By way of illustration, since no one seemed to know what I was talking about last night.

Weeds is a great show, but it has an understanding of technology befitting a 1980s sitcom. Over five seasons we’ve seen:

• A Nintendo DS that needed new batteries
• A manual breast pump that required electricity (they even added foley of its nonexistent motor giving out)
• A guy who could singlehandedly tap a phone call using nothing but a laptop

But worst of all has been the insistence on using iPhones at every opportunity when clearly no one involved in production has ever seen or used one.

On Weeds, iPhones make beep-beep noises when you receive and end calls. Their ringtones sound like they’re coming out of a Motorola flip-phone from 1997. And, as shown above, they work upside-down. If you had chosen the most popular phone in the U.S. for a prop, wouldn’t you worry that one or two viewers might notice these things?

But the worst, most laughable iPhone goof of all: in Season 4, Nancy receives an MMS. Ha ha, right? That could never happen.