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5[[caption-width-right:300:The whole gang.[[note]]Top, from left to right: [[WellDoneSonGuy Eric]], [[GirlNextDoor Donna]]. Bottom: [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} Fez]], [[BrainlessBeauty Kelso]], [[LovableAlphaBitch Jackie]], and [[DeadpanSnarker Hyde.]] Not pictured: [[PutOnABus Laurie]][[/note]]]]
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7->''Hangin' out, down the street\
8The same old thing, we did last week\
9Not a thing to do, but talk to you\
10We're all alright! We're all alright!''[[note]]''Wo-oah, yeah!'' in season 1[[/note]]
11-->-- '''Music/BigStar''', [[RealSongThemeTune "In The Street"]], covered for the show by '''Todd Griffin''' (Season 1) and '''Music/CheapTrick''' (Seasons 2-8)
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13Think ''Series/HappyDays'' for [[TheNineties the late '90s]] and the [[TurnOfTheMillennium early 2000s]], except set in TheSeventies instead of TheFifties.
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15''That '70s Show'' is a sitcom about teenager Eric Forman and his friends and family living their lives in Point Place, Wisconsin from 1976 to 1979. Remarkably, despite only three years passing through the whole series' universe, it ran for eight seasons on Creator/{{Fox}} from 1998 to 2006, becoming the network's second-longest-running live-action sitcom after ''Series/MarriedWithChildren,'' as well as the final series from Creator/CarseyWerner to end its run (indeed, they haven't produced ''anything'' since then).
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17Part of the humor came from anachronisms playing off modern audiences, such as the amazing video game graphics of ''VideoGame/{{Pong}}.'' The show's recurring RunningGag was that the teens often went down to Eric's basement for a "circle." Even though it was never (explicitly) stated what they were really doing down there, you can pretty much guess (the camera in the circle represented the "item" being passed around). The occasional lighter being flashed and/or puffs of smoke billowing in the background help, too.
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19The show also employed other techniques such as [[IdiosyncraticWipes scene transitions]] of the actors dancing in front of colorful backgrounds, split screens, scenes shown from a singular point of view (expressed through a handheld camera) and fantasy sequences.
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21Fox attempted to get the ball rolling on a spin-off series, ''Series/That80sShow'', in early 2002, but it only lasted half a season before going off the air after failing to gain a wide audience.
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23On October 8, 2021, it was announced that Creator/{{Netflix}} had [[https://deadline.com/2021/10/that-70s-show-spinoff-that-90s-show-kurtwood-smith-debra-jo-rupp-netflix-1234852870/ ordered a new spin-off]] for the series, ''Series/That90sShow''. The series shifts focus from Eric Forman to the daughter he had with Donna Pinciotti, Leia. Creator/KurtwoodSmith and Creator/DebraJoRupp reprise their roles as series regulars, while other former cast members return in guest appearances. The series premiered on January 19, 2023.
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25Partial TropeNamer for ThatNostalgiaShow.
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27!!This series features examples of:
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32* TheSixties: Inevitable, since the action is set in a somewhat backward Midwestern town that's a little behind the times. In particular, the rampant marijuana use and fascination with psychedelia (which were clearly being eclipsed by cocaine and the disco aesthetic in hipper parts of America by 1976). Red Forman's "working-class suburbanite" attitude is also a lot more '60s than it is '70s.
33* SeventiesHair: Naturally, a lot of characters have haircuts from the 70's. Especially Kelso's feathered 'do and Hyde's and Bob's frizzy afros.
34* AbortedArc:
35** After Tommy Chong went to prison, Creator/BobcatGoldthwait appeared as Leo's cousin, implying he was going to be his replacement. He never appeared again.
36** "A New Hope" featured plot points that were apparently meant to continue into a subsequent episode, most glaringly David Milbank and his attempts to court Donna. But for whatever reason, the writers didn't follow up on it, and David was never seen or mentioned again.
37** Similarly, the writers originally had plans for a love triangle plot between Eric, Donna, and Hyde that would last more than a season. It went nowhere and was completely forgotten by the middle of Season 1, right after Hyde gave his first (and only) love confession to Donna. Except for a non-consequential reference in Season 2 and a "What If?" episode for the season 4 premiere, Hyde's crush on Donna was never ever brought up again.
38** Attempts to give Eric a {{Catchphrase}} (Yes, yes!) petered out early in the first season.
39** The storyline with Fez and Laurie's marriage has never been concluded. Fez was still married the last time it was mentioned.
40* AboveTheInfluence: In "Roller Disco", Fez rejects a drunken Jackie's advances. Bonus points for creative use of the GoodAngelBadAngel trope (Franchise/{{Batman}} vs. Riddler variant).
41* AbsurdlyIneffectiveBarricade: In "Laurie Moves Out," after it looks like Laurie is moving out and Hyde's getting her room, she ends up staying. The end of the episode shows him standing there with the dresser up against the door telling her that she'll never get in. Cue Red opening the door outward.
42* AccidentalMarriage: Hyde and Samantha's marriage is one of these and the two got married while drunk during Hyde's stay in Vegas. [[spoiler:And like some other examples of this trope, their marriage isn't a valid one as Sam was already married and never got divorced prior to hooking up with Hyde.]]
43* AccidentalPervert:
44** In "Class Picture", one {{flashback}} reveals Hyde and Fez walked in on Donna while she was changing clothes, (and it was [[NakedFirstImpression the first time Fez met Donna]]). A jealous Kelso has then attempted to invoke this by "accidentally" trying to walk in on her while she gets dressed, but failing every time. But his persistence caused Donna to ThrowTheDogABone and flash him on purpose so he'd leave her alone (which seems weird if you remember that the gang went SkinnyDipping in season 1).
45** In "Squeeze Box", Hyde and Red accidentally walk in on Pam naked while helping her move in with Bob. She [[ShamelessFanserviceGirl doesn't care]], but they both mistake her nonchalance with her flirting with them, and become ([[LustObject even more]]) obsessed with her for the rest of the episode. When Kitty and Jackie find out they're both upset, and go to Bob's house to confront Pam about it, only for both to end up walking in on Bob naked instead, who has a [[ShamelessFanserviceGuy similarly non-chalant reaction]], much to the girl's horror.
46** "Short & Curlies" has a scene where Charlie walks in on a naked Kitty, much to Red's fury.
47* ActionFigureJustification: Eric and Donna are arguing, when Kitty comes into the kitchen and asks her son if he was playing "with his little dolls in the tub again." Eric exasperatedly says, "It's an ACTION FIGURE!"
48--> '''Hyde:''' In the tub, Foreman? It's getting really hard to be your friend.
49* ActorAllusion:
50** Creator/BillyDeeWilliams, known for playing Lando Calrissian in the original ''Franchise/StarWars'' Trilogy, guest starred in "Baby Don't You Do It" as a preacher offering marriage advice to Donna and Eric. His character is just as obsessed with ''Star Wars'' as Eric.
51** Wrestling/DwayneJohnson was [[CastingGag cast as]] his father, Wrestling/RockyJohnson, in "That Wrestling Show." His last line, to Red, was that one day he hopes his son will become "the most electrifying man in sports entertainment." Red answers, "[[ItWillNeverCatchOn Yeah, good luck with that]]."
52* ActuallyPrettyFunny:
53** When Eric tells Red that his (Red's) mother died immediately after Eric told her "I don't think being nice for a whole day would kill you," there's a beat where Red looks at Eric with his usual stern demeanour, before he bursts into laughter.
54-->"That could only happen to ''you'', son!"
55** After Kitty tells them that Midge [[spoiler:[[PutOnABus left Bob]]]], Eric cracks a joke about how maybe [[DumbBlonde she just got lost in the backyard instead]], which Red laughs at.
56** When Fez starts giggling at the word "penal" (after hearing Michael talk about the penal code), Jackie and Hyde try to explain to him that it doesn't mean what he thinks it means, and that he is being immature... and in the process start laughing at the word themselves.
57** A bit of a RunningGag with Kelso; he always appreciates a good burn, even when he himself is the target.
58* AdamWesting: Semi-regular [[Creator/CheechAndChong Tommy Chong]], essentially playing a CaptainErsatz of himself.
59* AdoptingTheAbused: In the first season, Hyde is shown to be living in squalor after his parents abandoned him. When Red and Kitty Forman see the conditions he was living in with his parents gone, they take him in and set him up in a room in the basement.
60* TheAlcatraz: Red turns the house into one in "Red Sees Red".
61* AllGirlsWantBadBoys: This is part of Donna's attraction to Kelso's brother Casey (along with his car), who even Kelso realizes is bad news. It was also the reason why a cashier at Price-Mart that Red was trying to set up on a date with Eric ended up falling for Red himself instead - Hyde explains to Eric that the cashier loved Red because he was a "hardass."
62* AllGuysWantCheerleaders: Inverted with Hyde, who, among other reasons, doesn't want to date Jackie because she's a cheerleader, thus a "square", opposed to him. However, after they get together, she once does a dance for him in her uniform.
63* AmicableExes:
64** Eric and Donna try and fail to be this in season four.
65** Once Kelso stops pursuing Jackie in season six, he becomes this with her.
66* AntiLoveSong: Hyde tells Jackie an Anti-Love Haiku:
67-->My heart aches with pain.\
68When I see you, I vomit.\
69Die away from me.
70* ArmorPiercingQuestion: After Red throws away Midge's chocolates in ''The Relapse'', he gives one of these to Bob in regards to Midge [[spoiler:because Bob was in serious need of a wake-up call; Bob refused to accept that Midge left and she would never come back.]]
71* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking:
72-->'''Kitty''': I have put up with a lot of weird things in this neighborhood. Hot tubs. Wife swapping. ''Jogging''.
73** Also:
74--->'''Red''': So what's it gonna be, Steven? Death, prison, or a birthday party?
75* ArtisticLicenseCars: In many shots, it is evident the Vista Cruiser is missing its windshield to allow for the in-vehicle closeups.
76* ArtisticLicenseGeography: The two Canadian border crossings nearest anywhere in Wisconsin are in Grand Portage, Minnesota, and Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan. Technically, if they're supposed to be near Kenosha, Wisconsin (one of the Southern-most points in the state), the nearest border crossing is somewhere around Detroit. Either way, that must have been some good beer to make such a trek.
77* ArtisticLicenseLaw: When Eric, Hyde, Kelso, Fez and Leo drive to Canada for beer, they encounter RCMP when crossing back into America. The RCMP did indeed monitor border checkpoints at this time[[note]]Canada Border Services Agency was formed in 2003[[/note]], but only for points of entry ''into'' Canada. US Border Patrol operate points of entry into the United States.
78* AssShove: Red's recurring threat to whoever offends him. Check out the "Foot In Your Ass" page above for examples. He claims to have actually done this on Iwo Jima, but can't talk about.
79* AutoErotica: This show has it all over the place, but in particular with Red's Corvette (which it should be mentioned is not, in fact, a red Corvette).
80* AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther:
81** Red. He always defends Eric when strangers criticize him or their relationship.
82** In turn Eric, despite constantly complaining to his close friends about Red, will always stand up for and defend his father against outsiders.
83---> '''David Millbank''': I mean, I'm not supposed to say anything but we're just here until my dad closes down the plant.\
84'''Eric''': Wait. Closes? Your dad was opening the plant full-time.\
85'''David Millbank''': Yeah, they're burning off the inventory and then, that's all she wrote.\
86'''Eric''': My dad's depending on that job.\
87'''David Millbank''': Yeah, I guess he should have thought ahead like my dad.\
88''[{{beat}}]''\
89'[[Eric punches David Millbank in the face]''.
90** Eric and Laurie constantly jump at the chance to deliver a low blow to one another, but when Red overreacts to the point that it makes Laurie cry, Eric stands steadily by her. Additionally in "Water Tower," when Eric walks in on Red and Kitty having sex and is traumatized, Laurie finds out and comforts him.
91* AxCrazy: Caroline. Even Hyde calls her a psycho.
92* AwkwardFatherSonBondingActivity: Kitty once convinced Red to take Eric (along with the other males from the main cast) hunting in an attempt to get them to bond. They wind up spending the day in a tree with Red berating Eric for missing a shot at a deer. At the end of the trip, Eric demonstrates that he's a good shot by hitting a can off a fence and explains that he consciously decided not to kill the deer, which gains him some respect from Red, who would rather his son be a pacifist than a lousy shot. He then spoils any actual bonding by shooting a deer himself in utter disregard to Eric.
93* BadDate: Donna's first date with Eric is ruined by unexpected alcohol and an unexpected profession of love... from someone else.
94* BackForTheFinale: Eric and Kelso both come back for the final episode after being away the last season.
95* BathtubBonding: When Eric and Hyde first met they were kids and to spite him not liking Eric that much Kitty got them to have a bath together which as teenagers Eric seems less embarrassed about than Hyde.
96* BatmanGambit: Red tells Eric in the pilot not to take the car out of town for the sole purpose of getting Eric to take the car out of town. Initially subverted in that Red's warning did not cause Eric to take the car out of town, he was planning to do it anyway and Red's warning almost caused him not to. Ultimately played straight because Red's purpose was to have an evening alone with Kitty, thanks to his plan the kids didn't call him for help when the car broke down.
97* BeardOfSorrow: Eric grows a small one after he and Donna break up.
98* BedTrick: Fez tries multiple times in "2000 Light Years from Home" to arrange for himself to be switched with Hyde or Kelso in a dark room so he can sleep with Jackie or Angie, respectively. Which is, you know, rape.
99* BeingGoodSucks: Red was '''not''' happy about letting Hyde stay with the family in "Hyde Moves In," as ClusterFBomb shows.
100* BetaCouple:
101** Jackie and either Kelso or Hyde, to Donna and Eric
102** Inverted: Jackie/Kelso is a much less stable relationship, Jackie/Hyde are a mismatched couple which results in many troubles.
103** Kelso attempts to invoke this with Eric & Donna when he drags them to his Cabin trip so he can mimic their behaviors in his ill-fated "master plan" to win Jackie back.
104* BettyAndVeronica: Several examples throughout the show.
105** Donna is the Betty to Jackie's Veronica.
106** Eric is the Betty to Hyde's Veronica, and in the 1st season they were this to Donna's Archie.
107** Eric is the Betty to Casey's Veronica, and they are also this to Donna's Archie.
108** Kelso is the Betty to Hyde's Veronica and they are this to Jackie's Archie.
109** Fez is the Betty to Hyde's Veronica, and they again are this to Jackie's Archie.
110* BewareTheNiceOnes:
111** Eric's generally a skinny wimp, but if you push him too far he ''will'' retaliate and kick your ass.
112** And then there's Jackie, while not a nice person, still a girlish cheerleader who's normally even more useless in a fight than Eric. When Laurie insulted Jackie for letting her steal Kelso, though, Jackie finally snapped and attacked Laurie in a vicious CatFight. Even Hyde was impressed, telling Jackie that ''you kicked her ass, man!'' Jackie also beats up her karate instructor in ''her first lesson'' after Donna makes a point about her (Jackie's) breakup with Hyde.
113* BigOMG: Kelso in Season 1's "Grandma's Dead". Twice.
114* BitchInSheepsClothing: Donna MUCH of the time. She can get mad at Eric easily because he's less prone to fight back and she's considered justified.
115* BlandNameProduct:
116** "Sheer Heart Attack" features graham crackers from the "Kubler Dwarves" (a parody of the Keebler Elves).
117** In"Misty Mountain Hop, Eric reveals that his mom buys "Twonkies." Which is more of a BrandX product, since he does mention Twinkies several times in that episode.
118* BlatantLies: So, you're breaking up with Jackie, Kelso?
119* BlondeBrunetteRedhead:
120** Laurie/nearly every other girl introduced later (blonde), Jackie (brunette), and Donna (redhead). This changed after Laurie's character was written out from Season six onward and Donna went blonde in season seven (for a different role the actress was filming).
121** When Fez meets the trio of ladies from the CB radio in season two, they are a perfect example of this trope.
122** The Pinciotti family: Midge's a blonde, Bob a brunette and Donna is a redhead.
123%%* BokeAndTsukkomiRoutine:
124%%** Jackie and Donna respectively.
125%%** Kelso and Eric.
126%%** To a lesser extent Bob and Red could count.
127* {{Bookends}}:
128** The first and final episodes shows the protagonists in the Formans' Vista Cruiser singing Music/ToddRundgren's "Hello, It's Me" during the end credits.
129** Season 6 begins and ends with Eric and Donna sleeping in Donna's bed, with Fez hiding in the closet.
130* BorrowedCatchphrase: Kitty uses Red's "dumbass" catchphrase a couple of times.
131* {{Bowdlerize}}: The UK version has a lot of swear words (including the many times Red threatens to put a foot up someone's ass or calls someone a dumbass), drug content, and sexual content cut, making the show unwatchable at times.
132* TheBrainlessBeauty: Jackie, Kelso, Midge Pinciotti, Samantha Hyde. Pam Macy, too.
133--> '''Kelso''': ''[introducing his prom date]'' You guys know Pam?\
134'''Donna''': Oh, yeah, we have Biology together.\
135'''Pam''': ''(tilts head in confusion)'' ...Biology?
136* BracesOfOrthodonticOverkill: Kelso had these in middle school.
137* BrainyBrunette: Brooke, the HotLibrarian. Inverted by Jackie.
138* BreadEggsBreadedEggs:
139-->'''Eric''': So, uh, anyone have any stories about Angie's new boyfriend and some of his crazy antics?\
140'''Red''': What do you want? I got one with water, one with fire, one where he burned himself underwater.
141** From "Laurie and the Professor":
142--->'''Kitty''': I'll make coffee! I'll make cake! I'll make coffee cake! [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment I'll make coffee]]!
143** Another one from Kitty in "The Good Son".
144---> I left the iron on. And the stove. I left the iron on on the stove which is also on and it can't be safe.
145** In "Take It Or Leave It".
146--->'''Jackie''': You guys, I gotta talk to Steven about something really serious.\
147'''Kelso''': *gasp* Maybe she's pregnant!\
148'''Fez''': Maybe she cheated on him!\
149'''Kelso''': Maybe she cheated on him and she's pregnant!
150** In "A New Hope", Eric receives fighting tips from Red and Bob.
151--->'''Bob''': And hit him with a banjo.\
152({{Beat}})\
153'''Red''': You wanna [[GroinAttack knee him in the groin.]]\
154'''Bob''': You can hit him in the groin with a banjo.
155** During the credits scene in "Hyde Moves In", the gang is watching Fez making his goddess tattoo dance by shaking his hips:
156--->'''Hyde''': That's incredible.\
157'''Jackie''': That's disgusting.\
158'''Kelso''': That's incredible ''and'' disgusting!
