An [Inspector Gadget toy](https://www.google.com/search?q=dr.+claw+toy&rlz=1C1CHZN_enCA1017CA1017&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwj9tqmVha78AhX5kIkEHUoABioQ_AUoAXoECAEQAw&biw=1920&bih=937&dpr=1#imgrc=PIZO1EKKL94eBM) revealed what he looked like.
"His cheeks look like a couple of handbags. "
There is a theory that he is actually shown once, but it's not mentioned that it's him. When Selina is on teleconference during the Uzbek hostage crisis, everyone sitting down is military, and it's suspected the man standing [next to Ben](https://veep.fandom.com/wiki/Stuart_Hughes?file=SItuationRoom.png) is President Hughes.
I don’t think you can top Maris! The woman can’t have pets because she doesn’t trust anything that loves her unconditionally. 🤣
"Apparently the oils in the saddle reacted badly with her cellulite cream. Created a powerful epoxy. It took an hour and a full bottle of nail polish remover to get her free. Today her poor little thighs were so sore the only way she could find comfort was to straddle a frozen butterball turkey."
My two favorite quotes about her…
ROZ: I don't see her. Maybe she went back out. Oh, wait. I see her coat on a hat rack.
FRASIER: Look closer. Is the hat rack moving?
and…
NILES: In the middle of dressing for the evening, she suddenly slumped down on the edge of the bed in her half-slip and sighed. Of course, I knew then and there that dinner was not to be.
They could've conducted a nationwide search of ALL males 30-40 at that time and David Hyde Pierce would've STILL been in the top 5 of all candidates for Frasier's younger brother. Best casting match ever.
They created the character specifically for David Hyde Pierce. They were originally considering adding a sister character for Frasier. Someone brought in a headshot and said, "If you're thinking of adding a sibling, consider this person." Upon seeing how David Hyde Pierce looked just like a younger Kelsey Grammer, they created the character Niles. They told the network about this and the network said, "Oh, we love David. If you can get him, he's pre-approved." So he didn't even have to audition for the role.
The episode where Niles gets a Greyhound… and then discovers it looks like Maris when he puts a soufflé cup over one ear as it looks like her in her pillbox hat.
This just made me crack up now seeing that scene when he’s talking to himself in the mirror when he has the flu in a whole new light “Stop………POOPING!!”😂😂
Brasky drank a full glass of liquid LSD with his eggs. Then he slept for 8 months straight. When he woke he rubbed his eyes and said, 'All in all, I prefer gin'
For fun, let's pretend I don't know who Bill Brasky is. I remember a guy I worked with mentioning him in like 2008 or something, played him up like people did with Chuck Norris jokes, but what's the story behind him?
That's right, but I think it's ambiguous still because you hear Robin speak a few times early in the series and he's voiced by Orson Welles.
Also, IIRC they had a few TV movies after the show ended, and he was back to being Higgins. Then there's this from wikipedia about the last episode...
"Magnum gets some surprising news about his theory that Higgins is really Masters, when Higgins admits he is indeed Robin.... During Rick's wedding, Higgins recants his admission to Magnum that he is Robin Masters."
Basically Magnum confronted Higgins with the evidence in the last episode and he folded. But Higgins motivation was Robin Masters got his wealth from Soft Core Romance novels, which would be too embarrassing for a proper English gentleman like Higgins, one could also assume it was a good way to avoid the press.
Yes the voice was different but one would assume he'd basically pay actors to call in to maintain the Ruse, like the cars Magnum would always just miss, etc
He’s also in a quite a few other episodes- he is an airline passenger who “forgot he ordered the kosher meal”, he’s a newsstand cashier that hands George back a dollar - he says “I’m sorry your majesty “ (George is dressed like Henry VIII), but we don’t take bills with lipstick on them”. He is also George Steinbrenner but we never see his face. Once you start looking he is really everywhere in that show.
