History Main / BeforeMyTime

* On Creator/TheBBC Radio 2 Breakfast Show, when they have Jay's Quiz on a Thursday, some of the presenters will say this when they don't know the answer. On 22nd February 2024, Jules Lang claimed this about the question regarding a TV show from ''2018'', just six years earlier.

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* The "after my time" inversion is a running gag for Captain America in ''Film/TheAvengers2012'', what with him having been frozen in ice and out of the pop culture loop since World War II. When someone mentions "[[Film/TheWizardOfOz flying monkeys]]", he reacts with "I got that one!", while non-human Thor looks confused instead.

-->The best thing about the fifth-floor party room is its name, chosen by your boss's boss Karl Palillo. Palillo is a .com millionaire who went to college in the late 80s and worshiped some band called Music/ThePixies. Evidently Kim Deal was in a band before Music/TheBreeders ...

* In Creator/OrsonScottCard's novel ''Treasure Box'', published in 1996, Madeline uses this to justify not understanding protagonist Quentin's 1980s pop culture references, which is one of the first clues that Madeline is [[ReallySeventeenYearsOld not what she appears to be]].

* A [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=us0HMWVPv_M Kraft Macaroni and Cheese advertisement]] tie-in for ''Film/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2014'' has Music/VanillaIce rapping the "Go Ninja Go" song from ''Film/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles II''. A mother and her son overhear him. The mother starts dancing with Vanilla Ice however the child is annoyed, likely from a combination of not understanding the reference and being [[AmazinglyEmbarrassingParents embarrassed by his mother]].

* When Mikayla gets called a Film/{{Gremlin|s}} in ''WebAnimation/TheMostPopularGirlsInSchool'' she replies with "I was born in 2003. I have no idea what a 'gremlin' is."

* Sometimes seen on ''Series/{{The Office|US}}''. In one episode, Michael goes clubbing with Ryan and chats up a girl with a tangent on ''Film/BackToTheFuture''. She doesn't seem to have heard of it, even though the movie or one of its sequels is basically always playing on some cable channel or other.

* The "after my time" inversion is a running gag for Captain America in ''Film/TheAvengers2012'', what with him having been frozen in ice and out of the pop culture loop since World War II. When someone mentions "[[Film/TheWizardOfOz flying monkeys]]", he reacts with "I got that one!", while Thor looks confused instead.

-->--''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'', "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS4E9MrPlow "Mr. Plow"]]"

* In ''ComicBook/{{Marvel 1602}}'', [[Comicbook/SpiderMan Peter Parquagh]] tells [[Comicbook/NickFury Sir Nicholas Fury]] that he's unaware of previous events in that timeline, because, as he justifies it in his own words, "I wasn't born yet". [[SomeAnvilsNeedToBeDropped Fury responds by telling him the importance of knowing about history.]]

* Shana and Aja from ''ComicBook/JemAndTheHolograms'' get into a debate on what constitutes as a "Rickroll". Their eighteen year old sister Kimber gets fed up of the conversation and says she doesn't even know who Music/RickAstley is.

'''Adam West:''' Of course I'm Batman. See, here's a picture of me with Robin. \\

-->--'''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons''', ''[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS4E9MrPlow "Mr. Plow"]]''

->'''Homer:''' Adam West?! Kids, kids, look -- Batman! \\
'''Lisa:''' That's not Batman. \\
'''Adam West:''' Of course I am Batman. Look, here is a picture of me with Robin. \\

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