159** Red on his friend Frank.
160--->'''Kitty:''' I think you're maturing.
161--->'''Red:''' You know, the truth is, Frank's getting on my nerves a little bit. He's kind of, he's an ass. And he's dumb. He's... a '''dumbass'''!
162* BreadEggsMilkSquick: In "The Good Son."
163-->'''Hyde''': My mom always said that a waffle iron was a luxury like pillow cases or [[AbusiveParents not getting hit]].
164* BreakoutCharacter: Kelso. Season seven even saw a shift of storylines focusing more on his CharacterDevelopment than Eric's.
165* BreakingTheFourthWall:
166** An interesting case occurred in the Halloween episode "Too Old to Trick and Treat, Too Young to Die", where after Kelso made a comment that was actually the main idea of the episode (namely being in an Creator/AlfredHitchcock movie without knowing), a musical sting played, where with each beat that played, [[spoiler:we cut to a closeup of each member of the gang ''staring at the camera''.]][[note]]Actually, [[spoiler:they turn their head to the camera in time with the dramatic music.]][[/note]]
167** In "Water Tower", after Eric tells Laurie that the reason he was acting weird was because he saw Red and Kitty have sex, the camera zooms in on Laurie's shocked face looking to said camera before she hugs Eric in comfort.
168* BucketBoobyTrap: Horribly subverted "Prank Day" when the target of said booby trap is ''not'' the one intended ([[spoiler:Red, instead of Kelso.]])
169* BurningBagOfPoop: "Canadian Road Trip" begins with Eric inviting Hyde, Leo, and Fez to buy beer in Canada, and bluntly telling Kelso he can't go with them. When Kelso asks why, Eric says because when they tried to do this prank on a teacher, Kelso lit the bag on the way over, and stomped it out in the car. Eric only changes his mind when Kelso offers to pay for the beer.
170%%* ButIWouldReallyEnjoyIt: Jackie towards Kelso when he grows a beard.
171* BuyOrGetLost: In "Eric's Buddy", the counterman tells Hyde to get out of the group's normal hangout spot since he had a wedding coming in and Hyde is just lounging around and didn't order anything yet. When Hyde brings up that there is no wedding, it doesn't matter since the counterman wants Hyde gone anyway.
172-> '''Frank:''' Oh, did I say I have a big wedding? What I meant to say was: Buy something, or get out!
173* CallBack:
174** Season 5's "Thank You" used the "Baby, baby, baby, baby, oooo!" wipe, not used since Season 1.
175** A half-successful one in Season 7's "Beast of Burden." Eric says, about Hyde and Kelso respectively, "No heart, no brain", then points to himself and says "No courage." This partly calls back Season 4's "Tornado Prom", wherein Jackie has a dream that she goes to Oz. Kelso and Hyde play the Scarecrow and Tin Man. However, Fez is the Cowardly Lion and Eric plays a Flying Monkey.
176* CallForward: Red talking about a friend, on Halloween in TheFifties.
177-->'''Red:''' You know, the truth is, Frank's getting on my nerves a little bit. He's kind of, he's an ass. And he's dumb. He's... a '''dumbass'''!
178* CallingTheOldManOut:
179** Eric is typically intimidated by his father Red, but in "What Is and What Should Never Be," he finally has enough and bluntly tells Red to stop feeling sorry for himself and support Kitty, who's extremely distraught - first by believing she's pregnant and feeling not supported by Red, later by going through menopause and not being able to have any more children.
180** Subverted in "Hey, Hey, What Can I Do," where Eric called Red out when he thought he cost him a good job at a bank, only to learn Kitty did it. Then Eric tries to buddy up to Red when it looks like he's going to kick his ass.
181** Subverted even further in "Red and Stacey," where Red attempts to set up Eric with a co-worker only for her to fall for him instead. Eric decides to call out Red for having been too tough on him and therefore ruining his self-esteem. Red then rather vehemently recounts what [[AbusiveParents his father]] had in store for him right around Eric's age: the Navy. Red ''then'' tells Eric to be thankful that ''he'' has a father who is trying to hook him up because if he wants, he can unleash hell from depths hitherto uncombed. Not surprisingly, this shuts Eric up.
182* CampGay: Fenton, the jewelry (later department store, then Fez and Kelso's landlord) salesman. He attempts to make the jewelry look more 'appealing' by wearing it to show how it looks. Eric asks if used the same sales technique while he worked at the lingerie boutique. He doesn't deny it.
183-->''[After displaying some jewelry for Eric by wearing it]''\
184'''Fenton''': I used to work in a lingerie boutique... ''[{{Beat}}]'' They fired me...
185* CanadaEh: Played hilariously straight when the guys travel to Canada to buy beer and are detained by a couple of Mounties (played by [[Series/{{SCTV}} Joe Flaherty and Dave Thomas]]) when Fez misplaces his Green Card (oddly, they were attempting to enter the US, not Canada at the time). They solve the situation by singing "O Canada". The mounties do, as one would imagine, of course, confiscate their beer.
186* CaninesGamblingInACardGame: In "Hunting", ''Art/DogsPlayingPoker'' is parodied by the characters taking the places of the dogs.
187* CannotTalkToWomen: In one episode, Eric can only say "Uh...... buh." in the presence of a girl he finds really attractive.
188* CassandraTruth:
189** Exploited by Eric in "Stolen Car." Eric and the rest of the boys were mistakenly accused of grand theft auto and were briefly locked up. When Eric returned home late, Red questioned him where he went and just laughed it off when Eric matter-of-factly replied "prison". Red clearly mistaken Eric's "confession" with his regular snarkiness.
190** In "Young Man Blues", only the audience witnesses Eric successfully fix the lawnmower.
191* CastingGag: A RunningGag on the show was casting actors from popular shows from TheSeventies either as [[TheCameo one-off roles]] or minor, recurring characters. A few examples:
192** Season One had Eve Plumb (Series/TheBradyBunch) as Jackie's (first) mom; Danny Bonaduce (Series/ThePartridgeFamily) as Eric's fast-food boss; Marion Ross (Series/HappyDays) as Red's cantankerous mother
193** Season Two featured Midge's bridesmaids (all former Bond girls, as was Tanya Roberts); Season Three had Robert Hays, a TV staple and the star of ''Film/{{Airplane}}'' (and relating to Fox, the voice of ComicBook/IronMan in the 90s Marvel cartoons, including some that aired on Creator/FoxKids); in Season Four, Jackie had a dream wherein she visited "The Wizard," played by Pamela Sue Martin. Martin is known as Nancy Drew on ''Series/TheHardyBoysNancyDrewMysteries'' and Jackie is a big fan of ''Literature/NancyDrew''.
194* CatchPhrase: Loads.
195** Red's "Dumbass!" and Fez's "Good day./I said good day!" are the most memorable.
196** Any rant from Fez that ends with, "You son of a bitch!'
197** Any time Red threatens to put his foot up somebody's ass also qualifies.
198** Whenever anyone pulls a prank/someone snarks while Kelso is around, he says "BURN!!!"
199** Bob almost always greets people with "Hey there, hi there, ho there!"
200* CatholicSchoolGirlsRule: To punish her for running away to California, Bob enrolls Donna in Catholic school. At first Eric tries to talk him out of it, but then he sees what Donna looks like in her uniform (which in actuality looks distinctly unflattering on the well-built woman). The other male members of the group share his opinion:
201-->'''Donna''': Geeze, what is it with you guys and this uniform?\
202'''Fez''': It makes us want to corrupt you.
203** In an interesting variation the uniform itself is actually rather realistic with a skirt that's roughly knee-length, and a shapeless shirt.
204* CaughtWithYourPantsDown: The focus of "Happy Jack" when Donna walks in on Eric masturbating at her house, after seeing a photo of [[StacysMom Jackie's mom]].
205--> '''Donna''': But, you know, next time, be like a normal person. Go to your room, lock the door, light some candles, put on some Al Green and make an evening of it.\
206'''Eric''': Wow, Donna, that was really detailed. It's almost like...Oh, my God! You do it, too!
207* CelebrityParadox: In Season 8, when Jackie tries to get herself a job on Christine St. George's TV show, and the receptionist (unsurprisingly) won't let her through, she insists that she's supposed to be Christine's co-anchor, to which the receptionist snarks, "And I'm supposed to be Creator/BrookeShields. Ain't life a bitch?" This is despite the fact that Shields herself had previously had a recurring role on the show -- as Jackie's mom, no less.
208* ChaosArchitecture:
209** The Hub looked completely different in the pilot.
210** When you look at it closely, the design of the basement set doesn't match up with the rest of the Forman house.
211* CharacterCheck: After two seasons of Kelso and Jackie being AmicableExes, Kelso's sendoff episode ''Misfire'' revisits the relationship for one last time. [[spoiler:Subverted in that between Kelso's new plans for the future and Jackie's CharacterDevelopment since their final breakup, the episode is quick to show how far they've drifted apart.]]
212* CharacterDevelopment:
213** Although nearly everyone goes through gradual character development over the period of the series, the most notable was Jackie when she started dating Hyde.
214** The latter part of season six until the beginning of season eight turned out to be this for Kelso, as it showed his development as an expectant father (season six), taking care of a newborn child (season seven), and finding and getting the opportunity to work near and live with his new family (season eight).
215** Hyde has a crush on Donna, making him the third of the love triangle the creators were writing at the time. This went nowhere, and in later seasons, Hyde doesn't even act like he sees Donna as anything more than one of the guys.
216* CharacterizationMarchesOn:
217** Eric turns into a ''Franchise/StarWars'' fan who is a huge geek about it; and the other characters easily get tired of his habit of constantly making irrelevant references to the movies. However, an early episode has the characters watching ''Franchise/StarWars: Film/ANewHope'', and all of them like it, with no hint that Eric is especially enthralled by it; if anything, Kelso is the one who is too obsessed with it. Hyde, Donna, or Jackie show no sign that they feel it's a GuiltyPleasure or that "only a geek would like it" (certainly their stance in the later episodes, when making fun of Eric). Red's attitude, however, is consistent, with no need for any {{Retcon}} at all; he has only scorn for ''Franchise/StarWars'' in both the early episode and the later seasons.
218** In "Streaking," Red, who supported Nixon, was shown to have criticized Ford for pardoning Nixon. Then again, some Nixon supporters criticized Ford because they wanted to see Nixon exonerated and a innocent man shouldn't need a pardon.
219** Red wasn't as much of a jerk, Eric was far less of a DeadpanSnarker and more a put-upon, everyman, ThisLoserIsYou kinda guy. This didn't really change ''that'' much, but he did start developing real flaws beyond a lack of assertiveness later on.
220** Fez, of all people, calls Kelso "stupid" after listening to a tape they made of themselves talking while high. In later seasons, it would be Hyde, or even Eric, and Fez would jump to his defense.
221*** Fez's original character was that of a FunnyForeigner who misunderstood American culture. He didn't develop his [[LovableSexManiac constant desire to do it]] and [[SweetTooth love of candy]] for quite a while.
222** When she hits menopause in Season 5 onward, Kitty, of all people, becomes a lot bitchier.
223*** Remember when Kitty was just a regular housewife and occasional StraightMan to the others, instead of [[LadyDrunk an alcoholic]] who was [[MyBelovedSmother obsessed with her son to a creepy degree?]]
224** In an early episode, Kitty falls for one of Lauries [[BlatantLies Blatant Lies]] and her innocent façade when she claims to need money for gas and tells Red to give her even more. In later episodes Kitty is really suspicious and doesn‘t trust Laurie at all because she knows her true colors and wouldn‘t fall for that trick. Her [[TheUnfavorite dislike]] of her own daughter hasn‘t been established yet.
225* ChristmasEpisode: A few of them, including one with a Christmas remix of the theme tune.
226* ChocolateBaby: After Hyde meets his real father, William Barnett, who's black, Hyde mentions his mother must have been pretty relieved when he came out white.
227* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: Donna has a younger sister for exactly one episode, "Eric's Burger Job." She is never seen again. They lampshaded this in the credits of "Vanstock" (which was parodying the "tune in next time to find out" ending from ''Series/{{Soap}}'').
228--> '''Narrator''': "What ever happened to Midge's daughter, Tina?"
229** She actually had ''two'' sisters initially. Valerie was described as being away at college. This was the only time Valerie was ever mentioned, and nearly immediately after that, the three Pinciottis (Bob, Midge and Donna) were described by Bob as "the whole family." This predated even Tina.
230** The high school's strict, boring principal appeared a few times in the first season, but was phased out pretty early on.
231** Roy (see EnsembleDarkHorse on the YMMV page), as well. It's not explained when or how Eric and Hyde stop working in the restaurant. At the end of the sixth season, they're still employed, then at the beginning of the seventh season, Eric starts his "year of doing nothing", and Hyde later starts working [[spoiler:at his dad's record store]]. They're never shown actually quitting or getting fired from the restaurant, though Eric says in season 7 episode 1 that he quits.
232** Laurie completely vanished after season 6, with Kitty mentioning she moved to Canada. Her absence is referenced in the series finale, when Kitty wonders out loud where she is.
233** Pam vanishes after the first episode of season 7, claiming she's moving in with Jackie, but she's never seen again.
234* CitizenshipMarriage: A reoccurring plot point in Season 6 that got {{aborted|Arc}} with Laurie [[ChuckCunninghamSyndrome being written out of the show]]. At the end of season 5, Laurie married Fez only so that he doesn't get deported. The events of season 6 clearly demonstrated that its a marriage in name only.
235** Fez paid for Laurie's "honeymoon" without him attending (Implied to be a payment to Laurie so she would agree to enter this fake marriage), and was incensed when he realized why Laurie brought a "chaperone" with her.
236** At one point, Fez had to stay in the Forman's home temporarily to pretend he and Laurie were genuinely husband and wife.
237** After successfully tricking the INS into officially recognizing Fez and Laurie's marriage, Red and Kitty began forcing the two to divorce.
238** Overall, the interactions between this "couple" consist entirely of Fez slut-shaming Laurie and Laurie retaliating with an unapologetic barb going along the lines of "Yes, I will sleep with anyone else, but I won't sleep with you."
239* CityShoutOuts: Referenced in the opening. After the theme tune, someone shouts "Hello Wisconsin!", the state the show takes place in.
240* CloserToEarth: Donna, most of the time, is more mature than Eric. Only by comparison between Kelso and Jackie, and inverted with Jackie and Hyde. Also {{Gender Flip}}ped by Kitty and Red, who occasionally has to deal with his wife's emotional meltdowns due to her menopause.
241* CloudCuckooLander: Lots of characters have moments of this (especially when they're in the circle), but Fez and Kelso have the most.
242* ComicBookTime: The show starts in May 1976 and ends at the stroke of midnight on December 31st 1979, but lasted eight seasons. Despite taking place over 3.5 years, there are more Thanksgiving & Christmas episodes than the timeline would dictate, and several events are stated to have taken place over the course of a year within the same season, even though the show was still set in the same year as it was over a season ago. In Season 3, episode 4 is Halloween (October), episode 8 is Veteran's Day (November), episode 9 is Christmas (December) and 15 is Valentine's Day (February) but the license plate indicating the year remains as 1977 until episode 22. On top of this the characters age at a delayed rate until they graduate high school in season 5, but then seem to age at a normal rate over the remainder of the show - for example, Eric's 17th & 18th birthdays are in the first & sixth seasons, but Kelso's daughter is conceived, born & aged to a toddler during the show's 1979.
243* ClusterFBomb:
244** Red after he is guilted into letting Hyde stay at his house.
245--->'''Red''': Goddamnit! I'm tired of being fucking Santa Claus! Steven, you get your shit together, and you get your ass in the Goddamn car! We're going, fucker! Now, Goddamnit! Move it!\
246'''Hyde''': (''clearly terrified'') Okay! (''runs out the room'')\
247'''Kitty''': You are just the sweetest man alive. (''leaves'')\
248'''Red''': (''takes one last look around Hyde's house'') '''[[AtomicFBomb FUCK!]]'''
249** Fez also has quite the potty mouth, if we consider all of his "son of a bitch" moments. Especially his rant when he's about to be deported.
250--->'''Fez''': Where am I going to go? France? ''Fuck France!''
251** Kitty dropped one on Red when he encouraged Eric and Donna to move away.
252--->'''Kitty''': (After ranting about missing her last summer with Eric, Red has suggested a car show in Kenosha for the 4th of July) A car show?! I don't wanna go to a Goddamn car show in fucking Kenosha! I want three more fucking months with my baby boy, and now they're gone because of your bullshit!! WAY TO GO, DUMBASS!!!
253* ComicallyMissingThePoint: When Red and Eric are working at Price-Mart, Red fires Eric's co-worker [[TheSlacker Earl]] for his chronic lateness and screwups when he actually comes to work. Eric later criticizes Red for the epic TheReasonYouSuckSpeech that made Earl leave in tears:
254-->'''Eric''': Dad, you yelled at him for fifteen minutes!\
255'''Red''': What kind of man cries after only fifteen minutes of yelling?
256* ComingOutStory: Subverted; Red accepts the sexuality of his neighbors, but [[DiscriminateAndSwitch despises them for being Minnesota Vikings fans]].
257-->"It's not our fault! We were born this way! We're ''from'' Minnesota!"
258* ContinuityNod: A few of them, including this gem in late season seven:
259--> '''Eric''': I'm gonna fail gym...through no fault of my own.\
260'''Donna''': The last time you said that was when you ran over my cat!
261** "Mmmmm... (French accent) bacon."
262** In no less than four segments in the circle, Hyde mentions a car that runs on water, man. The [[BookEnds first and last episodes]] of the series are among these.
263** Red is diagnosed with high blood pressure in Season 3 and has a heart attack in S5.
264* ConvenienceStoreGiftShopping: "Kitty's Birthday". After Red and Eric forget Kitty's birthday, they give her presents including a ''map of Wisconsin.''
265* CoolAndUnusualPunishment:
266** Red is a certified master at dishing these out. It's occasionally subverted when he lets Eric off the hook for things that initially piss him off but that Eric did for reasons of which Red would approve:
267** When he ended up covered in oatmeal after Eric's BucketBoobyTrap backfired, Red was initially ready to go nuclear on Eric. However, when he learns that Eric was trying to get back at Kelso, instead of punishing Eric Red decides to show him how to do a prank right.
268** When Eric stole the Corvette to go on a date with a hot blonde cheerleader, Red lets him off with a very stern warning to "stay away from that girl."
269---> '''Red''': So, you gonna see her again?\
270'''Eric''': Can I have the car again?\
271'''Red''': Oh, she's ''that'' girl. I know ''that'' girl. ({{Beat}}) Stay away from that girl.
