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Michael Giovani Kelso (born September 15 , 1959 ) is a Fictional Character from Fox Network 's '' That '70s Show '', played by Ashton Kutcher . Tall, lanky and long-haired, he is the dim-witted pretty-boy of the group, coasting through life on his good looks. His behavior is very much in line with a stereotypical oversexed lunkhead or mimbo (male-bimbo). Kelso has surprised many by scoring higher on his SATs than his other friends and providing a surprising amount of knowledge regarding the workings of Pong to Red . On one occasion, the episode The Keg , he displayed an ability to do quick math when properly motivated (beer and money). It is possible he is named after Kutcher's real life brother. PERSONALITY Apart from being unintelligent, Kelso has also been known to be quite sensitive. In one episode, when he started wearing a leather jacket, his friends started to make fun of him for looking like the Fonz from " Happy Days " and he kept sulking every time someone brought up this supposed similarity. This trait was also shown after an off-screen accident with mashed potatoes in the school cafeteria led to the nickname "Tater Nuts", which he greatly despised. Kelso failed the first grade for his refusal to write in Cursive and lied about his age ever since. On a trip to potential colleges he said he had been dropped on his head as a child. In the year 3 season premiere ''Reefer Madness'' Kelso was shown smoking in a flashback as a 13 year old and he states that he's now lost all interest in school and academic aspirations, suggesting that he wasn't always as dumb as he often appears to be. Though in one flashback it shows him as a young boy who shows up at the Foremans with no pants since he forgot to put them on contradicting the earlier flashbacks that showed him as a smart geek when he was younger. Because he has kept his real age a secret from the rest of the gang (at least until a Halloween episode), everyone else now holds a grudge against Kelso because he did not use his age to their advantage and buy them beer. Kelso enjoys a good "burn," meaning a painful humiliation to someone. Although he screams "burn!" a lot, Kelso himself rarely burns anyone. Because a burn requires a cleverness that is beyond Kelso's limited mind. So he usually just screams "burn" when piggy-backing on other people's burns. Kelso's interests include smoking Marijuana , watching Christmas Cartoons , playing with Rock 'Em Sock 'Em Robots , playing Atari , buying toy dinosaurs, and dreaming of being a Spaceman . Kelso also engages in incredibly stupid activities of his own design, such as skiing off the tops of moving cars, and sliding down a rocky hill in a canoe. He seems to have an affinity for falling off the town water tower, and even does so on purpose in the series finale. He has suffered all sorts of consequences for his idiocy (everything from gluing his hand to the Formans' fridge to burning himself while underwater) but apparently by dumb luck manages to avoid being seriously hurt or killed. Kelso accidentally shot Eric Forman 's pet hamster, Snowball, with a BB Gun . Later he accidentally shot Steven Hyde . There is also one time in which Hyde shoots Kelso in the leg. Hyde and Kelso's fights usually end with Hyde damaging Kelso's eyes, prompting him to shout "Ah, my eye!", or a variation of such. Kelso once wore a pair of ski goggles to avoid this, so Hyde just kicked him in the shin. MICHAEL AND JACKIE When the show started, Kelso was dating Jackie Burkhart , a popular and self-centered Cheerleader . The two lost their virginity to each other after Kelso and his friends got out of jail for riding in a car that was mistaken for being stolen. Jackie gets on Kelso's friends' nerves on a daily basis and Kelso repeatedly said that he was going to break up with her. But Jackie beat him to it and broke up with him after catching him kissing Pam Macy, but they got back together in the very same episode. Jackie later broke up with Kelso again after a pregnancy scare, but they got back together later at the Junior Prom. Then in Season 2, Kelso began an affair with Eric's promiscuous sister, Laurie, about which Jackie eventually found out and subsequently broke up with him again. Kelso then continued to date Laurie, until he later in Season 3 when he found out Laurie had cheated on ''him''. Soon after, Jackie decided to test Kelso to see if they should get back together, which they did. Kelso remained loyal to Jackie after that and stayed with her througout Season 4. However, after Kelso had neglected Jackie by joining a modeling