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[escargoat]

You might be too invested in B-List actors when you have to refer to them by their other roles for the people in your office to recognize them.

"Oh, you know, he played Karl on Desperate Housewives."

"No, no he was Denny on Grey's Anatomy."

"He was, um, on an episode of Frasier once."

"Yeah he played Dean on Gilmore Girls." (And, Lord that one has

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[knitty_woman]

Don't forget Law and Order. Because almost every NY-based actor has been on it in the two decades it's been on the air.... :) I took my mom to see a play here in LA, and I told her that this actor who was a character actor in the 60s was in it. I said, "You know - he was on an episode of Lost in Space. Don't you recognize him?" My husband just goggles at me in disbelief.

[escargoat]

lol - ah, yes. I forget about Law & Order because I think both Jerry Orbach and Angie Harmon were still on it last I watched.

Maybe it's the fate of the procedural and medical dramas that they have everybody under the sun show up in them because they need new faces every week.