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We're all alright! We're all alright!|'''[[Cheap Trick]]''', [[Real Song Theme Tune|"In The Street"]]}}
Think ''[[Happy Days]]'' for [[The Nineties]] and The [[Turn of the Millennium]]. Except this show is set in [[The Seventies]] instead of [[The Fifties]].
This show is about teenager Eric Forman and his friends and family living their lives in Point Place, Wisconsin through the years 1976 to 1979. Remarkably, despite only three years passing through the whole series' universe, it ran for eight seasons on [[
Part of the humor came from anachronisms playing off modern audiences, such as the amazing video game graphics of [[Pong]]. The show's recurring running gag was that the teens often went down to Eric's basement for a "circle." Probably the best drug use humor ever used on any TV show. Even though it was never (explictly) stated on what they were really doing down there, but you can pretty much guess (the camera in the circle represented the "item" being passed around). The occasion lighter being flashed and/or puffs of smoke billowing in the background help too.
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* [[Aborted Arc]]: After Tommy Chong went to prison, [[Bobcat Goldthwait]] appeared as Leo's cousin, implying he was gonna be his replacement. He never appeared again.
* [[Above the Influence]]: Fez with Jackie.
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* [[Adorkable]]: Eric
* [[The Alcatraz]]: Red turns the house into one in "Red Sees Red".
* [[All Girls Want Bad Boys]]: This is the basis of Donna's attraction to Kelso's brother Casey, 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."
* [[All Guys Want Cheerleaders]]: 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.
* [[Alternate Timeline|Alternate]] [[Future Me Scares Me]]: In one episode, Eric's guardian angel [[It's a Wonderful Plot|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 [[The Eighties|1980s]] (70s!Eric even remarks on "The Safety Dance," which will be released five years into his future).
* [[Always Camp]]: Fez.
* [[A Real Man Is a Killer]]: Red enjoys killing things, ranging from the deer and fish he kills during his hunting and fishing trips to the squirrels that he shoots with a pellet gun. He occasionally goes on solo hunting and fishing trips when he's very angry and needs to cool down, and Eric noted that Red found gutting worms on a hook to be very therapeutic.
{{quote|'''Red:''' I killed people (in the [[Korean War]]), never said that I didn't enjoy it.}}
* [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking]]:
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* [[Beta Couple]]: Jackie and either Kelso or Hyde, to Donna and Eric
** Inverted: Jackie/Kelso or Hyde is a ''less'' stable relationship, as one might tell by the whole 'more than one boyfriend' thing.
* [[Beware the Nice Ones]]: Eric's generally a skinny wimp, but if you push him too far he ''will'' retaliate and kick your ass.
** And then there's Jackie, 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 [[Cat Fight]]. 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.
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* [[Bokukko]]: Donna, possibly Big Rhonda
* [[Bowdlerize]]: "Ass" is censored from the show in some UK airings, alongside some other words. This actually made the show unwatchable at points.
* [[
** Pam Macy, too.
{{quote|'''Kelso:''' ''(introducing his prom date)'' You guys know Pam?
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** Any time Red threatens to put his foot up somebody's ass also qualifies.
** One word: BURN!!!
* [[Catholic School Girls Rule]]: 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. The other male members of the group share his opinion:
{{quote|'''Donna''': Geeze, what is it with you guys and this uniform?
'''Fez''': It makes us want to corrupt you. }}
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{{quote|'''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.
'''Eric''': Wow, Donna, that was really detailed. It's almost like...Oh, my God! You do it, too! }}
* [[Character Development]]: although nearly everyone goes through gradual character development over the period of the series, the most notable was Jackie when she started dating Hyde.
* [[Christmas Episode]]: A few of them, including one with a Christmas remix of the theme tune.
* [[Chocolate Baby]]: 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.▼
* [[Chuck Cunningham Syndrome]]: Donna has a younger sister for exactly one episode. She is never seen or mentioned again.
** The lampshaded this in the credits of one episode (which was parodying the "tune in next time to find out" ending from ''Soap'').
{{quote|Narrator: "What ever happened to Midge's daughter, Tina?"}}
* [[Closer to Earth]]: 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.
* [[Cloudcuckoolander]]: Lots of characters have moments of this (especially when they're in the circle), but Fez and Kelso have the most.
** Never forget Leo!
* [[Comic Book Time]]: The show starts in 1976 & ends at the stroke of midnight on December 31, 1979, but lasted 8 seasons.
