For a show that focused on a group of teens in Wisconsin, you would think that not much would happen, right?
Wrong!
That '70s Show was full of so many crazy moments both on-screen and off. This includes actors being replaced, people lying about their age, and so much more.
Here are 10+ behind-the-scenes secrets about That '70s Show.
Mila was only 14 when she auditioned for the role of 18-year-old Jackie Burkhart.
In 2012, she told Jay Leno on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno all about her crafty fib" "Legally I was 14, but I told them I was a little bit older..."
When the producers found out Mila's real age, it was too late. She was far too perfect for the part!
We just feel a bit bad for Ashton since kissing someone so young must have been weird...
The actor who played the loveable Leo Chingkwake disappeared in Season 5 to serve nine months of jail time.
As it turns out, his company, Nice Dreams, was selling marijuana paraphernalia. So not groovy, baby.
This story is made even more adorable by the fact that the pair are now married with kids!
“My first real kiss ever was with him on the show," she told W Magazine in 2014.
She continued:
"We can honestly say that we went to prom together! Although I do think that in that episode I went home with someone else. We don’t talk about that part.”
This iconic moment happened between Topher Grace (Eric) and Joseph Gordon-Levitt (Buddy).
This happened in Season 1 when Buddy, a friend of Eric's, let it be known that he wanted something more with him.
Eric, however, didn't feel the same about Buddy and he let him know that.
Soon after, Buddy disappeared from the show after just one episode.
This happened a few times during the series due to the original actress, Lisa Robin Kelly, struggling with alcohol abuse.
This caused her to first leave the show in 2003, only to return in Season 5 and then leave again.
This was all for his popular MTV show, Punk'd where he pranked close friends and fellow celebrities.
Of his That '70s Show cast, he pranked Mila Kunis, Laura Prepon, Danny Masterson, and Wilmer Valderrama.
Executive producer Tom Werner once explained how the title of That '70s Show eventually came to be:
"Teenage Wasteland was our tentative title. It was on the first draft, but we couldn't get the rights to it from The Who. So we went back to the drawing board and came up with 30 titles."
"Finally, [co-creator] Bonnie Turner says, 'You know, why don't we just call it That '70s Show? Because that's what everyone is going to end up calling it anyway. No matter what we come up with...' We all looked at her and said, 'You're right.' It was inspired."
The Last Man on Earth actor was scared of losing the stability he had on That '70s Show.
He told Indie Wire: “I knew that being on ‘SNL’ was ultimately my biggest dream, so there was some weird part of me that thought, ‘Oh, if I do it and then fail, then I’ve destroyed my dream and if I don’t do it, then somehow the dream is still out there,’ which is kinda crazy. So I turned it down.”
It's a good thing he did, since he went on to make people laugh on the show for eight years.
This led to his iconic skits, such as "MacGruber" and "The Falconer.
He had only worked as a model. This caused the actor to worry a lot about his performance.
"The first five episodes of That '70s Show, I was convinced I was going to be fired, because I was terrible," Kutcher told Rolling Stone.
A lot of these rumors stemmed from the actor not doing much socializing with the cast after-hours.
"I was, of that cast, the most boring. So when it came to going out after the show and partying, I just was boring," he told The Hollywood Reporter in 2018.
The Who wasn't the only band the producers were obsessed with.
In Season 3, Gene Simmons from Kiss made a cameo. Then, later seasons had band-themed episode titles. For example, Season 8 was all about the band Queen.
"I did not write any of those jokes, but when I first auditioned for the role and from then on, I always had my stepdad in mind..." the actor told AV Club in 2014.
He continued:
"For it to go on that long, eight years, and to have a character that meant as much to me as he did personally… well, that was special."
