# IMDb moments, or "Holy Crap - Ardra was Michelle from Magnum PI!" **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 26, 2004, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/imdb-moments-or-holy-crap-ardra-was-michelle-from-magnum-pi/256984 "2004-07-26T21:28:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![paulberserker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c4cdca/32.png) [@paulberserker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/paulberserker)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2004, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/imdb-moments-or-holy-crap-ardra-was-michelle-from-magnum-pi/256984/21 "2004-07-27T15:01:29Z")
> [@flight](#): > > I just saw Raiders of the Lost Arc again, and when Indie swims over to the sub one of the pirates points him out. At that point I said, “Holy shit, it’s Chocolate Mousse!” I just confrimed it on IMBD, who remembers where Chocolate Mousse is from? Top Secret. Also going on Raiders, the guy at the start with Indy who trys to steal his statue in the tunnel with the boulder is Alfred Molina, who plays Dr Octopus in Spidey 2. but then again he’s been in everything. ---
**Author:** ![Agrippina](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8797f3/32.png) [@Agrippina](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Agrippina)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2004, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/imdb-moments-or-holy-crap-ardra-was-michelle-from-magnum-pi/256984/22 "2004-07-27T15:04:47Z")
_Law & Order’s_ Jerry Orbach was the voice of Lumiere, the candlestick, in [Beauty and the Beast (1991)](http://imdb.com/title/tt0101414/) For some reason, I still can’t get over that. Briscoe? As the candlestick? ---
**Author:** ![BMalion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e274bd/32.png) [@BMalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BMalion)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2004, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/imdb-moments-or-holy-crap-ardra-was-michelle-from-magnum-pi/256984/23 "2004-07-27T15:13:04Z")
William Hootkins was “Lt. Eckhardt” in **Batman** and played “Porkins” (Red Six) in **Star Wars**! I’ve used his name for years to point out the definition of an effective charactor actor. That guy is good. He was also in **Raiders of the Lost Ark** man, how lucky can a guy get? ---
**Author:** ![Dante](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dante/32/9673_2.png) [@Dante](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dante)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2004, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/imdb-moments-or-holy-crap-ardra-was-michelle-from-magnum-pi/256984/24 "2004-07-27T15:15:18Z")
> [@paulberserker](#): > > Top Secret. Also going on Raiders, the guy at the start with Indy who trys to steal his statue in the tunnel with the boulder is Alfred Molina, who plays Dr Octopus in Spidey 2. but then again he’s been in everything. I was thinking of something else, but THAT is now my “Holy Crap!” moment. And I love playing IMDb roulette, where you just keep hitting links and get some very obscure information on actors. Fun way to pass the workday. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Sister\_Vigilante](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9de0a6/32.png) [@Sister\_Vigilante](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sister_Vigilante)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2004, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/imdb-moments-or-holy-crap-ardra-was-michelle-from-magnum-pi/256984/25 "2004-07-27T15:21:37Z")
Famke Janssen (X-Men) was in a Star Trek TNG episode, playing Kamala in the episode “The Perfect Mate.” It was her makeup design in that episode that was later turned into the Trill markings, for which Ms. Janssen was also considered (as Dax). Samuel Jackson was in “Coming to America” as the guy who robs the McDougals restaurant. Laurence Fishburne was in “Apocalypse Now” when he was only 15. ---
**Author:** ![jk1245](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/49beb7/32.png) [@jk1245](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jk1245)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2004, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/imdb-moments-or-holy-crap-ardra-was-michelle-from-magnum-pi/256984/26 "2004-07-27T15:32:02Z")
> [@paulberserker](#): > > Top Secret. Also going on Raiders, the guy at the start with Indy who trys to steal his statue in the tunnel with the boulder is Alfred Molina, who plays Dr Octopus in Spidey 2. but then again he’s been in everything. For me, Alfred Molina is, now and forevermore, Rahad in _Boogie Nights_. The crazed coke dealer with the Asian houseboy tossing forecrackers around the room. But that’s definittely a “Holy Crap” moment now too. I didn’t realize that was him in Raiders. My all-time moment is realizing that Danny (the main character) in _Caddyshack_ grew up to be Jackie’s husband Fred on _Roseanne_. I didn’t even realize that until Roseanne had been off the air for several years. Also, seeing Jack Black when I saw _Dead Man Walking_ again recently was a jolt. He was a relative unknown (to me anyway) when it first came out. Now I could only think of Shallow Hal when he was emoting on the screen. ---
**Author:** ![JThunder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e95f7d/32.png) [@JThunder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JThunder)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2004, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/imdb-moments-or-holy-crap-ardra-was-michelle-from-magnum-pi/256984/27 "2004-07-27T16:34:56Z")
That guy who defeated the terrorists in _Die Hard_ was the same bloke who defeated the terrorists in _Die Hard II_. Holy cow! ---
