U&K - The new Laurie on "That 70s Show": C/D, RFD

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Right, so in the blockbuster double episode where Kelso got Brooke pregnant and the immigration officer came to investigate Fes' and Laurie's wedding, a new actress was playing Laurie. Is this a permanent switch? I don't think it would be a good one. (Are these switches ever good?) She is better-looking in a bland kind of way but that seems to actually work against the character's trashiness. She doesn't have 1/5 the personality of the old Laurie. When Hyde was dissing her, she just sat there and grinned moronically/stoically. The old Laurie would have if nothing else demonstrated withering contempt just with her eyes and would have probably zinged him back and worse. And her "I'm not that trashy - I wouldn't sleep with you" to Fes was so limp and feckless compared to how the old Laurie would have delivered it. Besides, it didn't even make sense since they only got married after they slept together on the camping trip. THESE MATTERS REQUIRE IMMEDIATE DISCUSSION.

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Thursday, 25 March 2004 05:29 (twenty-two years ago)

there's a new laurie?

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 25 March 2004 05:30 (twenty-two years ago)

which one's laurie again?

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 25 March 2004 05:31 (twenty-two years ago)

Yeah, the new Laurie is not-so-good.

― dean! (deangulberry), Thursday, 25 March 2004 05:49 (twenty-two years ago)

Agree. Better looking on some Hollywood looks scale but not the least bit sexy.

― nickn (nickn), Thursday, 25 March 2004 05:55 (twenty-two years ago)

WHICH ONE IS LAURIE

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 25 March 2004 05:56 (twenty-two years ago)

Eric's slutty sister.

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Thursday, 25 March 2004 05:58 (twenty-two years ago)

TEH LAURIE IS TEH SISTAR OF ERIK
(if you don't know, does it matter?)
(xpost)

― dean! (deangulberry), Thursday, 25 March 2004 05:59 (twenty-two years ago)

there's a new laurie?

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 25 March 2004 05:59 (twenty-two years ago)

does she have the same hair?

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 25 March 2004 05:59 (twenty-two years ago)

She is the equivalent of the New Becky on Roseanne. Better looking, but way worse in the role.

― oops (Oops), Thursday, 25 March 2004 06:38 (twenty-two years ago)

Yea, old Becky was da bomb.

― Not Kidding, Thursday, 25 March 2004 07:00 (twenty-two years ago)

Has a new actor ever been an improvement in one of these cases? (I don't watch TV much, but it seems pretty universal that replacement actors are disparaged.)

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Thursday, 25 March 2004 07:03 (twenty-two years ago)

I think the second Lionel on the Jeffersons was thought of as being a halfway decent replacement.

I do miss the old Laurie. She was fucking fantastic in that role. Substance abuse problems led to her getting the boot, apparently.

― Gear! (Gear!), Thursday, 25 March 2004 07:11 (twenty-two years ago)

DICK YORKE ROOLZ UR ALL GAY

― Speedy (Speedy Gonzalas), Thursday, 25 March 2004 07:34 (twenty-two years ago)

DICK YORKE WAS THE FIRST ONE I M NOT GAY

― oops (Oops), Thursday, 25 March 2004 07:42 (twenty-two years ago)

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