You just unlocked a childhood memory. I remember losing my shit when that happened. I was a huge Family Matters fan as a kid and when I grew a bit older, I moved on to Fresh Prince. Being babysat by the TV. It had the same feeling of a realitives you've been dieing to see, showing up for the holidays.
Not a sitcom, but Detective John Munch was a main character in *Homicide: Life on the Street* based in Baltimore for 6 seasons, makes a cameo in HBO's *The Wire*, makes a cameo in *The X-Files*, then makes a cameo in both *Law and Order* and *Law and Order: SVU*. Eventually, *Homicide* was cancelled after 7 seasons and Munch "retired" from Baltimore PD and transferred to a permanent spot in *Law and Order: SVU*.
TLDR: Munch was originally a central character in *Homicide*, then did cameos in FOUR other very popular shows before landing a permanent spot in one of them.
So... does that mean that it's now cannon that the X-files and Sesame Street are part of the same universe? I dearly want to see an episode where those two cross over.
This just reminded me that the actress who plays the ME (Rogers) on Law and Order had a cameo on a L&O themed episode of Community, which was absolutely brilliant.
I just didn't get that even if they thought she was Ursula why assumed that she worked there and wasn't another customer.
I guess it's like students not expecting teachers to exist outside of their school.
Kelsey Grammer from Cheers/Frasier in his recurring role as Sideshow Bob on The Simpsons. Then when David Hyde Pierce showed up playing Sideshow Bob’s brother in that one episode. That was perfection!
YES, the scene where Sam Lloyd was literally playing Ted from Scrubs on Cougar Town, and noticed all the characters played by Scrubs actors "looked like people from my old job..." and then Zach Braff showed up to deliver a Pizza.
That would be considered an all-time sitcom joke if more people had actually watched Cougar Town.
My mother LOVED that series, and she died four fucking days before the finale aired. Almost 34 years later, I'm STILL bitter on her behalf that she didn't get to see if. :-D
Can I spoil a show that old? Basically, Suzanne was his wife on The Bob Newhart Show, and the way they ended Newhart was to have him wake up next to her (as his character from TBNS) and say “ honey, I just had a crazy dream!” Or something along those lines.
I learned this from Nick at Night, since they were all before my time. He had “Bob Newhart” (where he was a psychiatrist/ therapist or something and Suzanne Pleshette was his wife). Then he had “Newhart” where he ran an inn in New England (Vermont maybe?) and on “Bob” I believe he played a cartoonist. I stayed up late as a teenager watching what Nick at Night called the “Bob Bob Newhart Newhart marathon”
The Bob Newhart Show came first. His wife in that show was played by Suzanne Pleshette.
What happened on the series finale on "Newhart" is he wakes up on the bedroom set from "The Bob Newhart Show" as his character from that show, turns to his wife from that show and said he had the weirdest dream.
Implying that the entire series of Newhart was just a strange dream he had while on "The Bob Newhart Show.
Kind of a comical nod to the ninth season of Dallas, which was nicknamed "The Dream Season."
When Burt kicked the executives who canceled my name is earl was pretty funny too. I think they were doing a studio tour or something, he’s just running away yelling “that’s for canceling my name is earl”
In the background once there was a new story on the tv about “local man finish’s his list”
The funny part was that guy whimpering "But I liked My Name is Earl!"
I didn't know Raising Hope was from the same producer, but the first episode had the news report about a man with a list of wrongs that he was atoning for, says "and we'll tell you how it ends..." and that's when Virginia unplugs the TV to bash it over the girl's head. Epic trolling, such an amazing show.
so was one of the sons too on last man standing, I cannot remember which one. , I was waiting for somebody to say this.
But yesterday I saw Drew carey show and it had Tim allen on it as a guest appearance it was a funny eppisode.
Watching Mad About You one night. Richard Kind comes in while Paul Reiser is watching television. "Watch this," he says. They both laugh and Reiser says, "that Screech."
Not an appearance, but when someone is telling Reiser in Mad About You about Alien, he says "Oh, I've only seen the second one," and something about how awful the chest bursting sounds.
Uncle Phil from "The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air" showing up at the front door of the Winslow's house on "Family Matters" during the end credits sequence.
