A New Hope (That '70s Show episode)
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| That '70s Show episode | |
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| Episode no. | Season 1 Episode 20 |
| Guest star(s) | Lisa Robin Kelly (Laurie), Scott Whyte (David) |
| Writer(s) | Joshua Sternin, Jeffrey Ventimilia |
| Director | David Trainer |
| Production no. | 122 |
| Original airdate | March 14, 1999 |
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A New Hope is an episode from That '70s Show.
After seeing "Star Wars" Eric dreams he's Luke Skywalker and that Princess Leia (Donna) has been hanging out too much with Darth Vader (Donna's friend David).
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[edit] Plot summary
The following introduction is reminiscent of the Star Wars films:
A long time ago in Point Place, Wisconsin...
That '70s Show
Episode XXV
A New Hope
It's a time of upheaval for the Formans. Red's hours have been cut back at the auto parts plant, and his holiday job with "Bargain Bob" is long gone. Kitty struggles to make ends meet. And Eric is in the throes of adolescence...which sucks no matter what decade it is. Am I right? Anyway, right now Eric and his band of rebels are heading for a movie theater in Kenosha...
After seeing Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope with the guys Eric sits in the kitchen telling Kitty & Laurie how cool it is, when Red comes in exclaiming that the he's going back to working full time at the auto parts plant because Ron Millbank moved back into town to reopen it. Kitty is overjoyed because they were very close to losing the house. Red then tells Eric that David Millbank, Ron's son, is coming to come see him, and Red wants him to act like he's his friend even though he isn't. The gang is hanging out in the basement and Kelso is trying to get Jackie to see Star Wars and he successfully does telling her that she's gotta meet him halfway now that they're back together.
Donna, Eric, Jackie,Kelso and Fez are in the basement taking about the time he once beat up David. It is now revealed that he had scoliosis and asthma as a kid. Kelso asks Jackie if she wants to go see Star Wars but she doesn't like space. Kelso then says that they have to meet each other halfway if they are going to start their relationship again. They leave and Fez is staying just to spite Eric and Donna. David comes down to see Eric, Donna, and Fez, he is more well built and healthy than anyone else. David takes an immediate interest in Donna telling her how much she's grown and asking about her short stories. Eric gets a little jealous and makes it clear that he and Donna are dating. Kelso is getting something out of the fridge when Laurie starts flirting with him again and asks if he wants to see her appendix scar to which he says he & Jackie are back together but still looks.
David is sitting down reading one of Donna's short stories when she goes to get more but accidentally knocks a soda on him. She gets a towel and towels it up but Eric barges in and asks what is going on. The two begin to argue after David leaves about his intentions. Donna says he's just a friend and Eric says he's hitting on her. Afterwards, the guys are in the basement and Eric says that if he doesn't believe that David and Donna are just friends, she'll think he doesn't trust her. Fez suggest that Eric let David have Donna because "they look so nice together". Hyde says he's a romantic and advises Eric to choke David until his eyes pop out. Eric dismisses this because Donna would be upset at him. Kelso argues that girls like that. Giving the example of Leia liking Han. Hyde calls Kelso an idiot because Leia likes Luke because she kissed him in the movie while Kelso states that it was "for luck". Eric then yells at the both of them because he has a "real problem". Fez then repeats what he initially said and Eric punches him.
Eric dreams that he's Luke Skywalker, inside the Death Star initially being taught by Obi Wan (Red), not listening to him but, instead trying to make his Lightsaber work, causes Red to call him a "Jedi Dumbass". Han Solo (Hyde) and Chewbacca come in and Han tells Luke that he saw Princess Leia with Darth Vader in his TIE Fighter. Chewy takes off his mask and it is Kelso in a suit. He complains that he isn't Han, but Hyde punches him and Kelso grunts like Chewbacca. The doorbell then rings and Kitty comes in dressed a a fighter pilot vacuuming with R2-D2. She answers the door and Darth Vader comes in with two Stormtroopers (Jackie and Fez). They take off their helmets, Jackie says that Eric should join the Dark Side and Fez states that they have free food. Princess Leia (Donna) comes in and says that she and Vader are just friends and that Luke would like him. Vader asks Eric to give hm a chance and then starts Force Chocking him, to which Luke says "Look! Hello, he's choking me with his mind, here. That's, like, yeah. Evil."
In her kitchen, Donna is talking to Jackie. Jackie starts by saying that Kelso realised how much he missed her when they were broken up, and how it was the best thing she ever did. Donna tells Jackie about how she hates that Eric has become such a possessive macho jerk lately, to which Jackie tells her that that's a women's dream. Even Midge agrees before Donna reminds her of the feminist classes and books she's been reading.
Eric goes to Red and Bob in the back yard, where they are trimming the hedges and asks Red if he could teach him a couple fighting moves. Bob tells Eric that he could take David because of his scoliosis and asthma. Red tells him to leave David alone because he wants to save his job. Red suggests instead beating up Kelso because he doesn't work for his dad. Eric then adds that he's making moves on Donna, which changes Red's mind. He starts by saying that the bridge of the nose is very vulnerable. Bob puts in the admission that he could hit David with a Banjo. Red questions first, why a banjo then where he'll get a banjo and Bob says that he's helping because he once say someone being hit with a banjo and that he was defeated easily. Red tells Eric that that is a dirty way of fighting and that he should hit David in the groin. Bob tells Eric that he could do that with a Banjo.
Kelso and Jackie are talking about what they could do that night and Jackie says that if he suggests seeing Star Wars again she'll leave. Kelso then tries using a Jedi Mind Trick to get her to go see Star Wars and she tells him he's weird and she's going home. Laurie is dong laundry behind them and overheard their conversation. She tells Kelso that she thought Star Wars was the greatest film ever and they start to make-out. In the living room, Kitty asks Red where Eric is and Red initially tells her he doesn't know but she pushes him and Red says that he's beating up David because he's been hitting on Donna and that it's no big deal. Kitty opposes this at first, calling men Neanderthals but she is then reminded of a time when she and Red were at the beach and a lifeguard piched Kitty's bottom. Red beat up the lifeguard and she remembers Red standing over him with his eyes burning with intensity, his sun-tanned muscles gleaming like a bronze god, and is turned on, so they head upstairs.
Donna and David are talking, when Eric tells David that he wants to fight him. Donna gets up and tries to keep Eric from David and tells him that David has no interest in me and that they're just friends. David tells her that he does and he thought listening to her and sharing ideas with her would get her to like him. Donna walks up frustrated that Eric doesn't trust her or respect her. David tells Eric that he's only here because his dad is only opening the plant until they burn off the inventory and starts to walk away. Eric tells him how much his dad is counting on that job and decides to tap him on the shoulder and punch him in the nose. David than stands up and starts breathing in the same way as Darth Vader and tells Eric that he waill pay for that.
Eric goes to tell his dad about the plant but can't when Red is going to celebrate with Kitty about good fortune. He goes into the living room where he tells Laurie and she says that it might not be the best time to say that she has dropped out of college. Eric is then frustrated because she is their parents' favourite. The parents then go to see Star Wars where, during the attack on the Death Star, Bob says that Luke is doomed; Midge asks if it is based on a true story; Kitty recognises James Earl Jones's voice and Red is unimpressed with it and he thinks that Eric is on dope until the Death Star explodes and Red looks impressed.
[edit] Trivia
- This episode marked the show's final appearance in the coveted post-Simpsons time slot on Sundays. The show would then go on hiatus until June 14, 1999, when the remaining season 1 episodes were shown on Mondays. Season 2 episodes would air on Tuesdays.
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