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Cameo by John Goodman?

posted 13 years ago by ELOrocks17
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Did he play the cop in the diner making advances toward the waitress?

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[–] BrainGremlin 13 years ago

Yeah, that's Goodman alright. Surprising cameo, don't you think?

[–] FourthYear 12 years ago

At that stage in his career, is it even a cameo? :) According to IMDB, it was his 8th role ever...

But VERY surprising when seeing it now! I saw that last night and paused it to check it out here, and yup, it was him!

[–] BrainGremlin 12 years ago

You may have a point there. Number of appearances aside (which sometimes do not mean jack), I have no idea how known he was at the time.

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[–] Druff 11 years ago

In 1984, he was nobody.

[–] BrainGremlin 11 years ago

An awesome nobody: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTglaPQhYpY

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[–] gluserty (626) 7 years ago

I don't like the term "nobody", as I feel everyone is something or somebody, no matter what they do or don't do. I prefer the term "unknown".

[–] Mulletor (531) 5 years ago

Blow it out your ass, snowflake.

[–] gluserty (626) 5 years ago

Ha ha, good one!

[–] janoss (209) 5 years ago

Said the snowflake...

[–] Druff (1732) 3 years ago

Sorry, allow me to rephrase-
In 1984 he was an unknown nobody.

[–] gluserty (626) 3 years ago

I really wasn't taking offense or anything like that, I just don't prefer the phrase "nobody", but it doesn't bother me if anyone else decides to use it:-).

[–] Druff (1732) 3 years ago

That's cool, I don't care what you prefer. You're nobody.

[–] gluserty (626) 3 years ago

Ha ha, this is true!

[–] PF4Eva (290) 3 years ago

To quote Goodman as Fred Flintstone:

"All my life I wanted to be a somebody, and when I finally did, I turned into somebody I didn't like."

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[–] koffeenkreame41-1 10 years ago

^^This. Still awesome to see him in here though.

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[–] werecow2003 8 years ago

The funny thing is, I was watching that scene going "wait, is that Eddie Lebec from Cheers?", totally missing the fact that Jay Thomas is sitting right next to an almost thin John Goodman (probably because I'd been watching some Cheers episodes lately).

[–] largo2032 8 years ago

Yep! I came to imdb to see if that was Mr. Goodman! Funny thing is the waitress was played by Hallie Foote. She is better known as Grandma Lois in the Paranormal Activity series! 3 future stars in one scene!