Characters with names you’ve never heard apart from the TV
Opie Taylor (The Andy Griffith Show)
Cosmo Kramer (Seinfeld)
Theodore “The Beaver” Cleaver (Leave It to Beaver)
Endora (Bewitched)
Mork (Mork & Mindy)
Festus (Gunsmoke)
Sarek
Characters with names you’ve never heard apart from the TV
Opie Taylor (The Andy Griffith Show)
Cosmo Kramer (Seinfeld)
Theodore “The Beaver” Cleaver (Leave It to Beaver)
Endora (Bewitched)
Mork (Mork & Mindy)
Festus (Gunsmoke)
Sarek (Star Trek; Star Trek: The Next Generation)
Quark (Quark; Star Trek: Deep Space Nine)
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April 26, 2021, 2:12pm
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Characters with names you’ve never heard apart from the TV
Opie Taylor (The Andy Griffith Show)
Cosmo Kramer (Seinfeld)
Theodore “The Beaver” Cleaver (Leave It to Beaver)
Endora (Bewitched)
Mork (Mork & Mindy)
Festus (Gunsmoke)
Sarek (Star Trek; Star Trek: The Next Generation)
Quark (Quark; Star Trek: Deep Space Nine)
Xander (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
Characters with names you’ve never heard apart from the TV
Opie Taylor (The Andy Griffith Show)
Cosmo Kramer (Seinfeld)
Theodore “The Beaver” Cleaver (Leave It to Beaver)
Endora (Bewitched)
Mork (Mork & Mindy)
Festus (Gunsmoke)
Sarek (Star Trek; Star Trek: The Next Generation)
Quark (Quark; Star Trek: Deep Space Nine)
Xander (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
Frasier, Niles, Daphne (Frasier)
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Best cameo appearances
Julia Roberts, Friends
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April 26, 2021, 4:07pm
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Best cameo appearances
Julia Roberts, Friends
Donald O’Connor, Alice
Sammy Davis Jr., All in the Family
Steven Hawking, The Simpsons and Futurama
Tim Allen, The Drew Carey Show
Larry Miller, Law & Order
He appeared twice playing a double murderer before making a cameo as himself (though he’s not named onscreen).
Best cameo appearances
Julia Roberts, Friends
Donald O’Connor, Alice
Sammy Davis Jr., All in the Family
Steven Hawking, The Simpsons and Futurama
Tim Allen, The Drew Carey Show
Larry Miller, Law & Order
Alex Trebek, The X-Files
Diane Sawyer, Murphy Brown
Richard Nixon, Rowan and Martin’s Laugh-In
Jimmy Stewart, The Carol Burnett Show
Carol was a lifelong fan of Jimmy’s, but they never managed to book him onto the show. On the very last episode of the series, Tim Conway came out and told her that they had a singer waiting backstage and that the poor guy needed a break. Carol was confused. Tim left, the curtains opened, and there was Jimmy standing by a piano and singing. Carol was so sincerely got.
Actors who appeared in at least to different shows as a regular, but played very different characters
Freddy Rodriguez - Bull (lawyer Benny Colon) & Chaos (newbie CIA agent Rick Martinez)
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April 26, 2021, 7:45pm
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Actors who appeared in at least two different shows as a regular, but played very different characters
Freddy Rodriguez - Bull (lawyer Benny Colon) & Chaos (newbie CIA agent Rick Martinez)
Carroll O’Connor - All in the Family (Archie Bunker) & In the Heat of the Night (Police Chief Gillespie)
Actors who appeared in at least two different shows as a regular, but played very different characters
Freddy Rodriguez - Bull (lawyer Benny Colon) & Chaos (newbie CIA agent Rick Martinez)
Carroll O’Connor - All in the Family (Archie Bunker) & In the Heat of the Night (Police Chief Gillespie)
Jason Lee - My Name Is Earl (Earl) & Memphis Beat (Dwight Hendricks)
Actors who appeared in at least two different shows as a regular, but played very different characters
Freddy Rodriguez - Bull (lawyer Benny Colon) & Chaos (newbie CIA agent Rick Martinez)
Carroll O’Connor - All in the Family (Archie Bunker) & In the Heat of the Night (Police Chief Gillespie)
Jason Lee - My Name Is Earl (Earl) & Memphis Beat (Dwight Hendricks)
Avery Brooks - Spenser: For Hire and A Man Called Hawk (Hawk) and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (Cmdr. Benjamin Sisko)
Actors who appeared in at least two different shows as a regular, but played very different characters
Freddy Rodriguez - Bull (lawyer Benny Colon) & Chaos (newbie CIA agent Rick Martinez)
Carroll O’Connor - All in the Family (Archie Bunker) & In the Heat of the Night (Police Chief Gillespie)
Jason Lee - My Name Is Earl (Earl) & Memphis Beat (Dwight Hendricks)
Avery Brooks - Spenser: For Hire and A Man Called Hawk (Hawk) and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (Cmdr. Benjamin Sisko)
Kat Dennings - Max Black (2 Broke Girls) and Darcy Lewis (WandaVision)
Actors who appeared in at least two different shows as a regular, but played very different characters
Freddy Rodriguez - Bull (lawyer Benny Colon) & Chaos (newbie CIA agent Rick Martinez)
Carroll O’Connor - All in the Family (Archie Bunker) & In the Heat of the Night (Police Chief Gillespie)
Jason Lee - My Name Is Earl (Earl) & Memphis Beat (Dwight Hendricks)
Avery Brooks - Spenser: For Hire and A Man Called Hawk (Hawk) and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (Cmdr. Benjamin Sisko)
Kat Dennings - Max Black (2 Broke Girls) and Darcy Lewis (WandaVision)
Betty White - Golden Girls (Rose Hyland) & The Mary Tyler Moore Show (Sue Ann Nivens)
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April 26, 2021, 9:57pm
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Actors who appeared in at least two different shows as a regular, but played very different characters
Freddy Rodriguez - Bull (lawyer Benny Colon) & Chaos (newbie CIA agent Rick Martinez)
Carroll O’Connor - All in the Family (Archie Bunker) & In the Heat of the Night (Police Chief Gillespie)
Jason Lee - My Name Is Earl (Earl) & Memphis Beat (Dwight Hendricks)
Avery Brooks - Spenser: For Hire and A Man Called Hawk (Hawk) and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (Cmdr. Benjamin Sisko)
Kat Dennings - Max Black (2 Broke Girls) and Darcy Lewis (WandaVision)
Betty White - Golden Girls (Rose Hyland) & The Mary Tyler Moore Show (Sue Ann Nivens)
Dan Stevens - Downton Abbey (Matthew Crawley) and Legion (David Haller)