Trivia / Eureka

• Actor Allusion
  • The episode where Henry had to deal with a psychotic artificial intelligence he helped create.
  • Wil Wheaton is Fargo's romantic rival for Felicia Day.
  • Michael Shanks is an unpopular history-obsessed scientist whose unconventional theories are ridiculed by his peers.
  • Two in "The Ex-Files". An obvious one is when Dr. Grant, played by James Callis, claims that he's hallucinating "a leggy blond in a slinky, red dress"; a nod to his role as Dr. Gaius Baltar in the remake of Battlestar Galactica who really was followed around by such a hallucination. A subtler one occurs when Carter calls his hallucination of Nathan Stark "undead" leading it to reply "Nope, not a vampire". Ed Quinn appeared as a vampire on True Blood for a few episodes after leaving the show.
  • In "The Real Thing," Holly (Felicia Day) is attacked by a dragon. Felicia Day played Tallis in Dragon Age: Redemption and Dragon Age II DLC.
• Cross-Dressing Voices: Neil Grayston, who plays Fargo, also voices SARAH the smart house. Lampshaded in-universe: Fargo's voice is a temporary solution while he waits to hear back from Sarah Michelle Gellar's people.
• The Danza: Senator Michaela Wen is played by Ming-Na Wen.
• Dawson Casting: In the episode with the isolation environment. Wound up making the "long distance relationship" going on there really creepy. Completely averted by Zoe, however (Jordan Hinson is actually about two months younger than her character). During the pilot Hinson was 13 playing 15, but, by the time of the series she was closer to her character's age.
• Directed by Cast Member:
  • Colin Ferguson directed the episodes "Your Face Or Mine", "The Story Of O2", and "In Too Deep".
  • Joe Morton directed the episodes "Have an Ice Day", "Stoned", and "The Honeymooners".
  • Salli Richardson-Whitfield directed the episodes "Omega Girls" and "Worst Case Scenario".
• Fake Nationality: Canadian/American Matt Frewer as an Australian. Conversely, James Callis and Chris Gauthier are English; Colin Ferguson, Erica Cerra, Niall Matter and Neil Grayston are all Canadian. They all play American characters.
• Killed by Request: Ed Quinn asked for Nathan to be killed off going into Season 3, because he felt there wasn't much more material the writers could do with the character and he would rather go out on top with a Heroic Sacrifice than stick around in the background having little to do.
• The Other Darrin:
  • Kevin was first played by Meshach Peters in the first two seasons. After the character was Put on the Bus for season 3, he returned for seasons 4 and 5, now played by Trevor Jackson.
  • Andy is played by Ty Olsson in his first two appearances before being replaced by Kavan Smith. Justified in-universe as Andy's body is destroyed by positronic lightning in his second appearance, and the characters note that he needs to be "re-skinned".
• Real-Life Relative: The actor who plays Allison's brother Marcus is Dondre Whitfield, husband of Salli Richardson-Whitfield. Makes this bit of dialogue sort of meta-Heartwarming.
  Allison: Jack Carter might not have the highest IQ in town, but he's the smartest man I know.
  Marcus: He married you, didn't he?
• Real Life Writes the Plot: Lowjack was supposed to have a much bigger part, until they realized how hard and expensive working with dogs was.
• Screwed by the Network: Syfy ordered season six and there were rumors it'd be the last season. Then they said the cancellation rumors were false and they looked forward to more. Then they took back season six and cancelled the show for real. Luckily, they then ordered an extra episode of season five to wrap the series up.

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