How can that be Bryan Cranston in the Mega Force commercial?

[+Random Terrain]

This is what Bryan Cranston looked like in 1982 and notice the thickness of his face and the mole:

 

o.canada.com/2012/07/23/watch-breaking-bads-bryan-cranstons-first-tv-role-bisexual-husband/

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7r7pcqXGlU

 

 

So how could this also be Bryan Cranston from the around the same time period?

 

 

www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRZydV8VCL4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRZydV8VCL4

 

 

 

If you want more Bryan Cranston, here he is in 1983:

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XkjyXKAmLto

 

www.tvguide.com/PhotoGallery/Best-Class-Bryan-1021845/1021860

 

eBay Auction -- Item Number: 251057160460

 

 

If I had a million dollars, I'd bet it all on that not being Bryan Cranston in the Mega Force commercial.

 

 

 

 

 

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[Chuck D. Head]

Anyone have Bryan Cranstson's number?

[sega_SHARK]

Does this mean that Bryan Cranston is one of those shape shifting interdimensional lizard people?

[+HammR25]

Anyone have Bryan Cranstson's number?

Someone should write him a letter and ask.

 

http://www.fanmail.biz/31784.html

[Dr Manhattan]

Hillarious! Nice detective work.

[+Random Terrain]

Added a couple more photos and put them all in a row at the bottom of my first post.

 

Also added this video from the soap opera he was in:

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XkjyXKAmLto

[CPUWIZ]

Zoom in on the pic with the yellow sweater, you will notice that the mole is mirrored and has makeup on it. It could very well be him and dates maybe off a bit.

[+RevEng]

Here's a side-by-side comparison, with a bit of unsharpen-mask on the commercial image.

 

 

I think its him, they just shot him a bit lower than usual in the commercial so his chin is less pointy and his nostrils are showing more. (and he seems to have a perm.) Otherwise, same asymmetrical mouth and chin, same trademark mole, same eyebrows, and same distance between the eyes.

[+Random Terrain]

Here's a side-by-side comparison, with a bit of unsharpen-mask on the commercial image.

 

 

I think its him, they just shot him a bit lower than usual in the commercial so his chin is less pointy and his nostrils are showing more. (and he seems to have a perm.) Otherwise, same asymmetrical mouth and chin, same trademark mole, same eyebrows, and same distance between the eyes.

 

I don't see a mole. I see a smile line or vertical dimple where the mole should be. Bryan Cranston's mole is outside of his smile lines/dimples. The eyes look closer together to me. The eyebrows seem to be a different shape.

[+RevEng]

The eyes are the same distance. Here's an overlay of the two. (click to animate)

 

 

Look at the distance between the eyes, eyebrows, and nose length. IMO, the nose and chin shape just look different in a way that's consistent with the down-low perspective of the commercial.

[sega_SHARK]

PROOF!

Shape shifting lizard alien.

 

Seriously, I'm not seeing it....

[Cebus Capucinis]

http://en.wikipedia....wiki/Pareidolia

 

(I just love posting this in RT threads. )

[Godzilla]

this is hilarious and awesome

[+Random Terrain]

When I see Bryan Cranston on TV, in a photo or whatever, I don't immediately think "that dude's eyes seem to be too close together." But I think that right away when I see the guy in the commercial. He looks like the unholy result of a three-way between Popeye, Brian Keith and a Pound Puppy.

[+RevEng]

It's just the environment that's throwing you, I think. You're not used to seeing him at that angle, and playing a 2600. I'm sure you'll agree these look a little less odd...

 

 

[Emehr]

http://en.wikipedia....wiki/Pareidolia

 

(I just love posting this in RT threads. )

 

[+bennybingo]

I wonder if Bryan Cranston is aware that a bunch of retro gamers are currently debating his participation in an Atari commercial from the 80's?

[+RevEng]

After staring at Bryan Cranston's name for a few days, it occurred to me that its an anagram for "try bra cannons".

 

The guy in the Atari commercial is clearly pro-missile. He's letting loose like there's no tomorrow.

 

Its a small leap from being pro-bra-cannon to being pro-missile. I think Bryan has a hidden pro-arsenal agenda here, and he doesn't want his leanings known... hence the mole-makeup and the perm.

 

So its the same guy. QED.

[sega_SHARK]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tXQT99470wI

 

makes total sense now.

[Cebus Capucinis]

I'm considering sending a screen cap of the Mega Force commercial to his 'autograph' address, asking if he can write "To AtariAge -- Keep On Playin'!"

 

LOL

[godzillajoe]

Looks more like Dr. Cox from "Scrubs"

[Chuck D. Head]

http://en.wikipedia....wiki/Pareidolia

 

(I just love posting this in RT threads. )

 

Oh, I get it. It's like that time in September I swore I saw you hiding from me behind a pinball machine in a gay bar in Portland.

[Cebus Capucinis]

Oh, I get it. It's like that time in September I swore I saw you hiding from me behind a pinball machine in a gay bar in Portland.

 

Exactly like that. Only it wasn't just a "gay bar" that night, it was exclusively drag queen evening.

 

I mean, uhh, yeah, you "thought" you saw me!

[lakawak]

A bit of gravedigging on this thread, but I have two words to clear up the "is it or isn't it" question...

 

PHIL HARTMAN.

 

Think about it...Hartman was in other Atari 2600 commercials. Mostnotable is the ice hockey one where he acted fairly similar to this one. It looks FAR more like Phil Hartman than it does Bryan Cranston. And doesn't look anything like Cranston did in the early 80s.

 

there is absolutely no indication that it IS Cranston, other than some random person with a YouTube account first said to himself "Hmmm...that looks a little bit like Bryan Cranston" and posted a video, and typical of the internet, other people used that video as their source and then others used THOSE people as their sources.

Edited July 27, 2013 by lakawak