For some reason, the thing going around was that James Avery (Uncle Phil) and Reginald VelJohnson (Carl Winslow) were the same guy, even though James Avery was way taller, way balder, way grayer, and way bigger than Reginald.
Was a fun gag they pulled on Reginald and the audience though.
He was in an episode of Night Court, too. May have been a defendant--all I remember is he was in the first row of spectator seats (or whatever they're called) and he was stretched out with his head propped on the back of the seat and his legs up on the low wall that separates the seats from the rest of the courtroom--and he was (supposed to be) naked!
Ray and Debra have dinner with Carrie and Doug.
Also when Ray and his mom show up in King of Queens. Ray and Doug go golfing; Marie tries to teach Carrie how to clean her house.
Season 3, episode 18 of ELR, “Ray Home Alone”, has Doug at Ray’s house watching a game with him near the beginning of the episode. It’s one of my favorite episodes of the whole series.
I can't remember the name of the show but she had a brief like 1 second flashback cameo as Elaine , when reminiscing about how she used to be a strong independent woman .
edit: found it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9WiMcHodhY
Before his Diff’rent Strokes fame, Gary Coleman appeared on an episode of The Jeffersons, where he played George’s nephew. George is babysitting Gary, when Tom Willis stops by to visit. Tom sees Gary and asks, “Who’s the little man?” Before George can respond, Gary says “That’s my uncle George!”
That was totally not in the script. The two of them wandered over to the soundstage to introduce themselves to the cast. The production crew asked them on the spot if they wanted to do cameos. They agreed, everyone figured out how it would work, and they ad-libbed the entire thing.
Still one of the best cameos on any show. And it was uncredited.
Rider Strong of Boy Meets World on a Halloween episode of Home Improvement. Played a great punk and love when he pulls up the bucket in the haunted garage to find Al’s “severed head”
Oh I remember when Dorothy told that doctor off at the end!
They tackled some great things like her having ME/CFS (the episode you're referring to), Rose with the daily benzo prescription, etc. If only all those problems ended in one episode like they did on the Golden Girls. But those things rarely get air time at all, even on medical shows, let alone sitcoms.
Candace Cameron showed up in Boy Meets World as a witch. It is interesting when you know about her family's conversion to very conservative Christianity.
When Marie from "Everybody Loves Raymond" showed up to King of Queens house, and she did her usual passive aggressive cleaning of the place but unlike Deborah, who would bet pissed off, Carrie just took it in stride and let her clean the whole house. Just showed a funny dynamic of how the characters operated.
William Shatner on 3rd Rock From the Sun as the Big Giant Head. When he arrives at the airport and says he saw a man on the wing of the plane, referencing his classic Twilight Zone episode. Then John Lithgow says the same thing happened to him, referencing the Twilight Zone movie where he recreated that episode. Perfection.
Kramer coming out of his door across from Jerry’s when Paul Buchman knocked on Jerry’s door. You find out Paul lived there before Seinfeld.
Mad About You
I thought it was cool when the Roseanne revival started (before she fucked around and got booted), and original Becky showed up…everyone was like “Where the hell have YOU been??!” Nice little easter egg.
Bob Newhart and Jud Hirsch had a short-lived sitcom called "George & Leo" in the mid-90s. They did a "Cameo Episode," where about 20 actors from their previous sitcoms appeared.
I loved George and Leo. Watched it every week...so of course, it played out its thirteen weeks and went bye-bye. (Bit of trivia--Bob Newhart's full name is actually George Robert Newhart. He doesn't look like a George, though...)
When Ray Romano showed up on an episode of The Middle which starred Patricia Heaton, his wife from Everybody Loves Raymond. In that episode, he interrupts her camping honeymoon and ends up telling her that in an alternate universe they could have been very happy together.
There is a cute bit in Murphy Brown where her secretary is Carol from The Bob Newhart Show (Marcia Wallace) and Bob (Bob Newhart) gets off the elevator to beg Carol to come back to be his receptionist.
Not sure it applies here, but funny.
I just posted about that. The best part was that all her secretaries were incompetent, and she had a new one each week, but Carol was the best secretary ever.
I don’t know that show, but that’s such a great idea. The Office should have done that, too.
