Set in the fictional town of Point Place, Wisconsin, That ’70s Show is a beloved sitcom meant to be a nostalgic and accurate depiction of life in the 1970s, but people who were around during that time could tell you there are many things that the series didn’t quite get right about that decade. In some cases, the show’s contents were more like what the 80s or 90s thought of the 70s than what the seventies were actually like. Let’s take a look at some of these inaccuracies.
#1: Too Much ’90s Slang
It’s unclear whether the slang used by characters of the show was a poorly researched attempt at seventies vernacular or whether it was just too much nineties jargon that accidentally crept in. Phrases like “What the hell?” or “Burn” get thrown around even though they weren’t in common usage until much later.
