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* In ''[[Rugrats]] in Paris'' in the scene where Kimi is in daycare before the Rugrats pick her up in the robotic Reptar, a couple of kids who point this out to her were voiced by kids who had won a contest.
* Averted in the ''[[Resident Evil]]'' [[The Movie|movie]]: when ''Resident Evil 2'' was released, Capcom held a contest where the winner would get a walk-on role in the upcoming movie. However, after that, the movie underwent a massive retooling, and thus the role was axed.
* In the audio commentary for ''[[UHF (Film)|UHF]]'', [["Weird Al" Yankovic (Music)|Weird Al Yankovic]] says that the audience members sitting on either side of "the box" in the "Wheel Of Fish" scene were contest winners.
* Nintendo Power magazine ran a contest for a cameo in the sequel to ''[[The Mask]]''. The film proceeded to languish in [[Development Hell]] for over a decade, so it's unknown what if anything the winner actually got.
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== Live Action TV ==
* ''[[Punky Brewster]]'' had a contest where kids could suggest a story to be made into an episode. The winner got to appear in the episode that got based on his story, about Punky having to learn CPR so she can later apply it on her friend Cherie to save her life.
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** The serial murderer being hunted in the Psi Corps episode "The Corps is Mother, The Corps is Father" was also named after the winner of a charity auction at a convention. Amusingly, the winner's name was Jonathan Harris, so most viewers thought it was a [[Shout
** Dr. Lillian Hobbes made a very large charitable donation to have a recurring character named after her.
** Not a competition winner, as such, but the mineral ''Quantium 40'' (vital in Jumpgate construction, was named following a poll held by JMS among members of the old [[GE Ni E]] boards.
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* ''[[Star Trek Voyager (TV)|Star Trek Voyager]]'' had a contest tied in with the release of their new game [[Colon Cancer|Star Trek: Voyager: Elite Force]] The winners cameoed during the academy scene in the final episode.
** ''[[Star Trek Enterprise (TV)|Star Trek Enterprise]]'' had a couple of Engineering crew who were winners of the USS Enterprise's (the aircraft carrier) Crewman of the Year competition, and a radio contest winner played a female engineer.
** Similarly, the online animated spoof ''[
* In 1977, ''[[Saturday Night Live]]'' held a contest for the [[Guest Host]] spot on that year's Christmas episode called the "Anyone Can Host" contest. The winner was Miskel Spillman, an 80-year-old grandmother from New Orleans who happened to be a fan of the show (and still was until she died in the early 1990s). After learning that an old lady won the contest, the ''SNL'' production team tried to get the [[Sex Pistols]] on as the musical guest (as it would drum up more publicity and it would be hilarious to have a controversial punk band as the musical guest for a show hosted by a random old lady), but visa problems caused them to pick [[Elvis Costello]] and the Attractions instead. Costello's infamous performance where he stops his planned performance of "Less than Zero" to play "Radio Radio" (who was considered too "anti-media" to play on mainstream television at the time) instead has become one of the most iconic in the show's history. Barely anyone cares about the old lady whose winning of the contest actually had a (minor at best) [[Overshadowed By Awesome|role at his being there in the first place]]. Even though Miskel Spillman lives on as ''SNL'''s only non-celebrity to host an episode, her place as the oldest host was usurped years later by another old lady host: [[Betty White]].
* More than a few times, ''[[The Price Is Right]]'' has offered Walk-On roles on various CBS soap operas as part of a prize package. The only one that has been won so far was for ''[[Days of Our Lives]]'', where the winner could be seen in a party scene in the episode shown later in the day.
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