# Cases of Retrognition **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 23, 2005, 5:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cases-of-retrognition/291489 "2005-02-23T05:44:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2005, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cases-of-retrognition/291489/41 "2005-02-24T23:06:39Z")
Kevin Spacey also played henry Miller’s mad roommate in _Henry & June_. ---
**Author:** ![Dan\_Norder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4af34b/32.png) [@Dan\_Norder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dan_Norder)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2005, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cases-of-retrognition/291489/42 "2005-02-25T00:20:38Z")
Ben Affleck in _Buffy the Vampire Slayer_ (the movie) as a bit part basketball player is kind of funny. I believe the guy who played Oz in the series later was also in the movie. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2005, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cases-of-retrognition/291489/43 "2005-02-25T00:28:26Z")
Yesterday I heard Annette Benning interviewed on the radio and she mentioned her part as _Grifters_ – I saw the movie but never realized she was in it, that is, I never connected that actress with the one I remembered from _The American President_ and _Bugsy._ ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2005, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cases-of-retrognition/291489/44 "2005-02-25T03:36:36Z")
James Earl Jones in **Dr. Strangelove**. He meant nothing when I saw it the first time (on its original release), but when I watched it again, years later, it really stood out. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Scrivener](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@The\_Scrivener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Scrivener)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2005, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cases-of-retrognition/291489/45 "2005-02-25T03:58:38Z")
Before he became a regular on **St. Elsewhere** as a hospital orderly, Eric Laneuville played the lead street tough in **Being There**. The scene where he’s telling Chauncey Gardiner (Peter Sellars), “you go tell that honky…” – immortalized in the blooper reel shown at the end of the movie, when Sellars can’t keep a straight face through repeated takes of that scene. ---
**Author:** ![EllisDee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellisdee/32/4531_2.png) [@EllisDee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EllisDee)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2005, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cases-of-retrognition/291489/46 "2005-02-25T04:05:23Z")
> [@Odinoneeye](#): > > Probably the king of this (in my house anyway) is John C. McGinley from Scrubs. He’s most famous (in my circle of friends, at least) for his role in the movie that had a bunch of these, including Johnny Depp. McGinley will _always_ be referenced by us as “I got a _baaad_ feelin’ on this one, alright?” Anyone know the movie? On topic, Kevin Spacey as the mugger in Heartburn, though it’s a bit part. For the true effect of remembering the character clearly because it’s a major role, but not connecting it to the famous actor because it was early in their career, I would say Reese Witherspoon in Fear. Come to think of it, Alyssa Milano as her best friend in the movie works as well. Also, Sharon Stone as Arnold’s wife in Total Recall, though it wasn’t a huge role. ---
**Author:** ![sjc](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e5b9ba/32.png) [@sjc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sjc)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2005, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cases-of-retrognition/291489/47 "2005-02-25T04:06:55Z")
A young Kevin Spacey in _See No Evil Hear No Evil_. He was terrible. ---
**Author:** ![AdmiralCrunch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/6f9a4e/32.png) [@AdmiralCrunch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AdmiralCrunch)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2005, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cases-of-retrognition/291489/48 "2005-02-25T04:20:40Z")
“The King” from Radio Flyer is Adam Baldwin, Animal Mother from Full Metal Jacket. ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2005, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cases-of-retrognition/291489/49 "2005-02-25T04:36:34Z")
The King from The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the KIng has a small part as an Amish guy in Witness. ---
**Author:** ![davenportavenger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/5f8ce5/32.png) [@davenportavenger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davenportavenger)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2005, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cases-of-retrognition/291489/50 "2005-02-25T04:37:19Z")
Tony Shalhoub in Wings. I’d seen the show a few times but never paid much attention to it. Then I caught a rerun in 1999 or something and it was like “hey, that’s the gene broker from Gattaca! I didn’t know he had a show.” I didn’t realize Katey Sagal was the voice of Leela on Futurama until I saw an episode of it back to back with Married with Children. I guess I’d always seen the name at the end, but I just never connected it with Peg Bundy. And I thought the MWC episode of Futurama was really funny too, even before I got the connection. ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2005, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cases-of-retrognition/291489/51 "2005-02-25T04:38:29Z")
I am, of course, talking about Viggo Mortensen. Look for him in the ‘rasing the barn’ scene. ---
**Author:** ![threeorange](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@threeorange](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/threeorange)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2005, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cases-of-retrognition/291489/52 "2005-02-27T01:32:25Z")
I just recently saw the late 1980s film **Earth Girls Are Easy** on TV, and realized that Jeff Goldblum’s two alien sidekicks were Jim Carrey and Damon Wayans. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2005, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cases-of-retrognition/291489/53 "2005-02-27T02:10:25Z")
When I rewatched **One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest** a few years ago, I suddenly realized that one of the mental patients was played by Danny DeVito. ---
**Author:** ![Sir\_Rhosis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d9b06d/32.png) [@Sir\_Rhosis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sir_Rhosis)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2005, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cases-of-retrognition/291489/54 "2005-02-27T02:40:28Z")
> [@Tuckerfan](#): > > Jim Carrey plays a rock star in _The Dead Pool_. On Sunday, TV Land aired an episode of _Gunsmoke_ with William Shatner as a bad guy. Nimoy was also in one episode. > > John Larroquette plays a Klingon in Star Trek III. His only line is, “I deserve to die.” > > The dad on 7th Heaven played Decker in ST: TMP and his wife on the show was Kirk’s “love interest” in ST IV. [Geeky Trek Fan]Actually Maltz says, “I do not deserve to live,” but it is not Larroquette’s only line. He has three or four, the second-most famous being, “Immmmmpressive. They can make planets.”[GTF] I always remember Eastwood playing a nerdy scientist who misplaces his lab rat in his coat pocket in some early 50’s cheapie SF flick. Sir Rhosis [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cases-of-retrognition/291489.md?page=2)