Line #9 Series/That80sShow


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3	''That '80s Show'' was a [[ShortRunners short-lived]] SpinOff of ''Series/That70sShow'' that aired on the Creator/{{Fox}} network, with a new batch of characters living in San Diego during the eponymous decade. It aired over 13 episodes from January to May 2002, and was cancelled after failing to gain a wide audience.
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5	The show mainly centered around 22-year-old hopeful musician Corey Howard (Creator/GlennHowerton), who puts off his career plans and works at the local Permanent Record store with the mercurial mohawk-coiffed clerk June Tuesday (Creator/ChylerLeigh) and sarcastic, sixties-in-the-mind owner Margaret (Creator/MargaretSmith). Living at home with his yuppie, hip, new-money dad RT (Creator/GeoffPierson) and college drop-out, earth-hippie sister Katie (Creator/TinsleyGrimes) who mostly runs the house and puts together a string of enviormentally-conscious (or so she thinks) home-business ideas.
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7	Rounding out the cast of characters is Roger (Creator/EddieShin), Corey's Ronald Reagan-and-self-help-tape loving best friend and wannabe-rich-guy, with an endless supply of hair gel and [[BadBadActing incredibly awkward (and random) dance moves]], and Sophia (Creator/BrittanyDaniel), Corey's openly bisexual ex-lover who becomes marketing director at Videx, leading to some unwelcome intrusions into the Howard Home and with a none-too-subtle crush on Katie. No doubt plenty of the usually wacky sitcom shenanigans, terrible hairstyles and jokes about giant cell-phones and Reagan-era material excesses in bunches.
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9	!! Tropes in this series include:
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11	* ActorAllusion: Tiffany's cameo has her saying "I think we're alone now".
12	* AsHimself: Creator/EdMcMahon, Music/PatBenatar, and Music/NeilGiraldo in the episode entitled "Road Trip".
13	* AttemptedHomewrecker: Sophia constantly tries to seduce Katie despite the latter being both straight and in a long-distance relationship.
14	* CastingGag: [[RealLifeRelative Chyler Leigh's real life husband Nathan West]] appears as a suitor of Tuesday on "Spring Break '84".
15	* BeautifulAllAlong: Arguably managed to do this right by taking the very attractive Chyler Leigh and putting her in so much heavy goth punk rocker make up that she truly did become unrecognizable, allowing her natural beauty to shine more effectively for the rare occasions where she was seen without the punk make up.
16	* BelligerentSexualTension: Corey and Tuesday, [[spoiler: of the SlapSlapKiss trajectory]]
17	* DeadpanSnarker: Margaret, to everybody.
18	* DepravedBisexual: Sophia, Corey's ex, has a crush on his sister Katie that is portrayed negatively due to Katie being much younger than Sophia.
19	* DrinkingGame: Corey, Katie, and Roger play one while watching ''Series/{{Dynasty\|1981}}'', taking a shot every time someone gets slapped
20	* EmbarrassingNickname: Corey discovers that his nickname among bar staff is "One Beer".
21	* EvenTheGirlsWantHer: Katie, who receives plenty of attention from men... and Sophia.
22	* LivesInAVan: There was an episode that revealed that Tuesday was living out of her car.
23	* RecycledInSpace: Basically the same style and template of ''Series/That70sShow'', only transported to a campier 80s setting.
24	* ShipperOnDeck: Margaret seems to be one for Tuesday and Corey, frequently tricking them into spending more time with each other.
25	* ThatNostalgiaShow: With the jokes regarding TheEighties being much more frequent than in the 70s predecessor.

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