# Another TV chain game **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 12, 2005, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-tv-chain-game/335287 "2005-12-12T18:41:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2005, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-tv-chain-game/335287/61 "2005-12-13T17:32:54Z")
Ethan Suplee was the voice of the Golgothan in Dogma. ---
**Author:** ![Unauthorized\_Cinnamon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/bc8723/32.png) [@Unauthorized\_Cinnamon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Unauthorized_Cinnamon)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2005, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-tv-chain-game/335287/62 "2005-12-13T17:40:17Z")
Yeah but who \*played \* a voice in the movie? ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2005, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-tv-chain-game/335287/63 "2005-12-13T17:44:05Z")
> [@AerynSun](#): > > Yeah but who \*played \* a voice in the movie? Ah. The Metatron. Very clever. 🙂 Alan Rickman. ---
**Author:** ![TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tellmei_mnotcrazy/32/3419_2.png) [@TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TellMeI_mNotCrazy)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2005, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-tv-chain-game/335287/64 "2005-12-13T17:46:58Z")
Who played a robot in Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, female lead being Zooey Deschanel… ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2005, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-tv-chain-game/335287/65 "2005-12-13T17:47:40Z")
1. He was in another comedy in which he played an actor playing a non-human - what movie? Galaxy Quest 1. Name the female lead in that movie. Hanoi Jane 1. She was in a seminal movie in which she was nearly killed by a very unconventional weapon - what movie? Barbarella? ---
**Author:** ![TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tellmei_mnotcrazy/32/3419_2.png) [@TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TellMeI_mNotCrazy)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2005, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-tv-chain-game/335287/66 "2005-12-13T17:52:24Z")
Hanoi Jane was the lead in Galaxy Quest? Wasn’t it Sigourney Weaver? ---
**Author:** ![Nuveena](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/a587f6/32.png) [@Nuveena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nuveena)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2005, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-tv-chain-game/335287/67 "2005-12-13T17:53:12Z")
I think I got to 18 without looking at the previous posts, but then I’m stuck. 1. Sigourney Weaver 2. Alien 3. Ian Holm 4. Lord of the Rings (with Ian McKellan) 5. Cate Blanchett 6. Ron Howard (for The Missing)? ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2005, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-tv-chain-game/335287/68 "2005-12-13T18:02:48Z")
> [@TellMeI'mNotCrazy](#): > > Hanoi Jane was the lead in Galaxy Quest? > > Wasn’t it Sigourney Weaver? My bad. ---
**Author:** ![TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tellmei_mnotcrazy/32/3419_2.png) [@TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TellMeI_mNotCrazy)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2005, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-tv-chain-game/335287/69 "2005-12-13T18:12:29Z")
1. Sigourney Weaver 2. Alien 3. Ian Holm 4. Lord of the Rings (with Ian McKellan) 5. Cate Blanchett 6. Sam Raimi 7. Embeth Davidtz 8. Bridget Jones’ Diary ---
**Author:** ![TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tellmei_mnotcrazy/32/3419_2.png) [@TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TellMeI_mNotCrazy)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2005, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-tv-chain-game/335287/70 "2005-12-13T18:14:12Z")
What’s funny is, Embeth Davidtz flashed on my radar earlier in the game - I was trying to skip past the whole Dogma part (because it confused me) and was coming up with Robin Williams/Bicentennial Man/Embeth Davitz that way. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2005, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-tv-chain-game/335287/71 "2005-12-13T18:14:20Z")
Yay! My turn (this is burning a hole in my notepad). If you don’t get stuck on #3, you’ll solve this in about 30 seconds. 1. “Uncle Leo?” 2. Who was the female lead? 3. On what show did she ask “Is Greg here?” 3a) With whom did she say it in unison? 3b) Was Greg there? Explain. 1. Who played the mom on that show? 2. On what other (earlier) series was she a regular? 3. Which was a spinoff of… 4. Which had at least two other spinoffs. The NY one was… 5. Who played the sister? 6. What’s her biggest gig these days? 7. Who plays the convenience store clerk? 8. On what show was he a mere character, yet he was dating the female lead? 9. Where did the leading man use to live? 10. Who lives there now? 11. Who is his closest neighbor? ---
**Author:** ![Nuveena](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/a587f6/32.png) [@Nuveena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nuveena)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2005, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-tv-chain-game/335287/72 "2005-12-13T18:43:50Z")
1. Seinfeld 2. Julia Louis Dreyfus 3. Day by Day 3a. ??? 3b. ??? 4. Linda Kelsey 5. Lou Grant 6. The Mary Tyler Moore Show 7. Rhoda 8. Julie Cavner 9. The Simpsons 10. Hank Azaria 11. Mad About You 12. 129 West 81st 13. Kramer 14. Seinfeld ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2005, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-tv-chain-game/335287/73 "2005-12-13T18:50:41Z")
Huh. 29 minutes. I am disappointed. > [@Nuveena](#): > > 3a. ??? > 3b. ??? Courtney Thorne-Smith. Since they presumably couldn’t get Barry Williams on that episode (although they got Maureen McCormick and Ann B Davis and Robert Reed), Greg was outside fixing his Bike. Ironically, the 4th Brady boy was Christopher Daniel Barnes, who went on to play Greg in The Brady Bunch Movie, which more ironically had a cameo by Barry Williams. Too bad, that was worth 50 points. ---
**Author:** ![Unauthorized\_Cinnamon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/bc8723/32.png) [@Unauthorized\_Cinnamon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Unauthorized_Cinnamon)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2005, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-tv-chain-game/335287/74 "2005-12-13T19:18:19Z")
Good job, guys! Of course, only now do I actually look back at the thread title and remember it’s supposed to be about **TV**. Ah, well. It was hard to choose how to connect. As has been pointed out, half of Britain was in _Love Actually_. Same goes for the Harry Potter movies. Gemma Jones is in _Bridget Jones’s Diary_, _Sense & Sensibility_, \*\*and \*\* _Harry Potter_. Alan Rickman, of course, is in _HP_, _S&S_, and _Love Actually_. And as was pointed out, he does the voice of Marvin, in a movie with Martin Freeman, who was also in _Love Actually_. Geoffrey Rush, obviously, had some good double connections. Ian Holm was in \*Frankenstein \* with Kenneth Branagh, Emma Thompson’s ex, as well as \*From Hell \* with the red herring Johnny Depp. And of course, Embeth Davidtz was in a movie of yet another Austen novel, _Mansfield Park_. Weeee, this is fun! ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2005, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-tv-chain-game/335287/75 "2005-12-13T19:41:48Z")
OK, give me 10 minutes – I’ll come up with a good one. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2005, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-tv-chain-game/335287/76 "2005-12-13T19:57:48Z")
1. On what show did we see a plethora of men’s butts? 2. The Hispanic one was on what other show? 3. Who was “the bitch” on that show? How did she leave that show? 4. What show was she on where she got fired after one season? 5. Who was the kid on that show? 6. In what film did he grow up to be Richard Dreyfuss? 7. What other kid from that movie grew up to be a cop? 8. On what show, starring whom? 9. What other show was she on? 10. Who was her partner? 11. In what movie was he an astronaut? 12. Who commanded the mission? 13. On what show was he a dad? 14. To what woman? 15. Who did that actress pretend to be married to? Why? 16. Who was his downstairs neighbor? 17. The actor who played the neighbor was on what other sitcom? 18. Who was the Big Boss on that show? 19. He was in an episode of The Twilight Zone. Which one? (Yes, there were two.) 20. That episode was made into a movie. What child featured in the movie? 21. What TV show was he on? 22. So was another boy. What’s he in now? 23. And what other show was he in as a child? 24. Who starred in it? 25. And as an adult, was on… ---
**Author:** ![TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tellmei_mnotcrazy/32/3419_2.png) [@TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TellMeI_mNotCrazy)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2005, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-tv-chain-game/335287/77 "2005-12-13T20:05:41Z")
1. On what show did we see a plethora of men’s butts? NYPD Blue 1. The Hispanic one was on what other show? LA Law 3) Who was “the bitch” on that show? How did she leave that show? Susan Dey - don’t remember how she left though. 1. What show was she on where she got fired after one season? Love and War Except I can’t remember a kid from that show… ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2005, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-tv-chain-game/335287/78 "2005-12-13T20:11:15Z")
> [@TellMeI'mNotCrazy](#): > > Susan Dey - don’t remember how she left though. Nope. The show had many bitches. But which one was “The Bitch”? ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2005, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-tv-chain-game/335287/79 "2005-12-13T20:14:28Z")
> [@tdn](#): > > 1. Who did that actress pretend to be married to? Why? I should explain that this was as a different character on a different sitcom. ---
**Author:** ![TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tellmei_mnotcrazy/32/3419_2.png) [@TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TellMeI_mNotCrazy)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2005, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-tv-chain-game/335287/80 "2005-12-13T20:16:59Z")
> [@tdn](#): > > Nope. The show had many bitches. But which one was “The Bitch”? It’s like right on the tip of my, er, fingers… How long ago was LA Law? 20 years? God, I feel old or something… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-tv-chain-game/335287.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-tv-chain-game/335287.md?page=5)