Back to the Future

Meanwhile, I have started watching Entourage lately. I was amused by an episode from the second season that aired in July 2005. The main character is convinced to do a foreign commercial when everyone tells him that he doesn't have to worry about it hurting his career, because no one in the US will ever come across it. Which was, of course, a relatively reasonable thing to say in mid-2005. But it must have seemed so dated only a year later, and now comes across as totally retro today.