grysar's journal

I'd quite agree. It's an avoidable risk, but the modern setting just makes doing dated writing earlier. In a non-modern setting making a pop culture reference takes a bit more work and so is less likely to be made unless it works well. Similarly, pointedly dated shows -- that 70s show or Freaks and Geeks -- tend only to reference the trends that went the distance or provide ironic commentary on stuff that failed to make it.