This show is obviously generic and just not very good especially in light of TRUE classic television. Years from now this show will be completely forgotten. Is it just a matter of there being "nothing else better to watch", so shows of this caliber are able to hang around?

This show is obviously generic and just not very good especially in light of TRUE classic television. Years from now this show will be completely forgotten. Is it just a matter of there being "nothing else better to watch", so shows of this caliber are able to hang around?

Are you kidding? That 70's Show rocks! :D It's one of my all time favorite shows. If it wasn't that good, I doubt it would have lasted 8 seasons. I think this show will be around for a long time in syndication. I'll be the first to admit that it wasn't always the best written show, and it will probably never be as popular as Seinfeld or I Love Lucy, but to me it was a very funny show with great characters and that's really all that matters, IMO. :)

I am glad that you enjoy it, and I respect that but just to see a show this sort-of-meh lasting countless seasons is just surprising to me; 2 or 3 maybe but when I see season 8 "coming soon" I'm like -- It lasted THAT LONG??? I had the same reaction to Full House..

Have you watched the show? People get attached to characters and there were some great ones on there. And trying to compare television shows is a waste of time. I can enjoy the classics and I can enjoy the current.

Are you kidding? That 70's Show rocks! :D It's one of my all time favorite shows. If it wasn't that good, I doubt it would have lasted 8 seasons. I think this show will be around for a long time in syndication. I'll be the first to admit that it wasn't always the best written show, and it will probably never be as popular as Seinfeld or I Love Lucy, but to me it was a very funny show with great characters and that's really all that matters, IMO. :)i agree with you almost word for word i love lucy and the classics too but that 70s show is great

I'm not a fan of "That 70's Show" but I think the appeal has to do with the nostalgia "effect". People love stuff about the 70's (and 60's and 80's) and a show that was made in the 2000's that is about the 70's (and pretty true to life from what I've seen) is very cool!

Andrea

I too LOOOOOVE the 70's. My problem with this show is that the creators didn't even come close to nailing the "feel" of the 70's with this show, that's probably the biggest problem with it. The characters and actors (the kids) just do not look or feel like anything "legit" from the 70's, I lived it, it's obvious (to me) these kids didn't. The show has a VERY "filmed a few years ago" feel to it. It's just too "stagey" and "polished" to be the actual 70's, I just don't buy it, and it's hard for me to believe people watched a show like this for so long.

I have to disagree with you totally. That '70s Show is one of the best, most funniest and creative shows ever. They stuck with everything that has to do with the '70s, the a tracks, the clothing, the colors, everything. The cast was great, the writing was great, which made the humour on the show excellent. People look at the 8th season and think it's a bad show when they're totally wrong, it's BETTER then Seinfeild, yeah I said it. The 8th season wasn't even that bad, the first 7 seasons were so great and the loss of Eric, one of the main characters made the 8th season less as good.

Wreckless8228836:
Date of Birth:
August 22, 1988
Age:
20

You know as much about the geniune 70's as I do about the 50's. You had to have been there.. OR you need to look at GENIUNE 70's shows like Rockford Files or Starsky and Hutch; it was a seedy decade not filled with pearly whites and polished new clothes for every day of the year.

Wreckless8228836:
Date of Birth:
August 22, 1988
Age:
20

You know as much about the geniune 70's as I do about the 50's. You had to have been there.. OR you need to look at GENIUNE 70's shows like Rockford Files or Starsky and Hutch; it was a seedy decade not filled with pearly whites and polished new clothes for every day of the year.

You think just because I'm not a '70s baby, that my parents or people I know haven't lived and experienced the '70s? 70s Show is a great show and hilarious, point blank period.

I grew up in the 70's and I agree it didn't always feel like it was from that decade. It doesn't matter. The characters and their relationship to each other made the show a classic. People watch sitcoms because they care about the people on it. I heard people say HD didn't represent the 50's very well especially after the first 2 seasons but it last 11 seasons because they were people we all wanted to spend time with. Sitcoms sure aren't what they used to be but TSS was a nice way to spend a half hour. I was always entertained when I watched it.

I totally agree ^. I remember somebody on Youtube got mad cause their was a 1960s song on HD, when it was standing for the late '50s/early '60s, so technically the song fits in that timeslot. And I agree, you watch to care and follow the characters and how they progress and just the feelings you connect with, when watching whatever shows you watch.

