History Trivia / That70sShow

* IronyAsSheIsCast: Jackie's frequent disparaging comments about foreigners become funnier if one realizes that, of all the main cast, Creator/MilaKunis is both one of the two actors born outside of the US (the other one being Tommy Chong, who was born in Canada; Kunis was born in what is now Ukraine) and one of the two whose native language is not English (Wilmer Valderrama's is Spanish; hers is Russian), so if anything, she is the most foreign member of the cast. For added irony, Wilmer Valderrama, who plays the main target for Jackie's xenophobic remarks Fez, was born in the US.

* FakeAmerican:
** Creator/MilaKunis is from modern day Ukraine.
** Tommy Chong is Canadian.

* IronyAsSheIsCast: Jackie's frequent disparaging comments about foreigners is funnier because of all the main cast, Creator/MilaKunis is both one of the two actors born outside of the US (the other one being Tommy Chong, who was born in Canada; Kunis was born in what is now Ukraine) and one of the two whose native language is not English (Wilmer Valderrama's is Spanish; hers is Russian). For added irony, Wilmer Valderrama, who plays the main target for her xenophobic remarks Fez, was born in the US.

* PostScriptSeason: The seventh season finale was clearly supposed to be the series finale: first, Red FINALLY caught the guys smoking pot in his basement. Then he finally said to his son he loved him without insulting him in the process. And, of course, at the end of this episode, the main character Eric '''left the series'''. Aside from an open ending of the Kelso-Jackie-Hyde love triangle storyline that seemed to be tacked on to allow for another season, there was nothing more to add to the story.

* IronyAsSheIsCast: Jackie's frequent disparaging comments about foreigners become funnier when you realize that of all the main cast, Creator/MilaKunis is both one of the two actors born outside of the US (the other one being Tommy Chong, who was born in Canada; Kunis was born in what is now Ukraine) and one of the two whose native language is not English (Wilmer Valderrama's is Spanish; hers is Russian). For added irony, Wilmer Valderrama, who plays the main target for her xenophobic remarks Fez, was born in the US.

* WorkingTitle: Apparently, the show was going to be titled either ''[[Music/TheWho Teenage Wasteland]]'' or ''The Kids Are Alright'' (incidentally in 2018 [[Series/TheKidsAreAlright2018 another sitcom set in the '70s]] would use the latter name), but focus groups kept calling it "that 70's show", which led to Carsey-Werner [[AscendedFanon adopting that as the title]].

* IronyAsSheIsCast: Jackie's frequent disparaging comments about foreigners become funnier when you realize that of all the main cast, Creator/MilaKunis is both one of the two actors born outside of the US (the other one being Tommy Chong, who was born in Canada; Kunis was born in what is now Ukraine) and one of the two whose native language is not English (Wilmer Valderrama's is Spanish; hers is Russian). For added irony Vilmer Valderrama, who plays the main target for her xenophobic remarks Fez, was born in the US.

* IronyAsSheIsCast: Jackie's frequent disparaging comments about foreigners become funnier when you realize that of all the main cast, Creator/MilaKunis is both one of the two actors born outside of the US (the other one being Tommy Chong, who was born in Canada; Kunis was born in what is now Ukraine) and one of the two whose native language is not English (Wilmer Valderrama's is Spanish; hers is Russian). For added irony Vilmer Valderrama, who plays the main target for her racist remarks Fez, was born in the US.

* IronyAsSheIsCast: Jackie's frequent disparaging comments about foreigners become funnier when you realize that of all the main cast, Creator/MilaKunis is one of the only two actors born outside of the US (the other one being Tommy Chong, who was born in Canada; Kunis was born in what is now Ukraine) and the only one whose native language is not English.

** The 15-year-old character of Jackie Burkhart was played by the actually 15-year-old Creator/MilaKunis. The story goes that when asked how old she was, Mila said, "I'll be 18 [[ExactWords on my birthday]]." [[LoopholeAbuse She just didn't say which birthday.]] The producers liked her so much that they decided to keep her even when they found out the truth. Thus, she was 14 when they started filming the series, but the producers thought she was 16.

