# Fez, the eternal virgin
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fez-the-eternal-virgin/156858
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [February 22, 2003, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fez-the-eternal-virgin/156858 "2003-02-22T23:39:26Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)
#### Post date: [February 22, 2003, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fez-the-eternal-virgin/156858/1 "2003-02-22T23:39:26Z")
I didn’t get to see the most recent version of **'70s Show** , but the listing said that one of the two storylines would be about Fez losing his virginity.
But isn’t this like the third time he’s done it? Seems like at least once a season, he’s in an intimate situation with a young woman and saying, “Ooo, boobies, ooo, thank you lord…” Or were all those other times Everything But, rather than full consummation?
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### Author:  [@BuckleberryFerry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BuckleberryFerry)
#### Post date: [February 22, 2003, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fez-the-eternal-virgin/156858/2 "2003-02-22T23:43:21Z")
That’s always everything but. He tends to get to “Ooo, boobies…dammit, you’re leaving.”
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### Author:  [@Dewey\_Cheatem\_Undhow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Cheatem_Undhow)
#### Post date: [February 22, 2003, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fez-the-eternal-virgin/156858/3 "2003-02-22T23:48:30Z")
This time, he really did it…by episode’s end, apparently several times.
I haven’t seen enough of the show to say whether or not there are continuity issues, but in the recent episode they defininitely make clear that Fez is a virgin, at least at the start of the ep.
Best line:[spoiler]Fez announces he’s lost his virginity.
Eric (IIRC): “This isn’t like when you named your hamster ‘Virginity’ and let it run off, is it?”
😃 [/spoiler]
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### Author:  [@Cessandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cessandra)
#### Post date: [February 22, 2003, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fez-the-eternal-virgin/156858/4 "2003-02-22T23:48:43Z")
If it was the tornado at the school dance episode…
The Vice Principal comes by and announces the danger is over just as Fez is about to get some “We could die at any minute!” action.
But I don’t know if that was a recent episode or just a rerun that I saw recently.
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### Author:  [@Cessandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cessandra)
#### Post date: [February 22, 2003, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fez-the-eternal-virgin/156858/5 "2003-02-22T23:52:04Z")
Ah, I guess it was a rerun, judging by **Dewey Cheatem Undhow’s** post.
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### Author:  [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)
#### Post date: [February 23, 2003, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fez-the-eternal-virgin/156858/6 "2003-02-23T00:04:14Z")
I see. Thank you.
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### Author:  [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)
#### Post date: [February 23, 2003, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fez-the-eternal-virgin/156858/7 "2003-02-23T00:12:28Z")
Nitpick: His name is “Fes”, which is an anagram for Foreign Exchange Student.
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### Author:  [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)
#### Post date: [February 23, 2003, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fez-the-eternal-virgin/156858/8 "2003-02-23T00:13:43Z")
ARRGH!!! Obviously not an anagram, but an acronym. Do’h.
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### Author:  [@Cessandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cessandra)
#### Post date: [February 23, 2003, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fez-the-eternal-virgin/156858/9 "2003-02-23T00:17:48Z")
Really? Not that I doubt you, Revtim, but how do you know that? Is it on their website or something? Kind of a neat factoid.
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### Author:  [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)
#### Post date: [February 23, 2003, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fez-the-eternal-virgin/156858/10 "2003-02-23T00:24:10Z")
I first learned of that when the actor who plays him was interviewed on a local radio show. I also confirmed it with the IMDB. The guy has no accent at all, it’s totally fake.
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### Author:  [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)
#### Post date: [February 23, 2003, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fez-the-eternal-virgin/156858/11 "2003-02-23T00:27:30Z")
Yes, I know that’s where the name **derives** from, but the [official site](http://www.that70sshow.com/index_cast.htm) spells it with a ‘Z’.
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### Author:  [@BuckleberryFerry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BuckleberryFerry)
#### Post date: [February 23, 2003, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fez-the-eternal-virgin/156858/12 "2003-02-23T01:09:13Z")
True, no accent, no native country, and no real character name. The one time they introduce him, a school bell rings and he mouths the names of the cast members to throw off any lipreaders.