TWY, another fav. show of mine besides T7S, was taken during the '60s and it told most events and used songs from that genre but I bet some looney tune can find a way around it, saying "oh they didn't accurately perceive these years." http://www.southernstylebeatz.com/users/46/92/87/smiles/808971.gif

Point is, nothing is perfect and you watch sitcoms for the reasons listed above, like there's no crying over spilled milk, there's no complaining over sitcoms which are ficticious anyway.

I'm born in 1984, so I haven't experienced the 70s. But don't you think the people, who made "That 70s show", were old enough to remember that decade? And even if the actors playing the kids sure weren't old enough to remember that decade (they were all born in the later half of the 70s, the same time as the show takes place, except for Mila Kunis, who was born in 1983), the actors playing the grown-ups were. I have to admit though, that even though there was some 70s feelings to the early seasons, they had less and less of it for every year.

I love this show, except for the last season which was terrible. It is very funny and I wouldn't pick it over Seinfeld for example but it is a show that I enjoy watching when it comes on. It doesn't need to be a replica of the 70s really, as long as the show is interesting and funny, which it was, that's all that matters.

You could find ways of saying practically every tv show is not real in some sense. I find that a lot of older shows were all very corny, this show is not so maybe this show is more realistic than some shows actually produced in the 70s.

The last season I agree was way diff. then the others and def. not as good, but it wasn't that bad. The first couple episodes, a couple others and the finale were really good in my mind, which all were from the last and least fav. season probably in everybody's standpoint, at least mine...

I haven't even seen the last season. The last episode I saw was when Eric went to Africa.

I thought That 70's Show did a good job at re-creating the feel of the 70's. Granted, I wasn't alive during the 70's, but for a t.v. show trying to emulate the decade, I think they did a pretty decent job (knowing what I do know about that era...the fads, music, etc).

I do have to say that the feel of the 70's sort of dropped off around season 5 or 6....I think they did a better job at capturing the essence of the 70's in the earlier seasons. However, most people had grown to love the characters and story lines by that point--the back-drop of it being set in the 70's was secondary. Yes, it is a show about the 70's, but I think that the characters we'd grown to love were more important than that :)

Not saying you're wrong...just throwing my 2 cents in! :)

You know, I totally agree with you about the earlier seasons being much more true to the 70s feeling than the later ones.

I think they were pretty close throughout the series...Nothing can be imitated 100% perfect.

The point of the show, as stated by the producers themselves was to use the 70s as a backdrop but not get stuck there. You, the producer of this thread are getting stuck there. The show was more about the people and the issues they faced, made up in a way that used the 70s but also let the viewer laugh at the fact that the same issues are still happening today in one way or another.

I loved 70s Show. Every episode, like Titus, had at least one or more laugh out loud moments. The characters worked for me, and although Season 8 wasn't the best, it had its moments too, and the Series finale worked for me.

=PL=

Ah, that was good to know. Thanks for your post.

I agree greatestgoalie, It was enough to enjoy, it had a lot of great laughs and the characters, espec. trying to fit in that 70s genre were suitable and good enough for us the audience to enjoy thoroughly.

This show is obviously generic and just not very good especially in light of TRUE classic television. Years from now this show will be completely forgotten. Is it just a matter of there being "nothing else better to watch", so shows of this caliber are able to hang around?

I totally disagree and so do millions of other 70's show fans. :D

Yessir...Long Live thy 70s Show!!

It's just too "stagey" and "polished" to be the actual 70's, I just don't buy it, and it's hard for me to believe people watched a show like this for so long.

Okay, but did M*A*S*H actually feel like the 1950s when you could see a UPC box (bar code) on a Hershey bar? Was Happy Days always faithful to its era, with Scott Baio wearing a long, feathered hairstyle? My point is that the producers of all of these series could have insisted on more authenticity -- like not having sheets with a later (1990s) Spider-Man logo on Eric's bed in That '70s Show -- but I still enjoyed them a lot.

If anything, and despite some minor things, I think That '70s Show did a very good job overall. Personally, I was between the ages of 5 and 14 back in the '70s, and I thought the "feel" they created was fairly authentic. There were polished productions back then as well!

You can always spot other errors, like plastics used for products that were glass/metal back then, but that type of thing is not as important as the characters and storylines.

When Eric and Kelso left, the show should have ended. The last season was awkward, weird and sad watching those people STILL hanging out in Eric's parent's basement, like the "left behinds" after the cool people left. The dynamic of the characters' interaction was altered in a way that ruined the energy of the show.