I not too long ago started listening to The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast, which has been very entertaining and fulfilling to me as a Saturday Evening Dwell fan. Nevertheless, this system has additionally stunned me with some weird in-depth popular culture discussions, notably one which unusually includes each Doogie Howser and Arnold Schwarzenegger’s character from Complete Recall.
The central focus of the podcast is listening to the comedy trio and late night time speak present host reminisce about their days at Studio 8H, notably their hilarious SNL Digital Shorts in addition to different traditional sketches. One episode during which they focus on a sketch referencing Complete Recall led to followers of the podcast being dubbed the “Quaid Military,” in reference to the hero of the 1990 sci-fi motion film traditional. In flip, this could result in a very mindblowing cross-reference involving a coming-of-age medical dramedy launched in the identical period. Let’s get into how this discovery got here to be.
Doogie Howser And Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Complete Recall Character Technically Have The Similar Title
In a single current episode of The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast, Andy Samberg, Jorma Taccone, and Akiva Schaffer focus on with the Late Evening host an SNL Digital Brief from 2009 known as “Doogie Howser Theme,” during which host Neil Patrick Harris (who ought to actually return to host SNL once more some day) is joined by the solid of the sketch comedy collection for a multi-instrumental rendition of the theme track for the present that made him a star in his youth. The bit can be introduced up within the following episode when an audio message from the then-absent Meyers factors out the next:
We talked within the final episode about how ‘Hauser’ can also be Douglas Quaid’s actual title in Complete Recall. What a coincidence that you’d deliver it up within the Doogie Howser episode. Effectively, additionally, Douglas Quaid’s actual title is ‘Hauser,’ identical to Doogie Howser. Doogie’s actual title is Douglas. So, this actually has became a puzzle.
WHAT?!!, was my response after I heard that out-of-this-world bit of data. Ignoring the truth that “Hauser” is basically the final title of Douglas Quaid’s true undercover agent identification, Carl (and the way it’s spelled otherwise from the final title of the teenager TV physician), the hero from Complete Recall and lead character from Doogie Howser, M.D., basically, have the identical title! How bonkers and strange is one thing like that? Effectively, because it seems, it isn’t so uncommon.
There Are Loads Extra Examples Of This
The lead hero in, arguably, Schwarzenegger’s greatest film, Complete Recall, and the title position from Doogie Howser, M.D. (which was later rebooted for Disney+ as Doogie Kealoha, M.D.) couldn’t be extra totally different, which makes their synonymous nature such a shock. Nevertheless, that is removed from the one time two characters from two totally totally different properties shared a reputation.
As an example, earlier than Sesame Avenue launched Bert and Ernie, there was a police officer named Bert (Ward Bond) and a cab driver named Ernie (Frank Faylen) in 1946’s It’s a Great Life. There was additionally a detective named “Shaft” in Robert Altman’s Brewster McCloud from 1970, only a 12 months earlier than the late Richard Roundtree starred within the Blaxploitation traditional, Shaft. Lastly, my private favourite instance of that is Donald Sutherland’s character within the 1975 drama, The Day of the Locust, who is called Homer Simpson of all issues.
So, whereas film and TV characters sharing names just isn’t as a lot of a rarity as you may suppose, this revelation nonetheless has me in a tailspin. Plus, ought to we take it an indication that Neil Patrick Harris ought to have performed the lead of 2012’s Complete Recall? Contemplating that it is extensively thought to be a remake that ought to have by no means been made, maybe that might not have been the most effective factor for his profession.