become more accurate in the present day. [[/labelnote]] Had that happened today, they likely would've faced sexual assault charges. It's not for nothing that the [[Film/{{Carrie 2013}} 2013 adaptation]] placed a much greater focus on its anti-bullying message.

** In a third example, the neighbour who in 1966 saw Carrie harshly rebuked by her mother for talking to the neighbour (who was sunbathing topless at the time), followed by hearing the noise of a heavy table falling over once Mrs. White dragged Carrie indoors, would be more likely to call either the police or Child Services nowadays. The school staff (Ms. Desjardin) would also be mandated to call Child Services after Carrie freaks out over getting her first period and revealing that she wasn't taught anything about sex and reproductive health by her mother, prior to sex-education classes being taught in school.

** Beyond the fashions and music of the [[Film/{{Carrie 1976}} '76 film adaptation]], one element that heavily dates the story today is the fact that absolutely ''everybody'' (save for [[OnlySaneEmployee Ms. Desjardin]] and [[TokenGoodTeammate Sue Snell]]) ignores the horrific bullying that Carrie goes through, with at least one of her teachers even joining in on it in one scene. In today's social climate, where youth bullying is seen as a national crisis, such behavior by Carrie's classmates would be cause for scandal. In particular, Carrie's humiliation in the opening shower scene leads to [[AlphaBitch Chris]] and [[GirlPosse her friends]] being given a week of [[GymClassHell boot-camp detention]] after school, but no legal reprimand. Had that happened today, they likely would've faced sexual assault charges. It's not for nothing that the [[Film/{{Carrie 2013}} 2013 adaptation]] placed a much greater focus on its anti-bullying message.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheRescuers'', mostly due to its 1970s poppy soundtrack (although the film also boasts a old-fashioned communal orphanage, the pawn shop Medusa runs is filled with mid-century artefacts and the scene set there has a very antiquated feel, Penny's hopeful attitude to being adopted comes across as naïve to modern viewers, and the infamous nude photo has a 1970s vibe).

* ''WesternAnimation/TheRescuers'', mostly due to its 1970s poppy soundtrack.

-->'''Denise Nickerson''': "C'mon, that was pretty good for 1971!"

* The obscure Hungarian animated "magazine" ''Ez csak divat'' (''It's Only Fashion''). It discusses all topics that might fall under "fashion" (music, clothing, hair styles, dances, even sports) from prehistoric times all the way up to 1975 with most of the time dedicated to the 60s and 70s.

* The ''Literature/JackAndTheBeanstalk'' anime ''Anime/JackToMameNoKi'' is very much a product of its time: you can tell in the music, like the music the vendor who sells Jack the beans and plays a song on his piano which sounds a lot like the rock music of the time, or the melody of Princess Margret's song "No One's Happier Than I", which sounds like the song "Top of the World", and in the original Japanese version of Jack's TheVillainSucksSong about Tulip, Tulip does an Music/ElvisPresley impression.

** [[Recap/LupinIIIS2E7 "Cursed Case Scenario"]] involved Lupin and the gang going to Egypt to steal King Tut's burial mask... but Zenigata is stuck next door in Israel, and manages to get himself arrested when he loudly demands a flight to Cairo, the Israeli official angrily retorting, "[[UsefulNotes/ArabIsraeliConflict There are no flights from Israel to]] '''''[[UsefulNotes/ArabIsraeliConflict any]]''''' [[UsefulNotes/ArabIsraeliConflict Arab country!]]" This episode aired in 1977, two years before the Camp David Accords and the signing of the Israel-Egypt Peace Treaty. Jordan would soon follow in 1994. Ben Gurion Airport today has regular scheduled flights to Cairo and Amman.

** [[Recap/LupinIIIS2E7 "Cursed Case Scenario"]] involved Lupin and the gang going to Egypt to steal King Tut's burial mask... but Zenigata is stuck next door in Israel, and manages to get himself arrested when he loudly demands a flight to Cairo, the Israeli official angrily retorting, "[[UsefulNotes/ArabIsraeliConflict There are no flights from Israel to]] '''''[[UsefulNotes/ArabIsraeliConflict any]]''''' [[UsefulNotes/ArabIsraeliConflict Arab country!]]" This episode aired in 1977, two years before the Camp David Accords and the signing of the Israel-Egypt Peace Treaty. Nowadays, though the two nations' ''peoples'' certainly still hate each others' guts, it is ''usually'' possible to get from one country to the other... eventually.[[note]] Other former enemies that have signed peace treaties with Israel are its eastern neighbor Jordan, and the not-Arab-but-still-Muslim Turkey.[[/note]]

* ''WesternAnimation/JosieAndThePussycats'' is this more than any other ''Franchise/ArchieComics'' adaptation at the time. It is absolutely full of 70s pop music and has even more 70s fashion. Valerie's afro is both an example of the times yet also somewhat avoided placing her as a product of the 70s-- afros have never gone too out of style (and in fact have become popular again in the 2010s), and Valerie has sported an afro in certain more modern cameos, however her perfectly round and fluffy afro screams "70s hair!"

* ''Film/{{The Blue Lagoon|1980}}'', ''Film/{{Popeye}}'', and ''Film/{{Flash Gordon|1980}}'', all of them early 1980s Creator/{{HBO}} staples, could ''only'' have been made until 1980, at the end of the "maverick" era of filmmaking and 1970s excess.

