History Trivia / NUMB3RS

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* RealSongThemeTune: The show used a sample from Music/TalkinHeads' "Once in a Lifetime" in the first season.

"Try scrabble. He's a terrible speller".

* ActorAllusion: At one point, Alan Eppes appears to have been involved in [[WellIntentionedExtremist an act of civil disobedience gone horribly wrong]] as a younger man. [[spoiler:He wasn't]], but actor Creator/JuddHirsch played a similar role in Sidney Lumet's ''Film/RunningOnEmpty''.
** At the end of "Blackout", Alan turns on the television, saying late night is when they play "the classics", and the theme for ''Series/{{Taxi}}'' starts up.
** When it is discovered that Larry's been living in the Steam Tunnels, Mildred mentions playing ''Dungeons and Dragons'' there. Creator/PeterMacNicol portrayed the male lead of the ''Film/{{Dragonslayer}}'' movie.
** A possibly unintentional one occurs with guest star Creator/ArminShimerman, whose character is accused of taking a bribe and indignantly replies that his integrity would never be for sale. Shimerman is best known as Quark of ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'', a character from a species whose [[PlanetOfHats hat]] is pursuit of profit above all else.

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* WrittenByCastMember: Creator/PeterMacNicol co-wrote two episodes: the season two episode ''Mind Games'' and the season five episode ''Trouble In Chinatown''.

* CreatorCouple: Series creators Creator/NicolasFalacci and Creator/CherylHeuton are married.

-->"Try scrabble. He's a terrible speller".

-->"Try scrabble. He's a terrible speller".\\

'''Charlie:''' I know how to spell the word "anomaly", okay?
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'''Don:''' No, you don't.
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'''Charlie:''' Get a dictionary. [...]
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'''Don:''' ''(shows him the dictionary)'' See? One O.
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** Also referenced by other characters throughout the show. For example, Alan confides in Larry that he hates playing chess with Charlie because he seems so bored, so Larry tells Alan:
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"Try scrabble. He's a terrible speller".

'''Charlie:''' I know how to spell the word "anomaly", okay?
\\

\\

* WrittenByCastMember: Creator/PeterMacnicol co-wrote two episodes: the season two episode ''Mind Games'' and the season five episode ''Trouble In Chinatown''.

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* {{Real Life Relative}}:
** {{Creator/Dylan Bruno}}'s brother, {{Creator/Chris Bruno}}, guest starred in episodes of "Chinese Box" and "Jacked".
** {{Creator/Rob Morrow}}'s wife, {{Creator/Debbon Ayer}}, guest starred in "The Fifth Man" as a woman whose home was being invaded.

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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Speaking after cancellation, producer Creator/TonyScott said that his dream story for the show was an episode where "everything fell into the margin of error that Charlie always supplied." Scott explained that in giving his mathematical solution, Charlie would always leave a margin of error, no matter how small, saying things like "there is a 99.8 percent probability." The proposed episode would have the ultimate solution fall into the 0.2% probability, thus leaving it to actual police work to solve. It never went anywhere, however.

* CreatorCouple: Series creators Creator/NicolasFallaci and Creator/CherylHeuton are married.

* CreatorCouple: Series creators Nicolas Fallaci and Cheryl Heuton are married.

** A possibly unintentional one occurs with guest star Creator/ArminShimmerman, whose character is accused of taking a bribe and indignantly replies that his integrity would never be for sale. Shimmerman is best known as Quark of ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'', a character from a species whose [[PlanetOfHats hat]] is pursuit of profit above all else.