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{{quote|''"At only a year and a half since the event being referenced, this [see right] is the most current pop-culture reference that Archie Comics have ever made, beating out the same issue's ''[[American Idol]]'' joke by a good five years."''
Suppose you've got yourself a [[Long Runner]]. And while your Long Runner hasn't really wavered in popularity, not significantly, you still want to connect with the youth of today. Perhaps you'd also like to comment on current pop-culture events as well.
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Well, you'd better tread carefully or you might sound like you're just screaming, [[Title Drop|"We're Still Relevant, Dammit!"]]
The parent trope of both [[Totally Radical]] and [[Fad Super]], this happens when a series that is gettin' old decides to make an attempt to stay current. Of-the-moment pop-culture references (that usually end up dated by the time the work of fiction makes its premiere) are certainly most common. The writers might also decide to [[Not
This often heralds the beginning of a [[Dork Age]]. Can very often result in an [[Unintentional Period Piece]].
See also [[Popularity Polynomial]], [[Mascot
[[Tropes Are Tools]] standing aside, this is usually a sign of bad writing.
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== Advertising ==
* [[Lost|Daniel Faraday]] would like to remind you that [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vLhfxI8T2cU Subaru cars are "like punk rock"]. Do not question his logic!
** This is just the most notorious and noxious example of the trend of "[[The Man Is Sticking It to
* An ad for the Nissan Cube features icons such as "Add Friends" when someone other than the driver gets in the car, and "Join Group" when the car parks at an area with other people. The car itself is referred to as the "Cube Mobile Device".
* Parodied in a Smokey the Bear [[Public Service Announcement]]. The PSA starts out being a [[Piss
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* Dear old Jughead Jones of [[Archie Comics]] fame has often fallen victim to this trope. Archie Comics may be made fun of occasionally, but thanks to its cozy look at the bright side of being a teenager, most people tend to view it with warm nostalgic feelings. This makes these attempts to be "hip and happening" ever more bewildering. Everyone, from every generation, knows Jughead as Archie's goofy hamburger-eating BFF in that ridiculous hat. Well, over the years, he has ''also'' had mercifully brief careers as (get some coffee and a comfortable seat) a Beatnik, a Hippie, a Punk, a Disco King, a Breakdancer, a Time-Traveler a la ''[[Back to The Future]]'', a Rapper, a Paranormal Investigator a la ''[[The X-Files]]'', an [[Emo Teen]], a [[Superhero]], and so on. At this point Jughead's [[Genre Shift
** Let's not forget that brief span ("[http://joeydevilla.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2005/10/shes_goth_to_have_it.jpg She's Goth to Have It]") where Betty decides to become a [[Goth]]. And not long after, Archie, Reggie, and Veronica follow suit.
*** [[So Bad
** They've finally gotten around to [http://www.cnn.com/2010/SHOWBIZ/books/04/23/archie.gay/index.html?hpt=C2 adding] a [[Token Minority|gay character]] to the cast, about 10 years after anyone would've cared.
*** Although the fact that he's now getting married and joining the army arguably makes him relevant.
** Then there were the "manga-style" Archie stories.
** [[The Comics Curmudgeon]] openly suspected that ''Archie'' was so old and tired that it used a computer to come up with daily jokes, and even dubbed it the "Archie Joke-Generating Laugh Unit 3000" or AJGLU 3000. ''Archie'' [http://joshreads.com/?p=1827 struck back in this comic], putting Archie in a "No AJGLU 3000" shirt.
* In [[Silver Age|the Sixties]], [[Superman
** The example with the longest ramifications was when the Jimmy Olsen title was written by [[Jack Kirby]], who used the craziness to introduce [[Darkseid]] and the [[New Gods|Fourth World mythos]] to the wider [[DC Universe]].
** The last few decades have seen the whole Superman mythos tangled in this trope.
* There's a [[Mickey Mouse]] [http://coa.inducks.org/story.php?c=D+ 2007-020 comic story] demonstrating this trope, published in 2008, in which Mickey attempts to join <s>MySpace</s> MyPlace and finds out somebody is already on there impersonating him. (Unfortunately, this story is not yet available in English.)
