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The Cast Showoff - TV Tropes. This entry is trivia, which is cool and all, but not a trope. On a work, it goes on the Trivia tab. In most cases, this doesn't derail the story (much), often leading to viewers exclaiming, . ![]() Contrast Irony as She Is Cast (in which an actor who is good at something . Her seiyuu, Ai Maeda, sang the ending songs for most of the series. So many golden ages, so much brilliance from which to choose. In culling from the "60 Greatest" lists we've compiled during our 60th-anniversary year, we shook things. His voice actor, however, Minami Takayama, is a singer and a member of the pop group Two- Mix. Zelgadis (Hikaru Midorikawa) helps them with the . We all knew by that point how well Aya Hirano sings, but the dub did a translation so Wendee Lee could do her part. She has a beautiful mature singing voice when she tries, but then there's the So Bad, It's Good rendition of Cha- La Head- Cha- La.. In the English dub, they got Shannon Chan- Kent, who also has a good deal of experience singing. Fate Testarossa, as voiced by Nana Mizuki, who by that time had established her singing career by debuting #2 on the Weekly Singles Oricon charts with . Flower- Viewing Festival with karaoke. Naturally, Fate gets bullied by Signum and the rest of the cast to take center stage and sing for them. ![]() It contains seiyuu for characters that are extremely, extremely minor.. Ayumi Fujimura (Misaki), Aki Toyosaki (Yui), Minori Chihara (Kagura, Yuki), Yoko Hikasa (Mio), and Aya Hirano (Haruhi).. She even added German profanity not included in the Japanese or even English versions. Taking it one step further, an official tweet tells how Nonna singing the Cossack Lullaby in episode 9 was an ad lib by Sumire; the original script only called for her to sing any lullaby. In fact, she is also fluent in English as shown by some of her speaking roles such as Angela Burton of Genshiken, and French. Smith (the latter song is actually credited to . TV show description: The world of a group of taxi drivers, a dispatcher, and a mechanic who work for the fictional Sunshine Cab Company in New York City. So naturally, she's an Idol Singer who puts on multiple concerts throughout the series. On the radio show Desert Island Discs, he immodestly chose to take his own songs to the island in nearly every case. A coin in Billy The Kid, two coins while standing and walking in Real Genius, a poker chip in Tombstone, drumsticks in The Doors, and a crowbar in Top Secret! Note that the scene also involved Mc. Queen playing one of the German pursuers, as the only person on the set capable of riding a motorcycle on the level of Steve Mc. Queen was Steve Mc. Queen. He made a point of sitting far to the left in the driver's seat, without a seatbelt, so that his face would be clearly identifiable during the stunts. In Horse Feathers, Groucho plays the guitar as a Take That! They didn't have to work that hard to shoehorn them in; his scripts would often have a placeholder that just said . The film also stands as a statement of director Roman Polanski's enthusiasm for sailing; at times it resembles an instructional video on the sport. After hearing Billy Boyd sing . Boyd picked a song from the books, wrote a tune for it, and the result was the scene where Pippin sings to Denethor. Funnily enough, the book specifies . He gets to display those skills in Witness, where he fixes a birdhouse, makes a toy for the kid, and participates in a Barn Raising. In fact, the creators of the 2. James Marsden, Amanda Bynes, Christopher Walken), or who hadn't had much of a chance to show off in recent years (Pfeiffer, John Travolta, and even Queen Latifah is nowadays seen by most as an actress more than a musician). Taylor Lautner's martial art skills, Taylor Swift's dancing, and George Lopez's Spanglish. In the same movie, Lana (Mandy Moore) sings a musical number. Peter Sellers puts on a range of accents, while Orson Welles fills his side with magic tricks (Welles was a keen amateur magician). None of it is remotely relevant to what little plot there is. He goes into boxing stance when fighting Batman in the train. Copley and Bradley Cooper also get to display their actual fluency in Swahili and French, respectively. Ex- boxer Liam Neeson also got to show off his moves in the film's climax. Incidentally, when Jamie Lee Curtis (who's swapped bodies with Lindsay in the plot) plays the guitar solo in the climax, she really is playing it. Though the best example is probably Young Frankenstein, and a subversion occurs in Blazing Saddles when she is deliberately singing