# Gomer Pyle Remake - Your Opinion **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 3, 2010, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gomer-pyle-remake-your-opinion/549017 "2010-08-03T15:24:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2010, 12:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gomer-pyle-remake-your-opinion/549017/21 "2010-08-04T12:01:32Z")
David Schwimmer. ---
**Author:** ![FriarTed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/friarted/32/1052_2.png) [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2010, 12:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gomer-pyle-remake-your-opinion/549017/22 "2010-08-04T12:30:54Z")
> [@History\_Geek](#): > > I just want to see the inevitable cameo by R. Lee Ermy. He’d be Sgt. Carter while Pyle would be… Vincent d’Onofrio, who else? 😃 Can’t believe that no one else said it! ---
**Author:** ![handsomeharry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e9c0ed/32.png) [@handsomeharry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handsomeharry)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2010, 12:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gomer-pyle-remake-your-opinion/549017/23 "2010-08-04T12:52:49Z")
I think it would be just as hilarious as the 90s remake of Beverly Hillbillies. Best wishes, hh ---
**Author:** ![singular1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ba9def/32.png) [@singular1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/singular1)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2010, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gomer-pyle-remake-your-opinion/549017/24 "2010-08-04T13:59:07Z")
> [@Sigmagirl](#): > > Nobody else is thinking Jack McBrayer? This cannot be ignored - McBrayer would be _perfect!_ ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2010, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gomer-pyle-remake-your-opinion/549017/25 "2010-08-04T14:21:22Z")
> [@GuanoLad](#): > > David Schwimmer. In Capt. Sobel mode for Sgt. Carter? Could work. ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2010, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gomer-pyle-remake-your-opinion/549017/26 "2010-08-04T15:53:21Z")
_Jemaine Clement_ as Gomer _Jeremy Piven_ as Sgt Carter ---
**Author:** ![ministryman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f6c823/32.png) [@ministryman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ministryman)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2010, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gomer-pyle-remake-your-opinion/549017/27 "2010-08-04T17:18:21Z")
How about John Favreau (using his performance in _The Replacements_) for Sgt. Carter? ---
**Author:** ![breezman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4491bb/32.png) [@breezman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/breezman)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2010, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gomer-pyle-remake-your-opinion/549017/28 "2010-08-04T21:33:47Z")
I don’t know about Sgt. Carter, but I think that Tony Hale (aka Buster from Arrested Development) would be the perfect Gomer Pyle, at least in looks. Whenever he was in his army fatigues on Arrested Development, I always thought he looked like Gomer Pyle:TNG. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gomer-pyle-remake-your-opinion/549017.md?page=1)