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Sullivan 1 Caroline Sullivan Professor Covington English 100 04 24 February 2020 Friendship in That 70’s Show That 70’s Show is a sitcom produced by Fox featuring the lives of six high school friends. The show is mainly focused around Eric Forman, an average high schooler in Wisconsin and his relationships between his five closest friends and his family taking place in the 1970’s. In Season 4: Episode 12 of the show, the friendship dynamic between the characters is displayed very true to the show. The friendship between the characters shows us a combination of loyalty, teasing, and being there for each other at the end of the day. In this particular episode of That 70’s Show, Mrs. Forman encourages her son Eric to volunteer for his church’s nativity pageant along with his friends. Eric directs the pageant and has to deal with the many critiques and comments that his friends suggest for the play. Kelso wants Eric to make the nativity outer space themed and to include aliens and astronauts into the nativity story somehow. Fez, the foreign exchange student thought it was racist to be cast as a shepherd. Jackie who plays the virgin Mary in the nativity scene thinks she should ride in on a rainbow unicorn and Donna wants to be a wise woman instead of a wise man. Every character in this show varies in personality greatly and the group is filled with a mix of different individuals from Donna a feminist, to Kelso a jock, to Fez the foreign exchange student, to Hyde an orphaned stoner, to Jackie a spoiled cheerleader, to Eric who comes from a white bread family with strict parents. The group’s dynamic adds to the quality of the show because everyone can

Sullivan 2 usually find one character that they relate to due to the diversity in personalities as well as the face that a variety of personalities makes the show overall more entertaining. In many friend groups we see a variety of personalities because it helps balance out groups. If every person in a group was high strong and had an intense personality, there would be constant fighting. If every person in a group was quiet and indecisive, no one would ever make decisions or be loudly opinionated about group matters. That 70’s Show displays a balance between all the friends and their relationships with each other. We see all the friends tease each other and give one another a hard time yet at the end of the day they are there for each other and care what happens and will be there no matter what. As the episode progresses, Eric becomes more and more frustrated with his friends and their pesky suggestions that they had to his directing of the pageant. Eric asks Leo, an adult friend to the gang what to do about the pageant and lack of Christmas spirit and he tells him that “this pageant is (his) chance to spread some Christmas spirit” (“An Eric Forman Christmas” 10:59) leading to Eric confronting his friends about his frustrations about their constant critiques to his directing, he interrupts his friends smoking marijuana and then they all get caught by the church’s Pastor Dave who fires Eric from the pageant and decides to fill the role himself and become the new director. Leo tells the group of friends that they’ve “ruined Christmas” (16:06) and that “when it comes down to a fundamental moral core (Eric’s) the only one of (them) that’s got one” (15:00). The friends quickly become so frustrated with Pastor Dave and realize the mistake they made as friends that they tie Pastor Dave up to a chair using Christmas lights and force him to allow Eric to direct the pageant again because it was their fault he was fired.

Sullivan 3 Kitty Forman lets Eric open up his Christmas present early in order to cheer him up. Eric’s parents got him a raincoat instead of the cassette player for his car like he asked for and his mood is just as gloomy as before. In hopes of being forgiven by Eric and to make up for their mistakes as friends, the gang surprises Eric with the cassette player as a Christmas gift. This cassette player is proof of just how much the gang cares about Eric regardless of the difficulties they gave him earlier in the episode. The episode ends with the pageant being acted as Eric directed minus Kelso’s space helmet addition to his wise man costume. The friends in That 70’s Show will always give each other a hard time but prove that at the end of the day they know what is important- which is having each other in their lives. We see throughout this episode the loyalty this group of friends have for each other and regardless of the teasing, they care for one another at the end of the day.

Sullivan 4 Works Cited “An Eric Forman Christmas.” That 70’s Show, season 4, episode 12, Fox, 18 Dec. 2001. Netflix, www.netflix.com/watch/70165285....