- Point Place, Wisconsin, May 17, 1976. Nerdy teenager Eric, who smokes weed with some classmates in the basement, is in heaven when his dad Red decides to hand him the keys of his flashy Vista Cruiser, at the price of extra chores and forbidding him to take it out of town, knowing that won't be obeyed anyway. The gang, which just adopted foreign exchange student Fez, is excited about a Todd Rundgren concert- Jackie uses her female charms to make sure skirt-chaser Michael Kelso would take her too.—KGF Vissers
- Eric, Fez, Kelso, Hyde, Donna and Jackie all hang out in the Forman's basement and smoke weed every once in a while. Eric's parents give him the keys to the Vista Cruiser, so he and the gang drive to a concert against dad Red's orders not to take the car out of town.—William Tuttle
- In the first episode, on May 17, 1976 , Red and Kitty are having a party upstairs and the gang wants Eric to go up and bring them some cold beer. Bob Pinciotti (Don Stark) is Donna's father & Midge (Tanya Roberts) is her mother. Red doesn't like any machine that is not American built. The family had to buy a Toyota, since the gas prices are going through the roof. Red was offered $400 trade in for the Vista, but Red decided to offer it to Eric instead. Eric manages to get beer, as Kitty asks him to put the warm beer in the fridge in the basement.
Red Forman (Kurtwood Smith) and his wife Kitty (Debra Jo Rupp) want to hand the keys to the Vista Cruiser to their son, Eric (Topher Grace), to use. 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 (Laura Prepon), Hyde (Danny Masterson), and Kelso (Ashton Kutcher). Eric also decides to invite a new foreign exchange student from school, named Fez (Wilmer Valderrama). Kelso's girlfriend Jackie (Mila Kunis) invites herself along, and Eric is uncomfortable around Donna when Kelso inadvertently tells Eric that Donna likes him. The gang doesn't like Jackie, but is not able to say anything to her face.
Hyde and Eric want Kelso to dump Jackie, but every time he tries, she lures him with make-out sessions, and he can't. eventually the gang allows her to come as there is a gas shortage, prices are high and the Vista takes a lot of gasoline to run. Jackie is rich and offers to pay for the whole trip's worth of gasoline. The gang have one of their pot sessions. Red and Kitty finally hand over the car to Eric, but not before giving him a full top down on insurance costs, that is requires maintenance, and that it's not a bedroom on wheels. All the time, Eric is totally stoned. No beer cans and donuts are allowed in the car. And no trips out of town ever. Of course, all rules are broken on the very first day when Eric is goaded to take the car to the concert. Turns out this was a ruse to get the kids away so Red and Kitty could have sex.
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. The rest of the group forces Kelso to give up his and Jackie's tickets as they don't like her. 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. At the end of the episode, Eric and Donna sit on the hood of the car and before she goes home, Donna kisses him.
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