Fez (That '70s Show)

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Fez
That '70s Show character
First appearance	That '70s Pilot
Last appearance	That '70s Finale
Cause/reason	Series ended.
Created by	Mark Brazill
Portrayed by	Wilmer Valderrama
Episode count	200
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Nickname(s)	The Foreign Kid, The Foreigner, Boy With The Accent, Kid From Not America, Cocoa Puff, Ali Baba, Hadji, Pele, Tarzan, Sabu, Anwar, Tonto, Tutankhamun, Deshocolate Milk and Captain Poo-face, KunChuckDad, Forwonder, the Killer, Dumb Ass, Dumber Ass, Leather Fool, No Good in Leather, Bud-Not Buddy, Cheeze Eater, Kere-Re-En-Te-Un-Ti-Ou-Mui-Tisu, Miss Dress Girl, Virgin, The Virgin, Never-Had-Sex, Surprising-Ly-Had-Sex, Horny Boy, Chief No Sex, Nerd Boy, Corn Boy, Candy Boy, Nerd Hair, Booboo Boy, Ball and Chain hero, Fez(as in Fez), Cun-Tu-Ec-Ton-Ugun-ouri-Tani-Riptu-Ze-ro-Lick-Man, FeZ, Number 2000, Wonder Virgin, Duck Dude, the Stabber, Kill-a-Dude, Ball-Chain, Jickole, Wikieikiwow, Fez Forman, Candy Ass, Ass, Dumbest Ass, Grit Ass, Milk Maid, Kelso Lover, Horny Dude, Hornito, Master of 2 hairs, Next-To-Jail, Water Boy, Finale Twelve-Years, Broken Ball n' Chain, Taco Dude, Herbert.
Aliases	Red Foreman
Gender	Male
Age	16-20
Date of birth	c. 1960 August 4
Occupation	Toker, Student, PhotoHut employee, shampoo boy, DMV worker
Family	Unnamed father Unnamed mother Unnamed sister
Spouse(s)	Laurie Forman (ex-wife)[citation needed]

Fez,^[1][2] portrayed by Wilmer Valderrama,^[3] is one of the seven main fictional characters from the television series That '70s Show. He was the foreign exchange student in the gang of seven local teenagers.

The name "Fes" is short for "foreign exchange student," (all subsequent referrals to Valderrama's character will be spelled Fez)^[4] despite the difference in spelling, which the series' official web site describes as "poetic license".^[5] His friends know Fez's true name but consider it unpronounceable. Red usually calls him "the foreign kid," or refers to him with a random foreign name, e.g. Hadji, Anwar, Sabu, Ali Baba, Pelé, Ahmad, Stalin, Tutankhamun etc. but can only call him Fez when he is drunk. in the episode "Red's last day" Red went to a bar with some former employees Eric, Hyde and Fez found Red and Red said "Hay the gang's all here how you do'en Fez" Fez astounded by this said "Oh my god he knows my name" . In the episode "Sunday, Bloody Sunday", Eric's grandmother calls him "Desi." Kitty also called him "Young Man With An Accent". Red once called him Tarzan, which Fez objected to because "Tarzan is a white guy!"

A flashback episode shows when Fez first meets the others. They rescue him from a janitor's closet where several bullies had hung him on a coat hook. The bullies had asked him if he wanted to hang out, he tells the gang he "shouldn't have said yes." Moments later he states his real name, which is drowned out by a long, ringing school bell. Hyde says "Ok, I'm not gonna remember that" in which Kelso replies "I know! We'll call him Captain Poo-face." What Valderrama was actually saying was the first names of the main actors who appear in the show. The only known fact about his name is, as he states in the episode "Killer Queen", the first five K's of his last name are silent. However, in the pilot episode, the gang wasn't as good as friends with him as they were throughout the series. He already knew Eric, Hyde, Kelso and Donna but he had just met Jackie (his future girl friend) for the first time. He once talked about how he would study in America so he could become a dictator in his homeland "The beautiful island of ..." he couldn't finish because he was cut off.

The reason that Fez's name and country of origin are never mentioned throughout the course of the series is that the creators could never decide on his origins, and eventually decided to leave it a secret. In an interview, Wilmer said he created an accent so no one would know what country he is from. Many theories about Fez's homeland have been produced by fans of the show, but since there is no answer that the creators can provide, it will not be known if these are true. In multiple episodes, he tells the rest of the group his home country is an island, and that only the English and the Dutch know where it is. These two countries will never tell, however, because the English hate the island and "no one understands what the Dutch say", once said by Fez. when he did an interview in Fatso Burger to get a job, he said that his special talent is that he can speak Dutch

He often views Playboy and eats lots of candy. Where in one episode he bought a heart filled with chocolate inside of it for his Valentine's date but eats it all throughout the day before his date arrives. His date was Big Rhonda who he met up with in a previous attempt to get Hyde a girl. In that episode Fez states "I like them big, I like them small, I like them all." In one episode when he thought he was getting deported back to his home land he states that he is going to spend his last American money on candy and porno (he says it with an accent). Fez is the perverted one in the group and joins the guys in the circle/360 in the very first episode.

