That 70s Show: Classic

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