# Time or date in movies or songs where your perception of that time/date has changed **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 7, 2025, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-or-date-in-movies-or-songs-where-your-perception-of-that-time-date-has-changed/1020607 "2025-07-07T21:02:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Lucas\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lucas_jackson/32/303_2.png) [@Lucas\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucas_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2025, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-or-date-in-movies-or-songs-where-your-perception-of-that-time-date-has-changed/1020607/61 "2025-07-10T19:40:12Z")
> [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](#): > > In high school (1980), I was shocked to learn that my celebrity crush, Debbie Harry was a hag of 35. Too funny! ---
**Author:** ![Lucas\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lucas_jackson/32/303_2.png) [@Lucas\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucas_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2025, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-or-date-in-movies-or-songs-where-your-perception-of-that-time-date-has-changed/1020607/62 "2025-07-12T15:24:04Z")
Francis Bavier, Aunt Bee, was 58 when she first starred in Andy Griffith. ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2025, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-or-date-in-movies-or-songs-where-your-perception-of-that-time-date-has-changed/1020607/63 "2025-07-19T22:33:09Z")
> [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](#): > > In high school (1980), I was shocked to learn that my celebrity crush, Debbie Harry was a hag of 35. I recently learned that the actress Katheryn Winnick was 47 years old, and I thought, holy crap that’s old. Then I remembered I was a year older. ---
**Author:** ![Andy\_L](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c67d28/32.png) [@Andy\_L](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andy_L)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2025, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-or-date-in-movies-or-songs-where-your-perception-of-that-time-date-has-changed/1020607/64 "2025-07-19T23:01:11Z")
When _All in the Family_ premiered, Carrol O’Conner was 46 and Jean Stapleton was 48. I’m more than a decade older than either of them (and starting to think that the age that O’Conner died (71) was too young). When I was a kid, 2000 was so far in the future. In elementary school, one teacher asked us to figure out how old we’d be then - I’d be in my 30s (and obviously, my adult teacher would be dead - or like 50, which had to be the same thing). In Doctor Who, there’s a character who was born in 2004, and goes to the future to 2046. It’s okay, I thought, that Ruby in 2046 would be younger than I am today. Then later we meet her mother, and I realized that the mother of an adult in 2024, is so much younger than me, that even in 2046, she’d be younger than I am today. ---
**Author:** ![Stephe96](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Stephe96](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stephe96)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2025, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-or-date-in-movies-or-songs-where-your-perception-of-that-time-date-has-changed/1020607/65 "2025-07-20T00:26:13Z")
I like finding out that famous events occurred at (roughly) the same time. For example, the cover photo for the Beatles’ _Abbey Road_ album was taken one day before the Manson murders. That, and Chappaquiddick, the moon landing, and Woodstock all happened within the same four weeks. ---
**Author:** ![themapleleaf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/themapleleaf/32/14349_2.png) [@themapleleaf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/themapleleaf)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2025, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-or-date-in-movies-or-songs-where-your-perception-of-that-time-date-has-changed/1020607/66 "2025-07-20T00:40:05Z")
> [@solost](#): > > Sure, my parents watched MTM when I was a kid, so I watched it too. But the thing is, when you’re a kid, all adults look ‘old’ to you. This has happened to me multiple times, where an actor I saw on TV as a small child looked rather mature, but when I saw them again in the same show on Youtube as an adult, they looked positively young. Heck, in the end of 1992, I was an extra in two scenes of the episode “Reunion” of \*Kung Fu: The Legend Continues". One of these was filmed on a soundstage in Mississauga (just outside Toronto) and was a flashback to a Shaolin temple. The Canadian actress Laura Bertram was in that scene. At the time, I was 13 and she was 14. To me she seemed to be an attractive older girl. Then I finally got to watch the episode (for the first time!) when I was 21. When doing so, Bertram absolutely seemed like “a kid” to me. ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2025, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-or-date-in-movies-or-songs-where-your-perception-of-that-time-date-has-changed/1020607/67 "2025-07-20T01:22:53Z")
> [@themapleleaf](#): > > Heck, in the end of 1992, I was an extra in two scenes of the episode “Reunion” of \*Kung Fu: The Legend Continues". I was a big fan of that show. That’s pretty cool. ---
**Author:** ![dorvann](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/df705f/32.png) [@dorvann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dorvann)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2025, 12:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-or-date-in-movies-or-songs-where-your-perception-of-that-time-date-has-changed/1020607/68 "2025-07-20T12:03:04Z")
> [@Stephe96](#): > > Chappaquiddick, the moon landing, and Woodstock all happened within the same four weeks. I find it interesting that three US Presidents (George W. Bush, Bill Clinton, and Donald Trump) were born within three months of each other in 1946. ---
**Author:** ![Andy\_L](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c67d28/32.png) [@Andy\_L](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andy_L)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2025, 12:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-or-date-in-movies-or-songs-where-your-perception-of-that-time-date-has-changed/1020607/69 "2025-07-20T12:12:51Z")
When Star Wars was re-released in 1997, I watched it again, fully expecting to see Luke as a whiny kid. What shocked me was that Han looked like a kid too. ---
**Author:** ![Die\_Capacitrix](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/die_capacitrix/32/9_2.png) [@Die\_Capacitrix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Die_Capacitrix)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2025, 12:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-or-date-in-movies-or-songs-where-your-perception-of-that-time-date-has-changed/1020607/70 "2025-07-20T12:27:31Z")
> [@Dr.Strangelove](#): > > Wilford Brimley was **49** when Cocoon started filming. I think I need to go lie down. I’m 6 years older. I am the age that ¾ of the main characters were at the beginning of Golden Girls. [https://screenrant.com/how-old-were-the-golden-girls/](https://screenrant.com/how-old-were-the-golden-girls/) And I’m older than Rue (Blanche) was at the beginning. 55 isn’t as old as it used to be. ---
**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2025, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-or-date-in-movies-or-songs-where-your-perception-of-that-time-date-has-changed/1020607/71 "2025-07-21T17:02:54Z")
[The wiki on “They All Laughed” (1980)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/They_All_Laughed) describes Audrey Hepburn’s character as “aged, but glamorous.” She would have been 50 when it was filmed, and she still had it going on–not someone you’d describe as ‘aged.’ And, if you haven’t seen it, this is mainly a Bogdanovich vanity film where John Ritter is playing a younger Bogdanovich, longing for a girl way out of his league, and not really what you would call a ‘comedy.’ ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2025, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-or-date-in-movies-or-songs-where-your-perception-of-that-time-date-has-changed/1020607/72 "2025-07-22T16:30:30Z")
> [@dorvann](#): > > I find it interesting that three US Presidents (George W. Bush, Bill Clinton, and Donald Trump) were born within three months of each other in 1946. [![](https://i.insider.com/532096876da811e952266c8b?width=800&format=jpeg&auto=webp) ](https://i.insider.com/532096876da811e952266c8b?width=800&format=jpeg&auto=webp) “That’s what I love about these voters; the president keeps getting older, and they stay the same age.” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-or-date-in-movies-or-songs-where-your-perception-of-that-time-date-has-changed/1020607.md?page=3)