If this guy looks familiar you may recognize him as the weird kid in the AT&T Rollover commercials from a few years back. His name is Matt Bush and he has been a busy little actor since then, starring in a few feature films (an summer romp set in 1985, "Adventureland") and TV pilots. Now one of his shows has gone to air and it premiered last night on TBS. It's called "Glory Daze" and is about a bunch of guys starting college in 1986. So what...is Matt Bush the look of the 80's or something?
While the music was awesome as they cranked out the hits of my college years ("Girls On Film"!), the show was somewhat lackluster. However, things got slightly more funny whenever Matt showed up to say something weird or do something crazy. Unfortunately, he was not cast as the lead but more of a goofy sidekick, a Jewish kid named Eli who gets incredibly stoned in the pilot. But his best moment was the introduction of his character. In one of the show's many nods to 80's films, Eli is shown dancing in his underwear ala Tom Cruise in "Risky Business". I know.... not a highly original idea but Matt made the most of it.
The scene is the second up in the preview clip below. Anyway, you will surely be seeing more of Matt in the future, hopefully on shows that are a little more interesting than this retro rehash.
