That ’70s Show: Why Jackie Didn’t Join The Circle Until Season 2
The gang in That ‘70s Show often joined in The Circle to let off steam and open their minds, but Jackie Burkhart didn’t join in on the gag until the very end of season 2. Perhaps the most memorable aspect of That ‘70s Show’s eight-season sitcom is The Circle, the nickname for when the teenage (and, sometimes, adult) characters sit around a circle and smoke marijuana. The series never actively showed the characters smoking weed and would rarely ever refer to it as such, with “The Circle” being a clever way to pass network censorship and include a significant activity associated with 1970s youth counterculture.
Beginning in That ‘70s Show’s pilot, about half of the episodes in each season would feature the gang sitting down in The Circle, with every main character having joined in on at least one session. That ‘70s Show seasons 1 and 2 almost exclusively depicted Hyde, Eric, Kelso, and Fez smoking in The Circle, with Donna first being depicted doing so at the very end of season 1. As such, every member of the gang had been in The Circle by the season 1 finale besides Jackie, who wouldn’t be seen smoking with the other characters until season 2, episode 25, “Cat Fight Club.”
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While Jackie being the last of That ‘70s Show’s teens to join in on The Circle wasn’t surprising, it was peculiar that it took until the very end of season 2 – when she had already been established as a member of the gang – for her to finally partake in their favorite pastime. In the season 2 episode when Jackie finally enters The Circle, she had recently broken up with Kelso and was trying to learn to be “Zen” from Hyde, which included rounding out her training with a smoke
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