# Oddest cameo in a movie **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 20, 2016, 6:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oddest-cameo-in-a-movie/775213 "2016-12-20T06:35:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![billfish678](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7bcc69/32.png) [@billfish678](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/billfish678)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2016, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oddest-cameo-in-a-movie/775213/101 "2016-12-25T00:59:10Z")
That was weird. If there was some deeper/more sophisiticated meaning I sure missed it. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2016, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oddest-cameo-in-a-movie/775213/102 "2016-12-25T00:59:13Z")
“E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial,” has a Debra Winger cameo as a zombie nurse at Hallowe’en. Plus, she’s (part of[?]) the voice of ET, which is not a cameo. ---
**Author:** ![buddha\_david](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ee7513/32.png) [@buddha\_david](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buddha_david)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2016, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oddest-cameo-in-a-movie/775213/103 "2016-12-25T01:24:46Z")
Tom Cruise in [Young Guns](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fffcZddyrU) (@1:45). His makeup’s so thick and his scene’s so brief nobody noticed him. ---
**Author:** ![Obeseus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bbce88/32.png) [@Obeseus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Obeseus)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2016, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oddest-cameo-in-a-movie/775213/104 "2016-12-25T01:39:59Z")
> [@Jim\_s\_Son](#): > > Somebody named Cyril Lord “The Carpet King” on a bat climb in the 1960s “Batman” tv Series. Werner Klemperer’s appearance as Colonel Klink is weird too. On another bat climb, Ted Cassidy in costume as Lurch of the Addams Family popped out of the window for a quick chat. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2016, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oddest-cameo-in-a-movie/775213/105 "2016-12-25T01:45:07Z")
The “Sharknado” movies are chock full of unexpected cameos. My favorite was ZZ Top in a crowd scene at the end of “Sharknado 2”; they’re running around on a subway car as a sharknado is about to blow them all to oblivion. 😛 I finally saw “Sharknado 4” a couple days ago, and the most surprising one for me was Dr. Drew as a pastor, marrying a young couple on a plane right before they parachute out the door and into a sharknado on the Vegas strip. ---
**Author:** ![TonySinclair](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/49beb7/32.png) [@TonySinclair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TonySinclair)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2016, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oddest-cameo-in-a-movie/775213/106 "2016-12-25T02:15:36Z")
> [@Don\_Draper](#): > > Which led to the great meme of [George C. Scott reacting to screenings of Adam Sandler movies](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qKSAvNOIaNo). I would like to buy you a drink. I needed something to cheer me up after Mariota broke his leg today. ---
**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2016, 5:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oddest-cameo-in-a-movie/775213/107 "2016-12-25T05:05:00Z")
> [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](#): > > “E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial,” has a Debra Winger cameo as a zombie nurse at Hallowe’en. > > Plus, she’s (part of[?]) the voice of ET, which is not a cameo. She plays God (a male God) in **Made in Heaven** , starring her then husband Timothy Hutton. ---
**Author:** ![Sparky812](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/eb9ed0/32.png) [@Sparky812](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sparky812)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2016, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oddest-cameo-in-a-movie/775213/108 "2016-12-30T16:09:57Z")
> [@buddha\_david](#): > > Tom Cruise in [Young Guns](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fffcZddyrU) (@1:45). His makeup’s so thick and his scene’s so brief nobody noticed him. Jon Bon Jovi also has a brief cameo in Young Guns II ---
**Author:** ![Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/intergalactic_gladiator/32/112_2.png) [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intergalactic_Gladiator)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2016, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oddest-cameo-in-a-movie/775213/109 "2016-12-30T16:24:33Z")
> [@Miller](#): > > _Star Trek VI_ had a weird cameo from Christian Slater. It was weird, because the way it’s set up - Kirk’s asleep in his quarters when he hears someone at the door. He tells them to come in, and the door opens to show a figure silhouetted by the lights in the hallway. Kirk turns on the lights in his room, and OH MY GOD IT’S CHRISTIAN SLATER! > > …was the reaction of absolutely nobody in the theater. Slater’s mom is a Hollywood casting agent who worked on that movie, which is how he got the part. Still seems weird though. > [@nearwildheaven](#): > > The “Sharknado” movies are chock full of unexpected cameos. My favorite was ZZ Top in a crowd scene at the end of “Sharknado 2”; they’re running around on a subway car as a sharknado is about to blow them all to oblivion. 😛 I loved ZZ Top’s cameo in Back to the Future III. I know they did work on the soundtrack but having them spin their guitars at the festival was pretty funny. ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2016, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oddest-cameo-in-a-movie/775213/110 "2016-12-30T16:30:04Z")
The cute little movie “Masters of Menace” (1990) has cameos by Dan Aykroyd, John Candy and George Wendt, with a small role for Jim Belushi, playing their mechanic whose death sets off the events of the movie. ---
