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Set in the era of Led Zeppelin 8-tracks, Tab cola and Farrah Fawcett posters, THAT '70s SHOW returns for an eighth season as it continues to flash back to the "Me Decade." With changes in their lives and adjustments being made, the gang from Point Place is moving onward and upward in season eight of THAT '70s...  more

Set in the era of Led Zeppelin 8-tracks, Tab cola and Farrah Fawcett posters, THAT '70s SHOW returns for an eighth season as it continues to flash back to the "Me Decade." With changes in their lives and adjustments being made, the gang from Point Place is moving onward and upward in season eight of THAT '70s SHOW. While the kids continue to make the sometimes bumpy and often hilarious transition into adulthood, the parents are forced to deal with an empty nest. DONNA (Laura Prepon) grows more popular at the radio station and realizes that a long-distance relationship with Eric isn't going to work, so she starts dating again, eventually meeting the person who may actually be "the one." HYDE (Danny Masterson) runs a successful record store – with Leo (Tommy Chong) as his slacker employee – and makes a final decision about his complicated relationship with JACKIE (Mila Kunis). Meanwhile, FEZ (Wilmer Valderrama) reveals more about his family and home country as he grows into quite the local Lothario. And at the Formans', KITTY (Debra Jo Rupp) has problems with no kids in the house, while RED (Kurtwood Smith) has problems because it still seems like there are always kids in the house.

The eighth season of THAT '70s SHOW will continue the signature elements that have made the series a hit, including the surreal dream sequences, the 360-degree basement scenes and the classic '70s score. The retro series has featured numerous '70s icons since its premiere, including Gloria Gaynor, Shirley Jones, Danny Bonaduce, Charo, Alice Cooper, Marion Ross, Eve Plumb, Ted Nugent, Howard Hesseman, Valerie Harper and Roger Daltrey. Additionally, stars such as Luke Wilson, Lindsay Lohan, Jack Osbourne, Brooke Shields, Seth Green, Jessica Simpson and Shannon Elizabeth have also made guest appearances.
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• Kelso = TOO Dumb?

  A lot of people think he's funny and everything, but I kinda think he's TOO stupid which annoys me. Does anyone else feel this way too?

  A lot of people think he's funny and everything, but I kinda think he's TOO stupid which annoys me. Does anyone else feel this way too?less

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• How Season 8 Could've Been Better *In Your Own Opinions*

  - Randy actually had funny lines - Randy didn't date Donna - Randy was portrayed by a different actor, a funny o...more

  - Randy actually had funny lines - Randy didn't date Donna - Randy was portrayed by a different actor, a funny one - Charlie had stayed (he was pretty funny) - Jackie and Hyde reconciled and became an item once again - The horrible stripper never showed up - Eric and Donna never broke up off-screen - Laurie returned and she starts settling down, beginning a relationship with Fez - They found a better way for Eric to get a full scholarship, like community work or something so we could see him more often - Brooke moves to Point Place and begins a mature relationship with Kelso Can you guys name some way the Season 8 Massacre could've been the Season 8 Miracle? less

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  9 Superb

  That 70's Show was a brilliantly written teen sitcom, that was absolutely amazing for the first 5 seasons. Season 6, was still great but it seemed like the writers weren't sure what do do after they graduated high school. Season 7 was good. Ssn 8 sucked. hide show

  Now, I feel most qualified to review this sitcom because I watched it from the original airing of the pilot on August 23, 1998 all the way to the end, and I still catch the reruns from time to time. I've probably seen every episode at least 10 times, to the point that I can watch any random episode of the show and quote lines before the characters even say them.
  