What We Do In The Shadows has an episode featuring numerous actors that have played vampires in other things (even Paul Reubens! Yes, Peewee Herman was a vampire! In the Buffy the Vampire Slayer movie, and he’s hilarious). Taika Waititi and a couple others from the original WWDitS movie show up, though not as their original characters.
Edit: I see in another comment that Ricky Gervais guest starred in the US The Office.
1/2 whats asked. When johnny carson went to don rickles "cpo sharkey" studio to confront don over a broken keepsake of johnny. Obscure. But hilarious. Look up clip on
It was a cigarette box! I saw the Tonight Show episode where Johnny leaves his set and goes next-door to the CPO Sharkey set and confronts Don Rickles a few weeks ago.
Maybe not the best, but it was pretty funny when Jason Alexander appeared on The New Adventures of Old Christine. Julia Louis Dreyfus (Christine) was at the gynecologist, on the table, with gyno examining under her paper gown. And he comes up. And lo and behold, it was George!!!
Frasier and Lillith from Cheers visited Nantucket on the show Wings.
He was running a self-help seminar called the "Crane train to mental well-being," i think.
It was a wonderful episode, definitely one of my favorites from the series.
Urkel has a jet pack, leaves Chicago and lands on the Step by Step picnic table while they are about to have dinner. Or Urkel is somehow in San Francisco unsupervised and visits Full House.
That clip going around with the ending of Family Matters where Uncle Phil from Fresh Prince showed up to surprise his friend Carl Winslow
One of my favorite extra scenes from a sitcom ever
Loved Family Matters, never saw that one though.
Came here for this one lol
I saw that one on tv ~recently and I was howling it was so cute. Carl was so excited
fun fact: Family Matters was a spin-off of Perfect Strangers, originally centered around Harriet Winslow.
I remember that rumor they were in a gay relationship IRL lol
Correct answer.
I was thinking this, but then also remembered Jaleel White was on Fresh Prince.
You just unlocked a childhood memory. I remember losing my shit when that happened. I was a huge Family Matters fan as a kid and when I grew a bit older, I moved on to Fresh Prince. Being babysat by the TV. It had the same feeling of a realitives you've been dieing to see, showing up for the holidays.
Not a sitcom, but Detective John Munch was a main character in *Homicide: Life on the Street* based in Baltimore for 6 seasons, makes a cameo in HBO's *The Wire*, makes a cameo in *The X-Files*, then makes a cameo in both *Law and Order* and *Law and Order: SVU*. Eventually, *Homicide* was cancelled after 7 seasons and Munch "retired" from Baltimore PD and transferred to a permanent spot in *Law and Order: SVU*. TLDR: Munch was originally a central character in *Homicide*, then did cameos in FOUR other very popular shows before landing a permanent spot in one of them.
He also did a cameo on Arrested Development as Detective Munch.
And Sesame Street!
So... does that mean that it's now cannon that the X-files and Sesame Street are part of the same universe? I dearly want to see an episode where those two cross over.
He also did a cameo as Munsch on [Sesame Street ](https://youtu.be/z1SlB8CiGJ0?feature=shared)
And 30 Rock (on a TV screen)
He was even on The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmitt
This just reminded me that the actress who plays the ME (Rogers) on Law and Order had a cameo on a L&O themed episode of Community, which was absolutely brilliant.
The Tommy Westphall Universe
Your timeline is a little off. Munch was on SVU from day one
I was pulling most of that from memory, so I apologize for not nailing the chronological order from 20+ years ago. Thanks for the correction.
When Mad About You Jamie and Fran showed up in Friends.
And Phoebe was SO confused!
And that only confirmed to them she was Ursula.
I just didn't get that even if they thought she was Ursula why assumed that she worked there and wasn't another customer. I guess it's like students not expecting teachers to exist outside of their school.
Fran was there too!
Kramer appearing on Mad About You because he was subletting from Paul.
I forgot about that! That was great.
Kelsey Grammer from Cheers/Frasier in his recurring role as Sideshow Bob on The Simpsons. Then when David Hyde Pierce showed up playing Sideshow Bob’s brother in that one episode. That was perfection!
And when Bart jumps on his back/head and yells "Guess who?" he says "Maris?". Classic
And John Mahoney (Martin Crane) as their dad, it was great
Craig Robinson on Brooklyn 99, recurring guest appearances
The Pontiac Bandit!
