Ashton Kutcher Took A Real-Life Tumble In This Hilarious That ’70s Show Scene

Ashton Kutcher has never been afraid to get physical on “That ’70s Show,” and clumsy Michael Kelso has been hurt once or twice, especially with the many fights he got into with Hyde(“ow, my eye”). But there was at least one time Kelso — and Kutcher — really got hurt, accidentally. And they kept it in the show.

It happened during the show’s 1st season, in its 12^th Episode. Unlike today’s short, 6-to-13-episode seasons, this 1990s network show had 25 episodes in its first season, and this was its mid-point break. It was the series’ first Christmas-themed episode, called “The Best Christmas Ever,” airing on December 13, 1998. Kutcher did a stunt where he was supposed to jump over the couch in Eric Forman’s basement to talk to Eric’s sister Laurie. But that wasn’t how things turned out. 

“My heels hit the edge of the couch and I slipped off and took it right in the shins with the table,” Kutcher explained on the 100th Episode Special of “That ’70s Show.” In the scene, the (spiked) punch bowl sloshes and spills and table props scatter, while Kelly visibly laughs but holds it together. Meanwhile, Kutcher stayed in character. “I hold it still, and I’m like, ‘you just can’t smile now,'” he said, adding that he was trying to tell himself it doesn’t hurt. The blooper got a huge laugh from the audience, so they kept it in the final cut. 

It seems Kutcher was delighted with the scene. “I like making people laugh, and if that helps to make people happy, I’ll hurt myself a little bit,” he concluded.