** For the bulk of the show’s run, the six teenagers were billed in alphabetical order - Creator/TopherGrace, Creator/MilaKunis, Creator/AshtonKutcher, Creator/DannyMasterson, Creator/LauraPrepon and Creator/WilmerValderrama - which resulted in Kunis having second billing behind Grace ahead of the more appropriate Masterson or Prepon, and Kutcher being billed third as he became the biggest star on the show.

** Actually, according to several behind-the-scenes videos, this show is built on corpsing. Roughly 75% of the laughing fits you see on this show were cases of ThrowItIn corpsing right from the very first episode, when the first Circle segment ended with Kutcher, Danny and Topher falling down laughing after Hyde's first "car the runs on water" story.

** Charlie Richardson was supposed to be the new member of the group for season 8 after Topher Grace and Ashton Kutcher left, but his actor, Bret Harrison, instead went to play the lead in another Fox sitcom, ''Series/TheLoop'', so he had to be written out too, which lead to the casting of Josh Meyers as Randy.

** One of the potential actors who was given a call-back for the role of Jackie was Ana Kasparian, from The Young Turks radio show, whose mother vetoed the idea before it progressed too far into the auditioning process.

* TheWikiRule: [[http://that70sshow.wikia.com/wiki/Groovypedia Groovypedia]].

* TropeNamer: ''That '70s Show'' has named ThatNostalgiaShow, a type of work which focuses on a specific era, not as an attempt to portray it accurately, but to play to the nostalgia of the audience, whether they have experienced the era first-hand or not.

* RealLifeWritesTheHairstyle: There's an episode where Donna decides to dye her hair blonde, which came about because Creator/LauraPrepon had dyed her hair for the film ''Karla''.

* PostScriptSeason: The seventh season finale was clearly supposed to be the series finale: first, Red FINALLY caught the guys smoking pot in his basement. Then he finally said to his son he loved him without insulting him in the process. And, of course, at the end of this episode, the main character Eric '''left the series'''. Aside from an open ending of the Kelso-Jackie-Hyde love triangle storyline, there was nothing more to add to the story.
** The open ending was clearly tacked on after it was known the series was renewed. Jackie and Hyde's relationship had already had its ups and downs, and they were resolved... only to be thrown more obstacles at the tail end to provide material for new episodes.

* RealLifeRelative: Christopher Masterson is the brother of Danny and plays Todd (a mall manager interested in Jackie) in a couple Season 4 episodes. In the last of which, the brothers appear in the same scene; Hyde encourages Kelso to beat up Todd and then is amused when it turns out the little guy is a black belt.

** Charlie Richardson was supposed to be the new member of the group for season 8 after Topher Grace and Ashton Kutcher left, but his actor, Bret Harrison, instead went to play the lead in another Fox sitcom, ''Series/TheLoop'', so he had to get killed off. One has to wonder how much better season 8 could've gone with Charlie instead of Randy (''The Loop'' was a by-the-numbers sitcom that only lasted two seasons).

** For the bulk of the show’s run, the six teenagers were billed in alphabetical order - Creator/TopherGrace, Creator/MilaKunis, Creator/AshtonKutcher, Creatot/DannyMasterson, Creator/LauraPrepon and Creator/WilmerValderrama - which resulted in Kunis having second billing behind Grace ahead of the more appropriate Masterson or Prepon, and Kutcher being billed third as he became the biggest star on the show.
** In the final season of the show, Creator/JoshMeyers would be billed between Creator/KurtwoodSmith and Creator/DonStark despite ostensibly being the fifth lead alongside Kunis, Masterson, Prepon and Valderrama. Furthermore, the series never used AndStarring credits, so Meyers jumped both Stark and Creator/TommyChong in billing order.