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Examples of [[{{TOPLEVELPAGE}}]]s in [[{{SUBPAGENAME}}]] include:
* In ''Are We Done Yet'', John C. Macginley's character was explaining about [[Scrubs|dangerous pathogens]] to the main characters.
* In the 1999 movie ''[[The Phantom Menace]]'', [[Liam Neeson]] played the role of Qui-Gon Jinn (a mentor who taught Obi-Wan to conquer fear, to be mindful of his surroundings, etc...) and in the 2005 movie ''[[The Dark Knight Saga|Batman Begins]]'', [[Liam Neeson]] played the role of Henri Ducard, (a mentor who taught Bruce to conquer fear, to be mindful of his surroundings, etc...) and it's easy for those familiar enough with ''[[Star Wars]]'' to feel reminded of Qui-Gon when watching ''Batman Begins'' scenes involving Ducard. One cannot help but suspect this was on purpose. Furthermore, the ninja training Ducard offers Bruce is also noticeably similar to jedi training as well, in involving strong self-discipline, careful stealth, refined swordfighting skills, etc... {{spoiler|the difference between the two mentors becomes apparent later in ''Batman Begins'', when it's revealed that Ducard is in fact Ra's al Ghul and is shown to be a genocidal [[Knight Templar]], absolutely convinced that destroying all of Gotham was the right thing to to... contrast this with Qui-Gon, who (save for [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero|making it his dying wish for Obi-Wan to train Anakin]]) was portrayed primarily as having sound moral judgement.}}
* A joke played once straight and once as its converse with Chow Yun-Fat; in ''[[Anna and
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* ''[[Bend It Like Beckham]]'' has a very short instance of this, when Juliette's mother explaining it's harder for female jocks to get boyfriends, saying "This is why Sporty Spice is the only one without a boyfriend." Melanie C (aka Sporty Spice), rewrote her song "Independence Day" so it could be in the film.
* ''[[Arsenic and Old Lace]]'' shows [[Cary Grant]]'s character sitting by a tombstone that bears the name Archie Leach, Grant's real name.
** In the original run of the play the part of Jonathan Brewster, who had had so many cosmetic surgeries he "look[ed] like Boris Karloff," was played by [[Boris Karloff]]. He was unavailable for the film however, because he was still in the play on Broadway, so the part was played by [[
* In a possibly unintentional one, in ''[[Australia (2008 film)|Australia]]'' David Wenham plays a completely evil bastard named Fletcher, just like in ''[[The Proposition]]''.
* [[The Film of the Book]] ''[[Bridget Jones Diary]]'' had Colin Firth cast as Mark Darcy, Bridget's [[Love Interest]]. The book was based on [[Jane Austen]]'s ''[[Pride and Prejudice]]'', whose romantic lead is Fitzwilliam Darcy (this itself is referenced in a line about how Bridget finds it ridiculous of Mark to be named Darcy and stand by himself at a party). Colin Firth played a particularly memorable Mr. Darcy in a 1996 [[BBC]] television adaptation of ''P & P''. The character of Bridget Jones started in a column in ''[[British Newspapers|The Independent]]'' and the ''[[British Newspapers|Daily Telegraph]]'', and when the adaptation was being broadcast she would often mention how much she fancied him. His casting in ''Bridget Jones's Diary'' was a HUGE [[Actor Allusion]].
** Also, the only male actors mentioned in the novel ''Bridget Jones's Diary'' are Colin Firth and Hugh Grant. Firth is Darcy, and Grant played Daniel Cleaver, Bridget's other [[Love Interest]]. Grant also starred in another [[Jane Austen]] dramatization, ''[[Sense and Sensibility (
* In ''Brigada Explosiva: Mision Pirata'', Emilio Disi's character asks a girl if she's heard of Brigada Z. When she says no, he asks: "What about ''Bañeros''?". Disi and his co-star in the movie, Gino Renni, co-starred in the ''Bañeros'' trilogy.
* There's an interesting example of what looks like an [[Actor Allusion]] but apparently isn't in ''[[Evolution (
* Near the beginning of ''[[Flushed Away]]'', Roddy (played by [[Hugh Jackman]]) is trying on different clothes. At one point, he tries a [[Wolverine]] costume, referencing Jackman's role as Wolverine in the ''[[X-Men (
** This isn't the first time [[Ian McKellen]] has played a character who's [[X-Men (
* In the 1940 screwball comedy ''[[His Girl Friday]]'', Cary Grant delivers the line "Listen, the last man that said that to me was Archie Leach just a week before he cut his throat." (Archie Leach was Grant's real name.)
* In ''[[Stardust (
* In ''[[A Fish Called Wanda]]'', Otto secretly betrays George to the police, then visits him in jail. He asks if George knows who sent him up, mentioning "Kevin Delaney" as a possible suspect. Otto is played by Kevin Delaney Kline.
** George's full name in that movie is George Thomason. He is played by Tom Georgeson.
* Speaking of which, in ''[[Fierce Creatures]]'', Rollo briefly calls Willa "Wanda" by accident. Makes sense for a [[Spiritual Successor]].
* In ''[[How to Marry
* In ''[[The Lord of the Rings (
* In ''[[The Rock (
** [[Sean Connery]]'s character explains his abilities by saying he was "trained by the best: British Intelligence". One reviewer called this "[[James Bond (
** Furthermore, when [[Nicolas Cage]]'s character introduces himself, Connery responds with "But of course you are!" This is a line used by Bond in ''[[
* Connery also replies "But of course you do!" to a mook who claims he has a black belt, in the film ''Rising Sun''.
