A few weeks ago I saw an episode of The Waltons in which one of the kids (?? Ben) got it into his head that he was adopted because there was something hushed up about his birth. He remarked, in way of support for this idea, that he didn’t look like any of the other Walton children. John Boy told him that none of them look like each other.
Jerry Doyle played Bruce Willis’ younger brother on an episode of Moonlighting. They really do look like brothers.
I think Michael Fishman looked like Roseanne. Sara Gilbert kiiiinda looked like them.
Nobody looked like John Goodman and neither Becky looked like anyone else.
The Eppes family on Numb3rs all look like they’re related. Of course the show was completely recast to accommodate the casting of David Krumholtz by hiring the most Jewish actors they could find.
The one that always comes to mind for me is slightly less ridiculous: Marathon Man. Dustin Hoffman and Roy Scheider as brothers.
Julia Roberts and Kyra Sedgwick were cast as sisters in Something To Talk About based on their resemblance.
Carrie Ann Inaba and Diane Mizota were cast as twin sisters in the Austin Powers movies despite the fact they are unrelated.
An old sitcom, starring Suzanne Somers, was “Step by Step.” A single mom marries a single dad, and they had a few more problems than the Brady Bunch, but nothing that couldn’t be solved in a half hour.
Patrick Duffy played the dad. And his oldest son, JT, was portrayed by a young man, Brandon Call. Every single week, I would marvel at how much the dad and the kid looked like each other.
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The Weasleys credibly resemble one another, although the twins really are twins.
this was the first i thought of, i thought they did a good job casting a believable looking family, although i think the original becky was a better fit than sarah chalke’s becky.
my contribution: james franco playing willem dafoe’s kid in the spiderman movies. definitely believable as father and son.
That was Charles Rocket.
On the Lifetime series, Army Wives, the younger actresses looked enough like Dana Delaney for me to start a similar thread a while ago. After the first season though, the younger daughter was recast, and the older daughter wasn’t on anymore.
Another couple on the same show have a son and the actor who plays him really looks like a believable distribution of genes from both of the actors who play his parents.
Ah. A little digging says that Doyle played a “David Addison Wannabe”. It’s easy to see why. The memory plays its little tricks.
Ever notice on Full House that the duaghters looked more like Joey than Danny or his late wife Pam?
I do see a resemblance between Charlie Sheen, Jon Cryer and Angus T. Jones on 2 1/2 Men.
To look at, perhaps, but listen to them, and it’s clear that each actor (except the twins, obviously) came from a different corner of the British Isles.
So much mouth…
The WORST example of family resemblance is again, from a TV sitcom, starring Henry Fonda, about a cop in the suburbs. There was even a mind-numbing opening song, about “Primrose Lane…”
Henry Fonda was the dad. Ron Howard was the oldest boy. And the youngest was played by a kid who had made a commercial that everyone thought was “cute.”
Problem is, the cute kid from the commercial had a British accent. Everyone else in “The Smith Family” was generic suburbia, except the youngest with his British accent.
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Again with Reese Witherspoon…
In Four Christmases, Reese’s sister was played by Kristen Chenoweth. They should always play sisters, in every movie they make. Also, they’ve both got that southern accent thing going.
Bah, Lily looks nothing like either one of her fathers.
-Joe
The Sopranos. Especially Carmela & Meadow.
In the BritCom Fortysomething, Hugh Laurie played Benedict Cumberbatch’s father. There’s definitely a resemblance, but I also love the House/Holmes/Sherlock connection…
The show wasn’t a big success, so they both went on to Other Things.
I don’t think Sarah Hyland looks like she could’ve come from the mating of Julie Bowen and Ty Burrell at all. Likewise, Jesse Tyler Ferguson does not look like I’d expect the offspring of Ed O’Neil and Shelly Long to look.
Rachel’s not really adopted. Early on she said something about how her dads provided sperm but she’s not sure which one’s stuff got the job done (despite one of them being black). It was good casting on her biological mother, I have to admit.
And a case of characters seeming related more for mannerisms and such than just physical resemblance, I think Mae Whitman on Parenthood does a fantastic job of coming off as Lauren Graham’s daughter, even though they don’t look so much alike. Hell, nobody on that show really looks much alike, for that matter.