History Trivia / TheLoveBoat

** Luise Rainer played both a socialite and her long-lost twin sister, who was a maid on the boat.

* TheWikiRule: [[http://theloveboat.fandom.com/wiki/The_Love_Boat_Wikia The Love Boat Wiki]].

** A dream episode set in World War II at first indicates Doc is a German spy. It turns out to be a MasterOfDisguise posing as Doc.

* ReferencedBy: In ''Film/TurboAPowerRangersMovie'', after the Turbo Rangers fight the Putra Pods, Tanya Sloan quips "This sure ain't ''The Love Boat''." This prompts Justin Stewart to ask her, "What's ''The Love Boat''?".

* OldShame: In their interviews with the Archive of American Television, both Creator/DorisRoberts and Randy Mantooth expressed embarrassment at having appeared on the show.

** Creator/GavinMacLeod also plays the captain's brothers when they visit the ship, as well a jewel thief impersonating Stubing in a scene of one episode.

** Over the years years, the show had earned a notorious reputation as "the show washed-up celebrities guest star on". Virtually every guest star was a name actor, including Creator/BillyBarty and Creator/PattyMaloney as a dwarf couple accompanied by their normal-height son.

* HeAlsoDid: Shortly after the final season as a full series; Fred Grandy successfully ran for a Congressional seat in his native Iowa; eventually holding the seat for four terms before giving it up to make an unsuccessful run for Governor in 1994 (being defeated by incumbent Terry Branstad in the Republican primary); later becoming CEO of Goodwill Industries for five years, hosting a conservative talk show in UsefulNotes/WashingtonDC and most recently working with the right-leaning Center for Security Policy think tank as a Senior Fellow.
* OldShame: In their interviews with the Archive of American Television, both Doris Roberts and Randy Mantooth expressed embarrassment at having appeared on the show.

** In recent years, the show had earned a notorious reputation as "the show washed-up celebrities guest star on." Virtually every guest star was a name actor, including Creator/BillyBarty and Creator/PattyMaloney as a dwarf couple accompanied by their normal-height son.

* ActingForTwo: Creator/GavinMacLeod also plays the captain's brothers when they visit the ship, as well a jewel thief impersonating Stubing in a scene of one episode.

* ActingForTwo: Gavin [=McLeod=] also plays the captain's brothers when they visit the ship, as well a jewel thief impersonating Stubing in a scene of one episode.

* ReferencedBy: Both the show and its theme song are subjects for a lot of [[AffectionateParody parodies]].
** In ''Film/DemolitionMan'', Lanina's apartment plays the show's theme as mood music.
** ''Magazine/{{MAD}}'' did a parody called "Lust Boat".
** This mash-up of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWyxZR69CI0&feature=related Star Trek and Love Boat]]
*** Film/{{Titanic|1997}} [[SoundtrackDissonance Love]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DaXQfSNLG4I Boat]]
** ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' did one called "The Catholic Boat", making fun of the priest sexual predator scandals.
** ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'' also made a parody on an episode guest- starring Creator/PatrickStewart: ''[[http://trekspace.ning.com/video/1977635:Video:103407 The Love Boat:]] [[Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration The Next Generation]]'' (complete with surprise cameo by Bernie Kopell).
** ''Series/SesameStreet'' did a sketch with Ernie and some Anything Muppets, called "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cr35dJYt54E I Love This Boat]]".
** The 1979 animated special ''[[Franchise/ScoobyDoo Scooby Goes Hollywood]]'' had Shaggy and Scooby on ''The Love Ship''.
** In the middle of a jailbreak in ''Film/AirplaneIITheSequel'', Jack Jones appears in the light of a searchlight singing the theme.
** ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'', of all things, had a parody with [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EVcngdj8Rmw "Boat of Romance"]].
** One scene of ''Film/TheRunningMan'' has a poster on a wall... for "The Hate Boat"....