* The American version of ''[[The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo]]'' had a very James Bond inspired title sequence. Fitting, since Michael Blomquist was played by [[Daniel Craig]].
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** At the start of the film, protagonist Donald Sutherland is startled by an old lunatic (played by Kevin McCarthy) running through traffic and screaming that they're coming. Kevin McCarthy had been the protagonist in the original film, who'd last been seen running through traffic screaming that they were coming at the end of that film.
** [[The Spock|Leonard Nimoy's character is replaced by an emotionless Podling.]]
* Furthermore, there's [[Jeff Bridges]] in ''[[Iron Man (
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** A harder to catch one is when Pepper is at Obadiah's computer, and there are folders marked "Lebowski".
* In ''[[Pirates of the Caribbean]]'', Jack Sparrow's father is played by [[The Rolling Stones|Keith Richards]], which is a [[Shout
** Even better, Keith's scene features him playing guitar.
** The fourth film features Gemma Ward as a character named Tamara. Out of the only four films Gemma has starred in thus far, one has been ''[[The Strangers]]'', in which her character is introduced enigmatically asking if an unknown "Tamara" is in the house.
** Also in the fourth film, Barbossa asks, "aren't we all kings' men?" Geoffrey Rush was fresh off his Oscar-nominated role as Lionel Logue in ''[[The King's Speech]]''.
* In ''[[Stay Tuned]]'', John Ritter's character lands in the living room of an apartment that looks like the one his character in ''[[
* It's probably easier to list the scenes in the 2007 adaptation of ''[[St Trinian's]]'' which don't nod to Colin Firth's previous career in some way. The dog is called Mr. Darcy. (In one scene, it starts humping his leg, and he later [[Kick the Dog|kicks it]] into a lawnmower.) The [[MacGuffin]] of the film is the painting ''[[Girl
* The [[
** In ''Ocean's Thirteen'', as Rusty ([[Brad Pitt]]) bids goodbye to Danny ([[George Clooney]]), he tells him not to gain so much weight in between gigs next time - an allusion to Clooney packing on extra pounds for his role in ''[[Syriana]]''. Danny responds by telling Rusty to settle down and have a couple of kids - a reference to Pitt's relationship with [[Angelina Jolie]] and their many adopted/biological children "acquired" in the short period of time between the films 2 and 3 (or Twelve and Thirteen depending on semantics).
** All three films make references to [[Frank Sinatra]] either through dialogue or through his music. Frank Sinatra originated the role of Danny Ocean in the original ''Ocean's Eleven''.
* On the subject of [[Frank Sinatra]], in the original ''Ocean's Eleven,'' he played a guy who runs a floating crap game. [[Guys and Dolls|Sound familiar?]]
* In the film ''[[The Marine]]'', [[John Cena]]'s relentless pursuit of the bad guys prompts one underling to remark that "This guy's like [[The Terminator]]!" The head bad guy, played by Robert "T-1000" Patrick, glances in the rear view mirror at the comment.
* In ''[[Maverick (
** The title character (played by [[
** Further, the film features the father of Bret Maverick -- who, just coincidentally, happens to be played by none other than James Garner, who originated the role of Maverick on TV (and who in fact played Bret and Bart's "Pappy" in the ''[[Maverick (TV series)|Maverick]]'' episode of that same - he was often referenced on the show, but that was the only episode in which he was ever seen).
* The film ''[[Hot Shots]] Part Deux'' features a particularly tangled [[Actor Allusion]]. [[Charlie Sheen]], as Topper Harley, rides a boat through a swamp and in voice-over makes an entry in his journal, reciting dialogue that is almost identical to one of his monologues from ''[[Platoon]]''. But he's distracted by another voice-over -- he looks up to see [[Martin Sheen]], his real-life father, heading towards him in another boat while re-enacting one of his monologues from ''[[Apocalypse Now]]''. To cap it off, the two notice each other, stand up, and as the boats speed past, give each other a thumb's-up and reference yet another movie, in which ''both'' Sheens appeared: "I loved you in ''[[Wall Street]]''!"
* In ''[[X-Men (
** The trucker in that movie is played by George Buza, who voiced Beast in [[X-Men (
** In ''X-Men: First Class'' Michael Fassbender is [[Inglorious Basterds|a multi-lingual Nazi hunter]] while James MacAvoy [[Wanted|is rather reluctant to shoot someone in the head]]. This might also extend to January Jones being [[Mad Men|a beautiful ice queen]].
* The ''[[
* ''[[Seltzer and Friedberg|Epic Movie]]'' has Kal Penn [[Hey, It's That Guy!|calling The White Bitch (Jennifer Coolidge) "Stifler's mom"]], then finding the White Castle she offers (insert shot of burger store) familiar: he was one of the eponymous characters in ''[[Harold
** Similar to the Kal Penn example, towards the beginning of ''[[Harold
** And towards the end of ''Epic Movie'', they parody ''[[Superman Returns]]'' - which Kal Penn had a role in.
* One of many good thing(s) about ''[[Meet the Spartans]]'' was when [[Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep"|the Captain]], played by Kevin Sorbo, said "Don't make me go [[Hercules: The Legendary Journeys|Hercules]] on your ass!"
* In ''[[Cannonball Run]]'', Burt Reynolds' character considers driving a black Trans Am in the eponymous race, the same vehicle Reynolds famously drove in ''Smokey and the Bandit''. He then comments [[It's Been Done|"It's been done."]]
* In ''[[Evan Almighty]]'', the title character, while being carjacked by God, drives past a movie theater. It's showing ''[[The 40-Year-Old Virgin]] Mary''. Minus the Mary, this was one of [[Steve Carell]]'s movies.
