to "make it difficult for viewers to determine exactly how old the show is", the reason being the older the date the "staler" the material may seem to the audie

to "make it difficult for viewers to determine exactly how old the show is", the reason being the older the date the "staler" the material may seem to the audience. That might be the most inane take I've heard all week. What's his idea, that movie theaters predating the concept of home video were showing old movies and trying to pass them off as new like nobody would notice if they couldn't read the copyright date? Specifically movies the audience hasn't seen or heard of, yet movies new enough their "staleness" wouldn't be given away by the camera technology and dialogue choices? There's like a hundred different reasons this "deception" explanation is nonsense.