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Before he was the lovable, abrasive father on "That 70s Show," something was very very wrong with Kurtwood Smith in the excessive violence-and-gore sci-fi classic, RoboCop. He played cop killer Clarence Boddicker, the drug-addicted leader of a gang of murderous thugs terrorizing Old Detroit. Boddicker and his gang were truly made for the times. In the rough and crumbling society they operated in, they killed at will and were bound for something big when they met an unlikely business partner: Dick Jones, Vice President of Omni Consumer Products (OCP). Jones wanted one of OCP's creations - RoboCop, to be exact - destroyed. To get the job done on the down-low, he hires these bad guys to do the job and arms them with military hardware. (Of course, they had to test this hardware on a small shopping district downtown first...) Clarence often hit both ends of the emotional spectrum, sometimes piping hot and other times calm in an unsettling way, perhaps because of his prickly personality or love for drugs. When it comes to violence, however, he always operated with all guns a-blazin', regardless of the consequences. A businessman and ruthless killer, Boddicker had no respect for the system, so the system fought back in the form of RoboCop. I'm just waiting for the day he snaps on "That 70s Show" and Red blows Kelso's arms off with a shotgun. Heh...