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1	* CastTheExpert: Creator/BillNye, a mechanical engineer who worked at Boeing, as a scientist.
2	* TheCastShowoff: Rob Morrow really was playing the piano at the end of "Running Man".
3	* CreatorCouple: Series creators Creator/NicolasFalacciAndCherylHeuton are married.
4	* TheDanza: [[Series/BillNyeTheScienceGuy Bill Nye]] as Bill Waldie.
5	* DirectedByCastMember: Rob Morrow (Don) took the helm on a few episodes: the season two episode "All's Fair", the season five episode "Cover Me", and the season six episode "Growin' Up".
6	* FakeAmerican: In the fifth Season finale, Creator/JamesCallis, a Brit, plays cult leader Mason Duryea with a believable Southern Drawl.
7	* FridayNightDeathSlot: AvertedTrope, as the show managed to last six seasons before Creator/{{CBS}} ended it in 2010.
8	* HideYourPregnancy: During the early months of Creator/DianeFarr's pregnancy, Megan Reeves was mostly limited to desk jobs. Reeves was eventually recruited for a "special assignment" so that Farr could take the second half of season three off.
9	* InspirationForTheWork: The show came about due to Cheryl Heuton attending a lecture by Bill Nye, which was about getting children excited for math.
10	* IronyAsSheIsCast:
11	** David Krumholtz plays math genius, while in real life he failed algebra twice.
12	** Dylan Bruno plays an FBI Agent clueless about math, while Bruno attended MIT for engineering.
13	* MidseasonReplacement: Replaced ''Series/DrVegas''.
14	* RealLifeRelative:
15	** Creator/DylanBruno's brother, Creator/ChrisBruno, guest starred in episodes of "Chinese Box" and "Jacked".
16	** Creator/RobMorrow's wife, Creator/DebbonAyer, guest starred in "The Fifth Man" as a woman whose home was being invaded.
17	** Creator/DavidKrumholtz's then-partner (now wife), Creator/VanessaBritting, guest starred in the episode "Tabu".
18	* RealSongThemeTune: The show used a sample from Music/TalkingHeads' "Once in a Lifetime" in the first season.
19	* RecastAsARegular: Creator/SophinaBrown, who began playing Agent Nikki Bentancourt in Season 5, had a one-scene appearance as an environmental activist in a Season 2 episode.
20	* ThrowItIn:
21	** David Krumholtz inadvertently misspelled "anomaly" as "anomoly" on a map in one scene in the pilot episode, which the writers and producers kept as a quirk for Charlie. They even reference it in the final episode in the first season:
22	-->'''Charlie:''' I know how to spell the word "anomaly", okay?\
23	'''Don:''' No, you don't.\
24	'''Charlie:''' Get a dictionary. [...]\
25	'''Don:''' ''(shows him the dictionary)'' See? One O.\
26	'''Charlie:''' Is this a reliable dictionary?
27	** 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:\
28	"Try ''TabletopGame/{{Scrabble}}''. He's a terrible speller".
29	* 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.
30	* WrittenByCastMember: Creator/PeterMacNicol co-wrote two episodes: the season two episode ''Mind Games'' and the season five episode ''Trouble In Chinatown''.
31	* YouLookFamiliar: Sophina Brown played two characters, a protestor in ''Scorched'' and became main character Nikki Betancourt in the fifth season.

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