Funky 70s

Break out the lava lamps, we’re getting groovy this month with a trip back in time to the funky 70s!

For this month's challenge, select a prompt or prompts from the '70s-themed lists below. You can use any aspect of the prompt you want - we encourage creative interpretation of the prompts. Want to dig up a particular episode of a show from the TV list and use that? A favorite book cover for one of the titles on the literature list? A line from the theme song from one of the movies on the Movies list? Go wild, moon child! (Of course, tamer interpretations of the prompts are acceptable too.)

Thank you to Grundy for this month's lovely banner and stamps!

This challenge opened in June 2024 .

Prompts

Choose your prompt from the collection below.

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Jump to prompts featuring Architecture and Style (buildings, color palettes, and decor) | Fashion | Food and Drink | Fun and Games | Headlines | Literature | Movies | Music | Quotes | Science, Tech, and Discoveries | Television

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Architecture and Style

Buildings

Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
Photo by Jorge Láscar

Citicorp Center, New York
Photo by Wally Gobetz

CN Tower, Toronto

John Hancock Tower, Boston
Photo by Paul-W

National Assembly Building, Dhaka
Photo by Naquib Hossain

Color palettes

#75c8ae #5a3d2b #ffecb4 #e5771e #f4a127

#fad3c4 #903d15 #bca519 #f74b01 #fdaa0c

#68c7c1 #faca78 #f67e5c #dc5341 #794a3a

#e99427 #3c3d15 #c69014 #848a0e #dae2d3

Decor

• Arcology
• Breeze block
• Geodesic Domes
• Macrame
• Shag carpet
• Sunken living room
• Lava lamps
• Waterbeds
• Wood paneling

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Fashion

• Afro
• Bell bottoms
• The Big Look
• Corduroy
• Denim jackets
• Farrah Fawcett hair
• Hot pants
• Jumpsuits
• Leisure suits
• Miniskirts
• Mohawks
• Platform shoes
• Roller skates
• Sideburns
• T-shirts
• Tube tops

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Food and Drink

• Ambrosia salad
• Banoffee pie
• Beef Stroganoff
• Black Forest cake
• Blue Hawaiian
• Cheese balls
• Chex mix
• Chicken Kiev
• Chili dogs
• Deviled eggs
• Fondue
• Green bean casserole
• Hamburger Helper
• Jello salad
• Mini meatballs
• Piña Colada
• Quiche Lorraine
• Salisbury Steak
• Sloe gin fizz
• Tab
• Tater Tots
• TV dinners
• Tang
• Tequila sunrise
• White Russian

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Fun and Games

• Boggle
• Connect 4
• Disco
• Dungeons & Dragons
• Galaxian
• Guess Who?
• Hungry Hungry Hippos
• Mood rings
• Perfection
• Pet rocks
• Punk rock
• Masterpiece
• Pong
• Roller rinks/roller disco
• Rubik’s cube
• Space Invaders
• String art

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Headlines

• "4 Ohio Students Slain as Troops Open Fire" (The Miami Herald, April 4, 1970)
• "Paul Is Quitting the Beatles" (Daily Mirror, April 10, 1970)
• "Apollo 13 Lands! Astronauts Safe" (Fort Lauderdale News, April 17, 1970)
• "End War Now, Throng Demands" (The Washington Post, April 25, 1971)
• "The Making of a Terrorist" (United Press; September 14, 1970; 1971 Pulitzer Prize winner)
• "It's Peace" (The News, January 24, 1973)
• "'Hobbit' Author Tolkien Is Dead" (United Press; September 3, 1973)
• "Psychiatrists rule homosexuality no longer 'deviate'" (United Press; December 16, 1973)
• "Rock-a-Bye Punk" (The Guardian, July 16, 1977)
• "The king is dead - and his subjects mourn" (United Press; August 17, 1977)
• "Video games just a passing fad, top toy company executive says" (United Press, December 7, 1977)
• "CIA mind-control project included assassin-making" (United Press, January 7, 1979)
• "Is Disco Music Harmful to Your Health?" (Jet, July 5, 1979)

