Tyler Labine Weird Character Names
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Reaper’s Tyler Labine has been a busy guy on-screen, for nearly two full decades. Those of us in the United States have caught glimpses of him, as he appeared as extras on various shows, including the X-Files, for one or two episodes. Canadian audiences have had a fuller view of the man who would build the character Bert “Sock” Wysocki.
Sock. We call him “Sock”. Sure, he’s Bert to his mum, but to us, Sam, and Ben, he’s Sock. This came to the fore, for me, recently, when I was perusing his previous roles on the resource we on planet Earth call “IMDB”. What stood out was the interesting array of non-, or, at best, vaguely-human character names that Tyler Labine has taken.
After beginning his on-screen career, in one episode of Street Legal, with the innocuous name Aaron Wineberg, Mr. Labine embarked on a strange and dark path of bizarre names, pop culture reference names, adjective infused names, and even no name at all. I would normally say that this is the hallmark of extras and characters who were, or almost were, un-credited. For Tyler Labine, though, the convention takes twists, and seems to follow him even when he is portaying a much more important character.
Let’s have a look:
- 1992, in the episode Checkpoint Eagle of The Odyssey, Labine was simply Eagle.
- In two episodes of Road to Avonlea, he was known as Alphie Bugle. ‘Nuff said.
- In 1996’s Generation X, he was Mall Rat
- His ironic adjective prefixed, and well known, character name Little John in Robin of Locksley, might have gone unnoticed, if not for the context of all his other characters.
- In two episodes of The X Files, in 1996, he was simply Stoner.
- In one episode of Poltergeist: The Legacy, we have Skinhead.
- In an episode of Night Man, oh, Tyler Labine was there, but no name credit was given. Normal? Let’s look some more.
- In an “alien” episode of Honey, I Shrunk the Kids, Labine was Elderbob.
- Tail Lights Fade credits his as Grower Brian.
- By Dawn’s Early Light, the television movie, lists Ox. Say that to his face!
- Again, in Take Me Home: The John Denver Story, he has no character name, job title, noun, or adjective.
- In Trixie, his is credited as Gang Member
- Get Carter has him as Bud #1. Can’t be Number 2.
- In the thinly veiled take on Bill Gates’ Microsoft, Antitrust, Labine plays Redmond Schmeichel. They even used Tyler Labine’s character to insert a Microsoft geographical reference.
- As is often done on television, Dark Angel, employs Tyler Labine, in two episodes, as two different secondary characters, once as Cyril the Biochemist, and another time as Messenger #2. This time, he is Number 2.
- In Evil Alien Conquerors, it just doesn’t seem as weird to have a guy named Croker.
- My Boss’s Daughter has him with the oft-used for effect name Spike.
- Jake 2.0 has two episodes of Tyler Labine with the seemingly suffix upon suffix name Seymour LaFortunata
- Flyboys tries to get away with the double “engine” moniker Briggs Lowry.
- Which brings us back to Reaper, and the I-have-a-real-name-but-please-use-my-nickname Bert ‘Sock’ Wysocki.
Weird?
What do you say to that?
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