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* ''[[Milk]]'' has a bit of an inversion, the film is mostly set in 1978 and includes a scene at a baptism at a Catholic church where all the women are wearing some type of ceremonial headcovering. While this used to be common place for women in a Catholic church, this practice largely went away in the early 70s and is unlikely to have been the case at this event in 1978.

* ''[[The Social Network]]'' takes place in late 2003 and 2004, yet many of the visible laptops clearly are from the modern day. Somewhat ironically in a bit of an inversion they mostly appear to be Windows 98, even though XP had been out for several years at that time and would no doubt be more standard among such a tech-savvy crowd.

** Also in one scene students are shown clearly playing ''[[Fallout 3]]'', which in 2003 was trapped in [[Development Hell]] and was widely believed to have been [[Lost Forever]], and ultimately wasn't released until 2008.

* On the DVD commentary for ''[[The Godfather]]'' director Francis Ford Coppola points out two longhaired hippie-looking men in the background inside the hotel when Michael arrives in Las Vegas in what's supposed to be the early Fifties.

** This is especially odd because ''The Sims 1'', which takes place in between the two games, has a distinct 1970s aesthetic (and still with then-modern technology).

** ''The Sims 3'' seems to be trying to go for the [[World War 2]] era feel, however everything is distinctly late 2000s. Considering the world is set in a [[Fantasy Counterpart Culture]], we can let it mostly slide.

 

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