EPISODE GUIDE

EPISODE GUIDE - season 1

Season 1 (1998-99)

1) THE PILOT
The gang goes to a Todd Rundgren concert, the battery of Eric's car dies so they trade Jackie and Kelso's tickets for a new one. Donna kisses Eric for the first time.
My rating: 8/10

2) ERIC'S BIRTHDAY
Kitty throws Eric another birthday party even if he didn't want one. Eric asks for a cassette player for a car but ends up getting an 8-track. Jackie helps Donna getting Eric the perfect gift, a candle. Red and Kitty go to the Pinciottis' place while the kids are having a party. Jackie tells Donna to give Eric a sexy look when she gives him her gift. Donna and Eric go outside, Donna gives him the gift and has a strange look on her face. Eric asks her is she's sick, she replies she was just being stupid. They almost kiss but Kitty comes back drunk.
My rating: 8.5/10

3) STREAKING
President Ford comes to Point Place and Red asks him a question but struggles as he tries to speak but Eric runs in naked wearing a mask and it seems to help Red. Donna has to wear an american flag jumpsuit Bob gave her.
My rating: 7/10

4) BATTLE OF THE SEXISTS
Red's hours at the plant are cut so he fixes things that don't need fixing and it makes Kitty sick. Donna beats Eric at basketball and air hockey and Eric makes a big deal about it so Donna's upset. Then, Donna takes some stupid advices from Midge and intentionally loses a basketball game to Eric. Eric notices it, they clear things up and decide not to keep scores anymore. At the end, Red teaches Eric how to play basketball.
My rating: 9.5/10

5) ERIC'S BURGER JOB
Erics wants to get a job so Red gives him advices for the interview. He ends up hired at Fatso Burger. Donna finds herself alone on a Saturday night and she invites Eric to come but he has to work so Kelso throws a party at Donna's place (she didn't really want to). The party's boring so Donna goes to Fatso Burger to meet Eric and tells him to come afterwards. Eric quits his job and goes at Donna's place. Unfortunately, Bob answers so Eric can't get in but we hear Donna saying "Good Night, Eric" as he's walking home.
My rating: 9/10

6) THE KEG
Donna gets Eric to cut classes and on the way home, they find a keg full of beer so they throw a party in an empty pool at Jackie's place. They have all sorts of problems opening the keg, Eric finally comes back with a tab but everyone had left and only 2 policemen, Red, Bob and the gang were in the pool. 2 Bums are mad at Eric because the party was canceled, Eric tears off the 2 bucks they charged them and gives it back to them. Eric and Donna are sitting on the vista cruiser's hood, Donna tells Eric he looks dangerous and they kiss, Eric fells more confident at confronting Red.
My rating: 9/10

7) THAT DISCO EPISODE
A disco opens in Kenosha so the gang decides to go. Hyde takes dancing lessons from Kitty but Bob comes in and told Red they're having an affair. Red wants to kill Hyde but they realize they were really dancing. Fez doesn't know what disco is but somehow he's an amazing dancer. Hyde dances with Donna and wants to kiss her but she answers with "shut up an dance". Jackie dances with fez and they end up in the vista cruiser but Kelso comes and almost knocks Fez. Eric kisses Donna and she says "shut up and dance" again and so they danced until the end of the episode.
My rating: 9/10

8) THE DRIVE IN
A drive-in opens up in Point Place so Eric goes with Donna but she's nervous and brings Jackie and Kelso. Kitty convinces Red to "change their routine" so they eat at the Lion's Head which was supposed to be fancy but it burned out and has become a cheap, loud and crappy place. Instead, they eat at Philies (a really boring place), Kitty is sad because the night turned out bad but Red says that the night is not over as he parks the car for some action. Jackie and Kelso make out in the backseat so Donna and Eric go on the hood to be more quiet, they kiss.
My rating: 8.5/10

9) THANKSGIVING
Laurie comes home for Thanksgiving and she brings a friend, kate, who later french kisses Eric. Despite his friends' advices, Eric tells Donna. She's mad and leaves the Forman's thansgiving party but Eric gets her back. Red's mother, Bernice, keeps calling the Formans and Kitty's upset. The Formans realize they had forgetten Bernice when they were ready to eat.
My rating: 8/10

