Or Would You Rather Be a Pig?

On the show Out of This World — the one about the girl who was half-alien and whose superpowers included freezing time by touching her index fingers together and making children who watched Out of This World attempt to freeze time by touching their index fingers together — the father alien who spoke to the daughter though that weird translucent diamond — or perhaps was the weird translucent diamond — was voiced by Burt Reynolds. Was I the only one who didn’t know that?


The post on Yesterday’s Faces Today that informed me of this also conjectures that another actor on the show, Doug McClure, was one-half the inspiration for the Simpsons character Troy McClure, along with fellow C-lister Troy Donahue.

Previous pop culture minutiae:

• Creed from The Office was a member of the 60s band The Grass Roots
• The actress who played Winnie Cooper on The Wonder Years now has a mathematical theorem named after her.
• There exists a Little House on the Prairie anime.
• William Peter Blatty would never have written The Exorcist had it not been for Groucho Marx.
• The brand Juliet gets on Lost may very well be a reference to Cadbury’s Creme Eggs.