 In the scene where Nicky Flippers, played by David Ogden Stiers,  recognizes the wolf as the reporter who was snooping into the  Rumpelstiltzkins real name the wolf says his guess was Greg  Stillson. Greg Stillson is the name of a recurring creature played  by Sean Patrick Flanery in the TV show The Dead Zone that also stars  David Ogden Stiers as Rev.Gene Purdy