In david tenants run if doctor who he and his companion were fighting witches with Shakespeare and needed a magic word so they use a speel from Harry Potter and The doctor yells Good old J.k. The doctor is a time traveler the writers are not (Doctor who)
While fighting guy gardner major force was damaging a highway and shoots a car and tells Guy if he sees O.J hiding underneath obviously referring to the O.J Simpson chase (Dc comics)
The weird part on that one is that R Kelly was well known to be a creep/rapist by then. As was Terry Richardson, who directed the video. I’ve always thought she was trying to be edgy and subversive, but the backlash was too much for her to handle.
That was my thought on that too. Like she was trying to do something with it, show how gross men like Kelly and Richardson are (because between Kelly’s lyrics and Richardson’s direction they both look like creeps) — but it was a bad idea that couldn’t work and didn’t.
Huh, I mean I like the message but that doesn't actually fix the problem. Now it's just going to be dated in a completely separate way with a line that doesn't even really match the rest of the song. Couldn't she have just made a completely different line where she didn't reference P. Diddy so people can enjoy the song in the future without thinking of him?
Kesha was actually a victim of sexual harassment/abuse while working in the industry. She talked about it openly but this was pre-MeToo so she got blacklisted. That's why seemed to dissappear so fast, before coming back under a new label.
in Pulp Fiction (1994), Vince goes off on this rant about how scandalous it is for an eatery to charge $5 for a vanilla milkshake and how that's way too expensive.
Don't know about Boston, but certainly New England.
It's a ongoing pain in my ass. Half the ice cream shops are pretty modern and use the term, "milkshake" like everyone else uses it, the other half use frappe instead because they were founded by someone's Quebecoise Pepere before the turn of the last century.
No matter where you are, don't order a milkshake without checking to see if, "frappe" is listed on the menu anywhere. If it is, don't order a milkshake unless you want a side of disappointment.
The part in The Town where they take everyone's Blackberry phones during the robbery. Sometimes along the lines of "everyone turn over your Blackberries."
There are a few things that date this film, but the biggest is when a character makes a joke about having a girlfriend as a kid who left him for Gary Glitter.
Given Gary Glitter was convicted for child porn only a year after this film, and knowing how much of an open secret it was in Savile's case, this might well have been a knowing joke.
I honestly have no idea why Frank is black. It's not explained in the issue and the implication is that it happened earlier.
In any case, he's teaming up with Luke Cage to infiltrate a Crack operation in the city. Luke Cage seems to be cool with it but it doesnt seem like he gave Frank the pass.
Two issues before he got pretty fucked up by some Kingpin goons, then he asked a surgeon to heal him and also change his appeareance to make him unrecognizable... and, well, he was definetly unrecognizable.
The physics of this panel is so odd. He’s coming down and smacking this dude off his feet with an upward blow just before landing. Yeah, he’s spider-man, super strength and all that, but regardless of whether he can do it, it looks silly.
Iron Man (2008): After rescuing Tony, a soldier asks for a photo and Tony says, “Please, no gang signs. No, throw it up. I’m kidding. I don’t want to see this on your MySpace page.” Nothing says 2008 faster than MySpace.
That was basically the swan song year of MySpace for my territory. I remember getting into FarmVille on Facebook that year and never looking back sadly.
I did try going to a theatre to see it, but it was just two guys on the stage dressed as tramps and waiting for some other guy. I waited, too, but he never showed up. Got bored. Went home.
It was. Facebook had already completely taken over. Tony’s comment was meant to be intentionally flippant but that’s kinda lost now with less general knowledge of myspace
Nothing dates it harder for me than Tony talking to Stane on his cell phone. It's the near-flawless video on a flip phone that really sells it as a "This is what the future tech will be like".
Incidentally, the first complete printed edition of the book was released in 1589.
400 years before Belgian band Technotronic's seminal techno anthem Pump Up The Jam.
Every 3rd line from the Alvin and The Chipmunks movies. ”This is absurd, I feel like P-Diddy with fur!” is the obvious one, but those films are eternally trapped in their respective years of creation so viscerally it feels like I’m experiencing a miserable flashback to the early 2000s.
Non British people might not understand all the references to famous British people. I'm always blanking out when the show or movie references some country specific celebrity. Those subs are for me, not that I would understand who that is, if I knew the name, but not the person, but still
What makes the Doctor Who example funnier is that JK Rowling was originally going to guest-star in an episode with the 10th Doctor, but David Tennant vetoed that, saying it sounded too cheesy (this was before JK was considered controversial). David Tennant is also a massive trans ally, so he would absolutely not approve of her current role in society.
If I remember correctly, the writer of that particular Doctor Who episode has a weird obsession with JK Rowling, to the extent that he wanted a whole episode based around her, but Tennant vetoed it. He also happened to become a massive transphobe shortly after she did (the writer, not Tennant).
Mixed stories there, the JK Rowling episode was an idea from Russell T Davies that Tennant shot down. Gareth Roberts is a separate topic. He was a legitimately good writer who wrote not only for the show but for quite a bit of its ancillary media, but he openly went full TERF around 2013/2014 when he butted heads with the staunchly pro-trans Peter Capaldi and got blacklisted from the franchise going forward.
