User blog comment:Nacho1804/The Problematic TAWoG Timeline/@comment-31194372-20171101021825

Alright. Um...

The show isn't meant to be assigned to a specific time period in the same way that almost every other show - cartoon or not - isn't assigned to a specific time period. TAWOG is supposed to make sense in whatever we define the present as; any signs that might "date" the show, like archaic technology (though the show's worked towards modernization this season, e.g. cell phones), are more meant to reflect the nostalgic peculiarities of the writers in the same way that Regular Show adopts old technology into their modern-day pastiche.

I think you're assigning too much intelligence to how the show just casually conducts itself. Either way, can't wait for the next theory wherein the gang gets in a coma.