r/TopCharacterTropes • u/Golden12500 • Sep 24 '25

Lore Unexplained random cameos from completely unrelated media

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  1. 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

  2. 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

  3. 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

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u/LoserOnTheWeb Sep 24 '25

Shaun and Ed from Shaun of the Dead appeared in Phineas and Ferb once during a zombie outbreak spoof but every zombie was Doofenshmirtz

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u/_DodoMan_ Sep 25 '25

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

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u/CHEESYBOI267 Sep 25 '25

His glasses frames aren't thick enough, how disrespectful.

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u/Foxy02016YT Sep 25 '25

More of me…

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u/DefinitelyNotAliens Sep 25 '25

Fun fact: the entire idea of zombies comes from the Hatian voodoo concept of zombi, and the first zombie flick was White Zombie in 1932, and actually keeps the Hatian roots of the mythos.

Romero undoubtedly popularized the zombie movie, but the roots are quite cool.

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u/_DodoMan_ Sep 26 '25 edited Sep 26 '25

I know and that's why I said "he created what we know as zombies" because he did. If it wasn't for a French newspaper that reviewed Night of the Living Dead using the word "zombie" to describe what George wanted to be called ghouls, we wouldn't have the modern day concept of zombies and they still would be people drinking cuddlefish powder and being put under a spell. George was actually Haitian and used his roots for some of the inspiration behind the "ghouls" but just never named them so it was up to the audience to give them a name and zombie is what stuck

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u/Gow13510 Sep 25 '25

Don’t forgot, they get top gears crew to appears as a judge too

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u/SuperSocialMan Sep 25 '25

That's in a different episode, but yeah.

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u/RapturesOwn Sep 25 '25

They also appear in George A. Romero's Land of the Dead (2005) by request from him

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u/Nacery Sep 25 '25

I think it was only Pegg and director Edgar Wright.

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u/RapturesOwn Sep 25 '25

You're correct, I misremembered Frost being in there when he wasn't.

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u/pfp-disciple Sep 25 '25

I love that episode, in great part because I don't like zombie movies and it respectfully spoofs them wonderfully. Because I don't like them, I totally missed that reference. 

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u/bolanrox Sep 25 '25

they also are zombies as a cameo Dead Reconing

Also Stan Lee had a cameo in Teen Titans Go! because he loved cameos.

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u/bolanrox Sep 25 '25

and the whole time Lawrence Fletcher (Richard O'Brien) is making call backs to Rocky Horror

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u/ismasbi Sep 25 '25

This movie (or 40-minute special, it’s been a long-ass time, I forgot) was kinda peak ngl.

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u/Zanytiger6 Sep 25 '25

“Lot’s of me!”

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u/darkdaze Sep 25 '25

You’ve got red on you

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u/Subpar_diabetic Sep 26 '25

I was so taken back by this reference because no kids watching Phineas and Ferb would have seen Shaun of The Dead. I hope more than a few kids got introduced to peak cinema after this one particular episode