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Literature

All the President’s Men by Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward

Amadeus by Peter Shaffer

Are You There, God? It’s Me, Margaret by Judy Blume

A Bend in the River by V.S. Naipaul

Betrayal by Harold Pinter

The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison

The Book of Laughter and Forgetting by Milan Kundera

Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

Carrie by Stephen King

Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs by Judi Barrett and Ron Barrett

Curtain by Agatha Christie

Day of the Jackal by Frederick Forsyth

The Executioner’s Song by Norman Mailer

Eye of the Needle by Ken Follett

Fantastic Mr. Fox by Roald Dahl

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson

Gravity’s Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon

The Gulag Archipelago by Alexander Solzhenitsyn

The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy by Douglas Adams

Interview With The Vampire by Anne Rice

In the Night Kitchen by Maurice Sendak

The Joy of Sex: A Gourmet Guide to Love Making by Alex Comfort

Kindred by Octavia E. Butler

The Lorax by Dr. Suess

Ragtime by E.L. Doctorow

Love Story by Erich Segal

Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor

Roots: The Saga of an American Family by Alex Haley

The Shining by Stephen King

Shogun by James Clavell

The Silmarillion by J.R.R. Tolkien

Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison

Sophie’s Choice by William Styron

The Stepford Wives by Ira Levin

The Sword of Shannara by Terry Brooks

Watership Down by Richard Adams

The World According to Garp by John Irving

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Movies

Alien

Amarcord

Apocalypse Now

Blazing Saddles

Chinatown

The Years of Fire

Close Encounters of the Third Kind

Cries and Whispers

Day for Night

Dersu Uzala

Enter the Dragon

The Exorcist

Get Carter

The Godfather

Halloween

Jaws

Harold and Maude

Monty Python and the Holy Grail

Rocky

Rocky Horror Picture Show

Saturday Night Fever

Sholay

Star Wars

A Touch of Zen

Touki Bouki

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Music

• "Ain’t No Mountain High Enough" by Diana Ross (lyrics | video)
• "All The Young Dudes" by Mott the Hoople (lyrics | video)
• "American Pie" by Don McLean (lyrics | video)
• "Anarchy in the UK" by Sex Pistols (lyrics | video)
• "Aqualung" by Jethro Tull (lyrics | video)
• "Blinded By The Light" by Manfred Mann’s Earth Band (lyrics | video)
• "Bohemian Rhapsody" by Queen (lyrics | video)
• "Cat’s In the Cradle" by Harry Chapin (lyrics | video)
• "Coal Miner’s Daughter" by Loretta Lynn (lyrics | video)
• "Dancing Queen" by ABBA (lyrics | video)
• "Dark Side of the Moon" by Pink Floyd (lyrics | video)
• "December 1963 (What A Night)" by The Four Seasons (lyrics | video)
• "Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap" by AC/DC (lyrics | video)
• "(Don’t Fear) The Reaper" by Blue Öyster Cult (lyrics | video)
• "Don’t Go Breaking My Heart" by Elton John with Kiki Dee (lyrics | video)
• "Go Your Own Way" by Fleetwood Mac (lyrics | video)
• "Heart of Glass" by Blondie (lyrics | video)
• "Heroes" by David Bowie (lyrics | video)
• "Hotel California" by The Eagles (lyrics | video)
• "If You Want Me To Stay" by Sly & The Family Stone (lyrics | video)
• "I’ll Be There" by The Jackson 5 (lyrics | video)
• "Imagine" by John Lennon (lyrics | video)
• "I’m Every Woman" by Chaka Khan (lyrics | video)
• "Jolene" by Dolly Parton (lyrics | video)
• "Joy To The World" by Three Dog Night (lyrics | video)
• "Just What I Needed" by The Cars (lyrics | video)
• "Killing Me Softly With His Song" by Roberta Flack (lyrics | video)
• "Ladies Night" by Kool and the Gang (lyrics | video)
• "Lady Marmalade" by Labelle (lyrics | video)
• "La Grange" by ZZ Top (lyrics | video)
• "Let The Good Times Roll" by B.B. King (lyrics | video)
• "Let’s Get It On" by Marvin Gaye (lyrics | video)
• "The Long Goodbye" by John Williams (lyrics | video)
• "Love Will Keep Us Together" by Captain & Tenille (lyrics | video)
• "Midnight Train to Georgia" by Gladys Knight & the Pips (lyrics | video)
• "My Love" by Paul McCartney and Wings (lyrics | video)
• "Nobody Does It Better" by Carly Simon (lyrics | video)
• "No Woman No Cry" by Bob Marley & The Wailers (lyrics | video)
• "Now That We Found Love" by The OJays (lyrics | video)
• "Papa Was A Rollin’ Stone" by The Temptations (lyrics | video)
• "Rapper's Delight, The Sugarhill Gang (lyrics | video)
• "Rock and Roll All Nite" by KISS (lyrics | lyrics | video)
• "Stairway to Heaven" by Led Zeppelin (lyrics | video)
• "Stayin’ Alive" by The Bee Gees (lyrics | video)
• "Sweet Emotion" by Aerosmith (lyrics | video)
• "Symphony No. 1" by Peter Maxwell Davies (video)
• "Theme from Love Story" by Henry Mancini (video)
• "Three Times a Lady" by The Commodores (lyrics | video)
• "Video Killed The Radio Star" by The Buggles (lyrics | video)
• "Wheel In The Sky" by Journey (lyrics | video)
• "Who Are You?" by The Who (lyrics | video)
• "Who Do You Love" by George Thorogood & The Destroyers (lyrics | video)
• "Wild World" by Cat Stevens (later Yusuf Islam) (lyrics | video)
• "Wonderful Tonight" by Eric Clapton (lyrics | video)
• "You Are The Sunshine of My Life" by Stevie Wonder (lyrics | video)
• "You’re So Vain" by Carly Simon (lyrics | video)

