The feel-good retro sitcomThat ’70s Showintroduced audiences to the hilariously groovy gang of Point Place, Wisconsin, and their stoner misadventures. The period comedy depicts the growing pains, adolescent woes, and romantic relationships of Eric Forman (Topher Grace) and his marijuana-loving pals during the far-out decade of the 1970s. The series also helped catapult its dynamic andentertaining young cast of charactersto stardom, with many of its leads going on to appear in a myriad of successful films and television shows.That ’70s Showran for an impressive eight seasons and 200 episodes, giving fans a plethora of comical moments and sidesplitting antics that cemented its status as a beloved sitcom staple.
Update August 05, 2025: If you can’t get enough of the lovable Point Place gang, especially in anticipation ofThat ’90s Show, you’ll be happy to know that we’ve updated this article with additional sidesplitting episodes of the entertaining sitcom byMona Bassil.
That ’70s Showwas jam-packed with amusing running gags and unique elements, such as the gang’s prominent partaking in “the circle," Eric’s die-hard loyalty and love for all thingsStar Wars,and his no-nonsense father Red’s affinity for threatening to put his foot in undesirable places. The show’s final episode aired on June 11, 2025, and attracted over 10 million viewers who came to say goodbye to the Point Place misfits. A spin-off series,That ’90s Show,premiered on the streaming service Netflix on June 24, 2025, with Kurtwood Smith and Debra Jo Rupp reprising their roles as Red and Kitty Forman and some of the main and secondary cast popping in every now and then. These are the most hilarious and captivatingThat ’70s Showepisodes, spanning all eight seasons.
16A New Hope (Season 1, Episode 20)
Despite the Formans going through a financial setback, Eric, Hyde (Danny Masterson), Fez (Wilmer Valderrama), and Kelso (Ashton Kutcher) set out to Kenosha to watch a cool new space opera,Star Wars,which wouldlater be entitledEpisode IV-A New Hope, and they become completely obsessed with the film.
Meanwhile, Red’s boss, Mr. Milbank, announces he is reopening his car plant, and Red is relieved he’ll be working more hours and bringing in more money. While he attempts to sweet-talk his way, problems arise when Eric and Milbank’s son David (Scott Whyte) don’t seem to get along, especially after David makes a move on Donna (Laura Prepon).
15Fun It (Season 8, Episode 7)
The gang (minus Eric, who has been away on a teaching mission in Africa) is bored in the basement, so Randy (Josh Meyers) invites everybody to Fatso Burger, the local junk food venue that boasts a huge clown mascot. Since the owner, Mr. Visotsky (Richard Licata), is rude and mean to them over ketchup bottles, they decide to steal the mascot and hide it in the basement.
Jackie, in particular, recalls a traumatizing incident with the clown when she was five. The whole town is appalled by his disappearance and instigates a “save our monument” campaign, especially Kitty; Red, however, is secretly satisfied because he could never really stand it.
14Hyde Moves In (Season 1, Episode 24)
Steven Hyde may appear cynical and selfishand may only be interested in getting high and listening to rock, but he has had a difficult upbringing, as his mother is constantly waltzing in and out of his life. As for his father, he hasn’t met him yet. When the gang goes skinny-dipping and have their clothes stolen, they swing by Hyde’s to borrow his and are left appalled by his living conditions. Since his mom seems to have taken off indefinitely this time, Eric invites him to stay over with his parents, which doesn’t thrill Red because money is already tight enough.
Meanwhile, Jackie has caught a nasty cold from that dip and is bedridden; her appearance horrifies Kelso, who is then reassured she will soon look like her hot self again. Donna finally joins the pot circle for the first time and ends up trying to count all the molecules in her body.
13Water Tower (Season 1, Episode 21)
Hyde convinces the group to vandalize the local water tower by painting a weed leaf on it, but the result turns out to be a green hand flipping passers-by off. When Kelso attempts to fix it, he falls off and injures his arm pretty badly. As Eric rushes to Kitty for medical advice, given her experience as a nurse, he accidentally walks in on his parents having intercourse and is traumatized by this image. He later starts acting weirder than usual around them, and they mistakenly assume he’s on drugs.
12Misty Mountain Hop (Season 5, Episode 12)
When Jackie is tasked with clearing out her family’s ski cabin, Eric and Donna are roped into helping her, along with Kitty and Red (much to his disdain), and the couple must attempt to decipher Jackie’s less-than-helpful directions on the trek to their destination. Unbeknownst to Jackie, her then-boyfriend Hyde, Fez, and Kelso have already made plans to head up to the cabin for some shenanigans, mainly to look for Kelso’s long-lost stash. Thinking Jackie was off to a doll expo, the guys are in for quite the surprise when she shows up with Kitty and Red, and Kelso typically panics when his hand gets stuck in the vase where his stash has been tucked in all along.
