# examples of connected characters who met back up via cameos later on? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 19, 2011, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/examples-of-connected-characters-who-met-back-up-via-cameos-later-on/600083 "2011-10-19T00:00:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Win\_Place\_Show](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/win_place_show/32/13469_2.png) [@Win\_Place\_Show](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Win_Place_Show)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2011, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/examples-of-connected-characters-who-met-back-up-via-cameos-later-on/600083/1 "2011-10-19T00:00:35Z")
I can’t really figure out how to summarize this into an intelligent title, so let me try an example. Obviously Danny Glover and Mel Gibson became synonymous as the Lethal Weapon guys over the course of (a dozen?) years. Subsequent to that, there was a comedy-western movie that Mel Gibson starred in, and in it, Danny Glover had a brief cameo where he and Gibson crossed paths, and gave looks to each other (in character) as if to say “wait… is that… you? aw, nevermind, couldn’t be”. For some reason, that always struck me as an extremely clever movie-moment. Any other examples of this sort of thing? I’ve seen the previews for Tim Allen’s latest sitcom “Home Improvement II” or whatever it’s called, and I thought it would be kind of cool if Patricia Richardson (the original “wife”) made some sort of a cameo as someone he crosses paths with. Hence the question - trying to think of other examples of this that actually happened in film/TV. (I thought in one of the ‘Modern Family’ threads, someone mentioned where O’Neill/Sagal - i.e. Al/Peg Bundy - cameo’d together in something much later on, but I can’t find the thread). Thanks - ---
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**Coming to America** has Ralph Bellamy and Don Ameche – who co-starred with Eddie Murphy before in **Trading Places** running into him there. **The Mary Tyler Moore Hour** was part sitcom and part variety show with Mary Tyler Moore as Mary McKinnon, who had a Carol Burnett-like TV show. Once they were having Dick Van Dyke as their guest; her writers pointed out how Mary McKinnon looked like the actress who played Laura. There were a couple of “Rob and Laura” skits, but the payoff at the end was when Mary McKinnon told Van Dyke that she had been up for a role on his show, but that Rose Marie got the part instead. ---
**Author:** ![CandidGamera](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/candidgamera/32/2878_2.png) [@CandidGamera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CandidGamera)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2011, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/examples-of-connected-characters-who-met-back-up-via-cameos-later-on/600083/3 "2011-10-19T02:30:44Z")
Bob Hope, Bing Crosby, and Dorothy Lamour had a thing going on and would regularly cameo in each other’s films, after having first been united in the Road movies. ---
**Author:** ![sco3tt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@sco3tt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sco3tt)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2011, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/examples-of-connected-characters-who-met-back-up-via-cameos-later-on/600083/4 "2011-10-19T02:43:32Z")
> [@Win\_Place\_Show](#): > > I thought it would be kind of cool if Patricia Richardson (the original “wife”) made some sort of a cameo as someone he crosses paths with. Like the way Suzanne Pleshette showed up in the last episode of _Newhart_? ---
**Author:** ![Win\_Place\_Show](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/win_place_show/32/13469_2.png) [@Win\_Place\_Show](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Win_Place_Show)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2011, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/examples-of-connected-characters-who-met-back-up-via-cameos-later-on/600083/5 "2011-10-19T03:40:34Z")
> [@sco3tt](#): > > Like the way Suzanne Pleshette showed up in the last episode of _Newhart_? duh… great example, and I can’t believe that wasn’t the first one I thought of! ---
**Author:** ![Horatio\_Hellpop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Horatio\_Hellpop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatio_Hellpop)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2011, 4:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/examples-of-connected-characters-who-met-back-up-via-cameos-later-on/600083/6 "2011-10-19T04:44:26Z")
Martin and Charlie Sheen in one of the **Hot Shots!** movies. (“Loved you in _Wall Street_!” “Loved you in _Apocalypse Now_!”) ---
**Author:** ![Horatio\_Hellpop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Horatio\_Hellpop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatio_Hellpop)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2011, 4:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/examples-of-connected-characters-who-met-back-up-via-cameos-later-on/600083/7 "2011-10-19T04:47:44Z")
Barry Bostwick and Meat Loaf on **Glee** Likewise, Tim Curry and Meat Loaf on **SNL** Morey Amsterdam and Rose Marie on **Caroline in the City** ---
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I don’t know if this is what you’re looking for, but Scott Bakula and Dean Stockwell, who were co-stars on “Quantum Leap,” were reunited in an episode of “Enterprise.” ---
