This has probably been answered somewhere on the board, but bear with me---why did the guys refer to each other by their last names? Jackie and Donna are called by their first names, and they call the guys by their first names--except for Hyde--so why the 'Kelso Foreman and Hyde titles?

In the 70's it was considered "cool" for guys to refer to each other by their last names. So I guess the producers were being true to the time period by having the characters do that on the show.

I always thought it had to do with sports. :D Ya know like if you play football in school the coach calls you by your last name.

Yeah, what those two said...

my friends sometimes call me by my last name as well. it's a guy thing as well..

My 6th grade teacher called all of us by our last name. lol

Yeah my male PE/Gym teachers in middle school did the same lol....he was coming off as a tough guy, or at least he wanted to be portrayed like that....like not a softy

I too thik it's a guy thing. Lots of my friends refer to each other by thier last names. One of my friends goes by his last name all the time.

I remember there times Eric was called by his first name by Hyde and Kelso.

Kelso called Eric by his first name a lot, way more then Hyde did...I don't remember ONCE where Steven cspecifically was talking to Eric and called him by his first name. I remember times where Hyde said Eric's name, but was talking to somebody else besides him, or mentioned him...but that's it.

As others have said, it was just "normal" to call guys by their surnames. I remember wishing I had a "cool" last name so that I could be called by it too. :lol:

I thought it was still done to this day, but guess not.

A lot of the guys in my school still call each other by their last names. It's mostly the ones on the football team that do that. I am also called by my last name, but that's because there's way too many Brittanys in my school.

This has probably been answered somewhere on the board, but bear with me---why did the guys refer to each other by their last names? Jackie and Donna are called by their first names, and they call the guys by their first names--except for Hyde--so why the 'Kelso Foreman and Hyde titles?

Kitty was the only one that called Hyde Steven. Kelso was so stupid one time he told Hyde it's a good thing your last name isn't seek, not knowing or for getting that his first name was Steven. And Donna called Steven and Kelso by their last names.