Relax, Go With the Flow and Get Blown Away by VH1'S Five 'Munchie' Filled Nights Of 'I Love The '70s' in an All-New Ten-Hour Event

- More Than 100 Musicians, TV And Film Stars, Athletes And Celebs Dish The Decade in VH1's Outrageous Year-By-Year Flashback
- Premiering Monday-Friday, August 18 - 22 AT 9:00 P.M. (ET/PT) Each Night

HOLLYWOOD, Calif., July 8 -- Foxy! Dy-no-mite! Heavy! Far Out! We rocked the '80s! Now it's time to groove to the '70s. From "Star Wars" to "Charlie's Angels," leisure suits to Underoos, mutton-chop sideburns to the Mod Squad... we once again tap our collective memories to cover the sublime, the ridiculous, and everything in between.
VH1 is bringing its highly successful and hilarious "I Love the '80s" approach to a more hairy, less greedy, and far groovier decade: the '70s. An outrageous 10-hour, five-night flashback, "I Love the '70s" remembers the truth about the decade of disco, big collars and polyester. Celebrities weigh in on what was cool, bizarre, beautiful, puzzling and pretentious about the people, music, movies, TV shows, products, fashions, fads, trends and major events that defined pop culture during the decade. The all-new VH1 special premieres two episodes per evening on Monday-Friday, August 18 - 22, beginning at 9:00 p.m. (ET/PT) each night.
Each one-hour episode of "I Love the '70s" is an irreverent, tongue-in-cheek head trip through one single year, and celebrates the good, the bad, and the stoned in an offbeat nostalgia show, spotlighting retro clips from sitcoms, movies, music videos, TV commercials, network news and other sources -- plus more than 100 new interviews with the people who survived the decade that defined facial hair, large collars, afros and bell bottoms.
Mo Rocca ("The Daily Show"), Michael Ian Black ("Ed") and Hal Sparks ("Queer As Folk") return to "I Love the '70s" to lend their hilarious perspective once again. They join a variety of music artists, TV and film stars, athletes, journalists and other celebs who dish the decadent decade including Anne Meara and Jerry Stiller, Cameron Diaz, Jillian Barberie of "Good Day Live," Alec Baldwin, Sharon Osbourne, Aerosmith, Fashion Guru Simon Doonan, Rich Eisen and Stuart Scott of ESPN's "SportsCenter," comedian Greg Fitzsimmons, Drew Barrymore, Lisa Marie Presley, Kelly Rowland, Ziggy Marley, Demi Moore, and others. Also featured are '70s survivors like Lou Ferrigno, Erik Estrada, Isaac Hayes, Lynda Carter, Bob Barker, Loni Anderson, David Cassidy, Lionel Richie, Leif Garrett and more.
Not everybody who lived through the '70s was interviewed -- but almost. VH1's "I Love the '70s" also checks in with The Roots, Rob Zombie, Uncle Kracker, Edwin McCain, Scott Ian, Jason Mraz, Liz Phair, Pat Monahan, Nick Lachey, Marilyn Manson and Jill Scott among many others. In addition, "I Love the '70s" hears from a host of TV and film figures like Molly Culver, Kevin Sorbo, Penn & Teller, Jeff Corwin, Steven Weber, George Lopez, Garcelle
Beauvais Nilon, Jorja Fox, Peri Gilpan, Tony Hawk, Tracee Ellis Ross, Matthew St. Patrick, Tom Arnold of "Best Damn Sports Show Period," Jim Gaffigan, Bill Dwyer, Mitch Silpa and more.

Viewers can go online to
http://www.vh1.com/shows/dyn/i_love_the_70s/series.jhtml for "I Love the 70s" trivia games, photo flipbooks featuring babes and beefcakes of the 70s, interview clips, lists and Evites where viewers can invite their friends to their own 70s party and watch the show together.
"I Love the '70s" is a production of VH1. Series Producer, Karla Hidalgo; Executive Producer, Meredith Ross; Executive Producers, Michael Hirschorn and Shelly Tatro.

