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Previous Trope Repair Shop thread: Misused, started by MisterApes-a-lot on May 14th 2020 at 2:03:23 AM

"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman

I think the Furby Connect should be an example. It seems like having more Bluetooth features than ever was just an excuse for Hasbro to shoehorn in outdated memes like ERMAGHERD, and lame Kidz Bop pop songs. Not to mention all the Toilet Humour.

Thousand Dreamers, Watashi wa Saikyo, and Believe slap so hard.

What about In-Universe examples featuring characters who try to appear young by desperately latching on to the latest pop-culture trends? I am considering splitting those off into a Fictional Examples sub-page or a completely separate trope.

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When did this Trope Decay (I think) from "Show uses very shoehorned current pop culture references" to "Show uses popular thing only popular a few years ago"?

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"Jetsons: The Movie executive producers re-cast Janet Waldo with Tiffany as Judy Jetson just because she was popular at the time, a move that did not sit right with cast and crew especially when they had already used Janet for the movie and just re-recorded all her lines with Tiffany, to say nothing of the fact that by the time the movie came out Tiffany was declining in popularity. Not only that but the movie is littered with early '90s pop songs."

Tiffany who? There isn't even a link to a Creator page to clarify

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The franchise is only about six years old and many of the references a sort of justified by the plot, but does Ralph Breaks the Internet count for this at all?

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A lot of these seem to be just a show/film/etc mentioning a current piece of pop culture. I think we need to give this page a good cleanup so that the only things included are hilariously out of touch references (such as that law and order episode about Gamersgate).

• The embarrassing-ness of the above ad was recently matched by an commercial for Coleman grills, explaining that they were "The original Social Networking sites!"
  • And this claim comes after a direct Take That! against MySpace and Facebook, thus unintentionally ensuring no young people will take it seriously. Cashing in on something by issuing a Take That! to it...classy.
  • A recent Irish ad campaign used the exact same slogan in an attempt to make pubs in Dublin, of all things, seem trendy and hip to the young people.

Err, does this really count? Social networking sites seem to have been holding fine for 5 or so years. Is a person using a mobile phone or Skype this trope as well?

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In all fairness, it's even more incongruous for a show that relies on pop-culture references to still act like it's in the 90s (outside of flashbacks) in an episode aired in 2010 and that The Empire Strikes Back was still 10 years old. Don't get me wrong, the entry is more transparent and intelligible though.