Andrew has a heavy British accent Fez's explanation to this is that his friend is from the west side of the island. But the British won't say it, Fez explains, because they hate the island, and no one understands a word the Dutch say. In the first teaser, when Andrew suggests that he goes back home, he says 'Yes, I will go to Brazil.and then catch a flight home.' In the final teaser, when Hyde finally asks them, 'Where the hell are you guys from?', Andrew says that the name depends on whether you ask the British or the Dutch. In the episode ' Eric's Birthday', Kitty, fantasizing about Eric's friends causing trouble, imagines Fez saying, 'in my home country of.wherever it is I'm from I can never tell.' Much is revealed in the episode 'Love of My Life', where Fez's old friend Andrew (played by Justin Long) comes for a visit. Through all eight seasons, Fez's nationality remains a mystery, even to his closest friends, and the continual hints and clues Fez drops about his country only leave them more confused. In season 7, they found out he graduated a year ago and kicked him out of their house, thereby forcing Fez to rent an apartment along with Kelso and later Jackie in the final season.įez's country of origin is one of the longest running gags on the show. They let Fez stay with them until he graduates from high school, and as they are Christian fundamentalists, they forbid Fez from listening to rock music since they believe it is 'the devil's music'.

Valderrama has stated that he fabricated the accent he used on the show so that no one could identify which country his character is from, a mystery the show creators deliberately kept a secret.įez's host parents, Matthew ( Kevin Farley) and Rebecca Erdman (Shannon Holt) appear in episodes 'Career Day' and ' Drive In'. 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. After hearing the name, Hyde says: 'Ok, I'm not going to remember that.' He, along with Hyde, later walks in on Donna naked in the episode when he first met her in 1976. What Valderrama was actually saying was the first names of the main actors who appear in the show. The bullies had asked him if he wanted to hang out, and he explains to the group he 'shouldn't have said yes.' Moments later, he states his real name, which is drowned out by a long, ringing school bell. In 1976, Kelso, Hyde, and Eric rescue him from a janitor's closet where several bullies have hung him on a coat hook. Eric's grandmother calls him ' Desi'.Ī flashback episode shows when Fez first meets the others, except Jackie.

Red usually calls him 'the foreign kid', or by a random foreign or Native American name from various backgrounds (e.g., Hadji, Tonto, Anwar, Sabu, Muhammad Ali, Ali Baba, Pelé, Ahmad, Tutankhamun, etc.), which Fez does not mind, with one exception: he hates being called Tarzan, because Tarzan is a white man. The series' official web site explains the spelling 'Fez', as opposed to 'Fes', as 'poetic license'. His real name is deemed unpronounceable by his friends, so they call him 'Fez' (a homophone of 'FES', an acronym for foreign exchange student).

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