# "Wait, it's a different guy?" moments **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 26, 2022, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wait-its-a-different-guy-moments/960157 "2022-02-26T16:45:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 9
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2022, 11:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wait-its-a-different-guy-moments/960157/161 "2022-03-14T11:25:05Z")
Watching _The Rookie_ this week, and I realise I still get Don Franklin and Blair Underwood mixed up. ---
**Author:** ![hogarth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hogarth/32/1773_2.png) [@hogarth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hogarth)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2022, 12:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wait-its-a-different-guy-moments/960157/162 "2022-03-14T12:13:49Z")
When I was a kid, I thought Dan Redican (of the comedy group “The Frantics”) was in Beetlejuice and Heathers, but it was actually actor Glenn Shadix. ---
**Author:** ![Jasmine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jasmine/32/2964_2.png) [@Jasmine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jasmine)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2022, 12:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wait-its-a-different-guy-moments/960157/163 "2022-03-14T12:16:04Z")
> [@lobotomyboy63](#): > > Only it wasn’t. It was Buddy Hart. Look at this guy. You’re kidding me! He could be his young double! ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2022, 12:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wait-its-a-different-guy-moments/960157/164 "2022-03-14T12:16:53Z")
This is embarrassing, since I grew up in the 1980s… but I can’t tell Huey Lewis and Robert Palmer apart. Never could. ---
**Author:** ![River\_Hippie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/river_hippie/32/26_2.png) [@River\_Hippie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/River_Hippie)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2022, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wait-its-a-different-guy-moments/960157/165 "2022-03-15T00:06:16Z")
I was watching **Pam And Tommy**. When the character of Erica, a former co-worker of the Josh Rogan character that he crashes with for a while is introduced I thought “Cool, it’s Eliza Coupe from **Happy Endings**. Glad she’s working.” Except it wasn’t. It was Taylor Schilling from **Orange Is The New Black**. I think they look very similar. ---
**Author:** ![velomont](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/8491ac/32.png) [@velomont](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/velomont)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2022, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wait-its-a-different-guy-moments/960157/166 "2022-03-15T02:57:11Z")
> [@Andy\_L](#): > > No, I don’t know what’s wrong with me The story of my life… until I learned somewhere about face-blindness. Now I’m not suggesting that you are face-blind but I am a bit, enough that I would actually confuse the examples in your post. That’s my reality and my wife, when we’re watching tv, will occasionally ask “do you know who that is?” to help me stay on track. ---
**Author:** ![Andy\_L](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c67d28/32.png) [@Andy\_L](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andy_L)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2022, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wait-its-a-different-guy-moments/960157/167 "2022-03-15T23:21:04Z")
Maybe it’s intermittent for me - sometimes I’m quite good at recognizing someone in a different context (as shown in other thread about the “same guy”). ---
**Author:** ![velomont](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/8491ac/32.png) [@velomont](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/velomont)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2022, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wait-its-a-different-guy-moments/960157/168 "2022-03-15T23:40:12Z")
In all seriousness, if you’re curious about it,(prosopagnosia) this link is for an online test. And “context” seems to be a common word for those of us who who experience it. [http://www.bbk.ac.uk/psychology/psychologyexperiments/experiments/facememorytest/startup.php](http://www.bbk.ac.uk/psychology/psychologyexperiments/experiments/facememorytest/startup.php) ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2022, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wait-its-a-different-guy-moments/960157/169 "2022-03-15T23:43:04Z")
Damn, I wanna check out the test but I got: > There is a problem with the experiment please report error 567776. ETA: Or wait. Is that the test? Am I more f’d up than I thought? ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2022, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wait-its-a-different-guy-moments/960157/170 "2022-03-15T23:57:20Z")
The pilot episode of _The Bob Newhart Show_ did not include Bill Daily as a ditzy neighbor. [![](https://insidepulse.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Bill-Daily-younger-2.jpg) ](https://insidepulse.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Bill-Daily-younger-2.jpg) It did, however, have William Redfield as a less ditzy neighbor. [![](https://ilarge.lisimg.com/image/8886932/1118full-william-redfield.jpg) ](https://ilarge.lisimg.com/image/8886932/1118full-william-redfield.jpg) **BONUS** Redfield later showed up as Daily’s brother! ---
**Author:** ![velomont](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/8491ac/32.png) [@velomont](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/velomont)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2022, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wait-its-a-different-guy-moments/960157/171 "2022-03-16T00:33:04Z")
If the link is buggered up, look for the Cambridge Facial Recognition test. ---
**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2022, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wait-its-a-different-guy-moments/960157/172 "2022-03-16T14:58:19Z")
For the longest time I got William Hurt and Jeff Daniels confused. The way I usually discerned the difference was Hurt tended to be in higher quality projects. ---
**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:** [March 16, 2022, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wait-its-a-different-guy-moments/960157/173 "2022-03-16T15:18:29Z")
William Hurt and Jeff Bridges confused me. ---
**Author:** ![Rocketeer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rocketeer/32/4437_2.png) [@Rocketeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rocketeer)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2022, 7:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wait-its-a-different-guy-moments/960157/174 "2022-03-19T07:08:03Z")
Sure; now try to keep the four Lane sisters, all actresses, straight. 😉 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wait-its-a-different-guy-moments/960157.md?page=8)