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### Author:  [@brianmelendez](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brianmelendez)
#### Post date: [February 23, 2003, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fez-the-eternal-virgin/156858/13 "2003-02-23T01:18:11Z")
> [@](#):
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> \*Originally posted by Cessandra \*
> **Really? Not that I doubt you, Revtim, but how do you know that? Is it on their website or something?**
Yes. From the [That 70s Show website](http://www.that70sshow.com/index_faq.htm):
> [@](#):
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> **Where is Fez from? …What’s his last name?**
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> The writers have decided to keep Fez’s home country a mystery. NO ONE knows his origin. Similarly, we do not know Fez’s real name. Apparently, his real name is unpronounceable, so the guys call him Fez, short for “Foreign Exchange Student.” (The spelling is poetic license.)
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### Author:  [@BuckleberryFerry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BuckleberryFerry)
#### Post date: [February 23, 2003, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fez-the-eternal-virgin/156858/14 "2003-02-23T01:19:46Z")
Since I’m sure you’ll ask, this is the best[cite](http://www.eeggs.com/items/38288.html) I could find.
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### Author:  [@brianmelendez](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brianmelendez)
#### Post date: [February 23, 2003, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fez-the-eternal-virgin/156858/15 "2003-02-23T01:19:58Z")
> [@](#):
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> \*Originally posted by Cessandra \*
> \*\*But I don’t know if [the tornado at the school dance episode] was a recent episode or just a rerun that I saw recently. \*\*
“Tornado Prom” was from the fourth (2001-02) season. It first aired 5 February 2002.
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### Author:  [@Fern\_Forest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fern_Forest)
#### Post date: [February 23, 2003, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fez-the-eternal-virgin/156858/16 "2003-02-23T02:24:05Z")
I’ve never understood how he could NOT have lost it to those 3 very, very hot trucker chicks the guys met over the CB.
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### Author:  [@N9IWP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/N9IWP)
#### Post date: [February 23, 2003, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fez-the-eternal-virgin/156858/17 "2003-02-23T03:12:57Z")
Hmmmmm, in the FAQ, it says
Point Place is a fictional suburb of Green Bay, Wisconsin. This is why many Wisconsinites may recognize names of nearby towns such as Kenosha
Ummm, Kenosha is not particlarly near Green Bay. It is about 130 miles away in a straigth line. (between airports).
Brian
(Wisconsonite living across the river in MN)
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### Author:  [@Ferrous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferrous)
#### Post date: [February 23, 2003, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fez-the-eternal-virgin/156858/18 "2003-02-23T03:26:20Z")
> [@](#):
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> \*Originally posted by Revtim \*
> \*\*The guy has no accent at all, it’s totally fake. \*\*
I know, and in my opinion, he does it absolutely brilliantly. The accent is totally realistic and consistent, and he never drops it. That kid is a very good actor.
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### Author:  [@Fibber\_McGee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fibber_McGee)
#### Post date: [February 23, 2003, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fez-the-eternal-virgin/156858/19 "2003-02-23T03:31:03Z")
> [@](#):
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> \*Originally posted by Rilchiam \*
> \*\*I didn’t get to see the most recent version of **'70s Show** , but the listing said that one of the two storylines would be about Fez losing his virginity.
>
> But isn’t this like the third time he’s done it? Seems like at least once a season, he’s in an intimate situation with a young woman and saying, “Ooo, boobies, ooo, thank you lord…” Or were all those other times Everything But, rather than full consummation? \*\*
Nope. Bud Bundy remains the only character on television to lose his virginity multiple times.
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### Author:  [@Fern\_Forest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fern_Forest)
#### Post date: [February 23, 2003, 5:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fez-the-eternal-virgin/156858/20 "2003-02-23T05:44:54Z")
Didn’t he also end up naked in a hot tub with Melissa Joan Hart?
As for Big Rhonda she wouldn’t have sex with him because she had so much sex before and she liked Fez and didn’t want to ruin it.
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