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Pop Culture | TV | Retro
10 Celebrity Guest Appearances You Probably Didn't Notice
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Whether it's a guest appearance, or just a job they took before they get famous, there's nothing quite like checking out an old episode of a show you love and seeing a familiar face. These 10 actors showed up in some pretty random shows, and we can't believe we missed them when we were younger!
Don Cheadle played Ice Tray, an old friend of Will's on The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
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Neil Patrick Harris was a young kid accused of murder on Murder, She Wrote
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Freaking Quentin Tarantino was an Elvis impersonator on The Golden Girls
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Which also featured George Clooney as a cop in his early acting days
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These next few are pretty surprising...
Art Garfunkel (of Simon & Garfunkel fame) played a moose who sings about Buster's feelings on Arthur
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Idris Elba played a male escort on Absolutely Fabulous
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Paris Hilton played a mysterious and wise graduate student who talked to Seth about Thomas Pynchon on The O.C.
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Amy Adams was a woman cursed with bad luck on an episode of Charmed
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Zooey Deschanel was Roz's hipster cousin on Frasier
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Matthew McConaughey was in an episode of Unsolved Mysteries, shirtless of course
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