History Characters / That70sShow

** For all he yells at and snarks at Eric, he will get ''very'' mad if anyone else mistreats, demeans or threatns him.

* DoesNotKnowHerOwnStrength: In "The Seeker", Donna accidentally knocks Hyde off the water tower with what is supposed to be a ligth, friendly tap.

* ButtMonkey: Downplayed. Most of his comical mishaps are well-deserved, he usually brings them onto himself with his own stupidity.

* ButtMonkey: Although he usually brings it on himself with his stupidity.

* CitizenshipMarriage: A combination of this with SexlessMarriage. At the end of season 5, Laurie married Fez only so that he doesn't get deported. As season 6 showed, it was clearly a marriage in name only - They were never seen spending any time together, most of their brief interactions consist of trading barbs at each other, and much to Fez's chagrin and embarrassment, ever since they got married Laurie would sleep with anyone BUT him.

* BaldOfAwesome: Well, balding.

* EveryoneLovesBlondes: Dying her hair blonde caused quite a stir in Point Place. Granted, she was considered attractive when she was a redhead.

* CommutingOnABus: In Seasons 5 and 6.

* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: He was turned into a stubborn, prideful and short-tempered hardass by both his upbringing by his even sterner father and his experience in the war, but underneath the harsh exterior is a good, honest, hardworking family man. And while the kids tend to view him as an antagonistic, uncompromising killjoy whom they try not to cross paths with, almost just as often he has his moments of kindness.

** Or how about the fact that he took Hyde in as his foster son after learning that Hyde's mother abandoned him, though not without cursing and grumbling at the increased expense.

* ParentalFavoritism: He favors Laurie over Eric, as he's oblivious to the fact that she's the town slut. Though this stops in season 5 when he finally realizes her true character. He also seems to favor Hyde, his pseudo-adopted son, over Eric.

* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: He was turned into a stubborn, prideful and short-tempered hardass by both his upbringing by his even sterner father and his experience in the war, but underneath the harsh exterior is a good, honest, hardworking family man.

* {{Jerkass}}: From Season 1 to 3 and early on in Season 5, she's egotistical, rude and enjoys tormenting Eric and manipulating her parents. Towards the end of Season 5 she seemed to become a better person. In season 6 she barely interacted with Eric and was mostly antagonizing her legal husband Fez instead.

* TookALevelInKindness: Seems to make a genuine effort to change and be a good person towards the end of Season 5, although she still retained her promiscuous ways. Her change for the good (relatively speaking) seemed to waver in season 6, where the target of her JerkAss tendencies was shifted from Eric onto her legal husband Fez instead. However, this was largely because she had close to zero interaction with Eric in her final season: The character was played by a different actress and the script was clearly altered to reduce her character dynamics with the main cast in order to write her out of the show.

* KarmaHoudiniWarranty: Until season 5 roles around her father realizes exactly what she really is. That arguably ended in season 2 when her promiscuous ways was exposed to her father for the first time.

* EvenEvilHasStandards: Became horrified when Eric told her he saw Red and Kitty having sex, and then comforted him and told him it would be alright. She even tells their parents what he'd witnessed so they'd stop suspecting he was on drugs due to his behaviour, which was a [[PetTheDog rare instance]] of being a good sibling.

* KarmaHoudiniWarranty: Until season 5 roles around her father realizes exactly what she really is.

*** While sleeping with Kelso, she actually got on surprisingly well with Jackie, but flipped right back to treating her as bad as everyone else once she decided she wanted a real relationship.

* {{Jerkass}}: She's egotistical, rude and enjoys tormenting Eric and manipulating her parents.

* TookALevelInKindness: Seems to make a genuine effort to change and be a good person towards the end of Season 5, although she still retained her promiscuous ways.

* HeelFaceRevolvingDoor: Seems to make a genuine effort to change and be a good person at the end of Season 5. However, in Season 6 (with a new actress in place), she regresses to her old self without explanation.

* CrazyJealousGuy: When Red and Kitty were dating, he punched out another beachgoer who was giving Kitty the eye. He also yelled at Leo when the latter seemed to be hitting on Kitty, and was ready to ''shoot'' Hyde when he mistakenly thought that Hyde was hitting on her. Fortunately, he calmed down when he realized that Kitty was just teaching Hyde to dance for when the kids went to the disco.
** Actually, the misunderstood scene with Hyde is just Red poking fun at himself and Bob. For context, Red is the one who referred Hyde to Kitty for dance lessons, and Bob was the one who misunderstood what happened and thus informed Red accordingly. Red's [[OutOfCharacterAlert immediate response was to make a death threat on Hyde]], which is a hint to Bob to consider the (more logical) possibility that Bob just misunderstood what happened.

* Booksmart: Despite Red's insistance that "the only smart thing about you is your mouth," there are frequent indications that Eric does very well in school, at least when outside factors don't intefere. He is, however, naive about other matters, at least at the beginning of the series.

* TheFriendNobodyLikes: He's an immature manchild who ends up causing problems for his friends and constantly goes out of his way to make their lives worse ForTheLulz. By the later seasons, it's more that he's tolerated by the others and allowed to hang around because he's easy to make fun of than genuinely liked.

* ManChild: He possesses numerous infantile qualities such as enjoying Christmas specials deemed childish by his peers and fussing when something is preventing him from viewing them.

* CharacterizationMarchesOn: Early on, there were hints that he had a crush on Donna, but this went nowhere and later on, he didn't treat her any different that he did the guys.

** Actually, the misunderstood scene with Hyde is just Red poking fun at himself and Bob. For context, Red is the one who referred Hyde to Kitty for dance lessons, and Bob was the one who misunderstood what happened and thus informed Red accordingly. Red's [[OutOfCharacterMoment immediate response was to make a death threat on Hyde]], which is a hint to Bob to consider the (more logical) possibility that Bob just misunderstood what happened.

** Actually, the misunderstood scene with Hyde is just Red poking fun at himself and Bob. For context, Red is the one who referred Hyde to Kitty for dance lessons, and Bob was the one who misunderstood what happened and thus informed Red accordingly. Red's [[OutOfCharacterMoment immediate response was to make a death threat on Hyde]], which is a hint to Bob to quickly back down from his statement and consider the possibility that Bob just misunderstood what happened.