Many times, the MS-QOTD is entirely due to my scanning cable channels for something that won’t irritate the hell out of me. This led to my daughter and I watching an episode of ‘The Electric Company’ from 2009, wherein Lin-Manuel Miranda rapped about silent ‘e’, while wearing a cape for some reason. She was shocked to see him, but even more so when I told her about when I was a kid and Electric Company featured Morgan Freeman as Easy Reader and Vincent the Vegetable Vampire. This phenomenon of the unexpected actor is one of my favorite moments in pop culture, giving me moments both shocking (like Melissa Benoist in ‘Homeland’) and wonderful (such as a random Ashley Williams appearance, always a pleasure) and leading to today’s guest-star query…
The MS-QOTD (pronounced, as always, “misquoted”) was also shocked to find Stephen Ogg, the voice of Trevor from ‘Grant Theft Auto V’ in both ‘Westworld’ and ‘The Walking Dead’, asking: What’s the most unusual example of the unexpected actor in your favorite pop-culture?
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Bryan Cranston in an episode of Babylon 5 playing a Ranger being knowingly ordered off to his death by Captain Sheridan. Being asked “you don’t have any family, do you?” is seldom a good sign.
Ha! I didn’t know about that one. I knew that he voiced several Power Rangers monsters early in the show’s run, though…