# Can't figure out why That 70's Show seems to be stuck in 1978...

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**Created:** [May 8, 2003, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cant-figure-out-why-that-70s-show-seems-to-be-stuck-in-1978/173797 "2003-05-08T00:24:39Z")\
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**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\
**Post date:** [May 13, 2003, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cant-figure-out-why-that-70s-show-seems-to-be-stuck-in-1978/173797/41 "2003-05-13T02:36:43Z")

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Yeah, with all the inflation, I can imagine a dollar wouldn’t be worth too terribly much.

Wait-the guy who played Leo is Chong from Cheech and Chong?

I didn’t know THAT!

I heard that the girl who played Laurie was fired. If so, why?

Oh, and Topher Grace is hot.

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**Author:** ![Fern\_Forest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/71c47a/32.png) [@Fern\_Forest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fern_Forest)\
**Post date:** [May 13, 2003, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cant-figure-out-why-that-70s-show-seems-to-be-stuck-in-1978/173797/42 "2003-05-13T02:56:56Z")

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From [TV Tome](http://www.tvtome.com/tvtome/servlet/EpisodeGuideSummary/showid-246/)

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> NOTE: Lisa Robin Kelly resumes the role of Laurie Forman after a two-year hiatus. Although I cannot confirm my sources, she was fired from the show midway through year three for her inability to handle a rumored drug problem.

Didn’t Midge kinda have the same problem? Or was it alcohol?

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**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\
**Post date:** [May 13, 2003, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cant-figure-out-why-that-70s-show-seems-to-be-stuck-in-1978/173797/43 "2003-05-13T04:02:17Z")

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> Lisa Robin Kelly resumes the role of Laurie Forman after a two-year hiatus. Although I cannot confirm my sources, she was fired from the show midway through year three for her inability to handle a rumored drug problem.

Gotta love the irony of getting fired, on those grounds, from a show which has a pot-smoking interlude in almost every episode.

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