agency, Eric caught her kissing her boss, and held it over her head. Kelso eventually found out, and went to ambush Jackie's boss, not knowing he was a blackbelt. Kelso is beaten up by Jackie's boss, and he is angry at her for a while, until she tells him to find out why he cheated. She says she cheated because she was neglected. Kelso finds out he cheated because Jackie always insulted him and made him feel bad about himself, and broke up with her because she felt he couldn't be with someone who made him feel like that. It didn't last, as they got back together shortly after. Then in the Season 4 finale, Jackie asked Kelso to marry her, but Kelso freaked out and left for California with Donna. When he returned in the beginning of Season 5 he found out that Jackie had moved onto Hyde, which made him extremely jealous, and he spent the majority of the season trying to get her back. By the beginning of Season 6 however, Kelso had claimed to be over Jackie and was fine with just being friends with her. At the end of Season 7 however, Kelso drives Jackie to Chicago after her break-up with Hyde, and they nearly had sex together, but Hyde showed up and Kelso ran off. In Season 8, he considered getting married to Jackie, claiming that he did still love her, before he was offered a job in Chicago, but Fez had already told her about his proposal, which made him feel he should do so, but she eventually turned him down, much to his own pleasure. OTHER Kelso loves a good burn as much as the next guy, even when the burn is at his expense, but generally he doesn't mean to severely hurt someone, which he often does but most of the time he hurts people by an accident through virtue of his innate stupidity rather than by design. It is clear from Jackie and Kelso's relationship that Kelso definitely is not the one wearing the pants in his relationships; he is easily manipulated (Laurie pointed this out once and called him a "tool") and never fulfills his promise of breaking up with his girlfriend, although the latter may simply be because he is afraid to break a woman's heart. When he dates Annette in Season 5, he even remarked "It's good to be under someone's thumb again!" with a grin, suggesting his prefers his women to be controlling. In the season 6 opener, it's revealed that Kelso is allergic to eggs- right after he downs a glass of raw eggs. Also in that same season a plotline was added that made Kelso the Illegitimate father of a baby girl, Betsy, (conceived in a bathroom at a Molly Hatchet concert). Brooke, the mother of the child, appeared in several episodes during that season, and made a final appearance in a season 7 episode. His character became a Policeman , albeit a bumbling one. He attempted to take his job seriously by growing a mustache and calling himself "Mike", but was quickly reverted when Hyde and Fez cut his mustache and made him resemble Adolf Hitler . He eventually set the police academy on fire via a flare gun, and even before then, broke into the academy and lost his supervisor's squad car. Consequently, Kelso is kicked off the force, prompting him to accept a job as a security guard for a Chicago -based playboy bunny like club from the sleazy owner who is played by guest star Bruce Willis (ex-husband to Ashton's real life wife Demi Moore ). He was promoted as the "supervisor" where he would be the one warning customers "Don't touch". This was done so that Ashton Kutcher could star in the film '' The Guardian ''. Michael Kelso showed up for the Series Finale of That '70s Show , which aired Thursday, May 18 , 2006 . He joined Fez and Hyde in the water tower and was tricked into jumping off the tower as was done in previous episodes. He explained to them that he felt he had to come back: "It's like the turn of the century, Man!" He is the last person seen on the show before the end credits. FAMILY Kelso's maternal grandmother's name is Betsy whom his daughter is probably named after. He has an older brother, Casey Kelso and it's known he has at least two more brothers and at least one sister. In season 1, episode 14 called "Stolen Car", Eric Forman Grace states that Kelso's parents have seven kids. Both his mother and grandmother have, in Kelso's words, "big honkin' whiskers." Kelso's dad John Kelso appeared in one episode, entitled "Career Day." Despite popular belief that Michael and Casey Kelso never appear on-screen together (even when in the same scene, one would exit the screen before the other would enter), they actually did appear together when Donna visited the Kelso House (episode 17, Season 4). QUOTES
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