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Things get even funnier as the guys attempt to talk their way out of the situation, and Kelso increasingly gets more nervous as he is unable to remove his hand. The episode comes to a genuinely uproarious conclusion when Kelso realizes he can free his hand by simply letting it go, causing the vase to break and his stash to be revealed. Jackie initially covers for Hyde when Red questions if it’s his, but unsurprisingly, Kelso blows his own cover when faced with the prospect of throwing out his highly coveted secret stock.
Eric, Fez, Hyde, and Kelso head across the border into Canada with the perpetually stoned, lovable hippie Leo (the iconic Tommy Chong) in hopes of buying some beer, but their noble quest goes awry when they realize Fez has misplaced his green card. The guys then decide to try and smuggle their pal into the country, but they find that luck is not in their favor, and they end up getting stopped by some Mounties.
The fan-favorite episode hilariously showcases the guys' futile attempts to maneuver their way out of their predicament, desperately wanting to get their beer and head back to Point Place. In a last-ditch effort to make peace with the Mounties and break the tension, Kelso heroically stands and begins to sing the Canadian National Anthem, with the rest of the gang joining along as they amusingly belt out “O, Canada.”
10Eric’s Panties (Season 3, Episode 6)
When Eric becomes lab partners with the pretty and popular Shelly, Donna doesn’t seem too worried about all the time her boyfriend is now spending with his new study buddy, despite the blonde’s obvious attempts at flirting. The laid-back and cool-as-a-cucumber Point Place redhead finds herself developing a jealous streak when she discovers a pair of panties that don’t belong to her tucked under a seat in Eric’s famous Vista Cruiser. The episode features a hilarious daydream sequence centering on Donna making out with Eric in bed, only to stumble on another pair of underwear tucked behind a pillow, resulting in a climax of hundreds of panties pouring from the ceiling as Eric gleefully is yelling, “Panties! Glorious Panties!”.
What makes this installment of the series that much funnier is who the mysterious underwear actually belongs to: none other than Donna’s mother, Midge (Tanya Roberts). The startling revelation garners applause and admiration from Kelso and Fez (who believe Eric actually scored with the resident bombshell Midge) and leads to an awkward conversation between mother and daughter.
9Red Sees Red (Season 3, Episode 2)
The gang is in some seriously hot water after Eric finally reveals his marijuana use to Red, causing the hot-headed Forman patriarch to booby-trap the house and set a super-strict curfew, becoming a full-blown ruthless prison guard. His daughter, the gleeful Laurie (Lisa Robin Kelly,whose last years were particularly tragic), loves the predicament her younger brother is in, that is, until she, too, is subjected to the same curfew and finds her social life suffering for it.
Kitty also has her fill of Red’s extreme disciplinary actions, constantly voicing her disdain for her husband’s actions and proving to be the gang’s last hope for sanity. The episode also marks the first time Laurie and Kelso start seeing one another, which would prompt the dismayed Red to declare to his daughter, “Look, what they did is bad. But you sneaking around with Kelso, that’s just…unpleasant.”
8It’s a Wonderful Life (Season 4, Episode 1)
For the premiere of the fourth season ofThat ’70s Show,Eric is left completely shattered over his and Donna’s break-up and spends all day miserable in bed, wishing the two had never shared a kiss. An angel appears (portrayed bydelightfulSeinfeldalumWayne Knight) and shows Eric and his fellow friends what life would have been like had he and Donna never gotten together. TheIt’s a Wonderful Life-inspired episode showcases Eric’s bleak future where he’s still under Red’s imposing thumb, never having the confidence to stand up to his strict father, and is surprisingly married to the tall and famously promiscuous Big Rhonda (Cynthia LaMontagne).
For the Point Place ten-year high school reunion, Kelso shows up as a famous TV anchorman married to the school’s most popular girl, Pam Macy, but is still nostalgic for Jackie. As for the alternate Hyde and Donna, they get married and have a child, and then Hyde is sent to prison. Fez is more-or-less his usual quirky and strange self, giving in to the fads of the decade and performing an amusing rendition of “I Ran” at the gang’s 1988 class reunion. The angel shows Eric that love is a beautiful thing, despite the devastation he’s currently experiencing.
7Cat Fight Club (Season 2, Episode 25)
Fed up with constantly being provoked by Laurie flaunting her new relationship with Kelso, Jackie turns to Hyde to help learn the compellingart of being Zen. When Red discovers his darling daughter has started a relationship with the town idiot Kelso, he is most assuredlynot Zenabout it and has no interest in accepting their perplexing romance. This leads toa dream sequenceabout the not-so-distant future of 1997, where Laurie and Kelso are married, and his son-in-law asks Red for some money. Fez makes an appearance as their robot butler and quite literally blasts off to the moon with Kelso in tow, and the whole sequence is laugh-out-loud funny.
The most hilarious part of the episode comes during the showdown between Laurie and Jackie, who has finally learned to appear cool and collected, thanks to Hyde’s lessons. The firecracker’s newfound calmness doesn’t last long once Laurie insults her one too many times, resulting in Jackie tackling and whooping on the stunned blonde. As Hyde so eloquently put it, “Where the Zen ends, the ass-kicking begins.”
