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post #1 of 165
2/10/08 at 2:49am
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Since I believe the original thread disappeared during the revamp. I figure I'd bring back after I was messing around on youtube and found that Mayor Carcetti was one of the lead characters on Queer as Folk (UK), Consider my mind blown with that one.
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post #2 of 165
2/10/08 at 6:46pm
That Michael Keaton was originally suppose to play Jack on LOST and not Matthew Fox.
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post #3 of 165
3/29/08 at 4:16pm
In the Letterman segments that ran on The Electric Company back in the 70s, Gene Wilder was the voice of Letterman and Zero Mostel was the voice of Spell Binder. Mind = blown.
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post #4 of 165
3/29/08 at 5:45pm
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That Michael Keaton was originally suppose to play Jack on LOST and not Matthew Fox.
Man, that would have been awesome.
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post #5 of 165
3/29/08 at 6:20pm
He was supposed to Die at the end of the Pilot episode.

I'm glad they went the way they did.
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post #6 of 165
7/9/08 at 2:26am
That it wasn't just a fluke the first time I saw it, but Numb3rs is actually this painfully, absurdly stupid every episode. Wee-bey, Will Patton, you deserve better.
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post #7 of 165
8/14/08 at 5:55pm
Sitting down with my brand-spankin new DVDs of the 5th season of The Wire, the commentary informs me that the actress who plays Alma the reporter is married to Larry "D'Angelo Barksdale" Gilliard.
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post #8 of 165
8/14/08 at 5:57pm
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Mind blown! That and David Simon has a cameo in the first season as a college basketball coach who sells his star player to Barksdale for the upcoming West-East game.
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post #9 of 165
8/14/08 at 5:59pm
Simon has more cameos. He's seen as one of the reporters at the newspaper in season 5 and as a reporter near the docks in season 2 i think.
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post #10 of 165
8/14/08 at 6:11pm
Shit, I caught the small ones, but I guess I haven't watched that basketball episode since I figured out what Simon looks like. He actually has a couple of lines and everything.
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post #11 of 165
8/14/08 at 6:14pm
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Yeah, it's a complete scene. I only knew about it because I recently watched the first season. Need to get back on track and review the second one sometime soon.
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post #12 of 165
8/14/08 at 8:52pm
Jeffrey Donovan (Burn Notice) was Jared's younger brother Kyle on the Pretender. I'd totally forgotten about that show until my wife noted it in passing last week in an "oh yeah, you didn't know that?" tone.
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post #13 of 165
8/14/08 at 9:08pm
All shows have at least one episode with Tracy Middendorf.
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post #14 of 165
8/14/08 at 9:20pm
I thought I saw Stanley from The Office walk into the social security administration building in the X-Files episode "Talitha Cumi". I just realized it's not him.
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post #15 of 165
8/14/08 at 9:26pm
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All shows have at least one episode with Tracy Middendorf.
Or Michelle Forbes.
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post #16 of 165
8/14/08 at 9:26pm
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I thought I saw Stanley from The Office walk into the social security administration building in the X-Files episode "Talitha Cumi". I just realized it's not him.
You know who was in The X-Files? Tracy Middendorf.
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post #17 of 165
8/14/08 at 10:49pm
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You know who was in The X-Files? Tracy Middendorf.
You know who else wasn't in The X-Files? Greg Grunberg. In an unusual move.
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post #18 of 165
8/19/08 at 12:02am
Charlize Theron has never been more cute or appealing than when she played the retarded British woman on Arrested Development.
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post #19 of 165
8/19/08 at 12:09am
I just realized Tristan Wilds (Michael from The Wire) will be a castmember in the 90210 spinoffremake thing... and I sighed.
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post #20 of 165
8/19/08 at 12:35am
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I know, the only other interesting thing about the new 90210. They have a Persian character, which is a little more reflective of actual Beverly Hills demographics.
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post #21 of 165
8/19/08 at 12:55am
But its a Persian... that happens to be Scientologist.... and may be a closeted homosexual.

Does that even hurt the "reflexive of actual Bevery Hills demographics" argument, though?
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post #22 of 165
8/19/08 at 12:59am
The 90210 remake has Michael from the Wire, Darcy from Degrassi, Lori Loughlin, and Jessica Walter. I will illegally download at least one episode because of this. (Although to be fair, Jeff Judah and Gabe Sachs, who worked on Freaks & Geeks and Undeclared, are the showrunners, so there are odds that it might not totally suck.)
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post #23 of 165
8/19/08 at 1:16am
The Bob Saget roast made me realize that Lori Louglin has, quite improbably, gotten steadily hotter for my entire lifetime.
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post #24 of 165
8/19/08 at 1:21am
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But its a Persian... that happens to be Scientologist.... and may be a closeted homosexual.

Does that even hurt the "reflexive of actual Bevery Hills demographics" argument, though?
I know all three groups exist in BH. But to have it rolled into one? That's some kind of trifecta right there.
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post #25 of 165
8/19/08 at 1:30am
Phil Lamar has voiced a character in every animated tv show ever made. Or at least since 1995 or so.
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post #26 of 165
8/19/08 at 1:59am
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Since I believe the original thread disappeared during the revamp. I figure I'd bring back after I was messing around on youtube and found that Mayor Carcetti was one of the lead characters on Queer as Folk (UK), Consider my mind blown with that one.
A minor derail, but have you watched the UK version? I keep mulling over getting it, and I think a respected opinion or two might sway me in either direction.
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post #27 of 165
8/19/08 at 2:37am
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I've been trying to but the dvd is out of print and I will not spend $75 on Amazon. Oddly enough had I bid a buck more on Ebay I would've gotten it. Of course I was leery was spending $38 on it though.

