# Cast changes on '70s Show **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 7, 2004, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cast-changes-on-70s-show/223215 "2004-01-07T15:11:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2004, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cast-changes-on-70s-show/223215/1 "2004-01-07T15:11:24Z")
Does anyone have the straight dope on the reasons for the cast changes on the '70s Show? I know why Tommy Chong is gone – he’s in prison. But why the departure of Tanya Roberts as Donna’s mother and Lisa Robin Kelly as Eric’s older sister? They were hilarious in those parts … And Kelly’s replacement, Christina Moore, is just awful … ---
**Author:** ![Harborwolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@Harborwolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harborwolf)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2004, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cast-changes-on-70s-show/223215/2 "2004-01-07T15:30:09Z")
Tonya Roberts is rumored to have left because of drug problems. As for Lisa Robin Kelly, I have no idea. You’re right though. She is terrible. One facial expression is all she has, and she kinda looks like Michael Jackson. ---
**Author:** ![Chastain86](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Chastain86](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chastain86)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2004, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cast-changes-on-70s-show/223215/3 "2004-01-07T16:14:04Z")
The same rumor holds true of Lisa Robin Kelly, if online buzz can be believed. Drugs and alcohol, combined with a tendency to not show up and/or be late to filming, may have doomed her gig. I will refer to this condition as “Doyle from ‘Angel’ Syndrome.” ---
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2004, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cast-changes-on-70s-show/223215/4 "2004-01-07T16:15:07Z")
Wow, I heard the same thing about Angel’s Charisma Carpenter. ---
**Author:** ![hroeder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9adbd/32.png) [@hroeder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hroeder)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2004, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cast-changes-on-70s-show/223215/5 "2004-01-07T17:11:17Z")
Charisma Carpenter had a child and can be seen as a periodic character on MissMatch. ---
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2004, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cast-changes-on-70s-show/223215/6 "2004-01-07T17:23:14Z")
That may be, but I was told that the reason her role was shrunk and then eliminated on “Angel” was because of substance abuse and unprofessional behaviour, not because of her pregnancy. ---
**Author:** ![Walloon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/fbc32d/32.png) [@Walloon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walloon)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2004, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cast-changes-on-70s-show/223215/7 "2004-01-07T17:29:14Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Chastain86 \* > **I will refer to this condition as "Doyle from ‘Angel’ Syndrome."** David Doyle from _Charlie’s Angels_??? I had no idea! 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Mal\_Adroit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/df788c/32.png) [@Mal\_Adroit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mal_Adroit)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2004, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cast-changes-on-70s-show/223215/8 "2004-01-07T17:30:57Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Harborwolf \* > \*\*You’re right though. (Christina Moore) is terrible. \*\* Hotter than Lisa Robin Kelly, though. ---
**Author:** ![PigArcher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/bcef8e/32.png) [@PigArcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PigArcher)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2004, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cast-changes-on-70s-show/223215/9 "2004-01-07T19:25:15Z")
They should write Donna out of the show, so that Laura Prepon can work on her movie career or go to a show that doesn’t suck. Either that or cancel the trainwreck that this once-funny show has become. Any good ideas on how to end the show? The kids all die when Eric wrecks the Vista Cruiser, Red & Kitty retire to Florida in the new “Red & Kitty Show.” ---
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2004, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cast-changes-on-70s-show/223215/10 "2004-01-07T19:42:23Z")
But (prior to Moore’s joining the cast) Laura Prepon, while extremely hot, is the worst, most wooden performer on the show. Her future as an actor is not promising. ---
**Author:** ![Mal\_Adroit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/df788c/32.png) [@Mal\_Adroit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mal_Adroit)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2004, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cast-changes-on-70s-show/223215/11 "2004-01-07T19:50:16Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Max\_Castle \* > \*\*They should write Donna out of the show, so that Laura Prepon can work on her movie career or go to a show that doesn’t suck. \*\* Work on her movie career? None of them are what you’d call Julliard caliber, but I’d hardly call Laura Prepon, likable as she is, an impressive actress. At least you can tell that the girl playing Jackie _is_ acting. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2004, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cast-changes-on-70s-show/223215/12 "2004-01-07T20:31:42Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Walloon \* > \*\*David Doyle from _Charlie’s Angels_??? I had no idea! 😉 \*\* But of course! Why do you think he talked the way he did? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![dr\_hermes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/dfb087/32.png) [@dr\_hermes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dr_hermes)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2004, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cast-changes-on-70s-show/223215/13 "2004-01-08T00:53:21Z")
Anyone else think Red is actually Donna`s father? His name, implying his hair was red when he had some…her hair color, like neither of her parents… ---
**Author:** ![Baldwin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baldwin/32/7264_2.png) [@Baldwin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baldwin)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2004, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cast-changes-on-70s-show/223215/14 "2004-01-08T01:01:18Z")
Is that show still on? Shouldn’t it be about 1982 by now? The show was funny as hell the first season, but just seemed to get stale after that. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2004, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cast-changes-on-70s-show/223215/15 "2004-01-08T01:47:36Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Max\_Castle \* > \*\*…Red & Kitty retire to Florida in the new “Red & Kitty Show.” \*\* Then Red remembers what a badass he was in _Robocop_ and that _Star Trek: Voyager_ 2-parter, goes nuts and kills Kitty. ---
**Author:** ![BraheSilver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ecccb3/32.png) [@BraheSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BraheSilver)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2004, 5:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cast-changes-on-70s-show/223215/16 "2004-01-08T05:39:34Z")
Easy. Eric moves to Detroit, and in thirty-five years looks exactly like his father. His intelligence but lack of motivation lead him to a life of crime, and he leads a bunch of hoodlums in a gang that eventually shoots and “kills” one Officer Murphy. The rest is cinema history. ---
**Author:** ![Odinoneeye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/97f17d/32.png) [@Odinoneeye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odinoneeye)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2004, 9:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cast-changes-on-70s-show/223215/17 "2004-01-08T09:00:11Z")
They should end it by having Fes revealed as a criminal mastermind who then exterminates the rest of the cast when they find out his secret before going on to global domination. GO FES!