  Seasons 1-5 were flawlessly funny, and the show just seemed like it could go on forever. Most people say that the show went down hill in Season 8, but you could start to find chinks in the armor as far back as Season 6. At the end of season 5 they graduated High School, so I really believe that the writer's weren't exactly sure where to go with the characters after that. In season 6, they replaced the actress who played Eric's sister Laurie. The girl who replaced her sucked big time, just could not act at all, and honestly they should have just written Laurie off entirely rather than replace her. Heck, I would have even accepted them just forgetting Laurie ever existed rather than getting that lame actress that replaced her. Also, season 6 is where Eric's mom Kitty's character became just completely over the top ridiculous when they had her develop menopause. Then, they had the whole engagement fiasco which went on into season 7. Basically, season 6 is where the show began to lose its focus on having fun and had too much drama on relationships. Season 7 is where the show I think truly jumped the shark. Hyde discovers his long lost black dad which makes no sense, and gets a black half-sister as well. Eric decides that to be with Donna, he must go to Africa for a year to help him get into college. It was a completely ridiculous storyline. Also, Donna goes blonde. Season 8, is where the show just completely imploded. Hyde marries a stripper for seemingly no apparent reason, Eric is gone entirely from the show, Kelso leaves after like 3 or 4 episodes, then they introduce the Randy character to fill the void Eric left, and it failed miserably. Randy had no back story, he wasn't funny, and it really just seemed like the writer's forced him down our throats. Randy just shows up and becomes the leader of the gang for no reason. The other characters just accepted it, which before season 8 would never have happened. The only character that hated Randy was Fez who I think really portrays what the fans thought of Randy. Even Hyde wimped out to Randy. In the early seasons Hyde would have hated Randy's guts and beaten him up. Also speaking of Hyde in season 8, when did he become the voice of reason??? Hyde spent 7 seasons being the rebellious, conspiracy nut/thug then all of a sudden in season 8 he's the voice of reason who tells Jackie/Fez to reveal to Donna that they wrote the letter to Eric saying Donna cheated on him. In the earlier seasons, Hyde would have laughed at this situation and thought it was funny and would not have done anything to fix it. Next, brings me to Bob. Bob had Midge, then JoAnn. I was cool with that, but after season 6 he dated Brooke Shields who just didn't really seem to fit the 70's Show mold. Then Midge came back, and basically he just became a confusing mess. Essentially the show was amazing for the first 5 seasons, or until they graduated. After that, season 6 was not quite as funny... it seemed like the writers were trying to figure out what to do now that the characters were out of school. Season 7 was better than season 6 and just as funny as seasons 1-5, and Season 8 was watchable, but in comparison to seasons 1-7... season 8 sucked. There were only two good things to come of Season 8. In the final episode they ended the show right, and tied up all the loose ends and brought back Eric and Kelso. Also, they brought back Leo and finally gave us a back story on Leo and more storylines that centered around him. All in all, That 70's Show is my favorite comedy show of all-time and even in reruns is timeless and still makes me laugh after seeing all the episodes like 10 times. Seasons 1-7 were amazing and this is literally one of the only shows that for 7 straight seasons was freakin' hilarious and didn't skip a beat. I highly recommend this show.

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  PhelpstheRapper Added Oct 28, 2009 All my reviews
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  10 Perfect

  This show is amazing in words I can't explain. hide show

  The show, though created in 1998, focuses around six teenagers-residents of Point Place, Wisconsin-between the years of 1976 and 1979.
  
  The six main characters are Eric Forman, Donna Pinciotti, Michael Kelso, Steven Hyde, Jackie Burkhart, and Fez: The Foreigner.
  
  Most of the scenes in the show are shot at the Formans' house. Eric Forman (Topher Grace) is your average guy. Not that good looking, smart-ass to his father, and he sucks at sports. Somehow, he got the athletic, pretty neighbor girl, Donna Pinciotti. (Laura Prepon) Eric's father, Red, (Kurtwood Smith) is a World War II veteran, so obviously he's a tough guy and is disappointed my his son's weakness and unathleticness. He's got some funny lines, and is most known for his "foot-in-ass" jokes. His wife and Eric's mon, Kitty, is a nurse that does most of the cooking and cleaning around the house. She has her moments where she can burst out laughing with her famous, weird laugh and then she can go into depression like she did in Season 5 when she learned she had menopause. Both parents were pretty funny, although if Red was a real-life father for a son like Eric, it'd be hell for him. Eric also has a bratty sister named Laurie. She was in the show the first two seasons, then she just started making recurring appearances every once in a while, by two different people. I hated her.
  
  Donna's parents were kinda worse. Her father, Bob, (Don Stark) was an embarassing father with messed up hair (so messed up, that the characters, who were set in the '70s, even laughed at it. That's how bad) He ate a lot, but he wasn't really fat. Donna's mom, Midge, was your average idiot. Blonde, Midge tried her hardest to look smart as she believed that a woman could do anything that a man could do. But she left Bob in Season 3, I believe, only to come back in Season 6, prior to the marriage of Donna and Eric. Midge was kinda funny, but she was really hot, so that kind of blocks out the average humor.
  
