Cartoons set in present times still using older forms of technology

[AnimatedFan01]

I know select episodes of The Ghost and Molly McGee and Kiff have shown DVDs and general disc-based media coexisting with streaming.

A SpongeBob episode aired in 2018 ("Appointment TV") had him use a VHS to record a television broadcast of his favorite show, but then again SB has never been too big on technology; on the flip side of the coin, records are still used in the Bikini Bottom music industry over CDs (see "Sing a Song of Patrick").

There's a trope on TV Tropes called "We're Still Relevant, Dammit!" describing this phenomenon.

I can't recall the last time I saw a CRT TV or computer monitor in animation.

 

[Surreal Kangaroo]

I think Ed Edd n Eddy technically counts. I want to say I read somewhere that Danny Antonucci decided to only show technology if it is relevant to the plot and then go with the lowest form (for example, if they need to watch a movie they have it on VHS). This was to keep the show as timeless as possible.

 

[Duff-Lite]

I do like how technology in SpongeBob never really seemed to progress past around 1986. I headcanon that Bikini Bottom is a less developed region, which would explain all the landline (sealine?) telephones, analog television, and lack of personal computers.

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Bikini Bottom's government is pretty weird and inconsistent. In some episodes it's implied to be a city-state or even a micronation, like in Imitation Krabs and Little Yellow Book where the "national anthem of Bikini Bottom" is played, or in Good Neighbours when the president of BB is brought up. Other times, it's just a small town in a larger undersea state, possibly the Marshall Islands like in real life, like how three different mayors have been seen throughout the show, or in Whatever Happened to SpongeBob? when the population was shown as 538 (537 without the Bob). But then, in Nautical Novice, Mrs. Puff says BB is home to millions of people! And this isn't even getting into Culture Shock and Patty Hype, where the Krusty Krab is shown as run-down and desperate for customers, then going into The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie: Sponge Out Of Water, The Good Krabby Name, and Hot Crossed Nuts (I can really name any KK-focused episode from the past 20 years, this was just the first that came to mind), where they're the centerpiece of the city, and literally everyone has eaten there at least once. Just something minor I noticed.

 

[Zorak Masaki]

The recent Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man show on Disney + had a scene where characters were having a "movie night", watching VHS tapes.