weird trivia

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I am gonna post this here even though its kind of a game, just post some strange trivia about anything at all.

to start things off, I am watching X-Files, from the beginning and noticed something strange
season 1 episode 12, Baltars Lawyer from Battlestar Galactica (aka Mark Sheppard) plays a bad guy who likes to paint with rocket fuel and play with matches,
also season 1 but episode 13 we meet Scully’s dad, and we find out his nickname for her is “Starbuck”

(this thread partially inspired by whoever mentioned that monkeys on tv wear diapers not because of the whole poo tossing thing but to hide their monkey boners)

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David Duchovny played a cross-dressing FBI agent in Twin Peaks before he did The X-Files.

Kyle MacLachlan played an FBI agent imposter in The Hidden before playing Agent Cooper in Twin Peaks.

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Michael Biehn played a Navy SEAL in three movies (Navy SEALs, The Rock, The Abyss). I refused to watch G.I. Jane becasue it was about SEALs and he wasn’t in it.

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In the first episode of Quantum Leap, a show about a man who travels through time setting right things that have gone wrong, the main character winds up in a bar and the jukebox there plays “Oobie Doobie” by Roy Orbison.

In Star Trek: First Contact, the Borg travel back in time to assimilate Earth in its past. The crew of the Enterprise must likewise travel back in time to set this right. During their time there, they wind up in a bar and the jukebox there plays “Oobie Doobie” by Roy Orbison.

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Michael Keaton played the same relatively minor character, a Federal agent named Ray Niccolette, in both 1997’s Jackie Brownand 1998’s Out of Sight.

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This is hard to believe but true and fun to see.

In the movie Appointment With Danger, Jack Webb is a bad guy named Joe Regas.

During one scene he is beating on a character to get information out of him.

That character is played by Henry Morgan.

And during one glorious scene, Morgan is on his knees being whooped on by Webb and he says something along the lines of, “Please Joe, don’t hit me again.”

The Dark Side of Dragnet.

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And delivered one of the show’s best lines doing it:

“Just because I wear a dress doesn’t mean I don’t put my pants on one leg at a time. Know what I mean, Coop?”
“Not really.”

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That didn’t click until I looked it up. Webb’s partner on Dragnet is more familiar to audiences as Harry Morgan, though he went by the name “Henry” earlier in his career.
In Superman’s first appearance in 1938’s Action Comics #1, he investigates the murder of… Jack Kennedy.

It turns out the main suspect was framed.

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“panties”, I believe.

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And in every James Cameron movie he’s been in, (Terminator, Aliens, The Abyss), someone bites him on the hand.

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One of my favourites is that every time John Travolta steps out of the bathroom in Pulp Fiction, something bad is happening.

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The same guy who played the title role in *Creature from the Black Lagoon *directed the Baby-Ruth-as-feces pool scene in Caddyshack.

(And, yes, I know Ricou Browning only played the Gill-man in the underwater scenes.)

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Bud Collyer who did the voice of Superman in the 1940’s Superman cartoon series also did the voice of Superman in the 1968 Batman/Superman cartoon series.

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Kim Rhodes, the actress who plays the mom on the kidcom The Suite Life of Zack and Cody, portrayed an enemy character in the 1990 video game Pit-Fighter.

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Vin SCULLY and Jerry DOGGETT were the announcers for the LA Dodgers for years until Doggett’s retirement.

Bert and Ernie were the cop and taxi driver in “It a Wonderful Life”

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You’re right. Memory twisted it a bit.

I still remember Cooper’s reaction though. I love Coop.

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Although, according to Wiki, associates of Jim Henson have long said the Muppet names on Sesame Street were just a coincidence.

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I just found out that the nerdy, grouchy nurse in “The Right Stuff” was actually Jane Dornacker, who, in a later career as a traffic reporter, would survive one helicopter crash, only to die in another.

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Of course with names, but
I always thought that they were a Muppet version of The Odd Couple

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Both when Hank Aaron broke Babe Ruth’s home run record, and when Pete Rose broke Ty Cobb’s career hits record, Steve Garvey was playing first base.