List of recurring characters of That '70s Show

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This is a list of recurring characters of That '70s Show. A recurring character is a fictional character, usually in a prime time TV series, who is not a main character but who appears from time to time during the series' run.

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Angie Barnett (played by Megalyn Echikunwoke) is Steven Hyde's half-sister. Hyde did not know he had a sister until the 7th season. Angie graduated from college as a mathematics major. Angie and Hyde worked together managing their father's record store, but Angie did not always like working with him. She dated Michael Kelso, which sometimes annoyed Hyde.
Annette (played by Jessica Simpson) was Michael Kelso's girlfriend for a brief period of time in season 5. She bossed Kelso around in the same way that Jackie did. Annette and Jackie did not get along. Once at The Hub, Jackie said to Annette, "They don't allow dogs in here". Annette said that since she saw Jackie in there she thought it was okay. Later in the episode, when Annette and Kelso were kissing, Jackie yelled, "Get off my boyfriend!" to Annette, even though this was months after Kelso and Jackie broke up.
Bea Sigurdson (played by Betty White) is Kitty Forman's mother.
Brooke (played by Shannon Elizabeth) was the valedictorian of the high school class two years before Eric etc.'s class. In Brooke's first episode, Hyde says, "When we were sophomores and she was a senior..." The summer after Kelso's graduation, she had sex with him and got pregnant. Initially, Brooke did not trust Kelso and did not want him in the child's life. Eventually, Kelso convinced Brooke to give him another chance. Brooke gave birth to Betsy in 1979.
Bud Hyde (played by Robert Hays) is Steven Hyde's step-father. Bud Hyde worked as a bartender and is an alcoholic. Until the end of the 6th season, Steven Hyde thought Bud was his biological father. Bud Hyde abandoned Steven when he was a child and Steven was always angry at Bud for this.
Burt Sigurdson (played by Tom Poston) is Kitty Forman's father. In one episode, he bought an ostrich farm, which was right next to a coyote farm. The coyotes ate all the ostriches and the Sigurdsons had to sell the house. Burt died in the episode Your Time is Gonna Come.
Caroline (played by Allison Munn) was Fez's girlfriend in season 3. Fez quickly learned that Caroline is very jealous and paranoid. She made threats against Donna and Jackie because Caroline felt that they were going to steal Fez from her, when in fact Jackie and Donna had no intention of doing so. Caroline was once found hiding in the men's bathroom looking for Fez. Fez did not want to be with someone that aggressive and paranoid so he broke up with Caroline. Fez and Caroline were together one last time in the eighth season. She got extremely angry when she found out that Fez had lied to her about Jackie being his roommate, and when she found nude photos of Donna in Fez's Barry White album. (Leo hid the nude photos in the album without Fez's knowledge, but Caroline believed they were put there by Fez). Caroline appeared again in Sheer Heart Attack. Fez was having sex with women once and not seeing them again and then decided that he wanted to be with only one woman, so he called Caroline. Later in the episode, Jackie told Fez that she loved him and then kissed him as Caroline walked in. This, as always, made Caroline angry with Fez.
Casey Kelso (played by Luke Wilson) is Michael Kelso's brother who was in the military. Towards the end of season 4 he was dating Donna Pinciotti. During his relationship with Donna, there were instances of them engaging in bad behavior, such as Donna drinking and skipping school to hang out with Casey. Donna's father, Bob, felt that Casey was a bad influence and didn't want Donna to date him anymore. Eric was jealous of Casey because he wanted to be with Donna, so Eric wanted them to break up. When Red Forman and Bob were discussing Casey's negative influence with Donna and Casey, Casey broke up with Donna, deciding the conflict with Bob and Red to be too much hassle. Donna felt that she and Casey were in love, but Casey felt "I love you" is just something you could say and don't have to really mean. Michael Kelso said that his brother Casey got bored with his girlfriends and broke up with them. During the summer of 1979, Casey was teaching physical education at Eric's old high school, and Eric was in Casey's class.
