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** Also, cameos by Ralph Bellamy and Don Ameche as the Duke Brothers, who Eddie Murphy and Dan Aykroyd sent to the poorhouse in ''[[Trading Places]]''. This film is also the ''source'' of a later allusion: [[Samuel L. Jackson]] played an armed robber holding up a cheap diner in this movie, and [[Pulp Fiction|several years later]] would ''foil'' a pair of armed robbers holding up a cheap diner.

* [[Dawson Casting]]: The movie opens on Prince Akeem's 21st birthday. Eddie Murphy, who played the prince, does not look 21, which makes sense considering he was 37 at the time.

* [[Hey, It's That Guy!]]:

** [[Shrek|Donkey]] is the Prince Akeem, [[Star Wars|Darth Vader]] is his Dad the king and late-night talkshow host Arsenio Hall his sidekick. Plus, [[Samuel L. Jackson]] plays an armed robber who holds up the restaurant Akeem is working at.

** And said restaurant is owned by Kunta Kinte.

** Cuba Gooding, Jr. plays a guy getting his hair cut.

** [[James Earl Jones]], who would go on to voice Mufasa in [[The Lion King]], arrives in New York wearing a lion skin.

*** And the queen, played by Madge Sinclair, would also be Sarabi, Mufasa's queen.

** [[Life With Louie|Louie]] is Akeem's co-worker.

** [[ER|Dr. Peter Benton]] is Lisa's [[Romantic False Lead|starter boyfriend]].

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