ORIGINALLY POSTED ON THE NINTH EDITION OF "THE BEAU ZONE" ON THE HARD ROCK HEROES WEBSITE FROM NOVEMBER 2006 TO JUNE 2007.
Regarding the "That '70s Show" series finale: That was eerie, the way Eric showed up and how we didn't get to see him at the party greeting his parents. And we didn't even get to see one second of the gang in 1980. I was wondering if we'd hear The Pina Colada Song, since that was the last #1 song of 1979/first #1 song of 1980. And we'll never get to find out Hyde's reaction to Bon Scott of AC/DC dying less than two months after that party, John Bonham dying in September (the same way Bon Scott died, incidentally, by choking on his own vomit while sleeping/passed out), signalling the end of Led Zeppelin, and then the big one - John Lennon being murdered on December 8. Hey, even Peter Criss leaving Kiss in May. Yes, it all happened in 1980!
Me during the broadcast of "Much On Demand" outside in front of the Muchmusic building in Toronto, ON on September 25, 2003.
Showing posts with label That '70s Show. Show all posts
Showing posts with label That '70s Show. Show all posts
Monday, January 25, 2010
Saturday, January 16, 2010
That '70s Show Stuff
ORIGINALLY POSTED ON THE SEVENTH EDITION OF "THE BEAU ZONE" ON THE HARD ROCK HEROES WEBSITE FROM DECEMBER 2005 TO MAY 2006.
When I heard that Ashton Kutcher had wrapped up filming his last episode of That '70s Show, I thought, "Huh? I knew he was supposed to be in four episodes this season, but I assumed they would be spread throughout the season, kind of like John Travolta's deal when he first stopped being a regular on Welcome Back Kotter. It's just that I think I've also heard this will be the last season for That '70s Show, so wouldn't it make sense for one of those four appearances to be the last episode? Where, also, perhaps Eric comes home from Africa and Topher Grace also comes back for the final episode? (Eric might as well come back permanently if the show's going off the air.) They couldn't have pre-filmed that episode - it would have been all over the gossip mags and the web for sure. A head scratcher. (They could also finally go into 1980 on that last episode, too.)" But since I had those thoughts, those four episodes have aired. Oh, okay, I see - the last of those four with Bruce Willis, was the plotline to take him out of the show. So for a last episode.....no Kelso? No Kelso AND Eric? Or was "Ashton Kutcher in only four episodes" not to be taken that literally? Not that it was meant to be a lie, maybe they just didn't want to take away from what a last episode could be.....or maybe they just don't know yet. We'll have to wait and see, I guess. And as per my previous Beau Zone discussions, boy, they've sure been stuck in 1979 for a very long time now. This season, though, do you notice the year sticker at the bottom right hand corner of the license plate, instead of going up a year to read "80," is instead, GONE! Hmmmm.....
When I heard that Ashton Kutcher had wrapped up filming his last episode of That '70s Show, I thought, "Huh? I knew he was supposed to be in four episodes this season, but I assumed they would be spread throughout the season, kind of like John Travolta's deal when he first stopped being a regular on Welcome Back Kotter. It's just that I think I've also heard this will be the last season for That '70s Show, so wouldn't it make sense for one of those four appearances to be the last episode? Where, also, perhaps Eric comes home from Africa and Topher Grace also comes back for the final episode? (Eric might as well come back permanently if the show's going off the air.) They couldn't have pre-filmed that episode - it would have been all over the gossip mags and the web for sure. A head scratcher. (They could also finally go into 1980 on that last episode, too.)" But since I had those thoughts, those four episodes have aired. Oh, okay, I see - the last of those four with Bruce Willis, was the plotline to take him out of the show. So for a last episode.....no Kelso? No Kelso AND Eric? Or was "Ashton Kutcher in only four episodes" not to be taken that literally? Not that it was meant to be a lie, maybe they just didn't want to take away from what a last episode could be.....or maybe they just don't know yet. We'll have to wait and see, I guess. And as per my previous Beau Zone discussions, boy, they've sure been stuck in 1979 for a very long time now. This season, though, do you notice the year sticker at the bottom right hand corner of the license plate, instead of going up a year to read "80," is instead, GONE! Hmmmm.....