Contents 1 Fez's relationship with Jackie 2 Fez's interests and other relationships 3 Host parents 4 Personality 5 References 6 External links

[edit] Fez's relationship with Jackie

In the first half of the series, Fez painfully longed for Jackie, worshiping her like a queen. Jackie either failed to realize her love for him or didn't act upon it because he was foreign, and therefore way below her standards. They did share a kiss in one episode when he mistakenly thought Jackie was opening up to him. Jackie began to return the kiss, for she was most likely expecting one from Kelso, her boyfriend, before pulling away and noticing it was Fez, Kelso promptly responded by punching him in the face. They shared another kiss when pretending to be dating to help Jackie keep her job. Jackie revealed to Donna that she thought he was a good kisser. Jackie has shown a small interest in Fez including the time when he wowed her with his dancing moves at a disco and when he helped her win at a roller disco contest. Jackie became inebriated to celebrate her win and hit on Fez. After battling with his light and dark side (shown as two shrunken Fezes on each of his shoulders dressed as Batman and The Riddler,) he decided to be a gentleman and not take advantage of her. The two did go on a "garden date" when Jackie broke up with Kelso, but Fez was let down when he realized that Jackie had not yet gotten over Kelso. He was also disgusted that she was gorging herself with food and constantly asking about Kelso. At the end of the episode when she got back with Kelso she agreed with Fez about becoming friends and that they should kiss on it. Jackie was about to kiss Fez on the cheek but he moved away and kissed her on the lips again, making Kelso chase after him.

Fez's last real attempt to win Jackie over was in the episode "Ice Shack". Fez carefully planned for Kelso to look bad in front of Jackie so that she would realize that he was the man for her. However, his plan backfired and Jackie easily chose Kelso over him. This caused his obsession over her to wane over the next few years. In season eight, Jackie moved in with him after Kelso left for Chicago, adding a new dynamic to their relationship. After the two moved in together, Jackie began to develop feelings for Fez, and eventually told him about how she felt with a kiss. However, Fez refused her advances, saying that she had already dated Kelso and Hyde and did not want to be her "sloppy thirds."

After being turned down by Fez, Jackie decided to get revenge. She flushed his toothbrush, microwaved his lotion, and ruined his car with graffiti and in an attempt to get back at her, Fez dyed her hair green. He later said that she was now ugly on the outside like she was on the inside. Hurt by Fez's words, Jackie decided to move out. Realizing he wanted to be with her, Fez went to apologize but she was too hurt to accept his apology. They eventually reconciled, and in the final episode, Fez and Jackie finally did get together and kissed atop the water tower.

[edit] Fez's interests and other relationships

Besides his love for candy, pornography, beer, and masturbation others have been:

Fez seems to have the best friendships with both Hyde and Kelso. He and Hyde both joke around like stealing Kelso's cop car and he and Kelso have similar traits such as flirting with women. Fez's childish personality is a lot like Kelso's stupidity causing Hyde to act as an older brother for Fez.

"Big Rhonda," a heavyset girl with whom Fez was constantly attempting to lose his virginity. One of his catch phrases was "I'm going to do iittt" or alternatively "We're going to do iittt." Fez consulted Kelso's brother, Casey to help Fez get past second base with Rhonda, and Casey told him to "skip second and go right to third." Seeming like a brilliant plan to Fez, he proceeded with it and wound up getting dumped by an angry Rhonda.

Fez once mentioned an intense love for the book Superfudge, which he claimed to read once a month (even though the book was first published in 1980).

Another short relationship he had was with a girl from school named Caroline (Allison Munn), whom Donna had set up with Fez. They shared a few love-filled months together until Fez realized that Caroline was obsessed with him and also mentally unstable. Others realized she was nuts before he did, and he didn't listen at first. She revealed to Hyde that in order to simulate the pain of him leaving her, she would choke herself into unconsciousness. She snapped on Donna and Jackie after Jackie revealed the she kissed Fez once, but it was nothing and his crush on her sparked it. Caroline told the two if they ever touched Fez, she would kill them. While Fez and Caroline were kissing, Donna and Jackie each placed a hand on Fez's leg (in an obviously friendly fashion), causing her to snap and scream at them. Fez then broke up with her, lying that he and Donna were in love so as not to make Caroline think he ended the relationship because she was crazy. Caroline later returned intent on winning Fez back. She snapped on Fez again after finding out that Jackie was his roommate and that he inadvertently had naked pictures of Donna.

At one point, Fez had a sex dream where Kelso gave him a sponge bath, which lead into him almost being embarrassed by his schoolmate, and in another one, he felt an attraction to Kelso without his shirt leading Kelso to think he himself is gay.

Fez often spoke fondly of Donna, though there is no evidence of feelings for her deeper than sexual attraction. He repeatedly hid in her closet and on another occasion took photos of her in her schoolgirl outfit. By season eight it became clear that Fez' attraction for Donna was purely admiration of her beauty and nothing more.

