Remember when Donna had a sister who must have just been murdered by the whole town and forgotten

"People hated us recasting Laura, a not so important character... Hm... Let's write in a replacement for Eric, the person the entire series has been around"

I feel like when laurie came back she had changed her ways, but when christina came she went back to being her old self without any explnation

Christina isn't a bad actress, but Lisa just played Laurie sooooo well. Her mannerisms, her delivery of the lines and the way she could throw daggers with her eyes.

To me her replacement did ok she was dull and not like lisa AT ALL. Lisa was very good as Eric's sister.

Lisa Robin Kelly had that mean look, the high pitched voice to work on red and that low voice to talk to Eric and show how evil she really is. Lisa took a role that could have been insignificant and made Laurie shine. With Moore it looks like she took the script snd just said it, no perosnality, no depth. I think they just wanted a hot blond to close the storyline. If she was any good she would have been in more that just a few episodes.

I went to Rehab with Lisa K in the summer of 2010. In VA. She was so kind. We graduated the program the same day. Addiction unfortunately took her life. After two more relapses, I’ve been sober for almost 10 years now. Always eerie to see her in videos.

The tale of Laurie is such a sad one because Lisa Robin Kelly totally OWNED the role of Laurie. She brought so much life and personality to the character that was very infectious. It's like you said, you could both despise and like her as a character and I didn't mind that they gave her a bit of positive leaning character growth when she returned in season 4 and wanted to try to be a better person (though still promiscuous). Lisa WAS Laurie and no one could ever replace her. The replacement actress just lacked the charisma and charm that Lisa brought to the role. No offense to her, I'm sure she's a fine enough actress, it's just that she had big shoes to fill with the character and failed at it but to be fair to her, I don't think any actress could bring that perfection back to the character that Lisa brought. I don't think Christina Moore's portrayal was the worst, I will agree that she still had somewhat of the Laurie vibe with her lines but I think it's the general tone that I had more of an "eh" thing with. It's such a shame that Lisa was struggling with so much in her life and just couldn't get the help she truly needed. I still remember her infamous mugshot and was mortified at what happened to her when reading about her personal life and was hoping she would find the strength to bounce back but then she unfortunately passed away. It really was a sad tale.

While the writing was there, her line delivery was FLAT, there was a lack of face expressions and body language. It didnt fit with t70s and their cartoonlike style

Always annoyed me how in season 6 Laurie would always say she would never sleep w/ Fez when in reality she ended season 5 in bed w/ him. It’s like they changed half her character’s personality

“Second actor casting is honestly why I use the Multiverse theory as a coping mechanism.”

Josh Myers and fake Laurie were the worst mistakes of That 70's Show.

Remember those five entire seconds in the VERY beginning of the series when Donna had a sister who was cast and shown on camera for a single joke? Nice budget for a television sitcom, huh?

When I was a kid, I thought new Laurie was a different character

I dont think Red was neglectful. He was just very strict.

She was only 43 when she died :( RIP Lisa

Lisa Robind made you hate the character the second actress didnt do anything

Laurie Forman is legitimately my favorite character on this show. Her character is so underrated, Lisa portrayed the character perfectly & made it iconic. The replacement made her character legitimately annoying

Honestly, I think Christina is one of the most forgettable parts of the show.

The second Laurie failed because she couldn’t make the character her own. She was an imitation at best.

I dont see how anyone could think Christina Moore was a good replacement. Her comedic timing and chemistry was so bad, and half of the time she sounded like she was stumbling through her lines. She is actually really similar to Randy in that respect. She's terrible.

Original Laurie was best. The "replacement" was not "bitchy" enough to be Laurie.

I repressed Christina as Laurie . Lisa was Laurie and everything after her seemed to fall off . Losing Topher only made things worse

Lisa had the charisma, youthful voice, catty demeanour and facial expressions to match. Christina was like a deadpan newsreader reading the auto queue.

I personally found Christina grating. She was MEH at best.

Lisa Robin Kelly was such a good actress and so perfectly cast--the voice, the look, the attitude... She was perfect. The second Laurie was so unmemorable that I had forgotten about her until this video

Hry atleast we didnt get a tale of 2 Erics

Rest in peace, Lisa Robin Kelly. 💗 😢 Plus, I thought that Christina Moore did a decent job with what she was given, and delivered her own take on Laurie, and doesn't try to copy Lisa. 😻

She was like a plain slice of white bread compared to Lisa Robin Kelly's portrayal of the character. I remember being so bored with how ditsy, slow and boring she was compared to OG Laurie. The spunk of the Laurie character was gone.

The replacement Laurie sucked at acting. It’s like she was doing a bad impression of the original actress.

When lisa played her, she had an evil/manipulative undertone but the new actress didnt

Wow I never seen a picture of her since the show. She aged harshly and she’s dead? Holy shit.

