TVSquad

Sarah Palin and Tina Fey aren't the only celebrities that people sometimes mix up. These two look a lot alike (more so when Fey has her hair a certain way, less so when she doesn't), but I often confuse two celebrities that don't even look alike in the slightest. Sometimes it's because they have similar names or have similar roles or a combination of both. Sometimes it's just because I don't see them that often and when one pops up I say to myself, "hey wait, is that _____ or _____?" Here's my list of eight people I often mix up. This must happen to you too, right?

1. Dan Butler and Paul McCrane. Both bald, both on hit NBC shows. Butler was horndog Bull on Frasier and McCrane was jerky, killed-by-copter Dr. Romano on ER. They really do look alike.


2. Patricia Heaton and Patricia Richarson. Now, obviously, these two actresses look nothing alike, as you can see from the photo above. But they're both named Patricia and both starred as the moms on wildly popular, long-running sitcoms featuring standup comics. If I see one of them I automatically know which one it is, but if I'm writing about Home Improvement or Everybody Loves Raymond, I have to stop for a section to remember which one it is.


3. Paul Prudhomme and Dom DeLuise. Even Jerry Seinfeld made a joke about the similarities between the actor and the chef, in the episode of Seinfeld where Jerry buys the cigar store Indian for Elaine and Elaine takes Frank's TV Guide to read on the subway. Unlike Jerry though I never mix up Al Roker and Mark McEwan. But DeLuise and Prudhomme...I mean, God, who else wears white berets all the time?


4. The Olsen Twins. Oh, come on, they're twins! I'm sure if I was a regular reader of the tabloids and kept track of which Olsen was dating who and which one had the eating problem I'd know who they were. But if you gave me a test and my failure of that test would mean I could never watch television again, I'd have to get a new hobby like knitting or something.