* In ''[[Indiana Jones and
* ''[[The Rock (
* [[Sylvester Stallone]] and [[Arnold Schwarzenegger]] have had a friendly rivalry for years, and many of their movies have in-jokes about the other:
** In ''[[
** In ''[[
** In ''[[
** In ''[[
** In ''[[Tango and Cash]]'', Tango makes fun of a random prisoner by saying, "I loved you in ''[[
** And when they finally have a scene together in ''[[
*** As Arnie walks away Stallone asks Willis what his problem is, to which Willis replies, "He wants to be President."
* In ''[[The
* In ''[[Terminator|TerminatorSalvation]]'', the bodybuilder playing the T-800 ([[Fake Shemp|physically, that is]]), Roland Kickinger, had previously played Arnold in the made-for-TV biopic ''See Arnold Run''.
* Arnold's turn as a lecherous Turkish Prince in ''[[Around the World
** The same film had Orville and Wilbur Wright played by real-life brothers Owen and Luke Wilson. Owen's presence is also debatably a nod to the ''[[Shanghai Noon]]'' series of films, which starred himself and Jackie Chan (one of the stars of ''Around the World'').
* Richard Petty voiced one of the ''[[Cars]]'', named The King (a [[Shout
** Mrs. The King, voiced by Petty's [[Real Life]] wife, is depicted as the same car she used to drive to his early races, before he became famous.
** Similarly, two cars in the film are voiced by Tom and Ray Magliozzi, hosts of the radio show Car Talk. At one point the film, they say "Don't drive like my brother!" "And don't drive like ''my'' brother!", their [[Catch Phrase]] on the show.
** Mater, who is voiced by Larry the Cable Guy, uses Larry's catchphrase "Git 'er done!" near the end.
* In the movie version of ''[[Starship Troopers (
* In ''[[Hot Fuzz]]'', Edward Woodward is one of the villagers in the [[Town
** Not exactly. The character who was an extra in ''[[Straw Dogs]]'' was shot outside, while the {{spoiler|bear trap incident takes place inside the bar.}}
* In the 2003 ''[[Hulk (
** In the 2008 movie, Edward Norton watches the Brazilian version of ''The Courtship of Eddie's Father'', which starred Bill Bixby, who played David Bruce Banner in the Hulk live action TV series. The kindly owner of the pizza parlor is played by Paul Soles, who voiced the Hulk in the '60s cartoon.
* The Tim "[[Toy Story (franchise)|Buzz Lightyear]]" Allen remake of ''The Shaggy Dog'' has the eponymous dog jump off a bridge on to a bus, with Allen saying "To infinity and beyond!"
** Also in ''[[The Santa Clause (film series)|The Santa Clause]] 2'' Santa (Tim Allen) encountered a plastic duplicate of Santa who believes himself to be the real thing. While combating one another the plastic Santa calls him a [[Toy Story (franchise)|"Sad, strange little man."]]
* In the 2004 ''[[The Punisher|Punisher]]'' movie, Frank's old cop buddies are trying to calm him down by saying they understand that he's upset. He responds, in part, "I used to get ''upset'' when the Yankees won the Series." This is both a [[Shout
* ''[[Kung Pow]]'' has Mufasa from ''[[The Lion King]]'', played by [[James Earl Jones]], signing off with one of James's taglines: "This is CNN".
* There are at least two Shannen Doherty in-jokes in ''[[Mallrats]]'': in one scene, Doherty's character Rene is called "Brenda" by mistake (her character in ''90210''). [[Ben Affleck]]'s character's name, Shannon Hamilton, is a veiled reference to Doherty's previous marriage to Ashley Hamilton.
* In ''[[
** The climax of ''Naked Gun 33 1/3'' occurs at the Academy Awards, complete with a number of celebrities showing up as usual. Two of them are [["Weird Al" Yankovic]] and [[Wheel of Fortune|Vanna White]]. Frank and Jane tie them up with lights and drag them into the bushes, leaving a small but notable number of viewers wondering why they weren't [http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/weirdalyankovic/stuckinaclosetwithvannawhite.html stuffed into a closet] instead.
* The first scene of ''[[Tango and Cash]]'' has Tango saying "[https://web.archive.org/web/20140312122515/http://www.agonybooth.com/agonizer/Tango___Cash_1989.aspx Rambo is a pussy.]" Guess who plays Tango.
* ''[[The Freshman (1990 film)|The Freshman]]'' is all about this trope. [[Marlon Brando]] plays a powerful, shadowy, charismatic crime boss whose resemblance to [[The Godfather
* ''Fanboys'' has several, including, but not necessarily limited to; Ray "Darth Maul" Park doing some of the acrobatics from his ''Star Wars'' role, and Carrie "Princess Leia" Fisher responding with "I know" to "I love you".
* [[Mark Hamill]]'s appearance in ''[[Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back]]'' is immediately followed by the message "Hey Kids it's Mark Hamill! (Applause!)" referring to his role as the voice of the Joker in ''[[Batman:
** "Don't fuck with the [[Star Wars Expanded Universe|Jedi Master]], son." Which became "Don't mess with the Mandos, mate." The way ''[[Star Wars]]'' fandom interacts with the EU is a very complicated dance.
* Another Fisher example occurs in ''[[The Blues Brothers]]''; when her character shoots off a bazooka, the sound effect is the same as the blasters in the ''[[Star Wars]]'' films.
* Danny Trejo almost constantly plays a character whose name is a type of knife (or the Spanish word for one), in particular, he is well known for his part in one of the 'trailers' shown during ''[[Grindhouse]]'', in which he plays a character named Machete ([[Machete|now a real movie]]). Interestingly enough, Trejo played a character by the same name in another one of Robert Rodriguez's movies: ''[[Spy Kids]]''. There is much debate over whether they are the same character.