I heard somewhere Laurie ended up being a mom to some kids named Emma, Luke, Ravi and Zuri back in New York. (I oughta know since Lisa Robin Kelly's replacement Christina Moore played their hot smokin' mother on Disney Channel's "JESSIE".)

That ‘90s Show should bring Christina Moore for an episode in season 2. Let’s see how Leia gets along with her Aunt Laurie.

10:00 Damn, I didn't know Uncle Phil was on That 70s Show. RIP.

This was a very sweet analysis of the character and was respectful to both actresses. i think for me the difference is lisa played her with more disgust, dirty looks, and snark. the second actress was great, but suddenly so much sweeter and nicer. even her quips felt like playful banter, while lisa's version would probably microwave a cat

christina was okay, doing her job. also lisa robin kelly embodied laurie so well it's unfair to expect anyone to give us what kelly was giving.

Her movements and even her facial expressions were.... incredible. Vacant but also manipulating, kind yet fierce. There’s something to her performance.

I cant even remember Christina Moore and Ive seen this show thousand times when I was young

One of my favorite lines from the entire series “he’s having an arm attack”

It'll always be difficult to replace an actor/actress that made the role. It's one thing when you can reboot the character under new circumstances (think James Bond or Batman,) but Laurie wasn't simply a character at that point; she was Lisa's portrayal of Laurie... I didn't care for Chistina Laurie, but it wasn't anything wrong she did. She just wasn't the Laurie of the show. Had she had the role all along, and the character to develop from the start... who knows. RIP Lisa

I had no idea she died. That's so heart breaking.

Christina seemed to lack the character and emotion that Lisa put into the role. Laurie was meant to be hated and at the same time, felt sorry for. With Christina, you just hated Laurie. There was a complete regression of the character.

I absolutely loved the original Lori. May she rest in peace...😢🙏💙

I feel like the second actress was trying her best to be like the first actress, but the line delivery was just not the same.

Christina's highlight reel made me think she was worse than I remembered. Very bland and sitcomy.

Why is this recommended 36 minutes after upload 😳😳 I ain’t never watched this dude

My issue was that there wasn't one scene showing how she went from the Laurie Eric actually hugged in season 5 right back to same kind of Laurie prior to that in season 6 in the next appearance, just with a little less snark and less hatred towards Eric. Just sort of a snapback with a new actor on top of it all. Like a scene where she decides to split the difference between the old and the new and go from there. That's all I wanted.

This was something that happened more often in sitcoms of the 70s and 80s it became a trope

2:50 Thank you for not forgetting this wonderful moment!

Laurie recast actress was absolutely gorgeous 😍

The replacement did very well, butI did notice that they reverted her to classic bitch Laurie, whereas at the end of the previous season she was being protrayed as a changed woman. Once the actress was someone else if they had continued with that viewers would have got confused how this character acting completely differently to what they had become used to was then somehow still Laurie.

Tbh, I originally watched this whole series on my 3ds back in n the day, and if it wasn't for her voice I wouldn't have noticed she was a different person

Lisa Robin Kelly was flawless, RIP girl.

I never realized how much she (Kelly) does resemble Eric.

May she Rest In Peace she has been missed Deeply

God rest her soul. I loved Lisa's Laurie, she was perfect for the role. RIP Lisa, you're not forgotten.

Lisa Robyn Kelly made me laugh so hard when she ripped on Kelso for the leather jacket: AYYYYYEEEE 👍👍🤣

Friends: A Tale of Two Carols.

In the scenes showed here, the lines written for Moore were still great, but the delivery did not have the bite they needed. Lisa would have knocked them out of the park. Lisa had such great talent. It is so sad she had so many hardships

I totally disagree with this. There's so much opinion pandering in this. That 70s show is my all time favorite show and I gotta say without a doubt that Christina SUCKED. It was like a totally different character. She just didnt fit. Her timing and reactions were horrible. Lisa WAS lorie. And i say that not bc she was original, it's due to her acting. It was 100% natural and believable. Where as christina was a horrible over actor with lame facial expressions that had 0 timing. To even say she came in, fit in and played lorie right is laughable. They totally rewrote the role for her. And btw the original plan wasn't for Josh to play Eric. The original plan was for Charlie to become the main replacement for Eric. When he got a starring role in another show, he was written off. Then the randy thing happened. While it was an idea, they never would have went through with it due to the reaction christiana got replacing lisa.

I LOVED Lisa as Laurie she nailed that role 😂👌 also Lisa and Topher actually looked like brother and sister (the eyes) lol and their chemistry was amazing too! Perfect casting.

