You're not the only crazy one, but you were the one you actually succeeded. I just ended up rereading the thread for I love the 80s.

I wasn't born even born in the 1970s, so I admit I'm a bit ignorant when it comes to the 70s. My only impressions of the entire decade were disco, a gas shortage, and umm, ugly polyester outfits (or is that every decade?)

I liked the show though, as I finally got many pop culture references explained to me ("OH! So the lasso of truth in The O.C. episode was actually from Wonder Woman....") and I definitely agree with the poster who said Kermit was the best commentator. Gotta love the puppets.

I love when Darrel from Run DMC is describing Stevie Wonder's clothes circa 1972 and calls him a cross between a hippy and a pimp and then looks into the camera and says, "He was a pimpy." That cracks me up everytime.

After IL70s aired the first time I searched the Internet for Greg Evigan pictures because of the 1978 BJ and the Bear segment (although that was more of a 1979-81 show but we'll let that mistake slide)...and yes he was my wallpaper at work. And yes I got funny looks from people. Did I care? NO!

I am watching 1983 strikes back right now.

"Earth, Wind and Fire were HUGE!"
"Earth, Wind and Fire were ENORMOUS!"
"Earth, Wind and Fire were GIGANTIC!"

For some reason, those quotes by the three commentators had me in stitches. Just the delivery, or the way they were edited, or maybe the fact that EWF were so patently ridiculous.

As a child of the sixties, I would love to see that decade discussed. I'm enjoying the '70s and the '80s, but I was too old for a lot of the toys, etc. A look at the commercials, cheesy toys and hippie-dippie stuff would be a hoot! Does anyone know if there are plans for this?!

I think VH-1 should hold a contest for one or two lucky viewers to be guest commentators on whatever "I Love" series they do next. Any takers?
I can see "I Love the '90s" now- OJ trial, grunge, "Jurassic Park," "Titanic"...

I think it's a bit too soon to look back at the '90s. The decade only ended a few years ago! Part of the fun of this series is how it brings back memories of being a child or teenager...that's why I want them to do 'I Love the Sixties'. And yes, I'd be a kick-ass commentator!! :)

I think the only problem they would have with the 60s would be commentators. They tend to want people that are familiar to their viewing audience, and the latest celebs in their 20s and 30s weren't alive for most of the 60s. Can you imagine how annoying it would be to hear Kelly Rowland saying "Oh yeah, Woodstock. Yeah, that was a great movie."

Oh, jazmyne. Kelly Rowland would probably be more like, "Woodstock? I love that little bird!"

Just FYI--they're going to be reshowing the series on Friday, January 30th according to the VH1 website. I'm excited because I found out about the last marathon too late to catch 1974-1976, which are my only 3 unseen hours in the I Love The... trilogy. I swear it's like baseball cards or something!

I watched 75 this morning and Hal Sparks was pontificating on the big wheel, and said he would turn the thing upside down and scream "Ice Cream. Ice Cream." to which Joel Stein said he was a damaged young man. What are they talking about?

Are they going to do an I Love the 70's Strikes Back? There's plenty of more material in the can I'm sure. No Match Game for one!

If they do do a sequel, it'll probably be called Son of ILT70's.

Bumping this thread way up Vh1 is finally going to have a sequel to I Love the 70s in July :)

If I remember correctly, the first ILT70's wasn't quite up to par with the ILT80's one, but I doubt i'll miss Volume 2. I think I saw a commercial for it last week, but I could've just been imagining that.

They showed a Cyclon from the original Battlestar Galactica and a Harlem Globetrotter during the animated commercial for [b]ILT70s v.2[b] so I'm definitely going to watch!

It's about time they did a sequel to this, instead of ten million sequels to the 80s.

God these shows are crack.

The first "I Love the '70s" series was very good. It wasn't as great as the first edition of "I Love the '80s," but very good overall. In the first edition of "I Love the '70s" one thing they left out in the 1977 episode was the death of Elvis Presley, but they mentioned the Son of Sam killings. So I wonder if they'll mention the death of Elvis for the second edition of "I Love the '70s."

I just know that if Rich Eisen, Stuart Scott, Donal Logue, Luis Guzman and Molly Culver aren't on this edition, I'll be pissed.

I'm a child of the 80s, but some reason I love the 70s show more. Myabe it's because they haven't done the decade to death? I just the 70s are easier to lovingly mock.

I was so happy to see the ads for "I Love the 70's: volume 2". It is about time they took another poke at the decade when I went from 5 to 15 years old. Lots of great pop culture memories to mine from then.

Oh God, please let them talk about Blacula!(fingers crossed)

I just finished watching Volume 2: 1970. It seems to me that it was filmed at the same time as the last 80's because it's the usual suspects, which is a great thing. It's a good start.

So glad to have a sequel to 70s!! I was almost late picking up my kid from the movies because I couldn't drag myself away from the TV last night. In 1970 I was 8-years-old and I was determined to have a purple Gremlin when I "grew up." Also, I used to walk past a group of hippies on my way to school and I thought they were sooooo cool, I couldn't wait to be one.

