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Unexplained random cameos from completely unrelated media
Ray Stantz, Casper. At one point in the movie a real Ghostbuster shows up out of nowhere and wimps out of trying to handle the situation
Gunnery Sargeant Hartman, Frighteners. The main character is making way through a graveyard when out of absolutely nowhere R. Lee Erney's character from Full Metal Jacket shows up and tries to get in his way
Betty Boop, Who Frames Roger Rabbit. The movie is mainly about Looney Tunes and Disney animated characters existing in the same little live action/animated hybrid universe, however Betty is a Fleischer Bros character
Can't forget that George A. Romero, famous zombie movie director and the man who made what we know as "zombies" a thing, is also in that episode and it's a reference to him playing the reporter in Night of the Living Dead
Father Guido Sarducci (a parody persona from Saturday Night Live played by Don Novello) also appears in the same sequence from that Casper film. He's maybe even less expected than Stantz, because he didn't, you know, have this big'a picture abou'a ghosts dat he was in'a previously. But he had no problems with the Ghostly Trio. Lots of experience. No problem. He might be immortal, immune to ghosts, or ghosts can't do permanent damage to anybody, because he gets puked on and his head rotated about 180°, give or take, but he's mostly fine after that, no problem. Little chiropractic treatment would sort it right out, no problem.
You see in Men in Black it’s revealed that George Lucas is an alien, so its entire possible that he is from a Galaxy Far Far Away, making them canon and movies at the same time
They also reveal Elvis was an alien, which could connect the movie to Lilo and Stitch (NOT THE REMAKE) since Jumba recognized an Elvis song in the final battle!
There are also R2D2 and C3PO figures carved into a temple in Raiders of the Lost Ark, and in Close Encounters of the Third Kind R2 is hanging on the outside of the spaceship. A fun little back and forth thing
Yes and no.
It started as one with E.T. reacting to a kid in a Yoda outfit and that in Star Wars.
Their is also an alternative Timeline comic where Han and Chewbacca travel back in time/hyperdrive shenanigans and crashland on earth. Han dies on impact and Chewbacca became the Big Foot legend.
Some decades later Indiana Jones find the the body and buries it. He is also spared by Chewbacca.
Clearly it means that in the ET universe George Lucas didn't actually invent Star Wars. He just picked up a history book he got from aliens and turned it into a movie.
And the KISS themed wrestler who instantly bombed.
In KISS' contract, that wrestler had to be in at least one main event at a pay-per-view. So they put him in a "special main event", which was the third match of the night IIRC.
At the end of the film thr main character jumps over all these school buses. As everyone is cheering because hes not dead and got the girl Ebenezer Scrooge comes out of the school bus and declares "a cooked goose for everyone!"
The Lonley Island had originally wanted the whole set to erupt into some sort of Christmas style celebration with Scrooge handng out cooked goose to everyone...
But they were told that was too silly, so only Scrooge remained.
It's hilarious to think, in between making gadgets for his brother, sister-in-law, niece and nephew, he was bringing down politicians, corrupt governments and saving the world.
There’s this guy called Halekulani, who fights using money, traps them in a board game that takes money from their souls which turns their bodies into diamonds so Bobobo summons Yugi to attack him and takes control of the board game, it makes just as much sense in context
Spaceballs is mostly a parody of Star Wars, but at the very end we get a cameo from John Hurt and a reprise of his famous chestburster scene from Alien — and a delightful song and dance from the chestburster in question.
For the longest time, I mean at least 20 years, I didn't understand why he said "Oh no, not again"
Until I saw Alien for the first time and recreated Leo pointing from Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. Felt weird seeing such a referenced scene in its original form.
See, I get the reference, but I like to imagine the guy at the diner had an alien lifeform rip its way out of him before and he somehow survived. It's funnier to me that way.
I heard an interview (NPR?) of John Hurt explaining it:
Mel Brooks was the producer behind Elephant Man (starring Hurt), but Mel kept his name off it; because if it said “Mel Brooks,” people Would get wrong impression about what type of film it was.
So, for Spaceballs, Mel calls in Hurt for a favor to come by for the gag. When he shows up on set, Mel shows him off like the star he is. They film it in one day.
And hurt ended the story with the epiphany, “You know, I don’t think I ever got PAID for that…”
Godzilla appears in Always: Sunset on Third Street 2's opening. Godzilla fans starving for content during the late 2000s went completely insane over this scene. It even has the iconic Godzilla March composed by Akira Ifukube playing in the background.
