In an effort to keep his cameo a secret in the song “Am I A Man, Or Am I A Muppet” in the film, The Muppets, Jim Parsons went uncredited in the film. Parsons said playing Walter’s human alter-ego was “The role of a lifetime.”
Danny Pudi: Captain America Winter Soldier
Marvel
Danny Pudi is one of many Community cast members to be featured in Marvel movies, appearing as a S.H.E.I.L.D. community officer in Captain America Winter Soldier. Pudi described the backstory as, “I got a text from Joe Russo, who was a director of Community at the time, and said, ‘What are you doing on July 4th?’ I said, ‘I think I’m with my family. We might go to this parade.’ And he said, ‘Do you have some time in the afternoon?’ I said, ‘Yeah, well, in the morning we’ll go for this parade and we’re having some hamburgers, but afterwards I’ll stop by.’ So I show up at Manhattan Beach, there are no sides, no script. I don’t know what I’m doing. He said, ‘We’d like you just to pop into this scene with Captain America.’ And I said, ‘Great.’ And then they gave me a sheet of paper, on set, with a couple of lines, and then they made me give them the sheet of paper back. Months later, I saw the film. I’m in it. All my friends were like, ‘How did that happen?’ I wasn’t allowed to tell anybody I was in it, and it was a surprise, and that’s pretty much how it came to be.”