272** The Stupid Helmet.
273* CoolCar: Being a show set in the 1970s, there's a lot of them.
274** Eric's 1969 Vista Cruiser. Sometimes TheAllegedCar because it breaks down often in the series.
275** Hyde gets an El Camino in the middle of the series and Eric is a little jealous of it.
276** Red's Corvette.
277** Kelso thinks his old van is cool but his friends aren't too impressed. Jackie thought it was disgusting.
278** Later Kelso's van is replaced with a Volkswagon Microbus which is much nicer than his old one. The van is replaced by an MG Midget later in the series after the VW gets destroyed.
279** Jackie is occasionally seen driving a Lincoln Town Car.
280* CorrelationCausationGag: In "Grandma's Dead," Eric calls out his paternal grandmother for being openly mean and nasty to Kitty. He then flat-out says it wouldn't kill her to be nice for one day. She then slumps dead onto his shoulder.
281* CoughSnarkCough: In one epsiode:
282-->'''Kitty''': So, Laurie, who are you seeing up at the college?\
283'''Laurie''': Oh, I'm dating several.\
284'''Eric''': *cough* Slut!\
285'''Kitty''': Bless you.
286** Another example in "Holy Crap!":
287--->'''Pastor Dave''': Instead of LSD or PCP, I get high on G-O-D.\
288'''Hyde''': *cough* [[YouNeedToGetLaid Virgin!]]
289* CrazyInTheHeadCrazyInTheBed: When Kelso and Fez fall for the same woman in "Mother's Little Helper," it ends with her choosing Fez, and revealing that she has some issues. Kelso concedes defeat telling Fez "She's clearly a lunatic. Which means she's going to be really great in bed. Congratulations."
290* CreatorCameo: Series producer and writer Linda Wallem (aka [[WesternAnimation/RockosModernLife Dr. Hutchison]], and co-creator of ''Series/NurseJackie'') appeared a couple times, once as one of Kitty's hospital co-workers, another time as a celebrity partner in a a ''Series/{{Pyramid}}'' takeoff Eric imagined.
291* CryingWolf:
292** In "Eric Gets Suspended", Eric is suspended for smoking but swears he actually wasn't (the cigarette he was caught with was actually Donna's, whom Eric was covering for). Red doesn't believe Eric because of the latter's history of lying and it isn't until Donna admits that she was the one smoking that Red accepts Eric's word.
293** In "Sparks", Kelso wants to ride a kayak down a hill, Hyde [[PetTheDog actually tells Kelso]] [[EveryoneHasStandards he should wear]] [[JerkassHasAPoint a helmet]], but Kelso thinks he's just trying to play a mean trick and refuses to fall for it. At one point Hyde remarks that he has become the boy who cried helmet.
294* TheCuckoolanderWasRight: While he was usually TheBrainlessBeauty played straight, Kelso occasionally made predictions about the future which turned out to be correct.
295** In the episode ''A New Hope'', in which the gang sees the first ''Franchise/StarWars'' film, Kelso correctly guesses that Leia will end up with Han rather than Luke, a prediction that Hyde immediately shoots down.
296** In the episode ''The Punk Chick'', Kelso and Red modify a VideoGame/{{Pong}} game system to make the paddles smaller, thinking the game is too easy. Red at one point tells him he's about to remove the "doohicky", to which Kelso replies [[HiddenDepths "Don't you think we should disconnect the transistor from the secondary circuit board first?"]]
297** Upon successfully modifying the system (which wouldn't have been possible in reality), Kelso excitedly predicts that "home computers" are the future. Red dismisses this as nothing more than Kelso being his usual CloudCuckooLander self.
298* CueOClock: The employees of [[SuckECheeses a cheesy amusement park]] (at least, this particular feature is cheesy) will answer the question "What time is it?" by announcing that "It's always fun o'clock." And breaking into song.
299%%* CultureClash: From wherever Fez is.
300* CutawayGag: The series relied on this trope constantly, usually using it to display the character's ImagineSpot in many "what if" situations.
301* DadTheVeteran: Red served in the Navy in both [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarII WW2]] and the UsefulNotes/KoreanWar. He claims to have actually put his foot up someone's ass on Iwo Jima, but doesn't like to talk about it.
302* DamnedByFaintPraise:
303** Season 2: When Jackie got offended after hearing that Kelso was dating Laurie, Donna comforted Jackie with the following words: "She will make him more miserable than you ever did."
304** Season 6: Red's response to the INS' suspicions that Fez and Laurie are in a CitizenshipMarriage: "These two kids are married and very much in love. In fact, I never seen a love like this." [[note]]To highlight this, outside of the season 5 finale, Fez and Laurie never ever slept together again, and all their interactions in Season 6 can be summed up as Fez slut-shaming Laurie while Laurie flings back an unapologetic barb.[[/note]]
305** Season 6: In "Young Man Blues," Eric kept trying to convince his parents that he managed to fix the lawnmower. Kitty's response was that she "believed in him believing" that he fixed it.
306* DeadpanSnarker:
307** Practically every character gets their shot in at one point or another, but most notably, Hyde, Eric, Red, and Donna.
308** None of them could hold a candle to Grandma Bea, Kitty's mother, who was played by Creator/BettyWhite, quite possibly the Grand Dame of this trope. As Eric noted to Donna after Grandma Bea insulted them:
309--->'''Donna''': ...What the hell was that?\
310'''Eric''': That was the seldom-heard, much-feared, Grandma Burn.
311* DebatingNames: Serves as a RunningGag in "You Can't Always Get What You Want." The main characters repeatedly try to come up with a name for Hyde's new record store while high, eventually settling on "The Head" until they forget it in their inebriated state. It turns out that the store already had a name, as it was part of a chain.
312* DemotedToExtra: Laurie in season 6, after having been recast. Despite appearing in most episodes of that season, she rarely spoke.
313* DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment: Fez drops one when asked where he's going to go with his girlfriend.
314-->'''Fez''': Oh, we're going to the Red Lobster to have a romantic dinner of red lobster.
315** Eric speaks one as well in "The Relapse".
316--->'''Eric''': I'm gonna go yell at her with...yelling!
317** And Kitty in "Grandma's Dead".
318--->'''Kitty''': My son, getting into a bar fight like some kind of...bar fighter!
319* DependingOnTheWriter: [[DownplayedTrope Downplayed]]. While every episode acts like Kelso is/was in the wrong when it came to cheating on Jackie for Laurie, whether this is actually the case changes in the episodes. For example, in "Red's Last Day", it's very clear that Laurie is purposely seducing Kelso, and Kelso is clearly ''not'' okay with what's going on. The scene actually borders on BlackComedyRape. Then in most of the episodes after, Kelso takes both Laurie and Jackie for granted, at one point even imagining being in a harem with both of them as well as Donna. Then it comes back around in "Kiss of Death", where Kelso expresses genuine feelings for Jackie and tries to break up with Laurie, which falls OffTheRails when Laurie tricks Kelso into kissing her in front of Jackie, ending their relationship as well.
320* DidYouJustHaveSex: After Donna and Eric have sex for the first time, Jackie immediately notices and points that out. It helps that there's visual aid for the audience, with the words "I had sex" labeled on Donna's forehead and "Guilty" on Eric's.
321* DietEpisode: Red, after his heart attack, tries to sneak around his diet. After he gets busted, he says "This isn't food! This is what food eats!"
322* DiggingYourselfDeeper:
323** This goes for any of the kids, but Eric has a real knack for it. For example, when Donna is going to go away to college, Eric (who doesn't want her to leave) ruins their intended last moment. He later says that he was well-aware he was ruining it and just continued to ruin it anyway.
324** In Season 7, Red gets a moment of this, too. Kitty is mad at him for flirting with a couple of women in bikinis at a car show. He tells her they're practically hookers because they get paid to flirt.
325* DigitalHeadSwap: Done in the scene where after getting high, the gang sees Kitty's and Red's heads on each other's bodies.
326* DineAndDash: In the aptly titled episode "Dine and Dash." After Kelso's grandmother gives him $100, he treats the rest of the gang to dinner at a nice restaurant, and he tells them they should leave without paying, but after they convince him not to do it, he hesitantly goes to Eric's car, where he left his wallet, so he can pay for dinner. When Donna says he drove off laughing, they wait for sometime before realizing he left them there. Fez says Kelso's probably waiting for them in the parking lot and says he'll get the money from him, but after some waiting, they realize he's not coming back either. Jackie says she'll use the public phone in the lobby to call her dad, but after some time, it's determined she just went home, and [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere Hyde decides to just make a break for it]], leaving Eric and Donna stranded. After a minor argument, Eric and Donna decide to run away without paying. As payback for ditching them without money after an expensive meal, Eric and Donna give the others [[LaxativePrank laxative laced "special" brownies]].
327* DiscoSucks: The show traced disco's fall from grace. "That Disco Episode" in the first season, taking place in 1976, is about going to a disco and everyone is into it. In season six's "Baby Don't You Do It," a minister tries to connect with Eric and Donna by saying he likes disco and Eric says that disco is kind of lame. Finally in the last season's "We Will Rock You," which took place in 1979, Hyde stages a disco record burning and Fez tries to defend disco.
328* DisproportionateRetribution: When Eric accidentally kills Donna's cat, he tries hard to say it in a way that wouldn't hurt her. Donna gets incredibly pissed with him and rebuffs every attempt he makes to try to make her feel better from attending the cat's funeral to giving her another kitten. It takes [[TheDitz Jackie]] to tell her how incredibly childish she's being, especially when she tries comparing her hurt feelings to Jackie's who was rightfully upset about catching Kelso and Laurie.
329-->'''Jackie''': Eric put off telling you something because he didn't want to hurt you. That is way worse than cheating on you with another woman. Oh, wait...NO, IT'S NOT!
330* DistinctionWithoutADifference: In "Parents Find Out", Fez calls Hyde and Kelso shallow for not wanting to meet their secret dates because they look old. Kelso responds with: "I'm not shallow, I'm just judging them by their looks!"
331* TheDitz: Kelso and Jackie are a Ditz couple.
332* DorkInASweater: Eric is usually a dork, especially since he wears sweaters in about half of the series. Another example is Hyde, who usually mocks Eric for his look, in which he had dressed in one with his name made by Kitty in his 18th birthday, obligated by Red (as well assisting to his own birthday).
333* DoubleStandard:
334** When Kelso continues to ride Jackie's back about her kissing a co-worker, completely ignoring the fact that he's done far worse with other women behind Jackie's back when they were together. Kelso himself attempts to justify this by claiming "you cheated out of hate, while I cheated out of joy".
335** After they break up, Donna and Eric go to the Price Mart Ball, and are awkward around each other until they talk and agree they're just there as friends. Donna leaves and Eric is approached by a girl who asks him to dance, but he turns her down since he's there with Donna. Red then points out Donna is talking to several men. A few scenes later, Kitty points out Eric dancing with the girl, and Donna yells at him, suddenly deciding they're on a date.
336* DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale: The first time Laurie and Kelso have sex, she forces herself on him while he repeatedly tells her no. Kelso's "noes" quickly turn into "yeses" as the van starts a rockin'. When he tells the guys about it in the circle afterward, it's obvious that he is not traumatized at all but rather is stoked that he had sex with Laurie. He does bring up the fact that she violated him, but he only says this as an alibi for going through with it even though he was with Jackie. The guys are not convinced.
337* DrillSergeantNasty: Red has this reputation; case in point, in "Stolen Car," one of the arresting officers asks Eric if he's Red Forman's kid, before being told "You poor bastard!" after confirming it.
338* DrivingADesk: Most of the driving scenes in the Vista Cruiser.
339%%* DriveInTheater: The focus of "Drive-In".
340%%* DroppedABridgeOnHim: [[spoiler:Charlie, Eric's grandfather Burt]]
341* DrugsAreBad: Red's mentality, as well as other adult characters occasionally.
342** Subverted when Hyde has a bad trip and decides to give up the circle. Donna, Fez, and Leo stage a "reverse intervention."
343--->'''Fez''': Your eyes are clear, your shirt is clean. I barely know you.
344%%* DumbBlonde: Laurie, Samantha Hyde, Annette, Midge, Pam Macy
345* DuringTheWar: Red, when Kitty starts complaining that the kids don't go to church anymore, mentions he became close with God when his destroyer was sunk in UsefulNotes/WorldWarII. He brings it up numerous times later on, but only goes as far as "When my destroyer went down in the Pacific..." after the first mention.
346* DyingDeclarationOfLove: According to Red, this is one of three times it is okay for a man to tell another man he loves him. Otherwise, it's just a given. [[note]] The other two are when they're drunk, or if one of them is in big, big trouble. Which usually means he's drunk.[[/note]]
347* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: In the pilot, Kitty and Red are having a party with a whole houseful of friends. In every other episode, they don't seem to have any friends but Bob and Midge, which explains why they put up with their [[CloudCuckooLander craziness]]. Also Eric, Hyde, and Kelso all refer to each other by their first names, although that could be because the writers wanted to establish them.
348** The circle in the pilot had a rare aerial view of the proceedings, and the background wasn't dark and smoky, but more out-of-focus than anything.
349** Jackie's parents, Fez's host parents, and Kelso's father all appeared at least once during the earlier episodes before disappearing while the rest of the series focuses on the Forman's and the Pinciotti's (Although Jackie's mom Pam does later shown up in season 6 for a subplot with Bob). Also, Donna had two sisters; an older one who was in college and was never seen, and a younger sister for a single episode who was never seen again.
350** The bumpers we're all familiar with weren't there at first. Instead we got green-and-black flowers doing things, or photos of famous people manipulated to say stuff; the more familiar bumpers began to appear about midway through the first season.
351** The Hub set in the pilot was a lot more elaborate than it would be in future episodes. Most of the regular sets also looked different in the first season, with slightly different decor and lighting (such as the kitchen seats being a mesh design with cushions).
352** In her first appearance, Kitty seemed to be under Laurie's sway as well. Later episode's make it clear she sees right through her act, and is firmly on Eric's side when she's involved.
353** The pilot had a lot of common slang for the era the show is set in, with Eric using "queer" as a stand-in for "weird" as one example. The dialogue quickly dropped it going forward and it became much more modern.
354* ElephantInTheLivingRoom: In "Burning Down the House," Red and Kitty couldn't get Bob's toupee out of their mind so much so that they had problems concentrating on the board game session they are having with Midge and Bob, allowing Midge to win round after round repeatedly.
355* ElNinoIsSpanishForTheNino: El Camino is Spanish for "The Camino"
356* EloquentInMyNativeTongue:
357--> '''Fez''': Once you've had Fez, you never go back...that rhymes in my language.
358* EmbarrassedByAChild: Linked to TheUnfavorite. Red is constantly embarrassed by Eric's nerdiness and lack of manly characteristics. Kitty is embarrassed by Laurie's sluttiness, especially when she spends the entirety of youth Pastor Dave's visit blatantly hitting on him.
359* EmbarrassingCoverUp: Eric tries to hide the fact that he was reading Donna's journal by claiming to have been going through her underwear drawer and rubbing her underwear against his face.
360* EmbarrassingNickname:
361** Eric received a lot of these including; Foreplay, Foreskin, [[RiseOfZitboy Zitty]] [[Music/DavidBowie Stardust]], [[PottyFailure Dr. Pee Pee]], the list goes on.
362** Kelso has Big Chief Brown Bottom and Tater Nuts.
363** As kids, Donna was called Pinch-My-Butty (started by Eric, so she started Foreskin for him). Also known as Big Red, and sometimes Jugs-A-Poppin'. In S8, we find out the gang called her "Poop-chute Sally" for a long time after she ripped the back of her pants.
364** Jackie called Hyde her Little Puddin' Pop, which he of course claims is not him.
365%%* EnterStageWindow
366* EroticDream: Every major character has one. To crank it up to eleven on the hilarity meter:
367--> '''Fez''': Now, has any of you ever had a dream where you were with the ''opposite'' of a girl?\
368'''Kelso''': Right, two girls? Sure.\
369'''Fez''': Well see, I had a dream. And it was erotic. And...it was about Kelso.
370** Kelso immediately displays his idiocy moment by somehow thinking that it makes him (not Fez) gay.
371* EscalatingWar: In Season 4's "Prank Day", the guys try to get back at Kelso for pranking them, but [[DidntThinkThisThrough the results are disastrous]], even with an unexpected ally, Red, on their side.
372* EverybodyMustGetStoned: Happens once, when Red, Kitty, Bob, and Midge accidentally eat some brownies laced with marijuana in "Garage Sale."
373* EverybodyOwnsAFord:
374** Inverted, even though they're just outside Kenosha and this was the era of now-retro icons like the Gremlin and Pacer, Nobody Owns An AMC.
375*** Well, the Kenosha part's in dispute- see further down the page.
376** Two single-episode exceptions: Bob Pinciotti was driving a red Pacer in season eight episode seven, but that was just for one scene. Fez also appears to own a Gremlin for a single episode in season 8, just so that Jackie has something of his to publicly vandalize.
377* EvolvingCredits: the opening credits have been completely reshot four times, and reedited four times as well:
378** Between season 1 and 2, the entire sequence has been reshot to mark the addition of Lisa Robin Kelly to the main cast, and also include the adults.
379** Halfway through season 3, the title sequence is replaced once again by an entirely new one, shot without Laurie, since Lisa Robin Kelly had left the show. In certain markets, an edited version of the previous title sequence is used instead, with shots with Laurie either digitally edited to remove her or completely replaced.
380** The opening sequence has been completely reshot once again between season 3 and 4, Tanya Roberts has been removed from the main cast, and replaced with Tommy Chong.
381** Between season 4 and 5, the sequence has been slightly edited to replace the only shot with Tommy Chong, who no longer was in the main cast.
382** For the final season, the opening credits have been reshot once again, and now take place in the "circle" and not in the Vista Cruiser. Topher Grace and Ashton Kutcher were removed and Tommy Chong was added back in. The sequence has been reedited twice during the season: once to include new cast member Josh Meyers, and once to update Kitty's hairstyle.
383* ExtraLongEpisode: The season eight premiere, as well as the last episode were both originally broadcast as hour-long episodes.
384* FaceDoodling: Can be a bad time to fall asleep while together with that group of friends, the rest would occasionally mess with the sleeping victim's face. After waking up, he/she would just go out to meet other people, not knowing what happened to his/her face. On screen this prank was played on at least Hyde (make-up), Jackie (unibrow), and Kelso (hitler moustache). Eric gets a variation where he's still awake and is given a napkin (with black ink) to wipe his face with.
385* FanDisservice: Kitty's mental picture of a nude, soap-suds-covered Bob moaning "oh yeah..." (which comes absolutely out of ''nowhere'') just... shouldn't have happened.