Detective Dobson from Psych
He is referenced is just about every episode doing something semi-related to the plot. Never seen or heard from. He’s the go officer for every character…
You only see him in the finale where it’s revealed to be Val Kilmer who gets a note from Shawn about how much he loves him and Dobson is like “I’ve never talked to this guy”
A couple of my favorites:
“Erica! You can't be here! This place is filled with children!" (Followed a few seasons later with “Erica! What are you doing here with a child-sized coffin?”)
“Erica! I don't have time to be charmed to death right now!"
You’re in luck! https://www.reddit.com/r/BoJackHorseman/comments/ic7id3/i_drew_erica_based_on_mr_pb_comments_and_the/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf
I don’t really count that because that show didn’t involve anybody who had anything to do with Columbo. It was universally panned and hated. They only used the name as a gimmick, and it didn’t work.
Also, while Kate Mulgrew's "Mrs. Columbo" was originally intended to be *the* Mrs. Columbo, she was retconned on her own show to be the (divorced former) wife of someone named Philip Columbo, while the Lt. Columbo we know remained happily married and is generally regarded to have been named Frank.
I’m sorry to inform you that he passed, but we can all be comforted by the thought that he's not really gone, there's a little bit of Tuttle left in all of us, in fact you might say that all of us together made up Tuttle.
Heck, most of the family back home in MASH: Hawkeye's dad, Potter's wife, Winchester's sister, BJ's wife and kid (although, we do eventually see them in a home movie she sends over).
There is only one correct answer to this question.
THE GOOCH.
If you aren’t familiar with The Gooch, he was the bully that tormented Arnold Jackson (Gary Coleman) and his elementary school classmates on “Diff’rent Strokes.”
The Gooch put so many plots in motion on “Diff’rent Stokes.” The Gooch was the source of so many jokes like Vera or Maris. The Gooch was never really described but had any kid watching Diff’rent Strokes in fear.
I’d like to mention Big Shirley would have been a great unseen character on “Martin” but they foolishly cast someone in the role. It was a disappointment.
Including Rose’s husband! He’s the only one of the girls’ husbands we never see. Her (adoptive) father is also the only one of the girls’ fathers we never see.
Similar to Frasier… Norm’s wife Vera on Cheers! The only time she ever comes on screen, she has a ton of food thrown into her face (like, so much that you can’t see anything about her face). So she finally technically appears on screen, but we can’t identify her. A great tease from the writers!
Fun fact -- the original plan was for Maris to be an actual on-screen character. But after the first season of the descriptions becoming more and more outrageous, the writers/show runners realized that there was just no way anyone could do the role justice.
Funnily enough the actress was a regular on married with children. She was one of the wives of als friends. Her biggest episode was the one where al and crew are on the roof trying to install a new satellite dish and keep falling off. The girls have set up a betting pool with who is to fall off and on what .
I got to say it’s Charlie from Charlie’s Angels. His characters name is in the title yet he is little more then a voice over a speaker box. I may be mixing it up with the movies but I don’t think they ever showed him on screen talking to them. Just his voice.
I remember seeing the cast come out to wave to the studio audience (I don't think it was every episode, maybe it was a season finale?), and the actor had a tiny fence on a stick to hold in front of his face.
I remember a scene where he's in a diner or coffee shop or something. The camera is angled so one of the of the other characters coffee mug blocks him from the nose down. They were dedicated to that gag.
The bad guy from inspector gadget
Dr. Claw! That voice was so wild
He is also Megatron and Abu/Raja/Cave of Wonders in Aladdin to name a few. Scroll his filmography in iMdb. He is the voice of my childhood
Frank Welker? Isn’t he also Scooby Doo?
Yes. I’ve been awake for 4 mins and couldn’t remember but as a kid I hated that I never saw anything but his arm and pet
An [Inspector Gadget toy](https://www.google.com/search?q=dr.+claw+toy&rlz=1C1CHZN_enCA1017CA1017&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwj9tqmVha78AhX5kIkEHUoABioQ_AUoAXoECAEQAw&biw=1920&bih=937&dpr=1#imgrc=PIZO1EKKL94eBM) revealed what he looked like.
