3rd Rock from the Sun/Trivia: Difference between revisions

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* [[Actor Allusion]]: [[John Lithgow]] has so very, very many...

** His first time riding in a plane, Dick panics after seeing [[Twilight Zone|"something on the wing."]] Mary informs him that that's the engine.

*** Double Allusion: When the Big Giant Head ([[William Shatner]]) visits Earth, upon disembarking from a plane, he tells Dick that he had to be sedated (with something wonderful called "alcohol") after also seeing "something on the wing." Dick exclaims, ''"Same thing happened to me!"'' The character Lithgow played in [[The Movie]] was portrayed in the original ''[[Twilight Zone]]'' episode by Shatner.

** [[Roseanne Barr]] plays the Big Giant Head's niece, Janet, who was supposed to be Dick's wife. At first, she's totally devoted to being a good wife, and enjoys cooking and cleaning. Then Dick finds out that she was under the belief that she "had" to love him since she was his wife and those were "the rules". Dick informs her that there are no rules to marriage and she's free to be with whoever she wants. Janet then drops everything and reveals that she really hates cooking, cleaning, being with Dick, and his family, and then decides to explore the world. Up until Janet's declaration of her hatred of being a housewife, Roseanne's role was an inversion to her former glory as Roseanne Conners from ''[[Roseanne]]''. Upon admitting how she really felt it turned into a shout out to her former role.

* [[Actor Existence Failure]]: Season three ended with a [[Cliff Hanger]] in which Harry had been kidnapped by Vicki's old boyfriend Randy. [[Phil Hartman]], who played Randy, was dead by the time the show resumed for the next season, so the storyline had to be resolved without him. Randy gets a [[Karma Houdini]] as a result.

** John Lithgow's later roles include [[Shrek Lord|Farquaad]] and [[Dexter|Arthur Mitchell]]. The latter was especially jarring to any younger viewers who didn't know that he's an AMAZING dramatic actor.

** [[Seinfeld|Newman]], [[Jurassic Park|Nedry]] and [[Toy Story 2|Al]] all appear in here as well

*** Don't forget [[Buzz Lightyear of Star Command|Zurg]] too.

** Harry was kidnapped by [[The Simpsons (animation)|Troy McClure/Lionel Hutz]]