** According to IMDB, his surname is Cortez.
***
* In ''Chúmbale'', the dad is watching Enrique Pinti on TV and bursts out in laughter, saying "I Love this guy!". The dad is played by Enrique Pinti.
* In the remake of ''[[Shaft]]'', John Shaft's uncle is none other than the original John Shaft, Richard Roundtree.
** That's literally. [[Samuel L. Jackson]]'s character is in fact the nephew of John Shaft from the original films.
* In ''[[Speed Racer (
* In ''[[The Saint]]'', Simon Templar's car is voiced by Roger Moore, who played Simon Templar in the TV series.
* One of the older actresses from the ''[[Black Christmas]]'' remake starred in the original movie.
** AKA SCTV's Andrea Martin.
* John Larroquette narrates the original ''[[
* Danielle Harris, who played Laurie Strode's daughter Jamie Lloyd in ''[[Halloween (
* In the latest ''[[Get Smart (
* The mockumentary ''Waiting for Guffman'' includes an in-character [[Actor Allusion]]. Fred Willard plays the town travel agent, and one of his roles in the [[Show Within a Show]] is President McKinley.
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* During a tense scene in the remake of ''Sleuth'' Jude Law (playing opposite [[Michael Caine]] in the role Caine played in the original) asks "What's it all about?" Caine and Law had assailed the eponymous roles in ''[[Alfie]]'' and its remake.
* In the ''[[Star Wars]]'' prequels (specifically the second movie, and a bit of the third), [[Christopher Lee]] plays [[Dracula|an evil count whose name starts with a D. With unnatural dark powers.]] (Lee has played Dracula in no fewer than ''ten'' movies, according to his IMDB profile. Plus one "Count Drago.")
** In ''[[The Lord of the Rings (
** There's also Lee's performance as Willy Wonka's father in [[Charlie and
* ''[[Twenty-Four-Hour Party People]]'', which chronicles the rise and fall of Manchester's Factory Records (which featured Joy Division, New Order, Happy Mondays, A Certain Ratio, and many others), makes frequent use of this. Several times throughout the film actual people who were involved with Factory make brief cameos as janitors, bartenders, etc, sometimes interacting with the actors portraying them. At one point in the movie [[Steve Coogan]] ([[Unreliable Narrator|narrating]] as Factory founder Tony Wilson) [[Breaking the Fourth Wall|points out to the audience]] that there have been these cameos all along. Additionally, Howard Devoto of The Buzzcocks refutes the veracity of a scene in which he is portrayed (wherein he has sex with Tony's wife) saying "I definitely don't remember this happening."
* In ''[[Kill Bill]]'', Elle Driver's fate is left ambiguous as the last we see of her is her trashing around wildly on the floor and screaming after getting her other eye ripped out. Actress Darryl Hannah reacts the same way to getting shot in ''[[Blade Runner]]''.
** Also, Bill tells The Bride the legend of Pai Mei before he sends her to train with him. The story is a word-for-word recounting of the backstory of David Carradine's character from the ''Kung Fu'' TV series.
* Derek Jacobi as King Claudius in [[Kenneth Branagh]]'s ''[[Hamlet]]''; he had previously appeared in ''[[I, Claudius]]''. He also appeared in the BBC Television Shakespeare adaption of the play as Hamlet himself.
* [[
** Also, when he says that he hails from the land of the free, one chicken asks expectantly: "Scotland?"
** When he later becomes unpopular with the hens, one of them mentions: "I doubt he even was an American.", referencing the fact that [[
** He is partly Australian, but very bitter about it.
* A director one, which doubles as a [[Take That]]: the opening scene of ''[[Scream (
** Well, he ''did'' write Part 3, ''The Dream Warriors''. And directed ''New Nightmare''.
** Craven has a [[Creator Cameo]] as a janitor named "Fred", who is wearing a fedora and a red & green sweater.
* The 2001 ''[[Planet of the Apes]]'' features cameos from the stars of the original, Charlton Heston (protagonist Taylor), becomes... the "damned dirty" ape father of the villain, with the added bonus of his [[Famous Last Words|last words]] being "[[Planet of the Apes Ending|Damn them! God damn them all to hell!]]") and Linda Harrison (the [[Nubile Savage]] Nova), turned into an unnamed human captive).
* ''[[Dracula 2000]]''. A famous television reporter turned vampire asks, pinning down the male lead, "Ever wanted to fuck a TV star?" The reporter was played by Jeri Ryan, famous for playing [[Ms. Fanservice]] Seven of Nine in ''[[Star Trek
** In addition, she divorced her ex-husband after he tried to take her to a wife swapping club...so someone else could do just that...
* In the [[Made for TV Movie]], ''High School USA'', the [[Jerk Jock]] (Jerk Prep, actually) gives the Eddie Haskell treatment to Eddie Haskell himself. Ken Osmond (the actor who played Eddie Haskell) played the father of the girl that that the Jerk Prep was dating.
* In ''[[Crank
* Near the end of ''[[Fred Claus]]'', the antagonist of the film, played by Kevin Spacey, is given a Superman cape by Santa Claus. Kevin Spacey recently played [[Lex Luthor]] in ''[[Superman Returns]]''
* In ''Sex and the Single Girl'' (1964), Tony Curtis's character has to wear a woman's robe, because his clothes are wet. He says he looks like "Jack Lemmon did, in [[Some Like It Hot|that movie]], where he dressed up like a girl." Later, he's several times said to be looking like Lemmon.
