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Red and Bob take the guys deer hunting; Hyde chills out, Fez bags dinner using only a few primitive weapons, Kelso is a menace with his gun, and Red and Eric bond in the deer blind. Meanwhile, Kitty and Midge have a girls’ night with Donna, Jackie and Laurie, but with nothing to talk about, the end up playing poker.
Eric’s secret stash of money goes missing, and Hyde is the first and only suspect. Hyde denies taking it, and everyone is shocked when the real culprit is revealed. Fez and Kelso help Jackie prepare for a beauty pageant.
Laurie moves out and Red is pissed off when he finds out she moved in with a guy instead of with a girlfriend like she told him. She then moves back in when the guy goes back to his wife. Jackie suspects Kelso of being unfaithful.
It’s Red’s birthday and the roof collapses so Eric gets him some 2 x 4s to fix it. Bob and Midge take Red and Kitty out for dinner but they each bring a date and ditch them to do it in the car. Eric is mad at Donna for talking to Hyde about her parent’s problems instead of talking to him.
Donna is acting out over her parents’ break up and takes up smoking. Eric gets caught holding one of her cigarettes in the school yard and is suspended. Even though Eric tries explaining what really happened, Red punishes him. Fez and Hyde go on a double date, set up by Fez’s host parents; Hyde can’t decide which girl he likes better. Jackie and Kelso argue over how many stuffed animals she can have in his van.
Donna finally sleeps with Eric, but when the guys find out that all they did was sleep, they tease him mercilessly. Hyde gets a job at the FotoHut, and finds out that compared to his boss, he’s a workaholic. And Kitty has to work double shifts at the hospital, leaving Red to do the cooking.
Eric freaks out when Donna says ‘I love you,’ and all he can think of to say in return is ‘I love cake.’ Donna, not knowing how to deal with this, turns to Jackie for relationship advice. Midge kicks Bob out of the house; he stays with the Formans and Red has to act as a go-between to try to mend their marriage. Kelso gets a new leather jacket that he thinks makes him look like Marlon Brando, but the everyone else thinks he looks like the Fonz.
Eric, Donna, Kelso, Hyde and Fez are all going to Vanstock, Wisconsin’s own Woodstock. Jackie says she doesn’t want to go, so Kelso invites Laurie. In the end, both girls go leaving Kelso stuck in the middle. Donna gets mad at Eric for not telling her about Kelso and Laurie. Fez spends the night girl chatting to Jackie and Laurie, much to Kelso’s chagrin while Hyde attempts drop him in it. Red becomes addicted to soaps.
The gang, looking for something fun to do on Halloween, revisits their old grammar school, where they find their permanent records. Looking through them, they find out some interesting things about each other. Fez discovers trick or treating.
Bob and Midge’s marital troubles spill over into a fight over Donna’s affection. One of Laurie’s college professors comes to Point Place to see if he can convince Laurie to return to classes, and he takes a ‘hands-on’ approach to the task, much to Eric’s shock. Fez looks for a woman, and Hyde looks for a room to sleep in.
Now that he’s unemployed, the job hunt is on for Red. The gang decides to go to a dance club, and Jackie manages to convince Kelso that dressing like David Bowie is a good idea. Once at the club, Donna, Fez and Hyde have no problem getting in, but Eric can’t make it past the overly large bouncer.
It’s Red’s last day of work, and he decides to drown his unemployment sorrows at a bar. Kitty sends Eric to pick Red up; he, Hyde and Fez end up drinking with Red instead, leaving none of them in any condition to drive. Kelso gets a van, and christens it the “shaggin’ wagon.”
Eric hates it when he finds a picture of Donna mooning the camera in the yearbook, and has to deal with his jealousy in the matter. Fez thinks that the white man is keeping him down because there are no pictures of him in the yearbook, and takes out his anger in a Foosball game. Jackie wants to spend time with Hyde, but when he won’t go to roller disco with her, she decides to see what life is like on his side of the tracks.