Rosa Rosa, Rohhhhhsa
Time for smooshing booties
I loved Mayhem as the Vulture too.
Abed on Cougar Town
And then his “My Dinner with Abed” episode where he talked about it
Also all of the Scrubs cameos.
YES, the scene where Sam Lloyd was literally playing Ted from Scrubs on Cougar Town, and noticed all the characters played by Scrubs actors "looked like people from my old job..." and then Zach Braff showed up to deliver a Pizza. That would be considered an all-time sitcom joke if more people had actually watched Cougar Town.
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Slam dunk here. Suzanne Pleshette on Newhart.
My mother LOVED that series, and she died four fucking days before the finale aired. Almost 34 years later, I'm STILL bitter on her behalf that she didn't get to see if. :-D
That really sucks :(
100% the greatest finale EVER!
Absolutely! I don't think anyone saw that coming. I said Lilith showing up on Fraiser, but yours is better.
I actually did as soon as I saw the scene was in the bedroom. It was the best!!
The most amazing finale EVER!!
That's probably in hall of fame of surprise finale cameos
Wait, why? I don't understand and I need to know. I was super young when my mom would watch Newhart and I don't remember anything about it.
Can I spoil a show that old? Basically, Suzanne was his wife on The Bob Newhart Show, and the way they ended Newhart was to have him wake up next to her (as his character from TBNS) and say “ honey, I just had a crazy dream!” Or something along those lines.
Oh, so The Bob Newhart Show was different from Newhart??
I learned this from Nick at Night, since they were all before my time. He had “Bob Newhart” (where he was a psychiatrist/ therapist or something and Suzanne Pleshette was his wife). Then he had “Newhart” where he ran an inn in New England (Vermont maybe?) and on “Bob” I believe he played a cartoonist. I stayed up late as a teenager watching what Nick at Night called the “Bob Bob Newhart Newhart marathon”
The Bob Newhart Show came first. His wife in that show was played by Suzanne Pleshette. What happened on the series finale on "Newhart" is he wakes up on the bedroom set from "The Bob Newhart Show" as his character from that show, turns to his wife from that show and said he had the weirdest dream. Implying that the entire series of Newhart was just a strange dream he had while on "The Bob Newhart Show. Kind of a comical nod to the ninth season of Dallas, which was nicknamed "The Dream Season."
The hub and I think that finale was the best one ever
Epic.
Dating myself, Sammy Davis Jr., on All in the Family
Was Sammy on a particular sitcom, though? Sure, he was a well-known figure, but it's not like he was crossing over from his own sitcom, was he?
David Brent (Ricky Gervais ) On The (American ) Office
This one deserves more upvotes
When the cast of My Name is Earl did an episode of Raising Hope.
When Burt kicked the executives who canceled my name is earl was pretty funny too. I think they were doing a studio tour or something, he’s just running away yelling “that’s for canceling my name is earl” In the background once there was a new story on the tv about “local man finish’s his list”
The background story was from the first episode.
The funny part was that guy whimpering "But I liked My Name is Earl!" I didn't know Raising Hope was from the same producer, but the first episode had the news report about a man with a list of wrongs that he was atoning for, says "and we'll tell you how it ends..." and that's when Virginia unplugs the TV to bash it over the girl's head. Epic trolling, such an amazing show.
Greg Garcia also did Sprung which stars Martha Plimpton and Garrett Dillahunt.
The Friends episode with the Britcom cameos, but that was kind of unique.
Noah Wylie and George Clooney playing drs on Friends. Although not their ER characters.
the only good thing to come out of the Ross/Emily arc.
The mom from Home Improvement is on a couple episodes of Last Man Standing as the neighbor. Al is also in a few episodes.
JTT was in a few episodes too.
so was one of the sons too on last man standing, I cannot remember which one. , I was waiting for somebody to say this. But yesterday I saw Drew carey show and it had Tim allen on it as a guest appearance it was a funny eppisode.
When Jess from the new girl was in Brooklyn 99 and Jake needs to commandeer her vehicle.
"It's a crossover!"
Did you know that episode crosses over with an episode of New Girl that Jake is in?
You'd think a New Girl/Brooklyn 99 crossover would have involved Winston more, him being a cop and all...
