History Trivia / SmartGuy

* NamesTheSame: [[Series/TheParentHood Reagan Gomez]] (then Gomez-Preston) and Tinsley Grimes play characters named Nina in different seasons (the Afro-Latina Gomez plays Nina Duperly, Marcus and T.J.'s love interest in "Love Letters;" Caucasian Grimes plays Nina [NoLastNameGiven], Yvette's best friend in several season three episodes).

** In "Stop the Presses", T.J. deletes Marcus and himself from a family photograph (keeping a swimsuit-clad Yvette to print in T.J.'s newspaper as retaliation for stealing a story scoop) using a Photoshop-style (not long before Photoshop was first released) program.

** In "Stop the Presses", T.J. deletes Marcus and himself from a family photograph (keeping a swimsuit-clad Yvette to print in T.J.'s newspaper as retaliation for stealing a story scoop) using a Photoshop-style (not long before Photoshop existed) program.

** In "Diary of a Mad Schoolgirl", T.J. works with another student on a project about Lizzie Borden through file sharing. While peer-to-peer ([[=P2P=]]) file sharing did exist in 1998, it would take until the early 2000s before it came into widespread usage, particularly with the rise of music, TV and film piracy utilizing this method.

** In "Diary of a Mad Schoolgirl", T.J. works with another student on a project about Lizzie Borden through file sharing. While peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing did exist in 1998, it would take until the early 2000s before it came into widespread usage, particularly with the rise of music, TV and film piracy utilizing this method.

** In "Diary of a Mad Schoolgirl", T.J. works with another student on a project about Lizzie Borden through file sharing.

* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: Aside from the fashion sense of some characters (Yvette's tam hats in some earlier episodes, especially), the series made quite a few pop culture references that date the show to the late [[TheNineties Nineties]].

* YouLookFamiliar: Creator/NayaRivera and [[Series/OneOnOne Kyla]] [[WesternAnimation/TheProudFamily Pratt]] both appear in "Baby, It's You, and You, and You" as two of the dates T.J. is set up with for a school dance. Rivera appears again in "Never Too Young," as Kelly (a girl T.J. accidentally tells a story told about one of the partygoers that involved her), while Pratt plays Brandi (T.J.'s streetwise friend) in "Bad Boy" and "She Got Game".

* NamesTheSame: [[Series/TheParentHood Reagan Gomez]] (then Gomez-Preston) and Tinsley Grimes play characters named Nina in different seasons (the African-American Gomez plays Nina Duperly, Marcus and T.J.'s love interest in "Love Letters;" Caucasian Grimes plays Nina [NoLastNameGiven], Yvette's best friend in several season three episodes).
* PropRecycling: The pilot used the Matthews house and the John Adams High School classroom and corridor sets from ''Series/BoyMeetsWorld''.

** In "That's My Momma", T.J. mentions to Floyd that one can watch ''Series/SportsCenter'' online and make phone calls over the computer (since this was the late 1990s, streaming ''[=SportsCenter=]'' – which didn't become possible until the very late 2000s through the [=WatchESPN=] streaming service – or any video online would only be possible with minimal issue with broadband/high speed internet, which was only starting to be widely rolled out and was relatively expensive at the time the episode aired; making phone calls over the computer is a bit antiquated these days since one can talk to someone via a webcam videophone-style service such as Skype).

* MissingEpisode: Season 1's "Don't Do That Thing You Do" is the only ''Smart Guy'' episode not available on Creator/DisneyPlus, with all of the episodes that followed it being listed ahead in their numerical order by one episode. It is presumed that music licensing issues for Jason Weaver's 1997 single "I Don't Know Why," which was performed by Marcus' band Mackadocious during their "Battle of the Bands" performance, prevented the episode from being available on the service. In contrast, [=Disney+=] does include "A Date with Destiny," which features guest stars Music/DestinysChild performing their 1998 single "Cater 2 U", in the show's library.

