The anachronisms (among other things) make no sense

'Your father is going to have an absolute stroke!' is something no one in the 1970s would ever have said.

The word 'absolute', of course, existed even back then, but it wasn't used in this way. I also don't hear a lot of the stuff people used to say in the seventies.

It's almost as if the writers didn't either care or know the 1970s lingo or realize that people talked very differently back then, and it kills the immersion.

I have only watched the pilot episode and a little bit of the second episode, and I am already a bit fed up with this kind of stuff. If you are going to make a show that supposedly happens in the seventies, then maybe don't make it sound like it's filled with characters that speak like Gen Z.

There are other, very typical errors as well, and I can't facepalm and groan hard enough to get through them. When will TV shows and movies stop making these errors? It's almost like no one has ANY AWARENESS OF ANYTHING anymore.

I will use the TV sizes from the pilot episode to explain what I mean.

I once went to buy a 22-inch television, as the ad/note/post/whatever it's called, mentioned the TV is in good condition and I wanted one for my old computers and consoles (which I still consider 'modern', because this kind of stuff is 'timeless' to me, not 'retro' or tied to some specific decade - if it works and I can use it and have fun with it, who cares when it was manufactured - besides the amazing atmosphere of the older stuff, of course?).

Everything went fine, until I arrived, and saw the MONSTER of a television sitting in the corner. This television turned out to be a friggin' 28-incher, not 22. How can ANYONE make a mistake like that, when it's SO SIMPLE AND EASY to measure? This is what I mean by 'no one has awareness anymore' - just take a tape measure, then put the end of it on one of the corners of the TV screen, then slide the measure all the way to the other corner, look at how many inches that makes (or how many centimeters, then just convert it to inches by multiplying it by 2.54).

Could NOT be simpler, could it? Yet this individual actually, rather than do this super simple thing, just 'SUPER wrongfully' estimates the size and writes the ad/post/note/etc. without a care in the world! If you are going to make an official sales note/ad/etc., you are actually committing a FRAUD, if the product is not what you say it is, and you could go to JAIL for that! But rather than do the right thing, let's just write whatever. Risk jail rather than spend 30 seconds measuring the screen... unbelievable!

The seller, however, was kind and friendly and all that, so I didn't want to make a big deal out of it, but holy cow, how does that happen?

The same thing happened in this show, but in reverse.

It's like the writers OR the artists/animators or all/both/whatever didn't EVER do a simple measuring like this. They didn't need to actually HAVE a 32-inch or even 28-inch television to realize just how HUMONGOUS that actually is (well, comparison to 1970s standard anyway), they just needed to take a tape measure, put it against a wall, imagine there's a TV screen there, then do a diagonal line with the tape measure until it reaches 32 inches and then just envision a screen around the tape measure, as if it was showing where two corners of the screen are.

But nope. They _OBVIOUSLY_ didn't do this!

The TVs shown in the pilot episode are ALL too small to be even 28-inchers, let alone 32!

Especially when the 'Hoganlike' neighbour is pointing to his TV and the blonde woman is partially blocking it, bending down or something, you can CLEARLY see that television is probably not even a 22-incher, maybe 20 at best! THAT IS NOT EVEN CLOSE to being big enough to be 32-incher!

NO ONE in their right mind would be IMPRESSED by a TV _THAT_ particular size!

Even the 'big, expensive TV' Frank got, is not nearly 32-inch one, I would give it maybe 24 inches if I am being generous to animation size mistakes. Also, it changes sizes between takes, so what gives? (I know it's hard to estimate things like this when drawing stuff, but come on, SOMEONE should've kept watch).

If you see a TV the size of any TV shown in the pilot episode, you would not be impressed, not even as a 1970s' kid. You might think it's a 'good size', you might appreciate it, it's 'ok', but it's not an __ IMPRESSIVE __ size, which is what the episode is all about. They should've MADE it impressive size.

Go ahead, do this test yourself right now - take a tape measure or ANY measuring stick/thing you can trust and measure exactly 32 inches from upper right to lower left or vice versa. Do it, I will wait. See how big it's supposed to be? Then watch that episode or at least watch the frames where those TVs are shown - did they make them appropriate size? You tell me.

In any case, they DO make it a bit bigger near the end (TVs that fluctuate in size are probably very rare even in the 2020s, let alone 1970s!) for some reason, but still..