Thursday, January 7, 2010
That '70s Show Stuff
ORIGINALLY POSTED ON THE SIXTH EDITION OF "THE BEAU ZONE" ON THE HARD ROCK HEROES WEBSITE FROM AUGUST TO DECEMBER 2005.
This is becoming a regular Beau Zone feature! Well, now I know That '70s Show is totally screwed. Remember when they did the talking yearbook photos gag two seasons ago? It showed "1978" at the top of the yearbook page and the gang had one year of high school left at that point. So the next year they graduate high school, except for Jackie, who, remember, is one grade behind. I think we found that out during the first season of the show. So it must be 1979 at that point, right? Now it's a year later, and over the course of the past year they did that episode where the gang goes back to high school for Jackie's dance. Okay, makes sense. Most recently, on another episode, the show starts off with the gang all walking into Eric's basement and Jackie's wearing a grad cap. she takes it off and proclaims, "Boy, am I glad to have finished high school." So that means it now must be THE SUMMER OF 1980!!!!! But it's not, of course: in the show they're still in the '70s, even though it's now two years past the summer of 1978. How does that make any sense?
This is becoming a regular Beau Zone feature! Well, now I know That '70s Show is totally screwed. Remember when they did the talking yearbook photos gag two seasons ago? It showed "1978" at the top of the yearbook page and the gang had one year of high school left at that point. So the next year they graduate high school, except for Jackie, who, remember, is one grade behind. I think we found that out during the first season of the show. So it must be 1979 at that point, right? Now it's a year later, and over the course of the past year they did that episode where the gang goes back to high school for Jackie's dance. Okay, makes sense. Most recently, on another episode, the show starts off with the gang all walking into Eric's basement and Jackie's wearing a grad cap. she takes it off and proclaims, "Boy, am I glad to have finished high school." So that means it now must be THE SUMMER OF 1980!!!!! But it's not, of course: in the show they're still in the '70s, even though it's now two years past the summer of 1978. How does that make any sense?
That '70s Show Stuff
ORIGINALLY POSTED ON THE FIFTH EDITION OF "THE BEAU ZONE" ON THE HARD ROCK HEROES WEBSITE FROM APRIL TO AUGUST 2005.
Did you see that That '70s Show where Kelso gives Fez a box of Playboys? The guys realize later on in the episode they've left Fez alone in Eric's basement with them, so they rush to check him out. They find him passed out on the couch, covered in Playboys. Good thing I was watching this on tape - I thought to myself, "Hey, that one over his leg looks familiar - is that the one with former late-period Charlie's Angel Tanya Roberts on the cover, who also did a nude pictorial?" I rewound the tape and took a closer look and no, it wasn't. If it was, that would have been a good inside joke, as Tanya Roberts is now, of course, Donna's mother on That '70s Show. Then I went to my own copy of that issue to check the date, and it turns out it was a 1982 issue. So they couldn't have used it on That '70s Show. They're still in 1979 right now.
Also, how about having the gang in a department store in the TV section changing the channel of every TV to a different station? I loved doing this in the '70s when I was a teenager. Of course, now you can't do this because every store has the TV sets either programmed from a main source elsewhere that customers like me can't touch (awww!!) and therefore are playing the same channel on every set, or are playing a DVD on every set. Boring. I'm glad I grew up in the '70s and not now! Of course, the show's producers would have to get the rights for all the shows they put on those sets, I suppose. But if they could, it would certainly be a lot of fun to see the gang in a TV store on, say, Tuesday night after 8:00 p.m. EST seeing Happy Days on one channel and whatever was opposite it in 1979 on another channel.