* MissingEpisode: Season 1's "Don't Do That Thing You Do" is the only episode not available on Creator/DisneyPlus, with all of the episodes that followed it being listed ahead in their numerical order by one episode. It is presumed that music licensing issues for Jason Weaver's 1997 single "I Don't Know Why," which was performed by Marcus' band Mackadocious during their "Battle of the Bands" performance, prevented the episode from being available on the service. In contrast, [=Disney+=] does include "A Date with Destiny," which features guest stars Music/DestinysChild performing their 1998 single "Cater 2 U", in the show's library.

* MissingEpisode: Season one's "Don't Do That Thing You Do" is the only episode not available on Creator/DisneyPlus, with all episodes that followed it being listed ahead in their episode order number. It is presumed that music licensing issues for Jason Weaver's 1997 single "I Don't Know Why," which was performed by Marcus' band Mackadocious during their "Battle of the Bands" performance, prevented the episode from being available on the service. In contrast, [=Disney+=] does include "A Date with Destiny," which features guest stars Music/DestinysChild performing their 1998 single "Cater 2 U", in the show's library.

* MissingEpisode: Season one's "Don't Do That Thing You Do" is the only episode not available on Creator/DisneyPlus, with all episodes that followed it being listed ahead in their episode order number. It is presumed that music licensing issues for Jason Weaver's 1997 single "I Don't Know Why," which was performed by Marcus' band Mackadocious during their "Battle of the Bands" performance, prevented the episode from being available on the service. In contrast, [=Disney+=] does include "A Date with Destiny," which features guest stars Creator/DestinysChild performing their 1998 single "Cater 2 U", in the show's library.

* MissingEpisode: Season one's "Don't Do That Thing You Do" is the only episode not available on Creator/DisneyPlus, with all episodes that followed it being listed ahead in their episode order number. It is presumed that music licensing issues for Jason Weaver's 1997 single "I Don't Know Why," which was performed by Marcus' band Mackadocious during their "Battle of the Bands" performance, prevented the episode from being available on [=Disney+=]. Supporting this is the fact that "A Date with Destiny," which includes a performance of guest stars Creator/DestinysChild's "Cater 2 U", ''is'' in the show's library on the service.

* MissingEpisode: Season one's "Don't Do That Thing You Do" is the only episode not available on Creator/DisneyPlus, with all episodes that followed it being listed ahead in their episode order number. It is presumed that music licensing issues for Jason Weaver's 1997 single "I Don't Know Why," which was performed by Marcus' band Mackadocious during their "Battle of the Bands" performance, prevented the episode from being available in the show's [=Disney+=] episode library.

** In "Can't Buy Me Love," after T.J. asks him if he's seen the honest tax return that T.J. decided to submit instead of a dishonest one filled with fraudulent deductions, Coach Gerber tells T.J. that he's planning on going to Cuba to buy cheap Cuban cigars to import and resell them in the States in order to pay back the money he owes to the [=IRS=]. Before Gerber discloses his plan, T.J. asks if he's "given up on the whole law and order thing, then?" Gerber's portrayer, Dann Florek, played [=NYPD=] Captain Donald Cragen in ''Series/LawAndOrder'' from 1990 until 1993, when was fired from that show as a byproduct of an [[ExecutiveMeddling order by NBC executives]] to add more women to the show's cast; the season after ''Smart Guy''[='=]s cancellation, he reprised the Capt. Cragen role in ''Series/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnit'', remaining in that role until 2014.

** In "Can't Buy Me Love," after T.J. asks him if he's seen the honest tax return that T.J. decided to submit instead of a dishonest one filled with fraudulent deductions, Coach Gerber tells T.J. that he's planning on going to Cuba to buy cheap Cuban cigars to import and resell them in the States in order to pay back the money he owes to the [=IRS=]. Before Gerber discloses his plan, T.J. asks if he's "given up on the whole law and order thing, then?" Gerber's portrayer, Dann Florek, played [=NYPD=] Captain Donald Cragen in ''Series/LawAndOrder'' from 1990 until 1993, when was fired from that show as a byproduct of an [[ExecutiveMeddling order by NBC executives]] to add more women to the show's cast; the season after ''Smart Guy''{{'}}s cancellation, he reprised the Capt. Cragen role in ''Series/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnit'', remaining in that role until 2014.