**Author:** ![sciurophobic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cab0a1/32.png) [@sciurophobic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sciurophobic)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2016, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oddest-cameo-in-a-movie/775213/111 "2016-12-30T17:05:23Z")
> [@Miller](#): > > _Star Trek VI_ had a weird cameo from Christian Slater. It was weird, because the way it’s set up - Kirk’s asleep in his quarters when he hears someone at the door. He tells them to come in, and the door opens to show a figure silhouetted by the lights in the hallway. Kirk turns on the lights in his room, and OH MY GOD IT’S CHRISTIAN SLATER! > > …was the reaction of absolutely nobody in the theater. It’s Sulu, not Kirk. The scene is on the _Excelsior_, not the _Enterprise_. ---
**Author:** ![furryman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/furryman/32/99_2.png) [@furryman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/furryman)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2016, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oddest-cameo-in-a-movie/775213/112 "2016-12-30T17:16:41Z")
> [@Chimera](#): > > The cute little movie “Masters of Menace” (1990) has cameos by Dan Aykroyd, John Candy and George Wendt, with a small role for Jim Belushi, playing their mechanic whose death sets off the events of the movie. George Wendt had a cameo in House (The Movie), John Ratzenberger had a cameo in House 2. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2016, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oddest-cameo-in-a-movie/775213/113 "2016-12-30T17:27:05Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > She plays God (a male God) in **Made in Heaven** , starring her then husband Timothy Hutton. I’d forgotten that; that’s definitely odder. I still love her. ---
**Author:** ![dougie\_monty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@dougie\_monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougie_monty)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2016, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oddest-cameo-in-a-movie/775213/114 "2016-12-30T18:27:16Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > She plays God […] If she does, she’s sure to lose. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2016, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oddest-cameo-in-a-movie/775213/115 "2016-12-31T03:53:27Z")
> [@dougie\_monty](#): > > If she does, she’s sure to lose. 😃 You mean [like this](https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5137a618e4b0c7454f965c34/t/518696f7e4b0a85f6b8c89a9/1367774968725/god-jeopardy.jpg)? ---
**Author:** ![dougie\_monty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@dougie\_monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougie_monty)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2016, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oddest-cameo-in-a-movie/775213/116 "2016-12-31T04:06:20Z")
> [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](#): > > You mean [like this](https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5137a618e4b0c7454f965c34/t/518696f7e4b0a85f6b8c89a9/1367774968725/god-jeopardy.jpg)? If she’s lucky. ---
**Author:** ![Banquet\_Bear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/banquet_bear/32/373_2.png) [@Banquet\_Bear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Banquet_Bear)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2016, 9:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oddest-cameo-in-a-movie/775213/117 "2016-12-31T09:43:32Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > True, but his role in Hot Fuzz is so brief it almost counts. …if it counts, then Steve Coogan and Bill Nighy count as well. 😃 The steady escalation of comedy legends in that scene is absolute comedy gold, and one of my favourite movie scenes of all time. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/faMh6OYfuNE/maxresdefault.jpg "Hot Fuzz (1/10) Movie CLIP - Good Luck Nicholas (2007) HD") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=faMh6OYfuNE) ---
**Author:** ![snoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/43a26b/32.png) [@snoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snoe)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2016, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oddest-cameo-in-a-movie/775213/118 "2016-12-31T18:48:38Z")
Thomas Pynchon - legendary author/recluse - had two confirmed cameos on the Simpsons and one unconfirmed/rumored cameo in the film of his novel _Inherent Vice_, despite his refusal to be photographed since the 1950s. > **[Thomas Pynchon | 1990s](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Pynchon#1990s)** > > Pynchon does not like to talk with reporters, and refuses the spectacle of celebrity and public appearances. Some readers and critics have suggested that there were and are perhaps aesthetic (and ideological) motivations behind his choice to remain aloof from public life. For example, the protagonist in Janette Turner Hospital's short story "For Mr. Voss or Occupant" (published in 1991), explains to her daughter that she is writing ---
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2016, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oddest-cameo-in-a-movie/775213/119 "2016-12-31T19:32:36Z")
Not a movie but Seth Macfarlane in the Star Trek Enterprise series was a big WTF? I believe he did a couple of episodes if I remember correctly. He was just a bit, no name character. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2017, 1:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oddest-cameo-in-a-movie/775213/120 "2017-01-01T13:05:28Z")
> [@Miller](#): > > _Star Trek VI_ had a weird cameo from Christian Slater. Also a brief cameo in _Austin Powers_ as the security guard that goes to get Austin some “[orange sherbert](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhuOIbg-hM0)”… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oddest-cameo-in-a-movie/775213.md?page=5) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oddest-cameo-in-a-movie/775213.md?page=7)