That 70s Show: Classic

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Well, that's where the drug store used to be anyway.

This & That Shoppe! It's the spelling of Shoppe that makes all the difference.

Ditto with Fez's country of origin...did they ever have something specific in mind? Was it Trinidad and Tobago??

Fez was a derived from FES - Foreign Exchange Student iirc

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.

In one episode they talk about a modeling agency in Sheboygan, which, as a resident of Sheboygan, was rather hilarious to me

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

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.

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

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.

the man's name is kurtwood smith*

*i only remember this because literally no-one is called kurtwood other than this guy

lots of weird names in that cast - Wilmer, Ashton, Topher, Mila...

Literally none of those names are weird.

weird as in, I don't know anyone personally with any of those names

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.

did any Christophers actually call themselves "Topher" before Topher Grace?

Not exactly a great show, but every cast member was a good to very good sitcom actor.

yup, sums it up nicely

I knew a Topher prior to the show and everybody agreed that it was a weird name.

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 Walken
Chip Reeve
Chip Gaines

CHIP BITCOIN

Bringing Christ Back Into Christopher.

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

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

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

one of his peers was Dylan, pronounce die-lan

did he spit hot fi-yar?

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

sheesh what was going on behind the scenes here

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)

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

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