I remember watching The Hurt Locker (starring Jeremy Renner), the movie is meant to depict the Iraq War in 2004 but for some reason there’s a scene where an iPod Touch (releases in 2007), XBOX 360 (releases in 2005) and Gears of War (releases in 2006) present in the barracks even though these did not exist yet. Another anachronism from this movie is when a American soldier spots an Iraqi recording him ready on uploading the footage via YouTube (the website didn’t exist yet until 2005 when the story is set in 2004).
My kid’s second grade class did a short version of All Quiet on the Western Front that bizarrely included the line
Do they go to Mitchell Brook Primary School?
Is that a fictional school where obviously fictional things happen to make us laugh, like a primary school production of a harrowing WW1 book? What’s the show?
Big Fat Quiz
I need more Big Fat Quiz in my life
It’s the only thing about Christmas I look forward to these days.