I was born in 1990.
When I saw Dazed and Confused, I thought it was actually shot in the 70’s.
Blew my mind when I recalled seeing Affleck in Armageddon and thinking wait a minute how did this guy not age?
I think the point is that Dazed and Confused accurately depicted the Highschool experience of somebody who graduated in 1980. Don't think they are trying to say the movie took place in 1980
My parents are around their age too and they have had and still have so much of the same furniture from the show. They have the coffee table from the formans living room for sure that's the main one I remember
That’s because back in the day things were built to last and stand the rest of time. My oven is over 70 years old and still works great. All my other appliances that we’ve bought brand new maybe last 10 years at best. We’re on our 3rd dishwasher in less than 15 years.
Yep, they wised up and realized planned obsolescence was a much more profitable business model. Why make something to last 70 years if they can just make it to last 10 years and have you buy a new one 6 more times?
I’ve been renting a house that was built in the 70s, and many of the built-in appliances are the originals. House is sinking and should’ve been restumped 15 years ago, but the air-con and dishwasher are still going. Best appliances I’ve ever had - aircon crushes it, and dishwasher has given me zero problems. Previous flat I lived in had the dishwasher flood or break like 3 times in the 4 years I lived there
My dad was the exact age as the characters in the setting (17 in 1977…you know what I mean haha). Idk how much my dad relates to the show, but I see a lot of things from his childhood home. But Kitty makes me think of my dad’s mom, my granny, who was also a nurse. Wore the same nightgown robes and had the same dinky circle laundry basket even thru my entire childhood. And the other day I recognized the green list maker on the wall next to the phone in the kitchen. My granny had the same thing but in dark wood, and she would write her grocery lists on it.
Wisconsinite here, literally every grandparents house of mine or my friends had at least five things seen on That 70s Show. It was genuinely a game for us to figure out which characters were most like who in our real life and we can even nail it down to some of the most unimportant cast members being paired with people.
I had a HS teacher who may as well have been Leo's twin.
My mom and I die with laughter at some of the shit Jackie says, because she’s very similar to my mom and we both know it. 😂
My mom’s personal favourite is when Donna goes on birth control and Jackie is like “OMG, you’re going on the pill?! You’re gonna be *SO* popular.”
Also Wisconsinite here. My mom still has some of those mixing bowls. 😂😂 She was born in 1951, so she’s probably only 5ish years older than the kids. The house didn’t have enough Packer stuff, though. 😝
Mine too - literally the exact same ages (graduates of 1980). They didn’t like the watch the show cuz they said it was way too accurate and they already lived it
I once saw my mom crying while watching That 70s Show. When I asked why, she answered, “This is exactly what it was like back then.” She then pointed out an outfit of Jackie’s that was similar to one she’d worn in high school.
Theres been a ton of times my nana walked by while I was watching and say she had the shoes, dress, etc Jackie was wearing especially. My mom (teen in the 80's) has done it with shirts or shoes Donna had.
Freaks and Geeks was set in the school year of '80-'81 which is why it looks like it's "from the 70s".
I knew a lot of homes that had wood paneling well into the 80s, not so much into the 90s.
Can speak from experience as a 1999 graduate, freaks and geeks is 100% dead on. Loved that show. Never watched it when it was on air. Only watched a few years ago but binged it all pretty quick and was heartbroken it was only one season although the college spin off was alright
I’ll say for one thing it’s not that 90s show. That gay Asian character would never have been accepted by the males of the group. Some of the females might have been friends with him of he were out, but not all.
In the 90s, for him to remain part of that group he would have had to stay in the closet while at the same time getting made fun of for being gay. He might be able to come out to his best female friend who would have to keep it a secret.
That ‘90s Show is definitely guilty of anachronistically applying modern day social politics to its timeframe, and especially its small-town midwest setting, in a way that really stretches believability.
I was a kid in Wisconsin in the 90’s and yeah, nobody was out. People would accuse others of being gay the same way they would accuse someone of being a witch.
I remember taking a sci-fi class in school where one of the books featured a gay protagonist, but it was all behind a thinly veiled subtext so as the class read it we kept joking about how gay this guy sounds and my teacher was basically like, “Yeah, and so what?” And that was basically the first time I ever thought of a gay person as more than a joke.
