― Mitch Lastnamewithheld, Monday, 13 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Michael Bourke, Monday, 13 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
Used to like the early seasons of Third Rock too, but thought it went downhill v. rapidly (Don character esp. irritating...)
― Andrew L, Monday, 13 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
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― Ian Johnson (orion), Wednesday, 24 December 2003 07:22 (twenty years ago) link
Classic, especially Kurtwood Smith, though I'm waiting for the episode where he goes to Miguel Ferrer's house, shoots him in the knee, and blows him up with some grenades.
― Gear! (Gear!), Wednesday, 24 December 2003 07:35 (twenty years ago) link
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― oops (Oops), Wednesday, 24 December 2003 07:55 (twenty years ago) link
OTM, love it but can't remember it exists
― TEH ONE AN ONLEY DEANN GULBAREY (deangulberry), Wednesday, 24 December 2003 08:48 (twenty years ago) link
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Catching reruns of this show reminds me of:
a) how remarkable the chemistry between the actors in the cast was, both kids and parentsb) how consistently funny the show was, even after it jumped the shark (ie, Donna dyed her hair)c) how successful many of the cast members have been since the show went off the air (obv Ashton is the big winner, but Topher, Mila, Wilmer* and Kurtwood all have had high profile projects since the show and Laura is about to be a recurring character on "How I Met Your Mother")d) how many fucked-up first names this cast had
* I recognize that a terrible MTV show is pushing it as "high profile project" but dude appears to be omnipresent regardless
― PIES! PIES! PIES! PIES! PIES! (HI DERE), Tuesday, 9 February 2010 16:22 (fourteen years ago) link
e) pretty much every episode alludes to weed smoking at some point
― am0n, Tuesday, 9 February 2010 16:59 (fourteen years ago) link
f) all episodes improved by you weed smoking at some point
― Lamp, Tuesday, 9 February 2010 17:31 (fourteen years ago) link
dope show tho iirc
fave scene was when the mom sang "Bad Blood" in the car w/ Eric
― Fusty Moralizer (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 9 February 2010 18:07 (fourteen years ago) link
is Ashton still 'the big winner'? until this month's SNL hosting gig and being one of like 80 stars in a new rom com the only things he's seemingly done in the last few years are camera commercials, post on Twitter and have candid pictures taken of him w/ his family and Bruce Willis
― some dude, Tuesday, 9 February 2010 18:10 (fourteen years ago) link
he's the only one married to Demi Moore
― PIES! PIES! PIES! PIES! PIES! (HI DERE), Tuesday, 9 February 2010 18:11 (fourteen years ago) link
(also he's done the most high-profile movies out of all of them IIRC, although Topher is catching up)
― PIES! PIES! PIES! PIES! PIES! (HI DERE), Tuesday, 9 February 2010 18:12 (fourteen years ago) link
mila kunis probably works the most consistently out of all of them but kutcher is inarguably the most famous out of all them. also i think he still produces a lot of junk for mtv et al
― Lamp, Tuesday, 9 February 2010 18:13 (fourteen years ago) link
ugh, Demi Mannequin. I prefer to envision him playing tonsil hockey with Seann William Scott.
Frankly I thought T. Grace would get some Jack Lemmonlike film parts for awhile, but not much since that mediocre Dennis Quaid thing.
― Fusty Moralizer (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 9 February 2010 18:15 (fourteen years ago) link
i dunno, 'having the most famous spouse' and 'being the most famous largely because of having the most famous spouse' don't scream big winner to me, definitely doesn't have as much career momentum to go on in the future than some of the others
― some dude, Tuesday, 9 February 2010 18:16 (fourteen years ago) link
it seems like the dude is spending most of time on his production/new media company - i mean its hard for me 2 say what his priorities are but i think being superrich and superfamous screams "big winner" to me
it is p lol that both he and topher grace are in that valentines thing
― Lamp, Tuesday, 9 February 2010 18:20 (fourteen years ago) link
re: "Valentine's Day"
Joe Jonas voices the dog of Alba's character Morley.