386* FanserviceModel: In the season 4, Kelso was called to be a [[MrFanservice male underwear model]], who appeared in diverse magazines, was mocked by his friends, and caused a new split with his then-girlfriend Jackie, who always wanted to be a model.
387* FashionDissonance
388* FeatheredFiend: The season three Halloween episode included a parody of ''Film/TheBirds.''
389* FictionalAccent: Fez is from an unidentified fictional island nation and as a result, speaks in an unidentifiable accent that borders on Spanish and Portuguese. In the final season of the show, Andrew (Fez's friend from the island) comes to visit and speaks with a British accent. When pressed by his friends about this, he explains that Andrew is from the ''west'' side of the island. When the gang asks what country the two of them are from, they explain that it depends on if you ask the British or the Dutch, further elaborating that the British hate them and wouldn't tell them and nobody can understand the Dutch.
390* FieryRedhead: Donna, especially when it comes to her feminist beliefs. At least until she dyed her hair blonde.
391* FightForTheLastBite:
392** In the episode "Misty Mountain Hop", Donna eats Eric's last Twinkie during the ride up to Jackie's cabin, igniting a fight.
393** In "Who Needs You", Fez was looking forward to a grape soda that he saved in the fridge, and even made up a song to sing for when he would eventually get around to drinking it. Cue his shock at finding an empty grape soda bottle in the fridge after Jackie drank it...
394* FinalSeasonCasting: Randy instead of Eric and Kelso. Samantha to very obviously to add more sex appeal.
395* FirstNameBasis:
396** Jackie and Kitty both call everyone by their first name (except Fez of course), regardless of their preference.
397** Jackie only calls Hyde Steven after she becomes interested in him and she only calls Kelso by his last name once, when they are broken up.
398** Hyde calls all the guys in the group by their last name (except Fez...maybe) but still occasionally calls Eric "Eric". Kelso, on the other hand, calls Eric by his first name most of the time, despite he and Hyde being called by their last names exclusively by almost everyone.
399** Hyde called Red "Mr. Forman" in the first season, but once he moves in, he starts calling him Red.
400* {{Flanderization}}: Early in the first season, Laurie's primary traits were that she hated Eric, and by extension, all his friends, was more than willing to exploit Red's preferential treatment of her, was an underachiever and had looser morals than the main teen cast. By the end of the first season, her sluttiness was her defining trait, and later on, she can't seem to meet a man without hitting on him and has had more partners than the town has residents.
401%%* FlashForward
402* ForgottenBirthday: In the appropriately named "Kitty's Birthday (That's Today?!)", Red and Eric forget Kitty's birthday and tried to pretend it was a case of NotSoForgottenBirthday, buying her a [[ConvenienceStoreGiftShopping few balloons and a funnel from the gas station at 11:40 P.M]]. She sees through it, and they have to take her square dancing to make up for it.
403* FourGirlEnsemble: Gender-Flipped for the four main teen males.
404** Fez is the naive one.
405** Hyde is the snarky one.
406** Kelso is the sexy one.
407** Eric is the {{TeamDad}}.
408* FourTemperamentEnsemble: The Forman Family:
409** [[GenkiGirl Kitty]]: sanguine (cheerful, [[MyBelovedSmother smothering]], [[MotorMouth too talkative]])
410** [[DadTheVeteran Red]]: choleric (hard, bitter, [[TheCynic cynic]])
411** [[SlutShaming Laurie]]: melancholic (desperate, moody, [[ReallyGetsAround self-destructive lifestyle]])
412** [[TheEveryman Eric]]: phlegmatic ([[ExtremeDoormat submissive]], cowardly, [[TheSlacker lazy]])
413* TheFriendsWhoNeverHang: Eric and Jackie barely had any storylines with only the two of them. While Jackie started out as TheFriendNobodyLikes, eventually the entire gang warmed up to her, and she eventually shared storylines with pretty much all of them... except for Eric, who kept wanting to have nothing to do with her throughout the series. There are only two episodes that have them hanging out together in some way. The first is in the fourth season when Eric catches Jackie kissing her boss and tries to blackmail her so that he'll keep quiet to Kelso. The second is in season six, when the two of them go shopping for wedding items with Donna using it to punish Eric's bad choices and Hyde trying to get Jackie to go shopping with someone else. Unlike their first storyline, Eric and Jackie end up having a good time when Jackie told him to stand aside and let her do everything. If [[spoiler:Jackie's phonecall to Eric in his final episode as series regular]] is any indication, with time she came to think of him as a friend, but this sympathy remained largely one-sided.
414* FreudianTrio:
415** The Id- Jackie and Kelso
416** The Ego- Fez and Eric
417** The Superego- Hyde and Donna.
418%%* FrozenInTime
419* FunnyBackgroundEvent:
420** Once when Eric had to get something from the kitchen, he ran into his father and had a conversation with him. Eric is still stoned from The Circle and the wallpaper behind Red is visibly moving.
421** During the intro from seasons 2 and 3, there is a shot with Jackie and Laurie sitting in the front of the Vista Cruiser, with a very uncomfortable Kelso sandwiched between the two. If one pays attention, Eric, Donna, and Hyde sitting in the back seat aren't as much singing along as they are observing and reacting to the awkwardness in front of them.
422** In "Good Old Fashioned Lover Boy", when Donna comes to Grooves to talk to Randy, she notes that David Bowie has a nicer ass than she does, expecting him to disagree. Just as she says it, a customer standing behind her visibly turns around and checks her out as if to make his own opinion.
423* FunnyForeigner: Fez. Even the characters aren't sure what country he's from, though WildMassGuessing favors Trinidad and/or Tobago. It seems to be a completely made-up location, at one point he mentions it has a population of around fourteen and a message in a bottle is the most reliable way to get a message home. And everyone on the other side of the island is white and speaks with a horrible fake English accent. And people are outnumbered by lizards - Played for laughs, but actually very common in smaller countries (with lizard habitats, of course). People tend to forget that animals other than themselves can be quite numerous.
424* FutureMeScaresMe: In "It's a Wonderful Life," Eric's guardian angel [[ItsAWonderfulPlot takes him into an alternate timeline]] in which he'd never dated Donna--including a foray into the 80s, where Donna is married (with kids) to Hyde, and Alternate!Eric is a hopeless loser. Notable because even though it was an alternate timeline, it was the only time the show ever accurately depicted the [[TheEighties 1980s]] (70s!Eric even remarks on "The Safety Dance", which will be released five years into his future).
425* GenerationXerox:
426** It's not hard to see where Eric's attributes and personality stems from. Red even [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]] it in "Street Fighting Man," when Eric beats up a Green Bay Packers fan at a football game, claiming Eric's got the "Forman rage in him".
427** Also, Grandma Bea and Laurie. Evil does skip a generation.
428** Donna, much like her mother, winds up dating a guy nowhere near as attractive as her.
429* GeniusDitz: Kelso comes across as this occasionally.
430* GirlNextDoor: Donna.
431* GoneSwimmingClothesStolen: The opening scene of "Hyde Moves In."
432* GoodAngelBadAngel: Instead of the usual Angel and Devil, though, Fez imagines [[Series/Batman1966 Batman and the Riddler]] when he's tempted to take advantage of Jackie when she's drunk.
433* GoodParents: Red and Kitty. It may seem hard to believe with Red taking Laurie's side over Eric's along with belittling him constantly and Kitty drinking a lot (which it is explained early on that her job is what causes her to drink), but when you think about it, they are better parents to Eric (and Hyde when he moves in) than any of the other parents in the series. As mean as Red can be to Eric, he's only punished him when he actually deserved it, and even reluctantly apologized one time when Eric hadn't done anything wrong and punished him.
434* GrandFinale: New Year's Eve, 1979, the day the '70s died.
435* GreaterScopeVillain: Red's father Albert Forman. He was a truly [[AbusiveParents abusive bastard]] (as compared to Bernice, who doted on Red), and, is in many ways, why Red is the way he is (that, and his dad was quick to ship him off to the Navy). He's long dead by the time the show begins, but via Red, his influence lingers through the entire run. Red would probably think of his dad as a GreaterScopeParagon, though.
436* GretzkyHasTheBall: Deliberately invoked in "Angie" when Eric says the first time he strapped on a pair of skates was like "the first time Joe Namath laid his hands on a bat."
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438
439[[folder:Tropes H to P]]
440* HappilyMarried: Red and Kitty.
441* HasTwoThumbsAnd: In the first episode of season two, "Garage Sale", Hyde bakes a batch of special brownies, prompting Kelso to say "You know what's got two thumbs and really likes brownies?" (points thumbs at himself) This guy!"
442* HateSink: Kitty's mother Beatrice "Bea" Sigurdson, due to making Kitty's life miserable ForTheEvulz.
443** [[BitchInSheepsClothing Caroline "Crazy Caroline" Dupree]] due to her crazy obsession with Fez and her abusive, nasty and horrible nature.
444* HeightInsult: Jackie casually mocks Donna for her stature, often calling her a "giant" or "lumberjack" or referring to how big her limbs are which makes her sound huge. The fact that Jackie is a tiny, petite RichBitch probably adds to it.
445* HellBentForLeather: In "I Love Cake," Kelso gets a leather jacket because he wants to look like [[Creator/MarlonBrando Brando]] in ''Film/TheWildOne''. Instead everybody laughs at him for looking like [[Series/HappyDays Fonzie]]. When he throws it away in anger Hyde puts it on and immediately becomes [[MrFanservice irresistible]].
446* HeterosexualLifePartners: Kelso and Fez. [[AmbiguouslyGay Most of the time]].
447** Eric & Hyde and sometimes Donna & Jackie.
448* HeyYou: Red calling Eric and co "dumbasses", and Eric calling him Red behind his back and "sir" to his face. Also, Laurie sometimes calls Eric "little brother" instead of Eric.
449* HiddenHeartOfGold: Red's mother. She's well-known for all the negative things she's done like insulting Kitty and her condescending attitude but she was also very nice to Fez and seemed rather fond of Eric, offering to have him live with her since he looked so thin. When she died, we also found out that she kept Red's model trains even when he thought she had thrown them out, she made a small blueberry pie for him when she made peach pie (he doesn't like peaches), and she was also the first person to call him Red.
450* HollywoodHeartAttack: Averted when Red gets one. Instead of dramatically gasping and clutching his chest, he just feels numbness in one arm (causing Kelso to deduce he's having an ''arm'' attack) and seems a bit winded.
451* HomeEarlySurprise: Happens a few times:
452** Once in a very early episode in which Eric goes to Donna's house in the middle of the night while her parents are away to find that they've come home early.
453** Again when Donna and Eric take advantage of having the house to themselves, when all of the other characters come home almost immediately, much earlier than anticipated.
454** Also when Eric has "borrowed" his dad's car and relaxes, glad that he has so much time to clean up - but he learns that he only has forty minutes.
455* HonestJohnsDealership: Bob Pinciotti's electronics outlet, as suggested by the following:
456-->'''Bob''': I tell them the cheaper one will cost them more in the long-run, [[EverybodyHatesMathematics which is a mathematical impossibility]],[[note]]This is true of cars, but a TV doesn't require fuel, and when it goes bad, you generally throw it away[[/note]] but they buy it anyway.
457* HospitalHottie : The nursing convention in Season 5, where Hyde picks up a nurse.
458* HotForTeacher: In one Thanksgiving episode, it's revealed that Kelso has been sleeping with Eric's math teacher.
459* HotLibrarian: Brooke.
460* {{Housewife}}: To a degree, Kitty. She ''does'' have a job for most of the series aside from taking care of the house (as a nurse), but otherwise fits this trope very well.
461* HuddleShot: Some of the wipes.
462* HugeGuyTinyGirl: Kelso and Jackie.
463* HugeSchoolgirl: Big Rhonda. Donna is a subversion as she's very tall and strong, but is actually very confident too.
464* HumanizingTears: Jackie, surprisingly. When she's genuinely upset about something, the others actually make an effort to comfort her in their own way. Yes, even Hyde and Red by way of being caught in her clingy hugs...and this was ''before'' Hyde and Jackie got a RelationshipUpgrade.
465-->'''Hyde''': Why is it always ''me''?
466* HurricaneOfPuns: Eric and Fez in one episode about how Kelso nailed Hyde's sister.
467* HypocriticalHumor:
468** Leo says in "Canadian Road Trip" that he refuses to drink alcohol because it "messes up your mind." Despite him being a stoner. He also drinks sake but he's unaware that sake is alcoholic.
469** Laurie loves to jest about Eric supposedly being dumb, despite her own flunking out of college.
470* ICallHimMisterHappy:
471-->'''Kelso''': Hey guys, guess which part of my body I nicknamed "Music/PinkFloyd".
472* IWasBeatenByAGirl: In "The Trails of M. Kelso", Fez is beaten up by a pep rally team from a rival school. As revenge, Eric, Hyde and Fez decide to deface the rival school's boy's locker room only to deface the ''girl's'' locker room by accident. They get beat up by the girls and when asked what happened to them, they lie about their attackers being men to save face.
473* IdeaBulb: Parodied and played straight in ''Streaking'' with the guys getting inspired to cause mischief when President Ford stops by for a visit. Light bulbs light up during points of the speech over Hyde ("Protesting accomplishes nothing."), Eric ("Oh, sure, you might see a chance to prove your manhood or show you're cool."), and Kelso ("No shenanigans, you hear me?") while Fez get the "Exit" sign ("If that's your kind of attitude, you might as well just go home right now."). Bob later gets a lamp lighting over his head with a doorbell sound when he has to find the right person to ask Ford a question ("I guess someone you and I would call a loser."). The last one where Red has the porch light over his head after he's inspired to tell the President his views gets called out on by Red.
474-->'''Red''': Turn off that light.
475* IDidntMeanToTurnYouOn: Kitty actually pulls this on herself in "A New Hope," as she tries to criticize Red for teaching Eric to fight, and recalling the time Red beat up a guy who tried to put the moves on Kitty when they were first dating, only to describe how good Red looked doing it. She and Red then race each other to their bedroom.
476* IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming: The episodes from the first four seasons had rather straightforward titles. In season five, all episode titles were names of Led Zeppelin songs with sometimes a "normal" title stuck behind (example: ''Misty Mountain Hop aka Jackie's Cabin''). All season six episodes were named after The Who songs, ditto for season seven and Rolling Stones and season eight (except the finale) and Queen.
477* IdiosyncraticWipes: With cast members jumping, swinging and having fun in front of groovy backgrounds during an EyeCatch.
478* IdiotBall:
479** One of the group's favorite stories is of the time Kelso (as TheDitz) tried to do the "burning bag of dog poop" prank on someone, but lit the bag prematurely and then stomped it out himself. A frustrated Kelso counters "THE BAG WAS ON FIRE!"
480** Eric kissing another girl (Laurie's college roommate) while he and Donna were starting to form a relationship. Red came down on him for this gloriously.
481--->'''Eric:''' It's like bad things are always happening to me. Like I have bad luck or something.\
482'''Red:''' ''(understanding voice)'' Son, you don't have bad luck. The reason bad things happen to you is because you're a dumbass. ''(harshly)'' Now fix it.
483* IJustShotMarvinInTheFace: Subverted in "Black Dog". During an argument, Kelso accidentally shoots Hyde with a BB gun. The pellet merely grazes Hyde's shoulder but he pretends he was shot in the eye to make Kelso feel guilty about his anger over Hyde and Jackie's relationship.
484** It was also averted the time Red, Bob and the boys went hunting, if only because no one was willing to stay in the same room as Kelso and a loaded gun.
485* IKnowKarate: Kelso unfortunately finds that out when he tries to beat up Jackie's co-worker after she kissed him.
486* IllTakeTwoBeersToo: In "Red's Last Day":
487-->'''Kitty''': "Bartender, could I have two coffees please?"\
488'''Red''': "I’ll have two more beers!"\
489'''Kitty''': "Red..."\
490'''Red''': "Okay okay, I’ll just have the one beer!"
491* ImagineSpot: When there's [[RealSongThemeTune not a thing to do]], these moments are abundant on the show, often with several per episode.
492* InformedAttribute:
493** Some fans consider Donna and Kelso's attractiveness to be this.
494** Additionally, Eric's supposed girliness. Most of the remarks on this seem to be based on his lack of athleticism. His personality is more akin to a geek or a nerd, which is usually considered to be at least gender-neutral if not more masculine. Possibly a case of FairForItsDay as far as the 1970s setting is considered, as "nerd culture" was not remotely as widely accepted as it is now.
495* InformedDeformity:
496** Eric is often stated to not being able to grow facial hair, however when he becomes depressed and stops shaving in "Eric's Depression" he ends up with a moustache and a goatee in what is implied to be an amount of time so short, his parents don't even notice something is wrong with him.
497** In season 8, Fez would sometimes call Jackie a "midget" despite her being only slightly shorter that him. Worse yet, she is called a "midget" on one occasion by Kitty who is even shorter than her.
498* InformedFlaw: In ''Hyde Moves In'', Kelso freaks out when he sees Jackie sick and without makeup, and proceeds to refer to her as "ugly" and "gross", while to the viewer, she doesn't look any different.
499* InLoveWithYourCarnage: In "Cat Fight", Fez admits to being turned on by Jackie kicking Laurie's ass in a fight.
500* InternalReformist: Hyde meets a girl as rebellious and anti-establishment as he is, but she leaves because she wants to go to college so she can get a job in the government to work the system from within.
501* IntergenerationalFriendship: Red and Kelso, of all people, would get together from time to time and play video games (which being the 70's consisted of Pong).
502* IntimateLotionApplication: In "Eric's Hot Cousin", Eric's cousin Penny comes to visit and SheIsAllGrownUp, getting all the [[ChickMagnet guys chasing after her]]. When she talks about how she needs to moisturize her skin, all of the boys promptly offer to "help", with Fez even materializing a bottle of lotion on the spot.
503* IntimateMarks: In "Eric's Hot Cousin," Eric's cousin, Penny, comes to stay with them and constantly wears tight t-shirts with large logos over her breasts. She catches Eric looking at her breasts, and "innocently" mistakes it for him reading her t-shirt logo. This becomes a running gag throughout the episode. At the end of the episode, it turns out all the flirty behavior and sexy clothing was calculated to attract Eric as payback for a prank he'd played on her years ago.
504* InTheBlood: Eric has his father's old-fashioned thinking (and temper) and his mother's DeadpanSnarker tendencies. Laurie is a lot like her grandmothers, particularly Grandma Bea (Kitty's mother) with a dash of Grandma Bernice's (Red's mother) hypocrisy. Evil skips a generation, remember?
505-->'''Eric''': So that means my... granddaughter is going to be the devil.
