History Main / TheCameo

** SethGreen also has a blink and you'll miss it cameo.

* ''Series/{{Scrubs}}'' loved its cameos, ranging from BillDeeWilliams as the godfather of JD's GirlOfTheWeek to GaryBusey as a doctor who looks like Gary Busey.

* Creator/DataEast's ''Pinball/StarTrekDataEast Star Trek'' pinball features numerous cameos of characters from the [[Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries original television show.]]

** In ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime'', if you hack into the game's files you can find an [[StarFox Arwing]] enemy. Apparently it was coded in to test a flight pattern for one of the game's bosses.

** Soul Calibur II also had console-specific cameo characters: Xbox got {{Spawn}}, PS2 got [[VideoGame/{{Tekken}} Heihachi]], and Gamecube got [[Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda Link]].

-->-- '''BoardJames''', ''WebVideo/{{Kickassia}}''

!!Examples:

[[folder:Film]]

* A particularly awesome one in ''WesternAnimation/TheIncredibles'' for anyone who is into animation history. Those two old men who praise the heroes after the climax ("That's the way to do it" - "No school like the old school") are ''Frank Thomas and Ollie Johnston''...Not ringing a bell? They were the last surviving two of Disney's "Nine Old Men", legendary animators who had been in the business practically since the beginning. For example, they were both animators on SnowWhiteAndTheSevenDwarfs, and were involved in practically every animated Disney project up to TheFoxAndTheHound. (Sadly, Thomas didn't live to see ''The Incredibles'' finished, and Johnston died in 2008.)

* All {{Pixar}} movies have cameos of characters and items from other Pixar movies, including ones [[EarlyBirdCameo whose movies have yet to be released]].
** All Pixar films also have a role with John Ratzenberger. While usually a credited supporting character, he has occasionally performed as an extra that is essentially just a cameo, notably as the Underminer in ''TheIncredibles'' and as a construction worker in ''Up''.
* Also in some of the DisneyAnimatedCanon films. Remember that lion skin Disney/{{Hercules}} was wearing? That was actually [[Disney/TheLionKing Scar!]]
** Also, the many appearances of Disney/{{Bambi}}'s mother.
** In ''{{Disney/Aladdin}}'', while the Genie is looking through a book of recipes he finds one for "Alaskan King Crab". He sticks in his finger and gets it pinched by Sebastian, the crab from ''Disney/TheLittleMermaid''.

* Although not a Disney character, TheIncredibleMrLimpet can be seen in the background during the "Under The Sea" number in Disney's ''Disney/TheLittleMermaid''.

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* In ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory3'', one of Bonnie's toys is a plush [[MyNeighborTotoro Totoro]].
** In fact, from ''Monsters Inc'' onwards, each Pixar film has had [[EarlyBirdCameo a future cameo from a character that appears in the next Pixar film.]] In that film's case, it's [[WesternAnimation/FindingNemo Nemo.]]
** Back to ''3'', one of the students in the Butterfly Room at Sunnyside Daycare is a little girl resembling Boo from ''Monsters Inc.'' who for some reason likes to play with [[StealthPun a blue stuffed kitten]] in which she tells, "Boo!"

* MichaelJackson cameo'd in ''SpaceChannel5''.

* The [[Series/{{Fringe}} Observer]] Pony can be seen at Canterlot's fashion show in ''ComicBook/MyLittlePonyMicroSeries'' Issue #3.

* ''Series/DoctorWho'' has the serial "[[DoctorWhoS17E2CityOfDeath City of Death]]", where Creator/JohnCleese and Eleanor Bron appear in its final episode as art gallery visitors [[AccidentalArt who mistake the TARDIS for a work of art]]. They were filming separate projects in the same studio on the same day, and when writer Creator/DouglasAdams found out about this, he convinced them to do a quick cameo appearance. They agreed on the condition that their presence would not be publicized in any way prior to broadcast (in fact, they wanted to be credited with the silly pseudonyms "Kim Bread" and "Helen Swanetsky", but the BBC declined in favour of crediting them under their real names).

** TheThreeStooges appear for seconds as firefighters. And are hilarious. Without even doing anything.

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* At least one cameo has been the inspiration for an ''entire series'': Ryo Sakazaki's playable cameo in ''FatalFury Special'' inspired the creation of ''TheKingOfFighters'' series, while Akuma's cameo in ''XMenChildrenOfTheAtom'' lead to the creation of the ''Marvel vs. Capcom'' series.

* ThatGuyWithTheGlasses basically made "Cameo!" into a RunningGag.

* In ''Atomic Robo-Kid Special'', the OneUp dolls are Ninja-kun from the game of the same name and Mutron-kun from ''Mutant Fighter''.

* Both PlutoThePup and [[WinnieThePooh Owl]] have made cameo appearances on ''WesternAnimation/{{Recess}}'', though Pluto only appeared in a dream sequence.

* SpriteComics have a large tendency to rely upon cameos due to the easy nature in which an author can use another person's 'sprite sheets' in order to quickly and easily represent different characters.

* ''WesternAnimation/AvengersEarthsMightiestHeroes'' features multiple clear shots of Wolverine as one of the soldiers helping CaptainAmerica infiltrate the Red Skull's castle. Whether or not this remains simply a cameo or becomes an EarlyBirdCameo remains to be seen.