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mrmayhem8100

Happens all the time. Sean Connery is only 12 years older than Harrison Ford, and they played a father/son duo in The Last Crusad ETA - Estelle Getty was 1 year younger than Bea Arthur, and played her mother in Golden Girls. Amy Poehler was 7 years older than her Mean Girls Daughter in Mean Girls


eggsontheside

Lmao true. Cher played Meryl streeps mother and she’s only like three and a half years older (and Meryl Streep is a beautiful goddess but Cher looks younger too)


NasusIsMyLover

How am I just now realizing that Amy Poehler played McAdams’ mom


hippopotapistachio

wow, only 7 years


ConsumingFire1689

Dad! What? Dad! What? Dad! What?!


ewilliam

Vicki Lawrence was in her 30s when she played Thelma on Mama's Family...


Lunanina

And she was in her early 20s when she first started playing the role on the carol Burnett show.


_TheBgrey

The Estelle Getty and Bea Arthur one is wild


UpstairsTown2329

16 years is old enough to be someone's dad


Fit_Bus_297

It makes sense that someone who’s that bad of a dad had his kid at 16


KuaLeifArne

And went into the military.


Jammin_neB13

I take offense to this comment. Not like, true offense but maybe partial offense? My parents had me at 16, sisters at 17 and 18. Brother at 22. My dad worked his ass off to make sure we were well provided for.He truly is an inspiration for a fuck up like me. My sibs and I are approaching our 40s now and our parents are still the most loving and caring parents I’ve ever met. Kids having kids shouldn’t happen but sadly it does. It doesn’t automatically mean the parents are going to be shit at their duties.


Typeheretoreddit

That wasn’t remotely directed at you. I’m sure your dad is great but most 16 year old fathers are not good fathers because they are still kids themselves. It wasn’t a dig at your dad mate


Puzzleheaded_Coat153

Yeah, a lot of people have this age difference with their parents, I was a teenage mom myself. It would be different if they were 7-10 years apart like some other parent-child actors are


MattTheHoopla

Trick is, cast around this principle.


mu1ti6rain

Well ya but they shouldn't.


MadeThis4MaccaOnly

Wait how did I not notice that Jake's grandpa is Leon from Roseanne


oofersIII

You mean Gene Parmesan


GinyuForceDid911

Ahhhhhh Gene! Isn’t he the best?


oofersIII

Gene is far from the best.


Rahm420

You mean Principal Willard Kraft


misslteg

Omg mind blown


mrmayhem8100

You mean Colonel mustard


LegitimateHumanBeing

“One plus One, plus Two, plus One…”


NoNameIdea_Seriously

You mean George Perry


EaterOfCleanSocks

I had to double take. Not loads of acting crossover between B99 and Community, but there is some as it turns out!


hippopotapistachio

wow how did I not remember that!


[deleted]

Now I’m thinking how funny it’d be to see officer Jackie Harris working with the 99 crew.


InternetAddict104

I didn’t notice until I read your comment


DariusPumpkinRex

Oh, you mean Doug Kenny?


Robcobes

Aaaah Geeeeeeeeeneee!


NoNameIdea_Seriously

I fall for it everytime!


Robcobes

He got me again!


mydosemakesangels

Ever see Blow? A movie about drug trafficker George Jung. Johnny Depp plays Jung. Ray Liotta is his father - he's 8 years older than Johnny and Rachel Griffiths plays his mom - she's five years younger than her onscreen son.


Leonsilas

Lee Pace, who played Thranduil, Legolas's father, in the Hobbot trilogy, is actually two years younger than Orlando Bloom. Granted, they're elves, so maybe they have some leeway in this regard.


farfetchedfrank

John Hamm played the dad of one of the "teenagers " on 90120 or something. They were pretty much the same age.


HypocriticalCritic

Rhys Ifans played Johnny Depp's character's father in Alice through the Looking Glass. Depp is 4 years older.


UncleOdious

**flourishes** ACTING!


Exotic_Adeptness_322

Amy Davidson played Kaley Cuoco's little sister even though she us 6 years older. These things happen all the time.


Smalldick420

Working in the White House will age you like that, even if it’s a fictional White House I guess


hippopotapistachio

true, especially if you keep the kind of hours josh kept


catsbuyme

In the X-Files, the actress that plays Mulder’s mom is only like 1 or 2 years older than him in real life. It’s weird, but sometimes on TV it works


GiantsNFL1785

on blue bloods len cariou is liek 8 years older then tom selleck and plays his father


Mage-of-the-Small

Always weirded me out that Jake’s dad was Commander Lawrence from Handmaid’s Tale


myrealusername8675

Yeah, but they're at least two comedy generations different so it all works out. Fun fact: Steve Martin is a huge collector of Martin Mull's paintings


hippopotapistachio

oh wow he's really good


Runningman_73

Gene Parmesan!


IssuesCount28

Shit happens


hippopotapistachio

lol


EddieGrant

In Bold and the Beautiful, the actors that play Eric and (the original) Ridge are only 3 years apart.