Unexpected Cameos

For some reason I've come across some unexpected cameos lately so why not...

In Season 8, Episode 18 of Cheers, someone shows up as a background extra sitting at the bar. A young Glenn Beck appears in the background of the episode "Severe Crane Damage".

Enhance.

Even more surprising, to me, is an obscure actor in one episode of Golden Girls. In the Golden Girls episode "Sophia's Wedding" (Season 4 Episode 6 and 7) there is a strange wedding scene with Elvis impersonators.

And one of the Elvis impersonators happens to be a very young Quentin Tarantino.

Apologies for the picture quality, it's the best I could do. It actually looks more like Morrissey, really.

And that's really it except that I'm a slave for the Law of Threes....

Watching the first episode of Police Squad, there's a scene in a dentist's waiting room populated with patients. Playing one of the waiting patients is a very young David Schwimmer.

It's his first ever role.

Freestyle Canoeing

I can't do much better than one of the comments on the youtube page:

"First I thought he ran out of tricks but then he pulls that 360 spin and I felt like the lady in red."

There are actually journalists and photographers there. What is going on?

Late Night - The Guy Under the Seats

A compilation of every "The Guy Under the Seats" appearance.

I'm constantly amazed at how Late Night with David Letterman was so completely deconstructing the format - and how early on they were doing it. "Meta" comedy is so big on the internet that we think of it as "current" but here it is in the mid '80s.

Continue? - Lester the Unlikely

You know who likes video games? Nerds. It's 1994 already, so why don't we base a video game character around a nerd? There's no way it can fail.


My favorite Kanye West album is Pablo Honey.

Man Of War

I don't want to spoil it for anyone else but after nearly 20 years, this one feels like a disappointment. It feels like it was left unreleased because it wasn't finished rather than the usual reason Radiohead don't release songs: to torture people. Even with the editing, strange audio and distortion. I'll take the Meeting People is Easy version any day. Maybe that's nostalgia but it's the truth.

Yes - Yours Is No Disgrace

Here's "Yours is no Disgrace" if you have 11 minutes free.

"On a sailing ship to nowhere, leaving any place..."



The interplay between the main theme on keyboards and the guitar in this song is just magical, in my opinion.

The album version is available on youtube so I could have posted that. But then I figured, "Fellas, you're really gonna want that rotating mannequin head on the track."

Steve Howe says in an interview that the intro was rhythmically inspired by a "famous television series" but doesn't say which. There seems to be a lot of different theories. My money would be on the Gideon's Way Theme: