Was watching National Lampoons Christmas Vacation during thanksgiving. Noticed the opening credits one actor caught my attention Johnny Galecki from Big Bang Theory played Rusty Griswold!

In the first Vacation movie, cousin Vicki is played by 30 Rock's Jane Krakowski.

This guy from A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET


turned out to have a pretty good career

William H. Macy in Berry Gordy's The Last Dragon

Adam Scott in Star Trek First Contact



I had seen the movie a few times, but not in years. I recognized his voice and was like WTF

I've watched Uncle Buck several times and didn't realize the oldest daughter was Jean Louisa Kelly from Mr. Holland's Opus and the series Yes, Dear.

the douchebag Steve from Dawn of the Dead is Phil Dunphy from Modern Family

I haven't watched Titanic in it's entirety in about 9 years, but while checking out a Rifftrax montage on youtube last week, there's an Ioan Gruffudd sighting!

Allie Sin, oh maybe I'm a bit confused.

I just watched that recently and spotted him! My kid recognized him too as "the guy from Ringer."

He's also in The Aviator, a movie I saw a bunch of times but didn't realize it was him.

Saw Object of My Affection for the first time in years, and Hayden Panettiere was the little kid performing as the mermaid at the very beginning

Holy hell - I had no clue that was her.

I've seen the film countless times, and the series a few times. For some reason I never put two and two together.

Watching Die Hard 2 and Colm Meaney is the pilot of the British airplane

Donald Trump in Home Alone 2. As a kid in the 90s, I didn't know who Donald Trump was.

And as an adult in 2011 I still don't understand why I know who he is.

Yeah he was pointed out to me when I was a kid in the theater. I was wondering why adults were laughing at that part.

This sounds really pathetic, but I never noticed that he was on TNG. I think there was only one story that even remotely involved him - when his wife got shrunken down to a kid - but I never watched it because I fell asleep after the first 10 minutes and every review i've read trashed the episode. So when I started watching DS9, I had no clue why the fuck they kept referencing the Enterprise. I thought they just established him as being on TNG without ever showing him.

Watching Under Siege and Meaney's in this one too!

Funny, because I always remember the line "The cook's a SEAL?" but I never knew it was delivered by Meaney.

My Mom is a soap opera watcher,and has been for a long time,and I have caught scenes of them at times,and was in awe when I watched the documentary on the Making of Evil Dead II,and found out the actress who played "Bobbi-Jo" got her 1st acting gig in EDII and now stars on "One Life to Live". Forgot her name,and am about to go to bed so I'm not gonna look it up on IMDB.com tonight.....

Frederic Forrest AKA Chef from Apocalypse Now in Falling Down



Ben Stiller in Empire of the Sun



John Ratzenberger in The Empire Strikes Back



Gwyneth Paltrow in Hook



Viggo Mortensen in Witness



Jane Lynch in The Fugitive.



Sam Rockwell in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

I just went back and watched 24: Season 2. I was surprised to see Ron Swanson (from Parks & Rec), Tuco (from Breaking Bad) & Jigsaw (from Saw) all had small parts.

I watched both TMNT and Fresh Prince all the time when I was a kid, and I never realized that Uncle Phil voiced Shredder until I read about it many years later on the internet.

Yeah...he was also Optimus Primal on Beast Wars and Beast Machines.

That's incorrect my friend.

Gary Chalk did the voices

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