― PIES! PIES! PIES! PIES! PIES! (HI DERE), Tuesday, 9 February 2010 18:25 (fourteen years ago) link
and Laura is about to be a recurring boner on "How I Met Your Mother"
― WARWICK. CAPPER. (sic), Tuesday, 9 February 2010 23:37 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.cnn.com/2011/SHOWBIZ/celebrity.news.gossip/01/06/that.70s.show/index.html?hpt=T2
lisa robin kelly : /
― omar little, Thursday, 6 January 2011 18:58 (thirteen years ago) link
ayeeee that mugshot. That has tarnished my memories of her.
― Dr. (Johnny Fever), Thursday, 6 January 2011 19:01 (thirteen years ago) link
ha, it was really funny paging through all that and seeing the last one. kinda ruined her for me too
― frogbs, Thursday, 6 January 2011 20:14 (thirteen years ago) link
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― buzza, Tuesday, 3 April 2012 23:13 (twelve years ago) link
wow, she's 42 now?
― Estimate the percent chance that a whale has ever been to the moon? (frogbs), Tuesday, 3 April 2012 23:21 (twelve years ago) link
quite a mug shot
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 3 April 2012 23:27 (twelve years ago) link
Lisa Robin Kelly has died
― Uncle Cyril O'Boogie (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 15 August 2013 19:57 (ten years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/Zh9ZWTu.png
― StanM, Tuesday, 26 November 2013 03:36 (ten years ago) link
Season 1-7 classic, season 8 avoid?
the expendibros
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 26 November 2013 04:09 (ten years ago) link
Dud: trying to figure out where exactly in Wisconsin Point Place is supposed to be. For a while I had it pegged in the Port Washington/Grafton area, but then there's an episode where they drive to Canada to get beer, which is like an 8 hour drive from there. Alas, it seems to float all over the state.
Ditto with Fez's country of origin...did they ever have something specific in mind? Was it Trinidad and Tobago??
For that matter it always irritated me that Bob had such a pitch-perfect Midwestern accent - pretty much every Wisconsin lifer I know who's around that age talks like that - but none of the other characters do
― frogbs, Wednesday, 18 January 2017 13:58 (seven years ago) link
the whole point about Fez's country of origin was that they'd never reveal it to the viewers. I highly doubt they had a specific country in mind.
― Le Bateau Ivre, Wednesday, 18 January 2017 15:26 (seven years ago) link
I always thought it was one of those things where they'd never reveal it but they'd give you enough clues to figure it out by the end of the series if you were paying attention.
For some reason this all came up during lunch a week ago, when I mentioned that I remembered the show trying to replace Eric with a character named Charlie, NOT the blonde wavy haired dude Randy, and that this was very funny to me because it's one of those weird "WHO THE FUCK ARE YOU??" moments where there's just some random dude who suddenly starts hanging around the cast and getting a bunch of speaking parts. As I recall they killed him off by having him fall off the water tower and die. For some reason this was played for laughs, though maybe it was just the show lampshading how over the shark it had gotten with Topher and Ashton gone (see also Red constantly barking "Why are you people still here?" at the rest of the cast). Nobody else remembered this. Lesson learned...I read far too much into this show.
― frogbs, Wednesday, 18 January 2017 15:39 (seven years ago) link
Mila Kunis = rowr!!― AP, Tuesday, August 14, 2001 5:00 PM (fifteen years ago)To me, this kind of sums up the show's basic appeal, except that different viewers responded most to whichever one of the boffable actors best fit their fantasies. The scripts and acting were consistently mediocre.
― a little too mature to be cute (Aimless), Wednesday, 18 January 2017 18:25 (seven years ago) link
Figured there'd be an insanely detailed Wiki page and There Is!
Important bit:
Point Place is located within the fictional Greater Oshkosh Area of Wisconsin.[1] The "FAQ" on the program's official website says, "Point Place is a fictional suburb of Green Bay, Wisconsin. This is why many Wisconsinites may recognize names of towns such as Kenosha. In reality, Kenosha is more than two hours south of Green Bay, and the location of Point Place has no sensical basis in actual Wisconsin.[2] There is an episode where the gang travels "down" to Kenosha to go to a movie."[3] This seemed to be directly contradicted by concrete information given in several episodes,[4] such as the fact in one episode ("The Velvet Rope") it was possible to drive to Chicago, attend a party, and drive back in the course of a few hours; and in another Kelso explicitly states that Chicago is a two-hour drive from Point Place. Over the course of the series many local businesses and events were identified as being in or taking place in Kenosha (which is actually 155 miles from Green Bay). The name Point Place was chosen for the town because co-creator Bonnie Turner is from Toledo, Ohio where there is a section of town called Point Place.
Must be that Sinbad Genie Movie thing in effect for me, because back in the day I swear I found Point Place in the Wisconsin map in this huge coffee table atlas book my grandma had.
― "I must believe that my charm was not in my ass." (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 18 January 2017 19:14 (seven years ago) link
in other fictional wisconsin locations: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genoa_City_(The_Young_and_the_Restless)
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 18 January 2017 19:19 (seven years ago) link
My mom was from the actual Genoa City. Not the same as depicted on the show, but there was merch at the local drugstore that proclaimed "The Home of the Young and the Restless!"
― how's life, Wednesday, 18 January 2017 19:22 (seven years ago) link
http://i166.photobucket.com/albums/u120/kingkonggodzilla/genoa_zpsaxargc8d.jpg
Well, that's where the drug store used to be anyway.
― how's life, Wednesday, 18 January 2017 19:30 (seven years ago) link
This & That Shoppe! It's the spelling of Shoppe that makes all the difference.
― a little too mature to be cute (Aimless), Wednesday, 18 January 2017 19:38 (seven years ago) link
Fez was a derived from FES - Foreign Exchange Student iirc
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Wednesday, 18 January 2017 19:47 (seven years ago) link
To me, this kind of sums up the show's basic appeal, except that different viewers responded most to whichever one of the boffable actors best fit their fantasies. The scripts and acting were consistently mediocre.
― a little too mature to be cute (Aimless), Wednesday, January 18, 2017 6:25 PM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
hmm i'd disagree i think the cast was pretty consistently elevating some of the weak material and had excellent chemistry. i mean it's actually probably a pretty prime example of a vv good sitcom cast.
― nomar, Wednesday, 18 January 2017 19:50 (seven years ago) link
In one episode they talk about a modeling agency in Sheboygan, which, as a resident of Sheboygan, was rather hilarious to me
― frogbs, Wednesday, 18 January 2017 20:00 (seven years ago) link
true that the writing could be hacky sometimes but at the very least they deserve credit for not using the 70's as an easy punchline
also Red is pretty much the best sitcom dad of all-time
― frogbs, Wednesday, 18 January 2017 20:32 (seven years ago) link
I think it was specifically this show where I really started to notice how cast chemistry could make or break a show for me and started retroactively noticing it in previous faves
― (The caption: “fine dining.”) (DJP), Wednesday, 18 January 2017 20:51 (seven years ago) link
Mila Kunis was the sole reason i watched this show. the cast was pretty funny tho. the guy who plays Red was awesome in Robocop.
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 18 January 2017 22:04 (seven years ago) link
the man's name is kurtwood smith*
*i only remember this because literally no-one is called kurtwood other than this guy
― Islamic State of Mind (jim in vancouver), Wednesday, 18 January 2017 22:20 (seven years ago) link
lots of weird names in that cast - Wilmer, Ashton, Topher, Mila...
