OldBoy

so i've just realized recently that Seinfeld has two very odd, well, one more than the other odd coincidences in the life span...

1. 3 major cast members from Breaking Bad were all guest stars on the show. (Anna Gunn, Bob Odenkirk, and of course, Bryan Cranston (several times))

2. Two relatives of Ron Howard were guest stars. (Rance Howard, actually played two different characters in two different shows and Clint Howard)

So my question...is this something that is a coincidence or is there some kind of connections that has been talked about?

TheMadMonk

SNL Connections (besides Julia Louis-Dreyfus): Molly Shannon, Ana Gasteyer, Sarah Silverman, Chris Parnell, Brian Doyle-Murray, and Rob Schneider, Janeane Garofalo, and Jon Lovitz, all from SNL, were on Seinfeld.

Mr. Show Connections: Bob Odenkirk (a writer on SNL), Patton Oswalt, Brian Posehn, and Janeane Garofalo.

Coincidences? Yeah, probably.

OldBoy

whoa!

Obi-Wanma

Where's the poll with the "What? Are you high?" option?

Coral

Also Jon Lovitz

dhmac

Yeah... and thinking about how the characters on Breaking Bad manage to trip up each other's plans back and forth again and again, with Walt tripping up Jesse, Hank tripping up Walt, Walt right back tripping up Hank one last time, Gus tripping up Hector, Walt and Hector tripping up Gus... Breaking Bad is really like just one giant Seinfeld episode!

bluetoast

Those are only for OldBoy threa-oh wait. Yeah let's insert that poll.

Troy Stiffler

Film and TV people tend to work around and recommend people that they liked working with before.

Crocker Jarmen

Seinfeld had a couple hundred episodes and probably a thousand one-shot characters, lots of actors were moving through there so it isn't much of coincidence those three appeared (now if they had all appeared in the same episode, that would have been something).

Some other shows from the same time period (mid to late 90s):

Third Rock From The Sun - Bob Odenkirk, Bryan Cranston appeared
Chicago Hope - Anna Gunn, Bryan Cranston appeared
ER - Anna Gunn, Bryan Cranston appeared

Josh-da-man

There are no small coincidences and big coincidences! No, there are only coincidences! ..Ask anyone!

Mikael79

All people who have never been in my kitchen.

Count Dooku

Fridays cast members: Michael Richards, Larry David, Melanie Chartoff, MaryEdith Burrell, Bruce Maher

Count Dooku

Terry Sweeney stopped Elaine from stealing her own tennis racket.

majorjoe23

Pretty much every actor who ever lived has been on a Law & Order show. Coincidence?

Count Dooku

or conspiracy!!!!!?

TheMadMonk

Thanks, I forgot about him. (But technically, it was Mr. Pitt's tennis racket).

OldBoy

these are some "big coincidences".

mhg83

It's all in Tommy's head

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Count Dooku

James Spader was on Seinfeld, and now he is Ultron, but none of The Avengers ever appeared on Seinfeld.

TheKing

And Clark Gregg was in the New Adventures Of Old Christine with Julia Louis-Dreyfus, and he was in The Avengers with The Avengers!

The Infidel

Superman was in every episode of Seinfeld, and I read that Jerry has seen Man of Steel.....

COINCIDENCE???

Count Dooku

Vicki Lewis from NewsRadio played George's secretary Ada and Kennedy has a secretary named Lincoln!

majorjoe23

BJ and the Bear featured neither oral sex nor a bear, but the monkey was crazy about butt stuff.

Coincidence?

hal9000

BJ and the Bear was marketing genius! As a 10 year old when that aired, it had everything a boy could ever want minus good story writing, Big rig trucks, a monkey side kick, and always, ALWAYS had a truck load of hot wife-beater-wearing-women either being kidnaped or running from the law.

OldBoy

also, Stephen Root played a bank manager in one ep...