# 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:** 13\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![SykoSkotty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c0e974/32.png) [@SykoSkotty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SykoSkotty)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2011, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/examples-of-connected-characters-who-met-back-up-via-cameos-later-on/600083/21 "2011-10-19T15:52:30Z")
Not a complete human reference but in last years remake of Clash of the Titans, Perseus finds a mechanical owl (Bubo from the 1981 original movie) and asks, “what’s this?” “Nothing. Leave it alone.” ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2011, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/examples-of-connected-characters-who-met-back-up-via-cameos-later-on/600083/22 "2011-10-19T16:15:50Z")
Remember the last season of The A-Team when they were recruited by the CIA. Robert Vaugn was their boss. One of the episodes had Davis McCallum as the principle villain. It was called _The say U.N.C.L.E. affair_. ---
**Author:** ![sachertorte](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sachertorte/32/3727_2.png) [@sachertorte](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sachertorte)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2011, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/examples-of-connected-characters-who-met-back-up-via-cameos-later-on/600083/23 "2011-10-19T16:23:23Z")
Tom Wopat made an appearance on Smallville, where the other Duke Boy (something Schnider?) played Mr. Kent. They did a weird super cheesy car thing where they had to get somewhere fast a-la Dukes of Hazzard. It was awesomely cheesy and clearly intentional. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2011, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/examples-of-connected-characters-who-met-back-up-via-cameos-later-on/600083/24 "2011-10-19T16:27:28Z")
> [@sachertorte](#): > > Tom Wopat made an appearance on Smallville, where the other Duke Boy (something Schnider?) played Mr. Kent. They did a weird super cheesy car thing where they had to get somewhere fast a-la Dukes of Hazzard. It was awesomely cheesy and clearly intentional. For bonus points, a busted door meant he needed to slide in through the car’s open window. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2011, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/examples-of-connected-characters-who-met-back-up-via-cameos-later-on/600083/25 "2011-10-19T17:26:14Z")
> [@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. > [@johnpost](#): > > which episode was that? [youtube clip](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PiGjPgOr4ek) Shatner: I saw something on the wing of the plane! Lithgow: The same thing happened to meeeeeeeeeeeee! ---
**Author:** ![johnpost](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f17d59/32.png) [@johnpost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/johnpost)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2011, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/examples-of-connected-characters-who-met-back-up-via-cameos-later-on/600083/26 "2011-10-19T18:46:20Z")
> [@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. > [@johnpost](#): > > which episode was that? > [@Annie-Xmas](#): > > [youtube clip](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PiGjPgOr4ek) > > Shatner: I saw something on the wing of the plane! > > Lithgow: The same thing happened to meeeeeeeeeeeee! that was then a spoof on Shatners role in the Nightmare at 20,000 Feet episode of the Twilight Zone. ---
**Author:** ![johnpost](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f17d59/32.png) [@johnpost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/johnpost)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2011, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/examples-of-connected-characters-who-met-back-up-via-cameos-later-on/600083/27 "2011-10-19T18:56:08Z")
> [@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. > [@johnpost](#): > > which episode was that? > [@tdn](#): > > 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! great casting to put him in such a role with that character name. ---
**Author:** ![tumbleddown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e9bcb4/32.png) [@tumbleddown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tumbleddown)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2011, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/examples-of-connected-characters-who-met-back-up-via-cameos-later-on/600083/28 "2011-10-19T19:00:17Z")
> [@johnpost](#): > > that was then a spoof on Shatners role in the Nightmare at 20,000 Feet episode of the Twilight Zone. Which was recreated in the Twilight Zone film… with John Lithgow as the tormented passenger. ---
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2011, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/examples-of-connected-characters-who-met-back-up-via-cameos-later-on/600083/29 "2011-10-19T19:09:45Z")
Danicka Mckellar appeared on the Fred Savage show “Working” as the boss’s niece. Fred said,“She reminds me of someone I grew up with.” I thought it was a nice touch. ---
**Author:** ![Morbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morbo/32/389_2.png) [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2011, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/examples-of-connected-characters-who-met-back-up-via-cameos-later-on/600083/30 "2011-10-19T19:15:46Z")
> [@Peter\_Morris](#): > > Remember the last season of The A-Team when they were recruited by the CIA. Robert Vaugn was their boss. One of the episodes had Davis McCallum as the principle villain. It was called _The say U.N.C.L.E. affair_. And of course during the opening credits of the A-Team, there was a brief shot of Dirk Benedict looking sideways at a Cylon. ---
**Author:** ![zamboniracer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/e9a140/32.png) [@zamboniracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zamboniracer)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2011, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/examples-of-connected-characters-who-met-back-up-via-cameos-later-on/600083/31 "2011-10-19T19:16:11Z")
On “Newhart”, besides Suzanne Pleshette, Jack Riley as Elliott Carlin from “The Bob Newhart Show” made at least one cameo as another patient seeing the same therapist that Dick Loudon was seeing. Carlin even referred to having been previously treated by “some quack in Chicago.”😃 ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2011, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/examples-of-connected-characters-who-met-back-up-via-cameos-later-on/600083/32 "2011-10-19T21:10:00Z")
Speaking of Bob Newhart, Marcia Wallace as Carol was Murphy Brown’s secretary in one episode. At the end, Newhart asks her to come back to work for him. Elliott Carlin also appeared as a psychiatric patient on _St. Elsewhere._ That show did these jokes so often it started to lose its impact. Two of the minor characters had actually been characters on an earlier show, _White Shadow_. A third actor from the show showed up in one epsiode, was greeted, only to say he wasn’t the character the others thought he was. Early in the show’s run, an amnesiac patient believed he was actually Mary Tyler Moore. When Betty White guest-starred as a doctor, the patient greeted her as Sue Ann. Late in the run, most of the performers from the old Steve Allen show appeared in one episode playing parents of various hospital staff. ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2011, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/examples-of-connected-characters-who-met-back-up-via-cameos-later-on/600083/33 "2011-10-21T15:53:49Z")
Characters from Terry Gilliam’s short film \*The Crimson Permanent Assurance \*turn up in _Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life._ [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/examples-of-connected-characters-who-met-back-up-via-cameos-later-on/600083.md?page=1)