9th post in the thread, Dec. 2020. (For those who havent noticed it, there is an option in search you can check to search inside of a single thread.)
I have looked for something like that but haven’t found it.
The search function? From inside this thread, click on search. Directly below the search box there is a checkbox labeled “search this topic”. Check that.
Tonight’s Animal Control was very Changy, but I didn’t see any special mentions beyond tge no doubt deliberate casting.
There’s a bit on Married with Children, where Jefferson D’Arcy (Ted McGinley) is mobbed by some kids
K: What was it like working on Happy Days?
J: I’m telling you, kid, I was not on Happy Days, okay? My name is D’Arcy. Jefferson D’Arcy.
K: Was that your name on Love Boat?
J: Oh, beat it! Come on. Get out of here. Damn kids. I can hardly go out in public anymore.
This may be the most obscure one yet.
In the very bad film The Return of Swamp Thing, Louis Jorudan’s character has a parrot named “Gigi.”
Jourdan was the star of the very creepy 1958 musical Gigi.
I may have been the only one in the audience to get that joke. And yes, I saw The Return of Swamp Thing in a theater.
In Horrible Histories: The Movie, Derek Jacobi plays the Roman emperor Claudius, whom he also played in the eponymous “I, Claudius” television series in the 1970s. He even loudly proclaims, “I, CLAUDIUS…” in case anyone is missing the joke.
I don’t have a clip handy, but the Season 5, Episode 5 episode “Fallen Idols” guest stars Paris Hilton as a pagan goddess disguising herself as Paris Hilton. There’s a House of Wax joke at one point: both Hilton and Padalecki starred in that flick as well.
In another episode, Jamie (Helen Hunt) arrives home to find her sister and (…? I’m blanking, it’s been a long time) playing a popular party game. She says, “Twister? No thanks.” Ba-dum-bump.
Still yet another one from Arrested Development, Season Four:
G.O.B.: You don’t have to worry about Ron Howard. I mean, he’s not competition for you.
Michael: Really?
G.O.B.: No, the guy’s like a hundred years old. What’s he gonna do, poke you in the eyes?
Michael: Oh, you’re confused. Ron Howard directed Apollo 13. You’re thinking of Moe Howard, the angry stooge who’s been dead for a quarter century.
In the same season, Michael’s sister Lindsay runs off with a character played by Chris Diamontopolous, who had played Moe in The Three Stooges one year earlier.
I just remembered another. In St. Elsewhere Dr. Mark Craig(William Daniels) has badly injured his hand. He and his wife travel to Philadelphis, to consult with a surgeon who specializes in hands. As the couple is taking a walk Mrs Craig asks her husband “Mark, why did we have to come to Philadelphia in the summer, it’s too damned hot.” And then he breaks into a song “It’s hot as hell in Philadel-phia.”
I leave it to the reader to know what was being referenced.
1776, in which Daniels played John Adams.
In Casino, Joe La Due played one of the guys cheating at blackjack - specifically the one who had his hand broken with a hammer. In Ocean’s Eleven, he played Billy Tim Denham, the car dealer who had his hand crushed by Bernie Mac’s enthusiastic handshake while they were negotiating.
Once or twice a year our local Shakespeare company does a parody of a popular movie or series. The last one they did was the original Star Wars trilogy in 60 minutes. Every time Lando Calrissian came on stage he carried a can of Colt 45 malt liquor. I thought it was brilliantly hilarious, but most of the audience didn’t even notice. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0pK5HmuCMBM
Not sure if this counts, but in Dead Again, Derek Jacobi starts to stutter as his plan falls apart. Jacobi came to attention in I, Claudius as Claudius, who had a stutter.
Jacobi also starred in Breaking the Code, a stage play, later turned into a film by the BBC, about Alan Turing. Turing also stuttered.
I came across one today. David Tennant does the voice of an alien dog creature in an episode of Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur at the end of the episode he flies off in a large, blue, box like ship.
Also his line “I’ve got a bone to pick with you.” sounds like something The Doctor or Scrooge McDuck would say.
This one is kind of reaching, but bear with me…
Clue (1985): Wadsworth the butler answers the door during a rainstorm. The guy standing there says his car broke down and could he use the telephone… The key being: Wadsworth is played by Tim Curry, whose most famous movie was…
The writers may or may not have intended it (the scene was probably written long before Tim Curry was cast), but every Rocky Horror fan notices it.
In “The Lion King”, young Simba tells his uncle Scar, played by Jeremy Irons, that he’s so weird. Scar replies “You have no idea”, an exact repeat of his line from “Reversal of Fortune”.