Television Netflix is gonna shove Red Forman’s shoe up your ass. . . 90’s Style

[silentbob]

Yes Netflix has ordered 10 episodes for That 90’s Show starring Red and Kitty Forman, with both returning to reprise their roles 

[Jason]

lmao this made me look up That 80's Show and apparently Glenn Howerton was the show's lead.

[Keyser_Soze]

Man Kurtwood Smith is nearly 80 years old. Makes you wonder how much he has left in the tank.

[Fizzzzle]

Every time a sitcom gets rebooted in some way, I feel like it's only about 2 episodes before people kinda go "oh, I remember why this show ended." They usually don't have anything new to say, they just try to rehash the same old jokes. Nostalgia only goes so far.

[Brick]

Ehhh... 

[Derek]

On 10/8/2021 at 9:48 PM, Keyser_Soze said:

Man Kurtwood Smith is nearly 80 years old. Makes you wonder how much he has left in the tank.

I actually thought he passed away a couple of years ago. Glad to see he hadn't. 

 

Shatner is going into space at 90. I'm sure Kurtwood can pull off a grumpy old man for a couple of years.

[LazyPiranha]

I sure hope Kurtwood Smith finally discovers whether or not Bobbies can fly, the man deserves to retire.

[Keyser_Soze]

 

[GeneticBlueprint]

Hadn't heard of this until now. I'm willing to try it. That 70s show is one of my favorites. And the tagline to this show even though it's cheesy really rings true. I have no connection to the 70s but still loved That 70s Show.

[GeneticBlueprint]

On 10/9/2021 at 4:05 PM, Fizzzzle said:

Every time a sitcom gets rebooted in some way, I feel like it's only about 2 episodes before people kinda go "oh, I remember why this show ended." They usually don't have anything new to say, they just try to rehash the same old jokes. Nostalgia only goes so far.

Replying to something a few months old. Sorry.

 

I definitely understand this sentiment. But on the other hand, some of the greatest shows ever were spinoffs.

[Keyser_Soze]

25 minutes ago, GeneticBlueprint said:

Hadn't heard of this until now. I'm willing to try it. That 70s show is one of my favorites. And the tagline to this show even though it's cheesy really rings true. I have no connection to the 70s but still loved That 70s Show.

 

The only thing though is the '70s were a happy time full of smoking weed and free love. The '90s was grunge, hard drugs and suicide. One makes a funny show the other not so much.

[Bloodporne]

18 hours ago, Keyser_Soze said:

 

The only thing though is the '70s were a happy time full of smoking weed and free love. The '90s was grunge, hard drugs and suicide. One makes a funny show the other not so much.

I mean they managed to trick you into thinking that's what the '70s were so naturally they can do the same for people that didn't actually live in the '90s.

 

PS: I loved That 70s Show. 

[Keyser_Soze]

8 minutes ago, Bloodporne said:

I mean they managed to trick you into thinking that's what the '70s were so naturally they can do the same for people that didn't actually live in the '90s.

 

It's certainly a weird twist of nostalgia. That '70s show wasn't meant for people of the '70s, the same could be said for the new show. At the same time bringing back the old cast is certainly meant to appeal to people of the old show.

[Bloodporne]

20 minutes ago, Keyser_Soze said:

 

It's certainly a weird twist of nostalgia. That '70s show wasn't meant for people of the '70s, the same could be said for the new show. At the same time bringing back the old cast is certainly meant to appeal to people of the old show.

I'd say it's probably based on the writers' good memories of the 70s so in that regard, maybe it was partially? Either way, I really enjoyed that show but don't really have any interest in this one. I also don't really have any 90s nostalgia yet outside of maybe videogames.

[Keyser_Soze]

15 minutes ago, Bloodporne said:

 I also don't really have any 90s nostalgia yet outside of maybe videogames.

 

Maybe they will line up on 9.9.99 to get a Sega Dreamcast in one of the episodes

[Fizzzzle]

70's show was definitely rooted in nostalgia (my mom fucking loved that show, she was born in 58)

 

That leads to the question, "who is this show for?" No one has nostalgia about the fucking 90's. Or if you do, just like.. watch Friends. Or Seinfeld. Or Third Rock from the Sun. Or Frasier. Or literally any other show that you can still watch anywhere, rather than whatever this anachronistic zombiescape of whatever they use to compare 90's culture to today.

[Kal-El814]

3 minutes ago, Fizzzzle said:

70's show was definitely rooted in nostalgia (my mom fucking loved that show, she was born in 58)

 

That leads to the question, "who is this show for?" No one has nostalgia about the fucking 90's. Or if you do, just like.. watch Friends. Or Seinfeld. Or Third Rock from the Sun. Or Frasier. Or literally any other show that you can still watch anywhere, rather than whatever this anachronistic zombiescape of whatever they use to compare 90's culture to today.

 

Have you been outside lately?

[Fizzzzle]

Just now, Kal-El814 said:

 

Have you been outside lately?

maybe too much

 

I should amend my statement: It's not that I don't think people have nostalgia about the 90's, it's just that the 90's, unlike the 70's or whenever, existed in the digital age. If you have nostalgia about the 90's, you can watch Friends on Netflix. I just don't see what kind of experience That 90's Show is trying to sell that you can't get by just watching anything else that was actually made in the 90's.

