They decides to throw a party at a pool at a vacant home that Jackie's mother is attempting to sell. The gang finds a keg in the middle of the road after skipping school. Afterwards, Eric quits his job so he can spend more time with her. But when he comes back later, he is too late as Donna's parents come home early. During the party, Donna decides to go see Eric because she's depressed that they can't spend time together, however he turns her down as he is working. Meanwhile, Jackie is upset at Michael for not having a job.
However, Eric finds that he and Donna can't spend as much time together because of it. Then guys all go to Fatso Burger for job interviews but Eric ends up being the only one hired. However, he doesn't get the hints and Kelso convinces her to have a party, which Donna only agrees after Eric says he will go.
Red's job hours at the auto plant are cut back and he is forced to stay home, keeping himself occupied by "fixing" things, much to Kitty's dismay.ĭonna drops some quite obvious hints that she wants to hang out in her house with Eric - alone. Jackie pressures Donna to let Eric win, while Hyde and Fez pressure Kelso to stand up to Jackie. In desperation, Eric puts on a Nixon mask and streaks across the auditorium, motivating Red to ask Ford, "How the hell could you pardon Nixon?".Įric and Donna argue, after she continually defeats him in various sports and games. However, when Red gets up to ask his question, he stutters and starts to bomb.
On the day, everyone decides not to streak, as there are too many guard dogs and Secret Service. Donna refuses to wear an American flag jumpsuit her father, Bob, gives her as it will embarrass her. Red agrees, however, Bob gives him a 'crappy' question, leading Red to decide to ask what he wants anyway. Meanwhile, Bob wants Red to ask Ford a question in the Q&A. The guys decide to streak when Ford comes to town for a campaign stop. The principal of Point Place High School makes a speech warning against any "maladjusted" activity, which of course gives Hyde the idea to "fight the power". Jackie's father, a city councilman, arranges for President Gerald Ford to stop at Point Place as part of his re-election campaign. She tells Jackie that she kissed Eric, and Jackie helps her choose a meaningful gift for him, a candle. Donna is also stressing over what she should get Eric for his birthday because she is unsure of the state of her relationship with Eric after she kissed him in the previous episode.
Meanwhile, Eric's older sister, Laurie, returns home from college for a visit, and Kelso tries, unsuccessfully, to attract her attention even though he is in a relationship with Jackie. At the end of the episode, Eric and Donna sit on the hood of the car and before she goes home, Donna kisses him.Įric's 17th birthday is approaching, and he tries to prevent his mother, Kitty, from throwing him a surprise birthday party to no avail. While the rest are at the concert, Jackie and Kelso make out in the car, and Jackie asks Kelso if he wants to break up with her and Kelso, who has been telling the others the entire episode he wants to break up with her, tells her he doesn't so they can continue to make out. The rest of the group forces Kelso to give up his and Jackie's tickets as they don't like her. However, on the way to the concert the car battery dies the only way they can get a new one is if they give up two of their concert tickets to the mechanic. Kelso's girlfriend Jackie Burkhart invites herself along, and Eric is uncomfortable around Donna when Kelso inadvertently tells Eric that Donna likes him. Eric also decides to invite a new foreign exchange student from school, named 'Fez'. Through persuasion from his friends, Eric uses the car to get out of town for a Todd Rundgren concert in Milwaukee with his closest friends: his neighbor, Donna Pinciotti, Steven Hyde, and Michael Kelso. In the first episode, on May 17, 1976, Red Forman and his wife Kitty hand the keys to the Vista Cruiser to their son, Eric, to use. See also: List of That '70s Show episodes No.īonnie Turner & Terry Turner & Mark Brazill