History Trivia / Firefly

** Originally, the dance scene in "[[Recap/FireflyE04Shindig Shindig]]" had Mal and Inara to dance, and for Mal to suck at it. However, Fillion and Creator/MorenaBaccarin spent so much time practicing the scene that Fillion learned it quite well and couldn't convincingly play someone who couldn't dance. They left that take and dubbed in a line by Mal saying "This dance I think I actually know."

* RealitySubtext: While filming the funeral scene for "[[{{Recap/FireflyE12TheMessage}} The Message]]", the crew was informed that the show had just been canceled. The sadness you see on their faces is real. This was also what the composer Greg Edmonson had in mind when he wrote the music for that particular scene.

** River goes without shoes (and wears boots when she does have them on) because Summer Glau has arthritis and tendonitis in her feet, which makes shoes painful to wear. Boots, specifically cowboy boots, are somewhat more comfortable. Summer also [[ActorInspiredElement requested to be barefoot]] because she didn't know how to properly show expression as River, and explained to Joss that as a dancer, she could do it through her feet.

* TheWikiRule: [[http://firefly.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page The Firefly and Serenity Database]].

* TropeNamers: This series named the following tropes:
** BigDamnHeroes: Said by Zoe in "Safe".
** BigDamnMovie, by proxy.
** CantStopTheSignal: Said by Mr. Universe in the movie.
** EarthThatWas: From in-universe slang in multiple episodes and the movie.
** EarthThatUsedToBeBetter, also by proxy.
** FatherIWantToMarryMyBrother
** TheFireflyEffect: Why some viewers won't watch shows like this - because they're afraid that ExecutiveMeddling will cause them - and the shows - to get ScrewedByTheNetwork.
** ICallItVera: Said by Jayne in "Our Mrs. Reynolds".
** IllBeInMyBunk: Said by Jayne in "War Stories".
** NoPlaceForMeThere: Said by the Operative in the movie.
** TrainJob: The title of the second episode.
** TheVerse: In-universe slang for the universe.

** Creator/{{Fox}} insisted that Creator/JossWhedon to write a second pilot because they wanted more action and less drama. They also threatened to pan-and-scan crop, no matter how it was shot, necessitating re-shoots.

* ScrewedByTheNetwork: As if the ExecutiveMeddling wasn't bad enough on its own, it was very evident that whoever were making the executive decisions for Fox at the time really didn't get the show and had no idea what to do with it. Several episodes where aired out of order and some of them were preempted of them for baseball. To add insult to injury, the show was placed in the FridayNightDeathSlot and the channel's own adverts for the show promoted it as a action-comedy, which is quite far from an adequate description to put it mildly. Worst of all, the series didn't even get to finish its first season.

* StarMakingRole: For the entire main cast, except for Creator/RonGlass; in his case it was a CareerResurrection..

** GirlInABox: River's first appearance in "Serenity".

* InspirationForTheWork: Creator/JossWhedon developed the concept for the show after reading ''The Killer Angels'' by Michael Shaara chronicling the Battle of Gettysburg. He wanted to follow people who had fought on the losing side of a war, their experiences afterwards as pioneers and immigrants on the outskirts of civilization, much like the post-American Civil War era of Reconstruction and the American Old West. He also read a book about Jewish partisan fighters in World War II.

* FollowTheLeader: ''Firefly''[='s=] cinematography, with its emphasis on rapid pans, erratic zooms and a FoundFootageFilms quality, has been deeply influential on every SpaceOpera since.

** NiceHat: They say it in the first episode just before the hat wearer gets shot in the head.

* ImageSource:
** BigDamnHeroes

* QuoteSource:
** TheAce
** BigDamnHeroes
** PsychicPowers
** PsychoForHire
** TrueCompanions

* HostilityOnTheSet: [[https://epicstream.com/news/NobelleBorines/Firefly-Scribe-Says-Joss-Whedon-was-Casually-Cruel-to-Female-Writers?utm_content=buffer8a6e7&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=epicbuffer&fbclid=IwAR2i4R84ilomt1hE0GVdQ_sSqIwuFhzqREJK5TFpZq0mFsMuLMpqYpjZ8SA According to]] Creator/JoseMelina, Creator/JossWhedon treated the show's writing staff like dirt and thought it was funny to be mean to them, with the female writers singled out for the worst of it. According to him, Whedon would boast of an incident where he made one of his writers cry twice during a meeting.

* HostilityOnTheSet: [[https://epicstream.com/news/NobelleBorines/Firefly-Scribe-Says-Joss-Whedon-was-Casually-Cruel-to-Female-Writers?utm_content=buffer8a6e7&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=epicbuffer&fbclid=IwAR2i4R84ilomt1hE0GVdQ_sSqIwuFhzqREJK5TFpZq0mFsMuLMpqYpjZ8SA According to writer Jose Melina]], Creator/JossWhedon treated the show's writing staff like dirt and thought it was funny to be mean to them, with the female writers singled out for the worst of it. According to him, Whedon would boast of an incident where he made one of his writers cry twice during a meeting.

** Fox also attempted to get Whedon to not have Wash and Zoe married but Whedon refused to back down on that one. It’s thought that they might’ve been hoping for some Mal/Zoe shipping, which could make “War Stories” an episode-long TakeThat on the subject.

* SeriesContinuityError:
** Althoufh the Dark Horse comics and Titan books are very much in line, the Boom comics aren’t keeping up with things and fans continually find errors between the two. Some even consider the Titan/Dark Horse and Boom as separate timelines.
** In the series, Wash is fearful of having kids while Zoe wants kids. The comics have flip flopped on who had what point of view a few times.
** There’s a mention of something with Mal’s homeworld of Shadow despite the planet having been rendered uninhabitable during the war.
** The details of River’s rescue seem different between the series and movie although Simon may have just held back some things early on. The story is also addressed in the ''River Run'' comic.
** The comic “Watch How I Soar” shows Wash’s grave but there’s no sign of Book’s or Mr Universe’s despite them being buried right next to him.