506* ITakeOffenceToThatLastOne: From "Bring It On Home":
507-->'''Red''': Kitty, every time we have an empty room, you wanna fill it up with a stray child. You’re like … the old lady who lived in a shoe.
508-->'''Kitty''': Did you just call me old?
509* ItsAWonderfulPlot: In a episode actually titled "It's a Wonderful Life", has Eric down in the dumps about his and Donna's breakup and wishing they had never been together. An angel (Creator/WayneKnight) shows Eric what his and everyone else's life would be like if he and Donna had never started dating, and it sucks bad. However, in a subversion, Eric still thinks it's worse that he had her and lost her, though he does eventually agree when the angel shows him a flashback of all the wonderful moments he never would have had.
510* ItTastesLikeFeet:
511-->'''Hyde''': "What's convenient isn't always what's best. If it was, this frozen pizza wouldn't taste like monkey butt." Kelso would disagree, however.
512* IronicEcho: Starting at the end of "Reefer Madness" and continuing throughout "Red Sees Red", Red uses some variation of the phrase "Playtime is over" when he announces further restrictions on the house. Then at the end of the episode when Kitty forces him to lift all of his rules, Eric says "Well... I guess 'playtime is over'".
513* IWantMyJetpack:
514** Red muses on what he thought life was going to be like by that point when he was off at war, done in the style of a 1950's educational film. The fantasy ends with Eric asking to borrow the car and Red telling him to take the hovercraft instead. Back in reality Kitty gives him an odd look. "Hovercraft?" He then shouts angrily, "What? They promised us hovercrafts! Just another damn broken promise."
515** Another episode has Red playing Santa Claus, a little girl says she wants a flying car for Christmas. Red's reply? "Yeah, so did I, when I was your age. But then the future came and took my dream away. Just like it will take away yours."
516** Another episode uses a deliberately over-the-top version of the future (1997) when Laurie is dating Kelso, and Red is imagining what their future will be like. The Formans live in a house resembling Superman's Fortress of Solitude, Fez is their robot butler, Serve-O-Tron 2000, and Red takes a jetpack to Saturn on business for a week, warning Kelso that it's off to the asteroid mines if he doesn't have a job by the time Red gets back.
517* IWishedYouWereDead: Eric ends his calling out his grandmother over her treatment of Kitty with "I don't think being nice for a whole day would kill you." She promptly keels over.
518* {{Jerkass}}:
519** Everyone has moments of this, but Hyde and Laurie take it to an art form. (Hyde will also occasionally [[LampshadeHanging lampshade]] his jerkass nature.) Jackie is also a shameless bitch, though she stumbles somewhat pulling this off against Hyde.
520** Red might qualify; he practically [[HatesEveryoneEqually hates people]]:
521---> '''Red''': This house is always littered with kids! It's like we're...Mormons!
522* JerkWithAHeartOfGold:
523** Hyde, for all his Jerkass tendencies he is shown to actually care about his friends when they need him and has a sweet spot in his heart for Kitty and Jackie, who can guilt him by crying.
524** Even before they dated or were really even ''friends'', he appeared to have at least a bit of a soft spot for Jackie, or at least a protective streak regarding her. He heard one of her boyfriends bad-mouthing her behind her back, and, without a moment's hesitation, punched the guy so hard he fell onto the table behind him and broke it.
525** As abrasive and foul-mouthed as he is, Red truly does love his family, even Eric.
526** William, Hyde's [[spoiler:real dad]] also counts as this. He routinely seems to be giving something to Hyde, only to pull it back and ask him to do something (such as show him his Clapton tickets and then ask Hyde to house-sit). He also accuses Hyde of gold-digging within minutes of meeting, and crows frequently about being rich. He also fires Hyde and the other Grooves employees via a letter (which also counts as ArtisticLicenseLaw since they should have severance pay, among other procedures). Then he [[spoiler:gives Hyde the record store]].
527* JumpingTheShark:
528** Done literally in-universe. In "Jackie Says Cheese," Fez daydreams about how cool it would make him if he jumped over a shark like Fonzie before Hyde reminds him it was arguably the worst moment in TV history.[[invoked]]
529--->'''Fez''': Yeah, I did stop watching after that...
530* KarmaHoudini:
531** Casey Kelso. His reputation as a handsome charming ladies' man comes off as an InformedAttribute when he's completely unlikeable who never does anything decent in any of his appearances and in his latter performances looks greasy and unhealthy. He acts as a corrupting influence on Donna, getting her to skip school and drink in the middle of the day -- keep in mind of course Donna is underage and much younger than him. However even when saying horrible things, he continues to charm everyone around him, which Donna even notes doesn't line up ("The words are wrong, but they sound so good coming out of his mouth"). He also tells Donna he loves her, then casually brags to Eric that they're "just words". When the parents finally intervene on his relationship with Donna, Casey just breaks it off immediately, offering no resistance to them, and walks away breaking Donna's heart. He never suffers any consequences or repercussions. He later reappears twice, both times as sleazy as ever, and aside from a ShutUpHannibal from Eric again gets away scot-free.
532** Laurie constantly tortures Eric, is incredibly promiscuous, purposefully ruins Kelso's relationship with Jackie, not to mention [[DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale forcing herself on him]], and routinely takes her barbs against Eric further than words and sabotages his plans with his friends. She never suffers any repercussions from her actions that last any further than a single episode, and is always Red's little girl.
533* KidsRaidingTheWineCabinet: Early seasons feature numerous gags (and entire episodes) about the guys trying to get their hands on beer - in fact, the reason Eric gets the Vista Cruiser is because he overhears Red and Bob discussing how little trade-in value the car has whilst attempting to sneak beers downstairs from the adult party upstairs. The trope was eventually retired as the show progressed, as the characters had aged to the point where they could buy their own beer legally.
534* KissingCousins: In "Eric's Hot Cousin", Eric meets his cousin, Penny, after several years, and she is now [[SheIsAllGrownUp all grown up]], leaving Eric trying to fight off incestuous feelings. When she reveals she's adopted and propositions him, he is about to happily give in [[spoiler:before she reveals it was a prank she pulled in revenge to one he pulled on her when they were kids]].
535* KnightInShiningArmor: Jackie views Hyde literally as one after he sticks up for her, much to his displeasure. The audience sees Hyde as Jackie sees him in an ImagineSpot, even as he repeatedly insists that he's not that kind of guy.
536* TheLadette: Donna doesn't have too many feminine traits. Eric first fell for her after she ''punched him in the gut''.
537* LadyDrunk: Kitty hits the drinks quite often in the series, mostly after she hits menopause.
538* LanguageFluencyDenial: Fez tries to use this excuse when the gang are busted by the Mounties when trying to cross the border with Canadian beer.
539* LaserGuidedKarma: Kelso cheated on Jackie with Laurie, only to later on learn that Laurie is cheating on him. Unlike other examples in this trope, a hurt Kelso (dumb as he is) realizes how much he hurt Jackie and therefore believes he deserved to be hurt like this himself.
540* LastNameBasis: Everybody, except Jackie (after they start dating), Kitty and Red, calls Steven Hyde "Hyde", and everybody, except Jackie and Kitty, calls Michael Kelso "Kelso". Hyde calls Eric Forman "Forman". Casey Kelso calls Donna by her last name.
541* LastSecondWordSwap: Combined with RuleOfThree in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ycOvrgqmt2Q this scene]]; the boys are talking about boobs, but Eric and Hyde swap out their words each time Eric's parents come in. When the topic changes to talking about Red, Kelso swaps out his words with "breasts the size of watermelons" when Red walked in the second time.
542* LastSupperSteal: In an early episode of ''Series/That70sShow'', after Eric agrees to streak at a political rally with his friends, he informs the rest of the group that nobody can find out since "If my father finds out what we're planned, he will nail me to the wall," at which point a heavenly glow seems to hit the table and everyone is frozen in the poses from ''Art/TheLastSupper'' with Eric as Christ.
543--> Jackie: ''(walking by)'' Why are you all sitting on one side of the table?
544* LaxativePrank: In "Dine and Dash", the rest of the gang split out of a meal early and leave Donna and Eric with the check. To "show that they're good sports", Donna and Eric make a batch of special brownies. Afterwards, they reveal that the special ingredient wasn't marijuana but [[BlandNameProduct Chocolate Super Lax]].
545* LazilyGenderFlippedName: Hyde makes fun of Eric by calling him "Erica". Michael who goes by his surname Kelso laughs because you can't do that with "Kelso", at which point Hyde sarcastically points out that he'd be "Michelle". Eric and Kelso then struggle for a few seconds to think of a name for mocking name Hyde ("Hyde-o...lina?"), before he exasperatedly snaps "Heidi!"
546* LessEmbarrassingTerm: Eric has a collection of ''Franchise/GIJoe'' and ''Franchise/StarWars'' toys. He calls them "action figures", everybody else calls them "dolls".
547* LesYay: In-universe example; Kelso thinks that Series/LaverneAndShirley are "one bottle of wine away from making out", just like Jackie and Donna. Jackie occasionally makes jibes that Donna is gay, the pair falling neatly into the butch/femme stereotypes and they grow increasingly close as the series progresses (partly through simple female solidarity as the only girls in the overwhelmingly male group). When the gang goes skinny dipping Donna comments that it's always cool to see her and Jackie naked, Jackie grinning in agreement.
548* LikeAGodToMe: When the (false) revelation that Eric slept with Midge hits, everyone is shocked and Kelso yells, "Eric! You are a god!" He and Fez then bow down to him.
549* LikesOlderMen: In "Red and Stacey", Red Forman talks with a young cashier from Price Mart about being a good girl for his son Eric (as a way to cheer it up after his breakup with Donna), but she instead touches Red's leg with a naughty face implying she likes Red. Eric later realized about this when he decided to talk with this girl and she asked every time if Red would be in house too.
550* LikesOlderWomen: When Kelso and Fez go to the grocery store to try and pick up an older woman for Fez, they grab one woman's butt while she's bending over in the produce section. The woman turns out to be Kitty, who takes the boys home and warns them about the cougars that prowl that store. As she's leaving, she turns around and thanks them for the compliment, which she says made her day.
551* LousyLoversAreLosers:
552** In "Afterglow", after Donna and Eric have TheirFirstTime, Eric feels ecstatic but Donna was very disappointed with the experience. When she confesses it to Jackie, Jackie immediately interprets it as Eric being bad in bed. When Donna protests and claims she was probably bad at it too, Jackie replies that "It's not up to the woman to be good". And despite Donna asking her to keep it a secret, [[CannotKeepASecret Jackie immediately tells Kelso]] that "Eric was lame in the sack", who quickly proceeds to tell it to the guys so he can "burn" Eric with it. At first, Eric is crushed and has a fight with Donna, but by the end of the episode they talk and agree they both need "practice" and their second time is... a ''little'' better.
553** PlayedWith in "Whole Lotta Love". When the virgin Fez has his [[TheirFirstTime first time with Nina]], his sexual inexperience makes for an awful and awkward experience. His friends all pity him, and he fears that this means Nina will break up with him but she instead suggests that they practice until he gets better.
554--->'''Fez:''' Well, our faces didn't line up right, so I kept bumping my chin on her nose. And then there were some sounds.\
555'''Hyde:''' What kind of sounds?\
556'''Fez:''' Well, I will say this, it was not applause. [[IdealizedSex There was no romantic music like in the movies]], so I had to hum. And then Nina told me to stop humming. And, uh, then I started again without realizing it. And then she got mad. And then I think she got sad. (...) And then afterwards, I went into the bathroom, and, uh... And [[CryingAfterSex cried a little]]. And then [[NotStayingForBreakfast I snuck out the back door]].\
557'''Donna:''' Poor Fez. Well, you know, at least it [[TemptingFate couldn't have been any worse]].\
558'''Fez:''' I left my underwear in her bathroom.
559%%* LovableAlphaBitch: Jackie, in the later seasons.
560* LovableSexManiac: Fez's lechery is almost always played for laughs.
561* LoveTriangle:
562** One develops between Kelso/Jackie/Hyde. Kelso eventually pulls a IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy.
563** The producers initially wanted the love triangle to be Eric/Donna/Hyde, the seeds of which can be seen in a few episodes of the first season, but the idea was dropped.
564* LysistrataGambit: Played with in "Who Wants It More," in which Eric and Donna decide to hold out on each other after an argument over a school report. While Eric caves in the end, Donna had to bluff her way for him to concede as a last-ditch effort. Donna accidentally gives her mother the idea (she's either so horny or such an airhead it's never even occurred to her). Instead of offering advice, she cheerfully announces that she's getting the bathroom painted.
565* TheMasochismTango:
566** Jackie and Hyde. Before they got together, their interactions consisted almost entirely of slinging barbs and insults at each other. Continues in a pale imitation during their relationship.
567--->'''Fez''': Your relationship was one of the sickest freaking things I've ever seen. You're two deeply disturbed individuals and your union -- well, your was a blasphemy!
568** Also applies to Kelso and Jackie, especially after they got back together.
569* ManlyTears: When Eric presents him with a ticket to a Green Bay Packers game, Red immediately begins trembling with happiness. He then runs out of the room as he starts to cry the joyful version of this trope.
570* MarijuanaIsLSD: Some episodes show what the characters see after coming out of a "Circle". Let's just say, seeing people swap heads is an exaggeration of weed's effects.
571* MasturbationMeansSexualFrustration: Fez very frequently talks or alludes to masturbating, to illustrate his sexual frustration over being a virgin.
572* MayTheFarceBeWithYou: Being that the show takes place in the late '70s, Franchise/StarWars spoofs and references abound.
573* MeadowRun: Somewhat subverted. In "Going to California", Eric and Donna run across a beach in slow-motion, but stop short of hugging and stand at arm's length to talk. Then Kelso [[MoodWhiplash totally ruins the moment]] by tackling Donna to the ground, claiming that he "won" the foot race.
574* MeanBoss: Red is one of these as the manager of Price Mart, and doesn't deny it if you mention it to him. When the rest of the family is congratulating Red on getting the job, Hyde says "God help the poor bastards who work for you!" Red merely smiles and laughs, taking it as a compliment.
575* MirrorReveal: When Kelso is up for inspection at the police academy, Hyde and Fez, who think that Kelso is becoming a "square", shave his mustache when he's asleep the night before. When the inspector fails him, Kelso starts yelling at Fez and Hyde, and when they show him a mirror, he admits that the Hitler mustache is a good burn.
576* MiseryBuildsCharacter: According to Red, "In order for [my son] to be a responsible adult, he ''has'' to be miserable now!"
577* TheMissusAndTheEx: In "Time Is on My Side", Bob begins reconnecting with his ex-wife Midge while he's in the middle of a relationship with Pam. Naturally, both women don't get along, and are angry with Bob over his inability to pick between them. Ultimately, Pam makes the decision to leave and gets PutOnABus for the rest of the series.
578* MistakenForGay:
579** Eric. Buddy tried taking it a step further.
580** In "Gimme Shelter" has this happen with Kelso and Fez. They're looking for an apartment and find a great one only to discover the landlord is Fenton, an enemy of Fez, who refuses them a lease. As they're leaving Kelso comments that they'll have to find some place to live with the baby, [[spoiler:referring to his with Brooke]], however, Fenton misinterprets this and lets them move in since he can't turn away two men raising a baby.
581* MonkeysOnATypewriter: In "Battle of the Sexists", Eric compares Donna making a basket to monkeys writing ''Hamlet''.
582* MoonLandingHoax: In the episode "Can't You Hear Me Knocking": Kelso accidentally threatens the president and the gang start to believe that everything is the Feds coming to arrest them. Even a car parking outside the house.
583-->'''Eric''': The Feds wouldn't park a car right outside my house.\
584'''Hyde''': Everything you think the Government aren't doing, they are doing, the only thing they didn't do was land man on the moon, [[Creator/StevenSpielberg Spielberg]] shot the whole thing in a Hollywood movie set, that's how he got the job for ''Film/{{Jaws}}''!
585* MoreDeadlyThanTheMale: Basically: Guys can mess around in a fight. If girls fight; [[CombatPragmatist they fight]].
586* MsFanservice: Once Creator/MilaKunis turned eighteen the show went all out, putting Jackie and Donna in various sexy outfits. Samantha Hyde's entire purpose was to be this. Laurie and several female guest stars also filled this trope.
587* MultipleDemographicAppeal: The show was expected to fare well with teens and young adults (i.e. those around the same age as the cast), and it did, but the makers were surprised following the pilot at how popular it was among middle-aged adults (i.e. those who'd been teens/young adults during the time-frame of the show).
588* MushroomSamba:
589** The show managed to do implied or obvious cannabis use OnceAnEpisode and still keep it funny, with a RunningGag of all characters standing in a circle and talking about the events of the episode.
590** One Samba moment happens when Eric goes upstairs to make toast and runs into his father, Red; while they talk, the wall in the background is moving. Also, the adults once accidentally eat a batch of "special brownies" made by Hyde. HilarityEnsues.
591** "Bohemian Rhapsody" has Kitty voluntarily smokes a joint in the bathroom, and sees Red and Hyde's bodies morph.
592* MusicalEpisode: That '70s Musical, the 100th episode.
593* MusicalThemeNaming: From the fifth season on, the episodes shared the names of songs of rock bands. Season five=Music/LedZeppelin, season six=Music/TheWho, season seven=Music/{{The Rolling Stones|Band}}, season eight=Music/{{Queen}}.
594* NakedFirstImpression:
595** Fez saw Donna for the first time when he and Hyde [[AccidentalPervert walked in on her changing her clothes]].
596* NakedInMink: Kitty tells Donna that when Red left for Korea, she gave him a boudoir photo of her wearing nothing but a fur coat.
597* NerdNanny: Donna and/or Jackie for Eric, Kelso, and Fez.
598* NeverSayDie: The show refrains from using the word "marijuana" or any of the common slang for it. They often refer to it as "the stash" or "stuff". Some of the adults call it "marijuana" once or twice. But mostly it's just "the stash" or they leave the viewer to make the obvious conclusion. Every use of the word "pot" played with this but turned out to be a real pot (in a Poker game, kitchenware, that sort of stuff). Red tends to call it dope, and as such, refers to anyone using it as dopeheads or hopheads.
599* NiceMeanAndInbetween: Eric and Fez are nice, Jackie and Hyde are mean, and Kelso and Donna are in-between.
600* NixonMask: Played straight in "Streaking" when the guys decide to streak during a presidential campaign stop in town, with Eric wearing said NixonMask.
601* NoAccountingForTaste: The relationship between Jackie and Hyde.
602* NoIndoorVoice: Kelso has the loudest voice of anyone in the group, especially when he's angry or excited. There's a reason why his catchphrase is yelling "BURN!!!" at the top of his lungs.
