. and the series let you forget all that . i be about three year old than the kid portray in the series . bear in 1958 and i learn to drive during the first gas shortage and and get my first post college graduation job during the second gas shortage in 1979. the 70 be a truly dreadful time to be young inflation and compete for after school minimum wage job with lay off thirty somethings and dreadful music and bad clothes . the funny thing be and this series doesn not ignore any of that and still manage to make the 70 look fun and even for those of u old enough to know well . it manage to look the 70 directly in the face complete with time authentic clothing and yet fill the show with the hopefulness of youth and the thing that make the high school and college year both the best of time and the bad of time . then there be the parent . the two young lover in the show eric forman and donna pinciotti truly have dreadful parent with the best of intention . eric parent and red and kitty and be not exactly june and ward although they be conventional for the decade . they represent what happen when the 60 finally reach the suburb during the 1970 . donna parent be two people who have be wait for the 1960 to show up their whole life in order to give their weirdness legitimacy . eric friend fez and kelso and and jackie round out the group represent nerdiness and well mean incompetence and and snobbishness respectively . hyde be an unusual teenager for a show about the suburb and but he largely represent someone who have to play the card he be dealt even when those card be deal by largely absentee and negligent parent . i highly recommend all eight season even though season eight do lag a bit due to the absence of eric .