More on I Love the 80s: http://www.sitcomsonline.com/boards/showthread.php?s=&threadid=52531

I will be sure to watch this. I was hoping VH1 would redo the "7 days of the 70's" week that they did twice before and of which I taped both. Then they showed Jackson 5 cartoons, 70's episodes of "American Bandstand," 70's movies like "Saturday Night Fever," and music videos like "Don't Go Breaking My Heart" and "Silly Love Songs." I hope some of my favorites like Lee Majors and Lindsay Wagner will be included during the week.

Sounds good! :D

The 70's rocked! I'll have to watch this. :rock:

Originally posted by pavanbadal
Mo Rocca ("The Daily Show"), Michael Ian Black ("Ed") and Hal Sparks ("Queer As Folk") return to "I Love the '70s" to lend their hilarious perspective once again.

Hilarious?! Those are three people I hated the most on "I Love the 80s"!!! Mo Rocca was such a little nerd who thought he was hilarious. I remember one part, I think in 1987, he said that some guy "looked like Wally Beaver." Who is Wally Beaver? I know a Wally Cleaver, but not a Wally Beaver. He better check his sources before he goes cracking 'jokes.' Michael Ian Black.....ick. Hal Sparks was OK I guess...not as annoying as the other too. I'm looking forward to this one though! Can't wait! Can you give us a description of each eppy like last time?

Originally posted by JT
Can't wait! Can you give us a description of each eppy like last time?

I don't have much on it, but here you go, TV/sitcom related only:

1970 -- Brady Bunch, Partridge Family, Laugh-In, Carol Burnett, etc.
1971 -- Hogan's Heroes, Electric Company, etc.
1972 -- Bradys in Hawaii, Fat Albert, Scooby Doo, etc.
1973 -- All in the Family, Sanford & Son, Six Million Dollar Man, Waltons, Kojak, Charlie Brown, Sonny & Cher, etc.
1974 -- Happy Days, Let's Make a Deal, Benny Hill, Little House on the Prairie, etc.
1975 -- One Day at a Time, Tony Orlando & Dawn, Welcome Back Kotter, Land of the Lost, SNL etc.
1976 -- Charlie's Angels, Starsky & Hutch, The Muppets, Family Feud, Captain Kangaroo, Gong Show, Donny & Marie, etc.
1977 -- What's Happening!!, Wonder Woman, Mary Tyler Moore, Roots, Battle of the Network Stars, etc.
1978 -- Fantasy Island, WKRP in Cincinatti, etc.
1979 -- Three's Company, Taxi, Mork & Mindy, Laverne & Shirley, CHiPs, etc.

More info will come on the episodes as we get closer.

I doubt it's going to live-up to the greatness of "I Love The 80's." I was born in 1985- and I still remembered lots of the things mentioned!

Can't wait for "I Love the '90s."

Sounds great I loved the 80's one
Quote by JT: Michal Ian Black... ick
What! You must not be a fan of dry humor. I thought he was hilarious, in fact I got a little crush on him from watching I love the 80's.

I guess I don't like his kind of "humor." In one of the episodes of "I Love the 80s," he says that something was morally wrong with Teddy Ruxpin. What the hell is so moarally wrong about a teddy bear that tells stories to pre-schoolers?!

Originally posted by dawsongirl
The 70's rocked! I'll have to watch this. :rock:

Ditto!:D

Originally posted by sara
Sounds great I loved the 80's one

What! You must not be a fan of dry humor. I thought he was hilarious, in fact I got a little crush on him from watching I love the 80's.

Yeah! I like him too! He's so deadpan that he's funny!:D

Originally posted by pavanbadal

1971 -- Hogan's Heroes

1976 -- Family Feud


:faint: O...M...G...I need blank DVDs.

Originally posted by dawsongirl
:faint: O...M...G...I need blank DVDs.

Ditto! :faint:

I just got done watching 1977, and they didn't mention Mary Tyler Moore at all. I haven't seen most of "I love the 70's" so was she ever mentioned??

I missed the 10-part series "I Love the 70's". I have the 10-part "I Love the 80's" series I taped last year. I hope "I Love the 70's" will come back again soon.

Actually I am taping it as we speak:lol:

pav,
The write-up you posted here is one version. Here's another (mine):

VH1 presents a haphazardly-thrown-together barage of sights and sounds of the decade of the 1970s, rudely interrupted by completely valueless, often tasteless, comments and opinions by a collection of morons who were evidently chosen to be on these shows because their combined IQ is almost 5!