But I do know it's very different than the US series even though it has it's parallels.
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post #28 of 165
8/19/08 at 8:32pm
That Michael and Marlo from The Wire are gonna be starring in 90210 and Heroes.

I'm too used to seeing them as their characters there. That's gonna take some getting used to. Especially goddamn Marlo.
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post #29 of 165
8/19/08 at 8:44pm
That Billy West did the voice for not only Philip J. Fry, but also Farnsworth, Zapp Brannigan, Dr. Zoidberg, and various minor characters.
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post #30 of 165
8/19/08 at 9:15pm
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That Billy West did the voice for not only Philip J. Fry, but also Farnsworth, Zapp Brannigan, Dr. Zoidberg, and various minor characters.
Once you know it, it's pretty easy to hear him in each voice. Then, once you're good and ingrained with his work in Futurama, go back and watch Ren & Stimpy to have your mind blown more.
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post #31 of 165
8/19/08 at 9:16pm
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Same thing with the Simpsons seeing how it's basically three guys: Castalanetta, Azaria, Sherera(sp?). You can tell which guy is voicing which character.
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post #32 of 165
8/20/08 at 1:18am
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...go back and watch Ren & Stimpy to have your mind blown more.
Thanks. I heard dubbed long time ago but the original is superb. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vN6NtWw5nmY
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post #33 of 165
8/20/08 at 1:20am
I coulda had a V8
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post #34 of 165
8/20/08 at 10:16am
That "guy with a moustache" whose appeared in the background on various Simpsons episodes was not David Crosby, but in fact writer John Swartzwelder.

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post #35 of 165
8/20/08 at 12:35pm
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Heh, it looks like they slapped the guy's head on Barney's body. Also they say on the commentary that Swartzwelder would fit right into a 1930s Preston Sturgis movie.
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post #36 of 165
8/20/08 at 1:02pm
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That Michael and Marlo from The Wire are gonna be starring in 90210 and Heroes.

I'm too used to seeing them as their characters there. That's gonna take some getting used to. Especially goddamn Marlo.
*sigh* they deserve better....
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post #37 of 165
8/22/08 at 4:29pm
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I just found out that my mother lives near the fountain that was used in The Weeds intro.
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post #38 of 165
8/25/08 at 9:39am
Levy from The Wire is in that Arby's commercial where he's getting catcalls from construction workers while eating a Big Montana.
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post #39 of 165
8/25/08 at 9:49am
Levy also has a blink-and-you'll-miss-it part in 'Liar Liar' as one of the execs that Carrey's character roasts.
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post #40 of 165
8/25/08 at 11:37pm
Shia TheBeef played the mascot who broke his arm in the episode of Freaks and Geeks where Sam takes over as mascot.
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post #41 of 165
8/26/08 at 12:12am
Edie McClurg was in an episode of Seinfeld, and appeared on Nash Bridges in 2episodes playing different characters.
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post #42 of 165
8/26/08 at 2:14pm
Watching the fifth season of The Wire and one of the homicide detectives, Barlow I think,(the "Thats my dick in your ear" guy from the first season) is reading Generation Kill at his desk. Thought that was a cool little nod to their next project.
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post #43 of 165
8/26/08 at 2:17pm
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There was an episode of Homicide that showed Kellerman reading The Corner. So it's been done before.
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post #44 of 165
8/26/08 at 2:33pm
Having just seen Jane Adams as the (what else) fragile, needy spinster roles in The Wackness and Little Children, I went to IMDB to try to figure out why she seemed so familiar. The answer: "Mother of Dead Baby" in the pilot episode of Carnivale.
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post #45 of 165
8/26/08 at 2:47pm
The great Jerry Orbach was up for the lead detective Max Greevy on Law & Order in the first season. But the producers went with George Dzundza instead. A year later, Dzundza quits and Orbach was up for the new lead detective Phil Ceretta in season two. But again the producers went elsewhere - this time to Paul Sorvino.

When Sorvino left after a year and a half on L&O, Orbach was the first (and only) choice for the third lead detective Lennie Briscoe.
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post #46 of 165
1/1/09 at 4:43am
Jack McBrayer, Kevin Baumgartener, Phyllis Smith, and Ed Helms all had minor roles on Arrested Development long before they rose to prominence in 30 Rock and The Office. In Smith's case, it was her first television role.
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post #47 of 165
1/4/09 at 5:26am
Tobin (Jigsaw) Bell played an employee of a record store on an episode of Seinfeld.
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post #48 of 165
1/4/09 at 5:40am
He also played the President/Dean of a military reform school on The Sopranos, if I'm remembering correctly.
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post #49 of 165
1/4/09 at 9:09am
In the Simpsons there are two guys one is sad looking and the other is older with a trucker hat. They have never spoken or even been giving nicknames. Yet they're in Moe's all the time
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post #50 of 165
1/4/09 at 2:31pm
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I think they have names but I have no clue who they are.
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