Angus’s last name was spelled “MacGyver.” “MacGuyver” puts me in mind of a Guyver in tartan.
More than a nod, I think, in that same movie, wherein it turns out at the end that James Garner’s character is Bret Maverick’s “pappy”, a character he also played once (besides playing Bret himself, of course) in an episode of the Maverick TV series.
Just watched Big Fat Liar with my boys tonight, which featured Lee Majors as the stunt coordinator for the movie-within-a-movie.
In addition to playing Buck Rogers, Buster Crabbe was also famous for playing Flash Gordon. His character’s name in the Buck Rogers episode is Brigadier Gordon.
I think this is what you guys are after here.
Cartoon Network has “Baby Looney Tunes”. As such, bugs and the gang are toddlers, and are looked after by “Granny” ((Who owned Tweety and Sylvester)). The show basically amounts to Muppet Babies meets a Looney Tunes Prequel.
One episode had the baby looney tunes playing out what the first day of school would be like, once they got there.
Baby bugs and Baby daffy start to argue over who gets to sit in the first seat on the “school bus” [Sofa]
The following conversation takes place:
Baby bugs: “I want the first seat”
Baby daffy: “I want the first seat”
bb: “I want the first seat”
bd: “I want the first seat”
Baby Bugs: “you want the first seat”
Baby Daffy: “you want the first seat”
bb: “Why yes daffy, I do, thank you!”
bd: “Bugs, that was a dirty trick, I am going to remember that, and never fall for it again.”
Which is a nod back to
The Classic ““It’s Duck Season, Fire!”” routine.
Bugs and Daffy play out the same argument, but this time, it’s over telling Elmer Fudd what season it is, and who he can shoot.
In the movie Shaft, there is a bit where Samuel L Jackson’s Shaft character is talking to his uncle in a bar, who was not only played by the guy who played Shaft back in the 70’s, but was evidently the same character, but 20+ years older (the movie Shaft is the TV show Shaft’s nephew, to clarify)
A bump and a nod to last night’s House: Meat Loaf played a character named Eddie (as in Rocky Horror Picture Show) who stated: I will do anything for love.
Also last night, on Chuck, Scott Bakula played Chuck’s dad, and at an awkward moment with his daughter Ellie, he said “oh, boy” in the exact same tone of voice he used to use as Sam Beckett on Quantum Leap
In Analyze This, the psychologist played by Billy Crystal is describing a dream in which he was in a scene from The Godfather. The Mafia boss played by Robert DeNiro was in the dream too. From Crystal’s description, DeNiro recognizes the part he was playing and says skeptically, “I was Fredo? I don’t think so.” DeNiro played Vito, not Fredo, in The Godfather, Part II.
A file photo of Gene Hackman from The Conversation appears in Enemy of the State, in which he plays a similar (perhaps even the very same) character.
Prior to House, Hugh Laurie’s best known TV appearance was on a plane with Friends. So House did an episode on a plane.
According to Wikipedia;
So in answer to your question… maybe.
I thought they might have tried something QL related in the Enterprise episode “Detained”, but I can’t remember it too well. All Memory Alpha suggests is that Dean Stockwell’s character has a little palm top computer “reminiscent of Al Calavicci’s use of the handlink in Quantum Leap”.
(I thought there was a recent thread about this topic, but this is what I found.)
In the most recent Animal Control (1x08) Joel McHale insists that his pronunciation of a Spanish word is correct because he took Spanish in community college. (His pronunciation is not correct.)
Many years late, but when Nathan Fillion starred on Castle, he referenced Firefly several times. In one scene, he and Beckett are running through an area with Chinese workers. He yells at them in Chinese to ask where the suspect is. Beckett says, “Semester abroad?” and Castle replies, “No, a TV show I used to love.”. He also dresses as Mal one Halloween and his daughter says, “Space cowboy? Didn’t you wear that like 5 years ago? Don’t you think you should move on?”. There are others.
In Numb3rs, Rob Morrow plays FBI Agent Don Eppes, who works in Los Angeles. Someone threatens to have Don transferred to Alaska. Don says, “Hmm. Never been to Alaska.” Rob Morrow played a doctor who works in Alaska in Northern Exposure.
I saw one recently. I had to have this one explained. From Living Single
Copying from IMDB…
When Regine (Kim Fields) asks Susan (Kelita Smith) what school she went to, she answers “a small private school called Eastland”. Regine replies back with “Hmmm, never heard of it” and then gives a quick look at the camera with a grin before sitting down. That’s because Kim Fields played a character named Tootie in the show The Facts of Life where she went to a small private school named Eastland.