** Disney has realized their playing safe with [[Mickey Mouse]] has been a bit of problem. ''[[Epic Mickey]]'' is part of an effort to make him relevant ''without'' falling into this trope.
* Lampshaded for humour in a 1990s ''Catwoman'' comic, in which Catwoman comes up against Two-
* ''[[The Beano]]'' tried this in 2001 with a character called Robbie Rebel, essentially a more hip, contemporary version of Dennis the Menace. He was apparently based on Robbie Williams, and the strip also featured two scantily-clad girls called Kylie and Geri. Presumably this was to combat the dated appearance of the other characters (he wore jeans and a t-shirt instead of short trousers and a jersey), but he only lasted a few years.
* ''[[Freddy vs. Jason vs. Ash]]: The Nightmare Warriors'' had a prolonged, rather random, and immature [[Take That]] towards George W. Bush... who had been out of office for a couple years by the comics publication.
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== Film ==
* In ''[[The Neverending Story (
* The [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z4IoUo_ZJkY trailer] for the upcoming [[The Three Stooges|Three Stooges]] movie is rife with this, complete with a modern setting, an iPhone, and even the cast of the Jersey Shore. Many people who hadn't heard anything about the film since Sean Penn was involved (which implied a more serious biography of the Stooges) were, to say the least, surprised.
** But it's important to remember one simple rule: [[Never Trust a Trailer]].
* [[The Smurfs (
== Live Action TV ==
* [[Bob Hope]] constantly attempted this in the 70's and on. As [[Frasier]] told Niles, "Don't use slang. You sound like Bob Hope when he acts like The Fonz."
** Reportedly, Hope's persistent attempts (and [[Totally Radical|subsequent failures]]) were one of the inspirations that led [[Lorne Michaels]] to create ''[[Saturday Night Live]]''.
* ''[[Star Trek: Enterprise|Enterprise]]'''s attempts to prove that the franchise was still relevant at the turn of the millennium by allegorizing on the subject of [[The War
* ''[[
** While not as [[Egregious]] as some other examples, the new Doctor Who series can suffer from this, too - numerous celebrity cameos and pop-culture references are scattered across multiple episodes but can leave them feeling very dated in a short space of time.
*** ''The End of the World'' amusingly used this trope by residents of the distant future referring to [[Britney Spears]]' music as "a traditional ballad". [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBw5tOeXWkY This is not the first time in the show that current pop music was described as "classical".]<ref>Should the link disappear: the First Doctor, Vicki, Barbara and Ian are watching ''[[The Beatles (
*** [[The Beatles (
*** ''The Shakespeare Code'' had a few ''[[Harry Potter (
*** ''The End of Time'' made a few [[Anvilicious]] nods towards [[Barack Obama]]'s healthcare reform. Also, "Fear Her" had a background gag to then-current ''[[The X Factor]]'' winner Shayne Ward's greatest hits.
*** When the Master returned in the new series, he was updated into a [[Pop
* The final season of ''[[The Brady Bunch]]'' was like this at times. In the wake of the runaway success of ''[[All in The Family]]'', ''The Brady Bunch'' had an episode that didn't involve the Bradys at all, in which a white family adopted a black and an Asian kid. (A bigoted neighbor in the episode is expressly compared to Archie Bunker.)
** "Kelly's Kids," the episode in question, was a [[Poorly
* In an episode of ''[[Power Rangers Dino Thunder]]'' Ethan and Devin are playing a painfully bad [[Expy]] of [[Yu-Gi-Oh!]], it screams of this trope.
== Music ==
* Plenty of [[Progressive Rock]] supergroups of [[The Seventies]], faced with [[Accentuate the Negative|negative press]] over their "irrelevance" in the [[Three Chords and
** For the same reason, [[Kiss]] ditched their trademark facepaint and costumes in the '80s for a generic glam look. While they do have a few hits from that era, it's generally considered the band's [[Dork Age]]. They've since gone back to their classic style with the album ''Sonic Boom''.
