In 1998, CBS’ The King of Queens served up its first Thanksgiving episode with all the ingredients for comedy gold.
In the episode ”Supermarket Story,” the then-new Kevin James sitcom sends Doug Heffernan (James), his wife Carrie (Leah Remini), and father-in-law Arthur Spooner (Jerry Stiller) on a family trip to the supermarket to get food for Thanksgiving dinner. But the clan’s ordinary errand day is anything but.
Not only does the grocery store feature a famous stock boy—‘70s teen idol Donny Osmond made a cameo as a worker in the produce section—but a second guest star still drives fans nuts decades later.
In an ongoing storyline in the episode, Doug runs into a guy who knows him, but he has no idea how. The man never reintroduces himself but knows Doug’s occupation and hints that they had an awkward incident take place years earlier.
“Doug? I thought that was you,” the man says. “How have you been? Still driving the delivery truck?”
A confused Doug plays along, asking the guy if he’s still doing his “crazy thing.”
Later, the mystery man offers to pay Doug back—for an unexplained something from the past that they didn’t have “closure” over—then thinks he may have insulted him.
A final run-in in another grocery aisle comes when the guy catches Doug hiding from him while making a phone call, and by that time his demeanor is no longer nice.
“You were gonna leave one of your little messages,” the man says. “If you’ve got something to say to me, at least have the guts to say it. I thought you’d changed. You put on that goofy smile to cover up your sneaky little hidden agenda…How do you live with yourself?”
Decades after “Supermarket Story” first aired, King of Queens fans still have questions. There are multiple social media posts and Reddit threads about the episode, with one that asks the question, “Did we ever figure out who this guy was to Doug? Season 1 supermarket/thanksgiving shopping.”
“No and it drives me crazy,” another Reddit user replied.
“No, this is one of those that keeps me up at night,” came a comment in another post about the episode.
“This one drives me nuts. It’s a storyline from hell and the guy plays that part so stupidly well,” another added.
While never identified, The Guy was played by actor and comedian Dana Gould, who had a connection to the Stiller family. Gould, who was also a writer for The Simpsons, appeared on The Ben Stiller Show in the 199Os, per IMDb. He’s also a prolific stand-up comedian and voice actor.
Gould once addressed his unnamed King of Queens character in an interview with Daily Dead, noting that he never came up with a backstory for the guy.
“His identity is forever a mystery,” Gould said. “But I’ll tell you about that day (shooting the episode) was the day my wife and I bought our house, and I literally had to sign the mortgage paperwork in my dressing room. And I’m just like, it’s expensive…. I realized… ‘I’m not making enough money right now!’”
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