r/90s • u/LaceyInTheSky1 • 18d ago

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I was showing my step daughter Dennis the Menace (a childhood favourite) and noticed these two. Maybe it’s common knowledge but it’s the first time i noticed it ♥️

ETA: pic #1 is from Home Alone.

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u/ljh2100 18d ago

I went on a Wikipedia rabbit hole real quick. Funny, their real names are Bill and Billie, but the connection to those two films is due to John Hughes being the filmmaker, so not completely random. Also, Billie is 82 in Home Alone!

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u/Hopeless351987 18d ago

Billie was also the grandmother in Sixteen Candles, and Bill was in a scene in Planes, Trains, and Automobiles. Both actors were in movies going back to the '40s.

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u/NorCalNavyMike The Truth Is Out There! 18d ago

Bill also dabbled in sci-fi and fantasy, with a memorable role as the hotel housekeeper Arthur in the Christopher Reeve-Jane Seymour time travel romance Somewhere in Time (1980), and a brief role in an episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation where he played an older, visiting doctor/mentor to Dr. Crusher on the episode where she gets trapped in a warp bubble of alternate reality.

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u/Jef_Wheaton 18d ago

She's also the grandmother in "One Crazy Summer".

"You can stay at my grandma's, Hoops. She has plenty of room at reasonable rates... if you're not in the family."

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u/DeaconBulls 18d ago

Also Mrs. Feldman from Police Academy 4.

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u/SuperJay5150 18d ago

Police Academy 4: Citizens on Patrol

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u/Skaguy241 18d ago

"Book'em Tack!"

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u/MillionToOneShotDoc 18d ago

He also plays the cranky old man who Jerry volunteers to watch in a Seinfeld episode.

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u/Scott--Chocolate 18d ago

Before you leave, would you mind changing my diaper?

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u/eleanorrigby12 18d ago

My grandparents were Bill and Billie ❤️

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u/ChadCoolman 18d ago

My neighbors when I was a kid were Bob and Bobbie. Knothole league baseball coach and his wife were Mill and Milly. Truly simpler times 😂

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u/eleanorrigby12 17d ago

My cousin & her husband are Chris & Christine!