* In [[Billy Wilder]]'s ''[[One, Two, Three]]'', Red Buttons appears as an MP who does a "You dirty rat" impression to the face of CR MacNamara ... played by James Cagney.
* In ''[[Mystery Men]]'', Ricky Jay says, "I'm not a magician!" -- which the actor is in real life. He also played a magician in ''[[
** In ''[[
* ''Hell is for Heroes'' is for the most part a gritty [[World War II]] action film ... except for a brief sequence in which comedian Bob Newhart, at the time best known for his one-sided telephone conversation comedy routines, appears as a GI. After the Americans discover a German bug in their camp, Newhart's character is forced to improvise a one-sided telephone conversation making it seem like the Americans are in a better position than they actually are.
* A rather painful one in ''[[Steel (
* Possible example in ''[[Best in Show]]'': Fred Willard's character says of Catherine O'Hara's "That handler looks familiar to me." It works in the film itself as part of the [[Running Gag]] that O'Hara and her husband keep running into her old boyfriends, but also references that she and Willard played a couple in ''Waiting for Guffman''.
* In ''Mr. Skeffington'' Bette Davis play an older woman, complete with make-up and all, who believes she is still young and acts accordingly. When a doctor implies that she is indeed not young anymore she asks if he thinks she is old and ugly. He answers something to the effect of: "Well, you're no Greta Garbo". The two of them had sort of a friendly rivalry going, not unlike Schwarzenegger/Stallone.
* Michael Biehn has been bitten on the arm in every James Cameron movie he's been in - ''[[The Abyss]]'', ''[[Aliens]]'', and ''[[The Terminator]]''.
* In ''[[Indiana Jones and
** Erhm, this one might be more an allusion to Jesus being the son of a carpenter.
*** Or, you know, both.
* In ''[[Death Proof]]'', Abby, [[Rosario Dawson]]'s character, tells her friends that her boyfriend fucked Darryl Hannah's stand-in. [[Zoe Bell]], one of the friends, was [[Uma Thurman]]'s stand-in in ''[[Kill Bill]]'', wherein Thurman at one point fights Hannah.
** Earlier, in the bar where Stuntman Mike meets the first group of girls, [[Big Trouble in Little China|Jack Burton's]] shirt is in a frame on the wall.
** Stuntman Mike has a scar over one eye, on the same side as the eyepatch in ''[[Escape
* There's a memorable instance of this the otherwise forgettable film ''Stakeout'': To pass the time while on stakeout, Emilio Estevez and Richard Dreyfuss's characters are playing a guessing game where they cite memorable lines of dialogue and quiz the other as to what movie it's from. Emilio Estevez's character, in an [[Large Ham|over-the-top]] way, recounts the line: "''This'' was not a ''boating'' accident!" Dreyfuss, after a moment's pause, replies "I don't know." The line is from the film ''[[Jaws (
* In ''[[The Men Who Stare
** One critic described the movie as "[[Take That|the best Star Wars movie Ewan McGregor has ever starred in.]]"
** There's also one for Jeff Bridges, as "I Just Dropped In" is also used prominently in ''[[The Big Lebowski]]''.
* In the final dance scene in ''[[Dirty Dancing]]'', Baby's mother says proudly of her daughter's dancing abilities, "She gets it from me!" Baby's mother is played by Kelly Bishop, who was in the original production of ''[[A Chorus Line]]'' and is a pretty accomplished dancer.
* In one of the ''[[Look
* In the "blinkandyoullmissit" category, Jeff Goldblum's performances in ''[[Jurassic Park]]'' and ''[[Independence Day]]'' both use the line "Must go faster" during chase scenes.
* In ''Living in Oblivion'' Steve Buscemi plays Nick Reve, an independent film director. At one point in the movie his lead actor storms off, shouting that he'd only wanted to work with Nick because he'd "heard he was tight with Quentin Tarentino!"
* An incredibly blatant one in ''[[Airplane!]] II: The Sequel'' where Cdr. Buck Murdock looks into a periscope. The first shot shows the Starship ''Enterprise'' from ''[[Star Trek:
** Earlier in the same film there's a scene where air traffic controller Steve McCroskey (played by Lloyd Bridges) is shown residing in a nursing home. A nurse explains that he's gone senile and "thinks he's Lloyd Bridges," and we see him donning a scuba mask (an allusion to Bridges' role on the '50s TV show ''Sea Hunt'').
* Coy example: in ''[[Batman (
* In ''[[Alvin and the
* An odd case occurs in ''[[Forgetting Sarah Marshall]]''. Kristen Bell plays the title character, an actress, and at one point, other characters mock her for a bad movie she was in, in which she was attacked by a killer cell phone. The writers insist that they wrote the line not knowing that Kristen Bell actually was in a movie, ''Pulse'', about a killer cell phone.
* Combined with a [[Parental Bonus]] in ''[[Monsters, Inc.]]'', when the character voiced by [[Steve Buscemi]] threatens to put another character [[Fargo|through the shredder]].
* In [[Uwe Boll]]'s [[Alone in
* In ''The Great White Hype'', [[Samuel L. Jackson]]'s character of "The Sultan" greets a well-dressed white man with long black hair with "Vincent, Vincent, where's Jules, man?", referring to Vincent Vega (played by [[John Travolta
** Similarly, the trailers for the new John Travolta movie ''[[From Paris
*** The same film has a writer allusion. Early on, Travolta's character uses the [[Bond One-Liner]] "Wax on, Wax off". Co-writer and producer [[Luc Besson]] often works with Robert Mark Kamen, who wrote ''[[The Karate Kid]]'' which originated that line.