Charlie Richardson (played by Bret Harrison) is the son of one of Red's war buddies. Eric held a grudge against him from the time that he let some sick children win "Eric's" goldfish in an egg toss. Charlie only appeared in about three episodes towards the end of Season 7. At the beginning of Season 8, Charlie accidentally fell off the water tower and died. The water tower is named the Charlie Richardson Memorial Water Tower in his honor.
Christine St. George (played by Mary Tyler Moore) is a talk show host of What's Up Wisconsin. In the episode Sweet Lady, Jackie felt that she was destined to be Christine's cohost on the show. She persistently tries to get the job, but Christine St. George makes Jackie her assistant instead. After a few episodes, Jackie was fired for knowing too much about her.
Edna Hyde (played by Katey Sagal) is Steven Hyde's biological mother. She is only in the Season 1 episodes Career Day, Prom Night, and Punk Chick, though she only appears in Career Day. She plays a large part in Career Day, playing opposite Hyde when on Career Day, he has to help her in the kitchen (she was the school chef, "Gross Edna" at the time). In other episodes she only has lines yelling at Hyde on the porch from the inside of the house such as:
- In Prom Night Edna: "They're all gonna laugh at you!" Steven: "Shut up ma, you're makin' the night too damn special!"
- In Punk Chick Steven: "It's still my suitcase!" Edna: "Nothing in this house is yours!" Steven: "Shut up!"
Fenton (played by Jim Rash) is someone with whom Fez has a feud. In the fifth season, he was an employee at the jewelry store where Eric bought Donna's engagement ring. He is also the landlord of the apartment that Fez and Kelso moved into in the seventh season, which later became Fez and Jackie's apartment when Kelso moved to Chicago. At first, Fenton did not want to let Kelso and Fez move in because of his feud with Fez, but later when he found out Kelso wanted the apartment to have a place to take care of his daughter, and Fenton got the impression that Kelso and Fez were "life partners", he let them have it.
Joanne Stupak (played by Mo Gaffney) is a girlfriend of Bob Pinciotti, who appears in Seasons 4 and 5. She met Bob at the supermarket when Bob, being unable to cook, was about to buy a dozen TV dinners. Joanne decided to teach Bob to make a meatloaf so he would not have to buy the TV dinners. She does not get along well with Red. When Red and Joanne first met, they got into an argument about who would cook the meat and who would make the salad. Joanne works at the dog food factory and hires Eric to work there to put coupons in the dog food bags. Eric would eventually lose that job also.
Mitch Miller (played by Seth Green) is a student in the same class as Eric, etc. Mitch had a feud with Fez and because of this conflict, Mitch published a photo of Fez and Kelso kissing each other in the school newspaper. Mitch had a crush on Donna Pinciotti and, one time Donna went to a party with Mitch and agreed to pretend to be his girlfriend. Eric was angered when Mitch embarrassed Donna, and Eric and Mitch agreed to fight each other the next day at 5:15 PM. Not wanting to fight, Mitch persuaded Eric not to fight with him by offering him a French-made GI Joe called "GI Jacques".
Nina (played by Joanna Canton) is a girlfriend of Fez in season 5 who worked with him at the DMV. She was the first person whom Fez had sex with, and broke up with him due to his neediness.
Officer Kennedy (played by James Avery) is Kelso's training officer when he joins the police force. He appears mostly in the 7th season, playing a straight ace to the bumbling Kelso.
Pam Burkhart (played by Eve Plumb (Season 1) and Brooke Shields (Season 6)) is the mother of Jackie Burkhart who was dating Bob Pinciotti in season 6. She fled to Mexico when Jackie's counselman father was arrested for bribery and embezzling $60,000.