**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:** [October 19, 2011, 12:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/examples-of-connected-characters-who-met-back-up-via-cameos-later-on/600083/9 "2011-10-19T12:53:33Z")
In this year’s season opener of **The Middle** , Patricia Heaton met up with guest star Ray Romano. Doris Roberts also had a recurring role last year. ---
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> [@Krokodil](#): > > Martin and Charlie Sheen in one of the **Hot Shots!** movies. (“Loved you in _Wall Street_!” “Loved you in _Apocalypse Now_!”) _Apocalypse Now_? Really? I thought that they both said Wall Street. They were both in it, and played father and son, and son was an out of control drug abuser that the father was trying to reign in. And both Martin and Emilio appeared on _2.5 Men_. Before Christopher Lloyd and Danny DeVito were on _Taxi_, they were in _Cuckoo’s Nest_ together. And while this doesn’t really count towards the OP, there was a moment on _Third Rock_ where John Lithgow and William Shatner talked about a disturbing plane ride. One of the best moments on that show. ---
**Author:** ![joebuck20](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/74df32/32.png) [@joebuck20](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joebuck20)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2011, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/examples-of-connected-characters-who-met-back-up-via-cameos-later-on/600083/11 "2011-10-19T13:55:03Z")
Hulk Hogan once guest starred on episode of “The A-Team.” Both he and Mr. T were in “Rocky III.” ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2011, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/examples-of-connected-characters-who-met-back-up-via-cameos-later-on/600083/12 "2011-10-19T14:17:54Z")
Leonard Nimoy was once on an episode of _TJ Hooker_. I think he played a corrupt cop. ---
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Mary Tyler Moore played Jackie’s bitchy TV Boss on That 70’s Show. At the end of one of the episodes, she bitched about how all the news was about Minneapolis, yet the show is set in Chicago. She asked to see the news writer. In walked Garin MacLeod. Spin City had Michael J. Fox seeing his therapist, “who is like a father to me.” The therapists opens the door.Cameo of Michael Gross. ---
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> [@RealityChuck](#): > > There were a couple of “Rob and Laura” skits [Really?](http://www.sitcomsonline.com/photos/vandyke1.jpg) ---
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> [@tdn](#): > > And while this doesn’t really count towards the OP, there was a moment on _Third Rock_ where John Lithgow and William Shatner talked about a disturbing plane ride. One of the best moments on that show. which episode was that? ---
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I remember watching an episode of “The Love Boat” sometime after the run of The Brady Bunch in which both Robert Reed and Florence Henderson guest-starred. Their respective stories didn’t overlap, but there was one scene where they ran into each other in a buffet lane, and exchanged curious, “haven’t I seen you somehwere before” looks. ---
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> [@CandidGamera](#): > > Bob Hope, Bing Crosby, and Dorothy Lamour had a thing going on and would regularly cameo in each other’s films, after having first been united in the Road movies. DECADES after the last “Road” movie, Bob Hope starred in a lame Western comedy called _ **Cancel My Reservation.** _ In one scene, Hope, who’s a murder suspect, is dreaming that he’s about to be hanged by a posse. Hope cries out, “Help me, help me.” And across the street, we see Bing Crosby laughing, “Help you? Who do you think bought the rope?” That’s Bing’s only moment in the film. ---
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> [@johnpost](#): > > which episode was that? I don’t know the name, but it was one of the ones where Shatner guest starred as the Big Giant Head. I think there were only two. The Big Giant Head was another alien, and the boss of all the aliens. Dick: How was your flight? Head: Great, but there was a man on the wing of the plane. Dick: The exact same thing happened to me! ---
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> [@tdn](#): > > Leonard Nimoy was once on an episode of _TJ Hooker_. I think he played a corrupt cop. Prior to Star Trek, both Shatner and Nimoy were guest stars on an episode of _[The Man from U.N.C.L.E.](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0641133/)_, but they were on opposite sides. This is the opposite of the OP, but I saw the UNCLE episode long after having seen all the Star Trek episodes. ---
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> [@Annie-Xmas](#): > > Spin City had Michael J. Fox seeing his therapist, “who is like a father to me.” The therapists opens the door.Cameo of Michael Gross. They also had his mentor show up, as played by Christopher Lloyd, playing can-you-top-this with increasingly obvious references: as they’d worked together in the past, they can now go _ **back** _ to working for a better _ **future…** _ [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/examples-of-connected-characters-who-met-back-up-via-cameos-later-on/600083.md?page=2)