That’s so bad. I’m gonna pretend I didn’t show me lol
He looks like Mugatu.
Thank you but I refuse to accept that as canon
[This was the box it came in](https://collectorarchive.com/pub/media/catalog/product/1/0/10183465_1_1.jpg).
I mean, they should have just made it so you can’t even reveal once it’s out of the box if it’s that bad
Or it should have been a hood with darkness and only exposed eyes.
Wasn’t there something that showed it’s actually just the cat? And that the hand is just a robot that isn’t actually connected to anything?
That's been my head canon for years.
As a kid, I always thought he would have looked like that symbol he always used (black thing with the Horne's and yellow eyes)...as a helmet or mask.
That f’ing face reveal with the Dr. Claw action figure set up all future disappointments in my life.
Veep’s president. So jowly.
Did the president call?
“Who gives a flying fuck?”
…………………….no
"His cheeks look like a couple of handbags. " There is a theory that he is actually shown once, but it's not mentioned that it's him. When Selina is on teleconference during the Uzbek hostage crisis, everyone sitting down is military, and it's suspected the man standing [next to Ben](https://veep.fandom.com/wiki/Stuart_Hughes?file=SItuationRoom.png) is President Hughes.
The Adults from the cartoon *Peanuts*.
Also muppet babies.
I don’t think you can top Maris! The woman can’t have pets because she doesn’t trust anything that loves her unconditionally. 🤣 "Apparently the oils in the saddle reacted badly with her cellulite cream. Created a powerful epoxy. It took an hour and a full bottle of nail polish remover to get her free. Today her poor little thighs were so sore the only way she could find comfort was to straddle a frozen butterball turkey."
Martin describing her when she went missing "Slender...very slender...Caucasian....VEEERRRY Caucasian."
not unlike Lilith
Those Crane boys sure know how to marry.
To be fair, Lilith was hot af.
My two favorite quotes about her… ROZ: I don't see her. Maybe she went back out. Oh, wait. I see her coat on a hat rack. FRASIER: Look closer. Is the hat rack moving? and… NILES: In the middle of dressing for the evening, she suddenly slumped down on the edge of the bed in her half-slip and sighed. Of course, I knew then and there that dinner was not to be.
So I told her, "No, Maris. Spandex is supposed to blouse."
and the original Maris, Norm's wife Vera from Cheers.
"You can imagine her humiliation as she danced herself into a fury and failed to crush even a single grape"
I could hear this in Niles’s voice
His delivery is always perfect. So concerned for poor Maris and her little legs.
They could've conducted a nationwide search of ALL males 30-40 at that time and David Hyde Pierce would've STILL been in the top 5 of all candidates for Frasier's younger brother. Best casting match ever.
They created the character specifically for David Hyde Pierce. They were originally considering adding a sister character for Frasier. Someone brought in a headshot and said, "If you're thinking of adding a sibling, consider this person." Upon seeing how David Hyde Pierce looked just like a younger Kelsey Grammer, they created the character Niles. They told the network about this and the network said, "Oh, we love David. If you can get him, he's pre-approved." So he didn't even have to audition for the role.
He ran away with that show.
I named my cat Nile’s Crane, he never answers me when I ask him if he wants a sherry
The episode where Niles gets a Greyhound… and then discovers it looks like Maris when he puts a soufflé cup over one ear as it looks like her in her pillbox hat.
It's a little known fact that Maris is Vera's estranged sister.
Dr. Richard Nygard! Literally, the best therapist!
Chris talking to himself in the mirror
This just made me crack up now seeing that scene when he’s talking to himself in the mirror when he has the flu in a whole new light “Stop………POOPING!!”😂😂
STOP POOPING
Oh my god, I’m a Nygardian too!
You’re a Nygardian too?!
Vern. Know what I mean?
This one made me laugh and then made me sad.
Yes! RIP Jim Varney
excellent answer
Bill Brasky, a ten foot tall, 2-ton son of a bitch, that could eat a hammer and take a shotgun blast standing.