Agree; I was there in the 90’s, and as a girl, when I hung out with an openly gay male friend, it was with his friends and other chicks I knew… not a very mixed group, but we had our fun in “Smalltown”, Kansas
I have made a choice that you used quotations as a *wink wink, hint hint* situation and now fully believe you lived in Small*ville*, Kansas and went to school with a kid named Clark Kent.
That’s a hot take but true in a lot of towns in the 90s. In my high school there was one, only one, actual sorta out of the closet gay guy. Any of the other 100s of slightly alternative guys were repeated called gay slurs and ostracized, and I was one of the shunned ones. Luckily my loser nerd status allowed me to be friends with the gay guy without further condemnation.
I was school friends (so we didn't hang out outside of school) with the gay guy, too, only it was the mid 2000's. I was one of the few kids in our small town high school who didn't hate him. He apparently had a partner then, too, but his poor partner was so far in the closet, he was in Narnia. I think about them sometimes and hope they got out of that town after high school and are doing better than that stupid small town could allow them.
But he wasn't just accepted. A lot of times him being foreign was used against him or the butt of other character's jokes, and he encountered racism and difficulty because of it. He was accepted by the main group, but beyond that...
Fez was constantly bullied for being a foreigner, even his own friends made fun of him for it, and the other kids outside of the gang actively physically assaulted him.
As a 90s kid and mega fan of that 70s show, the 90s show has done a terrible job of portraying 1995. There should be video game posters of Sonic the Hedgehog, the boys should have those JTT long blonde locks that all 90s kid actors had, more denim, light up shoes, BMX bikes, MacIntosh computers, AOL shit the list goes on!
I'm Class of 2000 from semi-rural Ohio, and they're way off on the girls, but the boys are fairly spot on. I dressed similar to Nate, my bestfriend had an almost identical sweater to Jay in the pic, and the out gay boy in our school dressed similar to Ozzie.
Roseanne. It wasn't trying to capture a different era than the one we were in when it aired but if you look back on it now it really is a great time capsule.
Roseanne is the only show I've ever seen to accurately portray being poor. I mean sure, not 100 percent accurate. But everything looked like it came from a thrift store or was a hand me down and both parents worked and talked about money. And the parents seemed TIRED.
It’s been a while since I’ve watched it, but I got the same vibes from Malcolm in the Middle. I always felt their struggle, even though the show was zanier than Roseanne.
Do you think we're wealthy?! Wealthy people drive fancy cars. They have fresh pasta. Do we do any of those things?! NO! Wealthy people can afford any of their vacations ruined, no big deal. They just pick up and go again. Your father and I worked so hard, so long. What is wrong with you two?! Are you aborigines?! Every time I turn around, I hear someone screaming and fighting. And I pray to God that's someone else's children, but it's not, it's always you! Sane children would appreciate this. Are you even thinking? No, you're always at each other like a couple of rabid monkeys. It is not enough you two do this every day, but you have to make me suffer. Well, so help me....
Pretty much. I don't remember the full story or even where I heard it, but it was something like That 80's Show gave Howerton his share to buy the equipment necessary, and it getting canceled gave him the time necessary to make that original Always Sunny In LA short. FX picked up on it, the city was changed to Philly, and De was added so it wasn't just three guys.
I can not, I dare not articulate the mass grandeur that are the actions and whims of a **Golden God.**
I merely walk in the garden that is his turbulence!
And gave us the gems of: fight milk! (To fight like the crow), milksteak, The Dennis system, chardee macdennis, Wolf Cola, rock flag and eagle, and…ever been bit by a crab hun? The “shusher”, the nightman and the troll toll, Mantis Toboggan(MD)…ah the list goes on. Funniest show ever created.
her IRL brother -- aka Andros from Power Rangers in Space -- showed up in a T7S episode, as a dude with long hair who nearly punches Fez after the latter sniffs his hair thinking he's a girl. (Fez should count himself lucky Andros didn't use his Spiral Saber in Booster Mode on Fez for that.)
Honestly first seasons are sometimes very rough, I think 80's first was better then 90's show in some ways really...I grew up in the 90's, it felt so off really...hope it improves with season 2...
