diff --git a/pymc3/distributions/continuous.py b/pymc3/distributions/continuous.py
index 71c37af042..985f90bcba 100644
--- a/pymc3/distributions/continuous.py
+++ b/pymc3/distributions/continuous.py
@@ -20,7 +20,6 @@
 import warnings
 
 import numpy as np
-import theano
 import theano.tensor as tt
 
 from scipy import stats