AARoads Cast Lists

[Molandfreak]

Just for fun! Include members of the forum in an ideal cast for your favorite show/movie/play based on forum persona or personality at roadmeets. I'll start out with Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street:

Sweeney Todd (Benjamin Barker): bugo
Nellie Lovett: sammi
Anthony Hope: MDRoads
Johanna Barker: Laura
Judge Turpin: Scott5114
Beadle Bamford: andy3175
Jonas Fogg: FritzOwl
Beggar Woman (Lucy Barker): kharvey10
Adolfo Pirelli (Daniel O'Higgins): NE2
Tobias Ragg: 1

[Alps]

Holy crap, how am I not Sweeney Todd. I'm way more adept at killing people and selling pies.

[Alps]

Sesame Street:
Oscar = bugo
Big Bird = yanksfan6129
Snuffy = corco
Elmo = Laura
Count = Roadgeek_Adam
Grover = roadman65
Bert = hbelkins
Ernie = bandit73
Cookie Monster = <-------
Swedish Chef = cpzilliacus
Fozzie Bear = dougtone
Mr. Hooper = CC Slater (can't locate him on here, but he has to be)
Kermit = froggie
Miss Piggy = sammi (by request)

Jim Henson = Alex

[Molandfreak]

Happy Days:

Fonzie: Alps
Chuck Cunningham: mightyace
Richie Cunningham: route56
Ralph Malph: kphoger
Potsie Weber: J N Winkler
Howard Cunningham: Alex

[bugo]

Holy crap, how am I not Sweeney Todd. I'm way more adept at killing people and selling pies.

Because I have good Johnny Deppesque looks.

[vtk]

I'm not great at acting. But I can do a good job reading stuff in announcer or newscaster style.

[Henry]

Alright, I'll give this a shot:

Cheers:
Sam - Alex
Coach - Alps
Diane - Laura
Carla - sammi
Woody - froggie
Cliff - FritzOwl
Frasier - Henry
Lilith - Jennifer (my wife)
Norm - hbelkins

Frasier:
Frasier - Henry
Daphne - Michelle Skinner (who had her own Website about Interstates)
Niles - Jeff (my brother)
Roz - kharvey10
Martin - Scott5114
Bulldog - NE2
Gil - route56

[US71]

Hello, I'm the Doctor 

[hbelkins]

Sesame Street:
Kermit = froggie

Way too easy...

We can't do Star Trek because there are more engineers here than there were Montgomery Scotts.

[bugo]

Tim (bandit) should be Oscar the Grouch because his shit stinks from eating trash.

[oscar]

Tim (bandit) should be Oscar the Grouch because his shit stinks from eating trash.

Hey, I resemble that remark!  (Well, not the last part.)

[Alps]

Tim (bandit) should be Oscar the Grouch because his shit stinks from eating trash.

Nah, he's Ernie cause he's best friends with Hey Bert.

[US81]

Sesame Street:
Kermit = froggie

Way too easy...

We can't do Star Trek because there are more engineers here than there were Montgomery Scotts.

...and all the unnamed engineers wore red shirts, so no one wants to be any other engineer other than Scotty.

[vdeane]

Sesame Street:
Kermit = froggie

Way too easy...

We can't do Star Trek because there are more engineers here than there were Montgomery Scotts.

...and all the unnamed engineers wore red shirts, so no one wants to be any other engineer other than Scotty.

No love for Next Generation, Deep Space Nine, Voyager, or Enterprise?

[US81]

Sesame Street:
Kermit = froggie

Way too easy...

We can't do Star Trek because there are more engineers here than there were Montgomery Scotts.

...and all the unnamed engineers wore red shirts, so no one wants to be any other engineer other than Scotty.

No love for Next Generation, Deep Space Nine, Voyager, or Enterprise?

Oh, I love Geordi, Miles, B'Elanna, and Trip, but the red shirt meme only applies to TOS. 

[oscar]

We can't do Star Trek because there are more engineers here than there were Montgomery Scotts.

...and all the unnamed engineers wore red shirts, so no one wants to be any other engineer other than Scotty.