badly. Angelina Jolie collects knives and is evidently good at handling them. Thus, when he must hack his way through a door with a fireaxe to get to Shelley Duvall in The Shining, that's a real door he's chopping through because he annihilated the prop door they had used in a previous take. He shows this off in a few of his movies, notably The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother. If there is any excuse to get a few lines in Spanish shoehorned into any of his movies, he will take it. There is a particularly egregious example in his directorial effort Keeping the Faith, where his priest character chats to a boy in his congregation in Spanish for no plot- related reason whatsoever. It gets turned around in The Incredible Hulk when he spends the first act living in Brazil, and speaks the local language (Portuguese) — poorly, and when he finds himself in Guatemala he barely knows a few basic words. However, Denholm Elliott was an accomplished equestrian and so knew how to nearly- fall without much of a risk involved. This was lampshaded when Martin was a judge on an episode of The Gong Show that filmed at the end of a production week and ran out of regular contestants. Martin helped pad the show by twice pretending to be a contestant playing an extremely competent banjo, before getting cutoff by Chuck Barris for competing as a celebrity. Especially running; he's one of the very few actors who's confident about his ability to sprint on- camera. Thus, all of his movies (especially the Mission: Impossible series) have scenes dedicated to showing off his sprinting ability. Davi had trained as an opera singer. She trained extensively as one before embracing an acting career. Actor Erland van Lidth had a background as an opera singer. They had to slow him down so his actions could be picked up on film. He was very much not a trained fencer, but he was so good at reading and mimicking other people's movements that he held his own against master swordsman Basil Rathbone! She displays this skill in a very plot- unrelated scene in Driven. During one musical number, Julie Andrews presents a few eggs as if she's about to juggle them for the children's amusement. Instead, she fakes it and then drops one. A man of unfair talents. Singing and dancing in Evita, as well as Shrek 2, dancing and fencing in The Mask of Zorro and doing all his own guitarwork in Desperado and Once Upon a Time in Mexico. After Newman broke, Gleason took his turn and sank all fifteen balls without allowing Newman another shot. The whole plot was written around giving the lead actors (Gregory Hines, who is an accomplished dancer, and Mikhail Baryshnikov, who is Mikhail Freaking Baryshnikov .. A subversion, as like in the Coming To America example he sings it with Stylistic Suck. The scene where Sarah Connor does a One- Handed Shotgun Pump because her left arm is injured was one way to show that off. The cast and crew were said to be in tears during the filming. Her character seems dead set on launching a singing career that just isn't happening, aside from some success in Eastern Europe with a ditty called . The whole thing is particularly lampshaded when she forcibly inserts herself into the center of a song and dance number that has absolutely nothing to do with her, much to the mild annoyance of the other characters in the scene. It is a little excessive. Elaine Stritch, who plays her, is a Broadway singer. His character has always been given an opportunity to use French, something that becomes an increasingly important plot point as the show progresses. Vartan tends to be viewed as French by Americans and American by the French (he actually refers to himself as a Polish Jew born to Bulgarian and Polish parents who just happened to be born and raised in France). To be fair, the character in the original movie sang, too. Lavin was hired for the part because she could sing. It is likely that that moment came about because Ryan Murphy and the writers couldn't resist giving two- time Tony Award winner Patti Lu. Pone a song. The only scene that required her to dance was cut from the episode for pacing reasons. It did, however, allow him to display former ballerina Summer Glau's dancing talents — and her knack for accents. In hindsight, however, it becomes a straight example. Unsurprisingly, except for Lorne, it's always the villains who get the best songs. Supposedly Caritas and Lorne was created solely because the actor Andy Hallet was a gifted singer (though not professional until much later) and a friend of Joss Whedon. When he returned to Angel, his character Lindsay was suddenly revealed to be