![]() ![]() ![]() At that point in my life I wasn’t watching television much. I never watched it but my friends loved it. Where should she rank in the pantheon of TV moms? Is it like - Carol Brady, Kitty Forman, Lucille Bluth, end of list?Īh, she’s the mom from Arrested Development. I love that she smokes, drinks, and curses at Red once in a while. Hey, don’t sell yourself short with your acting. They’ve made Kitty not a perfect person so can you identify with her more. I think most of that is due to the writing. I feel like I’m disrespecting you by not sipping Schnapps right now. ![]() You must be told this a lot, but I find you to be one of the most compelling sitcom mothers of all time. “It’s a secret and people don’t know I’m doing that. I haven’t even told the writers this, but having that question hang over everything Kitty does is a fun thing to play,” she says. (Leia is, of course, the child of Topher Grace’s Eric and Laura Prepon’s Donna.) Rupp is still reckoning with this new decade of Kitty’s life, especially when thinking of her evolution. She’s now reprising her role, alongside Kurtwood Smith’s cantankerous Red, in Netflix’s That ’90s Show, which centers around their granddaughter visiting them for the summer in Point Place, Wisconsin. Her husband, Red, is barreling down the staircase, and he’s almost definitely going to call someone a dumbass.ĭebra Jo Rupp played the endearing, often tipsy capital- M matriarch for the entirety of That ’70s Show’s run, nurturing anybody and anything that had the luck of crossing the threshold of her screen door. “I’m going to close my eyes,” Kitty announces, “and when I open them, there better be a cigarette between these two fingers.” One appears, followed by five lighters, but her puffs of ecstasy last for mere seconds before she’s back to reality. All she wants is those damn teenagers in her basement to give her a hit of nicotine. Early in the series, she comes home from a long shift as a nurse at a hospital, where - just like at home - she’s overworked and undervalued. There’s a scene from That ’70s Show that always pops into my mind when I think of Kitty Forman. ![]()
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