On May 18, FOX will air the 200th and final episode of That '70s Show.
The hour-long finale will mark the end of one of the network's longest running scripted comedies. While I could sit and
watch That '70s Show and always enjoy a few chuckles, I also felt like the show should have been much better
than it was. Too often I would see great premises sucked into the vortex of sitcom cliches, which would normally make
me change the channel, but the show and its characters had enough of that weird tripped out charm to make me come back
on occasion. After awhile, though, I gave up, and I haven't seen a single episode of this season.
Despite my hot and cold feelings for the show, FOX has decided it needs a bigger send off than some mere series finale. On May 11, BEFORE the finale, FOX will air a retrospective titled That '70s Show: The Final Goodbye. The 90-minute special, which begins at 8:37 p.m. EST (it follows a preview of the new X-Men film) will consist of the same stuff of similar specials: interviews with cast members and guests, outtakes, deleted scenes, and etc.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
4-20-2006 @ 1:23PM
Don Wilson said...
Good riddance.
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4-20-2006 @ 1:49PM
Jim said...
Any talk of Topher coming back for the finale?
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4-20-2006 @ 3:30PM
Hemant said...
Good riddance??? reallly???
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4-20-2006 @ 3:40PM
lauryn said...
ohhh, this is the only show i've watched for 8 years until i started watching 24 too this year!
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4-20-2006 @ 3:43PM
Sam said...
Holy crap, a retrospective?? This show was funny in its heyday, but Fox is acting as if its in the Friends-Seinfeld-Cosby Show-Raymond pantheon, and ratingswise, its not close. I mean, is every show thats been on for five years or more automatically going to get a retrospective when they leave the air?
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4-20-2006 @ 5:32PM
Jim said...
Good riddance ... or good day?
"I say good day to you now! And I do not mean have a good day."
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4-22-2006 @ 9:47AM
Library Monkey said...
I don't know if the show was good or bad, to me it was like "Wonder Years" when I was around a tv, I would watch it because it was reflective of a era that I grew up in and it was something I could reminisce
The last week I was dog/house watching and I watched about six episodes on fx. The last one, could have been the last show, it was about finding a quote for the yearbook. That would have been a good end: "what a long strange trip it's been in Forman's basement"
I figure any time the actor playing a teenager gets to be 25, it is time for them to pose in Playboy and the show to end.
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4-29-2006 @ 7:04PM
Jason Anderson said...
I've loved this show since the beginning. But I admit thee last season has been lacking. Eric is gone. Kelso is gone. The two characters that made the show. And Hyde and Jackie broke up? Now Jackie likes Fez? And Donna broke up with Eric? Sorry, should have ended it at Season 7 like it was. Glad Fox is at least giving it a formal good bye.
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