Eric loves having Hyde as a “brother” because he does all of Eric’s chores but when his parents start to prefer Hyde he starts to hate him. Hyde changes from the conspiracy minded trouble-making guy Eric loves to a total bore. Midge and Bob are having relationship problems. Red’s old war buddy comes back and Red finds out that he’s a swinger.
The gang goes skinny-dipping and Jackie gets sick. Hyde moves in with the Formans when his mom runs away with a trucker. Bob takes a liking to one of Midge’s feminist friends.
Red’s mother Bernice has once again managed to make everyone miserable during one of her visits. While driving his grandmother home, Eric lashes out and tells her that it wouldn’t kill her to be nice once in a while. Bernice promptly drops dead, leaving Eric to think he killed her. The entire Forman family (including Laurie and Red’s brother Marty) comes together for her funeral while Eric gets drunk at a bar with the guys.
Hyde meets a girl who’s the female version of him. She tries to convince him to go to New York with her but he decides that it would be best if he stayed behind. Kelso and Red make smaller paddles for Pong. Fez feels left out of everything. Jackie tries to bake a pie for home economics project, but she ruins it every time.
The guys paint a pot leaf on the water tower and Kelso falls off trying to fix it because everyone thinks it looks like the finger. Instead of going to the hospital they go to Eric’s cause his mom’s a nurse. When Eric goes to get her he walks in on his parents having sex. Having trouble sleeping and not being able to look his parents in the eyes leads his parents to believe he’s on drugs.
The guys go see Star Wars and are all completely blown away by it. Red asks Eric to hang out with his boss’s son now that he’s started working at the plant full-time again. David was an awkward kid the last time Eric saw him, but now he’s a hunk who likes reading Donna’s short stories. Also, Laurie starts hitting on Kelso out of boredom.
Prom night is fast approaching and Eric gets a motel room as part of his “spontaneous” plan to “do it” with Donna on the big night. When Jackie finds out that Kelso asked slutty Pam Macy to prom, she gets Hyde to take her out of pity. Fez wants to take his pretty English teacher to the prom. As for the adults, they struggle with how to respond to Midge’s idea for her future career.
It’s career day and the gang must spend the day working with their parents. Eric goes to the hospital with Kitty and is amazed at all she has to deal with every day. Fez accompanies Hyde and interviews cafeteria lady “Gross Edna” while mother and son feud. Poor Michael spends the entire day trying to figure out what his dad does, while Donna is mortified by Bob’s crazy promotional antics. And Red finally finds one of Eric’s friends he likes: Jackie.
Since no one else is around, Jackie confides in Eric that she thinks she might be pregnant. Eric passes the news on to Donna, who tries to get Jackie to tell Kelso. The incident inspires Donna to go on birth control pills. Her decision inadvertantly causes Eric a lot of grief when Bob and the Formans find out.
Valentine’s Day is coming up, so Eric decides to ask Donna out on their official first date and give her his class ring. She breaks her study date with Hyde in order to go, leading Hyde to realize he only has one last chance with her. Red and Kitty discover they don’t have that much in common with Bob and Midge anymore. And Jackie explains to Kelso how things are going to work now that they’ve “proven their love” to each other.
Kitty thinks that it would be a good idea if Red and Eric become friends. She forces Eric to invite Red to go with the gang to a wrestling event in Kenosha. Bob tags along and seeks help from Fez and Hyde over Midge’s decision to start therapy. And Jackie is super nice to Kelso now that they’ve done the deed.
When Eric scratches the car, Red suspends his driving privileges, so the gang has to walk everywhere. That is, until Kelso’s cousin lends him a car. They get arrested though because the car was reported stolen. With one phone call, Kelso calls Jackie and she tells him that she’ll have sex with him once he gets out of prison. The whole incident was a mix-up and the gang is released.
Jackie dumps Kelso after he makes out with Pam Macy and invites everyone but him to her parent’s ski cabin for the weekend. Eric, excited about what this could mean for him and Donna, pays no attention to Kelso’s whining about being left behind or Red’s tips about driving in the snow. He doesn’t realize that Hyde keeps hitting on Donna and Kelso plans on following them to the lodge. Also, Kitty gets mad at Red over a past indiscretion and Fez has his first experience with snow.