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Quotes

"I am not a crook."
~ U.S. President Richard Nixon

"War is over!
If you want it."
~ John Lennon and Yoko Ono

"The force will be with you. Always."
~ Obi-Wan Kenobi, Star Wars

"I love the smell of napalm in the morning."
~ Apocalypse Now, directed by Francis Ford Coppola

"Okay, Houston, we've had a problem here."
~ Jack Swigert, Apollo 13 crew

"If we are not our brother’s keeper, at least let us not be his executioner."
~ Marlon Brando

"If a bullet should enter my brain, let that bullet destroy every closet door in the country."
~ Harvey Milk

"You blasted kids—why didn't you mind your own business?"
~ Scooby Doo, Where Are You?

"Won't you be my neighbor?"
~ Mr. Roger's Neighborhood

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Science, Tech, and Discoveries

• ARPAnet
• ATM
• The Blue Marble
• Carbon nanotubes
• Commercial barcode scanners
• Digital camera
• Digital watch
• E-mail
• E-book
• Endangered Species Act
• Eradication of smallpox
• First complete genome sequenced
• First leap second in UTC
• Fractals
• Gaia hypothesis
• Handheld calculator
• Home video game console
• Hydrothermal vents
• IVF
• Lucy
• NOAA
• Solar system exploration
• Songs of the Humpback Whale
• Sports bra
• Microwave oven
• Personal computers
• Post-it Notes
• Rediscovery of Terracotta Army
• Rediscovery of the Great Pyramid of Tenochtitlan
• VCR
• Walkman

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Television

• All In The Family
• Are You Being Served?
• The Brady Bunch
• Charlie’s Angels
• Columbo
• Last of the Summer Wine
• M*A*S*H
• Maya the Honey Bee
• Monty Python’s Flying Circus
• The Muppet Show
• Sanford & Son
• Saturday Night Live
• Die Sendung mit der Maus
• Sesame Street
• SOAP
• The Sweeney
• Upstairs, Downstairs
• Tatort
• The Wombles
• Wonder Woman