Friendships
Jackie's friendships tend to be complicated. While people might be endeared to her good heart and her triumphs over major life upheavals, her habit of condescending to others keeps them at a distance.
Although she frequently criticizes Donna's dress, physique, and feminism, she repeatedly calls herself Donna's best friend. Even though she thinks Donna is boring and unattractive when compared to herself, she believes Donna could do much better than Eric. Despite their extremely different personalities, Donna serves as a Jackie's de facto big sister and often tries to look out for her when she feels Jackie is making a mistake, more often than not due to lack of common sense. After her father is sent to prison in the middle of season five, Jackie moves in with the Pinciotti's after the Forman's learn that she has secretly been living with Hyde in his basement room.
Jackie has mostly an acquaintanceship with Eric, though she has teased a close friendship several times. She once told Eric she considered him a great friend and nice guy, and he was the first person to whom she revealed her fears that she was pregnant. She also called Eric before he left for Africa saying she was sorry she couldn't say goodbye in person and that he was always special to her. For his part, Eric realizes how much he enjoys Jackie when Kelso dates Laurie, as the two of them both love to hate Eric's sister. During the course of the series, Jackie becomes an integral part of the gang and is considered a friend in her own right, as opposed to merely a friend's girlfriend.
Early on, Red remarked she was the favorite of Eric's friends for her ability to hold a flashlight on a car. Jackie has run crying into Red's arms no fewer than three times, all of which left him baffled and uncomfortable. Red finds Jackie as annoying as everyone else, but she still loves him because he's the closest thing she has to a father.
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