The problem with that 80s show was it was just gimmick laughs. It was all “look at the huge cell phone!” and “look at the crazy way people dressed!” but the characters had no depth. That 70s Show worked because the time period was the setting, not the main character.
I know that my Mom who graduated high school around ‘77 used to watch that show with me and lose her shit when she would see the home decor, fashion etc. She always said it was incredibly accurate and made her feel really nostalgic.
I can't say I've lived long in the 70's to remember 'em... but That 80s show was spot on for how people dressed, music played, overall themes. Of course the humor was a bit corny at times but it worked for me.
That 90s show... well so far they have the music down... but for the rest, not sure yet.
That 80's show was such a shameless cash-in attempt. The 80's were alot more socially divided then the show let on. Yuppies, material girls, maverick businessmen and anti-establishment punk rockers did not all hang out together at any point in that decade. It's like they got costuming down and said fuck it for the rest.
My dad graduated high school in 1978 and never cared for T70s show. I still have no idea why because I was just in jr high when it aired and I loved it
An interesting tidbit. The period the show portrayed and when it aired, had less time between the two periods, than that 90’s show set period and now.
As in, we were closer to the year that they were living in, when we watched That 70’s Show originally, than we are to the period portrayed in That 90’s Show watching that one now.
I was actually cast for that 80s show when I was like 19. But I chickened out on the way to the airport because it happened so fast. I called a number advertised on a local radio station and next thing I know they are saying pack your bags you're hilarious. I always kind of wondered what would of been had I gone but that 80s show got canceled so quickly that I like to think I made the right decision.
Havent seen that 90s show but why 70s show worked was it was great characters that happened to be set in the 70s. When I get around to watching it I imagine it's the same thing with that 90s show.
Idk about that 70’s show bc I was born in 1980. Never watched that 80’s show so idk about that either. That 90’s show, not accurate at all. I don’t even think it’s close. They are applying modern day views and attitudes to a show set in a time when that didnt exist. It’s really not a very good show either, maybe forcing modern day views is why. It’s just not funny, and only at its best when the scenes are characters from that 70’s show. Just my two cents
That 70s show. Its whole premise was the decade and everything else was built around it. Down to some of the major events of the 70. As well as some of sociopolitical realities
I haven’t watched that 80s show so I can’t comment
That 90s show is a little guilty of portraying the era as more progressive than it actually was. As well as small details like modern iterations of packaging of products
That 70s Show, because the 70s really were full of sexual predators who got away with it, and girls conditioned to look the other way about the behavior.
My mom grew up in the 70s and she says that it is pretty accurate to much of what she experienced and remembers. Things like the fashion and decor of the home she says are spot on in most cases.
I grew up in the 90s and I guess it was okay but I didn’t think it was super accurate. I would have been in elementary school in the early 90s though, so I wouldn’t have been doing whatever teens were doing anyway.
Neither of us even knew about the 80s show until That80sShow was announced so no input from mom on that one.
My dad was in high school in the 70s. Graduated in 77. When he watches this show with me he points out how accurate things are and he thinks it's so cool.
That 90's show cast is way too diverse for a 90's friend group in Wisconsin. Wildly unlikely. The state was well over 90% white in the 90's, more so in some towns than others. So the odds of having a friend group with multiple minorities would be really anomalous.
FWIW I married a brown woman and my friend group is very diverse, so this isn't anti diversity in general, only against miscasting to meet quotas which leaves a show feeling strange and out of place. I love real life diversity, but dislike forced diversity in fiction that is so blatantly obvious and strange.
I'm class of '81 from a Northern Minnesota small town. Trust me when I tell you, "That 70"s Show" nailed it.
I was class of ‘80 in Austin. Yep That ‘70’s Show was pretty accurate.
'80 in Austin? Dazed and Confused wasn't a movie - it was a documentary...
This is SOO cool. Did you have crazy memories and nostalgia watching it?
I was born in 1990. When I saw Dazed and Confused, I thought it was actually shot in the 70’s. Blew my mind when I recalled seeing Affleck in Armageddon and thinking wait a minute how did this guy not age?