Pam Macey (played by Jennifer Lyons) is a classmate of the main characters of the show. She has been mentioned in more episodes than she appeared. She appeared in the episodes Prom Night,Romantic Weekend, and It's a Woderful life. In Prom Night, Michael Kelso took Pam to the prom while temporarily broken up with Jackie. In Romantic Weekend, Kelso was about to have sex with Pam but was unable to perform, telling his friends that "The buffer wouldn't buff." Pam told this to the whole school, which caused everyone to tease Kelso about it.
Pastor Dave (played by Kevin McDonald), Pastor Dave is the local pastor at the church. He is overly cheerful and (incorrectly) thinks he is up to date with the trends, and is "hip and cool". He is often greeted by Eric and his friends with deadpan voices, and they typically just agree with Dave in the hopes he'll go away. Dave is good friends with Kitty, who helps with the church fundraisers, and has an uneasy friendship with Red (mostly because Red isn't used to having friends). His friendship with Red seems to have brought out a less-pure side of Dave, as he spends a day with Red watching football and drinking beer, and once even quit the church because he wanted to watch more football on Sundays (he later rejoins as the pastor again). He appears primarily in Season 3, but has a few cameos in Season 2.
Rhonda (played by Cynthia Lamontagne) often called Big Rhonda by her classmates was a recurring character during season 4. She was Fez's girlfriend during this season. The episode It's a Wonderful Life featured an alternate timeline, where Rhonda went to the prom with Eric (in this timeline, Eric and Donna were never in a relationship). Later in the same episode, she is seen at their 10-year reunion but now as a trim and beautiful woman (which Rhonda attributes to being dumped by a gigantic loser like Eric).
Roy Keen (played by Jim Gaffigan) is the kitchen manager of a hotel who employed Eric, Hyde, and Kelso to work as waiters in the hotel's restaurant during seasons 5 and 6. It was mentioned by Hyde that Roy was like a father figure when his father abandoned him. Roy has stated that his standards for food service are pretty low and that he goes days without washing his hands. He suffers from serious trouble connecting to people. At one time he got the impression that a woman was in love with him, after she insulted him when he got her some butter, and hid in her shower to surprise her with flowers. He once mentioned that he was living with a woman, but moved out when she found out he was living with her in secret.
Samantha (played by Judy Taylor) is Hyde's wife during season 8. They got married while Hyde was drunk in Las Vegas. The two barely knew each other when they got married. Hyde didn't even remember the wedding and didn't know he was married until after Samantha came to Point Place to see Hyde. Samantha is a stripper. In the episode My Fairy King, Hyde learned that Samantha was already married to someone else. After this, Hyde and Samantha's relationship ended.
Schotzie is a Dachshund that Red gave Kitty in an attempt to make her happy. Schotzie was in several episodes of season 5, was absent for all of season 6, then returned for only one episode towards the beginning of season 7.
Timmy (played by Paul Connor) is a student who went to high school with Eric, Donna, Hyde, Fez, Kelso, and Jackie. To the annoyance of some of the gang, he announces comments to the room that start with "Hey everybody...", such as:
- "Hey everybody, Eric and Donna got a motel room and they're going to do it!"
- "Hey everybody, I'm taking off my pants!"
- "Hey everybody, Foreman's on a date with his mom!"
- "Hey everybody, Donna's showed her ass!" (while showing everyone a yearbook photo where Donna mooned the camera).
William Barnett (played by Tim Reid) is Stephen Hyde's biological father. Hyde originally thought Bud Hyde was his biological father until the cliffhanger between the 6th and 7th seasons, where Kitty discovers that Steven's real father is a man who lives in Milwaukee. Sometimes people call William Barnett by his initials, WB. William Barnett is wealthy and owns his own record store. William Barnett put Steven in charge of his record store along with his daughter (and Hyde's sister), Angie. William Barnett is black, which Hyde believes explains his hair and his "coolness, afro and suspicion of the man" (it can also be noted that when Hyde asked him who killed Kennedy his father stated "I don't know, because they don't want me to know.")