Yeah! it's back, though some of the little asides were annoying, like Charo. Ah, well. Better back than not back at all. Book 'em, Dano!

Sloopy, did you ever realize your dream of being a Gremlin-driving hippie?

I agree. All of those little bumpers like "Burt Reynolds Mustache" and "Which Joe" is unnecessary.

Patrice O'Neal makes everything better.

Oh my heck - Peter Frampton has no hair!!

That is just such a shock, because I really haven't seen him since that album cover for "Frampton Comes Alive" with the white-boy fro.

This part 2 so far seems better than the original 70's shows, or am I just in a better mood?

I liked ILT70s Vol. II, but I was bugged by the case of inconsistent censoring I saw. In the 1970 episode, during the "Sly Stone and the Family Stone" segment, they played and referenced one of the group's songs that had the N-word uncensored. Mo Rocca and Joel Stein made jokes referencing the song and in doing so used the N-Word themselves uncensored. Yet in the 1971 episode, during the "Brian's Song" segment, the movie clip where Bernie Casey's character uses the N-Word in reference to blacks facing discrimination, the word is bleeped out.

Trust me, as a black woman, I'm not clamoring to hear that horrible word. But why would VH1 censor the one instance it appeared in '71 episode, yet let it go unbleeped the 3-4 times it appeared in the snarky segment in the '70 episode? I'm truly puzzled...

Besides that, I loved the "Band of Gold" song segment, where they humorously broke down how truly depressing that uptempo song really was. Loni Love is slightly less annoying this time, but then again we're only two episodes in. Greg Fitzsimmons' lame sex jokes are beyond tiresome. I'm really glad Rich Eisen is back for this ILT70s installment.

And I agree, some of those bumpers/aside are a little irritating, like "Stunt Fu" and "Porn/Not Porn". Now I can't get Charro's "before I was a cuchi cuchi, I was a keechi keechi" out of my head...ever.

Vh1's random censoring bothers me. I remember one of the past installments where they bleeped out the word "pot" once, despite the fact that I've heard them use it many times uncensored.

I'm loving the show so far. Hollywood Squares and "Maybe you should ask David Bowie" were some of the best parts of tonight.

I didn't understand the whole skirts should be shorter thing. Were above-the-knee skirts outlawed in America for a time? Why buy the longer ones just to cut them?

Cutting of the longer skirts to short was a way of women's protest - much like bra burning. Why buy the bra just to burn it and go braless? Why buy the long skirt just to cut it short? Protest.

I liked hours 1970 and 1971. There were a couple odd bumpers - but they're kind of filler which is okay. Kind of like "Got Deux?", etc. Short is okay on them.

Some nice returns of former 70's icons in appearances and comments. That is good. Nice use of the regulars too. I'm pleased so far. Eight segments to go.

Storm Shadow - Nope, never got my purple Gremlin. My first car was a 1979 two-tone black/silver Pontiac Grand Prix with red velour interior, am radio, crank windows, 2-door. Cost me $6500. It was beautiful!! Disco fever was in full swing - no hippies. Alas.....

I could do without the Porn/Not Porn segments. It's not comfortable having tweeners walk in on that segment.

So far, I'm loving it, as I expected -- and I'm so glad to see Luis Guzman, Stuart Scott, Rich Eisen, Rachael Harris, and Hal Sparks. I could have lived without Charo's Heroes, though. Sheesh.

I just love watching these "I Love the . . ." shows with my children, squeeing and laughing, and telling them about life back in the day. Can't wait until tonight.

I liked these bumpers...the Charo thing needs to go. There has never been a time when she is not irritating.

I am liking the show so far as well. The View Master segment was funny, because I just remember thinking that toy was awesome--how many little stupid cards did I have to stick in there? And I had absolutely no idea that you could get a Special edition Levi's Gremlin with denim interior--rivets included! Hillarious!

Oh, and I must remember to thank my mom for never buying me Toughskins.

Bill Dwyer really was hurtin' during the Brian's Song segment. He looked like he was really gonna cry.

I lost it when Patrice O'Neal was going over the 5.25" floppies and putting a resume on them. I think the filming crew was cracking too.

I could do with less Jonathan Waters and Charo.

I don't know how I feel about the series so far. Some of it's been pretty funny but I hate the filler crap. "I'm Not Really A Brady" and the Charo crap and the Farrah hair and Burtstache. Enough!

Oh, man, I had Toughskins. Yikes!

That segment was misleading. Those protests were really a feminist statement against how the fashion industry keeps changing styles, thus forcing women to spend a lot of money on new clothes if they don't want to look dated. The midi-skirt just happened to be the new look the designers were trying to push down our throats in 1970. In fact, a lot of women started wearing pants at that time because they were tired of having to change their skirt lengths from year to year.

I did some Googling on the Levi's Gremlin, and I found out that they didn't really use denim for the upholstery due to fire safety regulations. It was actually nylon that looked like denim. How disappointing. I wonder if they used the leftover upholstery to make Toughskins?

