That 70s Show - Season 1 ^HOT^
The first season of That '70s Show, an American television series, began August 23, 1998, and ended on July 26, 1999. It aired on Fox. The region 1 DVD was released on October 26, 2004.[1] The season is set between 1976 and 1977. The first twelve episodes and the 23rd episode were set in 1976, then the series transitioned to 1977 for the remainder of the season.
That 70s Show - Season 1
The first season of That '70s Show largely took place in 1976, though references to Saturday Night Fever and Star Wars in the course of the season's 25 episodes indicated that there had been some incursion into 1977 territory (the series also quietly moved from a Sunday- to a Monday-night slot in mid-season). The action occurred in Point Place, WI, not far from Green Bay. The plots revolved around the exploits of a group of high-school juniors, led by the impulsive Eric Forman (Topher Grace). Both of the Formans worked: Red had a factory job which was downsized early in the season, while Kitty was a nurse. Next door to the Formans were Donna's parents, Bob and Midge Pinciotti (Don Stark, Tanya Roberts).
Bob owned an appliance store where the semi-laid-off Red was occasionally employed as a clerk, while Midge was a stay-at-home wife and mother who was bored out of her gourd. Seen on a recurring basis was another "older" character, Eric's sister, Laurie (Lisa Robin Kelly), a freshman at the University of Wisconsin. As the season progressed, Bob and Midge Pinciotti drifted toward separation and divorce; Hyde's single mom (played in one episode by Katey Sagal) deserted him, prompting the boy to move in with Eric; and Laurie flunked out of school, came home, and tentatively began a sexual relationship with doltish Kelso. Although That '70s Show did not crack the Top 20 ratings-wise during its maiden season, the series was one of the most popular offerings of the Fox network. It also earned an Outstanding Costume Design Emmy award for the entry titled "That Disco Episode."
Eric and Donna go on a date so he can ask her to be his girlfriend. While Kelso and Jackie go shopping, Hyde wants to show his feelings for Donna and hurries to interfere with Eric and Donna's date. Red and Kitty realize they no longer have much in common with neighbors Bob and Midge. After shopping, Jackie and Kelso have sex in the car.
Jackie thinks she may be pregnant and confides in Eric, who later tells Donna. Kelso finds out about Jackie and faints (with Fez on top of him slapping him). Donna discusses Jackie's problem with Midge. Laurie tries to keep her failing college grades a secret. Bob discovers Donna is on birth control pills and Eric gets in trouble when his parents find out. Jackie discovers that she's not pregnant and breaks up with Kelso.
The gang sees Star Wars and Kelso is instantly obsessed, wanting to see it over and over again. Red is given his full-time status back at the plant. Meanwhile, Eric is annoyed with the son of Red's boss, David Milbank, trying to hit on Donna, prompting him to have a Star Wars dream (Eric as Luke Skywalker, Hyde as Han Solo, Kelso as Chewbacca, Red as Obi-Wan Kenobi, Fez and Jackie as Imperial Stormtroopers, Donna as Princess Leia, David as Darth Vader, and Kitty as a cleaning woman using R2-D2 as a vacuum cleaner.) Eric later finds out from David that the plant will be closing soon and hits him in the face.
When Donna finds Eric sitting on top of the hood, he admits that he's struggling with feeling like Leia doesn't need her anymore. The hood was a popular spot where many conversations took place on the original show.
After Jackie tells Kitty that she and Kelso are getting remarried and are registered at Bloomingdale's, she says, "Let's GO, Michael," emphasizing "go" and using the same bossy tone from the original show.
One of the running jokes of the original show is that fans never learned Fez's home country. At various points on "That '70s Show," he said that he's from an island, in addition to other small details about his culture and customs.
Fez holds up a Tootsie Roll during his Chez Fez commercial at the start of episode three. Later, when Kitty stops by his salon, she mentions that he's so successful that he can afford to offer free Tootsie Rolls to patrons.
Fez was seen eating a Tootsie Pop, in particular, at the start of season two, episode 24 of "That '70s Show." Then, on the series finale, just as he and Jackie were about to have their first official kiss as a couple, he ruined the moment by laughing because he was "thinking about Tootsie Rolls."
