"...Like that '70s show. The one about the '60s..."

[originalpckelly]

OMG! Will someone comfort the screams of my mind!?!? Please!

I burst out laughing when I heard that. I rolled literally on the floor laughing. It was said so serious and the person who said it intended it to be that!

:rofl:

It was no minor mistake, they thought "That '70s Show" was about the freaking '60s. AAAAAAARRRRGH!

[fishwax]

1. well, the title is pretty ambiguous

:crazy:

Perhaps they were talking about Happy Days, and they thought it took place in the 60s rather than the 50s :silly:

[ClassWarfare2008]

2. Happy Days went on so damn long that it eventually WAS about the 60's.

Remember the horrible Joanie Loves Chaci spinoff where they let Paul McCartney (not played by the real Paul) join their band?

I think they canceled it when they did, because otherwise they would have had to send Potsie and Ralph Malph off to Vietnam, while Fonzie would have been dropping acid in Haight Ashbury.

[Oeditpus Rex]

3. Happy Days was all over the freakin' time line

In one episode, they had Fonzie going to Alabama or Georgia to join in the civil rights movement. That would've been 1965, but when the kids graduated from Jefferson High not much earlier, Richie spoke in his valedictorian speech of the nation surviving the assassinations of Lincoln and McKinley (The writers apparently forgot about Garfield), so it wasn't yet 1963 then.

When the series started, it was 1956, because one of the first episodes had Richie working for the Stevenson presidential campaign because there was a girl he liked on the committee.

And what the hell happened to Chuck? And how'd the Cunninghams' house get turned 180 degrees after the second season?

[conscious evolution]

6. Chuck?

[ForrestGump]

7. Richie's older brother

He was exposed by Macarthy, carried away by FBI agents in the middle of the night (between episodes), and never heard from again.

He later showed up, briefly, as the Unknown Comic.

Now buried with Jimmy Hoffa.

[Oeditpus Rex]

8. I always thought

he was "disappeared" by the anti-basketball lobby. :shrug:

[Left Is Write]

18. It was Agent Mike in a previous life.

[mitchum]

10. Apparently, Chuck Cunningham ran off with the older sister from "That 70s Show"...

and they disappeared into the abyss.

[conscious evolution]

14. Oh,I thought

You meant a chuck from happy Days.
Also,whatever happened to Donna's little sister?

[mitchum]

21. I did...both of those siblings from those two shows just...disappeared

:)

[AllegroRondo]

15. I remember them cheering the Milwaukee Braves world series

which would have been 1957.

[Left Is Write]

17. It was a completely different house.

They never moved, yet they had a completely different house!

[Richard Steele]

4. Whaaaaaaaa?

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[MonkeyFunk]

5. What are you talking about?

[originalpckelly]

9. There's this show on TV called "That '70s show"

It's about the '70s, as the title pretty much gives you a hint to.

Well anyway, I was talking to someone else, and they said that the "boomers" (which this person is, of course) were in charge of productions studios and they're making weird shows.

"...Like that '70s show. The one about the '60s..."

Get it now? The show is about the '70s, not the '60s. It's sort of the dumbest thing I have ever heard.

[mitchum]

11. Boomers? It appears "That 70s Show" is written by people who are too young...

to have been teenagers in the 70s. While the wardrobe and dressing of the sets are accurate, the tone is all wrong. The mores are also more like those of today. The 70s were a lot more hedonistic (and fun) than they are depicted on that sitcom.
"Dazed and Confused" is a far more accurate depiction of 70s teen culture. Gawd, I miss those days.

[PassingFair]

19. I agree. I LOVE that little movie. But pssssst..........don't

tell my kids!

PLEASE!

:rofl:

[mitchum]

20. Your secret is safe with me :)

[ghostsofgiants]

12. Ooh, I've been looking for that Scanners gif for a while, thanks!

[Pushed To The Left]

13. Sounds like something Bush would say! n/t

[originalpckelly]

16. Indeed it does!

:rofl: