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* 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 Thethe King]]'', plays King Mongkut of Siam, who spent twenty years in a monastery before becoming king, and has since becoming king been... let's say, guaranteeing his bloodline. He says himself, he's been "making up for lost time." But later, as the Nameless Monk in [[Bullet ProofBulletproof Monk]], this exchange occurs...
{{quote| '''Kar:''' I'm not taking advice about women from a monk.<br />
'''Nameless Monk:''' *smiling* I was not born a monk. }}
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* In a possibly unintentional one, in ''[[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 (Filmfilm)|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 (Filmfilm)|Evolution]]'' with David Duchovny. When an alien threat appears, Duchovny's character advises against calling in the government, saying, "I've worked with those guys, you can't trust them" or words to that effect. This would appear to be an obvious reference to ''[[The X-Files]]''. According to interviews with Duchovny and the director of the film, however, this line was not an allusion to ''[[The X-Files]]''; the director had never seen the show. That, however, did not stop the studio's marketing department from making it appear that way in the movie's TV commercials.
* 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 (Filmfilm)|X-Men]]'' movies.
** This isn't the first time [[Ian McKellen]] has played a character who's [[X-Men (Filmfilm)|trying to get rid of a species he considers inferior, only to be defeated by Hugh Jackman.]]
* 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 (Filmfilm)|Stardust]]'', [[Ricky Gervais]]'s character Ferdy the Fence tells [[Robert De Niro]]'s character that "You're havin' a laugh." On ''[[Extras (TV)|Extras]]'', Gervais plays an actor who plays a character on the [[Show Within a Show]], and this character's [[Catch Phrase]] is "Are you havin' a laugh?" In one episode, he even wonders what DeNiro would think of his career.
* 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 Aa Millionaire]]'', Lauren Bacall's character is talking about men who married younger women: "Look at Roosevelt, look at Churchill, look at [[Humphrey Bogart|that old fella what's his name]] in ''The African Queen''."
* In ''[[The Lord of the Rings (Filmfilm)|The Lord of the Rings]]'' [[The Film of the Book|film trilogy]], Bilbo Baggins is played by Sir Ian Holm, who previously played Frodo Baggins in the BBC Radio adaptation of the book.
* In ''[[The Rock (Filmfilm)|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 (Filmfilm)|an in-joke the entire world gets]]".
** Furthermore, when [[Nicolas Cage]]'s character introduces himself, Connery responds with "But of course you are!" This is a line used by Bond in ''[[Diamonds Are Forever (Film)|Diamonds Are Forever]]''.
* 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 (Filmfilm)|Iron Man]]''. Even when he's playing weapons manufacturer Obadiah Stane, it's hard not to think of him as [[The Big Lebowski|His Dudeness]]. The film very subtly acknowledges this when Stane speaks dismissively about hippies and then asks "Am I wrong?", which John Goodman repeatedly asks Bridges in ''Lebowski''.
{{quote| "You're not wrong; you're just an asshole."}}
** A harder to catch one is when Pepper is at Obadiah's computer, and there are folders marked "Lebowski".
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** 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 ''[[ThreesThree's Company]]'' lived in. Two women (lookalikes of Suzanne Somers and Joyce DeWitt) enter and ask in unison "WHERE have you been?". He does a pratfall over the sofa, as he frequently did on the series. This scene solely exists to be an [[Actor Allusion]], since Ritter screams and immediately hits his remote control to go elsewhere.
* 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 Withwith a Pearl Earring]]''. (At one point, a couple of [[Chav|Chavs]] remark, "Wow! I can see why Colin Firth wanted to shag her!") It all culminates in a scene where, after being thrown out of a window into a fountain after being caught in a girls' dorm room, he walks across a field with his shirt sopping wet and romantic piano music being played in the background in a spectacular [[Homage Shot]] of the famous [[Wet Sari Scene]] from the BBC adaptation of ''[[Pride and Prejudice]]''.
* The [[OceansOcean's Eleven|Ocean's Trilogy]] has several:
** 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 (Filmfilm)|Maverick]]'':
** The title character (played by [[Mel Gibson (Creator)|Mel Gibson]]) is in a bank as it is held up by an unnamed bankrobber played by Danny Glover who starred alongside Gibson in the ''[[Lethal Weapon]]'' series of movies. Maverick acts as though he recognises the voice of the bank robber and pulls down his mask, leading the two of them to share a moment (as a portion of ''[[Lethal Weapon]]'''s main theme plays) before shaking their heads and walking away. As he makes his getaway, the unnamed bankrobber also mentions that he's "getting too old for this".
** 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 (Filmfilm)|X-Men]]'', Toad kicks Storm down an elevator shaft, then takes the pole that had been holding the elevator door open and twirls it like [[Star Wars|Darth Maul]]; both Toad and Darth Maul were played by Ray Park.
** The trucker in that movie is played by George Buza, who voiced Beast in [[X-Men (Animationanimation)|the 90s cartoon]].
** 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 ''[[Spaceballs (Film)|Spaceballs]]'' parody of the ''[[Alien (Filmfranchise)|Alien]]'' [[Face Full of Alien Wingwong|chestburster scene]] comes complete with John Hurt, who [[Hangs a Lampshade]] on it with the line, "Oh no, not again!"
* ''[[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 and Kumar]] Go to White Castle'' (in Britain ''[[Harold and Kumar]] Get the Munchies'') (later, a soldier yells at him, "Take that, Kumar!")
** Similar to the Kal Penn example, towards the beginning of ''[[Harold and Kumar]] Go to White Castle'', an extreme sports punk who steals Harold's parking space shouts "Better luck tomorrow!" at Harold, in reference to John Cho's role as the antagonist in the eponymous film.
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* 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 Thethe Kingdom of The Crystal Skull (Film)|Indiana Jones and The Kingdom of Thethe Crystal Skull]]'', Indy at one point declares, "I have a bad feeling about this," a line he previously uttered as Han Solo in ''[[Star Wars]]'' (and which would be a sort of [[Once an Episode]] occurrence in that film series; Solo was the second character to say it, in the trash compactor). ''[[Star Wars|Yoda Stories]]'' had an appearance by Indy too. Luke just says he looks familiar.
* ''[[The Rock (Filmfilm)|The Rock]]'', ''[[Con Air]]'', and ''[[Face Off]]'' are connected by a running gag around [[Nicolas Cage]]. In ''[[The Rock]]'', Nicolas Cage explains to [[Sean Connery]] that he drives a beige Volvo. In ''[[Con Air]]'', Nicholas Cage cuts Dave Chappelle's body loose from the plane, and it crashes onto a beige Volvo. In ''[[Face Off]]'', [[Nicolas Cage]] escapes from the oil rig prison and steals a beige Volvo.
* [[Sylvester Stallone]] and [[Arnold Schwarzenegger]] have had a friendly rivalry for years, and many of their movies have in-jokes about the other:
** In ''[[True Lies (Film)|True Lies]]'', [[Jamie Lee Curtis]] comments "I married [[Rambo (Franchise)|Rambo]]", in reference to Arnold's spy character. The novel suggests he craps higher than Rambo.
** In ''[[Demolition Man (Film)|Demolition Man]]'', Stallone is horrified to discover that LA now contains the "[[Hilarious in Hindsight|Schwarzenegger Presidential Library]]"
** In ''[[Last Action Hero (Film)|Last Action Hero]]'', Schwarzenegger and the kid come across an ad for ''[[Terminator 2]]'', with Stallone as the Terminator. "The man is an artist. It's his best performance ever!"
** In ''[[Twins (Film)|Twins]]'', Schwarzenegger sees a poster with ''[[Rambo (Franchise)|Rambo]]'' and laughs at the size of Stallone's biceps compared to his own.
** In ''[[Tango and Cash]]'', Tango makes fun of a random prisoner by saying, "I loved you in ''[[Conan the Barbarian (Film)|Conan the Barbarian]]!''".
** And when they finally have a scene together in ''[[The Expendables (Film)|The Expendables]]'', Arnie turns down the mercenary job on offer, telling Mr Church ([[Bruce Willis (Creator)]]) to give it to Stallone's character as he "[[Rambo (Franchise)|loves playing in the jungle]]".
*** As Arnie walks away Stallone asks Willis what his problem is, to which Willis replies, "He wants to be President."
* In ''[[The Sixth6th Day]]'', Arnold tells a man to "[[Get Out!]]" of his truck - just like he did on the first [[Terminator]] with a tanker.
* 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 Inin Eighty Days]]'' was unfortunately timed, as allegations of his sexually inappropriate conduct towards female colleagues were brought to the fore as he ran for governor.
** 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-Out]] to his [[Fan Nickname]]). It's a Plymouth Superbird with a #43 on it (his most famous car), and on one race, it even crashes in a frame by frame recreation of his famous 1988 Daytona 500 crash.
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** 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 (Filmfilm)|Starship Troopers]]'', Michael Ironside is seen to be impressed by the fact that Neil Patrick Harris is going to be a spy with [[Psychic Powers]]. Ironside was the [[Your Head Asplode|head a sploding]] villain in ''[[Scanners]]'', so he knows what it's like to be psychic. [[Hilarious in Hindsight|And now]] he knows what it's like to be [[Splinter Cell|a spy.]]
* In ''[[Hot Fuzz]]'', Edward Woodward is one of the villagers in the [[Town Withwith a Dark Secret]]. Woodward investigated such a town in ''[[The Wicker Man]]''. Similiarly, one character is said to have been an extra in ''[[Straw Dogs]]''. And then {{spoiler|he gets wounded with a beartrap in reference to that movie's most famous death scene.}}
** 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 (Filmfilm)|Hulk]]'' film, Lou Ferrigno played a security guard (alongside Hulk's creator [[Stan Lee]]), and in ''[[The Incredible Hulk (Filmfilm)|The Incredible Hulk]]'' (the 2008 movie starring Edward Norton), he voiced the Hulk (as well as playing another security guard). Ferrigno played the Hulk in the [[The Incredible Hulk (TV series)|1978-'82 live-action TV series]].
** 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|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!"
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* ''[[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 Naked Gun (Film)|The Naked Gun]] 2½'', actor Lloyd Bochner has a small role as a member of a consortium of villains. Towards the end of the film, there's a hysterical crowd scene which features a split-second shot of him holding a large book entitled "[[To Serve Man]]", yelling "It's a cookbook!!" This is a reference to a [[wikipedia:To Serve Man (The Twilight Zone)|famous episode]] of the original ''[[Twilight Zone]]'' TV series which Bochner starred 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 "[http://www.agonybooth.com/agonizer/Tango___Cash_1989.aspx Rambo is a pussy.]" Guess who plays Tango.
* ''The Freshman'' is all about this trope. [[Marlon Brando]] plays a powerful, shadowy, charismatic crime boss whose resemblance to [[The Godfather (Film)|Don Vito Corleone]] is remarked on by all the other characters. [[Matthew Broderick]]'s character tells [[Marlon Brando]]'s, "You know, you look an awful lot like [[The Godfather (Film)|The Godfather]]." The problem was that Marlon Brando tripled his body mass between movies, so he didn't really look that much like he did in ''[[The Godfather (Film)|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: theThe Animated Series]]''. Also when Jay cuts off his hand during a "bongsaber" fight, he [[Fourth Wall|looked at the camera]] and moaned "Not again."
** "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.
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* 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 (Filmfilm)|Speed Racer]]'', the oldest race announcer is played by Peter Fernandez, who voiced Speed Racer and Racer X in the [[Speed Racer (Anime)|original cartoon.]]
* 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 ''[[The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (Film)|The Texas Chainsaw Massacre]]'' and the remake.
* Danielle Harris, who played Laurie Strode's daughter Jamie Lloyd in ''[[Halloween (Filmfilm)|Halloween]] 4: The Return of Michael Myers'' and ''Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers'', appears in the ''Halloween'' remake and its sequel as Annie Brackett, Laurie's best friend.
* In the latest ''[[Get Smart (Filmfilm)|Get Smart]]'' movie, Smart is almost run over by a man with a peculiar accent while trying to hitchhike. [[Remake Cameo|That man is Bernie Kopell, the villain Siegfried in the original series.]]
* 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.
{{quote| McKinley: "I was headed for Wichita, but somehow I ended up here in Blaine. Guess I need a new travel agent!" * turns to the crowd and winks*}}
* 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 (Filmfilm)|The Lord of the Rings]]: The Return of the King'', Lee's character Saruman (another villainous magic-user, not a count though) {{spoiler|dies by being impaled on a wooden pole}}. This did not happen in the book.
** There's also Lee's performance as Willy Wonka's father in [[Charlie and Thethe Chocolate Factory (Filmfilm)|Charlie and The Chocolate Factory]].
* ''[[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.
* [[Mel Gibson (Creator)|Mel Gibson]]'s introduction in ''[[Chicken Run (Animation)|Chicken Run]]'' is accompanied by him yelling "[[Braveheart|FREEEEEDOMMMMMMMM]]"!!
** 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 [[Mel Gibson (Creator)|Mel Gibson]] is believed by many to be Australian.
** He is partly Australian, but very bitter about it.
* A director one, which doubles as a [[Take That]]: the opening scene of ''[[Scream (Filmfilm)|Scream]]'' features [[Drew Barrymore]] saying of the ''[[Nightmare On Elm Street]]'' series "The first one was good, the rest sucked." ''Scream'' director [[Wes Craven]] had directed the horror classic, with the studio later making lots of sequels without his involvement.
** 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: Voyager (TV)|Star Trek Voyager]]''.
** 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 (Film)|Crank: High Voltage]]'', one of the characters mentions that Chev Chelios looks a lot like "that guy from [[The Transporter]] movies". Chev and "that guy" are both played by [[Jason Statham]].
* 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 ''[[Film/The Prestige|The Prestige]]''.
** In ''[[Tomorrow Never Dies (Film)|Tomorrow Never Dies]]'', Ricky Jay's character was to have used throwing cards as weapons, but the scenes were ultimately cut from the film. Ricky Jay is an expert card thrower and was consulted by the [[Myth Busters]] on the subject too.
* ''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 (Filmfilm)|Steel]]'', where Richard Roundtree's character says of the hero's trademark giant hammer "I especially like the [[Shaft]]!" apropos of absolutely nothing.
* 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 The Last Crusade (Film)|Indiana Jones and Thethe Last Crusade]]'', Indy correctly identifies the Holy Grail, saying, "This is the cup of a carpenter." Harrison Ford worked as a carpenter early in his career.
** 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 Fromfrom New York]]''.
* 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 (Filmfilm)|Jaws]]'', spoken by Matt Hooper ? a character played by Richard Dreyfuss.
* In ''[[The Men Who Stare Atat Goats]]'', the story revolves around a secret US military program called the "Jedi Program" that attempted to train soldiers with superpowers. The main character? Played by Ewan McGregor, who played Obi-Wan Kenobi in the ''[[Star Wars]]'' prequels.
** 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 WhosWho's Talking]]'' movies, Kirstie Alley's character is reduced to working as an elf in a mall Santa display, sporting a gigantic pair of pointed ears. When some kids ask what she's supposed to be, she snarls "I'm a Vulcan! Wanna see my ''death grip''?" Alley's first movie role was playing the Vulcan Saavik in ''[[Star Trek II: theThe Wrath of Khan (Film)|Star Trek II the Wrath of Khan]]''
* 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: theThe Original Series (TV)|Star Trek the Original Series]]'', followed by a reaction shot, and then what the character was ''really'' seeing. Buck Murdock is played by [[William Shatner]].
** 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 (Filmfilm)|Batman]]'', [[Jack Nicholson]]'s plastic surgeon uses an assortment of crude, rusty tools to reconstruct his wounded face as the Joker. At least one of these implements closely resembles one used by the evil dentist in the remake of ''[[Little Shop of Horrors]]''. Who'd appeared in the original ''[[The Little Shop of Horrors]]'', as a masochistic client of this evil dentist? Jack Nicholson.
* In ''[[Alvin and the Chipmunks (Film)|Alvinandthe Chipmunks]]: The Squeakquel'', Alvin, voiced by Justin Long, says he must "remember the five D's of dodgeball: dodge, duck, dip, dive, dodge." A line from his previous film, ''[[Dodgeball]]''.
* 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 Thethe Dark (Film2005 film)|Alone in The Dark]] film, a character falls to his death in a spiky pit trap. The actor portraying him was Ho Sung Pak, who portrayed Liu Kang in the first two [[Mortal Kombat]] games, where characters could also meet such a fate.
* 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 (Creator)]]) and Jackson's own character Jules Winnfield, from Tarantino's [[Pulp Fiction]].
** Similarly, the trailers for the new John Travolta movie ''[[From Paris Withwith Love]]'' include Travolta's character singing the praises of [[Pulp Fiction|Royale with cheese]].
*** 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 [[Angel (TV)|Angel]]".
* In ''[[ValentinesValentine's Day]]'', Taylor Lautner's character says he's uncomfortable taking his shirt off, a swipe at Lautner's [[Shirtless Scene]]-prone role in the ''[[Twilight (Literaturenovel)|Twilight]]'' films.
** [[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 (Film)|Yippee-ki-yay, motherfucker!]]'', Bruce Willis's (who starred in the ''[[Die Hard (Film)|Die Hard]]'' films) character says "I've never seen that movie before."
* 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 (Filmfilm)|The Running Man]]'', Killian announces his arrival to the TV audience by declaring, "There he goes, the number one rusher!" Fireball is played by football player-turned-actor Jim Brown, who is widely considered the greatest running back in NFL history.
* 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.
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* 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 (Filmfilm)|The Mask]]'', there is a photo of police lieutenant Kellaway's wife. The woman is actress Verna Bloom, as she appeared in ''[[Animal House]]'', in which Kellaway's actor Peter Riegert starred.
* 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: theThe Animated Series]].
* 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 [[Alice Cooper (Music)|Alice Cooper]]. When he unfurls his wings, Jennifer says "Tell me I'm dreaming", to which he replies, in reference to their boring life, "Welcome to my nightmare". In another scene, when the band is crossing the border into America, the border guard is suspicious and hostile until they mention they're in a band, and he says he used to be in a band too. The guard is played by Alex Lifeson of [[Rush]].
* 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.
* ''[[Be Cool (Film)|Be Cool]]'': [[Dwayne Johnson|Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson]]'s pro-wrestling persona is playfully referenced in a discussion about his character, a gay bodyguard who dreams of getting his big break as an actor.
{{quote| '''Linda Moon''': "[[Fascinating Eyebrow|He can raise just one eyebrow at a time]]... and that's all he thinks it takes to be an actor."}}
* In the intro for ''[[The Alphabet Killer (Film)|The Alphabet Killer]]'', the protagonist (played by [[Eliza Dushku]]) laments how the people she most wants to talk to are dead. This could be an allusion to ''[[Tru Calling]]'', in which one of Eliza's previous characters (the eponymous Tru), could indeed talk to the dead.
* 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 ''[[An American Haunting (Film)|An American Haunting]]'', Sissy Spacek plays the mother of a teenaged girl named [[Alliterative Name|Betsy Bell]] who is constantly plagued by supernatural events... something Spacek should be quite familiar with, given that her most famous role was the eponymous telekinetic teen in ''[[Carrie]]''. The comparison becomes even more apt when it's revealed that {{spoiler|the source of the ghostly attacks was Betsy herself, manifesting the Bell Witch to protect herself from her sexually abusive father}}.
* In ''[[Avatar (Filmfilm)|Avatar]]'', Grace Augustine - played by Stanford alumna [[Sigourney Weaver]] - sometimes wears a Na'vi-size Stanford tank top on her avatar body.
* In ''[[Harry Potter (Filmfilm)|Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1]]'', a promotional poster for ''[[Equus]]'' appears on the wall of a cafe that the [[Power Trio]] ends up in, referencing [[Daniel Radcliffe]]'s [[Contractual Purity|controversial decision]] to [[Male Frontal Nudity|take on more mature fare]] while the Potter series was still running. Apparently, [[Self-Deprecation|it was his idea to put it there]].
** 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 ''[[Red (Film)|Red]]'', [[Bruce Willis (Creator)]]' character proclaims a lock to be "[[Unbreakable]]". Also, [[John Malkovich]]'s character remarks "I remember when the Secret Service used to be tougher", referencing his role in ''[[In the Line of Fire]]''.
* 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 ''[[Star Trek (Franchise)|Star Trek]]''.
* Again with [[The Big Lebowski|His Dudeness]] in ''[[Tron Legacy (Film)|Tron: Legacy]]''. Mellowed-out old Kevin Flynn is very reminiscent of The Dude in that he's all about zen, man.
* In ''[[Cedar Rapids (Film)|Cedar Rapids]]'', Isiah Whitlock Jr. quotes Omar from ''[[The Wire]]''. "And I keeps one in the chamber in case you ponderin'." On [[The Wire]] itself, Isiah plays Senator Clay Davis.
* 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 (Filmfilm)|The Colour of Magic]]'', [[The Film of the Book]], Sean Astin, who plays Twoflower, says "potatoes" to Rincewind in a way that sounds just like a certain scene from ''[[The Lord of the Rings (Filmfilm)|The Lord of the Rings]]'', where he was Sam.
* In the movie ''[[KellysKelly's Heroes]]'', [[Clint Eastwood]] has a standoff against a tank. The scene is shot like a Spaghetti Western, and has the theme from one of the Clint Eastwood Westerns.
* ''[[Ramona and Beezus (Filmfilm)|Ramona and Beezus]]'' has several shout outs at [[Selena Gomez]]'s expense. As Ramona is getting ready for her pictures, Beezus is styling Ramona's hair with a curling iron. Beezus points out to her that "That's a curling iron, not a [[Wizards of Waverly Place|magic wand]]." Earlier in the scene, the father states that, "TV kids make millions" as Beezus is shown to be smiling in the background. A later scene has Beezus telling Ramona "Every princess needs a little sparkle," which could be a reference to either ''[[Princess Protection Program (Film)|Princess Protection Program]]'' or ''[[Another Cinderella Story]]''.
* In ''[[¡Three Amigos! (Film)|Three Amigos]]'', [[Steve Martin]]'s character (Lucky Day), has to recite a magic phrase consisting of gibberish. The last two syllables are "Hoff-HARR", which is how you pronounce the last name of Steve Martin's character in ''[[The Man With Two Brains]]''.
* [[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 Fromfrom New York|familiar]]...
* 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 ''[[Apocalypse (Film)|Apocalypse]]'' film series movie ''Revelation'', Jeff Fahey's character Thorold Stone enters an ultra-realistic virtual reality simulation of a beach...[[The Lawnmower Man|guess which movie he starred in where he also entered a virtual reality program?]].
** 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 Heart Huckabees]]'', her character is replaced in her spokesmodel job by [[Isla Fisher]] after having a philosophical revelation. Trying to make Fisher aware of what she's seen, Watts puts her in a headlock and says, "Wake up, pretty girl!"
* 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 ''[[Thirteen13 Ghosts]]'', the house comes complete with a creepy old maid who happens to be played by Margaret Hamilton, at the very end of the film she picks up a broom to resume her house work, but instead gives the camera a devious look while she holds it, reflecting her best known role as the Wicked Witch of the West.
* 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 ''[[Star Trek Generations (Film)|Star Trek Generations]]'', we see a wet-behind-the-ears Captain Harriman, played by Alan Ruck. According to the ''Memory Alpha'' wiki, Harriman's personnel file from one of the video games says he has "[[Ferris BuellersBueller's Day Off|a wife named Sloane and a son named Ferris who both live in Chicago, as well as interests in 20th century Italian sports automobiles.]]"
* 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-Out|finisher]] in [[WWE]].
* ''[[Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (Filmfilm)|Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street]]'' was not [[Helena Bonham Carter]]'s [[Harry Potter (Filmfilm)|first time playing an insane, corset-wearing, mentally unstable yandere with a crush on a ruthless serial killer]].
** Even more bizarre is that [[Johnny Depp]] seems to have copied her hairstyle from that role.
* The third ''[[Transformers (Filmfilm)|Transformers]]'' film has an especially clumsy one: Sentinel Prime, voiced by Leonard Nimoy, says the line [[Star Trek II: theThe Wrath of Khan (Film)|"The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few, or the one."]]
** 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: theThe Original Series (TV)|Star Trek the Original Series]]'' television series when one of them remarks that he's seen this episode before, {{spoiler|it's the one where [[Leonard Nimoy|Spock]] goes crazy}}.
** 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 (Creator)]]) advises his colleague to kill without hesitation: John quickly dispatches them both and quips "Good advice". In ''[[Die Hard (Film)|Die Hard]]'', John McClane (Bruce Willis) took down a terrorist who had told him to kill without hesitation... then snarked "Thanks for the advice". Bruce's also lying on his back, shooting upwards, on both occasions.