10) SUNDAY, BLOODY SUNDAY
Red's mother is with the Formans for 1 day and Eric does his best to help Kitty even if he has a term paper to do. Kitty tries to stop smoking but Bernice's presence doesn't help. Fez rubs Bernice's feet and seems to enjoy it. Meanwhile, Eric's friend try to help him with the term paper.
My rating: 7.5/10

11) ERIC'S BUDDY
Eric has a new chemistry partner named Buddy who has a cool red car and seems to be pretty rich. Eric hangs out with Buddy and abandons the rest of the gang until he realizes Buddy is gay.
My rating: 8.5/10

12) THE BEST CHRISTMAS EVER
Eric throws a party in his basement for Christmas. Red gives him 40 bucks to buy a x-mas tree and says he can keep the rest for his party. Hyde, Kelso and Eric steal a tree in the forest and keep the 40 bucks for beer. The party ends when 2 state officers take away the x-mas tree.
My rating: 8.5/10

13) SKI TRIP
Kelso made out with Pam Macey and Jackie knows it so he's excluded of the gang's trip to Jackie's cabine for a ski trip. Kelso makes the trip to the cabin with a gay truck driver (Kelso doesn't realize it). Jackie and Kelso get back together and use the only bedroom that Eric and Donna were supposed to have. For the first time, Fez has a cold so Hyde gives him some alcohol. Later, Fez comes back in his underwars and completly drunk.
My rating: 9/10

14) STOLEN CAR
Red takes away Eric's car after Eric scratched it because of Kelso's purple nerple. Kelso borrows his cousin's car and they get arrested because it had been reported stolen. Kelso wastes the only phone call when he calls jackie and forgets to ask her for help because she told him they were gonna do it when he gets out. The gang is out of trouble when the police learns that Kelso's grandma forgot she let Kelso's friend borrow the car and reported it stolen.
My rating: 9/10

15) THAT WRESTLING SHOW
Kitty wants Red to spend more time with Eric so the gang goes at a wrestling show in Kenosha with Red and Bob. Meanwhile, Kitty, Midge and Laurie (who's back from college because she needs money), go to one of Midge's empowerment meeting. Hyde and Fez want a beer so they ask Bob to get it for them, in return, they have to listen to Bob's problems with Midge. At the end, Eric tells Red he had a good time and then, they wrestled in the living room.
My rating: 8.5/10

16) FIRST DATE
It's Valentine's day and Hyde is supposed to go study with Donna at the library but Eric steals her from him and they go on their first date at the Vineyard (a fancy restaurant). The parents decide to try fondue and they have all sorts of problems. Meanwhile, Donna orders a Long Island iced tea but it had 5 shots of alcohol so she got drunk. While Donna's puking in the bathroom, Hyde comes to the Vineyard to talk to Donna and Eric's mad at him. Eric and Donna end up at the Hub where Eric gives her his class ring, they're officially going out. The show ends when Eric forgives Hyde and they eat the chicken that Eric ordered at the vineyard.
My rating: 9.5/10

17) CAREER DAY
It's career day: Eric goes with Kitty at the hospital, Hyde and Fez go with Edna (Hyde's mom) at the school cafeteria, Donna's at Bob's store and Kelso goes with his dad, a statistician. Kelso doesn't understand what his dad does so he ends up saying that he's a farmer to make it easier answering the questions he has to. Bob does a 3-day promotional sale and brings clowns to increase sales, Donna's embarassed until her dad tells her the money he earns is for her education.
My rating: 7.5/10

