<P> Fez was born on August 4, 1960 . His real name is deemed unpronounceable by his friends, so they call him "Fez" (short for Foreign Exchange Student). The series' official web site explains the spelling "Fez" (as opposed to "Fes") as "poetic license". Red usually calls him "the foreign kid", or by a random foreign (or Native American) name through 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 . Eric's grandmother calls him "Desi". </P> <P> A flashback episode shows when Fez first meets the others . They rescue him from a janitor's closet where several bullies have hung him on a coat hook . The bullies had asked him if he wanted to hang out; he tells 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 (what Valderrama was actually saying was the first names of the main actors who appear in the show), after which Hyde (hearing the name) says "OK...I'm not going to remember that ." 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 . His name has no consonants, only vowels . </P> <P> 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 . </P> <P> Fez's host parents, Matthew (Kevin Farley) and Rebecca Erdman (Shannon Holt) appear only in one episode, "Drive In". </P>

Do we ever learn where fez is from