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Time is on My Side

‘Time is on My Side’

Season 7, Episode 1 -  Aired September 8, 2004

As Red forces Eric to explain what his plan for the future is after his aborted wedding, Donna gives herself a makeover. Meanwhile, Bob must choose between Midge and Pamela (Brooke Shields).

Quote from Kelso

Eric: Okay. Well, if you threw the ring from up here, I mean, it's gotta be around here somewhere.
Kelso: All right. Excuse me. I am a police officer in training, so we're gonna do this by the book.
Jackie: What book? You didn't read any book.
Kelso: No, but I was assigned one. Killed four bees with it. All right, what we're gonna do is we're gonna recreate the scene. Donna, Eric has just let you down in a big way. You're up on this tower. You've had a few beers, so you're starting to feel a little loose, and very, very vulnerable.
Donna: Okay, sounds about right.
Kelso: Okay. Do you wanna make out?
Donna: Kelso, I thought you were recreating the scene.
Kelso: I'm taking the scene in a new direction.

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Quote from Kelso

Eric: Okay. Okay, let's just get to the part where she threw the ring.
Kelso: Okay. So, what we're gonna do here is we're gonna throw an M&M into the woods in place of the ring. Wherever it lands, we'll search there first.
Hyde: Fez, give him the M&Ms, man.
Fez: Yeah, about that... Whose dumb idea it was to let me hold the M&Ms?
Kelso: All right. Instead of the candy, we will throw my keys into the woods. [throws keys] Oh, crap. I just threw my keys into the woods!
Jackie: Sure did.
Kelso: Why didn't somebody say something?
Hyde: So that you'd throw your keys into the woods.
Kelso: Oh, wait. That's a good burn.
Hyde: I had very little to do with it.

Quote from Eric

Kelso: All right. Did anybody find anything?
Eric: I found a pair of my sister's panties. I knew they were hers because they had her name and phone number in them.
Hyde: Girl's gotta advertise.

Quote from Jackie

Jackie: Okay, look, I don't wanna start anything, but had you bought Donna a decent-sized diamond, we would have found it by now.
Hyde: The ring was pretty small, man. Whenever I saw it, I thought Donna was really far away. She was standing right next to me.
Kelso: Yeah, when I first saw it, I said, "Donna, there's dust on your ring." Then I realized that was the ring.
Fez: Guys, guys, stop. You don't find it soon, a mosquito's going to eat it. [all except Eric laugh]
Donna: Okay, I love the ring. It was petite, not showy.
Eric: Thank you.
Jackie: Well, you know, Donna has a thing for miniatures.
Eric: Okay, you guys, enough about the ring. Obviously, it was enough for me to pay for my year off. And according to Esquire, sweater vests are in. [falls] Whoa! Jackie, help!
Jackie: Oh, get away! You touched Peetos! [Eric falls to the ground] He touched Peetos!

Quote from Eric

Eric: Okay. I'm here to earn my dinner. What am I doing about Donna? We're hanging out. What am I doing about my job? I quit. What am I doing about my future? Nothing. When am I moving out? Make me.

Quote from Bob

Kitty: So, does this mean you two are back together?
Bob: Well, we've been talking things over and we're pretty close to working things out.
Pamela: [enters] What is going on here?
Bob: Pam!
Midge: Back off! He's mine!
Pamela: That is not what you said to me in bed last night.
Midge: Well, you should have heard what he said to me last night in the hot tub.
Pamela: You told me that you got up to get an ice cream cone.
Bob: I don't know why you're upset, I wasn't gone that long.

Quote from Eric

Kelso: All right! Eric traded in Donna for a hot blonde! Oh, crap! She looks exactly like Donna!
Hyde: That is Donna, you ding-dong. Only now, she lets Forman do that thing he's been trying.
Donna: Eric!
Eric: Hyde... I said, "Maybe."

Quote from Eric

Hyde: Forman? Your whole year-off plan? It's lazy, it's selfish, and it's gonna piss a lot of people off. So, nice job.
Eric: Thank you.
Hyde: What are you gonna do for cash, man? I mean, you know, rich kids, they have a trust fund. All's you've got is some poorly assembled model airplanes.
Kelso: I melted those.
Eric: I guess if I have to work, it's not a year off, so... Maybe I can sell something. Guys, what do I have that's worth any money? Oh, Donna! I can sell your engagement ring!
Fez: She is going to kill him.
Kelso: Fez, get out of the swing zone.
Hyde: I got ten bucks on the girl. And I mean Donna.

Quote from Donna

Donna: Actually, I have no problem with you selling it.
Eric: Donna, you are so amazing. I swear, if I had created you in a laboratory, you could not say more perfect things.
Kelso: Yeah, but then she'd have those bolts coming out of her neck.
Donna: Well, the only problem is, I don't have the ring.
Eric: What?
Donna: Well, when I was mad at you for blowing off the wedding, I threw it off the water tower.
Eric: Donna, that ring is a symbol of our eternal love for each other.
Hyde: You were gonna sell it to finance a year of napping and boozing.
Eric: Yeah, that's true. So... Who's wrong here?
Hyde: I think there's a little something wrong with all of us.

Quote from Fez

Eric: You guys, I'm starving, okay? I haven't eaten all day.
Fez: Here.
Eric: Oh! Oh, thanks, Fez. [eats] Yeah, good Cheetos.
Fez: Really? 'Cause I found them in the woods, and they were damp. Like something peed on them.
Kelso: Awesome! Eric ate Peetos!

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