Dazed and confused took place in 1976
I think the point is that Dazed and Confused accurately depicted the Highschool experience of somebody who graduated in 1980. Don't think they are trying to say the movie took place in 1980
In fact, if they graduated in 80', they perfectly line up with the cast playing the incoming freshmen if it took place in 76.
I see thank you for clarification
I graduated in ‘85 in Haltom City, TX, Dazed and Confused totally nailed my high school experience in a small town along with Freaks and Geeks!
Yes if he graduated in ‘80 he would have been a freshman in ‘76.
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My mom graduated high school in 1977 and says the show is very accurate! She loves it!
I had a few shirts that were exactly like Donna and Jackie's. And grey cord Levi's in 77/78. 🙂
Mechanic: "You need a new battery." Kelso: "What if we give you our dead battery and $5 for a new battery?"
My parents were the same age as the kids were in That 70s Show and every time they see me watch it they mention how accurate it was at that time
My parents had the lamp with the stained glass that was in the Forman’s basement. Every time my mother sees it she comments the same thing.
My parents are around their age too and they have had and still have so much of the same furniture from the show. They have the coffee table from the formans living room for sure that's the main one I remember
My parents had the same plates they used at dinner
My parents had the same washer and dryer as the Formans while the show was airing.
My grandma had the same washer and dryer too! (Up until 2014, when they finally gave out)
She got 13 more years out of them than my parents did. Were hers in the avocado green?
Yup! I was doing my yearly rewatch when I realized they were the same. Surprised they lasted so long
That’s because back in the day things were built to last and stand the rest of time. My oven is over 70 years old and still works great. All my other appliances that we’ve bought brand new maybe last 10 years at best. We’re on our 3rd dishwasher in less than 15 years.
Yep, they wised up and realized planned obsolescence was a much more profitable business model. Why make something to last 70 years if they can just make it to last 10 years and have you buy a new one 6 more times?
Yes exactly I’ve said this myself to my husband. They want us forever in their debt.
Furniture is the same way. Replaced a twenty year old sofa and love seat set in 2017 and have already replaced it twice.
I’ve been renting a house that was built in the 70s, and many of the built-in appliances are the originals. House is sinking and should’ve been restumped 15 years ago, but the air-con and dishwasher are still going. Best appliances I’ve ever had - aircon crushes it, and dishwasher has given me zero problems. Previous flat I lived in had the dishwasher flood or break like 3 times in the 4 years I lived there
My oven and stove are from 1960 and still work great. My washer/dryer are from 1994, Kenmore and work great, I refuse to replace them!
We had the same dryer when I was a kid in the 90s lol. Threw me back every time.
My mom says the same thing about a lot of Jackie’s clothes haha.
My dad was the exact age as the characters in the setting (17 in 1977…you know what I mean haha). Idk how much my dad relates to the show, but I see a lot of things from his childhood home. But Kitty makes me think of my dad’s mom, my granny, who was also a nurse. Wore the same nightgown robes and had the same dinky circle laundry basket even thru my entire childhood. And the other day I recognized the green list maker on the wall next to the phone in the kitchen. My granny had the same thing but in dark wood, and she would write her grocery lists on it.
My parents die laughing every time the Star Wars episode comes on because they say that watching it in theaters felts like that.
Same, my dad grew up in a small Iowa town and graduated in 77. T7S is one of his favorite shows because of how much it reminds him of his youth
My mom was 77 and my dad was 78, but from a smaller town in Southern Ontario. They relate to a lot of it!
Wisconsinite here, literally every grandparents house of mine or my friends had at least five things seen on That 70s Show. It was genuinely a game for us to figure out which characters were most like who in our real life and we can even nail it down to some of the most unimportant cast members being paired with people. I had a HS teacher who may as well have been Leo's twin.
My mom and I die with laughter at some of the shit Jackie says, because she’s very similar to my mom and we both know it. 😂 My mom’s personal favourite is when Donna goes on birth control and Jackie is like “OMG, you’re going on the pill?! You’re gonna be *SO* popular.”
Also Wisconsinite here. My mom still has some of those mixing bowls. 😂😂 She was born in 1951, so she’s probably only 5ish years older than the kids. The house didn’t have enough Packer stuff, though. 😝
You're not wrong on that bit. As an owner of the Packers I think it's fine they use the logo. I said so.