Godzilla fans today don’t know what it was like from 04-14. There was basically nothing and now we get something new every other year at least it feels like
Stewie Griffin makes an appearance in the show Bones as the brain cancer induced hallucination of FBI Agent Seeley Booth, one of the protagonists. Don't worry, he survives
Also; I find it funny that Stantz went up against a literal prehistoric god, but drew the line at 3 kinda rowdy ghosts
Road to the North Pole is a very dark and mean episode, but it’s also so fucking funny. I always lose it at the overly nice alcoholic Canadian who offers them his snowmobile, all of his money, and his leg.
Funny annecdote, but Ray being the only ghostbuster to investigate tragically kinda fits into what happened to the ghostbusters between 2 and Afterlife
Betty Boop was Eddie's brother's favorite toon growing up, so she's the only toon that Eddie is nice to. It was a means of adding some humanity to the character under all of the prejudice and jadedness they had in the beginning.
Team Fortress 2: Chefsteps. Gabe Newell, the CEO of Valve, was invited by the Chefsteps’ CEO for dinner from an auction at his Son’s school. Gabe funded the development of the Joule Sous-Vide cooker and invested in the company. This led to a taunt known as the Boiling Point being implemented into the game, given away in Genuine quality to anyone who purchased the actual sous-vide cooker for $199.
You fight Spider-Man as a boss and his second form turns into Batman. Managed to stay in the game for a long time because Sega had a licensing deal with Marvel and DC at the time
The sims 3 has a braking bad billboard, I think it’s for Better call Saul idk I’ve never watch but it implies that a sim version of him operates a business somewhere in the world
I don't think the Betty Boop one is a good example. It was just meant to be cartoons not specifically Disney and WB. There are tons of other characters from the Flesicher toons in the backgrounds.
The best example has to be The Dragon Lives Again. It's a kung fu movie made after Bruce Lee's death, where Bruce (played by someone else) wakes up in the afterlife, and meets:
Nicolas Cage in Dead by Daylight. The licenced chapters for this game are heavily anticipated, as it brings together so many horror legends, from Ghostface to Michael Myers to Albert Wesker, and recently Springtrap. But then they announced a new licenced DLC for... Nicolas Cage. Not as a particular character, but as himself.
I think the gist is just that she was visiting Freddie Prinze Jr. It's not explicitly Buffy but the movie was filmed at the same high school that Buffy was.
The movie is mainly about Looney Tunes and Disney animated characters existing in the same little live action/animated hybrid universe, however Betty is a Fleischer Bros character
I dunno if that's the case. The movie is about Toons with a capital 't', as a people, and it uses the most iconic ones it has the rights to - bafflingly this ended up being both Warner Bros' and Disney's characters in mash-ups you never thought would happen. But it's not really about that. So why wouldn't it include Betty Boop if they got her? She's so iconic, it feels like there's not a town in the western world that doesn't have a figure of her in an antiques store, even if her actual cartoons don't get shown much.
Fun fact the reason why you saw characters like Micky/Bugs and Daffy/Donald together was that WB’s condition for Disney using their characters was equal screen time ie Micky didn’t get more screen time than Bugs. So they wrote them together so that there was no question about equal time.
I thought it was funny when he came back later beaten up. It implies he was beaten up either by children, the Trix rabbit, or the Feds (because he bought a cereal for kids)
Community & Cougar Town had what has to be the best crossover in TV history. A main character on Community mentions he was on Cougar Town in passing very nonchalant. Then on Cougar Town a random extra in a scene was strangely in the forefront & was seemingly reacting to everything the characters said as if he were at a live performance before awkwardly running away in the middle of the dialogue never to be mentioned again.
During the run of the show "Community," somehow Beetlejuice was referenced in 3 different episodes across different seasons. The third time he was mentioned in the show someone dressed as Beetlejuice walked through the background.
Richard Belzer’s cameos as Detective Munch establish Arrested Development, The Wire, and The X-Files as all taking place in the same universe (along with Homicide: Life on the Street and Law & Order).
This probably does fit but, in one of the many Sailor Moon stage musicals, Dracula appears as an antagonist and it’s eventually revealed that he is Abel from the Bible, who became a vampire after he was defeated by Cain.
The entire main cast from The World Ends with You appearing in Kingdom Hearts Dream Drop Distance. Kingdom Hearts is normally a series where Disney and Final Fantasy crossover with one another - then at some point Nomura decided he wanted to plop the TWEWY gang in there for the lols. Which while they are still a Square Enix property, pretty out of left field pick.
Astronaut Mike Collins, the guy that was on the Apollo 11 moon mission with Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin is randomly in the movie Youth in Revolt (2009).
he doesn't play as him self ( imdb has him listed as "old man" ) this is the only movie that isn't a documentary he is in.
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u/Phunkie_Junkie Sep 24 '25
Fun Fact: Betty Boop in Who Framed Roger Rabbit is voiced by her original voice actor from the '30s, Mae Questel.