I'm glad they did a segment on the Sticky Fingers album even if it was mainly to talk about the risque cover. It is by far my favorite Rolling Stones album! I know most people say their double album Exile On Main Street(1973) was the best Stones album, and I love "Tumbling Dice" and "Happy" on it, but I just think Sticky Fingers with "Brown Sugar", "Wild Horses", "Bitch", "Sway" and "Moonlight Mile" was so off the hook! Then I think of the other great rock albums that came out that year, Led Zeppelin IV(or Zoso), Who's Next, and Imagine, 1971 was an incredible.

I knew floppy disks were bigger back in the day, but not that damn big. A person's back could go out hauling a stack of those around.

I found all of the bumpers to be pretty lame. I can't even remember any of them.

Of all the bumpers, the only one I like is BR Tache. I don't know why but it cracks me up. The rest? What rest?


Did anyone else notice that to be whatever age she is, Freda Payne is still working the cleavage? That's what I took away from that segment.


Thanks for the explanation. That makes a lot more sense. I was thinking, "So now women have a problem with the fashion industry telling them what to wear? The last time I checked, that's what the industry does." It makes sense that they were tired of such drastic changes from season to season.


I so hope this show and ILT80s come out on DVD so I can watch them with my future kids. I can tell them this what your grandparents used to do/wear/say/etc... in the 70s and this is what mommy and daddy used to do/wear/say/etc... in the 80s.

Michael Ian Black is no longer funny. I love Godfrey and Loni Love. Hal Sparks and Patrice O'Neal are ok. They used to be good. And the two whited guys (one wears glasses and the other is hairy) who do their segments together are on the verge of going into MIB territory with me.

ETA: Moni Love and Loni Love are so not the same person.

I loved John Water's part about a Baltimore Barbie. Mr. Nice and I went to school there and we cracked up b/c it would be true to life.

Did anyone else notice that one part of the 1981 episode was taped at an entirely different time than the rest of the episode b/c Mo Rocca and Rachel Iforgetherlastname look so different?

LOL! I did that all the time with my Vue-Finder. That and kept slapping down the handle to hear it click. But they cheated, they used the Modern Humorist clips from "I Love Toys" on that one: the line about being a Vue Master.

Loved seeing Malibu Barbie. I had her and loved her and her little tan lines to death. Those stupid glasses though came tied to her head, I had to rip them off so that she could wear them.


I was watching and saying, "Is he..Is Bill gonna cry?" I love Bill. Bill Dwyer and Molly Culver, the unsung heros of I Love the …


There was a time a long time ago when I found the Modern Humorists funny (John Aboud and Michael Colton), but I'm over them. They aren't funny anymore. They overused them. VH-1 should've left them on Best Week Ever and that's it.

My mom inflicted many a fashion horror onto her 2 daughters but she never got us Toughskins. What did they feel like?


I think it's the chorus, at least that's what cracks me up. "That was Burt Reynolds' moustache. That was Burt Reynolds' moustache."

And I LOVED the Flip Wilson show so seeing it recognized on ILT70s made me feel all warm and fuzzy inside. As did Hal's imitation of Geraldine. Whooooo!

I'm sorry but Charo crack my shit up.
Her "cuchi, cuchi"phrase and dance is lol funny to me.
I couldn't make out what she was trying to say, because as soon as she open her mouth, I couldn't stop laughing.

Patrice is fool. Sometime's his jokes are off, but his facial expression makes up for it.

Glad to see Rachel Harris back...LOVE her humor.

The funniest part was when they showed the old Hollywood squares, and made fun of how that first openly gay actor (what was his name?)used to respond...That was very funny, and the old floppy disk...I'm 22 so I had no clue about that.

I love VH1 I Love shows. I hope they do another 90s one.

I did agree with the Modern Humorists about the wrongness of Sha Na Na being at Woodstock! I remember first seeing the movie Woodstock and seeing them come onstage and going WTF?! Why were they there?!

Really, the best part of that whole situation was the fact that no one would dare acknowledge that Paul Lynde (or Liberace, or Charles Nelson Reilly on "Match Game" or Rip Taylor on "The Gong Show") was gay. It was just very quietly swept under the rug all those years when it was completely obvious! And they were ten times as flamboyant as the Queer Eye Guys or Nathan Lane, ya know?

Molly Culver rocks! I remember as being the uptight one on VIP (shut up!) so it's always a kick to see her be so funny on this. I think my favorite bit from her was during the Wrath of Kahn segment and she wore the Spock ears. She got all sad over Spock's death and kinda stuck her finger in her Spock ears, lol.

It's time for MIB to stop doing these. He wore out his welcome a long time ago.

I used to have Malibu Barbie and Malibu PJ. Remember PJ? I sat there and meticulously scraped the tan lines off with my fingernails. They looked tacky in strapless dresses with their ridiculous tan lines. Come on. ;)

I used to love MIB too. I'm just glad to see Rich Eisen here.