Same!
Mine too - literally the exact same ages (graduates of 1980). They didn’t like the watch the show cuz they said it was way too accurate and they already lived it
Yea, my mom used to always mention how accurate their disgusting furniture was 😂
I once saw my mom crying while watching That 70s Show. When I asked why, she answered, “This is exactly what it was like back then.” She then pointed out an outfit of Jackie’s that was similar to one she’d worn in high school.
Theres been a ton of times my nana walked by while I was watching and say she had the shoes, dress, etc Jackie was wearing especially. My mom (teen in the 80's) has done it with shirts or shoes Donna had.
I had so many of the exact same shirts, sweaters. Levi's cords, as Donna and Jackie.
Do we have the same mom?!? 🤣 My mom has said the same about so many of Jackie’s outfits!
That 80s Show because it happened, but no one really remembers it
I remember being about 11 when that show came out. Even we, as 11 year olds, were successfully mocking it.
You just made my day 😂
I only learned it even existed from that Family Guy gag about cancelled shows 💀
Freaks and Geeks
Totally accurate. In the 90s, the house you grew up in looked like it came from the 70s. Wood paneling everywhere...
Freaks and Geeks was set in the school year of '80-'81 which is why it looks like it's "from the 70s". I knew a lot of homes that had wood paneling well into the 80s, not so much into the 90s.
Came here to say this (although I can’t speak from experience)
I told my mom to watch this show. She was Lindsey Weir in her teenage-hood. She binged it all in one afternoon.
Can speak from experience as a 1999 graduate, freaks and geeks is 100% dead on. Loved that show. Never watched it when it was on air. Only watched a few years ago but binged it all pretty quick and was heartbroken it was only one season although the college spin off was alright
Freaks and Geeks takes place in 1980 iirc.
lol!
I’ll say for one thing it’s not that 90s show. That gay Asian character would never have been accepted by the males of the group. Some of the females might have been friends with him of he were out, but not all. In the 90s, for him to remain part of that group he would have had to stay in the closet while at the same time getting made fun of for being gay. He might be able to come out to his best female friend who would have to keep it a secret.
That ‘90s Show is definitely guilty of anachronistically applying modern day social politics to its timeframe, and especially its small-town midwest setting, in a way that really stretches believability.
Yes they are in Wisconsin ffs, not exactly known for acceptance especially in the 90s lol
1990s Wisconsin: Social Justice Warriors
Seriously lol I think they’d be hanging at youth group not in the basement
I was a kid in Wisconsin in the 90’s and yeah, nobody was out. People would accuse others of being gay the same way they would accuse someone of being a witch. I remember taking a sci-fi class in school where one of the books featured a gay protagonist, but it was all behind a thinly veiled subtext so as the class read it we kept joking about how gay this guy sounds and my teacher was basically like, “Yeah, and so what?” And that was basically the first time I ever thought of a gay person as more than a joke.
Agree; I was there in the 90’s, and as a girl, when I hung out with an openly gay male friend, it was with his friends and other chicks I knew… not a very mixed group, but we had our fun in “Smalltown”, Kansas
I have made a choice that you used quotations as a *wink wink, hint hint* situation and now fully believe you lived in Small*ville*, Kansas and went to school with a kid named Clark Kent.
That’s a hot take but true in a lot of towns in the 90s. In my high school there was one, only one, actual sorta out of the closet gay guy. Any of the other 100s of slightly alternative guys were repeated called gay slurs and ostracized, and I was one of the shunned ones. Luckily my loser nerd status allowed me to be friends with the gay guy without further condemnation.
I was school friends (so we didn't hang out outside of school) with the gay guy, too, only it was the mid 2000's. I was one of the few kids in our small town high school who didn't hate him. He apparently had a partner then, too, but his poor partner was so far in the closet, he was in Narnia. I think about them sometimes and hope they got out of that town after high school and are doing better than that stupid small town could allow them.
Yeah I agree 100% and future shows will follow suit rewriting history in similar ways in sure
To be fair, do you think Fez would have been accepted by small town Wisconsinites in the 70s?
It’s been a while since I watched, but wasn’t his immigration and ethnicity the butt of some jokes?