Eventually, Fez got a job at the DMV where he seduced his co-worker Nina (Joanna Canton). The two had sex, finally ending Fez's agonizing life as a virgin (and ironically making him the last one in the group to do so). But, as Fez recounted, it was not a magical moment; there was no soft music "like in the movies so I had to hum" - Nina had asked Fez to stop humming but he started again without realizing it. There were then some sounds that "were certainly not applause." The night ended with him sneaking out of Nina's bathroom window, but he forgot his underwear on the floor. Nina did give Fez a second chance but it didn't work. He eventually proved too needy for her, and while he proved he was able to conquer this, he decided not to do it anyway and claimed "there is only one Fez, and that is a Fez with needs."

Near the end of the fifth season, Fez was arrested for vandalism of the town's water tower and came close to being deported back to his native country. But at the last moment, Laurie Forman slept with Fez and subsequently married him so he could stay in America. Red suffered a heart attack upon learning this. Their marriage was clearly not one of love, as Laurie went on their honeymoon to Cancún with someone else. After Laurie's disappearance, Fez stopped mentioning he was married and was referred to as being married only once, by Kelso.

In season seven, Fez said that he has a love for hair and took a job as a hair washer (or as he has stated, "shampoo boy") at the salon where Donna often goes. He had been proven to have a strange love of hair (the reason for taking his job) and has been touching many people's hair (two girls that slapped him across the face and one "long haired hippie" as he said). After Fez began working at the hair salon, he got considerably more female attention, and by season eight, he had been known for having one-night-stands every day of the week including one with a character named Danielle, played by Lindsay Lohan (notable because he stole her from Kelso).

Fez also had feelings for his co-worker, Hillary (Lara Everly), but this was at the same time that Jackie developed feelings for him. Although Fez playfully flirted with Hillary (telling her [in context] that he saved her a bite of his buns), she did not begin dating him until shortly before he began his brief but wild womanizing bout. She soon dumped him, but soon after he renewed his feelings for Caroline (until she attacked him and dumped him after she saw him kiss Jackie on the couch in the apartment).

[edit] Host parents

Fez began the show as living with fundamentalist "Bible-thumping" host parents, who forbade "devil's music" like Kiss. Hyde had Fez sneak rock albums into their house that were hidden in Pat Boone record jackets. Fez stated on one occasion that his host parents refused to give him an allowance because he was a pagan. He has also lived with host parents named the Erdmans. His host-mother was named Rebecca. The Erdmans only appeared in one episode throughout the show's run. In the seventh season, Fez's host parents realized that he had graduated from high school a year earlier and kicked him out of their house. Fez was forced to get an apartment with Kelso. When Kelso moved to Chicago to be near his baby daughter Betsy, Jackie moved in with Fez.

[edit] Personality

Fez is both kind and naive. Fans sometimes consider him metrosexual due to some of his hobbies and accent. He is often picked on by the local bullies, which he is bitter about. Fez is also very perverted; He frequently sleeps and spends time in Donna's closet (to her knowledge) and also references spying on Jackie and Donna (sometimes from a tree). This obviously leads to Fez's constant sexual yearnings and frequent masturbating. Eric once called him "a sick bastard." Fez is also quite goofy and charming, as Donna once said. Throughout a range of episodes, Fez, along with other characters, have labeled Fez as "suave and silky". Fez has a very strong love for candy, usually spending most of his American money on it. When being forced to pay Hyde $80, he had instead spent the money on candy. In the beginning of Season 7, after Eric and Donna decided not to talk about their relationship, Fez is excited to talk about cocoa butter, claiming that it "doesn't taste like cocoa or butter". In one episode, Kelso takes Fez to the Piggly Wiggly to pick up girls, but Fez is more excited about going there to buy candy. In the season 5 finale, as Fez gets ready to leave America, he is excited to spend his last ever American money on candy and pornography. Fez also is extremely obedient of the "don't go in the pool for an hour after you eat" rule. In, "The Keg," he refuses to get into a drained pool because he has just eaten, prompting Hyde to say, "I don't care how long ago you ate! Get in the pool NOW!" Fez responds that if he gets a cramp, Hyde will be responsible. In another episode, Fez is seen as Aquaman in a superhero fantasy, in which he says, "I think the oceans are safe. But I won't know for 45 minutes because I just ate." This is more or less a contradiction of the character as in an episode Red threaten to sail him back to his country, Fez shuddered and said " I fear the open sea's."

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Mastro, Dana. and Morawitz, Elizabeth. Latino Representation on Primetime Television: A Content Analysis, Section Stereotypes of Latinos, pp. 7.
• Thanu Yakupitiyage Battling or Creating Stereotypes in ‘Aliens in America’?, October 19, 2007, Racewire.
• Ben Megargel Reality spin-off falls into familiar traps, The Michigan Daily, February 6, 2007.

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