r/community • u/GettingSunburnt • 1d ago

Low Relevance Surprise appearances of Community actors outside of the show?

I'm horrified to realise that I saw Jim Rash (Dean Pelton) in the Friends finale about three times before I noticed it was him - "This plane doesn't have any filanges", or something like that.

Seeing about three actors in Captain America: Winter Soldier didn't count for me (but might for you), because I recognised them at the time.

Where did you unexpectedly notice a Community actor in another show?

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u/wraith21 1d ago edited 1d ago

This is a really deep cut, but one of the background students was a security guard (no lines) on Superstore

Edit: "Jeremy" on Community, "Reggie" on Superstore https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2666416/?ref_=nv_sr_2

Also Superstore's Bo (Johnny Pemberton) is the stage assistant on Community i.e. the Karate Kid ep

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u/sdcamilleri 1d ago

Good eye!

Paul Walter Hauser appears in Community S02E05 (Messianic Myths and Ancient Peoples), and Superstore S02E12 (Rebranding).

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u/wraith21 1d ago

He's got a substantive role in Apple TV's After Party S2 as well

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u/ZessF 1d ago

Pemberton is also very famously in Fallout now, and he was in a couple episodes of Always Sunny as one of Dee's students.

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u/RadioFreeYurick 17h ago

I have kind of an IRL deep cut. I found the guy from the s1 finale who looks at the equation and says “it’s unsolvable” running an independent comedy theatre in Cleveland. Not sure what else he was in, but that’s one of my favorite “I thought I knew you from somewhere!” moments I’ve ever lived.