Time inconsistencies

[KRW]

Originally Posted by DJM77

I think Kingpin had a PG-13 rating.

Nope official rating was R for crude-sex related humor. Just think about it some more and you'll understand why it got a R rating.

[DJM77]

Originally Posted by KRW

Nope official rating was R for crude-sex related humor. Just think about it some more and you'll understand why it got a R rating.

This says that the original theatrical cut was given a PG-13 rating, but that the extended US DVD got an R rating.

https://www.movie-censorship.com/report.php?ID=2308

I do remember seeing the movie in the theater and there was a family there that was doing some grumbling early on in the movie. They all got up and left right after Roy had sex with his landlady.

[Jamey Greek]

In Last Night’s episode, at the beginning there was a clip of The $20,000 Pyramid which got canned in 1980. The Michael Larson incident on Press Your Luck occurred in the spring of 1984 and The George Michael Sports Machine would premiere that fall. Same would go for Jeopardy! Kim asks Barry out to see No Way Out which would come out in 1987. The same year Win Lose or Draw and Finders Keepers premiered. Tic Tac Dough would be cancelled in 1986 due to the fact that coincidentally that and it’s sister show Joker’s Wild as well as Family Feud would be displaced by Jeopardy! and Wheel of Fortune. Wheel would in fact knock Feud out as the #1 syndicated show on 1984. As a result, Dawson’s Feud got canned in 1985 and The Ray Combs version of the show would premiere in 1988.

[Jamey Greek]

Also, George Michael’s Sports Machine would not be widely syndicated u til 1991. Philadelphia would not get an NBC O&O until 1995 when WCAU became an NBC affiliate. Adam makes a reference to winning a trip to Orlando where you can “Ride the Movies”. Universal Studios Florida would not open until 1990.

[Jamey Greek]

Terminator and The Fat Boys song would come out in 1984 and the Short Circuit 2 poster was on Adam’s bedroom wall. Short Circuit would not come out until 1986 and Short Circuit 2 would come out in 1988

[Katinah123]

They also referenced Animal House, released in 1976. By 1984 (established because of the Terminator reference), toga parties were on their way out, and Belushi had already been dead two years. Eventually, they're going to run out of 80s touchstones. Both Barry and Erika had two senior years of high school, and Barry's hairline is creeping alarmingly backward. Plus, Adam himself is very mature for a junior in high school. Considering the first episode celebrated Barry's 16th birthday, that was 7 years ago. He'd be at least 23 now!

[Jamey Greek]

Not to mention [IThe Rocky Horror Picture Show[/I] came out in 1975.

[dynoguy88]

Originally Posted by Katinah123

Both Barry and Erika had two senior years of high school, and Barry's hairline is creeping alarmingly backward. Plus, Adam himself is very mature for a junior in high school. Considering the first episode celebrated Barry's 16th birthday, that was 7 years ago. He'd be at least 23 now!

This is something that isn't all that uncommon. Many sitcoms keep the kid characters in high school for as long as they possibly can since college story lines can become difficult to balance with what has already been established with the show.

For instance, the kids on 'That 70's Show' started out as sophomores, possibly juniors when the show began and it was about 8 more seasons before they finally graduated high school.

[TMC]

The most recent Thanksgiving episode has Murray complaining about Beverly taping over the Philadelphia Eagles game. Now, the Eagles did in fact play on Thanksgiving Day during the '80s at least once, which was in 1989.

[TMC]

Originally Posted by Katinah123

They also referenced Animal House, released in 1976. By 1984 (established because of the Terminator reference), toga parties were on their way out, and Belushi had already been dead two years. Eventually, they're going to run out of 80s touchstones. Both Barry and Erika had two senior years of high school, and Barry's hairline is creeping alarmingly backward. Plus, Adam himself is very mature for a junior in high school. Considering the first episode celebrated Barry's 16th birthday, that was 7 years ago. He'd be at least 23 now!

True, but Animal House did influence a lot of film comedies (basically, raunchy, anti-establishment, youth-oriented movies) in the next few years. I honestly don't think that we would've gotten Porky's, Up the Academy, or Revenge of the Nerds (which came out in 1984) without the success of Animal House.

[Jamey Greek]

On Last night's 8:30 episode. The book club talks about Harry Hamlin being People Magazine's sexiest man alive. Which he would be in 1987. Adam made a reference to where he belongs on the hood of a car in a White snake video. Here I go Again would also come out in 1987. Super Mario 2 would come out in 1988 and the Japanese version of SM3 would come out that fall.

[Jamey Greek]

Adam referenced Working Girl which came out in 1988.

[TMC]

This doesn't exactly have anything to do with the decade of the 1980s, but the inconsistency with Beverly's character. In the most recent episode, "Dee-Vorced", had Beverly simply upset that the mother of Adam's girlfriend, Brea, is divorced. But Beverly didn't have a problem with Barry dating Lainey even though her folks weren't together anymore. Beverly only got upset over the prospects of Barry and Lainey getting married because she felt that they were way too young.

[Jamey Greek]

In Last nights episode LA Law premiered in 1986 while Cocoon cane out in 1985.

[Jamey Greek]

And Adam was seeing Cocoon January 27, 1980-something. Cocoon came out in the summer of 1985.