I thought the anonymous redshirts (at least on-planet) were in the security detail, a good place to put disposable extras.

When I visited Vulcan, Alberta, I wore a red sweatshirt to the Star Trek-themed visitor centre, momentarily forgetting the special significance of red shirts in the Star Trek (original series) universe. 

[roadman]

IIRC, "he's dead Jim" (the unnamed low ranked member of the away team who's always killed before the opening credits) never wore a red shirt.

[hbelkins]

No love for Next Generation, Deep Space Nine, Voyager, or Enterprise?

Not here. And I refuse to watch the movies that have people other than Shatner, Nimoy, Kelley, Doohan, etc., cast as the members of the original crew.

[Scott5114]

You're missing out then. TNG is a well-done, thoughtful show that expresses the ideals of the original series in more articulate way than TOS managed to do, and featured half a dozen strong, compelling characters. Deep Space Nine starts slow but develops into a political drama that was doing season-long story arcs back in the 1990s, years before it became the norm for television as it is today. To refuse to watch either of them just because they aren't the "original" cast is to miss out on the very best of what Star Trek has to offer.

Voyager and Enterprise are at least not reality shows.

Frasier:
Martin - Scott5114

I'm surprisingly okay with this.

[roadman]

Never got into Deep Space Nine, Voyager, or Enterprise, but as a long time TOS fan, I will admit I really like TNG as well.

[oscar]

You're missing out then. TNG is a well-done, thoughtful show that expresses the ideals of the original series in more articulate way than TOS managed to do, and featured half a dozen strong, compelling characters. Deep Space Nine starts slow but develops into a political drama that was doing season-long story arcs back in the 1990s, years before it became the norm for television as it is today.

The "thoughtful" part might be the deal-killer, for those of us who liked Capt. Kirk's old-fashioned piggery in TOS (remember the parody line "to boldly come where no man has come before"?).  I have watched a few TNG episodes and TNG-based movies (especially the ones working in TOS characters like Mr. Spock), and a DS9 episode featuring Capt. Picard.  But I never warmed to any TOS successors.  It didn't help that I had time to watch every TOS episode in reruns while I was still in high school, but I was working by the time TNG came around and wasn't watching much TV of any kind.   

[Grzrd]

The "thoughtful" part might be the deal-killer

Agreed. Kirk's utter disregard of the Prime Directive made for some great entertainment.

I thought the anonymous redshirts (at least on-planet) were in the security detail, a good place to put disposable extras.

[wxfree]

I really liked the complex characters and well-developed story lines in DS9.  I recently re-watched Voyager on Netflix and found a renewed appreciation.  Due to the more mobile nature of their mission, the characters were less persistent, but overall it was quite well done.  I know it's heresy and I could be hanged and stoned at the same time for saying it, but I think the shows were better in the post-Roddenberry era.  The original ideas were profound, of course, but Roddenberry was stuck in the mystical type thinking of the "War of the Worlds" era.  Freed from that influence, the shows (including later TNG) developed into a more enlightened format, with better stories, less "monster of the week" filler, and more in-depth study of human nature and belief.

Agreed. Kirk's utter disregard of the Prime Directive made for some great entertainment.

The whole story from Kirk to Janeway is about the natural human division between principle and practicality.  The Prime Directive got violated more often than Counselor Troi (a joke I heard on a video somewhere).

[US71]

The whole story from Kirk to Janeway is about the natural human division between principle and practicality.  The Prime Directive got violated more often than Counselor Troi (a joke I heard on a video somewhere).

[US81]

We can't do Star Trek because there are more engineers here than there were Montgomery Scotts.

...and all the unnamed engineers wore red shirts, so no one wants to be any other engineer other than Scotty.

I thought the anonymous redshirts (at least on-planet) were in the security detail, a good place to put disposable extras.

When I visited Vulcan, Alberta, I wore a red sweatshirt to the Star Trek-themed visitor centre, momentarily forgetting the special significance of red shirts in the Star Trek (original series) universe. 

In Star Trek TOS, Gold was Command, Blue was Sciences (including Medicine), and Red was Engineering and Support Services, which included Security - those poor unnamed disposable extras.