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Old 03-18-02 | 10:45 PM
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What happened to That 80's Show?

Is it still on the air? Does anyone care? I dont remember the last time I saw a promo.
Old 03-18-02 | 11:04 PM
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Hate to disappoint but yes, it's still on and I care. They are rerunning the Pilot, 3/20.
Next week is a new episode:
For Katie's 21st birthday, Sophia plans a big party at Club Berlin, while Katie's family plans a get-together at home. Corey invites Tuesday and Margaret over and Owen pays Katie a surprise visit on the "Katie's Birthday"
episode, 3/27
Old 03-19-02 | 04:18 PM
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Does anyone care?
You can add me to the 'don't care' list.
Old 03-19-02 | 04:21 PM
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Katie is turning 21? She looks like she's almost 30.
Old 03-19-02 | 05:13 PM
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Katie is turning 21? She looks like she's almost 30.
Yeah, but in the '80s, she turns 21.
Old 03-19-02 | 07:40 PM
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Old 03-21-02 | 09:19 AM
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Anybody who hates this show must've really looooved the 80's. I think the new wave jokes are hysterical. Some people are too close to this decade to appreciate the banality of that horriffic time. They probably also hate "American Psycho".
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Actually I enjoyed American Psycho. The difference between AP and That 80's Show is that it wasn't so loud and in your face in the movie, and there wasn't a stupid laugh track!
Old 03-21-02 | 10:20 AM
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Originally posted by devilpants
Anybody who hates this show must've really looooved the 80's.
No, they must loooove sitcoms that are actually FUNNY.
Old 03-21-02 | 07:24 PM
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I made a bet with the wife that it would be cancelled by the end of march.
There's still hope that it will.
Old 03-21-02 | 09:01 PM
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What a horrible show--they should have just carried the characters from the 70's into the 80's.
Old 03-22-02 | 09:10 AM
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Old 03-22-02 | 07:50 PM
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No, they must loooove sitcoms that are actually FUNNY.
Bingo.

I grew up in the 80s and found it funny back then. I don't find that 80s show funny at all. I tried.
Old 03-23-02 | 01:13 PM
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I can't believe it hasn't already died a quick death. I saw the premier episode and it was horrible.
Old 03-23-02 | 08:36 PM
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What a horrible show--they should have just carried the characters from the 70's into the 80's.
Even with, the stories are terrible, I watched the start of one episode, the end of another, I figure I can just combine them together and it's all the same, the show just plain sucks
Old 03-23-02 | 08:40 PM
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it seems that noone likes the show..
but a bunch of you guys watch it out of some sick torture
and that has got to be the only reason it has lasted this long

this show sucks more then anything that has ever sucked before
Old 03-23-02 | 10:13 PM
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this show sucks more then anything that has ever sucked before
While certainly high on the "suckage" roster, there are other things which have sucked more:

Impotence.
Rosanne singing the National Anthem.
An episode of the Rosey O'Donnel show.
Another episode of the Rosey O'Donnel show.
A third episode of the Rosey O'Donnel show...(et al)
Old 03-23-02 | 10:29 PM
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Originally posted by twikoff
it seems that noone likes the show..
but a bunch of you guys watch it out of some sick torture
and that has got to be the only reason it has lasted this long
[Maniacal Laughter]
I'll continue to watch every episode that airs, and you can't stop me!!!

I may even watch Baby Bob again!!!

Seriously, it's like the bearded lady (or worse, Rosie O'Donnell). It makes you sick to look at it, but you're strangely compelled to do so. And Chyler Leigh gives me just enough HOT to be able to tolerate it.

das
Old 03-23-02 | 11:53 PM
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To paraphrase Bart Simpson, that show sucks AND blows. I've only seen it once, perfectly willing to give it a chance. But it was just plain embarrassing and annoying.
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Okay, you sophisticates, tell me what a good sitcom is. "Friends"? "Frazier"? That crap sucks harder than a hooker in a logging camp.
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Okay, you sophisticates, tell me what a good sitcom is. "Friends"? "Frazier"? That crap sucks harder than a hooker in a logging camp.
A good sitcom doesn't use canned laughter at innappropriate times, and...is actually funny.

Funny sitcoms:
Coupling
Red Dwarf
Malcolm in the Middle
That 70s Show

Unfunny sitcoms:
That 80s show.
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They are trying to do a tie in with next months new show "that 90's show".
the show sucks. why did fox think that just because that 70's show made it big that another show of a decade will hit it big?
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A good sitcom doesn't use canned laughter at innappropriate times, and...is actually funny.
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Red Dwarf
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It takes all tastes, I suppose. I can say without exaggeration that I find Red Dwarf to be one of the very most horrid, repulsive, unfunny things that I've ever had the chance to see. I like some British sitcoms, so I'm not totally insensitive to the dry British sense of humor, but this thing simply doesn't have a single funny second in any episode I've ever seen. And that female computer avitar? Something about her voice disgusts me so much that I'm almost literally gagging at the sound of it.

I've never watched a second of That 80s show, but I'm sure it would be ten thousand times better than Red Dwarf.
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Originally posted by Jackskeleton
They are trying to do a tie in with next months new show "that 90's show".
the show sucks. why did fox think that just because that 70's show made it big that another show of a decade will hit it big?
You're kidding, right? "That 90's Show?" Please tell me you're kidding. I'm just going to think that you're kidding, and then maybe my head will stop hurting.

Also, three-word threadcrapping posts that slam the show detract from, instead of adding to, the discussion. Please refrain from them in the future. Thanks.


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Old 03-24-02 | 10:20 PM
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This show really Blows and I dont even use that word often.
My 80s years were pretty boring and still manage to be more entetaining than this show.
Did the person who is writing the show even live through that era or did they just read a book of living then????


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