** Witness, also, [[Cheap Trick]]'s attempts, at least since their late '70s heyday ended, to update their look, sound and style to fit the times. Heavy synths in the mid-'80s (which gave them [[Black Sheep Hit|their only #1 hit]], "The Flame", which their fanbase detests), a more AOR/pop-metal sound by 1988-93, then more grunge- and alternative-influenced work in [[The Nineties]], while groups with a clear lineage to their early work gained success. They've been making inroads into their more influential, early, power-pop sound more recently.
** [[Rush]] didn't change to be relevant. Rush has always been slowly evolving their albums across thirty years. If you just get their newest album though and didn't know this you could be forgiven of accusing them of jumping up their act.
* [[Christian Rock]] band Petra continuously changed their image and sound during [[The Eighties]] based on what was popular, with varying results. Their most successful case was an entirely accidental
* [[
* [[Herbie Hancock]] spent most of the seventies and eighties jumping from genre to genre. He tried fusion, disco, funk and electronica, [[Neoclassical Punk Zydeco Rockabilly|sometimes combining several of these]].
* In 1981, [[Village People]], those 1970s disco icons, tried to adapt to a new decade by discarding their [[Manly Gay|macho gay]] look and adopting a New Romantic one. The result was [http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/c2/Villagepeople_renaissance.jpg less than] [http://cdn.hmvdigital.com/static/img/sleeveart/00/006/184/0000618491_500.jpg convincing]{{Dead link}}.
* Arguably, [[Elton John]] has stayed (or tried to stay) contemporary for many decades, with mixed results. He dabbled with Philadelphia soul with "Philadelphia Freedom", disco on ''Victim Of Love'', new wave and synth-pop on parts of ''The Fox'' and ''Jump Up!'', experimented heavily with contemporary synthesizers and drum machines in [[The Eighties]] and [[The Nineties]] (especially 1985-1993), planned to record a [[Hip Hop]] album with [[Eminem]]'s producers before Proof's death, and returned to basics with ''Songs From The West Coast'' after hearing the [[Alternative Country]] of [[
* [[
* [[
* REM spent most of their career trying to avert being part of any trend, but they still managed to have rappers on both 1991's "Radio Song" and 2004's "The Outsiders". On both occasions it does work with the music, but it was [[Out of Character]] for them. Radio Song has dated because the rap style is in the 80s rap style. The Outsiders is more jazz rap so it hasn't.
** On the other hand, "The Outsiders" was on ''Around The Sun'', from a period that [[Creator Backlash|even the band themselves consider a]] [[Dork Age]].
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== Newspaper Comics ==
* Similar to the above Jughead image are the occasional attempts at current events humor in ''[[The Family Circus]]''. The general concessions to changing
** [[Seanbaby]] points out the awkwardness of this in an article about the comic. One strip has a computer monitor displaying static (i.e. "snow") in order for the kids to deliver the punchline "[[A Worldwide Punomenon|winter-net]]". Yeah, quick question, how many times has ''your'' monitor displayed TV-style "snow"?
*** Heck, when was the last time your ''TV'' displayed TV-style snow?
* ''[[Blondie (comic strip)|Blondie]]'' has also taken to this in recent years. The jokes have generally been about how out-of-touch Dagwood is with modern society, but the "modern society" the reader is often shown still feels like it's trapped in a time warp. Most references to modern technology come from Elmo, a small child who somehow affords every "hip" new product despite being a small child.
** In 1991, Blondie put on pants and started a catering business with her friend Tootsie. In 2000, Blondie yelled "Dagwood Bumstead Dot Com!" to wake her husband. Dagwood responded, "Omigosh, that means BUSINESS!" Dagwood uses a flatscreen computer monitor at work, Cookie and Alexander use cell phones and crack jokes about Facebook. But Dagwood is still late to
* ''[[Peanuts]]'' occasionally delved into this, usually through having Snoopy picking up on then-current fads. This arguably reached its apex (or nadir) with the '80s TV special ''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mO6ccX90HNI It's Flashbeagle, Charlie Brown]''.
** In one of the last comics published before the strip ended in 2000, [http://www.gocomics.com/peanuts/1999/11/08 Sally attempted to invite Harry Potter over to her house for dinner]. What an interesting [[Crossover]] that could have been.
