# Mission Impossible 1 questions **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 6, 2014, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mission-impossible-1-questions/685497 "2014-04-06T19:38:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Ashley\_Pomeroy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c68b51/32.png) [@Ashley\_Pomeroy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ashley_Pomeroy)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2014, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mission-impossible-1-questions/685497/21 "2014-05-28T16:45:54Z")
From a UK perspective the odd, memorable thing about that is the tiny little cameo from David Schneider, who played the train driver. He has a really distinctive face and was all over TV comedy at the time - _The Day Today_, _The Friday Night Armistice_, the first Alan Partridge etc - and then suddenly, paf, he’s doing a comedy fainting act in a major Hollywood blockbuster. Then he was the scientist at the beginning of _28 Days Later_. It’s impossible to think about him without thinking about this: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCPRqmMsKYI](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCPRqmMsKYI) Yeah, you expect us to know and love all of _Saturday Night Live_ off by heart. Ooh, isn’t Debbie Downer funny etc. Ooh, wasn’t the Jean Doumanian era awful. You and your totally separate culture that happens to be the default. See how you like it, having to understand comedy you’re unfamiliar with. Yeah. Sorry, carry on talking about helicopters. Aren’t helicopters great? I wonder if the man who invented helicopters thought that one day they would take over from aeroplanes entirely. How disappointed he must have been when no such thing happened, and they ended up in a large but nonetheless nichey niche. Nichey niche, god that looks awful on the page. Wasn’t Nichey Niche in Reno: 911? ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2014, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mission-impossible-1-questions/685497/22 "2014-05-28T17:28:32Z")
Well, _that_ made sense. ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2014, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mission-impossible-1-questions/685497/23 "2014-05-28T22:39:12Z")
> [@Ashley\_Pomeroy](#): > > From a UK perspective the odd, memorable thing about that is the tiny little cameo from David Schneider, who played the train driver. He has a really distinctive face and was all over TV comedy at the time - _The Day Today_, _The Friday Night Armistice_, the first Alan Partridge etc - and then suddenly, paf, he’s doing a comedy fainting act in a major Hollywood blockbuster. Then he was the scientist at the beginning of _28 Days Later_. It’s impossible to think about him without thinking about this: > [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCPRqmMsKYI](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCPRqmMsKYI) > > Yeah, you expect us to know and love all of _Saturday Night Live_ off by heart. Ooh, isn’t Debbie Downer funny etc. Ooh, wasn’t the Jean Doumanian era awful. You and your totally separate culture that happens to be the default. See how you like it, having to understand comedy you’re unfamiliar with. Yeah. > > Sorry, carry on talking about helicopters. Aren’t helicopters great? I wonder if the man who invented helicopters thought that one day they would take over from aeroplanes entirely. How disappointed he must have been when no such thing happened, and they ended up in a large but nonetheless nichey niche. Nichey niche, god that looks awful on the page. Wasn’t Nichey Niche in Reno: 911? My cat’s breath smells like helicopters. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mission-impossible-1-questions/685497.md?page=1)