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Red: '''FUCK!''' }}
** 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.
{{quote|'''Fez:''' Where am I going to go? France? ''Fuck France!''}}
** Kitty dropped one on Red when he encouraged Eric and Donna to move away.
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** "A car that runs on water, man!"
*** [[Lampshade Hanging|"We've been talking about this for a really long time."]] * "Mmmmm... (French accent) bacon."
* [[Cool and Unusual Punishment]]: 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 Red would approve of:
** When he ended up covered in oatmeal after Eric's [[Bucket Booby Trap]] 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.
*** On another occasion, 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."
* [[Culture Clash]]: From wherever Fez is.
* [[Dad the Veteran]]: Red served in both [[World War II|WW2]] and [[Korean War|Korea]].
* [[A Date with Rosie Palms]]: Fez, very frequently.
** Also the focus of an episode when Donna walks in on Eric doing it at her house, after seeing a photo of Jackie's [[Hot Mom]].
* [[Dawson Casting]]: Partially. [[Mila Kunis]] (Jackie) was 15 when the show started, [[Laura Prepon]] (Donna) was 17, and Wilmer Valderrama (Fez) was 18. The rest of the gang was played by actors over 20. Eventually, they all became examples, since they aged normally, while their characters didn't.
** When Mila Kunis was considered for casting, they wanted to know if she was old enough. She said, "[[False Reassurance|I'll be 18 on my birthday.]]" She [[You Didn't Ask|just didn't say]] ''[[You Didn't Ask|which]]'' [[You Didn't Ask|birthday]].
* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: Practically every character gets their shot in at one point or another, but most notably, Hyde, Eric, Red, and Donna.
** None of them could hold a candle to Grandma Bea, Kitty's mother, who was played by [[Betty White]], quite possibly the Grand Dame of this trope. As Eric noted to Donna after Grandma Bea insulted them:
{{quote|'''Donna''':...What the hell was that?
'''Eric''': That was the seldom-heard, much-feared, Grandma Burn. }}
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** Also, [[You Fail Linguistics Forever|that is NOT how you pronounce ‘Pinciotti’]]. The <ci> part is pronounced like the English <ch>.
*** Except that many immigrants changed the pronunciation of their names, or had it changed for them, upon coming to America. That's what happens when not everyone knows your original language's grammar rules.
** When the group goes to a wrestling show, the banners had the old block-style [[
* [[Did You Just Have Sex?]]: 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.
* [[Diet Episode]]: 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!"
* [[Digging Yourself Deeper]]: This goes for any of the kids, but Eric has a real knack for it. 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.
* [[Digital Head Swap]]: Done in the scene where after getting high, the gang sees Kitty's and Red's heads on each other's bodies.
* [[The Ditz]]: Kelso and Jackie are a Ditz couple.
* [[Double Standard]]: In one episode Donna reveals she invented or started the derogatory nickname "Foreskin" for Eric in elementary school, and everyone has a good laugh which Eric then shrugs off, albeit slightly annoyed. When Eric then proudly comes clean and says he was the one who started calling Donna the "'Potty' Pinciotti" Donna breaks out in tears, apparently traumatized by the namecalling, and not so suddenly - everyone hates Eric, for half the episode at least.
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** Also 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".
** 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.
** [[Double Standard Rape (Female on Male)]] / [[Black Comedy Rape]]: 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.
* [[Driving a Desk]]: Most of the driving scenes in the Vista Cruiser.
* [[Drive-In Theater]]: The focus of S1 Ep08, "Drive-In"
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* [[Feathered Fiend]]: The season three Halloween episode included a parody of ''[[The Birds]]''.
* [[Fiery Redhead]]: Donna, especially when it comes to her feminist beliefs. At least until she dyed her hair blonde.
* [[Final Season Casting]]: Randy instead of Eric and Kelso. Samantha to very obviously to add more sex appeal.
* [[First-Name Basis]]: Jackie and Kitty both call everyone by their first name, regardless of their preference.
** Jackie only calls Hyde Steven after she becomes interested in him.
** She also only calls Kelso by his last name once, when they are broken up.
* [[Flash Forward]]
* [[Frozen in Time]]
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** There was one episode where Eric, at the beginning of a circle scene, said, "Mm-hmm, thissa good pot." Then he holds up cards and we see that everyone's playing poker.
