# You can become a cast member of any TV show ever. What would you choose? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 16, 2011, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-can-become-a-cast-member-of-any-tv-show-ever-what-would-you-choose/589252 "2011-07-16T15:47:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Lukeinva](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lukeinva/32/17872_2.png) [@Lukeinva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lukeinva)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2011, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-can-become-a-cast-member-of-any-tv-show-ever-what-would-you-choose/589252/41 "2011-07-18T02:07:27Z")
Cops… um NOT! ---
**Author:** ![Alice\_The\_Goon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Alice\_The\_Goon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alice_The_Goon)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2011, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-can-become-a-cast-member-of-any-tv-show-ever-what-would-you-choose/589252/42 "2011-07-18T02:09:46Z")
There’s a new show coming on CNBC or something… called How I Made My Millions. I would like to be featured on \*that \*show. ---
**Author:** ![Katriona](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/katriona/32/113_2.png) [@Katriona](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Katriona)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2011, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-can-become-a-cast-member-of-any-tv-show-ever-what-would-you-choose/589252/43 "2011-07-18T02:10:44Z")
X-Files. Mulder doesn’t really wind up with Scully. It’s me. Or Buffy/Angel so I could have some fun with Spike or Wesley. ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2011, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-can-become-a-cast-member-of-any-tv-show-ever-what-would-you-choose/589252/44 "2011-07-18T03:22:41Z")
Well, BtVS, really, but I’m nowhere near pretty enough to be anything but ‘third vampire on the right, killed by Buffy within 30 seconds of appearance’, so I’ll take M_A_S\*H, which seemed to have plenty of room for homely people. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2011, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-can-become-a-cast-member-of-any-tv-show-ever-what-would-you-choose/589252/45 "2011-07-18T04:22:19Z")
> [@bahia\_hombre](#): > > SNL a little later, with Mike Myers, Dana Carvey, Martin Short, Lovitz, Hartman… > > can you imagine the cast parties? But I’m sure the original-cast parties had way more and better drugs! ---
**Author:** ![gone2thedogs](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c67d28/32.png) [@gone2thedogs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gone2thedogs)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2011, 4:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-can-become-a-cast-member-of-any-tv-show-ever-what-would-you-choose/589252/46 "2011-07-18T04:35:18Z")
Bewitched! Even if I couldn’t do all that cool stuff I could see myself doing it on TV. ---
**Author:** ![Two\_Many\_Cats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8dc957/32.png) [@Two\_Many\_Cats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Two_Many_Cats)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2011, 4:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-can-become-a-cast-member-of-any-tv-show-ever-what-would-you-choose/589252/47 "2011-07-18T04:52:46Z")
I would’ve loved to have been the first American assistant to the Doctor during the fourth incarnation on _Doctor Who_. They would’ve also have had to keep a crowbar around to peel me off Tom Baker. Rowr. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2011, 5:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-can-become-a-cast-member-of-any-tv-show-ever-what-would-you-choose/589252/48 "2011-07-18T05:14:30Z")
> [@El\_Kabong](#): > > Well, BtVS, really, but I’m nowhere near pretty enough to be anything but ‘third vampire on the right, killed by Buffy within 30 seconds of appearance’, so I’ll take M_A_S\*H, which seemed to have plenty of room for homely people. Make-up, dude. Make-up. I always pictured myself as a demon of some sort, maybe a friend of Clem’s, that has a few lines every other show or so, then somewhere in Season 7 gives his life valiantly in defense of Dawn. Residuals and a good death scene…what more can you ask? ---
**Author:** ![BaneSidhe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c5a1d2/32.png) [@BaneSidhe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BaneSidhe)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2011, 5:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-can-become-a-cast-member-of-any-tv-show-ever-what-would-you-choose/589252/49 "2011-07-18T05:22:20Z")
Top Gear BBC version all the way! ---