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** ''[http://joshreads.com/?p=863 Momma]'' has a writer that may have ''never'' seen a computer in his life.
* ''[[Dick Tracy]]'' fell into this in the '60s and '70s as original writer Chester Gould tried desperately to keep the strip relevant with the changing times. This led to him giving the strip a sci-fi swerve, where Tracy met the moon people and the police force gained moon technology - his son even married one of the moon people, "Moon Maid". This led to problems when the Apollo Moon Landings showed the moon barren of all life, forcing him to eventually drop many of these elements. In the 70s, he tried to update Tracy's distinct look with long hair and a mustache, along with a hippie sidekick named "Groovy Grove". The mustache went over so poorly he later drew a strip in which several characters pinned Tracy down and shaved it off. Gould's successor, Max Allan Collins, had both Moon Maid and Groovy Grove killed off as soon as he inherited the strip. The strip's current author seems to be ''far'' too displaced from reality to make references like this.
* ''[[
** This was actually a combination of this trope and [[Author Tract]], as the conservative Al Capp felt the increasing need to vent his disgust with the political/cultural developments of the era.
* ''[[Wizard Of Id]]'', circa late January 2012, have just made a ''[[
== Professional Wrestling ==
* WWE commentators constantly mentioning Twitter or current pop culture comes across this way a lot of times.
* It's something of a [[Running Gag]] among wrestling fans that [[World Wrestling Entertainment|WWE]] is roughly
** Earlier than that, Vince discontinued The Blonde Bytch project because he, personally, had never heard of ''[[The Blair Witch Project]]'' at the very height of its popularity.
** [[It Got Worse|It's only gotten worse.]] Witness Vince bringing in ZZ Top, who haven't been on the charts since the late 80s, to be the guest General Managers of Raw.
** In general, ideas that relate to current pop culture that get smothered are because if Vince McMahon hasn't heard of it, surely ''you'' haven't either.
** A particularly glaring example came when Vince was doing commentary for a match featuring Avatar, who was Al Snow under a mask. The commentary crew was speculating as to the identity of the new wrestler, when Vince pipes up with, "Maybe it's Bart!" Cue blank looks from the other commentators, at which point Vince clarifies with, "You know, from [[The Simpsons]] ? " The Simpsons at this point had been on the air for
* Without question, this is how [[TNA]] came off when they brought in "Robbie E" and "Cookie" with a ''[[Jersey Shore]]'' gimmick. And then they actually brought in J-Woww to feud with Cookie. For 15 minutes.
* WWE has always been doing this. They had a wrestler dressed as [[Batman]] ([[Sarcasm Mode|imaginatively]] known as "Battman") in the mid-1960s, when the TV show was a huge hit. During the mid-1990s they had Rad Radford, who dressed like a grunge-rock musician. Arguably, even some of WWE's most popular and enduring gimmicks started out this way: [[Edge]], for example, in his original "Brood" incarnation with his [[Badass Longcoat]] and [[Cool Shades]] and vampire fangs, was strikingly reminiscent of the title character of ''[[Blade]]'', which had just hit theaters at the time.
* [[Professional Wrestling]] is arguably at its best as satire when this trope is [[Invoked Trope|deliberately invoked]] for comedy purposes. Exhibit "A": the tag team "Cryme Tyme," who became darlings of the fans despite trafficking in "Yo-yo-yo!"/"in the 'hood" stereotypes that had already been cliched for over a decade.
** Ditto with [[Disco Dan|"Disco Inferno"]] (in the late '90s).
*** [[WCW]] would, unfortunately, go back to that well again with "That '70s Guy" Mike Awesome after [[That '70s Show]] became a hit. It didn't come off nearly as funny or clever the second time around.
== Puppet Shows ==
* [[The Muppets]] are known to suffer from this from time to time, and handle it with various levels of success. Most of the time they pull it off rather well, but a few cases stand out as blatant attempts at this: the panned ''Studio DC: Almost Live'', which featured Disney stars such as [[Miley Cyrus]] and the [[Jonas Brothers]] acting alongside the Muppets in order to introduce them to a younger audience, and [http://muppet.wikia.com/wiki/Darin_McGowan_pitches a few horrifying-looking Muppet cartoons that were proposed in the mid-2000's] (that luckily never got made).
