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Sitcoms seem to be running out of ideas for older actors to cast as characters' parents: Peter Boyle now plays both Everybody Loves Raymond's and The Single Guy's dads, and George Segal -- Tea Leoni's pop on The Naked Truth -- will soon appear as Laura San Giacomo's father on NBC's new sitcom Just Shoot Me. EW offers a few fresh ideas for sitcom folks we would cast. -- Bruce Fretts
NewsRadio's skinny spaz Andy Dick The Andy Griffith Show's skinny spaz Don Knotts
Friends ditz Lisa Kudrow Ur-ditz Teri Garr*
3rd Rock From the Sun's spaced-out John Lithgow My Favorite Martian's spaced-out Ray Walston
Ellen's sexually ambiguous Ellen DeGeneres Sexually ambiguous attorney general Janet Reno**
Seinfeld's oddball, high-haired Michael Richards Taxi's oddball, high-haired Christopher Lloyd
Spin City's Alex Keaton-esque Michael J. Fox Family Ties' Steven Keaton-esque Michael Gross
Family Matters' geeky Jaleel White What's Happening!!'s geeky Ernest Thomas
Mad About You's Murray Lassie's Lassie
*Seen in flashback before her suicide **Birth mother who gave Ellen up for adoption
