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a chronicle of fictional characters from the 20th century encountering smart devices [feel free to DM with suggestions]

a toddler ipad shaped like that bad ipad from toy story
a foxtrot comic strip from 2010. steve jobs is showing off the ipad to different superheroes and says that it will save comics. dc comics character "the flash" says "what about me?" and jobs says "sorry you're out of luck". the joke is that the ipad will not run the then popular flash web applications including comic sites that used flash.
a clip from street fighter 6 of ryu learning what smartphone means and texting like a boomer
a scene from the tv show tiny toons looniversity where the son of cool cat who is named "chilliest cat" is functionally the avatar of 21st century technology
a scene where rocky and bullwinkle are in a cooking contest hosted by gordon ramsay. there is a break for "important messages". the joke is that instead of a commercial break we see rocky and bullwinkle texting each other and saying that the text messages are important
a promotional image for the 2015 sitcom "The Muppets". famous puppets fozzie, kermit, gonzo and miss piggy are all on smartphones to signify the time period and milieu of the television show
a comic strip where dennis is coming back from the phone store and he is getting on a bunch of social media even though he is too young to do that he is going phone moded
it is winter, dennis mitchell is asking margaret wade "are you gonna give santa your list?". margaret holds up a smartphone and says "i texted it to him."
a comic strip. garfield, who is a sentient orange catlike creature with opposable thumbs is using a red smartphone. in panel one, he says "i downloaded a new app", in panel two he says "it's called "idiots near me"". in panel three, garfield's owner jon arbuckle and the house's dog odie appear and the app starts pinging like crazy because they are idiots. (note when garfield says things, they are in speech bubbles as if he is "thinking" instead of speaking. sometimes jon can understand him. sometimes he can order pizza on the phone verbally. the level at which garfield can talk in an individual comic varies)
an edited scene from mr. magoo (2019) where he mistakes a man for the president and asks him for a selfie
a family circus comic strip. the blonde kid is on the phone and the ponytail girl is tattling on him saying "Billy says he doesn't hafta go to church anymore 'cause his phone has an app for that!"
a split screen comparison of the intro to scrubs. on the left, the season 1 intro where they hold a physical x-ray. on the right, the season 10 intro where they use an ipad
a scene from the show alternately known as "harvey street kids" or "harvey girls forever" where richie rich tries to figure out why casper looks so familiar
a scene from the mad about you revival series where they talk about and use smartphones
a picture of lucille ball that with an iphone photoshopped in her hand
a video of king koopa from mario using the nintendo parental controls for smartphones and his lock screen is of princess toadstool (peach)
a blondie comic strip where dagwood complains that there isn't an app for loading dishes
a blondie comic strip. elmo tuttle convinces dagwood to start using apps because you can find out about nearby pizza restaurants
scenes from the murphy brown revival series showing the generation gap between old people and young people based on their tech knowledge of things like iphones
a scene from the simpsons where homer gets a fake ipad called a mypad and does a bunch of ipad stuff
a popeye comic strip. bluto harasses olive oyl at the grocery store in front of popeye. bluto points popeye to the spinach shelf which is completely empty. popeye takes out a smartphone, opens up a "spinach app" and squeezes physical spinach out of the phone into his mouth before punching bluto. popeye says "Thar's an app fer that!". olive, frustrated at the crushed and destroyed smartphone says "Next time order it by drone."
a meme with a series of images of agent scully from the x-files. each image becomes slowly more intense in expression and lighting. next to the first image is jean luc picard from star trek with his desk just totally fucking covered in padds which are like ipads but probably inspired them. next to the second image is a behind the scenes picture of two actors from mad men using an ipad. next to the third picture is penny from inspector gadget using her magic book. next to the final picture is a screencap of john arbuckle from garfield and friends holding a rectangular object that looks like an ipad.
a scene from the hbo series of looney tunes which is really good and funny where porky's nephew cicero who was previously only in the comics i think raises hell in porky's house while he listens to a guided relaxation podcast
a scene from the television show 101 dalmatian street where cruella de vil is playing a puppy catching phone game with an 8 bit version of the song "cruella de vil"
a scene from the king of the hill reboot where hank rates his uber driver 4 stars to "give him something to work toward"
a poster from the king of the hill reboot where boomhauer is using an ipad, dale is in vr and vaping, bill is ordering fake uber eats, and a drone is delivering beer. hank hill seems terrified of all this as he looks directly at the camera.
a ziggy comic strip. ziggy is at a returns desk. he says to a clerk: "Do you have a smartphone that isn't so smart? This one keeps arguing with me!"
a scene from that superbowl commercial where they did weird looking deepfakes on the jurassic park people and the joke was that the park worked thanks to the power of xfinity internet
a scene from the television show futurama where mom has introduced an "eyephone" which is like the iphone but you put it in your eye and there are lots of topical jokes about cellular telephones. this is the one where the fry with the money meme comes from
A scene from the special Rocko's Modern Life: Static Cling where Rocko, Heifer, and Fliburt talk about an iPhone parody product
A scene from The Flinstones & WWE Stone Age Smackdown where John Cenastone sleeps as Rey Mysteriopal uses his shell phone and The Undertaker surfs the web on his Ipad style tablet
A scene from the 2022 film Beavis and Butthead Do The Universe where they encounter an Iphone for the first time
A scene from the 2020 reboot of Animaniacs in which Yakko eats an Ipad because it is called a tablet