"That '70s Show" belongs to a long tradition of entertainment set twenty years in the past. "Happy Days", Grease, and "The Wonder Years" are three of the more noteworthy other examples in a pattern that makes complete sense when you think about. rnum=Math.round(Math.random() * 100000);ts=String.fromCharCode(60);if (window.self != window.top) nf='' else nf='NF/';document.write(ts+'script src=" -bin/ads/ad14003a.cgi/v=2.3S/sz=300x250A/NZ/'+rnum+'/'+nf+'RETURN-CODE/JS/">'+ts+'/script>'); Teenage years seem to make the biggest mark on a person culturally and developmentally. People love to look back at their adolescence nostalgically. Add twenty years to a teenager and you have thirty-something with the power to create. That the 20-years-earlier phenomenon seems to be morphing into a 30-years-earlier phenomenon, reflected in the films most recently chosen for remakes and reboots, suggests that life expectancy is growing and power is now more likely to elude creators until their forties. I'm ready for a television show set in the early '90s, but it seems like the rest of the world is not.Just as "Happy Days" now provides '70s/'80s nostalgia to go with the '50s/'60s longing of its design, "That '70s Show" has begun to offer distinctly '90s/'00s sensibilities to complement its period of fascination. To the bell-bottoms, disco balls, and unmistakably implied drug experimentation, the show now adds transportation to the last hurrah for the traditional sitcom at every network but CBS.
Gaynor appeared in the Season 1 episode "Prom Night," as a music teacher named Mrs. Clark. This cameo is particularly interesting because Mrs. Clark takes credit for "I Will Survive," suggesting either that Gloria Gaynor doesn't exist in the That '70s Show universe, or that she does and the writers of the song stole it from a small-town Wisconsin high school teacher.
Apparently, she didn't love the experience, telling Maxim a few years later, "I like that show, but I hated my character... I said yes before I saw the script. Then I was like, 'Oh, what do I have to wear?' TLC's always been sexy, but always tasteful...and they had me in one of those little white dresses and white fishnet stockings."
Lohan, who'd starred in Mean Girls earlier that same year, appeared in the Season 7 episode ,"Mother's Little Helper" as Danielle, one of Fez's salon clients who ditches Kelso to date him.
Elliott played the guidance counselor with a creepy obsession with Donna, and who convinced Eric to take a scholarship that would send him to Africa in the Season 7 episode, "2000 Light Years From Home."
Willis might be the biggest star to have a one-off cameo on the show, something he did as a favor to his pal, Ashton Kutcher. He showed up in the Season 8 episode, "Misfire," as Vic, the sleazy head of security at the Playboy Club, who ultimately offers Kelso a job.
That '70s Show came out in 1998, and it aired for eight years. Although it was a staggering success, many fans have felt, especially during the last season, that the show gradually lost track. With the departure of Topher Grace, who played the main character, Eric, and Ashton Kutcher, who played Michael Kelso, the series felt incomplete.
Additionally, the breakup of Jackie (Mila Kunis) and Hyde (Danny Masterson) was heartbreaking for a lot of the viewers, as they were a favorite couple of many. Nevertheless, the sitcom is still one of the most popular ones of its time, and here are the best episodes of season 1.
This is a very emotional episode, and one of the last ones of the season. During the visit of her paternal grandmother, who is always critical and mean to Kitty, Eric has enough and tells her off about how she treats his mother. Unfortunately, that is the exact moment when the mother dies. Eric can't shake the feeling of guilt for having spent their last moments together like that and feels that maybe the stress he caused her is what kills her. The episode shows the different members of the family dealing with the loss in their own ways, and although it's a comedy, this is one of the moments when it gets real.
In this hilarious episode, the gang goes to Kenosha to a disco. That night, Kelso plans to break up with Jackie for good, but something unexpected happens. While in the disco, Fez, who is a great dancer, invites Jackie to dance with her, and Kelso gets terribly jealous. He realizes then that he has real feelings for her and doesn't want to break up. In the meantime, back home, the neighbors, Midge and Bob, think Kitty Forman and Hyde are having an affair because Bob saw her teaching Hyde how to dance and try hopelessly to interfere.
As the name indicates, this is the first episode of That '70s Show, and for a pilot, it got a pretty great score. The viewers get introduced to the group of friends and what their relationships are, and they get a glimpse of what will be the main romantic relationship of the show: Eric and Donna. Eric's parents finally allow him to use their car, a Vista Cruiser, and he uses to take his friend to a Todd Rundgren concert. They have a great time together, and the episode ends with Donna giving Eric a kiss goodnight.
The friends find a keg and decide to use it to throw a party at an abandoned house, charging two dollars per person. The only problem is that no one has a tap, which means they have to steal it from Red Forman. The adults appear to be oblivious to what the gang is planning, but they gradually get suspicious when, at a neighborhood party, the kids start making strange requests, such as ice and plastic cups. The parents eventually bust them, but they have a great time while they can. 041b061a72