Look how cute Kevin Pollak is in his '80s man sweater. 
Big-boo-tay! Tay! Tay!
Yeah, I intentionally said nothing about that. Pretty sure I had no idea who that guy was at the time.
Absolutely!
In a more lighthearted scene in the same film, I can not watch the “Taber gets a hotfoot from the thrown cigarette” incident without splitting my gut laughing.
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The great part in that scene is when he gets the Reverend Jim look for just a sec after trying the brownie.
He was also good as Hal’s warped aristocratic father in Malcolm in the Middle.
I voted for Doc Brown, because that’s the role I’m most familiar with Lloyd in. But I have seen one clip of him from Taxi, and I’ve rarely seen such perfect physical humor. The man is an outright master, and I’m willing to discuss being wrong about this one.
This is one of his most brilliant performances on Taxi: Jim’s father has died and as he deals with it he (Lloyd) has to be both broadly comedic AND subtle AND convincingly emotional, basically slapstick and tragedy rolled together, and he pulls it off beautifully. Part 1 (very grainy quality unfortunately).
Another for Professor Plum
Lloyd is notoriously reserved and shy in real life- he hardly ever does interviews and he’s never in the tabloids and most people who’ve worked with him say he’s sweet but very quiet and stays to himself mostly. I wonder how he got along with Andy Kaufman, or if he drew on that in 20 Bucks when he tells Steve Buscemi “I cannot work with a non-professional”.
Had to go with the Reverend Jim, he was so memorable on Taxi!
He’s definitely not retired, 10 projects for 2010 and he’s creator/executive producer for “Modern Family”
Thank you, Sampiro.
Yeah, me too. Although Kruge, Reverend Jim and Doc Brown are all tied for second, IMHO. He really is a talented guy.
Different Christopher Lloyd
Here’s Rev. Jim’s celebrated drivers exam, BTW: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvn-tBeLpCk&feature=related
And I actually thought he was kinda scary at the end of Who Framed Roger Rabbit? when the Judge showed his toon eyes and his voice got all shrill. Not suitable for most little kiddies.
Biggest laugh I ever had while sitting in front of a television:
Jim Ignatowski is sitting on a low stool of some sort, reading a comic book. The other drivers are sitting around the table razzing Louie DiPalma about something. Louie’s had enough. He steps out of his cage, holding a pair of pliers, strides over to Jim, grabs his ear with the pliers and says: “One more word and the whackjob gets it.”
Jim goes on reading his comic book, oblivious. Louie is disappointed that Jim doesn’t even seem to feel that he’s having his ear squeezed.
The subject of conversation is changed. Five minutes pass.
Suddenly, the air is rent by a blood-curdling yell OW!!!
Everyone turns to look at Jim, standing in the middle of the floor, with his hand on his ear, and the most bewildered look on his face.
So I’m voting for the good Rev.
Oops! I assumed it was the same person, I stand corrected.
Yes, I was quite startled to think that Reverend Jim was producing Frasier, until I got that straightened out. :smack:
My confusion started when I saw he was writing episodes of The Golden Girls.
All the more confusing when you realize that Frasier and Cheers had many of the same writers and production staff as Taxi.
Yeah, it both was and wasn’t plausible, if you know what I mean. On the one hand, since *Frasier *was a spin-off of Cheers, which was closely connected with *Taxi *in terms of production, why shouldn’t a major player in Taxi be the producer of Frasier? On the other hand, if it really was the Reverend Jim Christopher Lloyd producing Frasier, shouldn’t he be visible in some way? As a guest appearance or something? All that Reverend Jim-y goodness shouldn’t be going to waste. And *Frasier *just didn’t seem quite weird enough for that Christopher Lloyd to be involved.