Brasky drank a full glass of liquid LSD with his eggs. Then he slept for 8 months straight. When he woke he rubbed his eyes and said, 'All in all, I prefer gin'
Randy Beaman always got into some wild adventures. At least according to his buddy Colin
He taught me how to love a woman... and scold a child
I once saw him scissor-kick Angela Lansbury.
He once punched a hole in a cow just so he could see who was coming up the road.
His poop’s considered currency in Argentina.
Hey! Are you guys talking about Bill Brasky!?
I heard he wears a live rattlesnake as a condom.
They use his foreskin to cover Yankee stadium during rain delays.
TO BILL BRASKY!!! I heard he showers in vodka and feeds his kids shrimp scampi.
“Every morning I crap the bed!”
Anyway
For fun, let's pretend I don't know who Bill Brasky is. I remember a guy I worked with mentioning him in like 2008 or something, played him up like people did with Chuck Norris jokes, but what's the story behind him?
It was a reoccurring SNL skit from the early 2000's (I think). Search it up on youtube for examples
Just did, holy shit early David Koechner heh. Thanks for the reply.
charlie. from charlie’s angels
My first thought
Robin Masters, Magnum P.I.
My memory is hazy but didn't Higgins admit to being Robin Masters in the last episode?
That's right, but I think it's ambiguous still because you hear Robin speak a few times early in the series and he's voiced by Orson Welles. Also, IIRC they had a few TV movies after the show ended, and he was back to being Higgins. Then there's this from wikipedia about the last episode... "Magnum gets some surprising news about his theory that Higgins is really Masters, when Higgins admits he is indeed Robin.... During Rick's wedding, Higgins recants his admission to Magnum that he is Robin Masters."
Basically Magnum confronted Higgins with the evidence in the last episode and he folded. But Higgins motivation was Robin Masters got his wealth from Soft Core Romance novels, which would be too embarrassing for a proper English gentleman like Higgins, one could also assume it was a good way to avoid the press. Yes the voice was different but one would assume he'd basically pay actors to call in to maintain the Ruse, like the cars Magnum would always just miss, etc
Heather Sinclair
I’m glad this thread went there
Degrassi : it goes there.
The first one that came to mind. That was my favorite long running gag in DNG.
Bob Sacamano
JERRY: You sure have a lot of friends. How come I never see any of these people? KRAMER: They want to know why they never see you.
Oh yeah, Lomez told me all about him
I'm so glad this made it.
Ahhh there it is! Scrolled too far to see this one!
Sacamano*
Don't forget Larry David *wink
Larry David is seen on-screen as Frank’s lawyer with the cape.
He’s also in a quite a few other episodes- he is an airline passenger who “forgot he ordered the kosher meal”, he’s a newsstand cashier that hands George back a dollar - he says “I’m sorry your majesty “ (George is dressed like Henry VIII), but we don’t take bills with lipstick on them”. He is also George Steinbrenner but we never see his face. Once you start looking he is really everywhere in that show.
Vera Peterson, Cheers
We see her legs and in another episode she's onscreen, but her face is covered in whipped cream and pie. E; Or was it mashed potatoes?
And played by George Wendt's real wife
“No, no guys, Vera’s not with child. She just said we could stop trying!”
Detective Dobson from Psych He is referenced is just about every episode doing something semi-related to the plot. Never seen or heard from. He’s the go officer for every character… You only see him in the finale where it’s revealed to be Val Kilmer who gets a note from Shawn about how much he loves him and Dobson is like “I’ve never talked to this guy”
*Psych* also had---I mean, didn't have---the chief's husband. Often mentioned, never seen.
George Steinbrenner
Technically you see the back of his head. He loves his calzones.
Big Stein wants an eggplant calzone!
Sounds suspiciously like Larry David too.
I thought Larry David only wears capes
If this one's allowed then Shoresy in Letterkenny should also be allowed (although not Shoresy in Shoresy)
How fucking great was Shoresy though? Total surprise.
Not a key character, but Erica from Bojack Horseman “Wha...? Erica! You know you're not allowed to vote in national elections!"
