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note Kelso, Top, from left to right: Eric Donna . Bottom: Fez Jackie , and Hyde. Not pictured: Laurie The Whole gang.

Hangin' out, down the street

The same old thing, we did last week

Not a thing to do, but talk to you

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Think Happy Days for The '90s and The Turn of the Millennium. Except this show is set in The '70s instead of The '50s.

This show is about teenager Eric Forman and his friends and family living their lives in Point Place, Wisconsin through the years 1976 to 1979. Remarkably, despite only three years passing through the whole series' universe, it ran for eight seasons on Fox from 1998 to 2006, becoming the network's second-longest-running live-action sitcom after Married... with Children, as well as the final series from Carsey Werner to end its run (indeed, they haven't done anything since then).

Part of the humor came from anachronisms playing off modern audiences, such as the amazing video game graphics of Pong. The show's recurring running gag was that the teens often went down to Eric's basement for a "circle." Probably the best drug use humor ever used on any TV show. Even though it was never (explicitly) stated what they were really doing down there, you can pretty much guess (the camera in the circle represented the "item" being passed around). The occasional lighter being flashed and/or puffs of smoke billowing in the background help too.

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The show also employed other techniques such as scene transitions of the actors dancing in front of colorful backgrounds, split screens, scenes shown from a singular point of view (expressed through a handheld camera) and fantasy sequences.

Partial Trope Namer for That Nostalgia Show.

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