* In ''[[The Muppet Movie]]'', [[Mel Brooks]]' character wears a lab coat with "PROF" on the back - a nod to his role as Governor Le Petomane ("GOV") in [[Blazing Saddles]].
* David Boreanas' character in ''Valentine'' is a drunk who breaks his sobriety. One of the characters even say that "he's no [[
* In ''[[
** [[Julia Roberts]]' character is asked if she's ever been to El Rodeo Drive. She smirks and says [[Pretty Woman|yes]].
* At the end of ''The Real Howard Spitz'', the eponymous protagonist (played by [[Kelsey Grammer]]) considers becoming a sitcom writer. When his friend points out he knows nothing about it, Spitz replies "Writing a sitcom's not hard. You just have a married couple, a [[Cheers|bar in Boston]] or a [[Frasier|psychiatrist on the radio]]."
* During a [[Good Cop, Bad Cop]] sequence in the [[Buddy Cop Show|buddy cop film]] ''Cop Out'' (starring Tracy Morgan and Bruce Willis), Tracy Morgan is interrogating the suspect by acting like a gun-waving maniac and spewing random movie lines. When Tracy says ''[[Die Hard
* In ''[[Last Action Hero]]'', Daniel points out that F. Murray Abraham is playing Jack's old buddy, but he was the traitor Salieri in ''[[Amadeus]]'' so he shouldn't be trusted. He's correct, and the character later makes a [[Face Heel Turn]].
* Lynda Carter's line in the movie ''[[Sky High]]'', "I'm not Wonder Woman, you know." Lynda Carter played [[Wonder Woman]] in the [[Wonder Woman (TV series)|TV series]].
* One scene in ''[[Scotland, PA]]'' sees police Lt. McDuff pick up some maracas and spontaneously dance a few steps, explaining, "You know, I used to be a dancer." Said character is played by dancer-turned-actor [[Christopher Walken]].
* When the stalker Fireball first enters the combat zone in the movie ''[[The Running Man (
* In [[The Three Stooges]] short ''Crash Goes the Hash'', the butler (Bud Jamison) responds indignantly to the boys' antics by saying, "Such levity; you remind me of the Three Stooges!" Curly takes exception to the comment.
* The well known [[Jackie Chan]] movie ''[[Drunken Master]]'' has him playing a Drunken Boxing expert. He also plays a Drunken Boxing expert in his American film, ''[[The Forbidden Kingdom]]''. ''[[Shanghai Noon]]'' was supposedly going to feature a Drunken Master fighting sequence too but Hollywood knows they're not good enough for cool fight scenes...Jackie does get drunk at one point, however, if that's good enough.
* In ''[[Inception]]'', the song that is played to wake everyone up is Edith Piaf's "Non, je ne regrette rien". Marion Cotillard (Mal) played Piaf in the biopic La Vie En Rose and won an Oscar for it. Also, the song title translates to "I have no regrets." This was apparently coincidental, the song was chosen before Cotillard was cast, and the director didn't realize the connection until it was too late to change the score.
** She also beat [[
** Crossing over with [[Wrestler in All of Us]] and [[Fridge Brilliance]]. At one point, Arthur locks a hostile projection in a hold known as the Cobra Clutch. The move was used (and named after) Sgt. Slaughter, a wrestler who was also a character in GI Joe. Levitt portrayed Cobra Commander in the GI Joe movie.
* In ''[[The Princess Diaries]] 2'', at the sleepover, Queen Clarisse says to Mia, "I've done quite a lot of flying in my time." This is referring to her part in [[Mary Poppins]].
* In the newer ''[[The Longest Yard]]'' with [[Adam Sandler]], Burt Reynolds plays the protagonist's mentor in prison. Reynolds played Sandler's role in the original installment.
** Burt Reynolds' character asks Adam Sandler, "How'd they get you to go to Florida State?" Burt Reynolds attended Florida State University on a football scholarship.
* The [[Vincent Price]] vehicle ''Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine'' has more than one; when Goldfoot shows off his family portrait gallery, all of his ancestors are images of Price from previous movies. Soon after, Frankie Avalon's character discovers his fellow ''[[Beach Episode|Beach Party]]'' stars [[The Cameo|Annette Funicello and Harvey Lembeck]] locked up in Goldfoot's dungeon.
* In ''[[The Incredibles]]'', Frozone's scene with the cop and getting the drink of water is a direct homage to Samuel L Jackson's scene as Zeus in ''[[Die Hard With a Vengeance]]'', in which a cop is about to shoot him but he needs to answer a pay phone.
** Also, when Mr. Incredible encounters Buddy Pine, the future Syndrome, he initially guesses his name is Brody. Jason Lee, who plays Syndrome/Buddy, starred as Brody Bruce in ''[[Mallrats]]''.
* At one point in ''[[The Mask (
* There's a lot of this in the [[Mockumentary]] ''Comic Book The Movie'' due to its large cast of voice actors in live action roles, as well as several actors, directors and comic creators as themselves. [[Billy West|Leo Matuzik]] staring at a poster of [[Futurama|Fry]] stands out as one of the funniest.
** Then there's Don Swan's short conversation with Ms. Q in the studio office. Swan is played by [[Mark Hamill]], and Ms. Q is played by Arleen Sorkin. They portrayed Joker and Harley Quinn in [[Batman:
* In ''Suck'' (2009), after Joey and Jennifer have given up vampirism and rock stardom for a mundane suburban life, they run into the bartender from earlier in the movie, a vampire played by [[
* In ''[[Dreamscape]]'', George Wendt, who is most famous for his role of "Norm" from ''[[Cheers]]'', plays an author who believes he's uncovered a government conspiracy. His character meets the protagonist in a bar.