**Author:** ![LeRoi\_Lezard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/53a042/32.png) [@LeRoi\_Lezard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LeRoi_Lezard)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2004, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/imdb-moments-or-holy-crap-ardra-was-michelle-from-magnum-pi/256984/28 "2004-07-27T16:52:32Z")
Both Laurence Fishburne and Phil Hartman were on Pee Wee’s Playhouse in the '80s - as “Cowboy Curtis” and “Captain Carl”, respectively. ---
**Author:** ![ComeToTheDarkSideWeHaveCookies](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e9bcb4/32.png) [@ComeToTheDarkSideWeHaveCookies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ComeToTheDarkSideWeHaveCookies)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2004, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/imdb-moments-or-holy-crap-ardra-was-michelle-from-magnum-pi/256984/29 "2004-07-27T16:54:28Z")
> [@Ethilrist](#): > > :eek: :eek: :eek: > That is one of my favorite stunts of _all time!_ Because you know they did it without a net, or a mattress under him, or nothing! That was your grampa getting yanked to the top of the wall? That is so cool! You’re, like, famous or something! [continued hijack/] I think it is rather cool myself. 🆒 Sadly, grampa’s wall-vaulting skills were not passed down to me, but my dad did share the family tradition of stunt fighting, fencing and horsemanship. Nothing close to _The Matrix_ or _Crouching Tiger…_, but I could put on a convincing lesbian bar-brawl…if I could just find a few friends willing to get thrown out with me. 😃 Another of my “cool grampa” stories… He used to have a horse and an elk who were trained to “fight”. They’d put rubber antlers on the elk and film what were supposed to be “white-knuckled scenes of Nature in the Wild West”. [/hijack] ---
**Author:** ![Agrippina](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8797f3/32.png) [@Agrippina](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Agrippina)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2004, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/imdb-moments-or-holy-crap-ardra-was-michelle-from-magnum-pi/256984/30 "2004-07-27T17:53:34Z")
> [@LeRoi Lezard](#): > > Both Laurence Fishburne and Phil Hartman were on Pee Wee’s Playhouse in the '80s - as “Cowboy Curtis” and “Captain Carl”, respectively. Phil Hartman also co-wrote the script of **Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure**. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2004, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/imdb-moments-or-holy-crap-ardra-was-michelle-from-magnum-pi/256984/31 "2004-07-27T17:54:19Z")
> [@honeydewgrrl](#): > > They’d put rubber antlers on the elk and film what were supposed to be “white-knuckled scenes of Nature in the Wild West”. Hey, don’t laugh. I once ran afoul of a rare but vicious rubber-antlered elk. Chased me up a rubber tree, it did. I finally had to shoot him with a rubber bullet. ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Scrappy\_Hero\_Pup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ea5d25/32.png) [@Happy\_Scrappy\_Hero\_Pup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Scrappy_Hero_Pup)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2004, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/imdb-moments-or-holy-crap-ardra-was-michelle-from-magnum-pi/256984/32 "2004-07-27T18:02:13Z")
More proof that I’m newly single, yet fitting for this thread: I was watching _Men with Brooms_, and blurted, “Holy cow! That’s TJ Burke from _Aspen Extreme_!” Sad, I know. ---
**Author:** ![Big\_Norse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/big_norse/32/9954_2.png) [@Big\_Norse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Big_Norse)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2004, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/imdb-moments-or-holy-crap-ardra-was-michelle-from-magnum-pi/256984/33 "2004-07-27T18:18:34Z")
> [@Happy Scrappy Hero Pup](#): > > More proof that I’m newly single, yet fitting for this thread: > > I was watching _Men with Brooms_, and blurted, “Holy cow! That’s TJ Burke from _Aspen Extreme_!” > > Sad, I know. He’s also the Mountie from the series “Due South.” ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2004, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/imdb-moments-or-holy-crap-ardra-was-michelle-from-magnum-pi/256984/34 "2004-07-27T18:59:59Z")
Okay, I saw “Silence of the Lambs” once, in the theater, when it first came out, so I’m not really that familiar with the details of the film. There is guy I work with who is in another city and we do conference calls frequently. A woman who works with me freaks out every time she hears this guy’s voice on the conference call because it is really deep and she says it reminds her of the serial killer (Buffalo Bill?) in SOTL. So out of curiosity I went out to IMDB one day to see who the actor was. It’s Ted Levine, our beloved Capt. Stottlemeyer from “Monk”! ---
**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:** [July 27, 2004, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/imdb-moments-or-holy-crap-ardra-was-michelle-from-magnum-pi/256984/35 "2004-07-27T19:02:24Z")
> [@](#): > > Somehow realizing that Sebastian Rouché, who played a businessman subject to fits of rage on an episode of Law and Order, also played a heavy metal artist accused of rape on another episode. C-Square. We could do an entire thread on L&O. The OB-GYN that drugged and molested his patients (including Dr. Olivet) has been in tons of them, all as different characters. So has the guy that was the DA in LA during that three-part episode - he was a somewhat slow husband who knew his wife was killing their babies. “You’re a good person. I just don’t know why you do this.” Another great one was when I saw **Wargames** recently. The very first scene, where the two men in the silos get a “real” order to launch the nuclear warheads and one of them pulls a gun on the older man: “Turn your key, sir!” The older man is Tommy Mullaney from LA Law who went on to play Leo McGarry on The West Wing. The younger man is Michael Madsen. ---
