In It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Episode 18.1, Dennis, Dee, and Mac sit in on a psychology class at the University of Pennsylvania, to prove that they could have succeeded. Meanwhile, Frank grabs a random student named Jie to fulfill his Back to School fantasy: take a dump in the dean's office (they're interrupted), pick up girls at a frat party (they're not impressed by the dance moves Frank teaches Jie), and jump off the high dive at the pool. Wearing a shirt, but a glimpse of a bulge in his swimsuit.
In Back to School (1986), crass comedian Rodney Dangerfield enrolls at his son's college, and encourages him to do those things, including show a monumental bulge in his swim suit. The son, played by Keith Gordon (right), completes the high dive, but Jie does not.
The actor playing Jie is not in the cast list on the IMDB, and Google Ai doesn't know, but Bloody Disgusting says that he is Sam Song Li. Verified when the guy includes a Sunny clip on his Instagram.
Sam was born in 1996 in Shenzen, Guangdong Province, just north of Hong Kong, and raised in Southern California. He graduated with a degree in Performing Arts from UC Berkeley, and began on-screen acting in 2015. He doesn't seem to have any major acting roles, so I'll just go by what he lists as "famous for":
A 2022 episode of Better Call Saul, with Bob Odenkirk as the sleazy attorney from Breaking Bad. He plays Cary, a lawyer who joins Hamlin, Hamlin, and McGill after Chuck McGill's death. His part in the episode seems to involve dropping cans of soda, and being taught how to avoid them exploding due to the carbon dioxide pressure.
A 2022 episode of Home Economics, about three siblings, rich straight male (Jimmy Tatro, left), an entrepreneur; middle-class straight male (Topher Grace), a writer; and poor lesbian (Caitlyn McGee), a teacher. In Sam's episode, the writer struggles to finish his book before his 40th birthday, while his siblings agonize over what gift to buy him. Sam plays one of the students in his writing class.
A 2023 episode of Never Have I Ever, with an Indian-American girl negotiating crushes and her heritage. In "Never Have I Ever Been to Jersey," Devi takes a school field trip to New York, and meets Columbia University student Anton (Sam). The plot synopsis doesn't mention if they do romantic stuff.
8 episodes of The Brothers Sun (2024). Taiwanese gangster Charles Sun (Justin Chien) goes to Los Angeles to protect his mother and younger brother Bruce (Sam). It's classified as a comedy, but there's drug-dealing, kidnapping, and murder. No girlfriendsd are mentioned in the plot synopsis.
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