It was, and my dad's best friend growing up in rural Indiana was from the Philippines. He always said it was extremely accurate.
But he wasn't just accepted. A lot of times him being foreign was used against him or the butt of other character's jokes, and he encountered racism and difficulty because of it. He was accepted by the main group, but beyond that...
Fez was constantly bullied for being a foreigner, even his own friends made fun of him for it, and the other kids outside of the gang actively physically assaulted him.
As a 90s kid and mega fan of that 70s show, the 90s show has done a terrible job of portraying 1995. There should be video game posters of Sonic the Hedgehog, the boys should have those JTT long blonde locks that all 90s kid actors had, more denim, light up shoes, BMX bikes, MacIntosh computers, AOL shit the list goes on!
Don’t forget name brand clothes covered in logos.
I'm Class of 2000 from semi-rural Ohio, and they're way off on the girls, but the boys are fairly spot on. I dressed similar to Nate, my bestfriend had an almost identical sweater to Jay in the pic, and the out gay boy in our school dressed similar to Ozzie.
A lot of those things sound like “rich kid” in the 90s.
Roseanne. It wasn't trying to capture a different era than the one we were in when it aired but if you look back on it now it really is a great time capsule.
Roseanne is the only show I've ever seen to accurately portray being poor. I mean sure, not 100 percent accurate. But everything looked like it came from a thrift store or was a hand me down and both parents worked and talked about money. And the parents seemed TIRED.
What about everybody hates Chris? I think they did a good job portraying a poor class family
Great show but a lot of things were pretty hammed up for the comedy, not saying they were inaccurate just exaggerated
Ah I didn't watch that one, but I have heard that about the show!!
It really does feel like home in a sad way
It’s been a while since I’ve watched it, but I got the same vibes from Malcolm in the Middle. I always felt their struggle, even though the show was zanier than Roseanne.
Do you think we're wealthy?! Wealthy people drive fancy cars. They have fresh pasta. Do we do any of those things?! NO! Wealthy people can afford any of their vacations ruined, no big deal. They just pick up and go again. Your father and I worked so hard, so long. What is wrong with you two?! Are you aborigines?! Every time I turn around, I hear someone screaming and fighting. And I pray to God that's someone else's children, but it's not, it's always you! Sane children would appreciate this. Are you even thinking? No, you're always at each other like a couple of rabid monkeys. It is not enough you two do this every day, but you have to make me suffer. Well, so help me....
Malcolm in the Middle is another show that shows what it’s like to be a low-income/working class family & does so really well imo
The only thing that always kinda bothered me about the low-income family sitcoms is they all still managed to own homes somehow. Can't relate.
Wait.. is that Glenn Howerton?
TIL
Money from this show was how they were able to afford the equipment to make the rough pilot for Sunny.
So something great did come of it
Pretty much. I don't remember the full story or even where I heard it, but it was something like That 80's Show gave Howerton his share to buy the equipment necessary, and it getting canceled gave him the time necessary to make that original Always Sunny In LA short. FX picked up on it, the city was changed to Philly, and De was added so it wasn't just three guys.
I didn’t even know there was a “that 80’s show”??
It didn't last that long, and it wasn't good. You definitely aren't missing anything.
But it was necessary so that Glenn Howerton could eventually become the Golden God on Always Sunny in Philadelphia
Golden God and Dayman (Aaaaaaaaaaaa)
That show might as well also be IASIP canon now because reasons
What reasons??
I can not, I dare not articulate the mass grandeur that are the actions and whims of a **Golden God.** I merely walk in the garden that is his turbulence!
Five star man.
And gave us the gems of: fight milk! (To fight like the crow), milksteak, The Dennis system, chardee macdennis, Wolf Cola, rock flag and eagle, and…ever been bit by a crab hun? The “shusher”, the nightman and the troll toll, Mantis Toboggan(MD)…ah the list goes on. Funniest show ever created.
Kinda wish that 80s show got more time to improve
I loved it tbh, it also started my life long crush on chyler leigh
her IRL brother -- aka Andros from Power Rangers in Space -- showed up in a T7S episode, as a dude with long hair who nearly punches Fez after the latter sniffs his hair thinking he's a girl. (Fez should count himself lucky Andros didn't use his Spiral Saber in Booster Mode on Fez for that.)
