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** And there are cell phones used by people who look like they're in the mafia.

** And [[Video Game|video games]] existed.

* [[Osamu Tezuka]] loved to throw in gross anachronisms into his historical works. The first volume of ''[[Phoenix]]'', for instance, has an ancient Japanese general leave to read a [[James Bond]] novel (which may be a [[Woolseyism]] on the part of the translator), and things like televisions and refrigerators are worked into other volumes of the series via [[Bamboo Technology]].

** A phone conversation occurs in one volume set in Feudal Japan without even ''that'' [[Hand Wave]]. (It's worth noting that ''Phoenix'' works regardless, because [[Rule of Cool]], [[Rule of Funny]] and [[Rule of Drama]] are all somehow in effect.)

* [[Woody Allen]], who has stated his appreciation of Hope, played some period roles the same way, as in ''Love And Death'', and the segment of ''Everything You Always Wanted To Know About Sex'', where his medieval court jester is trying to seduce the queen - he quips "I must hurry because soon it will be the Renaissance, and before you know it we'll all be painting!"

* ''[[Your Highness]]'', a fantasy comedy set in medieval times and starring [[Natalie Portman]], [[James Franco]], [[Zooey Deschanel]], [[Danny McBride]], and Justin Theroux, aims for just this. The f-bomb gets dropped several times throughout the red-band trailer, including a use of the word "buttf**k". Natalie Portman also wears a modern-looking getup of a bikini top and thong when she bathes in the river. McBride's character, Thadeous, tells his brother, "handle your shit Fabious, please."

** Machine guns [[Older Than They Think|did exist back then]]. They were brand new tech, gigantic, and had to be moved around on carts because of their weight, but they did exist.

* ''[[Kung Pow]]: Enter the Fist'' does this intentionally and constantly, such as Betty using a cigarette lighter, or a medieval Chinese town having a Hooters, a Taco Bell, a Radio Shack, and a place that sells <s> [[No Indoor Voice|A LOTTA]] </s> nuts, and also apparently french fries. It is one of the saner things in a film that delights in taking [[Refuge in Audacity]] though, so they are often barely noticeable.