** In 'The Wrestling Show', Hyde wears a T-shirt that clearly says "Cannabis" on it, and has a marijuana leaf below it.
** Similarly, Leo often wears an upside-down marijuana leaf necklace, especially in Season 4.
** In the episode ''Eric's Naughty No-no'', the guys see an X-rated movie, which makes Eric think he needs to start using new "moves" when having sex with Donna. Later in the episode, when Eric and Donna are about to have sex, the camera pans up to one of Eric's G.I. Joe figures with its hand in a very suggestive position. Off-screen, Donna cries out in shock and disgust. Naughty no-no indeed...
* [[Girl Next Door]]: Donna
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* [[Gretzky Has the Ball]]: Deliberately invoked 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".
* [[Happily Married]]: Red and Kitty.
* [[Has Two Thumbs And]]: In the first episode of season 2, "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!"
* [[Hell-Bent for Leather]]: In one episode Kelso gets a leather jacket because he wants to look like [[Marlon Brando|Brando]] in ''[[The Wild One]]''. Instead everybody laughs at him for looking like [[Happy Days|Fonzie]]. When he throws it away in anger Hyde puts it on and immediately becomes [[Mr. Fanservice|irresistible]].
▲* [[
* [[Heroes Want Redheads]]: Mainly with Eric and Donna, but a vast majority of male characters (from Hyde, Kelso, Kelso's brother Casey and Fez to many one-time minor characters) had an interest in Donna.
* [[Heterosexual Life Partners]]: Kelso and Fez.
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'''Red''': "Okay okay, I’ll just have the one beer!" }}
* [[Imagine Spot]]: When there's [[Real Song Theme Tune|not a thing to do]], these moments are abundant on the show, often with several per episode.
* [[Informed Attractiveness]]: Donna has been called 'The Hottest Chick in Town' several times. There was also a [[Running Gag]] about how Eric is [[Ugly Guy, Hot Wife|way outta her league]]. While Donna is pretty, she's certainly not hotter than most of the female guest stars and the idea of Eric being out of her league is asinine.
* [[Internal Reformist]]: 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.
* [[I Take Offence to That Last One]]: From "Bring It On Home":
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* [[I Want My Jetpack]]: 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."
** 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."
** Another episode uses a deliberately over-the-top version of the future 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, Serv-O-Tro 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.
* [[Jerkass]]: Everyone has moments of this, but Hyde and Laurie take it to an art form. (Hyde will also occasionally [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshade]] his jerkass nature.)
** Red might qualify; he practically hates people:
{{quote|'''Red''': This house is always littered with kids! It's like we're...Mormons!}}
* [[Jerk with a Heart of Gold]]: 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 soften him up by crying.
** 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.
** As abraisive and foul-mouthed as he is, Red truly does love his family, even Eric.
* [[Jumping the Shark]]: Done literally in-universe. In one episode, 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.
{{quote|'''Fez''': Yeah, I did stop watching after that...}}
** And then of course, there's the point where the show ''actually'' jumped the shark. Season 8 does not, has not, and never will exist for the majority of the fanbase. A lot are still a bit iffy about season 7 as well.
* [[Karma Houdini]]: Casey Kelso. His reputation as a charming ladies man comes off as an [[Informed Attribute]] when he's completely unlikeable who never does anything decent in any of his appearance. 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 reprocussions. He later reappears twice, both times as sleazy as ever, and aside from a [[Shut UP, Hannibal]] from Eric again gets away scot-free.
** Laurie constantly tortures Eric, is incredibly promiscuous, purposefully ruins Kelso's relationship with Jackie, not to mention [[Double Standard Rape (Female on Male)|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 reprocussions from her actions that last any further than a single episode, and is always Red's little girl.
* [[Kavorka Man]]:: Bob. [http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_yjlXWzFo4o8/TMzUekZTA5I/AAAAAAAAAxk/g5jDZHOdYvw/s400/bob+and+midge.jpg Oh][http://images2.fanpop.com/images/polls/248000/248307_1244328713337_full.jpg yes.][http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l8xbr5iBur1qc1ev7o1_500.jpg And how.]
* [[Kissing Cousins]]: In S4 Ep14, "Eric's Hot Cousin", Eric meets his cousin, Penny, after several years, and she is now [[She
* [[Knight in Shining Armor]]: 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 [[Imagine Spot]], even as he repeatedly insists that he's not that kind of guy.