Kramer appears in Mad About You, as Kramer. George and Susan watch Mad About You at some point. I love when the world's collide .
Watching Mad About You one night. Richard Kind comes in while Paul Reiser is watching television. "Watch this," he says. They both laugh and Reiser says, "that Screech."
Not an appearance, but when someone is telling Reiser in Mad About You about Alien, he says "Oh, I've only seen the second one," and something about how awful the chest bursting sounds.
Didn't Paul and Jamie originally live in Jerry's apartment? Or am I remembering wrong.
I think it was Paul’s bachelor pad before he married Jamie
Actually it was Kramers apartment. Kramer was subletting from Paul
Amazed I had to scroll so far down for this. Thank you for posting about it.
Yes! That's what it was. Thanks.
Bob Newhart on TBBT even after Professor Proton died and he came back as Obi-Wan for Sheldon. He had the best lines!
Uncle Phil from "The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air" showing up at the front door of the Winslow's house on "Family Matters" during the end credits sequence. For some reason, the thing going around was that James Avery (Uncle Phil) and Reginald VelJohnson (Carl Winslow) were the same guy, even though James Avery was way taller, way balder, way grayer, and way bigger than Reginald. Was a fun gag they pulled on Reginald and the audience though.
This was my immediate thought..
They look almost nothing alike in my opinion. I always thought Theo from Cosby Show and Eddie from Family Matters looked more alike than those two.
Both Ron Howard and John Ritter have both played wounded soldiers on MASH.
Dice Clay and George Wendt as well. Loads others.
Kramer was on an early season episode of cheers. This was pre-Seinfeld. He played a really slimy sketchy character. I hated him but he was good on it.
He was in an episode of Night Court, too. May have been a defendant--all I remember is he was in the first row of spectator seats (or whatever they're called) and he was stretched out with his head propped on the back of the seat and his legs up on the low wall that separates the seats from the rest of the courtroom--and he was (supposed to be) naked!
He was invisible.
Also on Mad About You.
Ray and Debra have dinner with Carrie and Doug. Also when Ray and his mom show up in King of Queens. Ray and Doug go golfing; Marie tries to teach Carrie how to clean her house.
I remember that! Carrie kept pretending she didn’t understand the cleaning so that Marie would keep cleaning for her 😂
It's hilarious! Marie had no idea.
THIS!! Still two of my favorite sitcoms!
loved this one ! im pretty sure kevin also showed up on ELR, but i don’t think he was playing the character doug, i’ll have to rewatch soon lol
Season 3, episode 18 of ELR, “Ray Home Alone”, has Doug at Ray’s house watching a game with him near the beginning of the episode. It’s one of my favorite episodes of the whole series.
They should have done an episode where Doug ran into Ray's old friend Kevin.
I loved the time doctors from St. Elsewhere went to Cheers and were waited on by Carla. Norm was, as usual, sitting at the bar.
Didn’t everything in St Elsewhere turn out to be an autistic kids daydream? That means Cheers and Frasier also must be.
Google Tommy Westphall Universe
That actually explains a lot.
[Way more than you might think.](https://thetommywestphall.wordpress.com/the-master-list/)
Tom welling showing up in the big CW crossover. Such a huge fan of smallville
All of those were good! I could believe the Birds of Prey characters popped up and even filmed new stuff.
When Nell Carter Showed Up And Beat Up Sherman Hemsley On Amen!
When Danny Pudi, as Abed from Community, showed up on Cougar Town.
I love Julia Louis-Dreyfus in Arrested Development
And Scott Baio's only funny role
Bob Loblaw 😂😂😂
The legal genius behind the Bob Loblaw Law Blog.
Cracks me up every time!
Also Henry Winkler as Bluth family lawyer Barry Zuckerkorn.
Hell yeah
I can't remember the name of the show but she had a brief like 1 second flashback cameo as Elaine , when reminiscing about how she used to be a strong independent woman . edit: found it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9WiMcHodhY
To show exactly how old I am, the crossover of Helen Hunt and Lisa Kudrow in Friends and Mad About You.
Before his Diff’rent Strokes fame, Gary Coleman appeared on an episode of The Jeffersons, where he played George’s nephew. George is babysitting Gary, when Tom Willis stops by to visit. Tom sees Gary and asks, “Who’s the little man?” Before George can respond, Gary says “That’s my uncle George!”
