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Not to be confused with [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Ford "Disco Dan" Ford], the former major league baseball player, ''[http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0001400 Disco Dan]'', the 80s ZX Spectrum computer game in which the player fixes nuclear reactors by jumping around inside them, or with [http://cooldiscodan.net/ Cool "Disco" Dan], the Washington, DC graffiti artist.
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** Then again, the ''whole movie'' seems to be full of throwbacks. Minus the Jamiroquai and [[Backstreet Boys]] songs and the presence of the internet, the entire town seems to be [[Retro Universe|stuck in the '80s]].
* In ''[[The Wrestler]]'', Randy "The Ram" Robinson seems to be stuck in [[The Eighties]], the time of his [[Glory Days]]. He plays Nintendo games with neighborhood kids and talks about how much he hates modern music, preferring hair metal from the eighties.
* A rather dark example in ''[[Kalifornia]]'', as it involves not outdated fashions or fads so much as outdated ''attitudes''. Early Grayce (Brad Pitt) is an "unreconstructed redneck" type (one character refers to him as an "Okie," [[Did Not Do the Research|which isn't really the same thing]]) who speaks in a slightly animalistic Southern accent. One of his more reactionary beliefs is that women should not only be inferior to men, but should be ''kept in a state of perpetual childhood''. As such, his female companion, Adele, is forced to wear baby-doll dresses at all times and doesn't smoke cigarettes because "Early broke me of it." In addition, she's often seen playing with a yo-yo and speaks in a ''very'' whiny voice. When Adele finally starts acting like a grown-up and gives Early a [[Shut UP, Hannibal]] speech, {{spoiler|Early kills her; he then abducts the hero's more modern, liberated female companion and turns ''her'' into a sex toy, with a halter top and cutoff shorts. (Of course, since Early is also an unapologetic serial killer, his [[Politically
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* In the [[Jump the Shark|post-shark]] seasons of ''[[Happy Days]]'', when the show was encroaching into [[The Sixties]], Fonzie refused to let go of his Greaser ways. In an earlier episode, he even [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshades]] this himself: "If it was up to me, it would stay 1955 forever!"
* A 1997 episode of ''[[Saturday Night Live]]'' took a look at the "Superfans" after Mike Ditka became head coach in New Orleans. Chris Farley's character Todd O'Conner, having had a nervous breakdown and now believing it was still 1985, fit this trope to a T: he mentioned he had to get home "to see [[Jimmy Stewart]] on [[The Tonight Show|Carson]]."
* Similarly, an episode of ''[[
** What's sad is that it's based on an actually form of amnesia, in which the afflicted victim is unable to remember information for very long ie ''minutes''. The only discrepancy is that the brother would only forget everything at the end of the day.
* Tommy Saxondale in Steve Coogan's ''[[Saxondale]]'' has a bit of this going on; an ex-roadie from [[The Seventies]] convinced he's still bucking the system, he's a bit stuck in the past and not quite the rebellious spirit he thinks he is.
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** They may have been prescient when it comes to rollerskates, though. Roller derby is currently making a comeback in large to medium-sized American cities, complete with the "retro" pre-1990s skate style.
* Long before Deuce 'n Domino, [[WCW]] had The Disco Inferno, whose gimmick was [[Exactly What It Says On the Tin]]. In his later years, in an attempt to be more current, he changed his name to Disqo. That didn't work very well.
** Not nearly as entertaining as Disco Inferno, [[Incompetence, Inc.|WCW]] attempted to cash in on the popularity of ''[[That 70s Show (TV)|That 70s Show]]'' by turning [[ECW|Mike Awesome]] into "That 70s Guy".
** And then, of course, there was Johnny B. Badd, wherein Marc Mero was done up in an almost perfect [[Captain Ersatz|clone]] of Little Richard.
* In 2010, Jay Lethal of [[TNA]] did a gimmick that entailed pretending to be "Macho Man" [[Randy Savage]] (including the wraparound shades and the [[Jive Turkey]] accent) and literally acting as if it were still [[The Eighties]]. The gimmick was dubbed "Black Machismo."
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