History Trivia / NCISLosAngeles

* FakeNationality: Nepali Jemadar Thapa is played by Filipino-American actor and martial artist Ernie Reyes Jr., who is best known for his role in ''Film/SurfNinjas'' and the ''Film/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles'' films.

* FakeAmerican: Subverted. Though Creator/DanielaRuah had a successful career as a telenovela actress in Portugal and is of Portuguese-Jewish descent (in addition to partial Polish, Russian and Ukrainian Jewish descent), she was actually born in Boston and moved to Portugal (which is where her parents are from) when she was five.

* Erik Palladino and Vostanik Sabatino have Armenian heritage.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Creator/JonBernthal was at one point considered for the leading role, but Bernthal instead opted to work on ''Series/{{The Walking Dead|2010}}''

** Hetty's absence in the majority of season ten was due to Linda Hunt taking time to recover from a car accident she was involved in.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Creator/JonBernthal was at one point considered for the leading role, but Bernthal instead opted to work on The Walking Dead.

* AwesomeMcCoolName: Two actors in the Fall 2016 premier named Sammy Sheik and Alexander Wraith.

* LifeImitatesArt: One episode uncovered a conspiracy a company that tests agents to see if they should get top security clearance allowed dozens, maybe even ''hundreds'' of people to get access to government secrets. A month later on [[Creator/{{CBS}} the same channel]] ''Series/SixtyMinutes'' airs a report that security testing companies may have allowed a huge number of people within the US government to access secure places when they should never have been given clearance at all.
** Unlike the show there was no conspiracy, just [[HanlonsRazor a lot of overlooked incidents]] (one man claimed he "lived in Seattle and worked in New York" and left out the small detail that he had punctured someone's tires ''with a shotgun''; he later killed 12 people in the secure area he worked in) and [[CantKillYouStillNeedYou a need for people with security clearance even if they were clearly unfit]] (Chelsea Manning actually told the woman overseeing her that "the [US] flag means nothing and [she] has no allegiance to this country" and later attacked her because she wouldn't get off her back about his suspicious behavior. She kept his security clearance
* ThePeteBest[=/=]TheOtherMarty: Louise Lombard played Lara Macy in the ''Series/{{NCIS}}'' backdoor; when the series went into production, Macy was dropped and Creator/LindaHunt's Hetty was added.

* Music/LLCoolJ's rap songs are sometimes used for background music.
* Creator/BarrettFoa has been given a few opportunities to show off his singing voice, usually for a gag.

* TheCastShowoff: Music/LLCoolJ's rap songs are sometimes used for background music.

* AuthorExistenceFailure: Granger's fate was left untouched since Creator/MiguelFerrer had died from cancer. At the time of his death, he had appeared in the first fifteen episodes of season eight, with nine episodes remaining.
** TheCharacterDiedWithHim: In season nine, after having enough time to heal, the writers sadly wrote the final scene that closed the book for Granger by revealing he died peacefully in his daughter's backyard under a tree.

** The UsefulNotes/COVID19Pandemic is mentioned a couple times during season 12, which is set in a post-pandemic timeline.

* RealLifeWritesThePlot: Creator/MiguelFerrer's diagnosis with throat cancer (in which he succumbed to) was written into the series when his character Granger goes into radiotherapy during the pre-teaser scene of "Crazy Train". When Ferrer ultimately passed away due to the disease, rather than having Granger also die, the writers decided to have Granger walk away from everything in pursuit of his own adventures. They waited for another year to reluctantly give the character closure with his off-screen demise.

** The UsefulNotes/COVID19Pandemic is mentioned in season 12, which is set in post-COVID timeline (possibly around 2021 or 2022/2023). Similarly, the subplot revolving around Deeks’ position as the L.A.P.D liaison to NCIS being terminated & his moving to become a full-fledged agent was a response to the Black Lives Matter protests of Summer 2020.
*** The Western US wildfires in 2020-2021 are mentioned quite a few times.

** The COVID-19 pandemic is mentioned in season 12, which is set in post-COVID timeline (possibly around 2021 or 2022/2023). Similarly, the subplot revolving around Deeks’ position as the L.A.P.D liaison to NCIS being terminated & his moving to become a full-fledged agent was a response to the Black Lives Matter protests of Summer 2020.

** The COVID-19 pandemic is mentioned in season 12, which is set in post-COVID timeline (possibly around 2021 or 2022). Similarly, the subplot revolving around Deeks’ position as the L.A.P.D liaison to NCIS being terminated & his moving to become a full fledged agent was a response to the Black Lives Matter protests of Summer 2020.

** The COVID-19 pandemic is mentioned in season 12, which is set in post-COVID timeline (possibly around 2021 or 2022).

** Plus, most of the TV shows, such as this show (and some films) mostly filmed at California, mostly Los Angeles, especially if it's either filmed on location or on a soundstage.[[note]] It's a long story but most of the soundstages used for filming TV shows, commercials, and even films are usually located in Los Angeles, California. [[/notes]]

* TooSoon:
** "Neighborhood Watch": in the wake of the Trayvon Martin shooting a movie changed its name to just ''The Watch'' and a reality series of the same name about watchmen was apparently canceled; not this episode. A lot of people get shot in a gated community in a sunny state, though none of them were black (a few wear hoodies, though).
** Both ''NCIS:LA'' and ''Series/{{Supergirl2015}}'' pulled episodes following the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/November_2015_Paris_attacks terrorist attack on Paris]] because they featured ISIS/IS/ISIL/[[MaliciousMisnaming Daesh]] and bombings, respectively.

* FakeNationality: Nepali Jemadar Thapa is played by Filipino-American actor and martial artist Ernie Reyes Jr., who is best known for his role in ''Film/SurfNinjas'' and the ''Film/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles'' films.\

* FakeNationality: Nepali Jemadar Thapa is played by Filipino-American actor and martial artist Ernie Reyes Jr., who is best known for his role in ''Film/SurfNinjas'' and the ''Film/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles'' films.

* ThePeteBest[=/=]TheOtherMarty: Louise Lombard played Lara Macy in the ''Series/{{NCIS}}'' backdoor; when the series went into production, Macy was dropped and Linda Hunt's Hetty was added.