I wouldn't agree that Red was neglectful I will agree that he was dissaponted because throughout the show from my perspective I see Red is trying to teach Eric some responsibility and be responsible for your actions and throughout the entire show Eric does stupid things and is a brat for most of the show until he finally leaves for Africa which is the one thing that Red actually supports him on because Eric is finally being responsible and doing something instead of sitting at home, not having a job and taking a break for an entire year Also in my opinion I feel like it might've been cool if they kept going with the Laurie and Fez marriage or relationship because it did show her changing a little with wanting to be close to her family and even being nicer to Eric and marrying Fez so he could stay in the country. I honestly didn't like that immediately after that Laurie couldn't stand Fez and didn't seem like the Laurie from the previous season. I feel like they could've done what they did with Savannah in season 8 but with fez and Laurie and maybe even have Laurie go and sleep with other guys but she starts not liking it and not having as much fun as she used to and see her actually start liking being around Fez and could even show Her and Fez connecting in a way and her and Fez ultimately stay together for the show and showing Fez and Laurie actually work well off each other and kinda do the Jackie and Hyde relationship again where it seems like it wouldn't work but than they find out that they actually work well together

She was a Hell of a beauty damn shame some people are so broken that these things happen.

The second Laurie was the mom on Jessie

I def think that Christina Moore sounded like she was reading off a script. Didn't give any personality at all to the character.

Christina was great. I don’t think they could have actually found someone better. But Lisa robin kelly was so good, it would have been impossible for anybody to fill her shoes.

R.I.P. Lisa Robin Kelly She was a Beautiful lady on that show Until she died of a Drug Overdose

So sad Lisa died. This series really is what I like to imagine being teens in the 70s was like leading into the decade that I had my teens in, the 80s. Personally I have fond memories of most of the 70s.

She was a bad replacement not as bad as Eric replacement but she never satisfied the Laurie storyline she made it her own and that killed the vibe of the character.

I loved Lisa as Laurie she was such a good actress

If she had been the only one to play the character, I don't think as many people would complain. She did a good job. Just Lisa was much better for most people.

Lisa was a rockstar and she went out like one.. RIP, Beautiful.

Wow, I must have stopped watching the show by the time the 2nd Laurie was cast. The first one was ICONIC and was always dominated the scene whenever she showed up onscreen

Rip Lisa Robinson Kelly.

Lisa Robin Kelly was the perfect Laurie. Her timing, her expressions. She took being that annoying older sister and turned it up to 11. It also looked like she was having a great time playing the role as well. Christina Moore was a plank of wood. I didn't even know her name till you put it in this video.

Thank you for this video there isn’t a lot of people discussing That 70’s Show

I would agree that the bigger problem after the casting change was more an issue of how the character ended up not doing much of anything, not really the fault of the actress

I only remember the first Laurie she was really good though, fun to watch her

The replacement "Laurie" didnt really do it for me, but it's not easy to fill another person's spot. But the first one was way better, the second one didnt really have that facial expressions.

The two Lauries situation is just one of those things in TV where an actor/actress portrays a particular character on a TV series for so many years to the point that fans of a particular series are used to him/her as that character and they can't imagine anybody else in the role of that character. So when he/she leaves a show and another actor/actress is hired to replace him/her in the role of that same character, fans of that series can't adjust to the different actor/actress and how he/she portrays that character. That would be like if someone replaced the person you know as your sister with someone else in the role of your sister. It's just wouldn't be the same. Lisa Robin Kelly WAS Laurie. She was the original and longest tenured actress in the role and was perfect in her portrayal. I give Christina Moore credit for giving it the old college try, but realistically, there was no way that fans of "That '70s Show" were going to accept another actress as Laurie after Lisa had played the character for so long, no matter how good Christina might've been as an actress.

Poor Lisa Robin Kelly RIP

You can never replace the original Laurie

I remember seeing the posts about Lisa Kelly’s death. It honestly made me sad, RIP Lisa

Rest in peace

Been waiting for this video

Lisa Robin Kelly as Laurie reminded me of half the girls I had crushes on growing up. The Laurie character should of had a spin off show. Laurie in Milwaukee or Chicago with her own place and life's challenges in the early 80's.

I love the warm and accepting opening comments of this video.

The tragic true tale of Lisa Robin Kelly still gives me pause after all of these years. That she died right after checking in to rehab is even more heartbreaking.

Rest in Paradise lisa robin kelly

I liked Lisa as Laurie on the show and she’ll always the best Laurie. I didn’t know what to say about Christina’s acting as Laurie.

Good work. Lisa Robin Kelly tho...she had potential to be a movie star.

It's so sad that Lisa Robin Kelly developed a substance abuse problem because no other actress could play the part of Laurie like she could. Rip🙏

I preferred the second Laurie, even though I never watched the show when she was on it.

I clearly remember the day Lisa passed away, and I did shed a tear or two for her. I'm surprised you didn't dive into Lisa's addictive problem,...

Super happy to see somone talking about that 70s show, for some reason the office and friends have seen a much discussed revival, but not this one which is a shame because personally I think the first four seasons of this show are far better then anything the other two had to offer

New laurie is so pretty.

Look, while I get everyone was disappointed with how Laurie turned out, the actress was going through things that clearly didn't make her easy to work with.

Kitty was hilarious and my stepdad likes to imitate Red

this video was well done, and the tribute at the end was a nice touch 🥺