* [[The Ladette]]: Donna
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* [[Les Yay]]: In-universe example; Kelso thinks that [[Laverne and Shirley]] are "one bottle of wine away from making out", just like Jackie and Donna.
* [[Like a God to Me]]
* [[Likes Older Women]]: 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.
* [[Lovable Alpha Bitch]]: Jackie.
* [[Lovable Sex Maniac]]: Fez's lechery is almost always played for laughs.
* [[Lysistrata Gambit]]: Played with in one episode, 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.
* [[The Masochism Tango]]: Jackie and Hyde. Before they got together, their interactions consisted almost entirely of slinging barbs and insults at each other. And after, their relationship was... pretty much the same, only now they had sex.
** Also applies to Kelso and Jackie, especially after they got back together.
* [[Manly Tears]]: 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.
* [[May the Farce Be with You]]
* [[Mean Boss]]: 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.
* [[Misery Builds Character]]: According to Red, "In order for [my son] to be a responsible adult, he ''has'' to be miserable now!"
* [[Mistaken for Gay]]: Eric. A lot. Buddy tried taking it a step further.
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* [[Monkeys on a Typewriter]]: In "Battle of the Sexists", Eric compares Donna making a basket to monkeys writing ''Hamlet''.
* [[More Deadly Than the Male]]: Basically: Guys can mess around in a fight. If girls fight; [[Combat Pragmatist|they fight]].
* [[Ms. Fanservice]]: Once [[Mila Kunis]] turned 18 the show went all out, putting her and [[Laura Prepon]] in various sexy outfits. Samantha Hyde's entire purpose was to be this. Laurie and several female guest stars also filled this trope.
* [[Multiple Demographic Appeal]]: 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 timeframe of the show).
* [[Mushroom Samba]]: Managed to do it [[Once an Episode]] and still keep it funny.
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* [[Naked First Impression]]: Fez saw Donna for the first time when he and Hyde stepped into her changing her clothes.
** Prompting Kelso to repeatedly try to catch her in the buff. He never did, but his persistance caused Donna to [[Throw the Dog a Bone]] and flash him on purpose so he'd leave her alone.
* [[Naked in Mink]]: Kitty tells Donna that when Red left for Korea, she gave him a budoir photo of her wearing nothing but a fur coat.
* [[Name's the Same]]: Eric Forman and Eric Foreman from ''[[House (TV series)|House]]''.
* [[Nerd Nanny]]
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*** Actually, every use of the word "pot" I remember 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 dope heads or hop heads.
* [["El Niño" Is Spanish for "The Nino"]]:
{{quote|'''Kelso''': It's an El Camino. It's Spanish for "The Camino"!}}
* [[Nice Guy]]: Although Eric can be a bit insensitive at times, he is usually good natured and is probably the nicest guy on the show.
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* [[Once an Episode]]: Red threatening to put his foot up someone's ass. Not to mention "The Circle".
* [[One Head Taller]]: Kelso and Jackie.
** [[Gender
*** And also by Fez and Big Rhonda.
** Donna and Jackie. Almost all their scenes were staged with them sitting to work around this.
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* [[Overly Long Name]]: Fez' real name and home country; taken to the point of a [[Running Gag]].
** 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.
* [[Panty Shot]]: Eric accidentally pulls Donna's pants down during a game of basketball, and it turns out she's wearing "granny panties", for which the rest of the group teases her mercilessly.
** In "Eric's Birthday", Eric's sister Laurie is doing her laundry putting her jeans in a washing machine when Eric and his friends find her pants-less or skirt-less, or dress-less. She's just wearing a red T-shirt and white undies, which she flashes Eric and his friends to prove that she, in fact, is wearing some. Kelso takes this as her seducing him.
* [[Parental Abandonment]]: Hyde's mother abandons him at the end of season 1, and the Foremans take him in. In season 5, Jackie's father is imprisoned, and her mother leaves, so she moves in with Donna for a while.
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* [[Real Life Writes the Plot]]: Donna dyed her hair blonde, because Laura Prepon did so for a film role; [[Cheech and Chong|Tommy Chong]] (Leo) was absent for two and a half seasons because of a prison sentence.
* [[Real Song Theme Tune]]: A cover of Big Star's "In the Street".
** By Cheap Trick, no less, a group who are substantially more famous than Big Star. Random score for a then-fledgling sitcom.
*** In later seasons, the theme song would be appended to feature the line "we're all alright", from Cheap Trick's hit "Surrender".
