You know given everything we’ve talked about…i’m beginning to think if you watch Happy Days from the beginning and pretend it was written by David Lynch, it works. Fonzie has his own weird powers with his finger snaps and jukebox powers. His office is a bathroom. Chuck vanishes…etc…On Laverne and Shirley, Lenny and Squiggy have the power to magically appear when you talk about them.
There is definitely something surreal about mixing milk and Pepsi.
Somewhere amongst the extensive filmography and television performances of James Garner, there has to be an example of this, although I think it might be more a case of generalised typecasting in his career
Do not watch any edited for television version, which completely removes the “couple having sex in bed” spoof. See, she goes topless and they sound like they’re making love – while both spend the entire time on their backs and talk.
Nia Vardalos obviously appeared in the TV show My Big Fat Greek Life because of her movie My Big Fat Greek Wedding. The TV series wasn’t a direct sequel to the movie, even though her father and mother are still played by Michael Constantine and Andrea Martin.
Would William Daniels have appeared as John Adams in the TV miniseries The Rebels (or as Sam Adams in The Bastard) if he hadn’t played John Adams in 1776 on Broadway and its movie adaptation? It might also have snagged him the part of John Quincy Adams in The Adams Chronicles.
Fess Parker pretty famously played Davy Crockett on the Disneyland TV show. The episodes were later released theatrically, so this pretty much counts. Because later he played Daniel Boone on TV, and I have no doubt that he played both of those often-confused pioneers because of his earlier role.
Speaking of which, I’m sure that Buddy Ebsen ended up playing backwoodsman Jed Clampett on The Beverly Hillbillies because he’d played backwoodsman George Russel in those same Davy Crockett shows and movies.
There was his cameo on “Malcom in the Middle” as a history-obsessed grandfather who dresses up in Civil War uniforms.
Wow, absent the knowledge that it was a response to Author_Balk’s comment on Frank Drebin, that’s a really hard sentence to parse.