* ''Film/TheBlueLagoon'', ''Film/{{Popeye}}'', and ''Film/{{Flash Gordon|1980}}'', all of them early 1980s Creator/{{HBO}} staples, could ''only'' have been made until 1980, at the end of the "maverick" era of filmmaking and 1970s excess.

* ''Film/{{TheBlueLagoon|1980}}'', ''Film/{{Popeye}}'', and ''Film/{{Flash Gordon|1980}}'', all of them early 1980s Creator/{{HBO}} staples, could ''only'' have been made in 1980, at the end of the "maverick" era of filmmaking and 1970s excess.

* ''Film/TheBlueLagoon'', ''Film/{{Popeye}}'', and ''Film/{{Flash Gordon|1980}}'', all of them early 1980s Creator/{{HBO}} staples, could ''only'' have been made in 1980, at the end of the "maverick" era of filmmaking and 1970s excess.

* ''Film/{{Popeye}}'' and ''Film/{{Flash Gordon|1980}}'', both early 1980s Creator/{{HBO}} staples, could ''only'' have been made in 1980, at the end of the "maverick" era of filmmaking and 1970s excess.

* ''WesternAnimation/FatAlbertAndTheCosbyKids'': The series dealt with a lot of subject matter having to do with social issues of the 1970s in a serious though admittedly {{Anvilicious}} way.

* ''WesternAnimation/SchoolhouseRock'' - Especially Money Rock, where Becky Sue appears to borrow money at an interest rate of ''only'' 10%, and where the narrator of another song mentions two dollars being a lot of money for food - and being able to get it for only $0.50 across the street.

** The outfits worn by Fujiko and the secondary characters are all contemporary fashion. Most of that fashion never escaped the 1970s. Averted by Lupin, Jigen, and Zenigata, who wear classic late 1960s vintage suits, and by Goemon, who wears ''15''60s vintage.

* ''Film/{{Network}}'' specifically dates itself to the 1975-76 television season by the reference to the assassination attempts against UsefulNotes/GeraldFord, as well as, more broadly, by its depiction of the pre-cable television landscape (the fictional UBS network is portrayed as a second-string also-ran behind the "Big Three" of Creator/{{CBS}}, Creator/{{NBC}}, and Creator/{{ABC}}) and an old-style TV newsroom in the scenes before Howard Beale finally snaps. It also comes into play with the various outlandish TV shows that UBS creates afterwards, in a rare case of this trope causing ValuesResonance rather than ValuesDissonance. At the time, screenwriter Creator/PaddyChayefsky (a veteran TV writer) intended the film as a satire of his experiences working in television, with Beale's fiery op-ed program and ''The Mao Tse-Tung Hour'' (following the escapades of a group of [[DirtyCommunists far-left]] WesternTerrorists based on the Symbionese Liberation Army, complete with [[NoCelebritiesWereHarmed a parody of Patty Hearst]]) portrayed as the logical conclusion of the quest for {{ratings}} that he had witnessed. Modern viewers have often described the film as prophetic in its anticipation of both RealityTV and assorted PompousPoliticalPundit talk shows, and the effect that they had on the TV landscape.

* ''Disney/TheRescuers'', mostly due to its 1970s poppy soundtrack.

* Music/PinkFloyd was pretty bad about this across the board during the Waters era, (mostly due to Waters' frequent references to his father's death in WWII), though ''Music/TheFinalCut'' and ''Music/TheWall'' especially. ''The Final Cut'' being largely about The Falklands War and the teacher from ''The Wall'' (who also served in [=WW2=] and is still young enough to teach at the time the album takes place). Music/TheWall features a protagonist who 1) Had a father who died in WWII who he never met 2) Was a rock star (which together automatically puts him at around his 30s/40s at the time of the album) 3) Uses a pay phone and has a lengthy conversation with a telephone operator, in addition to a number of much smaller details throughout like television programs which play in the background of "One of My Turns". To be fair, Music/RogerWaters intentionally made Pink (protagonist) to be his age (when he wrote the album) and the album is partially autobiographical.

* Music/PinkFloyd was pretty bad about this across the board during the Waters era, (mostly due to Waters' frequent references to his father's death in WWII), though The Final Cut and Music/TheWall especially. The Final Cut being largely about The Falklands War and the teacher from The Wall (who also served in [=WW2=] and is still young enough to teach at the time the album takes place). Music/TheWall features a protagonist who 1) Had a father who died in WWII who he never met 2) Was a rock star (which together automatically puts him at around his 30s/40s at the time of the album) 3) Uses a payphone and has a lengthy conversation with a telephone operator, in addition to a number of much smaller details throughout like television programs which play in the background of "One of My Turns". To be fair, Music/RogerWaters intentionally made Pink (protagonist) to be his age (when he wrote the album) and the album is partially autobiographical.

** Frequent references to ''communist uprisings'' and Maoism, actors appearing in BrownFace or YellowFace for gags, direct references to the BBC globe spinning around during programs (something the BBC abandoned in 1997)...

* ''Film/TheManWithTheGoldenGun'' is obviously a product of the [=1970s=], from its extensive talks about the energy crisis to the martial arts school showcasing the kung fu craze of the time to {{product placement}} by American Motors Company (most prominently the Matador and Hornet) then at its height of power and brand recognition to MI6 using the burned and capsized wreck of the RMS ''Queen Elizabeth'' as a covert Hong Kong headquarters, which was dismantled for scrap shortly after filming and blasted to clear the shipping channel, then buried by an artificial island some two decades later.