List of Fictional Crossovers - Gag Cameo

Gag Cameo

A character appears only briefly in another setting, mainly for joke purposes.

  • Belle from the 1991 film Beauty and the Beast crosses the street in The Hunchback of Notre Dame.
  • Sebastian from the 1989 film The Little Mermaid was pulled out by Genie in Aladdin, along with the first few notes of "Under The Sea" playing.
  • A tea set that has a striking similarity to Mrs. Potts and Chip, also of Beauty and the Beast was shown for a few seconds in Tarzan (it can also be seen in Deep Jungle in Kingdom Hearts, despite the fact that Belle and the Beast are somewhat important plot characters).
  • Pumbaa from The Lion King (1995) being carried on a spit in The Hunchback of Notre Dame
  • Also, Scar of The Lion King makes an appearance in Hercules as the skin of the Nemean Lion, worn by the titular character in one scene.
  • King of the Hill characters appear on The Simpsons to comment on a peewee football game in the episode "Bart Star". A Bart Simpson doll often appears in Bobby Hill's room on King of the Hill.
  • Rocket J. Squirrel appears in the Family Guy episode "The Thin White Line," mimicking a familiar scene from The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show.
  • Bud Bundy (played by David Faustino) of Married... with Children appeared briefly on Parker Lewis Can't Lose, in a detention room scene, "and I don't even go to this school!" (he wears a "Polk High" t-shirt, the school the Bundys attended, to emphasize his point).
  • Mr. Tumnus appears on Family Guy in the dryer while Peter is looking for his lost sock.
  • Jay and Silent Bob appear as visitors to the movie studio in Scream 3
  • Meatwad from the Aqua Teen Hunger Force speeds by on a bike on The Brak Show.
  • A big fight on Sealab 2021 is revealed to be a video game controlled by members of the Aqua Teen Hunger Force (Sealab 2021)
  • Huckleberry Hound devolves into a normal dog on The Brak Show.
  • Amitabh Bachchan's character in the Bollywood film Maard briefly appears in the comic guise of Father Anthony, a persona that a different character played by Amitabh Bachchan, Anthony Gonsalves, had previously adopted in the film, Amar Akbar Anthony. In both films, the Father Anthony persona has the same costume, mannerisms and accent, even though Amitabh Bachchan is playing a different character in each of the two films.
  • Mojo Jojo appears as an unimaginary friend in the pilot episode of Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends
  • Dr. Raymond Stantz (played by Dan Aykroyd) from Ghostbusters (1984) makes an appearance running from the haunted house in Casper.
  • Ned and Stacey, title characters of a 1990s Fox sitcom, appears in a West Coast gallery at the close of an episode of Partners, the show which aired immediately beforehand; Ned & Stacey star Thomas Haden Church quips that they only have 30 seconds to get back to New York in time for their show.
  • Tim Taylor plays with a Buzz Lightyear (the character Tim Allen voices in Toy Story) doll on Home Improvement.
  • In Part 3 of Eddie Monster (Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends), towards the end, Ed, Edd n Eddy can be seen learning about the monster that looks like Pikachu from the boy that looks like Dexter.
  • In the final two episodes of Mobile Fighter G Gundam, machines from all the previous Gundam series, the then in-production Gundam Wing, and other mecha series by Gundam creator Yoshiyuki Tomino appear among the forces battling the monstrous Devil Gundam.
  • In one episode of Gundam X, Roybea uses his vacation time to visit his former girlfriends. One of them looks, sounds, and acts almost exactly like Relena Peacecraft, the protagonist of the previous Gundam series, Gundam Wing.
  • One of the most bizarre cameos ever was when Cartoon Network's Johnny Bravo appeared on a poster in Atari's computer game Backyard Baseball 2005.
  • Dexter appears on Time Squad, commenting on time travel to Buck and Larry 3000.
  • Family Guy and The Simpsons have made numerous crossovers with each other. In one episode of Family Guy ("PTV"), character Stewie Griffin ran over Homer Simpson in his big wheel. In Simpsons' episode "The Italian Bob", Homer sees pictures of Peter Griffin and Stan Smith (of fellow Seth Macfarlane cartoon American Dad) in a book of criminals (Peter and Stan are labeled as plagiarists). In the Simpsons episode "Treehouse of Horror XIII", Homer accidentally creates millions of clones of himself, one of which happens to be Peter Griffin.
  • The Japanese manga Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo occasionally features characters from other manga (i.e. the famous Yugi and Osiris scene).
  • The Simpsons was referenced in the episode of South Park titled "Simpsons Already Did It"; South Park episode #86.
  • Family Guy is also referenced on South Park; episode #142, "Cartoon Wars Part I" and "Cartoon Wars Part II", #143. A character resembling Bart Simpson is also seen at the FOX network studio on Part II.
