Merv Griffin!!!!

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Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — The Man with Two Brains

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KUAlum26 — 20 years ago(February 05, 2006 06:53 PM)

That has to be one of the more choice cameos in recent film history!
If I say anything more about it,I might be creating a SPOILER,and I refuse to!
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Woodyanders — 17 years ago(April 01, 2009 04:49 AM)

Merv's cameo was absolutely brilliant and without a doubt one of the funniest moments in the whole movie.
"We're all part Shatner/And part James Dean/Part Warren Oates/And Steven McQueen"

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WarpedRecord — 16 years ago(September 02, 2009 10:48 PM)

Merv's hilarious in this film, but I wouldn't enter an elevator with him. Well, at least not while he was alive. On second thought, especially now.

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profh-1 — 14 years ago(September 17, 2011 07:56 PM)

The thing that amazed me about Merv's cameo near the end of the movie was, it was actually set up earlier in the film! At one point, someone had the TV on, and there was Merv so the identity of the elevator fiend was someone who had appeared (if only briefly) earlier in the story, and not COMPLETELY out of left field.

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WarpedRecord — 14 years ago(September 17, 2011 09:11 PM)

It's a subtle and clever foreshadowing, isn't it? As someone pointed out in another thread here, the credits on this site give away a crucial plot point next to Merv's name:
"Elevator killer
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