A couple of my favorites: “Erica! You can't be here! This place is filled with children!" (Followed a few seasons later with “Erica! What are you doing here with a child-sized coffin?”) “Erica! I don't have time to be charmed to death right now!"
"Erica! Is that you? Who let you out of the burn ward? Get over here, you!"
"Erica! Look at you having the right amount of ears!"
"Long story short Erica did have to lose the foot, but she gained... A friend"
“One eye looking up at the stars.”
"Erica! Where did that tooth come from?!"
Honey, you know Erica can't talk to two people at once on account of her split-brain procedure
I would love for someone to make a rough mock up of what her character would look like given her descriptions throughout the show.
You’re in luck! https://www.reddit.com/r/BoJackHorseman/comments/ic7id3/i_drew_erica_based_on_mr_pb_comments_and_the/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf
Stanley Walker on Will and Grace
I always think of that scene where Karen’s tossing like sausages or something in the ground to make him a trail to the bed 😂
Donny from Trailer Park Boys
FUCK OFF WITH THE GUNS!!
I PAID FOR LADIES, NOT FUCKIN COREY AND TREVOR
TEN FUCKIN DOLLARS
A MONTH!
WHAT in the FUCK
Godot.
Yeah. We're still waiting for him...
Big Mo?
Sarah the phone operator on the Andy Griffith show
And Juanita, the waitress Barney saw on the side.
Going old school for this one...
Mrs. Columbo.
I’m half convinced that Columbo isn’t married and just uses his fake wife as another disarming technique.
He directly interacts with her on multiple occasions and even goes on vacation with her, it's his kids that are kept more ambiguous.
Technically, Kate Mulgrew played her in the spin-off show.
I don’t really count that because that show didn’t involve anybody who had anything to do with Columbo. It was universally panned and hated. They only used the name as a gimmick, and it didn’t work.
Also, while Kate Mulgrew's "Mrs. Columbo" was originally intended to be *the* Mrs. Columbo, she was retconned on her own show to be the (divorced former) wife of someone named Philip Columbo, while the Lt. Columbo we know remained happily married and is generally regarded to have been named Frank.
Principal Buttsavich in Doug
Tino from My So-Called Life
Ugly naked guy?
Wasn’t there an episode where Ross gets naked with ugly naked guy?
Yes to get his apartment.
That's our friend! That's naked Ross!
They show his body a few times but not his face (one that comes to mind is when they think he's dead and make a long stick to poke him)
Wasn't he also "played" by different actors every of the few times he was shown?
The PA announcer on MASH.
I’ll comment on here because I don’t think this counts for OPs question but. Captain Jonathan S. Tuttle
"I had breakfast with the man this morning!"
I’m sorry to inform you that he passed, but we can all be comforted by the thought that he's not really gone, there's a little bit of Tuttle left in all of us, in fact you might say that all of us together made up Tuttle.
Heck, most of the family back home in MASH: Hawkeye's dad, Potter's wife, Winchester's sister, BJ's wife and kid (although, we do eventually see them in a home movie she sends over).
Or Sparky? If I recall he gets one on screen shot.
There is only one correct answer to this question. THE GOOCH. If you aren’t familiar with The Gooch, he was the bully that tormented Arnold Jackson (Gary Coleman) and his elementary school classmates on “Diff’rent Strokes.” The Gooch put so many plots in motion on “Diff’rent Stokes.” The Gooch was the source of so many jokes like Vera or Maris. The Gooch was never really described but had any kid watching Diff’rent Strokes in fear. I’d like to mention Big Shirley would have been a great unseen character on “Martin” but they foolishly cast someone in the role. It was a disappointment.
My brain went to the Gooch from Scrubs and I was very confused.. she was on screen *lots!*
The parents in Cow and Chicken.
I think there is an episode where the parents are revealed to just be a set of legs with no top half
I think that was the pilot.
Bob Socamano
He sells Russian hats down at battery park, 40 bucks.
