http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFGMmc5_dfA
Well, here’s a bizarrely specific trend: whenever any of Ellen DeGeneres’ sitcoms had flashbacks in their episodes, it seems that a future star would play the younger version of her. Seven-year old Dakota Fanning once played young Ellen during a flashback on an episode of The Ellen Show and, at the age of ten, Kaley Cuoco did the exact same thing during a 1996 episode of Ellen.