  Steven, (Danny Masterson) mostly referred to as his last name, Hyde, was one of those guys who really didn't care about anything, didn't bow down to the popular ones, and always wanted to take down the authorities. He was my favorite character, because I think I am most like him in those traits. People who think that they should be bowed down to are stupid. I'm not one who gets all sobby and stuff over anything. His mother left late in Season 1 and the Formans took him in. Later on, though, two people claimed to be his dad. His real dad showed up in Season 7 - a black man, and then later found out he also had a sister. They ran a records store together.
  
  Michael, (Ashton Kutcher) also referred to by his last name, Kelso, is the dumbest person in Point Place. But unlike other shows where they make the dumb character TOO dumb to a point where they're really annoying and unstandable, the writers of That '70s Show made Kelso dumb in a way that makes him hilarious.
  
  Kelso was in more stints of relationships with Jackie Burkhart (Mila Kunis) than I have fingers and toes. They constantly broke up and were such a hilarious couple. But Jackie got annoying to me when she would boss him around, even though she was the youngest of the whole group. She fit better with Hyde because he would rarely listen to her ridiculous demands. She was pretty, but to me, she wasn't that much prettier than Donna, although she kept making fun of Donna throughout the whole series for being, nearly giant. Or maybe it was just that Mila Kunis is a tiny person. Mila wasn't the hottest girl on the show, either. It was Brooke, who we saw from Seasons 6-7, as she was a part-time librarian who also attended school at Point Place. Kelso got her pregnant in the bathroom at a concert.
  
  Then there's Fez. (Wilmur Valderrez) He's the foreigner with the accent that most people pretend like they can't understand during the show although I can understand him clearly. (They exagerate the accent, obviously.) He has some really funny lines - a lot of them are weird, though, to the rest of the gang, so a lot of them don't get any laughs following. Some don't get laughs either because they don't understand him or they don't think it's funny because his joke is an old American joke that he just learned.
  
  Some other characters during the show include Leo. (Tommy Chong) He's a hippie that's also just messed up. To Red's surprise and impressment, he's a war veteran, also. He's the same example that I gave with Kelso. Dumb, but hilarious. He ran a store named Fotohut, which is where Hyde worked from Season 2 and beyond to maybe about Season 4 or 5. Randy was an addition to Season 8 because Topher Grace left for the season to take part in a Spiderman movie. He worked at Hyde and Angie's (his sister) record store and also became the boyfriend of Donna. He was annoying and his jokes were not funny at all. Lame.
  
  All-in-all, the great parts dominate the few annoying parts in order to making this my favorite show all-time. I have every season on DVD, and one of these days, the disc for just one episode is going to be worth thousands, which is how great I think That '70s Show is. More proof? This review has reached exactly 940 words. There 'ya have it.

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  pudgebyrd722 Added Oct 10, 2009 All my reviews
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  8.5 Great

  soo funny best show ever hide show

  this is hilarious. i would recommend it to anyone that's able to understand the jokes( "Why don't you talk to her?" "Well every time I look at her I feel-- I'll be right back, I have to go to the bathroom.") Anyone that gets it will laugh, I guarentee it( unless you are a kid and think everything is wrong and disturbing). Watch it! you won't regret it.

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  lintball13 Added Sep 3, 2009 All my reviews
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  10 Perfect

  Probably the best show ever made. hide show

  This is one of my favorite shows, if not my favorite show. It's clever, and funny. All the characters are very likable, even the ones that you really should hate. I really have no problem with this show, except the eigth season, which I'd just like to forget (except the final episode and The Final Goodbye). Fez has an awesome accent with his high voice, but he started to lose the accent and the high voice towards the end of the seventh season, and all through the eighth season (a season that I've already said I'd like to forget). The only character I don't find likable at all is Randy, he became part of the gang way too fast, and seemed very cocky. But, I just prefer Eric.

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  that70sguy92 Added Aug 6, 2009 All my reviews
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  9.5 Superb

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  I love this show the most...best commedy show ever made as far i know ,this show is the most fun i ever had before.. everyone who acted in this show are really great actors..this characters in the show can be connected n related to their real life so closely to anyone...i watch these show as many times as i wokeup daily...im totally in these show..the best thing abt the show is ...its that's 70 show ..i mean its the play which happens during the time of 1970's ,i luv each and every character in the show..eric's toys (basement) ,kelso witless ,hyde chair ,jackie husky voice ,red's sarcasm ,kitty food ,bob hair,fez accent... show that is watched in time..truly great show

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  raki001 Added Jul 31, 2009 All my reviews