**Author:** ![limegreen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/82dd89/32.png) [@limegreen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/limegreen)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2011, 5:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-can-become-a-cast-member-of-any-tv-show-ever-what-would-you-choose/589252/50 "2011-07-18T05:31:26Z")
I would love to follow one of those Storage Wars sort of people around and dig through all the boxes and stuff they buy, because I’m incurably nosy. ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2011, 5:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-can-become-a-cast-member-of-any-tv-show-ever-what-would-you-choose/589252/51 "2011-07-18T05:50:41Z")
I like the idea of being a Mythbuster. Or one of the cast of “Whose Line”–I’ve done improv before, and it would be fun to do it with some of the best. If I had to choose a sitcom though, it would be “WKRP in Cincinnati.” I’d love to sub for Johnny Fever. ---
**Author:** ![Sleeps\_With\_Butterflies](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@Sleeps\_With\_Butterflies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sleeps_With_Butterflies)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2011, 6:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-can-become-a-cast-member-of-any-tv-show-ever-what-would-you-choose/589252/52 "2011-07-18T06:09:26Z")
True Blood. Sooooooo many hot men. ---
**Author:** ![jackdavinci](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackdavinci/32/3259_2.png) [@jackdavinci](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackdavinci)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2011, 6:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-can-become-a-cast-member-of-any-tv-show-ever-what-would-you-choose/589252/53 "2011-07-18T06:28:34Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > _Buffy the Vampire Slayer_. That way I’d always have work on other Joss projects. Well yeah, any Whedon projects. Or Kevin Smith. Or Kevin Williamson. Maybe J J Abrahms. Or anything with an actor I like for random reasons, like Felicia Day or Wil Weaton or the Gooch. I’d love to be on a reasonably likely not to be cancelled too soon sci fi show. Poor Stargate RIP! Definitely HIMYM. The actors who plays Marshall and Lily and Barney are favorites. And the show is a lot of fun. I’m going to go out on a limb here… The Talk! I had dismissed it as a The View clone, but… Sarah Gilbert! And then everyone else. They are as competent, but less snooty. Sign me up! ---
**Author:** ![Argent\_Towers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e8c25b/32.png) [@Argent\_Towers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Argent_Towers)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2011, 7:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-can-become-a-cast-member-of-any-tv-show-ever-what-would-you-choose/589252/54 "2011-07-18T07:44:52Z")
_King of the Hill._ ---
**Author:** ![Sigmundex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e19adc/32.png) [@Sigmundex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sigmundex)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2011, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-can-become-a-cast-member-of-any-tv-show-ever-what-would-you-choose/589252/55 "2011-07-18T17:06:49Z")
Hands down, the answer is _Party Down_. I can’t imagine it being anything less than pure fun on that set. ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2011, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-can-become-a-cast-member-of-any-tv-show-ever-what-would-you-choose/589252/56 "2011-07-18T17:46:02Z")
Happy Days – the cast even had a softball team. Seems like a good bunch of people. ---
**Author:** ![MickNickMaggies](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/59ef9b/32.png) [@MickNickMaggies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MickNickMaggies)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2011, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-can-become-a-cast-member-of-any-tv-show-ever-what-would-you-choose/589252/57 "2011-07-20T21:57:34Z")
Taggart! Failing that, I’d settle for Midsomer Murders or Law and Order. ---
**Author:** ![Algher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Algher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Algher)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2011, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-can-become-a-cast-member-of-any-tv-show-ever-what-would-you-choose/589252/58 "2011-07-20T22:43:06Z")
I am going to go with any reasonably popular sci fi / fantasy show that would guarantee me slots at cons for the rest of my life. I want to be JUST popular enough that I can get a comped trip to various cons for the price of speaking on a few panels. ---
**Author:** ![Stauderhorse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce7236/32.png) [@Stauderhorse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stauderhorse)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2011, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-can-become-a-cast-member-of-any-tv-show-ever-what-would-you-choose/589252/59 "2011-07-20T23:06:16Z")
I’d love to be a fellow on House. A slightly less cynical and more naive counterpart to Thirteen, maybe. ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2011, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-can-become-a-cast-member-of-any-tv-show-ever-what-would-you-choose/589252/60 "2011-07-20T23:09:22Z")
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