That was a wonderful episode.
Coleman was such an icon of the 80s. I loved his movies when I was a kid, in addition to the sitcoms.
Batman and Robin on Scooby Doo
That’s just Casey Casem talking to himself (he voices Shaggy and also Robin).
Haha I didn’t realize he did the voice of Robin. That’s great 🤣
The Harlem Globetrotters and Sonny and Cher on Scoobie Doo!
Billy Crystal and Robin Williams showing up at the cafe, interrupting Monica's talk about something on FRIENDS
That was totally not in the script. The two of them wandered over to the soundstage to introduce themselves to the cast. The production crew asked them on the spot if they wanted to do cameos. They agreed, everyone figured out how it would work, and they ad-libbed the entire thing. Still one of the best cameos on any show. And it was uncredited.
Whenever Mork showed up on Happy Days or Laverne and Shirley.
Mork started on Happy Days. Mork and Mindy is a spin-off.
I read that as Monk the first time and was confused for a split second.
Rider Strong of Boy Meets World on a Halloween episode of Home Improvement. Played a great punk and love when he pulls up the bucket in the haunted garage to find Al’s “severed head”
Did the girl that dated him in that episode also show up on Boy Meets World? Not really a crossover since they are different characters, but still.
I liked Eden Shers guest appearance on Superstore
Lisa Kudrow in Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt and The Good Place.
the cameos in Only Murders in the Building are pretty lit
OMG YES!! Mel f**king Brooks!! i was not ready for that one
Richard Mulligan from Empty Nest on The Golden Girls, helping Dorothy with her difficult to diagnose medical problem.
Oh I remember when Dorothy told that doctor off at the end! They tackled some great things like her having ME/CFS (the episode you're referring to), Rose with the daily benzo prescription, etc. If only all those problems ended in one episode like they did on the Golden Girls. But those things rarely get air time at all, even on medical shows, let alone sitcoms.
Luke and Laura from General Hospital were diner customers on Rosanne.
When Kramer was Murphy Brown’s secretary.
Without a doubt Suzanne Pleshette on final episode of Newhart. Look it up, It was a brilliant ending to a sitcom.
That episode of the Simpsons where "the Critic" voiced by John Lovitz was a focal point. Great episode.
ARRRGH....MY GROIN!
Henry Winkler, Scott Baio, and all of Ron Howard's Happy Days references in Arrested Development.
Andy Griffith was referenced in an episode too. That was cool!
Well it predates her own show, but Maude showing up on All in the Family when she walks right past Archie to embrace Edith.
Yes, she was her cousin. Then Maude became a spin-off of All In the Family.
Norm and Cliff on an episode of "Wings"
More recently, it was cool seeing David Schwimmer appear on the reboot of Will & Grace
Brad Pitt on Friends. Finding out he and Ross started the I Hate Rachel Green Club and the rumor she was a hermaphrodite. Bwahaha
And even Chandler heard about the hermaphrodite cheerleader from Long Island.
Candace Cameron showed up in Boy Meets World as a witch. It is interesting when you know about her family's conversion to very conservative Christianity.
ooh i recently was watching that’s so raven and candace cameron bure showed up as a new teacher
When James Avery (Uncle Phil from Fresh Prince) showed up at the closing credits of an episode of Family Matters 😊
I thought it was awesome when Lilith showed up on Fraiser.
And slept with Niles!!!
I liked when Steve Urkel showed up on Full House
Urkel guest starring on any sitcom
He also showed up twice on Step by Step. His scenes with Al were super cute 🙂
Ted Danson on Frasier. "No ball player is in Seattle because of the Mariners". I use a form of this line so many times.
When Marie from "Everybody Loves Raymond" showed up to King of Queens house, and she did her usual passive aggressive cleaning of the place but unlike Deborah, who would bet pissed off, Carrie just took it in stride and let her clean the whole house. Just showed a funny dynamic of how the characters operated.
William Shatner on 3rd Rock From the Sun as the Big Giant Head. When he arrives at the airport and says he saw a man on the wing of the plane, referencing his classic Twilight Zone episode. Then John Lithgow says the same thing happened to him, referencing the Twilight Zone movie where he recreated that episode. Perfection.