* ''[[Gamera vs. Guiron (Film)|Gamera vs. Guiron]]'' featured a scene near the end of the film that seemed strange to non-Japanese viewers where the comic relief cop Kondo's glasses fell down his face, which he explained happened whenever he smiled. This was apparently actor-comic Kon Omura's trademark joke and appeared in most of his works.
* [[Ace Ventura]] is afraid of bats, which makes sense, since [[Jim Carrey]] also played the Riddler in ''[[Batman Forever (Film)|Batman Forever]]''.
* In 2006's ''[[Casino Royale (Film)|Casino Royale]]'' once in Monaco [[James Bond]] and [[Girl of the Week]] Vesper Lynd stay at the Hotel Splendid. ''Hotel Splendide'' is an indie film starring [[Daniel Craig]] as the chef at a failing island resort.
* 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 [[Foreshadowing|foreshadows]] a scene in [[Back to The Future|BackToTheFuturePart]] 2. See a review of the former [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vw0oksWLnX4#t=1m23s here].
* 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]]!"
* ''[[Film/Cannonball|Cannonball]]'': Look how Cannonball Buckman beats up the thug disguised as a motorcycle cop. [[Kung Fu|Where have we seen David Carradine fight like this before?]]
* In ''[[A Very Harold and Kumar 3D Christmas (Film)|A Very Harold and Kumar 3D Christmas]]'', Harold is referred to as "Sulu". [[John Cho]] played Sulu in Star Trek. Also, when the arrive at the party, Kumar's friend admits he told the girl that Kumar worked at the White House. [[Kal Penn]] worked in the Obama White House.
* ''[[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 (Filmfilm)|Rocky]]'' movies, [[Casualty in Thethe Ring|who died in the ring]]). Lastly, Chubbs is missing a hand, and Weathers' character from ''[[Predator (Film)|Predator]]'' had his arm cut off just before dying.
* 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 Thethe Future (Filmfilm)|"McFly"]].
* The theatrical poster for ''[[The Parole Officer (Film)|The Parole Officer]]'' featured quotes - both glowing and condemnatory - from Steve Coogan's other comedic personas.
* Unintentional (probably) but still funny example: in Woody Allen's ''[[Midnight in Paris (Film)|Midnight in Paris]]'', Allison Pill played the role of Zelda Fitzgerald, who threatened to kill herself because she thought her Scott (as in, F. Fitzgerald) was unfaithful. Pill's most famous role to date is Kim Pine, who also had a troubled relationship with [[Scott Pilgrim (Film)vs. the World|another Scott]].
* ''[[Zoolander]]'' has Jon Voight as Derek's father say the following:
{{quote| "Damn it Derek, I'm a coal miner, not a professional film or television actor."}}
** David Duchovny as [[The X -Files|a conspiracy theorist]].
** 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 [[LML. M. Montgomery|Lucy Maud (L.M.) Montgomery]]. Booky's mother is played by [[Megan Follows]], perhaps best known for her role as [[Anne of Green Gables|Anne Shirley]].
* 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 Vs/The World]]'': Todd Ingram, a [[It Makes Sense in Context|Vegan Psychic with Telepathic powers and also plays electric bass]] is played by Brandon Routh, the same actor who played Superman in ''Superman Returns.'' The Vegan Police come in and zap him when he drinks half-and-half with [[Kryptonite Factor|a green beam that removes his powers]]. The Trivia Subtitles even say that this was done deliberately because Routh was Superman.
* 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 (Filmfilm)|Young Adult]]'' drives the same car as Stella Bridger of ''[[The Italian Job (2003 film)|The Italian Job]]''. Both are played by Charlize Theron.
* In the film ''Think Like A Man'', the male characters are discussing the film [[For Colored Girls]]. One of the men mentions that he hates the movie--"That's the movie where Janet Jackson got AIDS and some crazy guy threw his kids out the window!" Sure enough, the man saying this is played by the same man who played the role of said "crazy guy"--Micheal Ealy.
* ''[[Return of the Living Dead (Film)|Return of the Living Dead]] Part II'' gets bonus points for having a couple of characters say things their actors said as different characters in the previous film. For example, when Joey assumes that Ed wishes to be burned after he dies because he's worried some grave robber's going to steal his head:
{{quote| '''Ed''': Watch your tongue, boy, if you like this job!<br />
'''Joey''': ''Like this job!?'' }}
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