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* Episode three of ''[[Being Human]]'' gave us Gilbert, dead since 1985 and less than willing to move on [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WxgiHvZd3Lg in more ways than one.]

* In ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'''s pilot episode, Buffy recognizes a vampire by his disco-era clothing.

* ''[[The Price Is Right]]'' looked and sounded almost exactly the same at the end of Bob Barker's tenure in 2007 as it had in 1972. Same sets, same music, same graphic fonts for the credits.

* In the ''[[Community]]'' episode "Modern Warfare", Jeff encounters an afro-ed, rollerblading [[Disco Dan]] trying to bring disco back, and mocks him. Later in the episode, when it turns into a [[Paintball Episode|Paintball Apocalypse]], the guy has apparently succeeded in bringing disco back, and now leads an army of rollerblading, disco-dancing paintballers.

* Buzz Sherwood from ''[[The Red Green Show]]'' is still a [[New Age Retro Hippie|hippie,]] despite the '60s being long over.

* Kath from ''[[Kath and Kim]]'' still perms her hair and dresses as though it's still the '80s. She doesn't even seem to realize that times, and fashions, have changed. [[Lampshade Hanging|Lampshaded]] in 'Da Kath and Kim Code' where Kath arrives at an 80s themed party dressed in her everyday clothes...

'''Kath:''' Oh, no! Nobody told me! I would have put something funny on! }}

* Dan Stark in ''[[The Good Guys]]'' lives and breathes this trope. To him, the whole world still works like it did in Eighties cop action shows. At times, he seems to make the world around him work this way by sheer force of will.

== Web Animation ==

* Technology and music-wise, [[Homestar Runner|Strong Bad]] seems stuck in the 1980s or 1990s. Considering how he's been slowly upgrading his computers, it's possible that he is changing with the times, but he's fifteen years behind the curve. He marvels at his [[American Customary Measurements|45-pound]] laptop's 5-minute battery life and has no idea what a mouse is. Old Timey Strong Bad is worse; he's still using the telegraph in 1936, decades after it had been rendered obsolete by the telephone. Then there's the Videlectrix guys, who release [[Atari 2600]] style games in the present day without realizing that they're ridiculously out of touch until they're tasked with developing the ''Homestar Runner'' game and try controlling a [[Commodore 64]] with a [[Wii|Wiimote]].

** Strong Bad's latest computer, the Compé, appears to bringing him a bit closer to the present, but only slightly: while it has a flat-screen monitor, it has what looks like 256 colors and pixels as big as fists. Which means it's, what, 1991?

* ''Disco Bear'' from ''[[Happy Tree Friends]]''.