603* NoNameGiven: Fez is short for "foreign exchange student". His actual name is played with during "Class Picture," where he ''does'' say it, but is [[TheUnreveal drowned out]] by the sound of a school bell. During this scene, Fez' actor just said the names of all of the main actors in a row quickly.
604* NoodleIncident: Fez never does get around to telling that story of how he came to be naked in the basement; although he is quite eager to relate it, the others are determined to keep cutting him off.
605** And then there was what happened when someone finally asked Red about his threats to put his foot up various peoples' asses.
606--->'''Hyde''': You ever actually do that with your foot?\
607'''Red''': Once, when I was at Iwo Jima... I can't talk about that.
608** In "Fun It", it wasn't the first time Bob got into a fight with a ceramic clown.
609* NoSmoking:
610** We never see anyone actually smoke marijuana, although we do sometimes see a smoky room and it is very strongly implied.
611** Subverted when smoking ''cigarettes'' is prevalent during the earlier seasons, especially with Kitty.
612** There were a few hints that Hyde might be a smoker: he had no trouble smoking Donna's cigarette in season two, and put a cigarette butt in the beer Samantha was about to drink in season eight. Then there was the time that Kitty closed her eyes and demanded a cigarette when she was trying to quit smoking. An arm of one of the kids comes into frame with a cigarette. We didn't see the person who handed it to her, but Hyde was wearing denim and the arm had a denim sleeve. After she was handed the cigarette, all five members of the group present at the time pulled out lighters to light it.
613** When Red punished Eric by making him smoke a pack of cigarettes, he apparently did it offscreen.
614* NotHelpingYourCase: The B-plot of Season 3's "Roller Disco" featured Red being sued by [[TheSlacker Earl]] for wrongful dismissal after Red fired him from Price Mart. Red and Earl both do this at the labor board's hearing about Earl's complaint.
615** First, Red can barely restrain his TranquilFury when he thinks the labor board mediator is calling him a liar. Later, when the mediator asks Eric what he thinks of Red's leadership style, he stammers nervously until Red yells at him to "just answer the question, dumbass!"
616** The mediator still rules in Red's favor, since Earl is over [[EpicFail seventy minutes late]] for his own hearing. The mediator even {{Lampshades}} this trope to Earl, having realized that Red was justified in firing him.
617* NotSoAboveItAll: In "Baby, Don't Do It," even Jackie starts giggling like a schoolgirl after explaining to Fez that "penal code" doesn't mean what he think it does.
618** Also, when Red decides to help Eric prank Kelso.
619* NotNowKiddo: Kelso tells Jackie to watch him drink his eggs in "The Kids Are Alright." Jackie tries to tell him something, only for Kelso to keep shutting her up, saying that whatever it is can wait till after he has drunk his eggs. She does so and after he has drunk his eggs, reminds him that he is actually allergic to eggs.
620* OfficialCouple: Eric/Donna, Red/Kitty and in season 8, [[spoiler:Fez/Jackie]].
621%%* OhWaitThisIsMyGroceryList
622* OnceAnEpisode: Red threatening to put his foot up someone's ass. Not to mention "The Circle".
623* OneHeadTaller:
624** Kelso and Jackie.
625** GenderFlipped by Eric and Donna, who are a Huge Girl Scrawny Guy duo (though they ''are'' the same height).
626** And also by Fez and Big Rhonda.
627** Donna and Jackie. Almost all their scenes were staged with them sitting to work around this.
628* OnePhoneCall: In "Stolen Car", the boys are arrested for driving a car that was (mistakenly) reported as stolen. They get one phone call, and Kelso decides to call Jackie, because her father is a lawyer and she has a checkbook. When Jackie hears that Kelso is in jail, she promises that she'll sleep with him (for the first time) once he gets out. Kelso is so excited by this that he hangs up without telling her to bail them out.
629* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname:
630** "Fez" (so-called due to his OverlyLongName - see below) [[WordOfGod is said to be]] [[FunWithAcronyms an acronym for]] '''F'''oreign '''E'''xchange '''S'''tudent.
631** Red, as revealed in "Grandma's Dead," where his mother dies. As he says, "She was the first one to call me 'Red.'" His real name is Reginald.
632* OohMeAccentsSlipping:
633** Jackie's line from her first Circle "I totally forgot why I was laughing, isn't that funny?" is said with a barely noticeable, but impossible to unhear once you do hear it, hint of a Russian accent. Mila Kunis' native language is Russian.
634** While convincing Red to take Hyde back in the season 3 premiere, Leo (played by Canadian actor Tommy Chong) pronounces "out" in a decidedly Canadian manner.
635* OutdoorBathPeeping: In "Celebration Day", while camping Eric & Donna are planning to have a TwoPersonPoolParty and Donna leaves camp first while Eric plans to follow her after. But unbeknown to them, Laurie decided to go SkinnyDipping and a naked Eric ends up walking on her instead, to [[NakedFreakOut their mutual horror]]. And Fez (who was planning on peeking on Laurie) ends up finding the naked Donna instead, who also has a NakedFreakOut and has to [[TantrumThrowing throw rocks at him to get him to leave]].
636* OutOfFocus: Due to Mila Kunis being underage during the filming of the first half of the series, she noticeably had less screen time than her costars, the best examples being "Too Old to Trick or Treat, Too Young to Die" where she only appeared in the cold open, the first scene after the title sequence and the end tag, and "Uncomfortable Ball Stuff" where not only did she appear in only one scene, [[MandatoryLine she also had only one line]]. She turned 18 around the series' halfway point and appeared just as much as everybody else in the show's second half.
637* OverlyLongName: Fez' real name and home country; taken to the point of a RunningGag. When Fez does say his real name but is drowned out by the bell, in real life he was reciting all the actors on the series' names.
638* PairTheDumbOnes:
639** In early seasons there's the couple of Kelso and Jackie, both being ditzy, shallow, and obsessed with their physical appearance.
640** Invoked by Hyde when Kelso hooks up with Eric's slutty sister Laurie.
641-->'''Hyde''': No offense, Mrs. Forman, but those two could make the dumbest babies ever.
642** Donna's parents are not very bright, being a BumblingDad and a BrainlessBeauty.
643* ParentalAbandonment:
644** Hyde's mother abandons him at the end of season one, and the Formans take him in. In season five, Jackie's father is imprisoned, and her mother leaves, so she moves in with Donna for a while.
645** Fez's host parents kick him out when they realize he actually graduated a year ago.
646* ParentalSubstitute:
647** Kitty [[TeamMom mothers the teenagers as if they were her own children]], and tries to help them with their problems, even going so far as to adopt Hyde after his mother abandons him. Red also ends up [[TeamDad getting involved on more than one occasion]], much to his displeasure.
648** Kitty mothers Jackie around when her dad is jailed and her mom is abroad. She also seems to view Red as a substitute father figure, given how often she's hugged him when she's feeling stressed.
649* ParentWithNewParamour: A sub-plot at the end of season 6 had Donna and Jackie being deeply uncomfortable about their parents dating each other, but for different reasons: Donna because she thinks Pam is a slutty GoldDigger and Jackie because he's [[UglyGuyHotWife not attractive enough for her mom]].
650* ThePermanentRecord: In the episode "Halloween," the gang sneaks into their old elementary school, which burned down years ago, for some Halloween hi-jinks, but decide to leave soon after because they're not having any fun. Just as they're about to go, Jackie and Donna rejoin the others and show off some file folders from the principal's office containing their permanent records. When they open Hyde's file, they read a note from his second grade teacher that he's a born trouble maker after he lied about smashing another student's project, to which he still insists he didn't do. Just then, Eric admits to smashing the project because he was jealous, and Hyde then gets angry at Eric and blames him for getting yelled at in front of the class, and Eric's the reason he's been treated like a criminal ever since. When Hyde opens Jackie's file he tells everyone [[EmbarrassingMiddleName her middle name is Beulah]], and finally they all turn on Kelso for lying about his age. He got held back and was now 18, and could have legally bought them beer. He didn't bring it up at all (the rest of the gang are 17, and the legal drinking age in Wisconsin at the time was 18). Finally, they decide to make peace and [[LetUsNeverSpeakOfThisAgain agree to forget the night's events]] and bury the records since they figured they couldn't be burned.
651* ThePreciousPreciousCar: Red Forman is very attached his 1950's Corvette convertible and doesn't let anyone touch it let alone drive it. In "Eric's Corvette Caper," Eric took the car on a joyride while his parents were out of town in order to impress a cheerleader. He accidentally drives the car into a ditch, it doesn't get damaged but it gets covered in mud and he has to clean it before his dad gets home. He succeeds but his cover is blown when his dad starts the car and finds the radio tuned to a different station.
652* PrefersGoingBarefoot: Due to her towering height over the rest of the cast, Laura Prepon was encouraged by the producers to not wear shoes as often as possible in her scenes. That is why Donna Pinciotti is either barefoot or wearing socks much more frequently than anyone else on the show.
653* PregnancyScare: In "The Pill", Jackie has a pregnancy scare. Donna starts taking the titular contraceptive, so the same thing wouldn't happen to her.
654* PresentDayPast:
655** The show was ''very'' good about the costumes and hair, but people didn't [[ThisIsForEmphasisBitch add "bitch" at the end of sentences]] back then, or call each other "whore", "dumbass" or "porky mouth", or shout "BURN!".
656** Sometimes items from TheEighties appear in scenes. Examples include the Super Speak and Spell and the Intellivision II.
657** Whenever Eric's ''Star Wars'' toys were shown, they were rarely the original ones from the Seventies, but rather the contemporary ones from TheNineties and the TurnOfTheMillennium. Oddly enough, Boba Fett is mentioned in "Young Man Blues," which would appear to be an example of this, but he was actually introduced in 1978 in the infamous ''Film/TheStarWarsHolidaySpecial''.
658** If you look closely in any of the DrivingADesk scenes, sometimes modern cars are seen in the background. This is also present in the theme song.
659* PrettyBoy: Kelso is better described as "pretty" than "handsome". [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] by Kelso himself.
660-->'''Kelso''': I'm what's known as "man-pretty".
661* PrimalScene: Eric once walks in on his parents having sex in "Water Tower." He is pretty traumatized by the experience.
662-->'''Kitty''': Oh, Red!\
663'''Red''': Oh, Kitty!\
664'''Eric''': ... ''[staring, horrified]''
665* ProWrestlingEpisode: Red takes the gang to a wrestling match in "That Wrestling Show".
666* ProductPlacement: You'd be surprised how many products from TheSeventies are still around.
667* PutOnABus:
668** After she had a TheOtherDarrin phase during the sixth season, Laurie went to Canada for the rest of the show.
669** Eric was also absent during the final season, though [[BackForTheFinale he returned for the series finale]].
670** Kelso appeared in only four episodes of the final season before going to Chicago but also returned for the finale.
671** Midge Pinciotti who suddenly divorced Bob and only returned at the end of season 6.
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673
674[[folder:Tropes Q to Z]]
675%%* QueerPeopleAreFunny: Fez's mortal enemy, Fenton.
676* RawEggsMakeYouStronger: Subverted and PlayedForLaughs in "The Kids Are Alright." Kelso attempts to impress Jackie by working out and during a conversation with her announces that he's going to drink a cup of raw eggs. She tries to say something and he rudely stops her, drinking the eggs anyway. When he's done, she reminds him that he's allergic to eggs.
677* RealLifeWritesThePlot:
678** Lisa Robin Kelly was fired from the show in season 3 due to her drinking and substance abuse problems, Laurie having left for beauty school. She was replaced in season 6 after returning the previous year for the same reason.
679** Tanya Roberts left after season 3 to care for her terminally ill husband (this is also why her return in seasons 6 and 7 did not stick) . In-universe, Midge left Bob.
680** Donna dyed her hair blonde, because Laura Prepon did so for a film role.
681** [[Creator/CheechAndChong Tommy Chong]] (Leo) was absent for two and a half seasons because of a prison sentence.
682** Eric leaves at the end of season seven and Kelso leaves at the beginning of season eight because Topher Grace and Ashton Kutcher were going to be shooting ''Film/SpiderMan3'' and ''Film/TheGuardian'' respectively at the same time season eight would have been in production. Hence the introduction of Josh Meyers' Randy and Jud Tylor's Samantha to try to fill the void.
683* ReallyGetsAround: Laurie is notoriously promiscuous.
684* RearWindowHomage: In "To Old to Trick or Treat, Too Young Too Die", Fez is stuck in wheelchair with a sprained ankle in the Forman's house. Watching next door with binoculars in the hope of seeing Midge naked, he becomes convinced that Bob has murdered Midge.
685* ReasonYouSuckSpeech:
686** Kitty bashed Laurie with a very simple sentence: "You're a brat, you're goofing off in college and you're mean to your brother".
687** Then there was the time Eric chewed out two [[DumbJock jocks]] who complained that the beer keg at Eric's party had a broken tap...which was broken because [[TooDumbToLive they had broken it a few minutes ago]].
688** In "Love, Wisconsin Style" Red and Kitty give one to Eric after Eric refused to get back with Donna after Casey Kelso dumps her.
689--->'''Eric''': Casey dumps (Donna) and she comes back to me? I'm not a rebound!
690--->'''Red''': So you're too proud to take her back? And what do you have to be so proud of? You're not an athlete! The only smart thing about you is [[DeadpanSnarker your mouth]]! ({{Beat}}) And look at you!
691--->'''Kitty''': Red, He looks fine. He's just so darn stupid!
692** Hyde gives one to Eric in "The Good Son".
693---> You know Forman, I used to think Red was a real hardass, but after doing your chores for the last five days, I've come to the conclusion that you're just a lazy, spoiled brat.
694* RecurringCameraShot: A regular occurrence - nearly OnceAnEpisode - is the Circle where the camera spins around between the characters as they're implied to be passing a joint around.
695* RelationshipSabotage: Given that this show is about relationships between teenagers/youths, this would inevitably happen. Very often Kelso is the butt of it.
696** During the affair between Laurie and Kelso, Hyde would try to set up situations for Kelso to get caught by Jackie. Unlike most other examples, Hyde did it [[ItAmusedMe to entertain himself]] and there wasn't any jealousy involved. He had at least succeeded in rousing Jackie's suspicions.
697** Laurie deliberately kissed an unwitting Kelso in front of Jackie, finally exposing Kelso's cheating on Jackie and thus angering Jackie into breaking up with him.
698** Occasionally throughout the series, Fez would attempt to sabotage the relationship between Kelso and Jackie by badmouthing Kelso and/or presenting himself as a better option for Jackie. That never worked. On a similar note, in season 5, Kelso was offended that Hyde was dating Jackie, and resort to either win Jackie back or ruin the relationship.
699** Averted for the love triangle between Eric, Donna, and Hyde in Season 1. It was [[AbortedArc so short-lived]] that it never escalated beyond Hyde making his first and only love confession to Donna (which she probably forgot anyway since she was drunk at that time) in the midst of her date with Eric.
700* RepeatedCueTardyResponse: Donna tells Eric to hide in the woods so he can jump out at the end of a ghost story she is going to tell.
701-->'''Donna''': You'll know when she's coming because she screams before she kills. Let's see if we can ''hear her''.\
702''[silence]''\
703'''Donna''': I said, let's see if we can ''hear her!''\
704'''Eric:''' ''[off-screen]'' Donna, I'm stuck in a thorn bush.
705* {{Retcon}}:
706** Donna went from having an older sister named Valerie (mentioned in ''Eric's Birthday'') and younger sister named Tina (seen in ''Eric's Burger Job'') to being an only child starting from season two.
707** Red switched from being anti- to pro-Nixon.
708*** Red's view of the US Government as a whole changed. In the beginning he was bitter about the direction America was going after the war. He angrily remarks that he was [[IWantMyJetpack "promised a hovercraft"]] when he got back. In "Streaking", he shows a dislike towards President Ford and blames him for the poor economy and his plant closing and believes his freedom of speech is being taken away by wealthy political committees who are forcing him to ask the President a dishonest question. He tearfully looks to God and asks "Where's the America I was promised as a boy?" Later seasons would switch Red from being a veteran screwed over by his government to being a typical patroitic conservative GoodOlBoy who is angered by Hyde's antigovernmental statements and seems content with the idea of the government hypothetically putting trackers on people.
709* {{Retool}}: Several changes were made to the show in season 5:
710** Episodes started being named after songs from various '70s bands.
711** Eric became a ''Franchise/StarWars'' geek, despite having shown only casual interest in it in previous seasons.
712** Donna's tendency to be a BitchInSheepsClothing has been downplayed, and some of her previously unseen flaws have surfaced, such as having Bob's levels of bad taste.
713** The [[RelationshipRevolvingDoor on-again, off-again relationship]] between Kelso and Jackie has been broken up for good, Jackie started dating Hyde, which jump-started her CharacterDevelopment and, to a lesser extent, his.
714** With Hyde now paired with Jackie, Kelso took over his place as one of ThoseTwoGuys with Fez.
715* RightForTheWrongReasons: After Eric walked in on Red and Kitty having sex, his subsequent change in behavior led them to believe he was getting high, which of course he was, but that had nothing to do with it.
716* RightWayWrongWayPair: One strange '50s-style fantasy sequence had "Doofus and Diligent" (Kelso and Eric, respectively) working at a fast food restaurant. The segment was an ImagineSpot by Jackie’s dad, using minimal character exaggeration, to show why Eric got the job and Kelso didn’t. Jackie's dad intentionally (and rightly) framed her boyfriend Kelso as "Doofus". Eric, with the threat of his dad's foot up his ass, was of course "Diligent".
717* RockPaperScissors: Hyde and Fez play [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JqIitlAx7uE a variant Hyde invents]] to see who will be Eric's best man. Fez can't get past a PoorPredictableRock strategy, even after a lot of rounds.
718* RoomFullOfCrazy: Never seen, but apparently Fez's girlfriend Caroline had one of these for him.
719* RoundTableShot: A trademark of the show, when the gang gathers and discusses their current situation, often under the influence of pot. A stylistic reference to ''Series/TheWonderYears'', but has become so associated with the show it's not uncommon to hear its use in other media referred to as a "''That '70s Show'' shot".
720* RunningGag:
721** Any time Hyde and Kelso start wrestling with each other, you can practically time when Kelso calls "foul" because he hurt his eye.
722** Fez's country of origin and nationality remain ambiguous throughout the series, even to the other characters.
723** Kelso, Fez, Hyde and Eric have all fallen off the water tower at least once. [[spoiler:Then there was the character who died doing so, and the water tower was renamed after his memory.]]
724** Laurie literally being the devil. (She was apparently born with a tail and everything.)
