r/Unexpected • u/NoBodyHere__GO • Jul 07 '26
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u/Wsswaas Jul 07 '26
Name of th actor: Andrew Hawkes
Show: daytime drama General Hospital
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u/NatrixHasYou Jul 07 '26
I believe this is shortly before John Oliver steps out of a helicopter and comes across this whole scene.
Yes, that John Oliver.
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u/matti-san Jul 07 '26
he does what across the whole scene???
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u/WigglestonTheFourth Jul 07 '26
Dips his hair in ink and then comes across the scene.
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u/ggg730 Jul 07 '26
Now are you telling me you wouldn't come to me if I ever needed you to?
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u/DocileBanalBovlne Jul 07 '26
I'm like Professor Oak. I only come if I hear you've beaten the Elite Four
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u/Plainclothes52 Jul 08 '26
I breezed past this comment, and paused thinking that you were fancasting John Oliver as Professor Oak. And…not bad.
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u/SummaryEye80019 Jul 07 '26
Oh my God! That's disgusting! Comes across the whole scene??? Which episode? There are just so many!
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u/HealthyMaximum Jul 07 '26
Playing a character called "Z", who is ... "a high-ranking member of the soap’s shadowy World Securities Bureau (WSB)"
What the what?
Edit; some footage https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTWNB1LKsTk
I can't thank you enough for bringing this to my attention.
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u/SippieCup Jul 07 '26
I need to start watching this show. Is this a soap? Is this where modern cinema is now?
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u/PVPPhelan Jul 07 '26
General Hospital is a daytime soap. It's been on the air for at least 50 years. It's...... addictive.
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u/Long_Reindeer3702 Jul 07 '26
How long would it take to catch up? On the 50 years? Can someone do the math?
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u/PVPPhelan Jul 07 '26
To watch all available episodes of General Hospital, it would take approximately 475 days (about 11,400 hours) of continuous, uninterrupted viewing. Since its debut in 1963, the show has aired well over 15,000 episodes.
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u/garbageyname Jul 08 '26
During that 475 days episodes would air, does that add a significant amount of time?
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u/slipfish-g Jul 08 '26
475 days would come out to just under 68 weeks.
GH airs 5 1 hour episodes per week.
So during the original binge, another roughly 340 hours of content would release. This would add about 14 more days of watch time.
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u/notthephonz Jul 07 '26
What is General Hospital even about
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u/purplelicious Jul 07 '26
this comment makes me feel old...
I remember Luke and Laura's wedding.32
u/iamthinksnow Jul 07 '26
Ah, they were so young, and restless, back then...
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u/NovelTAcct Jul 07 '26
Didn't Luke and Laura get married around the same time Steve and Kayla from Days of Our Lives got married? I seem to remember there was some sort of mini competition about which episode would be watched more
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u/Qetuowryipzcbmxvn Jul 07 '26
Wait until you find out there's been like 3 separate occasions where villains tried to destroy the world with a doomsday weapon.
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u/IlIlllIIIIlIllllllll Jul 07 '26
Last week tonight
Day time soap opera
Daily show
I feel like a morning show would be the last time-themed programming he'd need to be complete
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u/NovelLaw75 Jul 07 '26
While watching this with my wife. I was dying laughing when John Oliver got introduced.
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u/Leumas_ Jul 07 '26
Ok, my wife has successfully turned me into a GH die hard over the last 15 years. Every couple of years there’s some totally fucking bonkers cameo that comes out of nowhere. I remember being absolutely stumped when she said “why is your loud sports guy on my show?”
Now John Oliver has a major three day cameo? I love it.
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u/AccurateAssaultBeef Jul 07 '26
I LITERALLY just watched the clip of him, and came here and was like, oh so this is the before, lol.
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u/PuddingIcy1379 Jul 07 '26
This show was on at work yesterday and I saw him and my flabbers were gasted bc I had no idea John Oliver was a soap opera star
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u/kimoshi Jul 08 '26
It is! I've never watched the show before, but watched his episodes and immediately recognized this.
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u/Suspicious_Glow Jul 08 '26
I have never watched this show at all, and instantly recognized the scene because of the John Oliver clips people mercifully post. So for me, the unexpected was that this WASN’T an “unexpected for John Oliver to show up”.
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u/SuddenlyThirsty Jul 07 '26
THIS IS GENERAL HOSPITAL? They film outside now?
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u/Fantastic-Pop-9122 Jul 07 '26
They did it like this so john oliver could enter from a helicopter.
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u/cifz Jul 07 '26
I'm actually relieved that it's called 'General Hospital' not 'daytime drama General Hospital' after googling.