[stepee]

8 minutes ago, Fizzzzle said:

maybe too much

 

I should amend my statement: It's not that I don't think people have nostalgia about the 90's, it's just that the 90's, unlike the 70's or whenever, existed in the digital age. If you have nostalgia about the 90's, you can watch Friends on Netflix. I just don't see what kind of experience That 90's Show is trying to sell that you can't get by just watching anything else that was actually made in the 90's.

 

I think this would work better without using a tv show as the example of easily obtainable nostalgia since they had tv shows in the 70s as well.

[Fizzzzle]

2 minutes ago, stepee said:

 

I think this would work better without using a tv show as the example of easily obtainable nostalgia since they had tv shows in the 70s as well.

Of course they did, but 2 things:

 

1) Other than Mary Tyler Moore, I can't think of any sitcom from the 70's that was just a regular, slice of life sitcom about white people doing white people shit, which is kind of the whole reason for the nostalgia. The 90's was full of those kinds of shows.

 

2) In the 90's, when That 70's show came out, it wasn't exactly like you could binge watch Good Times on Netflix or whatever if you wanted a nostalgia fix. Hell, DVD had only been out for a year. If you wanted to watch sitcoms from the 70's, you either had to own a VHS box set or watch Nick at Nite. Now, if you want a nostalgia fix, Friends or Seinfeld is right at your fingertips whenever you want. Or Third Rock from the Sun. Or Full House. Or Married with Children. Or Home Improvement. etc etc

[Keyser_Soze]

It's bothering me but the apostrophe comes first. The apostrophe before '70s denotes missing digits. An apostrophe after the number denotes possession.

 

It's even in the damn title!

 

[Kal-El814]

13 minutes ago, Fizzzzle said:

1) Other than Mary Tyler Moore, I can't think of any sitcom from the 70's that was just a regular, slice of life sitcom about white people doing white people shit, which is kind of the whole reason for the nostalgia. The 90's was full of those kinds of shows.

 

Right, who ever heard of The Brady Bunch, The Partridge Family, The Bob Newhart Show, Mork and Mindy, Laverne and Shirley, Taxi, Threes Company, The Love Boat, Maude, etc.

 

 

[Fizzzzle]

5 minutes ago, Kal-El814 said:

 

Right, who ever heard of The Brady Bunch, The Partridge Family, The Bob Newhart Show, Mork and Mindy, Laverne and Shirley, Taxi, Threes Company, The Love Boat, Maude, etc.

 

 

lol, fair enough. For some reason, when I think of 70's sitcoms, the only one I could think of about white people doing white people shit was Mary Tyler Moore.

 

Second point still stands, though.

[unogueen]

On 10/8/2021 at 9:48 PM, Keyser_Soze said:

Man Kurtwood Smith is nearly 80 years old. Makes you wonder how much he has left in the tank.

Solid mustard.

[Keyser_Soze]

January 19

 

 

[Keyser_Soze]

 

[Derek]

I thought the end bit was funny. Red and Kitty look great.

[Spawn_of_Apathy]

From the trailer it looks like they’re writing the same personalities as the OG show for kids. Disappointing. 

[DarkStar189]

For some reason when I watch the old show, the kids just don't look like "kids" to me.  The trailer for the new show looks like legit children and looks close to something my kids would watch on Netflix and it's kind of a turn off.  Maybe I will fast forward through the episodes to see the original characters.

[Brick]

1 hour ago, DarkStar189 said:

For some reason when I watch the old show, the kids just don't look like "kids" to me.  The trailer for the new show looks like legit children and looks close to something my kids would watch on Netflix and it's kind of a turn off.  Maybe I will fast forward through the episodes to see the original characters.

 

Probably because they weren't actually kids, but young adults since there are more rules involved when casting minors (the exception being Mila Kunis who lied about her age in order to get cast). 

[Keyser_Soze]

7 hours ago, DarkStar189 said:

For some reason when I watch the old show, the kids just don't look like "kids" to me.  The trailer for the new show looks like legit children and looks close to something my kids would watch on Netflix and it's kind of a turn off.  Maybe I will fast forward through the episodes to see the original characters.

 

It was the '70s a high school kid looked like someone in their mid 30s

[GeneticBlueprint]

He named his kid Leia because of course

 

 

 

 

 

Yeah probably gonna watch this

[TwinIon]

I'm curious what the target demographic is for this. I feel like I'm either misjudging who the audience was for That 70s show, or this one. I was within the age group of the kids on that 70s show, and it felt like it was aimed more at me than it was for anyone who actually was in high school in the 70s.

 

Now, they're bringing it back, and as a concept, sure, why not? It's 20 years later, just make the same show but about the 90s. But actually bringing the Foremans back feels like a play at nostalgia for the people who watched the first one, a demographic I would have thought aged out of this show a bit.

 

Then again, maybe 70's Show found a new, younger audience streaming and you're going to get them back, or maybe people my age actually have a much greater nostalgia for the show than I think.

[johnny]

i think they’re making this for the younger generation 100%. then some older people will still watch for the nostalgia. 

[stepee]

teenagers still like pot it’ll be fine