18) THE PILL
Jackie thinks she's pregnant, Donna learns it and decides to go on the pill. Laurie and Eric are at the pharmacy to get pictures when Bob comes in to get a prescription, the pharmacist asks Bob for $21, Bob thinks it's pricy for the medicine he thought he was buying, the pharmacist loudly answers: "Pinciotti, Donna: Porto Novo: Birth control pills". Bob didn't know Donna was on the pill (Eric and Laurie neither) so he quickly stares at Eric with a mad look on his face, Eric runs away and Laurie's laughing. When Red and Kitty learn Donna's on the pill, they have a conversation with Eric. Laurie's flunking out of college and is only home to change her grades. Jackie finds out she's not pregnant and breaks up with Kelso.
My rating: 9.5/10

19) PROM NIGHT
It's prom week, Kelso invites Pam Macey to the prom and Jackie finds herlself alone but she ends up going with Hyde. While dancing with Donna, Eric tells her he got a hotel room so they decide to go there but a gang of students (led by the funniest character ever, Timmy!!!) are screwing around with explosives and stuff so they go back to the prom. Jackie and Kelso get back together and Hyde takes Pam Macey in the car. Fez dances with his english teacher.
My rating: 9/10

20) A NEW HOPE (Finale)
David, a former schoolmate of Eric, comes back to Point Place with his dad, who is there to re-open the plant, so Red thinks he's gonna work full time again. When David tries to steal Donna from Eric, Red and Bob give Eric some boxing advices. David tells Eric that his dad will close the plant, Eric punches him and Donna's mad. This was the Season finale: Donna's mad at Eric, Red lost his job and Laurie flunked out of college.
My rating: 7/10

21) PUNK CHICK (unaired)
Hyde meets a rebellious easy biker chick, Chrissy and she wants him to go to NY with him. In the meanwhile, Fez is mad because he feels like no one cares about him, Eric has trouble getting donna's bra off, Red and Kelso make the Pong's paddles smaller to make it harder and Kitty helps Jackie who's struggling at cooking a pie. Finally, Hyde stays in Point Place and gives Eric a good advice for his bra problem. The show ends when Eric and Donna the vista cruiser and Donna tells Eric she's not wearing a bra.
My rating: 8/10

22) Water Tower (unaired)
Kelso falls while painting a pot leaf on the water with the gang, they go to the Forman house and Eric goes to wake Kitty up but he caught her and Red having sex (they didn't see him). Eric is completly freaked out, so he's acting strange and Kitty thinks he's doing drugs. Kitty and Red ask him if he's doing drugs, Eric clears things up and tells them he caught them doing it, a good conversation about sex follows. Eric and Donna are in the vista cruiser, when Donna learns about Eric's problem, she tells him about her experience when she walked in on Bob and Midge so Eric feels better.
My rating: 9.5/10

23) GRANDMA'S DEAD (unaired)
Eric drives his grandma home and on the way, he says: "It wouldn't kill you to be nice", it did, because she suddenly died. Donna tries to help Eric getting throught his grandma's death but Eric prefers to follow Hyde and the gang to a bar, Donna's kind of mad at Eric. The gang gets into a fight at the bar and Eric got punched. Eric apologizes to Donna at the funeral and they reconciliate
My rating: 8.5/10

24) HYDE MOVES IN (additional episode)
Jackie catches a cold and looks really ugly because she's sick and not wearing any make-up, Kelso yells when he looks at her. Hyde's mother abandons him and the house is a mess, when Eric knows he tells his parents and asks for help, Kitty wants to help but Red says he doesn't have the money but they end up taking him home. Hyde is mad at Eric because he made his own rules when he was living alone and now he has to listen to Red and kitty.
My rating: 8.5/10

25) THE GOOD SON (additional episode)
Kitty and Red are being nicer to Hyde than to Eric. Bull, an old friend of Red, comes back to town and offers Red a job. Bull throws a party, Red takes the job but when he learns that he is at a swigners party, he yells at Bull and leaves (he forgets the job too). Eric tells Hyde that he should do sensless things like he used to instead of washing the dishes. Hyde tells him that he's a guest and has to do chores too. Eric comes to the conclusion that he's gonna have to to something sensless and throws a bowling bowl on the couch but it crashes the TV. When Red comes back, both Eric and Hyde tell him it was their own fault but he doesn't care, he's mad at both of them.
My rating: 8.0/10