**Author:** ![Genghis\_Bob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/45deac/32.png) [@Genghis\_Bob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Genghis_Bob)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2004, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/imdb-moments-or-holy-crap-ardra-was-michelle-from-magnum-pi/256984/36 "2004-07-27T19:08:48Z")
> [@foxymoron](#): > > Vincent D’Onofrio also played Dawson/Thor in _Adventures In Babysitting_. That was my “No Way!!” moment last week. \*\*And \*\* Edgar, the wife-beater who gets taken over by the alien in _Men in Black._ ---
**Author:** ![ComeToTheDarkSideWeHaveCookies](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e9bcb4/32.png) [@ComeToTheDarkSideWeHaveCookies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ComeToTheDarkSideWeHaveCookies)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2004, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/imdb-moments-or-holy-crap-ardra-was-michelle-from-magnum-pi/256984/37 "2004-07-27T20:17:57Z")
> [@Dooku](#): > > We could do an entire thread on L&O. The OB-GYN that drugged and molested his patients (including Dr. Olivet) has been in tons of them, all as different characters. So has the guy that was the DA in LA during that three-part episode - he was a somewhat slow husband who knew his wife was killing their babies. “You’re a good person. I just don’t know why you do this.” A vague family aquaintence, [Robert Foxworth](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0289337/#guest-appearances) (most recently of [Six Feet Under](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0248654/) fame) has had 3 different roles in the L&O family. A personal favorite was when he and his son, [Bo Foxworth](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0289337/), (a childhood friend of my brother) played the roles of a father and son who were both under investigation in the SVU episode, _Misleader_. From what I can tell it must be a pretty great gig to work with those L&O folks. No wonder it is so common for actors to return and cause us those little moments of deja vous. Bo’s mother, Marilyn, (Robert’s ex-wife) moved he and his sister from LA to my itty bitty hometown in the middle of nowhere Northern California, where she became the Drama teacher at our itty bitty school, and now runs an itty bitty theatre troupe in the next itty bitty town over. We all got to meet Robert briefly when he came up from LA for Bo’s (and my brother’s) high school graduation in the early 80’s, (his [Falcon’s Crest](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0081858/) days). The “next itty bitty town over” is Ferndale, California (where we all went to high school) and which has been the location of quite a few large and small screen moments: [Salem’s Lot (1979) (TV)](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0079844/) [Blue Skies (1988) TV Series](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0094426/) [Outbreak (1995)](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0114069/) [The Majestic (2001)](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0268995/) whew! So this is fun…reminds me of the [Oracle of Bacon](http://www.cs.virginia.edu/oracle/), which is, believe it or not, how I discovered that Grampa Chad The Stuntman was listed in the IMDb… _queue the twilight zone music_ ---
**Author:** ![chrisk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6de8d8/32.png) [@chrisk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chrisk)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2004, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/imdb-moments-or-holy-crap-ardra-was-michelle-from-magnum-pi/256984/38 "2004-07-27T20:31:51Z")
Geeking myself out extremely here, but… “Sheej, Kyle Valenti on ‘Roswell’ was the same guy as Trek on ‘team knight rider’??” 😃 I think that one surprised me so much because they’re such incredibly different characters, almost polar opposites, and yet Weschler played both with such total commitment. (And, come to think of it, isn’t geeking out practically the point of this thread? 🙂 ) ---
**Author:** ![lisacurl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/41988e/32.png) [@lisacurl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lisacurl)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2004, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/imdb-moments-or-holy-crap-ardra-was-michelle-from-magnum-pi/256984/39 "2004-07-27T20:37:24Z")
Seth Green – aka Scott Evil from the _Austin Powers_ movies and “Oz” on _Buffy the Vampire Slayer_, as well as numerous other roles – was Patrick Dempsey’s obnoxious younger brother in _Can’t Buy Me Love_. ---
**Author:** ![lisacurl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/41988e/32.png) [@lisacurl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lisacurl)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2004, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/imdb-moments-or-holy-crap-ardra-was-michelle-from-magnum-pi/256984/40 "2004-07-27T20:43:02Z")
Also, Cynthia Nixon of _Sex in the City_ was the little hippy girl “Sunshine” in the 1980 movie, _Little Darlings_ starring Tatum O’Neal and Kristy MacNicol. James Cromwell of _Babe_ and _L.A. Confidential_ was Archie Bunker’s buddy Stretch Cunningham on “All in the Family” back in the day. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/imdb-moments-or-holy-crap-ardra-was-michelle-from-magnum-pi/256984.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/imdb-moments-or-holy-crap-ardra-was-michelle-from-magnum-pi/256984.md?page=3)