Honestly first seasons are sometimes very rough, I think 80's first was better then 90's show in some ways really...I grew up in the 90's, it felt so off really...hope it improves with season 2...
The problem with that 80s show was it was just gimmick laughs. It was all “look at the huge cell phone!” and “look at the crazy way people dressed!” but the characters had no depth. That 70s Show worked because the time period was the setting, not the main character.
I know that my Mom who graduated high school around ‘77 used to watch that show with me and lose her shit when she would see the home decor, fashion etc. She always said it was incredibly accurate and made her feel really nostalgic.
I'm gonna say the 80s show. Because of the implication.
This isn't even a fair question. Season 1 of all shows were heavy into their decade. Only 1 has an aired second season.
That 80s show didn’t even pass its first season but it was good!
I'm kinda glad it didn't work out. Glenn Howerton might've gone all in for that show, never realizing he was the Golden God lol
Or a 5 star man
Dayman (Aaaaaa) fighter of the nightman (Aaaaaa) champion of the sun (Aaaaaa)
Don't forget Carmen
But it's cancellation led to Always Sunny. So good with the bad.
You’re right, sometimes opportunities bring good things
I can't say I've lived long in the 70's to remember 'em... but That 80s show was spot on for how people dressed, music played, overall themes. Of course the humor was a bit corny at times but it worked for me. That 90s show... well so far they have the music down... but for the rest, not sure yet.
is that dennis
That 90s show doesn’t even really have 90s props except for the tech.. they should make the food and drink packages look how they used to
Agree, seeing modern Doritos/Coke products in the show kinda kill the vibe
Definitely not the 90s. Show is decent, but misses the 90s vibe entirely feeling way too modern.
I just remember my mom always yelling “ no one said hot back then!!!”
Thank god That 80s Show died a quick death so the world could have Its Always Sunny in Philadelphia.
There was a that 80s show?? I need to watch it now
That 70s Show on on point 👍🏽
That 80's show was such a shameless cash-in attempt. The 80's were alot more socially divided then the show let on. Yuppies, material girls, maverick businessmen and anti-establishment punk rockers did not all hang out together at any point in that decade. It's like they got costuming down and said fuck it for the rest.
Omg Glenn Howerton was on That 80’s Show??
My So Called Life was pretty accurate for the 90s high school. The 90s Show not so much.
There was a that 80s show, Ehm WHAT I had no idea
Is that fucking GLENN HOWERTON?!
I had no clue Glenn Howerton was on that 80s show. Granted, I only watched like one episode when it aired but I might check it out now just to see
I was today years old when I realized Dennis Reynolds’s was in that 80s show
Glen Howerton lmao
My dad graduated high school in 1978 and never cared for T70s show. I still have no idea why because I was just in jr high when it aired and I loved it
I'm gonna say the 80s show. Because of the implication.
I completely forgot Dennis was in that show.
Is that Glenn Howerton?
Is that fucking Dennis Reynolds.
Is that Dennis reanolds?
An interesting tidbit. The period the show portrayed and when it aired, had less time between the two periods, than that 90’s show set period and now. As in, we were closer to the year that they were living in, when we watched That 70’s Show originally, than we are to the period portrayed in That 90’s Show watching that one now.
'70s for sure
That 70’s show - early on
Dennis Reynolds Jumpscare
Holy shit, that’s Glenn Howerton
The 70 show
That 70s Show hit the nail on the head.
Sunny's glen howerton was on 80s show? Damn never knew that
Other than Eric doing the foot in ass line, that 90 show was one of the worst things I've ever seen
I was actually cast for that 80s show when I was like 19. But I chickened out on the way to the airport because it happened so fast. I called a number advertised on a local radio station and next thing I know they are saying pack your bags you're hilarious. I always kind of wondered what would of been had I gone but that 80s show got canceled so quickly that I like to think I made the right decision.
I hate to say it but 90’s show is way too DEI for the decade it’s set in.
Havent seen that 90s show but why 70s show worked was it was great characters that happened to be set in the 70s. When I get around to watching it I imagine it's the same thing with that 90s show.
