Career Day (That '70s Show episode)

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“Career Day”
That '70s Show episode

Episode no.	Season 1 Episode 18
Guest stars	Katey Sagal (Edna Hyde), Francis Guinan (John Kelso), Steve Ireland (Dr. Ashley), Trista Delamere (Nurse Thomas), Linda Wallem (Nurse Phillips)
Written by	Joshua Sternin, Jeffrey Ventimilia
Directed by	David Trainer
Production no.	118
Original airdate	February 28, 1999
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Career Day is an episode from That 70s Show.

It's a real eye-opener for the gang when the high school holds a Career Day and the students have to accompany their parents to work.

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[edit] Plot summary

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

On Friday, the high school has a career day. Each member of the gang observes their respective parents at work. Eric is going to accompany his mother Kitty, a nurse, at the hospital, while Donna is going to see Bargain Bob in action. Hyde follows his mother, the school cafeteria lunch lady, Edna (played by Katey Sagal), and Fez (having only host parents) tags along. Kelso is going to see his dad (Francis Guinan) who is a senior executive statistical analysis technician. Red, who works a half day at the auto parts plant, is going to work on Eric's car and since Jackie is only a sophomore she ends up hanging with Red after getting out of school.

Eric's day with Kitty turns out to be overwhelming. During her rounds he sees injured people, Kitty delivering a baby and people with skin diseases. While moving a recently expired corpse from its bed, Kitty comments that it is the body of a patient whom she had gotten to know well, and had told her family about over dinner at various times. Eric asks her while driving home how she deals with all the sickness and tragedies everyday, and Kitty answers by prompting Eric to sing along with her to Niel Sedaka's "Bad Blood" on the radio.

Bargain Bob has turned his appliance store into a mini circus, conducting the madness in a ringmaster suit, hiring clowns and a monkey in order to attract customers to a three-day promotional sale. Donna is embarrassed at this and she converts the answers that he gives her into a more generic, nondescript format but is humbled when her father scolds her that he has to put up with the absurd masquerade so as to ensure that she gets to go to college and live a better life.

Hyde's mom, better known as Gross Edna, works in the school kitchen. Fez tries to learn how to cook and assists Edna but Hyde is argumentative and cynical. Edna chides that Hyde's birth shattered her dreams of being in show-business as a trick water skier, and upon this Hyde gets angry and walks out. Hyde comes back later and the two resolve their differences with Edna promising some quality time together and offering to buy him a beer.

Meanwhile, Kelso is unable to understand what it is that his dad does, despite numerous explanations, as there is no simple way to describe it. His father works with data and information, somehow, although not directly and in no tangible abstract way, either. Confounded, Kelso in the end decides to just say that his father is a farmer.

While Red is working on Eric's car Jackie shows up. Red asks her to hold a flashlight, something Eric couldn't do right the day before, and when she follows directions correctly (and without "lip") Red is shocked. He then teaches her how to change a tire and the two work on Eric's car for the remainder of the day. Jackie tells Red that she doesn't get to spend much time with her father because he works all the time but she still loves him because he has agreed to buy her a Mustang.