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** The usual prominence of this trope made the timing of the [[Facebook]]-based episode, "You Have 0 Friends", especially odd, appearing several years after the site became a journalistic favorite and at least 4 years since Facebook first allowed members who didn't belong to a school/college. That and the overall tone of the episode made [http://www.avclub.com/articles/you-have-0-friends,39915/ ''The AV Club'''s reviewer remark] that the premise was akin to "a 44-year-old suburban dad who just doesn't understand what his kids are up to but knows he doesn't like it".

*** In the DVD commentary Trey explains that they made the episode because he had been resisting the facebook fad for years and finally made an account but felt like he's getting "sucked in", so the episode was based on his experiences with it.

* Of late, there has been some nostalgia (mostly of the [[So Bad It's Good]] kind) for ''[[Super Mario Bros Super Show]]''. More specifically, people remember the cartoon hosted by wrestler Captain Lou, who starred as Mario in live-action framing segments. Almost nobody fondly remembers the "Club Mario" incarnation of the same series. The Captain Lou segments were deemed no longer cool and were swapped out for...[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JhqxE8lsad0 this].

* ''[[Beavis and Butthead]]'''s relaunch is a debatable case of this -- on the one hand, referencing things like ''Twilight'' and ''[[Super Size Me]]'' in 2011 does come off as the writers being late to the party, but it's generally done to provide interesting jumping off points for the duo's misadventures. "Werewolves of Highland" is about the concept of [[Vampires Are Sex Gods]], and the duo ''trying'' to take advantage of that to get chicks. "Supersize Me" has them following in Morgan Spurlock's footsteps (gorging on fast food and filming themselves doing so) in hopes of becoming similarly famous and (again) getting chicks. The commentary segments with music videos and MTV reality shows are strictly up-to-date humor.

** The useage of the insane laughing fantasy that gets played waaay into the late 2000s twice when the last time it was used was the nineties.

* This was the [[Fatal Flaw]] of ''[[My Little Pony Tales]]'', in which the ponies played electric guitars and had "hip", but still [[Tastes Like Diabetes]] songs.

 

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