# Mike Judge cameo in Office Space? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 2, 2005, 7:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mike-judge-cameo-in-office-space/282669 "2005-01-02T07:35:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Sample\_the\_Dog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8797f3/32.png) [@Sample\_the\_Dog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sample_the_Dog)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2005, 7:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mike-judge-cameo-in-office-space/282669/1 "2005-01-02T07:35:00Z")
Can anyone settle a bet? In addition to playing Stan in **Office Space** , does Mike Judge also play “the nodding guy” in the interior crowd scenes at Initech? ---
**Author:** ![edwino](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/35a633/32.png) [@edwino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/edwino)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2005, 7:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mike-judge-cameo-in-office-space/282669/2 "2005-01-02T07:41:01Z")
Mike Judge is the boss at Chotchkes or whatever Jennifer Aniston’s restaurant is called. You know the 11-kinds-of-flair guy. He’s credited as William King. > **[Office Space (1999) - IMDb](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0151804/fullcredits)** > > Office Space (1999) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more. ---
**Author:** ![edwino](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/35a633/32.png) [@edwino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/edwino)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2005, 7:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mike-judge-cameo-in-office-space/282669/3 "2005-01-02T07:42:16Z")
Oh didn’t see the Stan thing. My bad. Carry on. FWIW, he’s not credited in IMDb, which usually even lists uncredited performances. ---
**Author:** ![Sample\_the\_Dog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8797f3/32.png) [@Sample\_the\_Dog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sample_the_Dog)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2005, 7:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mike-judge-cameo-in-office-space/282669/4 "2005-01-02T07:49:13Z")
Good point. IMDB does list Peter Jackson’s cameos in LoTR and all of Hitchcock’s cameos. ---
**Author:** ![edwino](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/35a633/32.png) [@edwino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/edwino)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2005, 8:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mike-judge-cameo-in-office-space/282669/5 "2005-01-02T08:09:03Z")
Absence of evidence does not lead one to conclude evidence of absence. Or something like that. Sometime tomorrow I’ll see if I can find the DVD and take myself a look. ---
**Author:** ![tsarina](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f4b2a3/32.png) [@tsarina](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tsarina)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2005, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mike-judge-cameo-in-office-space/282669/6 "2005-01-02T17:30:00Z")
I broke out my DVD and watched the scene in question, and I don’t think it’s him. ---
**Author:** ![Tripler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripler/32/21807_2.png) [@Tripler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tripler)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2005, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mike-judge-cameo-in-office-space/282669/7 "2005-01-04T04:06:44Z")
> [@tsarina](#): > > I broke out my DVD and watched the scene in question, and I don’t think it’s him. It’s him. If you watch the scene again, but close your eyes when he speaks, he sounds _exactly_ like his Van Dreisen voice from _Beavis & Butthead_. It’s him, huh-huh. Huh-huh. Tripler Huh-huh, you said “scene”. Huh-huh. ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2005, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mike-judge-cameo-in-office-space/282669/8 "2005-01-04T04:24:54Z")
He also plays Donogan Giggles in at least two of the Spy Kids movies. ---
**Author:** ![Paranoid\_Randroid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/paranoid_randroid/32/18_2.png) [@Paranoid\_Randroid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paranoid_Randroid)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2005, 5:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mike-judge-cameo-in-office-space/282669/9 "2005-01-04T05:31:04Z")
> [@edwino](#): > > Oh didn’t see the Stan thing. My bad. Carry on. FWIW, he’s not credited in IMDb, which usually even lists uncredited performances. In Mike Judge’s IMDb entry, it’s listed. “Office Space (1999) (as William King) … Stan, Chotchkie’s Manager” > **[Mike Judge - IMDb](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0431918/)** > > Mike Judge, Writer: Beavis and Butt-Head Do America. Mike Judge is an American actor, animator, film director, screenwriter, and television producer. In 1962, Judge was born in Guayaquil, the largest city of Ecuador and the country's main port. His... ---
**Author:** ![Scarlett67](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scarlett67/32/7387_2.png) [@Scarlett67](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scarlett67)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2005, 5:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mike-judge-cameo-in-office-space/282669/10 "2005-01-04T05:33:31Z")
> [@Tripler](#): > > It’s him. If you watch the scene again, but close your eyes when he speaks, he sounds _exactly_ like his Van Dreisen voice from _Beavis & Butthead_. I think we’re agreed that “Stan,” Jennifer Aniston’s boss at Chotchkie’s, is Mike Judge. The character in dispute is the “nodding guy” in the front at Initech, when they’re all standing around being introduced to the first Bob. He doesn’t have any lines, he just stands there nodding – he’s a “yes man,” while everyone else there is internally rolling their eyes and updating their resumes. I think they look like the same guy, but I’m not familiar enough with what Mike Judge looks like to know whether “nodding guy” is him. ---
**Author:** ![Winnie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e480ec/32.png) [@Winnie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Winnie)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2005, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mike-judge-cameo-in-office-space/282669/11 "2005-01-04T13:53:16Z")
I have no cite to back this up, but I saw an interview with Mike Judge shortly after Office Space became a cult hit of sorts and he admitted that he was not only the restaurant manager but the nodding guy in the office meeting.