* ''[[
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* In ''[[Enemy of the State]]'', Gene Hackman plays a character who seems like an aged version of his character from ''[[The Conversation]]''. When the baddies bring up a file photo of Hackman's character when he was younger, it is of Hackman as he appeared in ''The Conversation''.
* In ''[[Back to The Future]] Part III'', Mary Steenbergen stars as Clara Clayton, a woman who falls in love with a time-traveller (Doc Brown). Steenbergen had also starred as such a character in ''Time After Time''.
* In ''[[
* In ''[[Avatar (
* In ''[[Harry Potter (
** The actor who briefly played young Grindelwald in Deathly Hallows was the same as an actor who has played [[The Picture of Dorian Gray|Dorian Gray]]. The comparison is apt, as [http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3894917/1/A_Very_Young_Girls_Record_of_Her_Own_Impressions others have noticed].
** In ''The Sorcerer's Stone'', John Hurt's character has a similar costume to [[The Storyteller (TV series)|the Storyteller.]]
* In ''[[
* In the B-movie, ''Gryphon'', one of Jonathan LaPaglia's lines is "[[Seven Days]]," spoken in such a way that it must have been intentional.
* In ''A Carol Christmas'', the ghost of Christmas Present is played by [[William Shatner]] and the way that he transports Carol to different places looks like teleportation in ''[[
* Again with [[The Big Lebowski|His Dudeness]] in ''[[Tron
* In ''[[
* Unintentional example in ''[[The Book of Eli]]'': [[Gary Oldman]] plays a character who, despite the difference in setting and time period, has certain similarities to his character in ''[[The Fifth Element]]'': a smarmy corporate villain with a slight Southern accent who's obsessed with finding a certain artifact and, on multiple occasions, appears to have the artifact in his possession. It's already pretty funny in ''The Fifth Element'' when {{spoiler|he repeatedly opens the case only to find that it's empty}}, but it transforms into something of a [[Running Gag]] when {{spoiler|in ''The Book Of Eli'', he finally obtains the similarly leather-bound, locked Bible and opens it, only to discover that it's in Braille}}. Could also be a [[Hilarious in Hindsight]] depending on when you're watching each movie.
* It could be accidental, but in ''[[The Colour of Magic (
* In the movie ''[[
* ''[[Ramona and Beezus (
* In ''[[¡Three Amigos
* [[Robert Downey, Jr.]]'s character in ''[[A Scanner Darkly]]'' tried to make a homemade silencer only to make the gun louder. [[Sherlock Holmes]] while bored and drunk tried to make the first silencer with the same results.
* In ''[[Captain Ron]]'', the titular character, played by [[Kurt Russell]], wears an eyepatch to cover up an ill-fitting [[Glass Eye]]. [[Kurt Russell]] with an [[Eyepatch of Power|eyepatch]]? Sounds [[Escape
* Counts as [[Self-Deprecation]]: during the credits of ''Rock Star'', [[Mark Wahlberg]]'s character says he'll leave rock and move into rap... while "Good Vibrations", by [[Old Shame|Marky Mark]], is playing in the background.
* A strange, predictive example: in ''[[Forrest Gump]]'', Lt. Dan (Gary Sinese) tells Forrest (Tom Hanks), "The day you're a shrimp boat captain, I'll be an astronaut!" This was a reference to the original book, in which Forrest became an astronaut, but the next time those two actors were in a film together it was ''[[Apollo 13]]'', where, indeed, Sinese played an astronaut.
* In 1988's ''[[Working Girl]]'', corporate executive Katharine Parker ([[Sigourney Weaver]]) steps off a helicopter carrying a giant stuffed gorilla. Earlier in 1988, Weaver starred in ''[[Gorillas in The Mist]]''.
* In the ''[[
** Interesting contrast is that one of Fahey's characters claims to be God and the other is claiming that he isn't looking for God.
* In ''[[Mulholland Drive]]'', the transition from dream world to the real world is marked by the Cowboy telling [[Naomi Watts]]' character, "Come on now, pretty girl, time to wake up". In ''[[I
* In ''Love and Other Impossible Pursuits'', [[Natalie Portman]] plays the stepmom of a precocious eight-year-old, as he considers his future education options. When he brings up Harvard, Portman's character Emilia blurts "Harvard sucks!" No prizes for guessing which university is Natalie's alma mater.
* Antonio Banderas is well known for his role as the masked caped crusader Zorro as well as the cheesy line "you are the love of my life" which Puss in Boots (who Banderas voices) repeats to a female cat just before getting on the boat in Shrek the Third.
* In the original ''[[
* In ''Brewster [[McCloud]],'' Margaret Hamilton plays Daphne Heap, who is murdered early on. When the camera pans down to show her, she is wearing ruby slippers, a reference to her role of the Wicked Witch.
* In the film ''[[Liar Liar]]'', the actor playing [[Jim Carrey]]'s son makes a funny face and asks if his face will get stuck like that. Carrey replies with something like "No; in fact, some people make good money that way," poking fun at his own distinctive style of acting.
* In ''Hot Shots! Part Deux'' President Benson dons a wet suit and joins a Navy Seal team of scuba divers. He also provides voice-over narration, describing the underwater action. The actor is most famous for the television series ''Sea Hunt.''
* In ''[[
* Andy Griffith is forever remembered for the character he played on [[The Andy Griffith Show]]: an aw-shucks, small-town do-gooder with a heart of gold. But in the film ''[[A Face in the Crowd]]'', Griffith plays Lonesome Rhodes: an immoral, power-hungry egomaniac who becomes one of the most popular personalities on television...by ''pretending to be'' an aw-shucks, small-town do-gooder with a heart of gold. Yikes.