Red gives Eric 40 bucks to buy a Christmas tree and says that he can keep the change for his party. So Eric, Hyde and Kelso cut down a tree off the interstate and keep the money. They spend the money on beer and Kelso buys Jackie a Christmas present. Laurie spikes the punch with rum and Jackie’s friend’s are all attracted to Fez all of the sudden. Red has to work on Christmas Eve and not long after he gets home cops show up at his door telling him that his Christmas tree was illegally obtained and that they have to confiscate it. Also Hyde has a thing for Donna.
Eric has a new friend and Steven and Kelso can’t stand it. Steven doesn’t like him because he’s rich and Eric doesn’t give him a ride home anymore because Buddy has a Trans Am. Kelso, on the other hand, seems like a worried spouse. Eric starts to feel uncomfortable around him however when Buddy makes a move on him. Buddy apparently thought that Eric was also gay. And Red makes his first sale.
Red’s mother spends a Sunday with them and drives everyone crazy, except Fez. She seems to have a certain fondness for him.
Laurie comes home for Thanksgiving with her friend Kate. Eric is annoyed that he’ll have to give up his room for their guest, until he sees how hot Kate is. Jackie alerts Donna to the trouble she could be facing now that a college girl is sleeping in Eric’s bed. Kitty tries vainly to avoid her mother-in-law’s phone calls as she prepares for Thanksgiving dinner.
Eric and Donna go to the drive-in. Eric doesn’t want Kelso and Jackie to go because they’d be competition but Donna invites them anyway. Fez’s house parents think he’s listening to the devil’s music (a copy of Kiss’ Destroyer album). Red and Kitty spend the evening out and almost get arrested.
The kids decide to go to a disco but Steven doesn’t know how to dance so Mrs. Forman teaches him to dance. Mr. Pinciotti walks in on them in a compromising position and believes they’re having an affair. Kelso gets jealous of Fez because he thinks he’s putting the moves on Jackie.
Eric skips school with Donna, Hyde, and Kelso for the first time in his life. Unbelievably, the gang finds a keg in the middle of the road and sees it as a sign that they should throw a party. Problems arise, however, when they all realize that there’s no beer tap after the party is in full swing. Meanwhile, Red and Bob have their suspicions about what the kids are up to and launch a full scale search of Point Place.
With her parents going to the Playboy Club over the weekend, Donna drops Eric some unsubtle hints that she wants to hang out alone with him. Unfortunately, Eric is so preoccupied with getting a job at the new Fatso Burger that he completely misses her signals. Kelso gets the idea to throw a toga party at the Pinciotti house, but Donna’s less than enthused about the prospect. As for Eric, he quickly finds that work eats up a lot of his free time.
Red’s hours at the plant are cut, so he fills his free time fixing things around the house, much to Kitty’s dismay. Donna beats Eric at basketball, which sets off series of contests between them. Midge and Kitty each give their kids some pointers on harmonious relationships. The guys tease Kelso for being “pig-whipped” by Jackie.
President Ford comes to Point Place; Red is chosen to ask him a question, but struggles as he tries to speak. Eric and the guys welcome the President by streaking. Donna has to wear an American flag jumpsuit Bob gave her.
Eric’s 17th birthday is coming up and he really doesn’t want a party. Unfortunately, it’s extremely obvious that Kitty is planning a surprise party against his wishes – she’s even invited his older sister Laurie home from college for the event. Eric enlists Laurie’s help in calling off the party while Kelso naively tries to attract her interest. And Donna, who’s unsure about the state of her relationship with Eric, gets advice from Jackie on what to get him for a gift.
While Eric Forman is swiping beer for his best friends Donna Pinciotti, Michael Kelso, and Steven Hyde, his parents Red and Kitty hint that he may be getting the old Vista Cruiser. Now Eric can drive all of his friends – including the new foreign exchange student, Fez – to a Todd Rundgren concert in Milwaukee. A minor snag occurs when Kelso’s obnoxious girlfriend, Jackie Burkhart, finds out and invites herself along. An even bigger snag occurs when Red tells Eric that he can’t drive the car out of Point Place.