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* In the same vein, ''[[The Muppets (
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* Pretty much the premise of a toyline like ''[[Barbie]]''. Every new fashion trend for the past fifty years has resulted in new versions of the doll.
** She's also had no problems entering the computer age, [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZWTSS_Pet0 as seen here.]
** Parodied on ''[[The Simpsons]]'' with "Achy-Breaky Stacy" and "Live At The Improv Stacy" relegated to the bargain bin a few years after those things ceased to be trendy.
* ''[[G.I. Joe]]'' too. The '70s "adventure team" version of the franchise existed because war didn't seem so cool anymore after Vietnam.
* The concepts of ''[[Transformers]]'' toys didn't change all that much, but their depictions in media sure as hell did. ''Generation 2'' comics were ''aggressively'' Dark Age, and just check out [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzsLUlzaocw this commercial]. ''They were '''all''' [[Totally Radical|like that]].''
** This also applies to the recent comics continuities such as IDW. The premise of blocky, boxy 80's characters from a one-dimensional [[Merchandise
* In a very similar case to the G2 Transformers commercial, for the 2006 Piraka set line, ''[[Bionicle]]'' also attempted to promote their sets with a shoddy rap song, as well as forcing the characters into a "gangsta'" setting, complete with the villains lounging around in their fortress which is surrounded with chain fences, sitting on sofas, chewing bubblegum, and doing various other activities that not only had nothing to do with the official story, but clashed something fierce with the image the franchise had built up in the previous years. This was not the first example, though: beginning from '05, just about all of the commercials had various rock songs attached to them, replacing the tribal music. They even crept into the movies, too. But these stood out way less.
** Story-wise, again in a similar fashion to the Transformers example cited above, [[Darker and Edgier|the plots took a turn to the exceedingly dark and violent side]], which was to the delight of many fans, but it still gave off the stench of a "Look, older fans, there is gore now, don't leave!" mentality. Especially since at first, these were confined to side-stories that weren't meant to bring in newer fans.
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== Video Games ==
* [[Disney]]'s ''[[Epic Mickey]]'' [[Playing
** Also an inversion in that their efforts to make Mickey as a character relevant again was by ''restoring'' him to how the character was originally portrayed in the [[Reconstruction|early 30's]].
== Web Original ==
* ''[[
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** They went at it again in their [https://web.archive.org/web/20131116234533/http://www.homestarrunner.com/aprilfool10.html 2010 April Fools' Day cartoon], ''[[Xtreme Kool Letterz|Xeriouxly Forxe]]'', which soon got [http://www.homestarrunner.com/main26.html its own version of the homepage].
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So much more exciting!
"Pointy elbows and lots of lightning!
[[Darker and Edgier|Edgy and angry]], so zesty and tangy!" }}
* Brutally satirized in TLG Media's "[http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/223809# A New Bunny]" (very, very [[NSFW]] language). It mocks ''Loonatics Unleashed'', mentioned below, as one of the Ur-examples of blatantly trying to make "updated" versions of older characters so that today's kids will like them more. This exchange pretty much exemplifies this trope:
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'''Buzzed Bunny:''' "Hell '''YES''' you do!!!" }}
** Their followup [http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/243842 Another New Bunny] is about the damage-control Warner tried to do when people rebelled against the plans for Loonatics. That is, to try and update the characters, while keeping them the same at the same time.
* [[
== Western Animation ==
* [[Disney]] was pretty bad at this in [[The Eighties]]
** The cartoons on the 90s Disney Afternoon block on ABC had the premise of taking old classic characters and updating them in new settings with new clothes and, occasionally, new personalities... usually to reflect what was "in" at the time. Huey, Dewey and Louie got theirs in ''[[
*** Of course, [[Donald Duck]] (especially in the comics) is often ''the'' go-to character for this trope. With all the fads he's joined, all the different jobs he's had, and all the many, ''many'' things he's been an "expert" on in various stories, Donald is the one classic Disney character who ''can'' pull off [[Totally Radical]] [[Tropes Are Not Bad|and remain perfectly in character at all times]]. Hawaiian-shirted cameraman for a popular TV show? Sure, why not? You ''know'' that next month he'll try to be an astronaut or get hooked on sushi or whatever.