― frogbs, Wednesday, 18 January 2017 22:23 (seven years ago) link
Literally none of those names are weird.
― rb (soda), Wednesday, 18 January 2017 22:26 (seven years ago) link
weird as in, I don't know anyone personally with any of those names
― frogbs, Wednesday, 18 January 2017 22:30 (seven years ago) link
earlier posters on otm, this is probably the last really good ensemble of the three-camera era. Not exactly a great show, but every cast member was a good to very good sitcom actor.
― intheblanks, Wednesday, 18 January 2017 22:52 (seven years ago) link
did any Christophers actually call themselves "Topher" before Topher Grace?
― soref, Wednesday, 18 January 2017 22:53 (seven years ago) link
Not exactly a great show, but every cast member was a good to very good sitcom actor.
yup, sums it up nicely
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 18 January 2017 23:01 (seven years ago) link
I knew a Topher prior to the show and everybody agreed that it was a weird name.
― how's life, Wednesday, 18 January 2017 23:37 (seven years ago) link
Like, the guy was intentionally being weird by going with that nickname.
Knew a guy named Chip, which isn't that weird, but it was short for Christopher.
Chip WalkenChip ReeveChip Gaines
― pplains, Thursday, 19 January 2017 02:51 (seven years ago) link
CHIP BITCOIN
― The beaver is not the bad guy (El Tomboto), Thursday, 19 January 2017 02:53 (seven years ago) link
Bringing Christ Back Into Christopher.
― this device is capable of killing you without warning (Sanpaku), Thursday, 19 January 2017 02:56 (seven years ago) link
somehow fell into watching a few of these episodes because it's apparently the default show on IFC (?!?)
all I can say is that looking up what random cast members did post-show got weird when I was wondering why the sister, Laurie, was recast
the original actress did not fare well
on the bright side, she didn't live to be a scientologist Steve Aoki protege
― mh, Tuesday, 6 June 2017 00:51 (six years ago) link
also, calling back to the most recent posts, there was a dude at my magnet high school who went by Topher in, maybe, 1995ish? so it was a thing dudes did, but I have no idea where it originated
one of his peers was Dylan, pronounce die-lan
― mh, Tuesday, 6 June 2017 00:54 (six years ago) link
the other main thing I remember from this show was that I'd learned at some point that Wilmer Valderrama lived in Venezuela, met a coworker some years later, and nearly immediately tagged him as being from Venezuela from his accent
― mh, Tuesday, 6 June 2017 00:58 (six years ago) link
did he spit hot fi-yar?
― Who's puttin' sponge in the zings I once zung (stevie), Tuesday, 6 June 2017 09:27 (six years ago) link
the original actress for Laurie was so perfect for the part, recasting her was a dumb move. just write her out for Christ's sake
― frogbs, Tuesday, 6 June 2017 13:18 (six years ago) link
sheesh what was going on behind the scenes here
― frogbs, Sunday, 10 September 2023 14:59 (seven months ago) link
a lot of shady shit apparently
though my favourite thing from this recent drama was tangentially finding out that Topher Grace dealt with the discomfort of playing David Duke in BlacKkKlansman by making a 2-hour recut of The Hobbit trilogy (and apparently has made recuts of other trilogies like the Star Wars prequels)
― Roz, Sunday, 10 September 2023 16:20 (seven months ago) link
Interesting that a few people have come out to clarify that Topher wasn’t involved, not sure what they’re trying to imply about the rest of the cast
― frogbs, Sunday, 10 September 2023 17:53 (seven months ago) link
I've never knowingly seeing Topher Grace in anything, but I've been a fan ever since he went on The Daily Show to plug the movie Traffic and instead spent the entire time telling Jon Stewart the plot of the movie Wild Wild West, which he'd rented the night before.
https://www.cc.com/video/ugplhl/the-daily-show-with-jon-stewart-topher-grace
― Lily Dale, Sunday, 10 September 2023 19:54 (seven months ago) link