The best parent stunt casting on “Friends” had to be casting Brenda Vaccaro as Joey’s mom.
Malcolm in the Middle had an inspired episode in which Lois’ mother (played by Chloris Leachman) met her late, bigamist husband’s other wife, who was played by Betty White. On “the Mary Tyler Moore Show” Betty White’s character - Sue-Anne Niven - was introduced in an episode in which she tried to steal Phyllis’ (Chloris Leachman) husband Lars from her.
Brendan Frazier actually played Jordan’s brother (and Cox’s best friend) when he did his guest starring…
-Joe, pedantic
I’m not sure if it strictly applies, but I was genuinely impressed by Rob Lowe’s version of a young Robert Wagner in the second Austin Powers movie.
Evan Farmer… not so much.
Yes, but only because you got the “Reeves” part correct. Had you simply said, " George Somethingorother", you would have been docked 3 points.
I didn’t know I Love Lucy did it. I thought it was a product of Sweeps period, which is typically February and…November, I think. I don’t think they really had a “sweeps” period in the 1950’s. Not as we know it today, anyway.
Yep. I know they also had William Holden on once. That was the episode where Lucy had embarrassed herself at the Brown Derby by fawning over Holden and then when Ricky brought him home to visit, she had to disguise herself with glasses and a fake nose, which caught on fire when Holden tried to light Lucy’s cigarette.
Not Mrs. Brady or Mrs. Partridge. Barbara Billingsley (June Cleaver), Isabel Sanford (Louise Jefferson), June Lockhart (a two-fer, I think, since she was Timmy’s mom on Lassie as well as Maureen Robinson on Lost in Space) Alley Mills (Kevin Arnold’s mom) and Patricia Crowley (the mom from **Please Don’t Eat the Daisies).
More stunt casting: Liz Taylor on The Simpsons. Not just the Krusty comeback episode, but the (IIRC) earlier appearance, where a HUGE deal was made about her voicing Maggie’s first word. :dubious:
Although Florence Henderson did show up as the head of a local businesswomens’ association. Nothing particularly stunt about the casting though.
They also had Bruce Willis, he was on location filming Die Hard IV: Just Die Already!
Reminds me of two examples:
Was surprised to see the bitchy Hollywood agent Carrie visits played by a foul-mouthed Sarah Michelle Gellar.
In an absolutely hysterical episode of The Sopranos, Christopher visits the set of a Jon Favreau movie (Adriana wants to know if Vince Vaughan is going to be there), starring Sandra Bernhardt and Janeane Garofalo playing bank-robbing lesbian lovers. Christopher gives them some advice on how to be more authentic thugs.
Oh, and since movies are being mentioned, my favorite of the many funny casting decisions in the South Park movie is George Clooney doing the voice of the incompetent ER doctor who replaces Kenny’s heart with a baked potato.
Do you remember which season? I don’t know how I missed that!
Programming note- Spooks was retitled MI-5 for the US market. A truly fantastic series- most realistic thing I have seen in quite a while (I am thinking of the fate of the secretary-gone-undercover in season one!).
Anthony Quinn as Zeus, in the Kevin Sorbo Hercules TV movies.
Mythology’s most notorious philanderer, played by Hollywood’s most notorious philanderer.
[For you youngsters out there: at the time the movies were first broadcast, Anthony Quinn had recently been in the headlines. For siring a child. Out of wedlock. At age 70.]
Apologies if anyone’s mentioned this earlier, but I couldn’t find it in the thread.
[nitpick] I usually hate nitpicking, but Brendan Fraser (no I) guest-starred as Jordan’s brother, not Dr. Cox’s. The two were best friends though.[/nitpick]
The episode with his funeral nearly made me cry though. It’s always great when a show goes to another, deeper level but pulls it off. Brilliant.
Here’s a list of scrubs’ stunt-stars
OK, didn’t see Merijeek’s post up there…walking away now…
…i spelt his name right though, so there!
Alice Cooper as Gene Wilder’s next door neighbor on the very short lived “Something Wilder.” If I live to be a million, I will still hear Alice’s rendition of “I Love You, You Love Me, We’re A Happy Family.”
I don’t watch that much TV so I’m sure this one isn’t the “best,” but I thought Carmen Electra did a nice job on the Emmy-winning “House” episode “Three Stories” (as a stand-in for a patient because House was getting tired of visualizing middle-aged men when describing cases to his other docs.)