Sunday, Bloody Sunday (That '70s Show episode)
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| “Sunday, Bloody Sunday” | |
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| That '70s Show episode | |
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| Episode no. | Season 1 Episode 10 |
| Guest stars | Marion Ross (Grandma), Joe Medalis (Pastor) |
| Written by | Bonnie Turner, Terry Turner |
| Directed by | Terry Hugues |
| Production no. | 105 |
| Original airdate | November 29, 1998 |
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| List of That '70s Show episodes | |
Sunday, Bloody Sunday is an episode from That '70s Show.
In a case of bad timing Eric's grandma comes to visit just as Eric's struggling to finish a term paper and just as Kitty is trying to quit smoking.
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Sunday October 24th 1976 the Forman's are sitting down for breakfast and Kitty is acting a little perky so Eric asks her if she quit smoking. The phone rings and Red picks it up to find out that Uncle Paul has broken his ankle so Grandma Bernice will be going to church with them today. Kitty immediately bristles, as Red's mom doesn't like her because he decided to marry her instead of a more well-to-do woman that his mom liked twenty-five years ago. Throwing the ham back in the freezer, she loudly complains that Bernice doesn't like ham, so now she must defrost a chicken for dinner.
Grandma picks on Kitty the whole day; when Kitty tells her she stopped smoking she blows smoke in her face, and criticizes the smaller car they are driving. When Kitty serves the chicken for dinner, she says she has an irritable bowel and she should have made a ham instead; when Kitty serves cheesy potatoes she says she's allergic to dairy.
Red keeps disappearing to watch the Packers game and avoids Grandma because he tells Eric that he loves his mom but he just can't talk to or spend any time with her.
Eric volunteers to spend time with Grandma so she doesn't upset Kitty too much, but it's a little difficult because he's got a 1000 word term paper due on Monday on the 3 branches of government. His friends decide to help him; Jackie says she wrote a paper a year ago on the same thing but comes back hours later saying it was on the four food groups. Hyde says the 3 branches of government are military, corporate, and Hollywood, and launches into a conspiracy diatribe and isn't much help. Donna says her parents have encyclopedias, but later returns saying that her parents sold all of them except for B, X, and R.
Fez doesn't help with the term paper, but he sure helps with Grandma. Fez loves feet and coincidently Grandma loves to have her feet rubbed. The two hang out most of the day after Eric introduces him in a last ditch effort to get out of rubbing her feet.
Kitty comes down to the basement and orders that someone give her a cigarette in the five seconds that her eyes are shut because she can't take it anymore. Somebody (not from the group, their sleeve doesn't match any of the gang's) gives her a cigerette, and everyone holds a lighter up to it. Seeing Red coming she immediately throws it to Eric who throws it in the freezer. Red comes down, turns on the game, and sits. Kitty slowly starts to sit saying that we shouldn't just leave Grandma up there with the foreign kid. Following suit everyone in the basement sits down and watches the game while Grandma & Fez sit upstairs watching Lawrence Welk.
Spending time with Fez has made Grandma a much more happier person as, when it comes time to go, she thanks Kitty for the chicken and asks if the cheesy potatoes are there, too, in a final slap in Kitty's face. Eric is shocked, and begins to protest in his mom's defense, but Red stops him, saying that there's no reason to ruin a "perfectly nice Sunday."
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