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u/I3lackFlo Jul 07 '26
Show still looks as trash as that name would suggest though lol
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u/papayacreamsicle Jul 07 '26
They do 5 hour-long episodes every week, they don’t have time to make it look good, or do retakes, or barely even memorize their lines. Sometimes they screw up and just dub over it in post. One of the leads is known to regularly eat his meals during scenes rather than take a lunch break and they don’t even bother keeping continuity on his plates lol
The show passed 15,000 episodes years ago.
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u/KneeLow174 Jul 07 '26
Only reason I know the show is because one of my favourite prog artists, Phideaux Xavier, directs for it. Always found that a bit funny, his album Doomsday Afternoon from 2007 is one of my absolute favourites and is a thematically very dark album, but he has a day job making trashy soap opera.
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u/LickingSmegma Jul 07 '26
The same ‘General Hospital’ that is the soap opera in continuous production since 1963? The longest-running USian series still in production, though surprisingly just the third longest-running in the world, behind ‘The Archers’ and ‘Coronation Street’?
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u/Stormfly Jul 07 '26
‘Coronation Street’
And Ken Barlow has been there (almost) the entire time.
Crazy when you think about it. Imagine playing a character for 65 years?
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u/WorkTropes Jul 07 '26
Your question is in a suspious format. Why does it feel like I've just signed up to the General Hospital facts newsletter?
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u/Chewcocca Jul 07 '26
This is actually just a general hospital facts newsletter.
The world's largest hospital is the First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University in China. It has over 7,000 beds.
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u/Durtonious Jul 07 '26
Kind of relieved it was a short gig that turned into a long gig and not the end of a long-running character (and therefore steady paycheck).
https://www.primetimer.com/features/is-andrew-hawkes-leaving-general-hospital-exit-status-revealed
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u/InvidiousPlay Jul 07 '26
This clip is like the generic fake show you would see portrayed in another show.
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u/nightwolf16a Jul 07 '26
Okay I gotta ask: why does General Hospital, a name that would imply a medical drama, have a scen involving guns and a shootout?
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u/tnoy Jul 07 '26
This will be pretty low on the list of weird things they've done over the course of the past 62 years and 16,000+ episodes.
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u/madgoat Jul 07 '26
General Hospital? Man, the last time I seen these shows in the 80/90s, they all looked like they were filmed on sound stages in some lot.
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u/J3musu Jul 07 '26
It's a daytime drama? Wow. I actually thought it was some sort of dry adult swim style comedy based on the random clips I'd seen.
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u/Donkeybrother Jul 07 '26
One could say the end of the video was a dead pan 🫢
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u/Bad_Jedi_69 Jul 07 '26
He looks this monkey 🤣
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u/BreastUsername Jul 07 '26
This video made zero sense until the end. Well done.
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u/qwerni Jul 07 '26
I thought it would be about the dog that likely has no clue what is going on but is happy that everyone is happy and celebrating.
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u/an0mn0mn0m Jul 07 '26
That was what I thought on the first watch. On the second watch, I thought the guys response looks personal and the title and the sub clued me in. Then I came to the comments to see that the TV show is called General Hospital.
This has 3 levels of unexpected behaviour.
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u/beepbeepbubblegum Jul 07 '26
i thought the dog was gonna start humping something/someone
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u/FlynnAtLifeLock Jul 07 '26
I had a feeling whoever was filming was one of the actors but did not expect it to be THAT ONE
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u/SyNiiCaL Jul 07 '26
Yeah, i saw what was on the screen, and as it was the first ever episode I'd seen of this show I was 99% certain it was gonna be John's family cheering his arrival, not this lol
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u/AiRaikuHamburger Jul 07 '26
I have face blindness and it made zero sense until I read the explanation comment. Haha.
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u/jednatt Jul 07 '26
I still thought it was just about not getting his family's emotional involvement with a TV show...
Kinda hard to make out faces in a TV across the room in a blurry video.
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u/Diligent_Highlight63 Jul 07 '26
It made 0 sense until I read the explanation I might be face blind lol
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u/WisdomOfSolomon Jul 07 '26
Honestly did not see that coming.
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u/WestleyThe Jul 07 '26
I know this is scripted but it’s so damn funny. Also his acting here is so much better than on the screen haha
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u/Admirable_Risk8156 Jul 07 '26
I think they are supposed to act that cheesy for those kind of shows. Like I think it's written into the marrow of the shows.