  • The Smurfs also appear in Eric Cartman's fantasy on the South Park episode "Dances with Smurfs".
  • In It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World a cameo shows a rescue squad—The Three Stooges.
  • In the Batman TV series, Alfred the Butler looks at a computer file of "dangerous criminals"—one photograph is of Howie Horowitz and another photograph is of William Dozier-the series executive producers.
  • In Batman, Kent McCord has a cameo as a naive Gotham City rookie policeman who wants to give Batman's Batmobile a ticket for illegal parking.
  • Robert Patrick, who played the T-1000 in Terminator 2: Judgment Day, appears in the movie Wayne's World as a cop.
  • In an episode of The A-Team, H. M. Murdock appears on Wheel of Fortune and not only wins a car but goes on a Hawaiian vacation (instead of Face).
  • In The Simpsons episode "Sideshow Bob Roberts", Sideshow Bob pins a 'GOP' (Republican Party) button on Bart and then kicks him out of his limo onto the front lawn. A jalopy with the Archie gang (Archie, Jughead, Reggie, and Big Moose) then kicks Homer out onto the front lawn, warning him to "stay out of Riverdale."
  • On a cartoon teaser of an early episode of The Simpsons, "Treehouse of Horror II", the costumed trick-or-treaters passing by the Simpson house are the Peanuts gang.
  • In The Simpsons episode "The Springfield Files", a police lineup of "aliens" includes the following: ALF, Chewbacca, Gort, and Marvin the Martian.
  • In "The Night of the Living Duck" segment of Daffy Duck's Quackbusters, one of the customers in the Monsters Lounge is none other than Alfred E. Neuman of Mad magazine.
  • In The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, a window is in the castle courtyard. Upon closer inspection, it can be seen that inside the castle are framed pictures of Mario and Yoshi.
  • In Being Ian, Kyle and Korey are repeatedly seen watching Yvon of the Yukon.
  • A Gani-Gani badnik from the Sonic the Hedgehog series appears in Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi.
  • Homer Simpson appears at the end of an episode of Duckman.
  • In an episode of Disney's Boy Meets World, Eric (Will Friedle's character) has to save Jack (Matt Lawrence's character) from a coven of witches, and in the end credits Eric is dating Sabrina of CBS Television Distribution's Sabrina, the Teenage Witch, who appears to have turned Jack into a frog for some reason.
  • Jeanni (Barbara Eden) of I Dream of Jeannie makes an appearance at the end of A Very Brady Sequel.
  • The comic book Dork Tower once claimed that it would have a crossover with Lethargic Lad on its cover. However, the crossover never happened, because Lethargic Lad is "a comic book character!"
  • In The Curse of Monkey Island, if you can get Guybrush to walk in the water on Blood Island, one can see him and his character in the first part underwater. New Guybrush does not seem to recognize the old one, because he already drowned.
  • In Mad Magazine's spoof of Star Trek, one panel has Charlie Brown flying his kite in outer space!
  • Sir Hiss from Robin Hood appears in the Aladdin video games.
  • At the end of the Family Guy episode "Meet the Quagmires" and during the Star Wars episode, Roger the Alien from American Dad! made a couple of cameos.
  • Godzilla makes a brief cameo in an episode of Drawn Together, protesting to Ling-Ling that he's turned to American English for taping his eyelids open, so he will look more western.
  • In "Stunt Cat", the fifth segment of Garfield: His 9 Lives, Garfield is (briefly) a stunt double for Krazy Kat.
  • The English dub of Digimon: The Movie was preceded by an abrupt prologue featuring Angela Anaconda
  • The episode of The Lucy Show titled "Lucy gets caught in the draft" has a cameo by Gomer Pyle.
  • An episode of Codename: Kids Next Door features a giant blow-up balloon that bears a striking resemblance to Dexter of Dexter's Laboratory.
  • A scene in The Santa Clause 2 shows the real Santa fighting with the fake Santa (both played by Tim Allen) in a sleigh, while they each shout out various phrases from other films, etc. that Tim Allen has appeared in, such as "You are a sad, strange, little man..." from Disney's Toy Story.
  • Madison Pettis appears as Sophie Martinez (from Cory In the House) on an episode of Hannah Montana called "Take This Job and Love It".
  • On one episode of Batman, Bruce Wayne and Dick Grayson are starting to watch their favorite TV show The Green Hornet when duty calls. On an episode of The Green Hornet, a TV screen shows Batman and Robin climbing a wall on Batman.
  • Rocky and Mugsy appear as themselves in an episode of Tiny Toon Adventures.
  • In an episode of The Fairly OddParents, Timmy's parents are watching a movie called Flyboy, which is a spoof of the horror film The Fly, and Dash Baxter, a character of the sister show Danny Phantom makes a cameo appearance in Flyboy.

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