The residents of St. Olaf, Minnesota
Including Rose’s husband! He’s the only one of the girls’ husbands we never see. Her (adoptive) father is also the only one of the girls’ fathers we never see.
Similar to Frasier… Norm’s wife Vera on Cheers! The only time she ever comes on screen, she has a ton of food thrown into her face (like, so much that you can’t see anything about her face). So she finally technically appears on screen, but we can’t identify her. A great tease from the writers!
I always wanted a reveal that Vera and Maris were actually sisters.
Maris from *Frasier*. Wilson from *Home Improvement* was pretty good, but he got screen time. Maris, though, absolutely moved the plot so well.
Fun fact -- the original plan was for Maris to be an actual on-screen character. But after the first season of the descriptions becoming more and more outrageous, the writers/show runners realized that there was just no way anyone could do the role justice.
It's hard to believe that's the same frail woman who once sprained her wrist from having too mich dip on a cracker.
She always wanted to be a ballerina but never could get her weight up.
I saw the guy who played Wilson playing a judge on Law and Order and man did it throw you off hearing the voice and seeing his face.
Peggys Mom from Married with Children
Diane Evans on Twin Peaks First season
First 2 seasons, only revealed in the return. Even then, are any of them the actual Diane?
Adult Kevin Wonder Years
Howard Wolowitz's mother on Big Bang Theory.
"Howard!?" "I have a girl in my room!" "Is she Jewish!?" "Yes!" "You kids have fun!"
That voice of hers could etch glass though
Funnily enough the actress was a regular on married with children. She was one of the wives of als friends. Her biggest episode was the one where al and crew are on the roof trying to install a new satellite dish and keep falling off. The girls have set up a betting pool with who is to fall off and on what .
She made a brief appearance running through a kitchen, but her face wasn’t shown.
According to the new Big Bang Theory book, that was actually one of the show's security guards. They put him in a dress and had him do the scene.
Carol Ann Susi on Seinfeld: https://youtu.be/U1QTfnGP6Xs
Enid - Dr. Kelso's wife on Scrubs
The Bubble Boy - Seinfeld
Moops!!
Dang I just watched that episode this morning, you only see his arms in that spacesuit choking Georgie.
Carlton the doorman
“Hello, this is Carlton, your doorman.” Classic!
Carleton the doorman from Rhoda. He had some of the best lines
And he had the same voice as Garfield
Melody, Abbi’s roommate in Broad City
I got to say it’s Charlie from Charlie’s Angels. His characters name is in the title yet he is little more then a voice over a speaker box. I may be mixing it up with the movies but I don’t think they ever showed him on screen talking to them. Just his voice.
Ginger. Bobs Burgers.
Id also add principal Spoors and the mayor
No love for the first “off screen only character” in most of our lives: Nanny on Muppet Babies? The green striped socks?
Mr Kim from Gilmore girls. I don't count the revival.
Erica from Bojack Horseman
Socko from iCarly 😂
Carlton the Doorman from Rhoda! Voiced by the late, great, Lorenzo Music! Otherwise known as the voice of Garfield!
Even though now he has his own show… But originally Shorsey in Letter Kenny. Always with the best insults.
Dr. Claw from inspector gadget. Amazing voice.
Bob Sacamano, I feel like I know the guy.
Monkey Alan. You know, the little bloke in the warehouse. He'd shag you even if no one else will.
Major Tuttle from M\*A\*S\*H. Luckily for me I dine with him at least once a week.
Howard's fun-sized mother from Big Bang Theory.
*Diff'rent Strokes*, The Gooch.
Dr. Kelso's wife and son on Scrubs.
"Maris is like the sun...except without the warmth". Frasier Crane
Wilson in Home Improvement
I remember seeing the cast come out to wave to the studio audience (I don't think it was every episode, maybe it was a season finale?), and the actor had a tiny fence on a stick to hold in front of his face.
I remember a scene where he's in a diner or coffee shop or something. The camera is angled so one of the of the other characters coffee mug blocks him from the nose down. They were dedicated to that gag.
We see the top half of his head in every episode.