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In 2008,<ref>"【インタビュー】スコット＆リバースが刻んだJ-POPへの深い愛情。「第二の故郷」で掴んだ彼らの自由とは" 9 May 2017. https://qetic.jp/interview/scottandrivers-feature/243378/</ref> Cuomo first met musician [[Scott Murphy]] (of the band [[Wikipedia:Allister|Allister]]) after telling his record company that he was looking for a collaborator on a Japanese album.<ref>"Scott & Rivers" ''[[Riverpedia]]''. https://books-r-fun.herokuapp.com/wiki/Scott%20%26%20Rivers</ref> The two formed the Japanese-language pop duo [[Scott & Rivers]], releasing [[Scott & Rivers (album)|their first album]] in [[2013]]. The duo's follow-up, ''[[Nimaime]]'', was released in [[2017]]. | |||
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Cuomo appears as himself in the short film/music video "[[Cocaine Blues]]" by American psychedelic rock band [[Wikipedia:The Warlocks|the Warlocks]]. He also makes a brief cameo appearance in the music video for "[[Murder (You Know It's Hard)]]" by [[Wikipedia:The Crystal Method|the Crystal Method]], directed by [[Marcos Siega]] (who also directed the music video for Weezer's "[[Hash Pipe]]"). | Cuomo appears as himself in the short film/music video "[[Cocaine Blues]]" by American psychedelic rock band [[Wikipedia:The Warlocks|the Warlocks]]. He also makes a brief cameo appearance in the music video for "[[Murder (You Know It's Hard)]]" by [[Wikipedia:The Crystal Method|the Crystal Method]], directed by [[Marcos Siega]] (who also directed the music video for Weezer's "[[Hash Pipe]]"). | ||
Cuomo (and the rest of Weezer) appeared in several videos by popular YouTube users (such as Ray William Johnson, Fred, and the Annoying Orange) as part of the "[[Weezer YouTube Invasion]]" promotion to promote the band's [[2010]] album, ''[[Hurley]]''. The band also appeared as themselves in the episode "[[Weezer TV appearance: 05/02/2011 - The Hard Times of RJ Berger|You, Me, and Weezer]]" of the sitcom ''The Hard Times of RJ Berger''. Cuomo and the other members of the band voice the fictional band Sailor's Delight in ''The Simpsons'' episode "[[Weezer TV appearance: 05/10/2020 - The Simpsons|The Hateful Eight-Year-Olds]]" from [[2020]]. | |||
< | Cuomo has a voice cameo as "Dr. Haskell" in the [[2018]] film ''[[Spell]]''. He plays the character "Lake" in the 2023 Netflix film ''The Family Switch''. | ||
In 2015, Cuomo helped to produce a television pilot by [[Wikipedia:Psych|Psych]] creator [[Wikipedia:Steve Franks|Steve Franks]] titled ''[[DeTour]]'', about a rock star returning to school after a period of intense writer's block (loosely based on his own experience attending Harvard). Cuomo made a cameo appearance in the pilot as "Professor Kitts." The pilot was not picked up.<ref>Kaye, Ben. "TV sitcom about Rivers Cuomo’s life will never air" ''Consequence of Sound''. 10 July 2015. consequenceofsound.net/2015/07/tv-sitcom-about-rivers-cuomos-life-will-never-air/</ref> | |||
In 2020, Cuomo developed a pitch for a television pilot in which he would portray a fictionalized version of himself, who performs with Weezer and lives as a family man while also secretly being an alien from outer space.<ref>stupidsuck1010. "5-22-20 Rivers Cuomo Zoom w Yalun Tu- Buddy Holly I Don't Know How to Love Him, I Admire You So Much" ''YouTube.'' 22 May 2020. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r1VYsjmsjRI</ref> | |||
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