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4 unusual facts about Guess Who


Guess Who's Coming to Breakfast

"Guess Who Came to Breakfast", an episode of the television series Tyler Perry's House of Payne

Guess Who's Coming to Criticize Dinner?

Homer throws the lethal pastry away in revulsion, causing it to "explode" when it lands on a crater.

Guess Who's Coming to Dinner

Monsignor Ryan (Cecil Kellaway), a Catholic priest and friend of Matt's, is also present at dinner and is a voice for tolerance.

Message picture

Other famous message pictures by other parties include Guess Who's Coming to Dinner and In the Heat of the Night.


Bump, Bump, Bump

The song is heavily referenced in the 2005 film Guess Who which starred Bernie Mac.

Cartrivision

Cassettes of major movies such as The Bridge on the River Kwai and Guess Who's Coming to Dinner were ordered via the initial 200-movie catalog at a retailer, delivered by parcel mail, and then returned to the retailer after viewing.

Roy Glenn

His other film credits include The Jackie Robinson Story (1950), Carmen Jones (1954), Porgy and Bess (1959), A Raisin in the Sun (1961), with Sidney Poitier, Ruby Dee and Claudia McNeil, and a memorable turn as Mr. Prentice (again playing opposite Poitier) in the 1967 feature film Guess Who's Coming to Dinner.


see also

Best of Bachman–Turner Overdrive Live

The set includes versions of both The Guess Who's first hit, a cover of "Shakin' All Over", and their greatest hit, the original song "American Woman".

First Time Around

First Time Around is the first video released with Bachman & Cummings since The Guess Who played at Sars Fest in 2003.

Hello Kaun? Pehchaan Kaun

The name of the show is a take on the catchphrase Pehchan Kaun (translation: Guess Who?) first popularized by Navin Prabhakar in his appearances in The Great Indian Laughter Challenge.

Henri Barbusse

In the foreword to I Saw It Happen, a 1942 collection of eye-witness accounts of the war, Lewis Gannett wrote: "... We shall be hearing and reading of this war for decades to come. No one of us can yet guess who will be its Tolstoys, its Barbusses, its Remarques and its Hemingways".

McRib

On Chappelle's Show, during the "WacArnold's" sketch, Calvin (played by Dave Chappelle) announces that the Rib Sandwich is "coming back on Tuesday, and guess who's not getting one?!"

Share the Land

"Hand Me Down World", "Bus Rider", "Share The Land", "Do You Miss Me Darlin'?" and an edited single version of "Hang Onto Your Life" (without the Psalm 22 excerpt that closes the album version) make up an entire side of their 1971 greatest hits compilation, The Best Of The Guess Who, Vol 1.

Welcome to My Living Room

"Welcome to My Living Room" features two backup singers, Rudy Guess (who also plays guitar and bass during the concert and was also musical director) and Gary Burr (who also plays guitar and bass during the concert).