On the other hand, in one 2-hour period, I learned a lot of things about the 1970s from them -- things I had never known before such as:

What song was so bad, "it should be a crime to write a song like that."

"Everybody wanted to do EST."

"People could not keep their clothes on in the '70s."

And . . .

"The most important thing to do in the '70s was to wake up on Saturday morning and watch 'Soul Train.'"

Considering the fact that the 1970s took me from being an awkward elementary school student to being a married working man, you can imagine my interest in these things.



In addition to giving us the above-mentioned priceless words of wisdom, these idiots sang parts of songs, TV themes & commercial jingles for no apparent reason, ate Devil Dogs, referred to the two ladies who sang with Tony Orlando as "the Dawns", and mercilessly made fun of the movie "Love Story," as well as people like the Captain & Tennille, Barry Manilow and the crying Indian from the old TV commercial.

The best line I heard over the course of two hours was, "The Fonz got more ass than a toilet seat." That, by the way, was also one of the *classier* comments of the whole dreadful production.


Later,
Art

I found the commentary offensive and obnoxious. They should have called it "I HATE the 70s". I'm glad that I didn't record it.

DandR
So, it wasn't just me?

Thank you very much.

Later,
Art

Those people can make fun of Barry Manilow all they want. Let's see if they're still in show business in 25 years.:rolleyes: :rolleyes:

phoebe7165,
Well said!

By the way, when are they going to stop showing these ridiculous things?? I mean -- it's a week later and they're still on!

Another annoying aspect of the whole production is the way all these people "explain" what every TV show, movie, fad, etc., was all about as if they were assigned the task of informing everyone who wasn't around. And, some of the explanations are just astonishingly absurd. Example: "'Fantasy Island' was a show about a gay couple who wore white suits, and one of them was a dwarf . . . "

Later,
Art

[QUOTE]Originally posted by Artfiore1
[B]phoebe7165,
Well said!

By the way, when are they going to stop showing these ridiculous things?? I mean -- it's a week later and they're still on!

Art, this is VH1 we're talking about!! Whenever they air "a new show", they show it over & over & over & over & over & over again during the week, then they show a marathon of it on the weekend!! This is for the people who haven't seen it the first billionth time.:lol: :lol:

phoebe7165,
True. But, I foolishly thought that the week-long series of atrocious specials would disappear when the actual week mercifully came to an end.

How silly of me! Or, did I misunderstand -- did they say "month-long"? Sure hope they didn't "year-long."

Later,
Art

LMFAO.....Deep Throat? I wonder who wrote the script for that movie. I bet they were really wasted.

"Your clitoris is in your mouth..."

:rotflmao:

Yesterday, I couldn't tape it, I was still sleeping, I missed it again!

BrooklynGuy78
I wouldn't lose any sleep over it. (Apparently, you're not.)

It seems like every installment will be repeated about 98 times this month. It looks like a lot of them will be on this Saturday (9/6).

Later,
Art

Well... I'm just curious how many of you lived through the 70s? I mean, I was born in 75, so it was the tail end of it when I knew what was up. But, I definitely remember a lot of the things they are talking about.

If you didn't live through it, you probably wouldn't appreciate the humor they are using.

And Phoebe -- I do agree about the 25 year comment. Some of the people on there are already has-beens.

jayman75
I was born in 1957, graduated from elementary school in 1971, graduated from high school in 1975, was married in 1978.

I consider myself more than qualified to know a little about the decade of the 1970s . . . and to know what a pile of dog snot these VH1 specials are. I have no problem with the sound bits, film clips or subject matter dealt with on them. It was all the worthless, pointless, often tasteless so-called commentary by all those imbeciles that ruined these shows for me.

Later,
Art

Art, I'll have to agree with you at some point, but some of the things they are saying is pretty funny. I, too, lived through the 70's and it basically was a bad decade, music & fashion wise, but I still loved it. I look at photos at myself and think OMG that's a horrible outfit I'm wearing! I guess one can say that about any decade though. Even now, some of the music and fashions these days leave alot to be desired. I'd be curious to see what music is playing on the oldies stations in 30 years, and if VH1 will have a 'I Love the 2000's'!! But, Art, even as bad as this show is, it's still nice to go back in time and relive all the pop culture tidbits. Do they really need to air the shows 50 billion times though?

