Datedness of Daria: Difference between revisions

 

The contest is about Student Life at the Dawn of the New Millenium - which has since been and gone.

 

===[[That Was Then, This Is Dumb]]===

 

The film opens with a montage of iconic moments and fashions of 20th century American colleges. The montage ends with the late 80s, whereas even a few years later the show would've had the grunge period of the early 90s.

 

Jodie's grandmother was one of the first female students to be accepted into [[Turner]], a historically African-American university. Her father (a 50 year old man) says he "had to" go to Turner instead of a more elite university, implying that as a black man he couldn't get in to the more elite universities. The further ahead we get from 2002, the less likely it is that Grandma Landon would've been one of the first female students and the more likely it is that Andrew would've had other opportunities.

Kevin and Brittany are clearly amazed by the idea of email.

 

 

Angela Li wrote a letter to Texas Governor George W. Bush, praising his views on capital punishment (controversial in the late 1990s) and hoping he tries to become the Republicans' next candidate for President.