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* The ''[[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles]]'' are still [[Totally Radical]], as well as bodacious, awesome, tubular and like, cowabunga, dude. This may be a [[Grandfather Clause]], though.
** Also, in more recent adaptations, Michelangelo is the only one who's still Totally Radical, and the others usually mock him for it.
* In an episode of ''[[The Grim Adventures of Billy and& Mandy]]'' where the three main characters go to a old folks' home for monsters. "[[Dracula]]" [Blacula], [[The Wolf Man]] and the [[Bride of Frankenstein]] are all treated as "Classic" monsters (fair enough) but the "New, Modern" monsters are [[A Nightmare on Elm Street|Freddy]] and [[Friday the 13th (film)|Jason]]. The episode aired in 2005, after several generations of horror fads had come and gone since the old supernatural slashers of the 1980s.
* ''[[Family Guy]]'' does this intentionally, as many of its gags are reliant on nostalgic pop culture references, particularly from the 1980s. For example, a gag in the episode "Big Man on Hippocampus" (which aired in 2010) has Richard Dawson as the current host of ''[[Family Feud]]'' (despite the fact that it's been 15 years since he left the show), [[John Hughes]] referenced at a rapid-fire pace, Macho Man Randy Savage cutting promos at live wrestling events, and O.J. Simpson's case treated like a current event. The fact that all of the high school scenes look like they're straight out of a '80s teen film might be intentional.
* ''[[Betty Boop]]'' was an [[Older Than Television]] example of this, being a flapper throughout [[The Thirties]] when flappers were more popular during [[The Roaring Twenties|the 20's]].