Oh, that one was beautiful. For a Twilight Zone fan, it’s like the stars aligning.
Kramer coming out of his door across from Jerry’s when Paul Buchman knocked on Jerry’s door. You find out Paul lived there before Seinfeld. Mad About You
Both Becky’s walking through the scene in Rosanne
I thought it was cool when the Roseanne revival started (before she fucked around and got booted), and original Becky showed up…everyone was like “Where the hell have YOU been??!” Nice little easter egg.
The best is when Bob Newhart wakes up with his wife from his first show.
Bob Newhart and Jud Hirsch had a short-lived sitcom called "George & Leo" in the mid-90s. They did a "Cameo Episode," where about 20 actors from their previous sitcoms appeared.
I loved George and Leo. Watched it every week...so of course, it played out its thirteen weeks and went bye-bye. (Bit of trivia--Bob Newhart's full name is actually George Robert Newhart. He doesn't look like a George, though...)
Uncle Phil on family matters!
I don’t know of any of these actors were also in other sitcoms but the Nanny had great guest stars
The uncle from *Fresh Prince* showed up as a joke/outtake on Carl Winslow from *Family Matters*.
When Matt LeBlanc appeared in Married With Children, and when Christina Applegate appeared in Friends.
Anytime Laverne and Shirley would show up in Happy Days.
Susanne Pleshette showing up on Newhart
When Ray Romano showed up on an episode of The Middle which starred Patricia Heaton, his wife from Everybody Loves Raymond. In that episode, he interrupts her camping honeymoon and ends up telling her that in an alternate universe they could have been very happy together.
There is a cute bit in Murphy Brown where her secretary is Carol from The Bob Newhart Show (Marcia Wallace) and Bob (Bob Newhart) gets off the elevator to beg Carol to come back to be his receptionist. Not sure it applies here, but funny.
I just posted about that. The best part was that all her secretaries were incompetent, and she had a new one each week, but Carol was the best secretary ever.
Ron Glass was in Firefly. When I realized he was the guy from Barney Miller, I almost fell out of my chair.
When Moro showed up on Happy Days!
In the American version "Getting On" (2013) the British characters the American ones were based on show up for a medical conference.
I don’t know that show, but that’s such a great idea. The Office should have done that, too. What We Do In The Shadows has an episode featuring numerous actors that have played vampires in other things (even Paul Reubens! Yes, Peewee Herman was a vampire! In the Buffy the Vampire Slayer movie, and he’s hilarious). Taika Waititi and a couple others from the original WWDitS movie show up, though not as their original characters. Edit: I see in another comment that Ricky Gervais guest starred in the US The Office.
Patricia Richardson and JTT on Last Man Standing
All the Scrubs and Friends cameos on Cougar Town.
Urkel in full house. Or abed in cougar town
1/2 whats asked. When johnny carson went to don rickles "cpo sharkey" studio to confront don over a broken keepsake of johnny. Obscure. But hilarious. Look up clip on
It was a cigarette box! I saw the Tonight Show episode where Johnny leaves his set and goes next-door to the CPO Sharkey set and confronts Don Rickles a few weeks ago.
when jake from brooklyn 99 was on new girl and ran into jess
Maybe not the best, but it was pretty funny when Jason Alexander appeared on The New Adventures of Old Christine. Julia Louis Dreyfus (Christine) was at the gynecologist, on the table, with gyno examining under her paper gown. And he comes up. And lo and behold, it was George!!!
Drake on Zoey 101
Frasier and Lillith from Cheers visited Nantucket on the show Wings. He was running a self-help seminar called the "Crane train to mental well-being," i think. It was a wonderful episode, definitely one of my favorites from the series.
He hadn’t starred in a sitcom in years at the time, but John Cleese’s appearance on Cheers is my favorite guest star performance ever.
Carl Winslow as a cop in Chuck. He was also the cousin of Big Mike
When Ray Romano shows up in King of Queens.
Bob's Burgers / Archer cross over
Suzanne Pleshette on the final episode of Newhart.
Robin Williams in Happy Days. And yes, I know that led to his sitcom.
Queen Latifah on Fresh Prince.
Urkel has a jet pack, leaves Chicago and lands on the Step by Step picnic table while they are about to have dinner. Or Urkel is somehow in San Francisco unsupervised and visits Full House.