How do I know it's a holiday? When I find myself watching
reruns of Boy Meets World on ABC Family (I usually have the YES simulcast of the Mike and the Mad Dog radio
show on during the afternoons -- nice background noise while I do my work -- but they're off today). In the
episode I watched, I saw a couple of people who would become future stars, ironically much bigger than any of the kids
who were the stars of that show (I mean, has anyone heard from the person who played Topanga lately?). One was Brittany Murphy, who played Topanga's best friend Trini. The second, and more surprising, find was Ethan Suplee, who currently steals every scene as Randy in My Name Is Earl. He played Frankie Stechino, half of a bully team that terrorized the school. It was tough to recognize Ethan at first, because he was much heavier back then (the episode was from 1995) than he is now. But I thought he was pretty funny; he put on a wiseguy accent and did a good job of being a "smart" thug. He and his partner, Joey the Rat, even did a nice little take on Reservoir Dogs. You could definitely see the comic potential in Ethan just from those scenes. Good thing he dropped some weight, though; he was unhealthily heavy back then. I can't imagine anyone else playing Randy, know what I mean?
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4-14-2006 @ 4:10PM
jOHN said...
Even though he doesn't like to be reminded of it; the actor that played Joey the Rat performs for the indie rock band, Rilo Kiley.
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4-14-2006 @ 4:15PM
Christy said...
There's an episode in which Frankie writes poetry while Cory and Sean hang out with Frankie's dad who is a professional wrestler. It's so funny!
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4-14-2006 @ 4:22PM
shawn s said...
and he still cant see the schooner....
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4-14-2006 @ 4:24PM
Adam said...
And don't forget Suplee was in American History X as well.
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4-14-2006 @ 6:06PM
Joe said...
As a side note, on "Boy Meets World," Ethan was on a few other episodes of the series. His character is also the fictional son of real-life pro-wrestler Vader.
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4-14-2006 @ 6:40PM
Akbar Fazil said...
wrong Suplee brother Shawn S
you retard its a sailboat!
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4-14-2006 @ 7:05PM
Alison said...
Rider Strong (who played Cory's best friend Shawn on Boy Meets World) is now on Pepper Dennis.
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4-14-2006 @ 8:17PM
Nic said...
I saw a paparazzi photo the other day of Topanga (Danielle Fischel) hanging out with Britney Spears. It was a little sad. Let me know if anyone wants the pics cause I could probably track them down...
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4-14-2006 @ 9:44PM
mattjh said...
"I saw a paparazzi photo the other day of Topanga (Danielle Fischel) hanging out with Britney Spears. It was a little sad. Let me know if anyone wants the pics cause I could probably track them down..."
I'd kinda like to see that. Sad how?
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4-16-2006 @ 12:52PM
Nic said...
Hey Mattjh,
Not sure if we're allowed to link to other sites but here is the picture with Topanga and Britney. I'll let you make the call on sadness: http://forum.phun.org/attachment.php?attachmentid=5041
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