725** Laurie being extremely easy and sleeping with, oh, ''[[ReallyGetsAround every guy in town]]''.
726** The first season had Kelso saying he was going to break up with Jackie. The gag stops after she breaks up with him (though they get back together a few episodes later.)
727** Fez's feud with clerk then landlord Fenton. Each of their run-ins starts with "Oh, it's you", followed by a shouting match, followed by both men cartoonishly turning in different directions and pouting.
728* SavvyGuyEnergeticGirl: Red and Kitty. Hyde and Jackie are a variation.
729* SceneryCensor: When Hyde makes Fez serve customers naked in the Foto Hut.
730* SceneryGorn: That basement...though it grows on you after a while. Probably the most famous sitcom basement ever.
731* SensitiveGuyAndManlyMan: Eric and Fez are the Sensitive Guys to Hyde and Kelso's Manly Men.
732* SeriousBusiness: Delivering newspapers apparently. In the kid's own words, "I'm a very serious paper boy". He made good on that too, to the point of chasing Kelso down with a remote control plane to get his $2.50 "Plus a fifty cent tip, 'cause I'm GOOD!"
733* SerialEscalation: [[InvokedTrope Invoked]] in "Red Sees Red". His restrictions start with a simple curfew, is followed by watching over the kids while they hang out and removing anything that could be considered "drugs" (Including ''glue''), and then promptly crosses the MoralEventHorizon by nailing the windows shut, showing complete indifference to the possibility of zero escape from a fire for Eric. Same goes for the way the kids try to rebel; It starts out with trying to get away with the stuff they usually do, just in a short amount of time. Then Eric tries jumping out the window, only to find Red waiting right there for him. Then both Eric and Laurie try to sneak Donna and Kelso into their rooms to have sex with them, and culminates with the entire gang trying to push the (demobilized) Vista Cruiser out of the driveway.
734* SexWithTheEx: In "The Relapse" after her mother leaves, Donna is distraught and ends up having SexForSolace with her ex-boyfriend, Eric. Eric believes that this means that they're back together, and is quite upset when he learns that it doesn't.
735* SexySweaterGirl:
736** When Midge left Bob in "The Relapse," [[BuxomBeautyStandard the boys lament over losing "her sweet uptown rack"]].
737---> '''Fez''': Oh, good God, man, what a marvelous set of kittens. Remember that sweater?\
738'''Kelso''': Oh. Remember the other sweater?\
739'''Eric''': Yeah. Remember that time she ran up to us in a sweater?\
740'''Hyde''': Remember the week she took up jump rope? In a sweater?\
741(This is followed by a montage of said sweaters.)
742** After deciding they want to chase older women, Fez and Kelso decide that [[spoiler:Kitty is hot]] and maybe they should buy her a sweater.
743* ShagWagon: Kelso bought his uncle's used van for this very purpose.
744* SheIsAllGrownUp:
745** [[GenderFlip Gender flipped]]--the one who's all grown up is Kelso's brother Casey, and Donna goes ga-ga for him.
746--> '''Donna''': ''[Upon seeing Casey enter a diner]'' Oh my God, it's Casey Kelso and he's so ''dreamy''!
747** Also done with Eric's cousin, Penny, in "Eric's Hot Cousin".
748* ShipSinking: Jackie/Kelso break up for good after season 5. Jackie actually referred to this trope at one point in time: Seeing Kelso's van sink into the frozen pond/river, she remarked that its a sign from God that she and Kelso are not meant to be together.
749* ShipTease: Jackie/Hyde had their fair share of teasing in the early seasons whenever she broke up with Kelso. Both couples actually came to fruition over the course of the series.
750* ShouldersUpNudity:
751** After the gang goes SkinnyDipping and has [[GoneSwimmingClothesStolen their clothes stolen]] in "Hyde Moves In", we see them all wet and naked in the car as they drive back home, but everyone's only seen from the shoulders up.
752** In "Class Picture", when Donna flashes Kelson, the audience only sees her from the shoulders up.
753* In "Celebration Day", when a naked Eric walks in on Laurie (assuming she was Donna), we only see him from the waist up, while Laure has HandOrObjectUnderwear. Similarly when Fez founds the naked Donna, she's only shot from the shoulders up.
754** In "Squeeze Box", Hyde and Red [[AccidentalPervert walk in]] on Pam just as she's got undressed. The scene used a ToplessnessFromTheBack shot in combination with a frontal should where you only see her from above the shoulders to imply her state of undress.
755* ShoutOut:
756** to the actors' names, combined with CallBack to season four (see NoNameGiven above): in season eight, Fez mentioned that the first five Ks of his name were silent. The names of the cast members who were on the show before and during the fourth season have exactly five Ks: Mila '''K'''unis, Ashton '''K'''utcher, '''K'''urtwood Smith, Don Star'''K''' and Lisa Robin '''K'''elly.
757** One episode ends in a ShoutOut to the CultClassic ''Film/ReeferMadness''.
758---> '''Eric''': Thanks to marijuana, I'm incurably insane.!
759** A HalloweenEpisode was made up of stringing together the plotlines of [[Creator/AlfredHitchcock Alfred Hitchcock's]] most famous films.
760*** Eric is plagued with vertigo after seeing Fez fall off the roof when he was hanging off it. Donna then puts on an outfit reminiscent of Madeleine and falls off a water tower, mimicking the ending of ''Film/{{Vertigo}}''.
761*** Fez breaks his leg from said fall, and is confined to Eric's bedroom for the rest of the day, watching the Pinciotti's house in a manner similar to ''Film/RearWindow''.
762*** Kitty goes to a neighbor's house to take care of some birds, which get loose and reenact scenes from ''Film/TheBirds''.
763*** Kelso is attacked by a plane just like in ''Film/NorthByNorthwest'' and then gets attacked by Laurie in the shower as in ''Film/{{Psycho}}''. He also makes reference to "cases of mistaken identity", a common theme in Hitchcock film.
764** Fez parodies ''Series/CharliesAngels'' with his own "Fez's Angel's". Ironically the real Charlie's Angel in the cast, Tanya Roberts, doesn't appear in the episode.
765** Leo's origin (and Leo himself in many ways) is similar to [[Series/{{Taxi}} Reverend Jim Ignatowski's]].
766** During S2, when Bob and Midge decide to date other people, their dates' names are Ted and Carol, a ShoutOut to ''Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice''.
767** In "Sally Simpson" (itself a reference to Music/TheWho), the therapist who observes the Formans is named [[Music/TheBeatles Stuart Sutcliffe]], of all things.
768* ShutUpKiss: Donna is fond of giving these to Eric.
769* SiblingRivalry: Eric and Laurie. It ends up spilling over to Hyde in "The Good Son" when both of them team up against him. Red and Kitty are just not good at loving one child equally.
770* SignificantNameShift: Originally everyone calls Steven Hyde by his last name. Jackie, however, starts calling him "Steven" when she becomes romantically interested in him.
771* SignsOfDisrepair: "Neighbours complaining about your loud muff###?"
772* SitcomArchNemesis: Fenton, to Fez. Also Laurie, to Jackie.
773** Hyde and Jackie had this at first but it soon blossomed into a mutual understanding (albeit with a lot of bickering) that became a RelationshipUpgrade.
774* SliceOfLife: The show focuses on the day-to-day lives of six teenagers [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin in the 70s]].
775* SlowClap: After Bob (rightfully) calls out Donna & Jackie for trying to breaking him & Pam up because they were [[ParentWithNewParamour uncomfortable with their parents dating]], he finishes off by declaring that "the old Bob" who dated women ''far'' more attractive than him is back. Cue slow clap by the guys.
776* SlutShaming:
777** Most of the jokes that are made about Laurie is that she sleeps with numerous men, including Kelso and one of her college professors, but those jokes are considered okay because of how bitchy she acts to everyone, including her frequent snarking against Eric, his friends, and Kitty, the way she sucks up to Red, and how she actively tried to destroy Kelso's relationship with Jackie. The only time Laurie doesn't seem to enjoy being called a slut is in Season 2's "Laurie Moves Out." Red finds out she's living with a guy and is furious. He says no one will buy the cow if they get the milk for free, and she's visibly wounded, which was the one time Eric felt like it wasn't funny anymore.
778** In Season 8, there are many jokes made about Jackie being a slut, though she's never seen dating anyone, yet [[DoubleStandard Fez sleeps with a number of women]] through the season and at least four in one episode.
779** A more serious (and rare male example) happens when Red finds out his old war buddy Bull, who had just offered him a job, was a swinger. Red immediately tells Bull that he doesn't know him anymore and ends their friendship. Red actually said that Bull didn't deserve his success because he was a pervert.
780** In season 6, Pam gets a lot of slut shaming from Kitty and Donna when she starts dating Bob (Not helped by her GoldDigger ways), such as when Kitty snarked at her for wearing a SexySlitDress.
781-->'''Kitty:''' Pamela, I noticed that your skirt was torn all the way up to your thigh.\
782'''Pam:''' No, I actually bought it this way. See, most skirts are only slit up to the knee, but [[ProudBeauty I think people want to see more than that]].
783* SocialServicesDoesNotExist: Edna's gone for weeks before the Formans step in, and although Hyde makes jokes about it, his home life is pretty abusive.
784-->'''Hyde''': "We never had waffles at my house. My mom always said a waffle iron was a luxury, like pillowcases, or not getting hit."
785* SorryOciffer: Almost word-for-word.
786-->'''Leo''': "Is there a problem, Ociffer?"
787 * SoundEffectBleep: Twice on the season eight episode "Fun It", with Randy using an actual clown horn ("Find me a really trashy clown hooker with ''long'' legs and a pair of double D ''[honk honk]''" and "Well, kids, looks like you're really in some deep ''[honk honk]''") while imitating the Fatso Burger clown.
788* SpecialGuest:
789** The show had many guest stars who used to act in 1970s sitcoms, such as Marion Ross and Tom Bosley from ''Series/HappyDays'', Creator/BettyWhite, Valerie Harper, Gavin [=MacLeod=] and Creator/MaryTylerMoore from ''Series/TheMaryTylerMooreShow'', Creator/DonKnotts and Richard Kline from ''Series/ThreesCompany'', Tom Poston and Jack Riley from ''Series/TheBobNewhartShow'', Danny Bonaduce and Shirley Jones from ''Series/ThePartridgeFamily'' and Eve Plumb, Barry Williams and Christopher Knight from ''Series/TheBradyBunch''.
790** Several musicians who were famous in the '70s also appeared such as Music/AliceCooper, Music/TedNugent, Gloria Gaynor, Charo and Roger Daltrey (from Music/TheWho).
791** Younger celebrities, like Wrestling/DwayneJohnson/The Rock (playing his own father, Ricky Johnson), Creator/SethGreen, fellow ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' alum Creator/ElizaDushku and Creator/LindsayLohan also guest starred.
792** There are also a few instances where people known more for their voice acting have guest-starred. Nick Bakay ([[WesternAnimation/AngryBeavers Norbert]] and [[Series/SabrinaTheTeenageWitch Salem]]) was a truck driver who helped Kelso reach Jackie's ski cabin, Creator/GreyDeLisle ([[WesternAnimation/TheGrimAdventuresOfBillyAndMandy Mandy]] and [[WesternAnimation/DannyPhantom Sam]]) played an English teacher that Fez lusted for at the prom, and Creator/TomKenny shows up as a constantly put-down dog mascot at the theme park the gang goes to. The legendary Creator/DanCastellaneta ([[WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons Homer Simpson]]) as well did a turn as the INS agent tasked with checking up on the legitimacy of Fez and Laurie's marriage.
793* SpeedSex: In "The Velvet Rope", Jackie and Kelso are shown kissing and laying down on her bed. [[SexyDiscretionShot The camera then shifts]] to a 1970s-style [[TimePassesMontage digital clock as it ticks away...]] two minutes.
794* SpellMyNameWithAnS:
795** "Fez" is an acronym for "'''F'''oreign '''E'''xchange '''S'''tudent", so it should be spelled with an "s".
796** At least in fandom, the Formans' name is occasionally spelled with an "e" in the middle.
797* SpinOff:
798** An indirect one with ''Series/That80sShow'', set in 1984 San Diego. It didn't include anyone from this show and was heavily criticized for being a wannabe ''That 70s Show'', leading to its cancellation after only a season.
799** A more direct example launched in 2023 with ''Series/That90sShow'', in which Eric's 15 year old daughter spends the summer of 1995 staying with her grandparents and hanging out in their basement. Whilst only Creator/KurtwoodSmith and Creator/DebraJoRupp return as series regulars, the vast majority of the original cast appear over the course of the first season.
800* SplitScreen: Done a few times when two sets of characters are talking about the same thing (usually each other).
801* SkinnyDipping:
802** The episode "Hyde Moves In" had the gang skinny dipping in the ColdOpen and lead to GoneSwimmingClothesStolen situation where they had to drive back home naked.
803** In "Graduation", Eric and Donna plan to go skinny dipping together, only to get lost and Eric finds his sister Laurie swimming naked instead while [[ThePeepingTom Fez]] walks in on Donna.
804* StacysMom:
805** Midge Pinciotti. The boys have all fantasized and made lewd comments about her, and even spied on her. Fez and Kelso fell prostrate and worshipped Eric when they mistakenly believed he'd shagged her.
806** Kitty also gets her fair share of attention.
807-->'''Fez''': I am attracted to Miss Kitty [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment in a sexual way]].
808** The boys similarly have the hots for Jackie's mom Pam, and merely being in her presense often makes them DistractedByTheSexy.
809%% * StagingAnIntervention: Multiple pot interventions, including one for Hyde's sobriety, of all things.
810* StatusQuoIsGod:
811** Laurie became a (relatively) better person by the end of season 5, but reverted back to her JerkAss manners in season 6 before being written out. This was possibly due to writers hastily writing the character out of the show when it became clear that the original actress will no longer return and the replacement actress simply couldn't pull off the same role as effectively.
812** Red would always be disappointed in Eric. No matter what achievement or CharacterDevelopment Eric had accomplished, he would often mess up by the end of the episode or story arc. Even if not, Red on subsequent episodes would continue treating Eric as if he is still the same "dumbass" as before.
813** From season 1 to 6, Hyde will always have parental abandonment issues, be it from his mother or father... Even if the father returns, he would abandon him in the next season.
814* StepfordSmiler: When in critical situations, Kitty usually has to force a smile.
815* StockSitcomGrandFinale: The empty basement, as the characters count down the last seconds of 1979 upstairs.
816* TheStoner: Leo is by far the most prominent example. All the main kid characters are as well.
817* StonersAreFunny: The Circle scenes, which show them smoking something that's very obviously pot but is never officially confirmed as pot. They occur in every episode and the conversations that follow are (almost always) hilarious.
818* StrictlyFormula: An awful lot of episodes featured Eric pissing off Donna (by saying or doing something), her rejecting him, both talking to their respective friends and family about it, and then Donna forgiving Eric and one of them apologizing.
819* StupidestThingIveEverHeard: Jackie says this when Kelso justifies his cheating on her as a reaction to her constantly insulting his intelligence. Kelso realizes she's just insulted him yet again, tells her he isn't sorry for cheating on her, and dumps her himself.
820* StupidSexyFlanders: Kelso. Even the girls who hate him can't deny he's good-looking.
821* SuddenlyEthnicity: Hyde and his real family, as his father is later revealed to be [[spoiler: a black man]].
822* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome:
823** Eric, Donna, Jackie, Fez, (and maybe, maybe not) Kelso when it comes to losing their virginity. They hyped it as a goal that was especially important and special. When that moment actually arrived... "Meh". Donna and Jackie admitted that their first time with Eric and Kelso respectively didn't feel impressive at all. Before hearing that, Eric and Kelso were cluelessly ecstatic. An "interview montage" with Laurie, Midge, and Kitty revealed that their own first-time wasn't impressive either. And finally, Fez described his first-time with Nina as somewhat disastrous. After all, in real life a novice ''IS'' unimpressive.
824---> Kitty: "and it was just wonderful... eventually."
825** Eric trying to kick open a door. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZ4rXeMgQNE It isn't as easy as in the films.]]
826* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute:
827** Randy for Eric. Only the audience had spent time with Eric and gotten used to his foibles unlike with Randy, who was so obviously meant as a replacement the fanbase rejected him with some ire.
828** Charlie was originally meant to be one for Eric, but the actor didn't stay for the season, so the character has been killed off.
829** In Leo's absence, his role as Hyde's paternal figure has been filled by Roy in season 6 and WB in season 7.
830* SweetTooth: Fez
831--> '''Fez (on Halloween, when he goes trick or treating)''': An apple? WHERE'S MY CANDY, YOU SON OF A BITCH?!
832* TakeThat: Working at Grooves allowed Hyde and Randy to voice quite a few [[TakeThat Take Thats]] at some music artists of the era.
833--> '''Randy (to a client)''': Thank you. Enjoy your Ann Murray... though I don't see how that's possible.
834** Another aimed at Peter Frampton:
835---> '''Peter Frampton''': The talentless idiot a million teenage girls made a star!
836** Red and Kitty also snarked at popular TV shows of the era, such as Series/GilligansIsland:
837--->'''Red''' Oh, Gilligan screwed it up! He always screws it up! Why don't they just kill him?
838*** And [[Series/BradyBunchSpinOffs The Brady Bunch Hour]]:
839--->'''Red''': Who the hell gave those people a whole hour?!?\
840'''Kitty''': Oh my God, this ''is'' crap.
841* TakingTheHeat: Hyde does this for Jackie after she's caught with a bag of pot. He spends the night in jail and is almost kicked out of the Formans house until Donna tells Kitty and Red what happened. Kitty thinks it was a noble gesture while Red chews Hyde out for risking his entire future over something he didn't even do.
842* TemptingFate: What was the last thing Eric said to his grandmother before she died?
843-->'''Eric''': I don't think being nice for a whole day would kill you. ([[YouJustHadToSayIt cue her dropping dead]])
844* TerribleIntervieweesMontage:
845** In "Eric's Burger Job", Eric, Hyde, Kelso, and Fez all interview for a part-time job at Fatso Burger. The latter three give terrible answers resulting in Eric getting hired.
