# Larry, Darryl or Darryl? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 4, 2002, 5:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/larry-darryl-or-darryl/140375 "2002-12-04T05:54:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![JThunder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e95f7d/32.png) [@JThunder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JThunder)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2002, 5:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/larry-darryl-or-darryl/140375/1 "2002-12-04T05:54:23Z")
Well, ladies? Who would you pick? ---
**Author:** ![nolineage](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/858c86/32.png) [@nolineage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nolineage)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2002, 6:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/larry-darryl-or-darryl/140375/2 "2002-12-04T06:02:53Z")
I haven’t seen it lately, but I’d have to definatly do with the verbal one, Larry. But I’d be a “Deliverance” kind of experience none the less. Mostly because you have to expect Larry and Larry would most likely be in the room. Hopefully, this wouldn’t be the time that they’d start talking or making any kind of noise. ---
**Author:** ![ratty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ccd318/32.png) [@ratty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ratty)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2002, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/larry-darryl-or-darryl/140375/3 "2002-12-04T15:13:16Z")
Did anyone else always think that Larry, Darryl, and Darryl were sort of a rip-off of the Mackenzie Brothers of SCTV fame? (Bob and Doug, the beer-guzzling Canadians.) The guy who played Larry always reminded me of young Rick Moranis- or was Larry atually played by Rick Moranis? ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2002, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/larry-darryl-or-darryl/140375/4 "2002-12-04T19:11:56Z")
Larry was played by William Sanderson, who already had some experience playing backwoods types from roles in _Coal Miner’s Daughter_ and _Raggedy Man_. Peter Scolari from _Newhart_ always reminded me of Rick Moranis a little bit… ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2002, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/larry-darryl-or-darryl/140375/5 "2002-12-04T20:28:50Z")
Sanderson also had a guest appearance on _ER_\* once. ---
**Author:** ![panamajack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/47e85d/32.png) [@panamajack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panamajack)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2002, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/larry-darryl-or-darryl/140375/6 "2002-12-04T23:59:52Z")
Of course, Peter Scolari played Rick Moranis’ character Wayne (Szalinski?) in the TV series of _Honey, I Shrunk the Kids_. I always think of Sanderson as J.F. Sebastian from _Blade Runner_. Maybe he cooked up Darryl & Darryl in the lab. ---
**Author:** ![JThunder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e95f7d/32.png) [@JThunder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JThunder)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2002, 8:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/larry-darryl-or-darryl/140375/7 "2002-12-05T08:03:10Z")
Come on. Answer the question. Which of these manly men would you date? ---
**Author:** ![Icarus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/icarus/32/72_2.png) [@Icarus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Icarus)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2002, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/larry-darryl-or-darryl/140375/8 "2002-12-05T14:06:25Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by JThunder \* > \*\*Come on. Answer the question. Which of these manly men would you date? \*\* You first! 😃