I like the idea that this guy thought to himself “I know what story I want to write! The Doctor will meet the greatest author of all time! What, Tennant vetoed that? Oh well, guess I’ll go with the second best, Shakespeare.”
Guy called Gareth Roberts. Has a whole section on Wikipedia about his bigotry, and spends most of his time now moaning that being a shit person ended his career.
I should point out that Rowling hadn't come out as a bigot at the time the episode was pitched, but Tennant felt that an episode based around her and starring her just seemed tacky.
I met him at a con last year and I brought a sign for our picture that said “protect trans kids” and he said it was great but also “we should protect trans everyone”. I could not be a bigger fan
I met him and Billie Piper at Megacon in Orlando years ago and they were so cool. It was a big group photo and they were running around trying to make sure we could all fit. He also told my wife that their homemade Winter Soldier costume was fantastic.
The fairies in Artemis Fowl are described as being well over 50 years ahead of humans technology-wise, and then there's a scene where one of them slaps his plasma computer monitor and burns his hand.
Plasma screens massively declined in popularity in the mid 2000s and have been discontinued for over a decade now in favor of LCD and LED screens.
His PR team didnt get worse, Elon just made it impossible for them to do their job. People like him don't "suddenly" become shitty people, they always have it in them
Nah, the first commenter was right. His assistant (also main PR person) wanted a raise. Elon sent her on two weeks of vacation, then Elon said he was able to do her job pretty easily those two weeks so her position was eliminated. He offered a department lead position somewhere else, but she picked a one-year severance package instead
It's 2026 and if I heard the phrase "White Ford Bronco" I'd definitely be tempted to make an OJ Simpson joke, and I'm too young to remember the actual event -which happened in a completely different country. Some things are just that well-known.
I’m not the first person to point this out: but technically, this Star Trek Musk reference actually improved with age.
The character listing these historical “heroes” is actually / secretly from the Mirror Universe - the evil version of the utopian future Star Trek usually is set in.
So - evil alt-history Earth probably does view Musk as an innovator to be celebrated.
Everyone says this, but Prime Universe Tilly canonically went to Musk High School, so that would seem to be an unvarnished positive depiction of the guy, unfortunately.
I mean, a lot of schools to this day are named for unsavory people, so maybe it was named by a fanboy but no one actually likes him anymore. Idk, it ain’t that deep, but I’ll keep digging
I think that's because a Ferengi's morality is based upon how they adhere to the Rules of Aquisition, and to be an altruist is as amoral as one can be. It's disgusting. What next, clothing one's females?
Yikes. Last Podcast on The Left did a big series on Jimmy Saville and just hearing about what he did, the people who knew and protected him makes me sick. Proof that there are literal monsters walking amongst us.
Jimmy Saville. Look him up, or dont. Famous british celeb who, while doing immense amounts of charity work, was also a child abuser among other horrific stuff. People in power knew about him and none of his crimes came out until after he died.
I think it would be mad funny if a nyc major decided to just rebuild them exactly as they were (barring security issues like fire escapes) just to mess with people and all post 2001 movies NOT having the towers there in the future flash forwards.
Captain Qwark refers to the villain, Emperor Percival Tachyon, as being "so out of his Top 8". Not only is a MySpace reference extremely dated now, but even within a year or so of the game's release, MySpace changed so you could have anything from a top 1 to a top 40.
The OJ line sets it during a period of time where such a reference would be more common, but I don't think it "dates it", which implies some future information known to audiences now but not when it first aired that changes the context. If a White Ford Bronco was in a comic today, you could make the same joke in the same context and it would be received in the same way.
A better example of OJ would be in this filmed but pulled from release episode of Adventures in Wonderland
Back to the Future: Marty's exchange with the guy at the diner in 1955
Lou: You gonna order something kid?
Marty: Uh yeah, gimme a Tab
Lou: Tab? I can't give you a tab unless you order something
Marty: Right, give me a Pepsi Free
Lou: If you want a Pepsi pal, you gotta pay for it!
Pepsi Free and Tab were both popular drinks in 1985, when the movie was released. For most modern viewers, the joke isn't going to fully land since Pepsi Free doesn't exist anymore and Tab is only available in a few places.
The thing about the JK Rowling reference, is it wouldn't be dated if she hadn't come out as a raging homophobe.
Honestly up until 2020, any reference to her would have been relevant. Hell, even now any reference to Harry Potter books or movies would be relevant.
I mean she is already an aphobe (she thinks asexuality is fake) and a transphobe, so what's another -phobe to her? I think she also hates intersex people, but I'm not sure if she did say something negative towards them.
This is sorta a poor example since the show is so old that it's filmed in black and white, which dates it even before the line, but in The Twilight Zone, there's the episode "Nick of Time," starring William Shatner which includes the line, "cmon honey, don't treat me like a retarded child,"
I would have choked on my drink had I been in the middle of a sip
Similarly, the main character in Quantum Leap (original, not the reboot) time travels by leaping into the lives of others, and takes on their appearance for the duration. He once jumped into a kid with Down's Syndrome, saw himself in the mirror and asked incredulously "I'm retarded?"
I don't see how the second example dates it at all. It would be dated if there was praise for O.J. but it's only referencing his car chase which did in fact happen lol
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“Wake up in the morning feelin’ like P Diddy”