Did you see that That '70s Show where Kelso gives Fez a box of Playboys? The guys realize later on in the episode they've left Fez alone in Eric's basement with them, so they rush to check him out. They find him passed out on the couch, covered in Playboys. Good thing I was watching this on tape - I thought to myself, "Hey, that one over his leg looks familiar - is that the one with former late-period Charlie's Angel Tanya Roberts on the cover, who also did a nude pictorial?" I rewound the tape and took a closer look and no, it wasn't. If it was, that would have been a good inside joke, as Tanya Roberts is now, of course, Donna's mother on That '70s Show. Then I went to my own copy of that issue to check the date, and it turns out it was a 1982 issue. So they couldn't have used it on That '70s Show. They're still in 1979 right now.
Also, how about having the gang in a department store in the TV section changing the channel of every TV to a different station? I loved doing this in the '70s when I was a teenager. Of course, now you can't do this because every store has the TV sets either programmed from a main source elsewhere that customers like me can't touch (awww!!) and therefore are playing the same channel on every set, or are playing a DVD on every set. Boring. I'm glad I grew up in the '70s and not now! Of course, the show's producers would have to get the rights for all the shows they put on those sets, I suppose. But if they could, it would certainly be a lot of fun to see the gang in a TV store on, say, Tuesday night after 8:00 p.m. EST seeing Happy Days on one channel and whatever was opposite it in 1979 on another channel.
Saturday, December 12, 2009
Television
ORIGINALLY POSTED ON THE THIRD EDITION OF "THE BEAU ZONE" ON THE HARD ROCK HEROES WEBSITE FROM SEPTEMBER TO DECEMBER 2004.
I hope in the new and final season of That '70s Show we'll finally get to see the gang, horror of horrors, ENTER 1980!!! You see, they have been in a time warp since Christmas. Let me explain: They did the talking yearbook photos gag at the end of the 2001/02 season with the heading "1978," they graduated high school at the end of the 2002/03 season, so that was 1979, and at the end of 2003 (part of the 2003/04 season) they did the Christmas show. So they must be stuck somewhere between Christmas and New Year's of 1979. 1980 is RIGHT AROUND THE CORNER!!!!! They do seem to be playing songs from 1979, and the license plate reads 1979 now, too. I was hoping they would graduate high school in 1980, 'cause that's the year I graduated, but at least Jackie will! Did you see the episode this past season where they accompany her to a high school dance? I had forgotten that she's actually a grade behind the rest of the gang. I remember someone brought it up in the first season. As she's preparing to graduate, someone's gotta burst in shouting, "OH MY GOD!!! PETER CRISS HAS LEFT KISS!!!" I remember that news coming out in May 1980. Americans finish school in May, right? In Canada we finish in June. I would also like to see one of those dream sequences with the four guys doing a parody of Cheap Trick's "Dream Police" video, wearing those Dream Police outfits Cheap Trick also wears on the cover of the DP album. Wouldn't that be nifty?
I hope in the new and final season of That '70s Show we'll finally get to see the gang, horror of horrors, ENTER 1980!!! You see, they have been in a time warp since Christmas. Let me explain: They did the talking yearbook photos gag at the end of the 2001/02 season with the heading "1978," they graduated high school at the end of the 2002/03 season, so that was 1979, and at the end of 2003 (part of the 2003/04 season) they did the Christmas show. So they must be stuck somewhere between Christmas and New Year's of 1979. 1980 is RIGHT AROUND THE CORNER!!!!! They do seem to be playing songs from 1979, and the license plate reads 1979 now, too. I was hoping they would graduate high school in 1980, 'cause that's the year I graduated, but at least Jackie will! Did you see the episode this past season where they accompany her to a high school dance? I had forgotten that she's actually a grade behind the rest of the gang. I remember someone brought it up in the first season. As she's preparing to graduate, someone's gotta burst in shouting, "OH MY GOD!!! PETER CRISS HAS LEFT KISS!!!" I remember that news coming out in May 1980. Americans finish school in May, right? In Canada we finish in June. I would also like to see one of those dream sequences with the four guys doing a parody of Cheap Trick's "Dream Police" video, wearing those Dream Police outfits Cheap Trick also wears on the cover of the DP album. Wouldn't that be nifty?
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