After offering him a role in his new action movie – the hilariously titled Cash Grab – Gad continues to poke fun at himself throughout the episode, and eventually succumbs to an unknown fate, leading a news reporter to say the never-before-spoken “Where is Josh Gad? The world wants to know.” If Gad has ever annoyed you, onscreen or otherwise, he may just have made up for it by roasting himself a little here.
David Cronenberg
Wonder Man director Von Kovak extols the virtues of David Cronenberg’s spin on The Fly when he’s interviewed about his own upcoming remake, saying that the Canadian body-horror genre maestro grounded his take in science and “discovered new, unthinkable horrors” that ultimately made the movie a worthy redo. And he’s right to say it!
Leonardo DiCaprio & The Manning Brothers
Leonardo DiCaprio might never want to do a superhero movie, Marvel or otherwise, but he’s now definitely been name-checked in a superhero TV series thanks to Simon Williams, whose agent Janelle (X Mayo) tries to dissuade him from auditioning for the lead of Wonder Man because “they’re already talking to Leo.” Simon’s heard they’re looking for someone different, and tries to convince Janelle that he could be the right actor for the role. She’s a bit busy trying to sign football royalty, though, and is stuck playing “hot potato” with Eli Manning.
Joseph Gordon-Levitt & Glenn Howerton
Hovering New York Times reporter Kathy Friedman (Lauren Weedman) wants to do a profile of Simon, which he doubts will paint him in a good light. Though Trevor thinks it’s a good idea, Simon reads him some negative snippets from Kathy’s previous celebrity profiles. One mentions an ominous “pigeon incident” from Joseph Gordon-Levitt’s childhood, and fearing a similar character assassination to the one Kathy wrote on the (500) Days of Summer actor or It’s Always Sunny… star Glenn Howerton (“one of the most charming dudes out there!”), Simon begins to worry that Kathy will find out a little too much about him.
However, it’s Trevor that ultimately gets the Joseph Gordon-Levitt treatment, and he’s soon storming out on Kathy, yelling “I never murdered any bloody pigeons!” in one of the show’s finest moments.
John Gielgud
Trevor says that legendary English actor and theatre director John Gielgud used to make Trevor whip him across his “bare arse” with a belt every night before curtain up, until “things got weird.” We never find out more. A travesty, but the mind boggles.
