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Kurt Russell?

posted 18 years ago by DevonChaos
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Dude, that kid in the Mr. Bungle PSA thingy looks like Kurt Russell. Anyone know who the heck that kid is?

I'm not sure but Kurt was a child actor - he was in a lot of Disney movies back in the day... so its possible!!

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[–] xak54bn7micxmcx 18 years ago

I too always thought that kid looked like Kurt Russell.

[–] jmviloria 18 years ago

I TOTALLY think that's Kurt Russell. I watched The Pee Herman special when it first came out in the early 80's and we all thought it was him. My bf doesn't believe it could be.

[–] DevonChaos 18 years ago

My hubby thinks so too. I dig that show so much. Too bad they don't have a giant database of those old movies with full credits. I'd love to watch them all. My mom was in school way back then, and she said they were all equally as bad as that one.

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[–] sionxxii 14 years ago

All that blonde hair, you think it was a Bund meeting?

[–] monsieurzy 13 years ago

no it's not (not even close)..and any thread that starts with some idiot calling people "Dude" should be ridiculed and then forgotten

[–] GuruAskew 12 years ago

This kid looks almost nothing like Kurt Russell. There's actual footage of Kurt Russell as a child actor from around that age and it's not even close.

The Mr. Bungle kid could kinda pass for a young Russell if you've never seen him as a kid... fact of the matter is, a lot of people have.

[–] 16crab 10 years ago

I would disagree with 'not even close'. The PSA seems to be from 1959, and Russell was born in 1951 which would make him 8. Here's a childhood photo: http://goodtoknow.media.ipcdigital.co.uk/111/000005168/eb0b_orh100000w614/KurtRussell.jpg

I think it is quite possible it could be him.

[–] Druff 10 years ago

Being able to recognize familiar adults as young children is one of those things that some people are good at and other people completely suck at, depending on how well developed certain portions of one's visual cortex are. They did a piece on the phenomenon on 60 Minutes a few years ago, they had one person who could identify virtually anyone by looking at their baby picture, and then they had a person at the opposite extreme who couldn't recognize anyone, no matter how well they knew them or how recently they'd last seen them. Even their own family members, they had to develop other means of recognizing them that didn't involve their faces.

Anyway, anyone who thinks that kid in the PSA is Kurt Russel has a crappy under-developed visual vortex. It's obviously not him.