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02-12-2023, 12:15 AM
https://www.looper.com/1190905/that-70s-show-made-a-litany-of-continuity-mistakes-but-we-still-love-it-anyways/
BY JULIE RIVER/FEB. 11, 2023 6:00 PM EST
On "That '70s Show," (https://www.looper.com/908844/the-untold-truth-of-that-70s-show/) the very short-lived spin-off "That '80s Show," and the recent hit spin-off "That '90s Show," for all the things they get wrong, the look and feel are as authentic as they can be. Melina Root (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0740529/) was the costume designer for all three shows and she went to great lengths to make sure that the clothes looked as true to the time period as possible. In a 2002 interview with The Hollywood Reporter (https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5be220bc1137a62bc49eaa8e/t/5c1826c403ce646aa5d975e2/1545086677155/DressingTheParts+copy.pdf), the designer said she developed the costumes from "That '70s Show" by digging through old yearbooks from the Wisconsin area.
Greg Grande, the set designer for "That '90s Show," told House Beautiful (https://www.housebeautiful.com/lifestyle/entertainment/a42559488/that-90s-show-set-design/) in an interview that their magazine was one of the ones he looked through to reference things like prints, patterns, drapery, and pillows. He also mentioned that he had to scour vintage stores and antique malls to come up with the furniture pieces, as he found that many people still have the furniture that they bought in the '90s.
But that's about where the authenticity of the franchise ends, because the internal timeline of the shows makes very little sense (https://www.looper.com/164933/things-in-that-70s-show-that-make-absolutely-no-sense/), leaving viewers scratching their heads about a lot of things that don't add up. In "That '70s Show," the look and feel of the decade may have been right, but characters dropped off and disappeared, there are constant anachronisms, and of course, there are entirely too many Christmases.
BY JULIE RIVER/FEB. 11, 2023 6:00 PM EST
On "That '70s Show," (https://www.looper.com/908844/the-untold-truth-of-that-70s-show/) the very short-lived spin-off "That '80s Show," and the recent hit spin-off "That '90s Show," for all the things they get wrong, the look and feel are as authentic as they can be. Melina Root (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0740529/) was the costume designer for all three shows and she went to great lengths to make sure that the clothes looked as true to the time period as possible. In a 2002 interview with The Hollywood Reporter (https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5be220bc1137a62bc49eaa8e/t/5c1826c403ce646aa5d975e2/1545086677155/DressingTheParts+copy.pdf), the designer said she developed the costumes from "That '70s Show" by digging through old yearbooks from the Wisconsin area.
Greg Grande, the set designer for "That '90s Show," told House Beautiful (https://www.housebeautiful.com/lifestyle/entertainment/a42559488/that-90s-show-set-design/) in an interview that their magazine was one of the ones he looked through to reference things like prints, patterns, drapery, and pillows. He also mentioned that he had to scour vintage stores and antique malls to come up with the furniture pieces, as he found that many people still have the furniture that they bought in the '90s.
But that's about where the authenticity of the franchise ends, because the internal timeline of the shows makes very little sense (https://www.looper.com/164933/things-in-that-70s-show-that-make-absolutely-no-sense/), leaving viewers scratching their heads about a lot of things that don't add up. In "That '70s Show," the look and feel of the decade may have been right, but characters dropped off and disappeared, there are constant anachronisms, and of course, there are entirely too many Christmases.