** [[Goof Troop]] is a pretty obvious example. They updated Goofy and Pete into modern neighbors with pre-teen sons. It was apparently successful enough to spin off into a [[A Goofy Movie|movie]] or two. While Goofy's update hasn't entirely stuck, his new son, Max Goof, keeps popping up in [[House of Mouse|shows]] and theme parks.
* By far, the most embarrassing attempt to make an older character "cool" to young people was the all-but-forgotten series ''[[Yo Yogi!]]''. Yes, it had a teenaged [[
** An earlier [[Hanna
*** At least Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm got to grow older.
* The aforementioned ''[[
** Likewise, ''[[Baby Looney Tunes]]'', but this time it's a [[Lighter and Softer]] version.
* Some people believe ''[[The Simpsons]]'' is relying on this trope too much, [[Long Runners|thanks to being on the air for 20+ years]]. While the show never shied away from pop-culture references in its heyday, it's increasingly apparent that the writers are taking a page from ''[[South Park]]'' and ''[[Family Guy]]'' in trying to be relevant through using current trends and events. The long episode production time and the fact that they've [[
** It often lampshades this by having the Simpson family be the last people in town to get in on a new trend, like when Homer bought his first computer (in 1999) and didn't know the first thing about them. "Oh, they have the Internet on ''computers'' now!", when Bart is complaining about being the only kid in his class (in 2009) who doesn't have a cell phone, and Marge in "Marge Gamer" (a 2007 episode) being shunned by her friends for not having an email address.
** The opening to the episode "To Surveil With Love," in which the entire Springfield populace lip syncs to Ke$ha's "TiK ToK"
** "MyPods and Boomsticks" was filled to the brim with jabs at Apple and Steve Jobs (MAPPLE and Steve Mobs in the show) and it was obvious the [[Shallow Parody|writers weren't very familiar with them]] -- [[They Just Didn't Care|or were too lazy to come up with something better]].
** "The D'oh-cial Network" was worse than "MyPods and Boomsticks" in its portrayal of Apple. It had loads of references to Facebook (the episode was even a parody of the movie ''[[The Social Network]]'', which would have been
** Another episode Lampshaded this with Itchy and Scratchy doing a ''[[Black Swan]]'' parody and Bart and Lisa commenting on how it was current at the time it was written.
** "Lisa Goes Gaga" (the episode focusing on Lady Gaga's guest appearance) absolutely ''reeked'' of this trope.
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** As you can probably guess, ''South Park'' can be (and has become) so incredibly topical that it possibly ''inverts'' this trope. If you watch any episode weeks after it was made, the references will make about as much sense as having [[Viewers Are Goldfish|Judge Ito recount ballots with hanging chads]].
** Just for reference, A ''South Park'' episode can be finished in three days. This includes writing, animating, and voicing it.
** The usual prominence of this trope made the timing of the [[
*** 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.
** The season 15 episode called "You're Getting Old" (which is self explanatory) ironically contained more up
** It might also be defensive in their case as they were burned by not paying attention when
* Of late, there has been some nostalgia (mostly of the [[So Bad
* ''[[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.
* ''[[King of the Hill]]'': The [[
** 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.
* The use of [[Memetic Mutation|Internet slang and memes]] in the 2016 reboot of ''[[The Powerpuff Girls (2016 series)|The Powerpuff Girls]]'', such as [http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/i-can-t-even "I Cant's Even"], [http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/yaass "YAASS!"] and [http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/no-rage-face "No Me Gusta!"] (from Bubbles, with her face turning into the [http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/no-rage-face "NO." meme], itself [http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/bubbles-no-me-gusta turned into a meme]) were criticized as forced humor made as an attempt to appeal to the Internet base.
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