Retroactive Recognition: Difference between revisions
Content deleted Content added
Rescuing 1 sources and tagging 0 as dead.) #IABot (v2.0.8 |
Looney Toons (talk | contribs) replace redirects, potholes |
||
Line 6:
You keep watching the show.
Then you see an old rerun of ''[[The X-Files]]''. There he is! Or you come upon the movie ''[[The Cutting Edge]]'' on cable. There he is! Or ''[[The Rocketeer (film)|The Rocketeer]]''. Or ''[[Heaven's Gate (film)|Heaven's Gate]]''. Or that other episode of ''[[The X-Files]]'' he was in, [[You Look Familiar|playing someone else]]. Or ''[[Star Trek: The Next Generation]]'', when he played that asshole admiral. Or ''[[JAG]],'' where he played another admiral. Or ''[[The X-Files (film)|The X-Files]]'' (again). Or the other 94 things he was in.
Point is, you've seen these things before. You just never paid enough attention to the actor to learn his name, or connect one appearance to another, until he finally landed a regular role on a series you regularly watch.
Line 206:
* Aubrey Drake Graham was "Jimmy Brooks" on seasons 1-7 (2001-2008) of ''[[Degrassi]]''. He now is known as the rapper/singer Drake.
* Prior to ''[[Gilmore Girls]]'', Lauren Graham was a [[Girl of the Week|one-off love interest]] on ''[[Seinfeld]]''.
** She also had short-lived recurring roles on ''[[News Radio]]'' and ''[[Caroline in The City]]'', and was also Benjamin Bratt's love interest in the two part ''[[Law
* [[Seth Green]] in ''IT'' deserves a mention.
*** Really, watching ''It'' as an adult after having seen it as a child results in a massive ''bombardment'' of Retroactive Recognition.
** As well as in ''[[My Stepmother Is An Alien]]'', alongside future co-star [[Alyson Hannigan]].
** He also voiced a character in ''[[Batman: The Animated Series|Batman the Animated Series]]''.
** And appeared in an episode of ''[[The X-Files]]'' and ''[[Enemy of the State]]''
Line 247:
* [[Samuel L. Jackson]] holds up a [[Burger Fool]] in ''[[Coming to America]]'', and has his ass handed to him by [[Eddie Murphy]], of all people.
** He also appears very briefly in ''Mean Streets'', where he's slapped around by [[Robert De Niro]] and Harvey Keitel. He isn't even credited for this on IMDB.
** He also plays a lawyer on a Season 1 episode of ''[[Law
* Stephanie Jacobsen had a tiny role in the ''[[Farscape]]'' episode "Incubator" as one of Scorpius's nurses/"assistants", years before her prominent genre roles as Kendra in ''[[Battlestar Galactica (2004 TV series)|Battlestar Galactica]]'' and Jesse in ''[[The Sarah Connor Chronicles]]''.
* It's a little creepy to watch [[Famke Janssen]] pursue a romantic relationship with [[Star Trek: The Next Generation|Jean-Luc Picard]] 8 years before hanging out with [[X-Men (film)|Professor X at the Xavier Institute for Higher Learning]].
Line 271:
** Not to mention Mr. Universe from ''[[Serenity]]''.
** And Bernard the elf in ''[[The Santa Clause (film series)|The Santa Clause]]''.
** And the victim of a pedophile in an early ''[[Law
** And Michael in ''[[10 Things I Hate About You]]''.
** And the guy who stabbed Lucy and Carter on ''[[ER]]''.
Line 380:
* Keke Palmer from ''[[Akeelah and the Bee]]'' and ''[[True Jackson, VP|True Jackson VP]]'' was Madea's young troubled foster child in ''[[Madea's Family Reunion|Madeas Family Reunion]]''.
* Gwyneth Paltrow played the younger version of Wendy in ''[[Hook]]''.
* It's startled quite a few people watching reruns of ''[[Law & Order:
* Either inverted or played straight with Grace Park, who plays GDI's Lt. Sandra Telfair in ''[[Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars]]''. People might recognize her for her previous role as Number Eight on ''[[Battlestar Galactica (2004 TV series)|Battlestar Galactica]]'', or for her current role as Kono on ''[[Hawaii Five-0]]''.
* Before ''[[Legend of the Seeker]]'', Craig Parker played Haldir, a minor elf in ''[[The Lord of the Rings (film)|The Lord of the Rings]]''.
Line 393:
* [[Star Trek: Voyager|Robert Picardo]] appeared in ''[[Innerspace]]''.
** He was also the guy Rodney Dangerfield's wife is sleeping with in ''[[Back to School (film)|Back to School]]''. And the [[Obstructive Bureaucrat]] in ''[[Gremlins]] 2''. The impressive head of hair can make him hard to recognize.
* One of the ickier episodes of ''[[Law
* Markie Post was a behind-the-scenes lady on the 1970s game shows ''[[Split Second (TV series)|Split Second]]'' and ''[[Double Dare (1976 TV Show)|Double Dare]]'' ([[Name's the Same|a quizzer, not the kids' stunt show]]), and later a card dealer on ''[[Card Sharks]]'', before her breakthrough role on ''[[Night Court]]''.
* [[Zachary Quinto]], who is Sylar from ''[[Heroes (TV series)|Heroes]]'' and Spock in the 2009 ''[[Star Trek (film)|Star Trek]]'' movie, played a demon in ''[[Charmed]]''.
** And prior to both, he hilariously hammed it up playing Tori Spelling's [[Gay Best Friend]] on her show ''[[So Notorious]]''. Watching that show and then ''[[Heroes (TV series)|Heroes]]'' back to back makes for an especially hilarious experience.
** And he was the forgettable Adam Kaufman in season 3 of ''[[24
* Following from ''24'', TJ Ramini gets some billing as Tarin Faroush, but will be more recognised among British audiences as DC Zain Nadir, one of the more famous characters of ''[[The Bill]]''.
* Before ''[[Twilight (novel)|Twilight]]'' and ''[[The Last Airbender]]'', Jackson Rathbone popped up in a couple episodes of ''[[The OC]]''.
Line 446:
* In an episode of ''[[Cheers]]'', Diane serves on a jury and manages to get the defendant to break up with his girlfriend when he comes into the bar. The man looks uncannily like a flesh-colored [[Star Trek: The Next Generation|Data]].
** What's funny about Brent Spiner is how many of his roles are comedic-ish... Data's the exception, not the rule. The rule is closer to Arik Soong.
** Though he does appear in an episode of ''[[Law
** Then there are those episodes of ''[[Night Court]]'' with the hillbilly family. Take a look at the man in that family....
** Spiner played another comedic hillbilly as a rural preacher in the ''[[Tales from the Darkside]]'' episode "A Case of the Stubborns".
|