* [[Really Gets Around]]: Laurie
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* [[Seventies Hair]]: Naturally. Especially Kelso's feathered 'do and Hyde's frizzy afro.
** Don't forget Bob Pinciotti (Donna's dad).
* [[She
{{quote|'''Donna''': (Upon seeing Casey enter a parlor.) Oh my God, it's Casey Kelso and he's so ''dreamy'' !}}
** Also done with Eric's cousin, Penny, in S4 Ep14, "Eric's Hot Cousin".
* [[Shout-Out]] to the actors' names, combined with [[Call Back]] to season 4 (see [[No Name Given]] above): in season 8, 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.
** One episode ends in a [[Shout-Out]] to the [[Cult Classic]] ''[[
{{quote|'''Eric''': I tried pot once, and now I'm incurably insane!}}
* [["Shut Up" Kiss]]: Donna is fond of giving these to Eric.
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** Or [[Seth Green]]
** Or Jack Osborne
** Or [[Lindsay Lohan]]
** Or [[The Who|Roger Daltrey]].
* [[Spell My Name with an "S"]]: "Fez" is an acronym for "'''F'''oreign '''E'''xchange '''S'''tudent", so it should be spelled with an "s".
** At least in fandom, the Formans' name is occasionally spelled with an "e" in the middle - as seen on this page.
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* [[Straw Feminist]]: Donna is a ''very'' mild case of this—so mild she could be considered a subversion or an aversion. A continuous theme is Donna's feminism ideals getting in conflict with her relationship with Eric or some other male force, but she's not an ''unlikeable'' character. She's one of the show's favorites.
** Played ''painfully'' straight, and for laughs, with her [[Hot Mom]].
* [[Strictly Formula]]: 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 apologizing for overreacting.
* [[Stupid Sexy Flanders]]: Oh, ''Kelso''.
* [[Suddenly Ethnicity]]: Hyde and his real family.
* [[Suspiciously Similar Substitute]]: Randy for both Eric and Kelso.
* [[Sweet Tooth]]: Fez
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{{quote|'''Randy''' (to a client): Thank you. Enjoy your Ann Murray... though I don't see how that's possible.}}
* [[Their First Time]]: 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).
* [[Think Unsexy Thoughts]]: 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, [[Richard Nixon]], 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."
* [[Title-Only Opening]]: Subverted. In most episodes, a [[Title-Only Opening]] appears in the beginning of the episode, followed by the teaser, then followed by another [[Title Sequence]] with everything ''but'' the show's title. Though on some occasions, the second [[Title Sequence]] is absent and the trope is played straight.
* [[Tomboy and Girly Girl]]: Donna and Jackie
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* [[Vocal Dissonance]]: In the musical episode, all the characters sound like themselves while singing, except for Donna and Jackie, who, in a case of [[Special Effects Failure]] as well, sound nothing like their normal selves.
* [[Webcomic Time]]: The show was on for eight years, though in-show only three years passed.
* [["Well Done, Son" Guy]]: Eric and Red. Red once said that, as Eric's father, it was his job to make Eric a man, "which he's not."
** 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 [[Really Gets Around]] and can't seem to do anything constructive with her life. Grandma Bea, Kitty's mother, also uses her razor-sharp [[Deadpan Snarker]] 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."
* [[Where Did We Go Wrong?]]: 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.
* [[Will They or Won't They?]]: Lampshaded by Hyde after Eric and Donna first had sex.
{{quote|Hyde: "Good, I couldn't take one more week of that 'will they, won't they' crap."}}
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* [[World of Snark]]: It's hard to find characters who don't fit the pattern. Eric [[Deadpan Snarker|snarks]]. Donna snarks (especially at Jackie). Hyde does almost nothing ''but'' snark. Eventually Fez snarks a lot too. Laurie snarks. Red snarks. Kitty is a bit of an exception, but is still found occasionally being amused by the snarkings of others. Jackie and Kelso, on the other hand, [[The Ditz|don't seem to grasp sarcasm]].
* [[Wrench Wench]]: In the episode "Career Day", Jackie shows unlikely skill in fixing cars, earning Red's respect.
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* [[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. Double subverted in her appearances in season eight, where she's still crazy.
* [[Yoko Oh No]]: Eric once refers to Jackie as the group's "Yoko Ono" {{spoiler|after he and Donna find out that Jackie and Hyde are together...[[Your Cheating Heart|behind Kelso's back]]}}.
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