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As Homer Simpson once said, not long ago That 70’s Show Premiere: They now have the internet on their computers! Step” to Point Place. Kitty is setting up the Foreman family’s first computer and is primarily focused on using it to connect to the Internet (somewhat unlikely given her age and age). Still, while Kitty may be prescient in this regard (The Simpsons said she didn’t have a computer yet in 1995!), she needs Ozzy’s help to set everything up. and Ozzy agrees and wants to use this opportunity to tell Kitty that he is gay. Ozzy is outspoken about his sexuality among his friends, but has a multi-stage coming out plan to ease his way into the rest of the world.Learning About the Internet While Doing Part of a Coming Out Plan: Do You Have This Degrassi?!
Wanting to make sure Kitty is receptive and supportive, Ozzy asks Leia to feel her first. Kitty misinterprets her ensuing conversation as talking heartfelt about sex and keeps her cool in front of Leia, calling special guest star Laura Prepon in a panic. Ozzy still doesn’t feel ready when Donna arrives on the scene, so Leia continues to be confused. Instead, it’s an abstraction that she at least feels jealous of Jay’s tight t-shirt and close proximity to his body. In a sense, she admits that sex was on her mind — but she’s still far from a certain step that isn’t their true relationship.
Indeed, Leia’s just-a-friend bet from the previous episode seems to be working.Gwen points out she ‘short-circuited’ [Jay’s] boy brain. To clear her head, Jay went out with Nate to see the free hot tubs advertised on Penny Saver. Meanwhile, Gwen and Nikki bond over their seeming indifference to each other and over the feeling of being abandoned by the boys. They smoke pot, call each other hunyoung, and take glamorous shots that Nikki has arranged for herself and Nate (at least, taking advantage of being almost twins). Time switches from Gwen’s stealthy romantic interest in Leia (which I’m very sure will happen) to Nikki’s cheeky coded flirtation. more fun with you ”
Technically, these are C stories, but can they be further downgraded to D stories, perhaps, or E? Both of these subplots have potential, especially Nikki and Gwen finding some common ground. Ashley Aufdelheide, for example, tends to default to a kind of exclamatory, child actor performance style that requires more time to actually craft more and more meaningful contrasts. Zendaya/ghost world Sam Morelos style.
Leia and Ozzy’s stories are both really cute rather than compelling. Reyn Doi remains the show’s most original, amusingly flipping between overly detailed coming-out plans and procedures designed to confuse his friends (like “steal a car”). However, there is little comic tension when he comes out to Kitty.His hesitation isn’t particularly scanned, and Shaw doesn’t raise even the slightest doubt as to whether Kitty will accept him. a man named Otto: Imagine a mean white man of a certain age being unusually accepting under his brusque exterior. It quickly finds acceptance and warmth as the coded but perhaps graphic sex talk turns into a few bromides about her good heart.
It’s all really a waste of time, until the episode’s rather unjustified final twist: Jay unsuccessfully tries to get a hot tub with a potential girlfriend when he takes the hot tub lady’s granddaughter on a date. (Nate returns with a free off-screen goat, also from Penny Saver.) Naturally, when Leia gets close to Jay, he clears the air to see how she feels. Wanting to tell, they run into Leia (although as Gwen’s lampshade, he already knows how she feels). Here we think we’ll see the result of her heavily shortened season of streaming. that 90’s show Meaning you have to work with the Ross and Rachel dynamic — ironically name-checked here by Jay as an example of just friends — which makes all Julie-esque obstacles more arbitrary. This show needs a little more ’90s-style slack.
• Kitty hears a nostalgic modem connection: “The Internet is just two demons yelling at each other!” Foresight, but forgiving.
• Kitty and Red can finally get their computers working and use the Internet for its purest purposes. It’s an Ogling photo of Raquel Welch and Kirk Douglas.
• Reference watches from the 90’s: yes, friend and America Online, but the reality is that much of this episode could have happened now, or at least in the late 2000s, with no updates beyond swapping AOL for broadband. This is true in the spirit of the original series. if you have some trouble, That 70’s Show Perhaps there were more stories that weren’t all that different from the 1976 or 1998 setting.
