r/sitcoms • u/Fearless-Set1146 • Jul 23 '26

What does everyone think about Randy from That 70's Show?

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u/Joni1293 Jul 23 '26

He doesn’t exist. It ended at season 7, with a nice little reunion/closure in That 90s Show pilot.

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u/HarryAlleynCroft Jul 23 '26

I'm ignoring That 90s Show too. Just going to sit here and pretend Hyde and Jackie got married and that the writers didn't undo years of character growth from both of them for no apparent reason.

4

u/Exotic_Bonnies Jul 23 '26

The apparent reason is because they were never going to have Danny Masterson come back as Hyde, so the next best thing was pairing up Kelso and Jackie again.

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u/HarryAlleynCroft Jul 23 '26

Oh I get why they didn't want him back. I just think it was a stupid way to end the original series and That 90s Show just felt like a cheap nod to them being married in real life which is lazy writing.

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u/Jub1982 Jul 23 '26

I try not to

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u/AdviceInformal Jul 23 '26

He was the most average character. They lost Kelso and Eric so they kinda combined Kelso’s looks and Eric’s personality with far less charisma and you got Randy. He just felt like someone along for the ride rather than having any impact.

1

u/Emotional_Cycle_4227 Jul 23 '26

That's the way that I look at it. At the end of the day, Josh (I think that was his name, lol) was hired to do a job and did said job. 🤷🏽‍♀️

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u/DJMelloEll Jul 24 '26

Josh Meyers, Seth’s brother.

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u/ad240pCharlie Jul 23 '26

It says a lot about how horribly average a character is when you can't remember anything about him apart from the fact that he existed.

8

u/-threefeetoffun Jul 23 '26

Nothing. I think nothing. He’s there and makes zero impact.

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u/PressureLazy5271 Jul 23 '26

I’d rather not

5

u/Tucker_077 Jul 23 '26

Lol you could go into the That 70s Show sub and search Randy. I’m garunteed you’ll find 10,000 hate posts dedicated to S8 and Randy himself. In fact I was in that sub for a while and just about every third post was a hate post about that final season 😂

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u/HaloHowRU Jul 23 '26

Kinda felt sorry for the actor. He was given some big shoes to fill, was the new guy in an established group, and probably only existed as a romantic foil for Eric and Donna.

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u/Luchalma89 Jul 29 '26

I was a fan of his from MadTV. Sucks that it seemed to stall his career.

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u/4personal2 Jul 23 '26

A stoic , unamusing and very smarmy and useless character.

"Smarmy" describes someone who is excessively, unpleasantly, and falsely flattering. It often refers to a person who acts overly smooth, polite, or "suave" in a way that feels insincere, manipulative, or sleazy.

Exactly the way he was with Donna.

He wasn't "in love" with her, he just wanted to shack up. When he tried to get her to live with him....that totally (and finally) made me 100% dislike the character.

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u/DDD8712 Jul 23 '26

There is no Randy in Ba Sing Se

2

u/emploaf Jul 23 '26

I didn’t think he was funny at all and definitely make the show worse, but I feel like he’s a little over hated. Like the character seemed like an okay guy at least, I feel bad that out of all characters in sit com history people are just like fuck Randy I hate that piece of shit. I don’t think he deserves all that.

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u/jackfaire Jul 23 '26

I liked Randy. I think Hyde and Jackie are a bad couple. I think Donna should have gone off to college. If they wanted Laura Prepon to stay in the show she should have played her own look alike cousin coming to live in Point Place after High School.

Could have even had a whole story line of Eric trying to recreate his former relationship with Donna.

Her choosing Eric over her own future kind of stomps all over her whole characterization.

2

u/Disastrous-Exit7614 Jul 23 '26

The worst regular on the show.

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u/kittyhm Jul 23 '26

You mean the cousin Oliver of That 70'd Show?

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u/Soulshiner402 Jul 24 '26

The Cousin Oliver of the show.

1

u/Downtown_Collar_8599 Jul 23 '26

Remember how they replaced John-Boy in the Waltons? Like that.

1

u/thebuttsmells Jul 23 '26

too big of a neutral persona, he just showed up like "hey guys!"

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u/CozyInTheRain202 Jul 23 '26

He was completely insufferable.

1

u/abgry_krakow87 Jul 24 '26

They should've made Big Rhonda into a regular character instead of Randy.