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"That '70s Show" (1998)

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• Anachronisms: In the opening scene of the premiere episode, the boys are looking at a Playboy centerfold, circa 1976. However, the magazine is perfect bound, not saddle stitched (stapled) as Playboys were at that time.
  
  
• Anachronisms: A large number of the other props and products used on the show are not consistent with the period (flip-top drinks cans, barcodes on toys, etc, etc) or are not represented accurately (Betamax VCRs that could record too much material on one tape, etc).
  
  
• Anachronisms: In the episode that airs on April 16 2002 where the guys go to Canada, in the RCMP office there's a map of Canada that shows Nunavut which only became a territory in 1999, not in 1978.
  
  

• Factual errors: In "I Can't Quit You Babe", Hyde and Jackie put "Abba's Greatest Hits" on the turntable and dance to "Dancing Queen". "Abba's Greatest Hits", released in 1976, did not contain "Dancing Queen" (the song was originally released on "Arrival" in 1977).
  
  
• Anachronisms: Eric uses 'Formula 409' in the modern bottle, when cleaning the stove.
  
  
• Anachronisms: When Jackie gets a job at the cheese house, there is a reference made to Sophie's Choice (1982). The movie did not come out until 1982 and the book was not published until '79.
  
  
• Anachronisms: In one episode, Red is shown at the kitchen table opening mail. He removes a credit card mailer, and the credit card clearly has a hologram on its face. Holograms were not used on credit cards until 1983.
  
  
• Anachronisms: In the January 14 2003 episode, Eric holds up Star Wars action figures for Red to identify. The figures he holds up are not the straight-armed figures from the 1970s, but are the posed figures from the 1990s. The episode takes place in 1979.
  
  
• Anachronisms: Donna justifies taking Kelso's van by reminding Eric that Kelso melted his G.I.Joe figure. Eric says, "The Real American Hero deserves better." G.I. Joe wasn't called "A Real American Hero" until the 1982 re-launch.
  
  
• Continuity: In the Dine and Dash episode, Eric and Donna trick Hyde, Kelso, Jackie, and Fez into eating brownies laced with laxatives. The six each cut themselves one piece, and there is ample brownie left in the pan while it is sitting on the table. However, when Kelso returns to eat another brownie, there is only one left.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: In "The Water Tower", when Eric and his family are eating dinner, and he starts imagining Red and Kitty naked, you can see that Kitty is wearing a tube top, and is not actually naked.
  
  
• Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): In the episode "The Drive-In" when Fez's foster parents are afraid that he is listening to rock-devil music, Hyde shows him how to hide the rock records in soft music record holders. He demonstrates with a record he claims is Alice Cooper and a Pat Boone holder. While the Pat Boone holder is correct, the record he is holding is actually a Led Zeppelin record titled "Led Zeppelin 4".
  
  
• Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): In "Battle of the Sexists", while referring to West Side Story, Donna says, "And Tony wouldn't have been killed in that knife fight!" In West Side Story, Tony gets shot by Chino, not stabbed.
  
  
• Anachronisms: In one episode Journey's "Any way you want it" is playing, but the song was not released until 1980.
  
  
• Anachronisms: In one episode, someone notes that a character's father "works for Six Flags." The park now called "Six Flags Great America" north of Chicago and south of Milwaukee was owned by Marriott and called "Marriott's Great America" until 1984 when Six Flags purchased it. And everyone called it "Great America" anyway.
  
  
• Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): Whenever Eric's last name is shown on a transition in the beginning of a show, his last name is Spelled "Forman". In episode 7-10, on the calendars Red has printed for his muffler shop, Forman is spelled "Foreman".
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: In the episode, Grandma's Dead, when the grandma died on Eric's shoulder while taking her home, you can see her blink.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: In the episode where Fez and Jackie fight because he turned her down: Fez puts green dye in her shampoo. When she steps out of the bathroom to yell at him, you will notice that a safety pin holding up her towel appears and disappears between shots.
  
  
• Anachronisms: In one of the episodes, Eric has a Spider-man pillow cover. But the image is that of the newer Spider-man series (Fox Kids series) and not the Spider-man cartoon series in the '60s and '70s.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: In one of the Christmas episodes, when it snows, the snow doesn't fall on the cast at all. And it appears it snow in one spot, less in the other spots.
  
  
• Anachronisms: Several times in the series when donuts are present, they are in a Krispy Kreme box, but Krispy Kreme donuts did not come to Wisconsin until the 2000's.
  
  
• Anachronisms: The poster showing world flags in Eric's room has some flags of countries that didn't exist in the 70s (e.g. Estonia and Georgia).
  
  

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