I know I'm probably going to get flak for my music & fashion comment.

phoebe7165,
As for fashion & entertainment, I have a theory that it's a 20-year thing. We always seem to have an affection and a fascination for 20 years ago. Some examples:

In the 1970s, the '50s became very popular. On the television back then -- "Happy Days", "Laverne & Shirley", "Sha Na Na." In the theaters, we saw, "Let The Good Times Roll", "The Lords Of Flatbush", "Grease." And, although 1973's "American Graffiti" *wasn't* set in the '50s, it sure did look like it. Hell, a year later in 1974, "In The Still Of The Night" missed by a *hair* of being selected the theme of my high school class' junior prom! I played & sang in a band then, and a few of our biggest numbers in the '70s were "Johnny B. Goode," "Earth Angel" and "Roll Over, Beethoven."

Then came the 1980s, and suddenly the '60s were in: Reruns of "The Monkees" hit cable. And, there was "Dirty Dancing", "The Wonder Years", "Good Morning, Vietnam," a seemingly endless stream of "Star Trek" original cast reunion movies and I'm sure other '60s-related goodies I can't think of at the moment. And, by the way, when did the '60s' mini-skirt come back in style again? The 1980s.

Of course, in the 1990s, '70s fashions started to creep back in style, along with a big '70s music retro thing . . . and cable reruns of '70s TV shows like "Three's Company" and "All In The Family." A little bit of that '70s nostalgia has spilled over into the early 2000s . . . along with a sort of 20-year (X 2) thing -- Capri pants.
But, if you pay close enough attention, though, you'll start to notice a fondness for the 1980s beginning to emerge these days.

The 1970s were, without question, the greatest years of *my* life. So, no matter what the calendar says, those will always be my favorite years. While I agree with you about how nice it is to go back and relive. . . ", I simply did not appreciate the ignorance & pointlessness of the commentary on those VH1 specials.


Later,
Art

What about the segment I haven't seen in that series was "Superfly" and "Shaft". These are the two movies during the era of blaxploitation films.

BrooklynGuy78
Does that mean you want to see them? If so, you should probably check out VH1 next Wednesday (Sept. 10th) at 3:00 & 4:00 p.m. eastern time. According to their schedule, that's when they're replaying the 1971 & 1972 installments of the series. If I'm not mistaken, those were the years when those two movies came out. I'm pretty sure "Shaft" was '71, and "Superfly", '72.

My personal favorite of the so-called "blaxploitation" films was "Car Wash", which I believe came out in '76.


Later,
Art

BrooklynGuy78,
Actually, if you're interested, the 1971 & 1972 episodes are scheduled to be rerun tomorrow (Friday Sep. 5th) at 2:00 & 3:00 p.m. eastern time, respectively.

Later,
Art

I thought the commentary was very funny!

And I learned a lot about the 70s as well.

Its not supposed to be a documentary of the 70s, its more.... making a joke of it.

I for one, vote this a good show.

Dry Humor at some of its best.

I cant wait until "I Love The 80s Strikes Back"

Hi again, all,
Tonight I, *quite accidentally*, saw part of the 1974 edition of this series once again.

In the agonizing minutes I saw, a collection of brainless twits alternately made quick comments about the song "Sweet Home Alabama" -- some unashamedly admitting that they had no idea at all what the song was about. (Why, then, are *they* talking about it?) This was immediately followed, with no segue whatsoever, by clips of the TV show "Good Times", during which more idiots offered their opinions on the show's social relevance and its theme song. Ellen Cleghorne, I believe it was, said that she never really listened to the lyrics of the show's theme until much later, when she finally realized they were about bad things (struggling to pay bills, getting rip-offed, being layed-off, etc.). She was obviously oblivious to the irony -- sarcasm, if you will -- in portraying being poor and ghetto misery and calling it "Good Times." She also acted quite surprised to learn that the father character on the show had died, claiming that she had always thought he was just another black man who had run out on his family. These people then mocked, in a most UNfunny manner, the old TV commercial for the game Connect Four.

If this is the sort of entertainment you require or enjoy, then, by all means, tune in to VH1 these days. You'll get MORE than your fill of it.

Later,
Art