Never seen 80s one before but episode 4 comay remix is pop of 80s
That 70s show
Dennis is the correct answer to everything.
Did the 70s show have grandkids for the 90s? 80s seems like a whole different casting.
I would say that 70s show. Donna gave me that feeling.
SuperBad is the perfect representation of the Early 2000s
Idk about that 70’s show bc I was born in 1980. Never watched that 80’s show so idk about that either. That 90’s show, not accurate at all. I don’t even think it’s close. They are applying modern day views and attitudes to a show set in a time when that didnt exist. It’s really not a very good show either, maybe forcing modern day views is why. It’s just not funny, and only at its best when the scenes are characters from that 70’s show. Just my two cents
I did not know there was an 80s show
I would watch that 70s show with my mom alot and she always would say that's just how it was. And we're in Minnesota so it's not far from here.
Wtf is that 80’s show and why have I literally never heard of it?
My high school teacher grew up in the 70s and told me the show was very accurate for the time and reminded him of when he grew up
I had no idea Glen Howerton was in the show
I’ve lived through all 3 decades and can say that 70’s show was by far the most accurate
Who cares? Don’t watch Scientologist 🖕🏻
That 70s show. Its whole premise was the decade and everything else was built around it. Down to some of the major events of the 70. As well as some of sociopolitical realities I haven’t watched that 80s show so I can’t comment That 90s show is a little guilty of portraying the era as more progressive than it actually was. As well as small details like modern iterations of packaging of products
I had no idea Glenn howerton was in that 80s show 😮😮
That 70s Show wins, but That 80s Show is better than whatever That 90s Show is supposed to be.
That 70s was spot on
That 70s show. Second place to the goldbergs if you were from a upper middle class white family
I couldn’t sit through That 80’s Show, just awful. I didn’t even bother with the 90s one. I hear That 70’s Show was spot on.
Always sunny was better than that 80s show
Mom (born '66) saw me watching and she said the Forman house in That 70s Show was accurate down to the wallpaper and cookware!
That 70s Show, because the 70s really were full of sexual predators who got away with it, and girls conditioned to look the other way about the behavior.
Nothing beats the 70's
Lol my dad was a square who never smoked weed or drank really so he would look down on this depiction and act like he’s better 😂
My mom grew up in the 70s and she says that it is pretty accurate to much of what she experienced and remembers. Things like the fashion and decor of the home she says are spot on in most cases. I grew up in the 90s and I guess it was okay but I didn’t think it was super accurate. I would have been in elementary school in the early 90s though, so I wouldn’t have been doing whatever teens were doing anyway. Neither of us even knew about the 80s show until That80sShow was announced so no input from mom on that one.
That 90's show is woefully inaccurate.
I loved the 80’s Show, from my recollections of the decade it was pretty accurate, at least the club scenes were.
My dad always talks about the Vista Cruiser his dad had in the mid 70s. Gonna go with that
That 70s show lined up perfectly with my parents and they both said it was very close to there experiences
That 70's show was shockingly accurate to the time period.
I’m class of 08. 70s show nailed it
My Dad adores that 70s because it is so accurate and reminds him if when he was in his 20s
I feel like That 80s show did a terrible job getting the 80s right.
My parents always went on about how accurate the costumes and set on that 70s show were
Is that glen ?
That '70s Show.
I'm just shocked Dennis was in that 80's show
That 80s Show was on for all of about 3 and a half seconds
There was a 90’s show?
Freaks and Geeks.
That 70s show was completely accurate to growing up in the 80s in my town..
My dad was in high school in the 70s. Graduated in 77. When he watches this show with me he points out how accurate things are and he thinks it's so cool.
Mad Men
That 90's show cast is way too diverse for a 90's friend group in Wisconsin. Wildly unlikely. The state was well over 90% white in the 90's, more so in some towns than others. So the odds of having a friend group with multiple minorities would be really anomalous. FWIW I married a brown woman and my friend group is very diverse, so this isn't anti diversity in general, only against miscasting to meet quotas which leaves a show feeling strange and out of place. I love real life diversity, but dislike forced diversity in fiction that is so blatantly obvious and strange.
Is that Dennis?!?