It’s not every day that one bumps into a celebrity, but if you do, it makes perfect sense to ask for a photo. Can I Have Your Picture? In 2009, a family man got Matthew Broderick, of all people, to have a photo taken with his starstruck daughter. However, it wasn’t until a decade later, he noticed who else was lurking in the background. Amazingly, Matthew Broderick wasn’t the person everyone was talking about…

Starstruck After his daughter fell unwell during a trip, Alex had to make a quick stop-off to buy some medicine. When he arrived at the pharmacy, he was completely taken aback by how long the line was. Then, he bumped into Matthew Broderick while he was waiting in line…

This Guy Doesn’t Want To Be Seen It was clear that Alex was getting frustrated by this long line of people. However, when the person in front turned around, he was prepared to lend him some words of support. Alex was surprised how nice the guy was and in no time at all, the pair started a pleasant conversation, talking about what they were doing over the weekend and why they were in Montauk. Soon enough though, Alex had a strange feeling about the guy he was talking too…

He Recognized Him As soon as they ended their conversation and said goodbye to each other, Alex realized that he recognized this guy. “I came out of the store and was thinking, ‘I know this guy. He looks famous,'” he said. However, he couldn’t exactly place where he recognized him from. So after leaving the pharmacy, he waited for the mystery man to walk out as well so he could ask who he was. Needless to say, Alex couldn’t believe who he was…

It’s Matthew Broderick! Surely enough, Alex’s presumptions were correct – the man he had been speaking to was, in fact, a celebrity. It was Matthew Broderick, who is best known for his role in the classic ’80s movie Ferris Bueller’s Day Off. As a matter of fact, this was the movie that Alex recognized Broderick from. Although Sarah Jessica Parker was nowhere to be seen, the actor was more than happy to spend some time with Alex and his family. Then, the family man asked him something…

“The Matthew Broderick Story” 10 years later, and a Twitter user who goes by the name of @HonoredSpirit finally seized the opportunity to share this story with the world. He introduced the string of tweets as “The Matthew Broderick Story.” On face value, it’s clear that the Ferris Bueller star had a key part to play in this strange encounter. What you will eventually realize is that this epic story wasn’t so much “The Matthew Broderick Story” as it was the story about someone else entirely…

He’s Shared The Story For Years The actual family man who was at the center of “The Matthew Broderick Story” was a man by the name of Alex Cabana. The 42-year-old who hails from Queens is known around his social circles for being the guy who got Matthew Broderick to have a photo taken with his daughter, Nicole. However, what his friends and family loved the most about the story was how he had no idea who was standing in the background of his own photo…

It Finally Went Viral It’s amazing to think that it took nearly a decade for Cabana’s photo to reach social media and eventually become a viral sensation. @HonoredSpirit never imagined in a million years that his post would be retweeted 20,000 times, with the likes of Time and New York magazine writing articles about it. And while many are only finding out now about the unforgettable story, there is one individual who vividly remembers the moment, and she was only seven years old at the time…

Her 15 Minutes Of Fame Now she is a young adult, but back in 2009, Nicole Cabana was just a child who had no idea who Matthew Broderick was. All she remembers was her dad freaking out and asking the actor to have a photo with her. As soon as she learned that the photo went viral years later, Nicole couldn’t believe that she was a part of this. Her face might be blurred out, but Nicole still loves to brag about her 15 minutes of fame.

Say Cheese! Knowing that this was an opportunity too good to pass up, Alex was determined to take something away from this epic encounter. So he asked Broderick if he would have his photo taken with his daughter, to which the actor happily obliged. Of course, this is the actor who once said the iconic line: “Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.” So that’s what Alex did…

Who’s That Man In The Background? As Broderick stepped into the camera’s view and posed with Alex’s daughter, he was about to snap away. However, he then noticed that a strange-looking man was hovering in the background. Not only was he was ruining the moment, but Alex was confused as to why this mystery man was standing so close to the shot. He asked Broderick if he knew the man. Surely enough, the actor did know the man in question, and for a very good reason…

It’s My Friend After Alex asked him if he knew the strange-looking man, Broderick replied by telling him that he was his friend. They went to Montauk for a day out, which explained why Alex bumped into the actor in a random pharmacy. Now that Alex had some context to the situation, he politely asked the man to move to the right so that he could take the photo of Broderick with his daughter. However, the man simply wasn’t getting the hint…