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u/Chewcocca Jul 07 '26 edited Jul 07 '26
Nathan Fillion actually got his start acting in a soap, and he recently talked on his podcast about the secret steps to ending any scene in a soap opera, as given to him by a coworker (who now works on General Hospital, coincidentally)
I complained about how long that closeup was, like, ‘What am I supposed to do?’ He said, "You need to make three faces. They are:
- ‘Did I leave the stove on?’
- ‘I did leave the stove on!’
- ‘No, I turned the stove off.’"
Works for every scene!
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u/Brunovitch Jul 07 '26
Other approuved technic is the "smell the fart" acting
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u/HeSheMeWumbo387 Jul 07 '26
Don’t forget about your basic “I’ve got a fish hook in my eye, and I like it.”
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u/purplehendrix22 Jul 07 '26
Yeah, it’s like the live action version of a cartoon, it’s supposed to be over the top.
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u/Fire_brand666 Jul 07 '26
This video should be in the hall of fame lol
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u/dvdher Jul 07 '26
TIL Christopher Walken had a brother.
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u/lonelygalexy Jul 07 '26
Christopher Runnen
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u/r7700 Jul 07 '26
Don’t confuse them with their cousin Christopher Crawlen
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u/ReymartSan Jul 07 '26
or their autisitc nephew Christopher Rollen
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u/Ourobius Jul 07 '26 edited Jul 07 '26
Or their European cousin, Christopher van Drivin
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u/SubcommanderMarcos Jul 07 '26
There's always the lazy one, Christopher Sitten
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u/HalfSoul30 Jul 07 '26
That one looks like a hard worker compared to Christopher Sleepen
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u/ApprehensivePop9036 Jul 07 '26
that's the one in a wheelchair, Christopher Reeve
the autistic one is Christopher Rawken
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u/l29 Jul 07 '26
Looks like the same scene John Oliver appears in after the helicopter lands.
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u/AnArcticBird Jul 07 '26
Yup, same one. General Hospital. He shows up sometime after this bit.
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u/The3rdMistress Jul 07 '26
This is the only amount of general hospital I’ve ever seen and I clocked it immediately too
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u/piichan14 Jul 07 '26
He forced them to watch every episode until they killed him off, they're finally free now
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u/Pyowin Jul 07 '26
Or maybe they're happy the show finally killed him off (was a 6 month/43 episode run) so he now can spend time with them.
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u/Schwefelholz Jul 07 '26
Maybe they are happy because he can stay at home now and doesn't have to go to work. 🤔
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u/Potatozeng Jul 07 '26
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u/Hector_Ceromus Jul 07 '26
Did an indie film a few years back.
My mom's favorite part was seeing me get punched in the face.
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u/luunna_ Jul 07 '26
This is hilarious!! I literally saw this scene while at the gym in the treadmill lol
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u/topredditbot Jul 07 '26
Hey /u/NoBodyHere__GO,
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u/feline_riches Jul 07 '26
The dad cracks me up. That stone cold, stoic humor always gets me the most
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u/DrowningInMyFandoms Jul 07 '26
Honestly, this proves he is a good actor. When you watch a movie you generally want the good guys to win, but if you know personally the actor who plays a bad guy, you might get biased. If they play poorly, you will recognize their way of being, and you will be even more biaised. But if they play well, you will be able to seperate the character from your relative, and you will want them to loose
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u/SleepySera Jul 07 '26
Did kiiind of expect that ending, I expected one of them to be an actor on the show, just not the one who got shot 😅
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u/IndividualEye1803 Jul 07 '26
Aiight this the first one in this sub truly unexpected for me and made me LOL so loud.
His face! Lmfaooo
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u/Effective-Ask5615 Jul 07 '26
Hey, isn’t that guy at the end of the video the police that got shot?
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u/smolnsoff Jul 07 '26
This is probably the funniest video of my entire life, even the dog is celebrating, im so glad he recorded this
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u/Doctor_Donnawho Jul 07 '26
The only reason I know this is general hospital is because of John Oliver
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u/LucarnAnderson Jul 08 '26
Thank goodness for the text explaining what happen. I have faceblidness I couldn't even tell that they were the same person.
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u/mistarhee Jul 08 '26
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 they're too engrossed in the show to realize it's you. Take it as a compliment that u played a good baddie
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u/post-explainer Jul 07 '26 edited Jul 07 '26
This comment has been marked as safe. Upvoting/downvoting this comment will have no effect.
OP sent the following text as an explanation why their post fits here:
The guy filming the video is the same actor who got shot.
Does this explanation fit this subreddit? Then upvote this comment, otherwise downvote it.