# weird trivia **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 4, 2010, 10:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-trivia/523603 "2010-01-04T10:07:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Critical1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3e96dc/32.png) [@Critical1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Critical1)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2010, 10:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-trivia/523603/1 "2010-01-04T10:07:30Z")
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) ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2010, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-trivia/523603/2 "2010-01-04T16:55:48Z")
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_. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2010, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-trivia/523603/3 "2010-01-04T17:11:56Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2010, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-trivia/523603/4 "2010-01-04T17:55:46Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2010, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-trivia/523603/5 "2010-01-04T18:39:15Z")
Michael Keaton played the same relatively minor character, a Federal agent named Ray Niccolette, in both 1997’s _Jackie Brown_and 1998’s _Out of Sight_. ---
**Author:** ![Lethal\_Babydoll](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3be4f8/32.png) [@Lethal\_Babydoll](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lethal_Babydoll)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2010, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-trivia/523603/6 "2010-01-04T20:05:51Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Tooth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c67d28/32.png) [@The\_Tooth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Tooth)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2010, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-trivia/523603/7 "2010-01-04T20:19:34Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > David Duchovny played a cross-dressing FBI agent in _Twin Peaks_ before he did _The X-Files_. 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.” ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2010, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-trivia/523603/8 "2010-01-04T22:57:11Z")
> [@Lethal\_Babydoll](#): > > That character is played by **Henry Morgan.** 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. ---
**Author:** ![Sage\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sage_rat/32/399_2.png) [@Sage\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sage_Rat)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2010, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-trivia/523603/9 "2010-01-04T23:01:35Z")
> [@The\_Tooth](#): > > 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.” “panties”, I believe. ---
**Author:** ![Morbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morbo/32/389_2.png) [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2010, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-trivia/523603/10 "2010-01-04T23:03:20Z")
> [@Bryan\_Ekers](#): > > 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. And in every James Cameron movie he’s been in, (_Terminator_, _Aliens_, _The Abyss_), someone bites him on the hand. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2010, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-trivia/523603/11 "2010-01-04T23:06:56Z")
One of my favourites is that every time John Travolta steps out of the bathroom in _Pulp Fiction_, something bad is happening. ---
**Author:** ![StusBlues](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dc4da7/32.png) [@StusBlues](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StusBlues)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2010, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-trivia/523603/12 "2010-01-04T23:12:33Z")
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.) ---
**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:** [January 5, 2010, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-trivia/523603/13 "2010-01-05T01:42:54Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2010, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-trivia/523603/14 "2010-01-05T02:03:13Z")
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_. ---
**Author:** ![koufax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/7ea924/32.png) [@koufax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/koufax)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2010, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-trivia/523603/15 "2010-01-05T02:53:23Z")
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” ---
**Author:** ![The\_Tooth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c67d28/32.png) [@The\_Tooth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Tooth)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2010, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-trivia/523603/16 "2010-01-05T02:58:46Z")
> [@Sage\_Rat](#): > > “panties”, I believe. You’re right. Memory twisted it a bit. I still remember Cooper’s reaction though. I love Coop. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2010, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-trivia/523603/17 "2010-01-05T03:03:42Z")
> [@koufax](#): > > …Bert and Ernie were the cop and taxi driver in “It a Wonderful Life” Although, according to Wiki, associates of Jim Henson have long said the Muppet names on _Sesame Street_ were just a coincidence. ---
**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2010, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-trivia/523603/18 "2010-01-05T03:51:55Z")
I just found out that the nerdy, grouchy nurse in “The Right Stuff” was actually [Jane Dornacker](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Dornacker), who, in a later career as a traffic reporter, would survive one helicopter crash, only to die in another. ---
**Author:** ![AboutAsWeirdAsYouCanGet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/22d042/32.png) [@AboutAsWeirdAsYouCanGet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AboutAsWeirdAsYouCanGet)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2010, 8:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-trivia/523603/19 "2010-01-05T08:50:46Z")
> [@](#): > > .Bert and Ernie were the cop and taxi driver in “It a Wonderful Life” Of course with names, but I always thought that they were a Muppet version of The Odd Couple ---
**Author:** ![Harvey\_The\_Heavy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Harvey\_The\_Heavy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harvey_The_Heavy)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2010, 12:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-trivia/523603/20 "2010-01-05T12:39:13Z")
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. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-trivia/523603.md?page=2)