quite a swordsman. The song in question was written by David Greenwalt and Christian Kane, the latter of whom provided his own vocals. Farm with Chyna (China Anne Mc. Clain). Justified because her character is a musical prodigy. In Real Life, her actor Caity Lotz is trained in: Martial Arts, Dancing, Parkour and Stunt Work. Legends of Tomorrow gives her a costume that shows her face, giving Lotz the chance to showcase her skill set with less use of a stunt double. He was pretty damn good. More often it was opera and, in one episode, everything Frank Sinatra ever recorded. He now does voice acting for video games. Juliani later also recorded the male vocal part of the duet . His performances look painfully outdated now. He also is a skilled impressionist, showing off his impressions of Christopher Walken, Al Pacino and Nicholas Cage, as well as castmate Kunal Nayar. Both do so in character at various points. Mayim Bialik took harp lessons specially for the show, but was a bass guitarist before that. Manny is played by Bill Bailey, who, of course, is a very talented multi- instrumentalist. Taxi (TV Series 1. Full Cast & Crew. Find industry contacts & talent representation. Manage your photos, credits, & more. Showcase yourself on IMDb & Amazon. TV Guide Magazine's 6. Best Series of All Time - Today's News: Our Take. So many golden ages, so much brilliance from which to choose. What will the next 6. We can't wait to find out. The Sopranos A family saga like no other and a Mafia drama that whacked us repeatedly with its psychological riches and gallows humor, David Chase's groundbreaking masterpiece asked us to empathize with the most human of mobsters (and monsters): Tony, played by the great James Gandolfini. He and his gang haunt us still. Seinfeld. The hilarious spirits of the masters of their domains echo in shows like Veep and cocreator Larry David's Curb Your Enthusiasm, but Seinfeld set the bar for lovable outrageousness with memorable shtick that shocked and awed. Not that there's anything wrong with that. I Love Lucy No 'splaining necessary. We've loved zany Lucy, hotheaded Ricky and the loyal Mertzes for as long as we can remember. Whether in the candy factory, stomping grapes or cavorting with Harpo Marx, Lucille Ball showed generations of funny ladies and gents how it's done. All in the Family Norman Lear brought domestic television . And then came Maude, The Jeffersons, Good Times and more: an empire of meaningful humor. The Twilight Zone Even 3- D pales next to the endlessly inventive . His anthology of fantastic stories bridged the worlds of sci- fi and horror with whimsy and an abiding faith in humanity. The Wire Hot- button issues — the war on drugs, political corruption, the failures of the education system — deeply resonated in David Simon's unvarnished journey into the heart of Baltimore's urban darkness. The Mary Tyler Moore Show America's sweetheart turned the world on with her smile, a toss of the hat and a plucky spunk that radiated throughout her TV- newsroom office. A gallery of lovable characters would earn their own spots in the pantheon — Rhoda, Phyllis and Lou Grant among them. 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The Honeymooners Ralph's get- rich- quick schemes may never have worked, but Jackie Gleason found a comedy gold mine in the realistic struggles of the Brooklyn bus driver, his long- suffering wife, Alice, and his dim- bulb BFF, Ed Norton. Law & Order In the criminal justice system, the people are represented by two separate but equally important groups. And Dick Wolf's franchise has been represented by five series, including the flagship (which ran for 2. Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. The Andy Griffith Show From the opening shot of Sheriff Andy Taylor and son Opie gone fishin', the sitcom welcomed us to Mayberry, where Aunt Bee, Barney Fife and others became part of our extended TV family. Masterpiece Theatre Since 1. PBS has brought us the best of British TV, from I, Claudius to Downton Abbey. We'll watch it upstairs, downstairs — anywhere. The Carol Burnett Show . Saturday Night Live. SNL has been berry, berry good for comedy for four decades, creating superstars and . The Oprah Winfrey Show For 2. Oprah created a safe space for both weighty issues and celebrity chat from the City of Broad Shoulders. The Dick Van Dyke Show Primetime's first workplace- as- . If only Rob Petrie had the same kind of luck with ottomans. Mad Men The unglamorous side of selling the American dream is vividly realized in Matthew Weiner's gorgeous but bleak paean to the swinging '6. The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson Heeere's.. Late- night TV would never be such a delicious communal experience again. Hill Street Blues The police procedural found a genre- busting new voice in Steven Bochco's rowdy chronicle of a busy urban precinct. Minutes The stopwatch continues to tick for the pioneering news program, which set the standard for compelling nonfiction storytelling. The X- Files The truth is still out there for Chris Carter's cosmically suspenseful thrill ride. Mulder and Scully were ground zero for shippers. The Cosby Show The warmth and wisdom of Bill Cosby's parenting philosophy made the Huxtables America's first family. Gunsmoke. James Arness's Matt Dillon kept the peace in Dodge City in TV's longest- running Western. Friends. We were there for them — in droves — turning an irresistible ensemble into instant media phenoms. Could we have been more in love with their rom- comic lives? ERWith a pulse- quickening pace and a roster of hot docs — get us George Clooney, stat! Sesame Street This boulevard of sweet dreams has weaned wee ones on the joys of learning — through Muppets magic, animation and music — for more than 4. The Ed Sullivan Show From the sublime (Elvis, the Beatles) to the ridiculous (Topo Gigio, Se. Roseanne. We worshipped the domestic goddess and her perfectly imperfect brood. Unlike the Conners, viewers won the lottery long before the show's ill- conceived final season. The Waltons Every night was good on Walton's Mountain, as John- Boy and his kinfolk endured the Depression while keeping their — and our — spirits high. Taxi Here comes the Sunshine Cab Company — Alex, Louie, Tony, Elaine, Bobby, Latka and Reverend Jim — to take us for a divinely loopy ride. Lost. Flashbacks, flash- . Your Show of Shows The skit- com's on- camera talent (Sid Caesar, Imogene Coca, Carl Reiner) was equaled only by its behind- the- scenes geniuses (Mel Brooks, Neil Simon, etc.). Buffy the Vampire Slayer Joss Whedon's teen saga slayed us with stake- sharp dialogue, emotionally resonant shocks and even a stunningly hummable musical episode. Survivor. The tribe has spoken: If we were stranded on a desert island with only one reality show, we'd carry the torch for this exotic competition. Sex and the City The cosmopolitan sexploits of . Late Night/Late Show With David Letterman After a quirky 3. Dave still keeps us up late wondering what he'll do or say next. The West Wing There was never a better platform for Aaron Sorkin's passionate rhetoric to take flight than President Josiah Bartlet's bully pulpit. Modern Family This nontraditional TV clan is a contemporary favorite for a good reason: They're a riot. NYPD Blue Anticipating the spate of antiheroes, this down- and- dirty police drama shattered network taboos. Answer: It's the habit- forming quiz show that moves at lightning speed and always makes us feel smarter. Question: What is Jeopardy!? Barney Miller A wry slice of life in a police station full of world- weary detectives, this felt more real than most cop dramas. American Idol The cunningly crafted singing competition hit all the right notes—and revolutionized primetime. The Bob Newhart Show One of the greats took his mastery of minimalism to classy new heights, with a sophisticated wife and a caseload of wonderfully weird patients. The Shield No badges for good behavior, but there was plenty of glory for this steely story of Los Angeles cops gone bad. Elsewhere Anyone checking in was treated with a healthy dose of future megastars (Denzel Washington, Mark Harmon) and seriocomic drama. The Big Bang Theory It doesn't take a rocket scientist to explain the formula for this sitcom's explosive success: It's all about the ensemble's chemistry. The Daily Show With Jon Stewart The mock anchor sets the national agenda like a wiseass Walter Cronkite — and the show helped turn Stephen Colbert and Steve Carell into headline makers. The Golden Girls Dorothy, Rose, Blanche and Sophia proved that senior citizens can still swing. Homicide: Life on the Street A proto- Wire, this Baltimore cop drama explored Charm City's less enchanting side with an invigorating creativity. The Larry Sanders Show The '9. Larry, Artie, Hank and the staff are hysterically timeless. Battlestar Galactica The 2. Monty Python's Flying Circus The parrot may have been dead, but the anarchic vibe of the U. K.'s sketchiest comics has lived on via Fawlty Towers, The Kids in the Hall and Portlandia. The Good Wife We'll be forever faithful to Julianna Margulies's Alicia Florrick, until cancellation do us part. May we kiss the bride? Everybody Loves Raymond Agreed.
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