* ''[[The Rundown]]'': At the beginning of the movie, [[Dwayne Johnson|The Rock]] is destroying the football players in the night club. One of them receives a Rock Bottom, his [[Shout
* ''[[Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (
** Even more bizarre is that [[Johnny Depp]] seems to have copied her hairstyle from that role.
* The third ''[[Transformers (
** There's also an ironic bit of foreshadowing concerning Sentinel with a scene at the beginning of the movie. The two smallest Autobots are watching the original ''[[Star Trek:
** This is also not the first time that Leonard Nimoy has played {{spoiler|a major villain}} in a Transformers movie. He voiced Galvatron in [[The Movie]] of the original cartoon series.
* In his first appearance onscreen in ''[[Zardoz]]'', [[Sean Connery]] [[James Bond|aims his gun at the camera]] [[Sean Connery Is About to Shoot You|and shoots it]].
* ''Madhouse'': Having [[Vincent Price]] play an actor well known for playing the villain in horror films is sort of an actor allusion in and of itself, but then there's the fact that the clips we see of his character's old films are actually doctored scenes from other American International Pictures films starring Price. Also, after his character suddenly disappears during a talk show appearance, the host notes that he once played the invisible man: Vincent Price starred in ''The Invisible Man Returns''. Robert Quarry also gets an AIP-related [[Actor Allusion]] - During a costume party, his character is dressed as a vampire, and costume is the exact one he wore in the AIP film ''Count Yorga, Vampire''.
* Edward Hardwicke as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in ''Photographing Fairies''. By the time the film came out, Hardwicke was by far best known as the [[The Other Darrin|second]] Dr. Watson in the Granada ''[[Sherlock Holmes]]'' adaptations.
* In ''[[Sin City]]'', a cop attacking John Hartigan ([[Bruce Willis
* ''[[
* [[Ace Ventura]] is afraid of bats, which makes sense, since [[Jim Carrey]] also played the Riddler in ''[[
* In 2006's ''[[
* In ''[[Shooter]]'', Rhona Mitra's character apparently sleeps in her old [[Tomb Raider|Lara Croft]] outfit.
* In ''[[Who Framed Roger Rabbit?]]'', Eddy Valiant (played by Bob Hoskins) is [[It Will Never Catch On|skeptical]] about Judge Doom's scheme to raze Toon Town to make room for a freeway. Hoskins was also in the 1974 movie ''Inserts'', which involved an attempt to get a washed-up director's home torn down to make way for a freeway. Also, Judge Doom's line "Traffic jams will be a thing of the past
* In ''[[The Lion King]]'', [[Jeremy Irons]] is the voice of Scar, a fratricidal lion with a scar on his face. As he kills his brother (come on, everyone knows it happens), he says "Long live the king." In ''[[Kingdom of Heaven]]'', Irons plays the scarred Marshal of Jerusalem, who chants "Long live the king" in the exact same voice at [[Jerkass|Guy de Lusignan]]'s coronation.
* Cuba Gooding Jr will be playing a Tuskegee pilot in the upcoming 2012 WWII movie, ''Red Tails''. This isn't the first time Cuba played a Tuskegee pilot since the first one he did was in the 1995 HBO movie, ''The Tuskegee Airmen''.
* In the film version of ''Spawn'', Martin Sheen says, "Let's start the [[Apocalypse Now]]!"
* ''[[
* In ''[[
* ''[[Happy Gilmore]]'' managed the impressive feat of getting in at least three with Carl Weathers, who plays Happy's golfing mentor Chubbs. First, Happy, (who sneers at golf in the early sections of the film) asks Chubbs why a big guy like him isn't playing a real sport like football. (Weathers was once a pro football player). Chubbs claims his mother wouldn't let him play any dangerous sports, which Happy remarks might be a good thing. (Weathers played Apollo Creed from the ''[[Rocky (
* In [[Immortals]] John Hurt plays Zeus in human form - exactly what his character [[The Caligula|Caligula]] thought he was way back in [[I, Claudius]].
* In Crispin Glover's film ''What Is It?'' he has a role and asks the people around him what they address him as. One man answers [[Back to
* The theatrical poster for ''[[
* Unintentional (probably) but still funny example: in Woody Allen's ''[[
* ''[[Zoolander]]'' has Jon Voight as Derek's father say the following:
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** Ben Stiller's character's manager is played by his father, and his love interest is played by his wife.
* In ''[[Booky Makes Her Mark]]'', Booky has tea with [[
* In ''[[Some Like It Hot]]'', gangster Spats Columbo (played by George Raft) asks a coin-flipping hoodlum, "Where'd you pick up ''that'' cheap trick?" Raft became famous playing coin-flipping gangsters in movies like ''Scarface'' and ''If I Had a Million''.
* In ''[[Tapeheads]]'', the FBI agent who says "Remember what we did to Jello Biafra?" as he arrests [[Tim Robbins]] and [[John Cusack]] ''is'' [[Jello Biafra]], who less than two years earlier had been prosecuted for obscenity based on complaints from the [[Moral Guardians|PMRC]].
* ''[[Scott Pilgrim
* In ''[[The Contender]]'', [[Jeff Bridges]] plays the President of the United States, and puts his feet up on the resolute desk just like [[The Big Lebowski|the Dude]] does. He also goes bowling.
* Mavis Gary of ''[[Young Adult (
* In the film ''Think Like A Man'', the male characters are discussing the film [[For
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* A somewhat strange example; In ''My Week With Marilyn'', Colin Clark went to Eton and sang in the choir. Colin Clark did go to Eton, but it was his actor, Eddie Redmayne, who sang in the Eton College Choir.
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