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M*A*S*H pothole
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(M*A*S*H pothole)
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{{quote|''"Scientists are saying that the future is going to be far more futuristic than they originally predicted!"''|'''Krysta Now''', ''[[Southland Tales]]''}}
|'''Krysta Now''', ''[[Southland Tales]]''}}
 
You're making a movie set in a recent time, say [[The Nineties]]. Well, that's not long ago enough to make for a period film, is it? This apparently means it's okay for Alice to listen to Miley Cyrus on an iPod and for Bob (or more likely, someone in the background) to drive around in a 2006 Honda Accord. After all, it's ''practically'' [[The Present Day]], right?
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== Fan Works ==
* Frequently found in fics for older properties written by younger fans. The classic example from anime fandom would be a ''[[Ranma ½]]'' fic in which Nabiki has a laptop computer with Internet access. (''Ranma'' is set circa 1989, plus or minus about a year -- the closest thing Nabiki has to a computer is a pocket calculator.)
* ''[[In The Dark]]'', [[Spice Girls]]/[[Backstreet Boys]], has the usage of Skype and TMZ despite the story taking place in 1998.
 
 
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* ''[[Happy Days]]'' is a borderline case. It never quite forgot that it was set in [[The Fifties]], (and had made it into the early [[The Sixties|Sixties]] by the end) but they got ''really'' lazy about not letting [[The Seventies]] seep in.
** Ditto its spinoff, ''[[Laverne and Shirley]]''.
* ''[[MASHM*A*S*H (television)|M*A*S*H]]'' is also borderline example. The show contained frequent references to popular culture that didn't exist until after [[The Korean War]]. Also, [[Eternal Sexual Freedom]], anti-war and post-women's-lib attitudes, which would have been quite out of place in the early 1950s, were portrayed as commonplace. This may have been intentional, as the show was a fairly [[Anvilicious]] commentary on the Vietnam War, which was still ongoing when the series began. Some examples include one of the pinball machines, some pictures of too-modern Hueys, and a 1969 issue of ''The Avengers''.
** Additionally, haircuts that were in style in the 1970s and 1980s appear in the show, but these haircuts were not what the characters would have worn, or by anyone in the Army at any point in the twentieth century.
*** Not to mention the constant use of trucks from the 1954 model year.
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