He Wouldn’t Move Even though the man agreed to move after Alex asked him to, he wouldn’t move far enough to get out of the shot. This was proving to be a really frustrating moment for the family man, who simply wanted a photo of his daughter with an A-list celebrity. It didn’t seem like too much to ask, right? However, there was a good reason why @HonoredSpirit was sharing this story on Twitter. Followers soon understood why the man wasn’t moving…

Who Is This Strange Man? As soon as followers on Twitter laid their eyes on the mysterious post, they were struggling to understand why @HonoredSpirit had posted it in the first place. They didn’t get the point of the story. What was the big deal about this guy who happened to be Matthew Broderick’s friend? He seemed pretty normal, with his baggy jeans, white sneakers, and shades. However, it soon became clear that this was no ordinary guy. Alex found this out soon enough…

Check Out This Photo After taking the photo, Alex told himself that he’d just have to crop out the guy in the background. He exchanged pleasantries with Broderick and his friend, before returning to his car with Nicole. His wife and father were also in the car, waiting to resume their vacation. However, Alex was so excited to show them all the photo. As his family laid eyes on the epic photo of Nicole with Matthew Broderick, his wife gasped in shock…

Do You Know Who This Is? At first, Alex assumed that his wife was shocked simply at the sight of the Ferris Bueller star. However, it soon became clear that she was surprised for a completely different reason. “My wife said, ‘Do you realize what you’ve done?'” Alex said. It turns out that his wife knew exactly who the guy was who he had told to step out of the photo. Completely embarrassed by what he had done, Alex took a closer look at the photo…

Now I Recognize Him As he squinted his eyes and gave the photo a closer look, it soon became clear to Alex exactly who this guy was. After thinking about it for a few minutes, Alex realized that it was somebody he had seen many times before. “I just looked at the picture and I saw him,” he said. “I’ve been watching this guy every night.” Who exactly was this famous man who Alex had been so rude to just a few minutes beforehand?

It’s Jerry Seinfeld! That mystery man who Alex claimed to have watched every night at one stage of his life was none other than Jerry Seinfeld. Not only did the family man not realize it was the comedian during that fateful moment, but he had recognized Matthew Broderick before ignoring someone who was even more famous! Granted, he was wearing a cap and shades, but Alex should’ve known it was him. Which takes us back to the present day, when this photo went viral…

Callback To “The Original Photobomb” One hilarious insight that many Twitter users made after seeing the epic photo was related to Jerry’s classic series – Seinfeld. It reminded many members from the online community of an iconic moment that happened on the comedy series years ago. During the episode, “The Slicer,” Jason Alexander’s character, Costanza, accidentally gets caught in his boss’ family photo and tries to airbrush himself out of the photo afterward. It is often regarded as “The Original Photobomb.”

They Are Good Friends It turns out that Matthew Broderick and Jerry Seinfeld are actually good friends who go way back. They hang out a lot together, which explains why Alex bumped into them in the most random of circumstances. Not only have they been spotted at Mets games and in the public eye, but Broderick and Seinfeld even worked together on a number of occasions – most notably, on the animated feature film Bee, in which the dynamic duo play a pair of bees.

Comedians In Cars Getting Coffee Besides the Bee movie, Broderick also collaborated with Seinfeld on an episode of the latter’s Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee. “This year, practically everyone is coming out with brand new, even longer, more complicated shows,” Seinfeld says in the episode. “Don’t you have enough to keep track of without trying to remember who’s a wizard, who’s a machine, who’s a zombie? We at Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee think your time is valuable,” he joked. You can catch the episode on Netflix.

Stranger Than Fiction Now that the photo is out there in the public domain, Alex Cabana is happy that people are laughing at the moment, which is fitting, seeing that Jerry Seinfeld was involved. It only makes sense that Seinfeld would be the subject of humiliation, staying true to his character. “One of my friends said that it’s just like one of the Seinfeld episodes,” he said. “I told him, it really happened.” And the story recently came full circle in a truly hilarious way…

Seinfeld Strikes Back Amazingly, in true poetic fashion, Jerry Seinfeld recently put a neat little bow on this hilarious story when he took to social media. He posted a cheeky photo of the classic Abbey Road album cover. You know, the one of The Beatles crossing the iconic London road. In classic Seinfeld fashion, he photoshopped himself into the photo, poking fun at Alex’s viral photo. “I’m also in the Abbey Road photo if you look closely,” he wrote in his caption.