Trivia / The Thrilling Adventure Hour

• Actor Allusion:
  • Not only does Nathan Fillion once again play a space cowboy (Cactoid Jim), but the character's first appearance was in a Sparks Nevada segment about an author attempting to shadow an officer of the law for research.
  • In a later episode, Adam Baldwin guest stars, specifically credited as a "Man from Jim's Past".
  • During the Valentine's Day special, Sadie (played by Paget Brewster, recently having left Criminal Minds) expresses her disdain for Police Procedurals to Dave Henderson (played by her Crimnal Minds costar Joe Mantegna).
    Sadie: Darling, police procedure is dreadfully boring. I would not watch a show about it.
    ::huge amount of audience laughter::
• Actor-Inspired Element: The show creators claim that when they created Colonel Tick-Tock, the subtext of him being a closeted gay man was not present. It only became present when Craig Cackowski played him so fey and jolly.
• Corpsing: Sparks Nevada can barely get through his own theme song without laughing in "The Thing From This Same Planet," thanks to constant interjections from the campy Jovian shapeshifter pretending to be him/Croach.
• Irony as She Is Cast: Jefferson Reid (ACE AMERICAN) is played by a Canadian.
• The Other Darrin: Some minor characters are voiced by different actors from episode to episode. Pterodactyl Jones, for example, was voiced by Patton Oswalt in his first episode, "The Devil and Mr. Jones", and by Thomas Lennon in the other two, "The Devil You Know" and "Jones on Third". Similarly, Techs the robot was voiced by J. K. Simmons in "The Piano Has Been Thinking", Timothy Omundson in "Marshal on Mars" and Garret Dillahunt in all of Techs' other episodes.
• What Could Have Been:
  • Acker and Blacker have said in interview that the original idea for Beyond Belief was about an extremely bitter and alcoholic occult investigator who drank to forget about the death of his True Love. Then they decided to spend some time before the wife's death to really drive home why the character was the way he was. Once they saw how it turned out, including Paget Brewster's amazing performance as Sadie, they realized they could never kill her off.
  • Sparks Nevada was originally developed as an animated show for Nickelodeon.

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