# Cameos you'd love to see

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cameos-youd-love-to-see/135768>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [November 7, 2002, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cameos-youd-love-to-see/135768 "2002-11-07T19:50:07Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\
**Post date:** [November 19, 2002, 4:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cameos-youd-love-to-see/135768/21 "2002-11-19T04:41:14Z")

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> \*Originally posted by widdershins \*  
> \*\*Wayne Rogers on “Scrubs” as Dr. Cox’s equally smarmy and cranky father.
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> “Y’know, son, I knew a guy in the army who was just like you.”
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> "Really, _Pop_. Did you two save each others lives while under fire, bond forever as, oh gosh, blood brothers; and promise to look out for each others families if either of you got killed? 'Cause now that _I’m all growed up_ and after the way you ran out on me and Mom, I was so hoping to one day get me “a whole new daddy” to wuv and protect his 'ittle bitty boy!
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> “No. He was an overbearing wiseass I used to get drunk with all the time. As soon as I could get out of the service and away from him, I did. Last I heard he froze his ass off in Korea for eleven years.” \*\*

I don’t get it.

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**Author:** ![Michael\_Ellis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/977dab/32.png) [@Michael\_Ellis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Michael_Ellis)\
**Post date:** [November 19, 2002, 5:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cameos-youd-love-to-see/135768/22 "2002-11-19T05:14:23Z")

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Wayne Rogers was one of the original cast of M_A_S\*H the TV series, alongside Alan Alda. Rogers left after a few seasons while Alda stayed for the whole run.

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**Author:** ![widdershins](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f0a364/32.png) [@widdershins](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/widdershins)\
**Post date:** [November 19, 2002, 5:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cameos-youd-love-to-see/135768/23 "2002-11-19T05:21:26Z")

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To me, Wayne Rogers and John C. McGinley favor a bit, they’d make a good father and son combo on the show, IMO.

Dr. Cox and Hawkeye Pierce are both smartasses. So I like the idea of Rogers alluding to _M_A_S_H\* and his departure from the show in a roundabout way without mentioning names or looking back fondly.

The rest is just my pitiful attempt to write a typical Dr. Cox tirade as a part of a theoretical storyline on the show.

I swear it made sense in my head when I wrote it, but that’s probably the only place where it would.

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**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\
**Post date:** [November 19, 2002, 5:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cameos-youd-love-to-see/135768/24 "2002-11-19T05:51:02Z")

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Okay. I knew Wayne Rogers was on M_A_S\*H; I just couldn’t figure out what John McGinley had to do with that show. I don’t watch Scrubs, y’see.

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