YMMV / That '80s Show

• Retroactive Recognition: It's hard to recognize Lexie Grey (or Alex Danvers) with all those spikes on her head.
  • Corey's dad is another divorced businessman from the 80s who becomes President of the United States.
  • Corey himself is now much better recognized as Jerkass Handsome Lech Dennis Reynolds from It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia.
• Tough Act to Follow: To That '70s Show, the original a sleeper hit that coined the That Nostalgia Show trope and whose success Fox clearly wanted to emulate here. However this didn't last past a half season, with the broader characters & plotlines and over-reliance on 80s references for its humor gaining it a more middling-to-poor reception in comparison. Not helping matters was the fact that, despite the title, and unlike when That '90s Show would be made over a decade later, no That '70s Show characters carried over to this one, making it feel more like a cash-in than a true spinoff.