846--->'''Ricky:''' Why do you want to work for Fatso Burger?\
847'''Eric:''' I feel it would be a wonderful experience.\
848'''Kelso:''' My girlfriend's dad owns it.\
849'''Fez:''' I love the uniforms.\
850'''Hyde:''' To unionize the workers, man.\
851'''Ricky:''' Tell me, what do you consider your best quality?\
852'''Eric:''' I'm a real people person.\
853'''Hyde:''' I don't answer stupid questions.\
854'''Fez:''' I speak Dutch.\
855'''Kelso:''' My eyes... and I guess my butt too.\
856'''Ricky:''' Name something about yourself that you consider to be a weakness.\
857'''Eric:''' I allow people to boss me around.\
858'''Fez:''' I love chocolate.\
859'''Hyde:''' I'm brutally honest... Pinhead.\
860'''Kelso:''' ''[tilts back in his char in thought and falls over]''\
861'''Ricky:''' Where do you see yourself in five years?\
862'''Eric:''' Fatso Burger.\
863'''Fez:''' Covered in gold chains.\
864'''Kelso:''' Rock star... no, movie star... no, rock star.\
865'''Hyde:''' Prison.
866** In "Canadian Road Trip", after Eric, Hyde, Kelso, Fez, and Leo are detained by the [=RCMP=] for allegedly smuggling Fez (he misplaced his green card). They are each taken into a room for interrogation. Eric is the only one giving honest answers, Hyde makes up a story on how they're secretly terrorists planning on invading the country, Kelso asks pointless trivial questions about Canada, Fez pretends to not know English, and Leo simply repeats the Mountie's questions back to them.
867** In "Hyde Gets the Girl", Hyde is speed-dating at a party and each girl says something strange, unromantic, or disturbing. This however does not phase Hyde and remarks that he could easily have sex with all of them.
868* ThatNostalgiaShow: ''That '70s Show'' deliberately plays on nostalgia for the 1970s, basing many of its plotlines on issues contemporary for the era.
869* TheirFirstTime: While all of the main cast have a first time, Eric and Donna's is perhaps the most recognizable to use in this trope (it's subverted). Afterwards it is so obvious to Jackie she literally sees the words "I had sex" printed on Donna's forehead.
870* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodSandwich: Almost every single episode, unsurprisingly. A great deal of conversations takes place during mealtimes in someone's home, typically Red's. We would assume the eating happens offscreen, or sometimes it doesn't, such as when Eric gets chased out before he finishes his meal.
871* ThinkUnsexyThoughts: In the episode "Thanksgiving", Eric makes out with Kate, his sister's attractive friend, and wants to get rid of his erection before getting up. His inner monologue goes: "Okay, baseball, Vietnam, UsefulNotes/RichardNixon, Pat Nixon, Pat Boone, the girl that gives the weather, no, no! Okay, jellyfish, really big spiders, come on, dig deep, dig deep, okay, the day we backed over Skipper in the driveway, instead of going to the county fair, I had to bury him in the backyard." Subverted at the end of the same episode with Donna thinking of sexy things to make her hornier after kissing Eric. Her inner monologue goes: "Silk sheets, Joe Namath's butt, strawberries, slow dancing, ...the washing machine with an unbalanced load!"
872* ThirdPersonPerson: Fez occasionally refers to himself in the third person.
873* ThoseTwoGuys: Hyde and Fez up until season five, where Hyde starts dating Jackie, and Kelso starts hanging out with Fez.
874* TitleOnlyOpening: Subverted. In most episodes, a TitleOnlyOpening appears in the beginning of the episode, followed by the cold open, then followed by another TitleSequence with everything ''but'' the show's title. Though on some occasions, the second TitleSequence is absent and the trope is played straight.
875* TitleSequenceReplacement: In the widescreen remaster, the title sequence exclusive to the second half of Season 3 (after Lisa Robin Kelly left the cast) is replaced with an edited version from the rest of the season. In this intro, the shots where Laurie is seated in the back have been digitally edited to remove her, leaving a conspicuous empty seat every time, and the shot where she is driving has been replaced with one where Bob, Eric, and Red are seated in the front and Red uncharacteristically ''smiles and sings''.
876%%* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: Donna and Jackie.
877* TokenHouseguest: Eric's friend Hyde moves in with the Forman family at the end due to [[ParentalAbandonment his parents leaving him]], living in their basement for much of the rest of the show. He even stays with them after Eric leaves.
878* TooDumbToLive:
879** Kelso. Jackie falls into this occasionally as well during the early seasons.
880** Eric's sister Laurie. Hilariously lampshaded by Hyde when Laurie and Kelso hook up.
881--->'''Hyde''': Those two are gonna make the dumbest kids ever.
882** While Eric is reasonably smart most of the time, dropping a bowling ball on the couch in the first season, at Kelso's urging, was an example of this.
883* ToxicFriendInfluence: The entire show revolves around the lives of six teenagers in the 1970s, and every single one of them are prone to succumbing to peer pressure to do something that can potentially (and often) get them in trouble. Kelso is the biggest offender among the six but even the straight man characters Eric and Donna had their moments.
884* TrappedInATanningBed: In "Eric's Hot Cousin," Donna and Jackie decide to get tans and fall asleep under a tanning lamp; the two end up getting sunburned as a result.
885* TruthTellingSession: Eric and Laurie get into this in "Jackie Moves On." The show-stopper is when Eric reveals that Laurie was born with a tail, which causes her to run away in tears.
886%%* {{Tsundere}}:
887%%** Jackie's a Type A, specifically in the first few seasons.
888%%** Also Fez's girlfriend and co-worker Nina.
889* ThirdLineSomeWaiting: Most episodes have two storylines about the teenagers and one about the adults.
890* TotallyRadical: Pastor Dave, as he tries to make the church seem cool and appealing to the kids.
891* ToplessnessFromTheBack:
892** When Red and Hyde [[AccidentalPervert walk in]] on a naked Pam in "Squeeze Box", the audience only sees her naked back as she stands in front of them, combined with a [[ShouldersUpNudity frontal shot of her from the shoulders up]].
893** In "Short & Curlies", when Charlie walks in on Kitty naked, only her back is seen by the audience.
894** In "Somebody to Love", when Jackie's dress has a WardrobeMalfunction, the audience only sees her front the back as she stands there talking to a bemused crowd.
895* TrappedInATanningBed: Donna and Jackie decide to get tans and fall asleep under a tanning lamp; the two end up getting sunburned as a result.
896* TrialBalloonQuestion: Eric (secretly) asks Donna to marry him at one point, and Eric asks Bob what he would do if they were engaged. Bob's answer was [[IllKillYou less than favorable]], so they decide to keep the secret.
897* TrojanGauntlet:
898** In "The Pill," Eric goes to the pharmacy to pick up some photos while Bob is there to pick up Donna's prescription, which he believes to be cough syrup. When the pharmacist tells him it's birth control, Eric bolts out of the store.
899** In a similar and kind of {{Inverted}} example: in "Jackie Says Cheese," Kitty provides Eric with a bag of condoms, which is embarrassing. However, later Kitty and Red are planning to have sex and realize that they're out, so Red sneaks into Eric's room to take one. Eric walks in, Red is angry/embarrassed, and Eric freaks out because he incorrectly believes that Red saw his marijuana stash.
900* TrueCompanions:
901** Despite problems often prone to tear them apart (such as [[spoiler:Eric and Donna breaking up, or Jackie and Hyde breaking up]]), Eric and his friends pretty much always stay together. [[spoiler:Even as Eric [[PutOnABus left for Africa]]]]
902** An interesting variant occurs with Jackie, who wasn't really part of the group at first and was only tolerated by the others because she was Kelso's girlfriend. It was only after Hyde started burning her, Fez started worshiping her, Donna became closer friends with her, and Eric realized that she pissed Laurie off (even though he never became friends with her, see TheFriendsWhoNeverHang above) that she became a full part of the circle.
903* {{Twincest}}: One Season 5 episode features a couple of {{Imagine Spot}}s with the characters as parodies of DC superheroes, with Hyde and Jackie as the Wonder Twins -- who, like the real Hyde and Jackie at this point, are dating (and barely able to kep their hands off one another) despite being siblings.
904-->'''Kelso''' ''(as Batman)'': So Wonder Boy and I are thinking about moving in together. My parents are gonna freak!\
905'''Hyde''' ''(coming up for air from making out with Jackie)'': You think ''your'' parents are gonna freak?\
906'''Jackie''': Yeah, we're ''twins''.
907* UncoolUndies: Donna gets pantsed by Eric in a basketball game, exposing her granny panties, which Hyde delightfully makes fun of. The episode is even titled "Donna's Panties."
908* UnknowinglyPossessingStolenGoods: In "Stolen Car", after Eric gets the car taken away by his father after finding a scratch, Eric and his friends are left car-less until Kelso's cousin lets Kelso drive his car and takes the guys around. They get arrested after learning the car is stolen. It's [[SubvertedTrope subverted]] when the police learn the truth: that the cousin borrowed it from his grandmother and she had forgotten about it and reported it stolen.
909* UglyGuyHotWife: Bob & Midge, and later Bob & Jackie's mom Pam. Eric & Donna are portrayed as this, with characters frequently commenting on the relationship as such. Averted with Bob's relationship with the more average Joanne, with whom he's more evenly matched, just after Midge leaves.
910* TheUnfavorite: Subverted in that Eric is this to Red, while Laurie is this to Kitty. Overlaps with {{Double Standard}} as it is frequently shown that Red is hard on Eric because he cares. Being a product of his time, Red would probably believe that it would be important to teach his son self-sufficiency while his daughter would eventually be taken care of by her husband. As the series progresses Red becomes increasingly less tolerant of Laurie's ungrateful mooching behavior, but he never tries to teach her how to become a productive member of society, he just enjoys her prolonged absences. Once when she returned Red reacted by saying "We gotta start locking that door."
911* UnnecessaryMakeover: InUniverse, Donna and Jackie give one to Big Rhonda in "Red And Stacey", in time for Rhonda's date with Fez. Fez doesn't like it.
912-->'''Fez''': What have you two meddling whores done with my Rhonda?
913* TheUnReveal:
914** Every time Fez is asked where he comes from, he always answers with a joke or a sarcastic remark.
915** Fez's real name has also never been revealed, as instead of saying it, people either call Fez something else or stop and ask how the name is pronounced. When Fez's friend from his country comes to visit he never calls Fez by any name.
916* UnusualEuphemism: After listening to George Carlin's [[SevenDirtyWords Seven Dirty Words]] album, Eric decides to create a system for using the words in public by numbering them. Unfortunately, only about half of what he says makes sense when taking the original order of Carlin’s list into account.
917* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: Fez's tendency to spend time in Donna's closet, while incredibly creepy, became almost routine for the group after the first few incidents. In "Sparks", when Donna's wedding dress vanishes, one of the first people she goes to for information is Fez:
918-->'''Donna''': Fez, I know how you... how do I say this... I know you sometimes like to hang out in my closet.\
919'''Fez''': Yes. And?
920* UnwantedGiftPlot: Donna gives Eric a "man ring." Said ring is huge and gaudy and promptly stolen by Fez.
921* UptownGirl: Jackie is a rich girl and cheerleader, Hyde is a poor delinquent with a messed up family who lives with Eric's family because he has nowhere else to go. Initially Hyde stated their differences in social status as a reason they shouldn't go out: they had nothing in common.
922* UranusIsShowing: Kelso has his UFO pictures developed, only for his friends to find out later that there were naked pictures of him on the same roll. Fez's response:
923-->'''Fez''': I don't see a UFO, but I can definitely see Uranus.
924* TheVamp: Laurie, Eric's slutty older sister, is nicknamed "the witch" and "the Devil".
925-->'''Red''': Eric, what have I told you about calling your sister "The Devil"?\
926'''Eric''': It's offensive [[InsultToRocks to the Devil]]?
927** Played hilariously in "Holy Crap!" where the family is playing a game called ''Church'' Rummy with the Youth Minister at their church and Laurie shows her cards: 6, 6, and 6.
928* VandalismBackfire: After Jackie breaks up with him, Kelso tries writing a song to win her back. Eventually, he annoys Eric into taking his guitar and smashing it.
929-->'''Eric''': Well, isn't that funny?\
930'''Kelso''': You know what's even funnier? That was ''your'' guitar! Burn!
931* VerbalTic: Leo ends most of his sentences with the word "man".
932* VerySpecialEpisode: The first-run promos on Fox for the episode "Happy Jack" advertised the episode as one of these. This was the episode where Donna caught Eric masturbating and everybody made his life hell, so these promos were both a [[SubvertedTrope subversion]] and a [[ParodiedTrope parody]] of the very special episode trope.
933* VitriolicBestBuds:
934** Hyde has this sort of relationship with all his close friends, Kelso in particular.
935** Red and Eric are always at each others' throats with their constant snarking, but it's been shown that they really do care about each other.
936** Let's not forget Donna and Jackie. Donna is amazed and a little horrified when she realizes they've become friends, and Jackie never lets up making fun of Donna's shoe size or calling her a lumberjack.
937** Red and Bob's relationship is kinda like this but it's mostly one-way with Red frequently insulting Bob. Bob does take shots at Red sometimes but it's rare.
938* VocalDissonance: In the musical episode, all the characters sound like themselves while singing, except for Donna and Jackie, who, in a case of SpecialEffectsFailure as well, sound totally different.
939* WannabeLine: "The Velvet Rope" had this as an A plot, where Eric, Donna, Hyde and Fez try to get into a Studio 54 knock off in Chicago. Donna as the designated hot girl gets in right away but the boys take longer. Fez gets in with his dance moves, Hyde with his anti-conformity speech, and Eric simply because he is Donna's boyfriend (the bouncer couldn't believe she was dating him, and thought they were ''siblings'').
940* WeaknessTurnsHerOn: In "Hyde Get's The Girl", Eric is hit on by a girl who finds being depressed over his break up with Donna a turn on. He decides to use a wounded puppy façade to draw sympathy from other girls at the party until Donna reveals that he was the one who ended the relationship not her.
941* WebcomicTime: The show was on for eight years, though in-universe only 4 years passed. The show was set in 1976 for the first 12 episodes, 1977 until the end of the third season, 1978 until early in season 6, and 1979 for the rest of the series.
942* WeightLossSalad: After Red has a heart attack, Kitty puts him on a diet. Upon being given a salad, Red complains, "This isn't food; this is what food ''eats''."
943* WellDoneSonGuy:
944** Eric and Red. Red once said that, as Eric's father, it was his job to make Eric a man, "which he's not."
945** A female version of this trope occurs with Kitty both as a mother and as a daughter. Kitty has a very strained relationship with her daughter Laurie due to the fact that Laurie ReallyGetsAround and can't seem to do anything constructive with her life. Grandma Bea, Kitty's mother, also uses her razor-sharp DeadpanSnarker abilities to mercilessly insult Kitty and everything she tries to do. Kitty even cited the similarities between Laurie and Grandma Bea as proof that "evil skips a generation."
946* WhamLine: Kelso spends "The Acid Queen" insisting he and Brooke slept together, but she denies it, so the others think he's lying or confused. When she later admits it did happen, Kelso gloats to the others until she explains why she just admitted it.
947-->'''Brooke''': Michael, I just found out I'm pregnant.
948* WhamShot: In the first episode of the fifth season, as soon as Hyde and Jackie are alone with each other they began making out, thus revealing the new romance pairing of the series.
949* WhatTheHellHero: In one ChristmasEpisode, Eric is supposed to direct a "Birth of Christ" pageant, but the others goof off and won't follow his directions. After Pastor Dave fires Eric and takes over, they respond by tying Dave up in Christmas lights. By this point, ''Leo'' calls them out on their behavior.
950-->'''Leo''': I can't believe you guys. You've managed to bring a man of God to tears.\
951'''Dave''': I'm not crying.\
952'''Leo''': I'm talkin' about me, man. You know, you guys can hassle your skinny friend Eric, but when it comes down to a fundamental moral core, he's the only one of you that's got one. So congratulations, you've ruined Christmas.
953* WhereDidWeGoWrong: Mostly Red's attitude toward Eric but even Kitty seems to question him at times. Kitty also tends to feel this way about Laurie in general.
954* WhereTheHellIsSpringfield: Point Place was never given a specific location within the state of Wisconsin--sometimes it was stated they were in the "Greater Kenosha Area", sometimes they were close to Green Bay (especially when Red, Eric and the gang went to a Packers game), sometimes they were closer to Milwaukee. Chicago was also referenced a few times (it's where Kelso moved to in the final season), so that doesn't really help anything. The old Fox website said it was set in the fictional "Greater Oshkosh Area" (supported by a line of dialogue Kelso has in the early episode "Date Night"), and Bonnie Turner based it off a section of Toledo, Ohio (where she grew up) called Point Place.
955* WildTeenParty: "'Burning Down The House." When Kelso invites Hyde and Fez over to Jackie's house for a party, the party quickly becomes one of these.
956* WillTheyOrWontThey: Lampshaded by Hyde after Eric and Donna first had sex.
957-->'''Hyde''': Good, I couldn't take one more week of that 'will they, won't they' crap.
958* WithFriendsLikeThese:
959** Eric's friends, especially Hyde, are also his perdition.
960** Also, Donna and Jackie, but theirs is much milder compared to what the guys have...
961* WorkInfoTitle: The show is indeed about a stereotypical American family and their friends in the 70's.
962* WorldOfSnark: It's hard to find characters who don't fit the pattern. Eric [[DeadpanSnarker snarks]]. Donna snarks (especially at Jackie). Hyde does almost nothing ''but'' snark. Eventually Fez snarks a lot too. Laurie snarks. Red snarks. Kitty slips her snarks in almost under the radar. Jackie and Kelso, on the other hand, [[TheDitz don't seem to grasp sarcasm]].
963* WrenchWench: In the episode "Career Day", Jackie shows unexpected skill in fixing cars, earning Red's respect.
964* WrittenInAbsence: When the Formans and the Pinciottis first met, both Laurie and Midge were absent. While there was no explanation for Laurie's absence, Bob did mention that Midge got her finger stuck in something.
965* {{Yandere}}: Played straight and subverted with Fez's girlfriend Caroline. She acts like this when they date, but once Donna flat-out says Fez doesn't like her and Fez admits it nervously, Caroline takes it very calmly and just leaves. Doubly subverted in her appearances in season eight, where she's still crazy.
966* YouJustToldMe:
967** Red pulls one on Eric during "Eric Gets Suspended" where he thinks his son's taken up smoking.
968--->'''Red''': You lied when you said you weren't going to take the car out of town...\
969'''Eric''': You knew about that?!\
970'''Red''': I do now! Hah!
971** Done with Eric and Laurie.
972--->'''Eric''': I'll tell Dad that you're flunking out of college.\
973'''Laurie''': *gasp* How did you know?\
974'''Eric''': I didn't! ''[laughs]''
975* YourMakeupIsRunning: In "The Velvet Rope," Jackie puts some makeup on Kelso, telling him it'll make him look better. Eventually it [[DraggedIntoDrag gets out of hand]]. When he meets up with the guys later, it's revealed that he's forgotten to remove all of it, and he's informed that his mascara is running.
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