I guess there just happen to be two individuals who look like Eddie Murphy in this supposed shared universe… which gives me a great idea for crossover scene in Coming 2 America: Akeem meets Billy Ray!
In Trading Places, the Dukes switch the lives of one of their employees, Louis Winthorpe (Dan Aykroyd), with street hustler Billy Ray Valentine (Murphy) as part of a childish bet, but get the tables turned on them when Winthorpe and Valentine team up to send the old bastards into poverty.
Perhaps they were distracted by that fat stack of cash, but I would have expected that, and would have found it hilarious if, the former millionaires might have asked other, “Say, didn’t that kid look a lot like Valentine?”