History Trivia / TheGoodWife

* CompletelyDifferentTitle:
** Cantonese 法妻 -> [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Law Wife]].

* McLeaned: When [[spoiler: Creator/JoshCharles]] decided to leave, [[spoiler:Will]] was killed off suddenly in a courtroom shooting.

* ActorAllusion:
** When Fred Thompson guest starred in one episode, his client referred to him as [[Series/LawAndOrder The DA]] as he played one on TV and his character referred to actually passing the bar before going into acting, [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Thompson#Career_as_an_attorney which Fred Thompson actually did]].
** The show takes place in Cook County, Chicago, the same county as [[Series/{{ER}} Cook County General Hospital]], the setting of ''Series/{{ER}}'', where Creator/JuliannaMargulies played Nurse Carol Hathaway.
** In "KSR", Dr. Portnow’s wife, a clinical psychiatrist, is an obvious {{Expy}} of [[Series/TheBigBangTheory Leonard Hofstadter’s mother]], played by Creator/ChristineBaranski, who plays Diane.
** One episode when Peter Florrick is running for State's Attorney has a minor kerfuffle blow up over Alicia's brother Simon turning up on not-Website/YouTube saying he thinks Peter doesn't like him for being gay. Eli goes to Peter asking if he has a problem with homosexuality and Peter mistakenly thinks Eli is coming out to him, saying he couldn't care less if Eli was gay. Eli's actor Creator/AlanCumming really is bisexual.

* FakeAmerican: Scottish-born (now a US citizen) Creator/AlanCumming playing Eli Gold. Also Londoner Creator/ArchiePanjabi playing Kalinda Sharma (though her in-universe nationality remains unknown, and she's shown to have an English husband).

* WordOfSaintPaul: Creator/MikeColter, who plays Lemond Bishop, said on the AfterBuzz videocast that Bishop got his MBA before going into the drug dealing business. He simply saw the drug game as the best place to use his skills.

** When Creator/FredThompson guest starred in one episode, his client referred to him as [[Series/LawAndOrder The DA]] as he played one on TV and his character referred to actually passing the bar before going into acting, [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Thompson#Career_as_an_attorney which Fred Thompson actually did]].

* HostilityOnTheSet: A notorious example was the dislike between Creator/JuliannaMargulies and Creator/ArchiePanjabi during the later seasons, which led to them refusing to be on set together to the point that a pivotal scene in the show's finale had to be created using green-screen.

* WordOfSaintPaul: Creator/MikeColter, who plays Lemond Bishop, said on the Podcast/AfterBuzz videocast that Bishop got his MBA before going into the drug dealing business. He simply saw the drug game as the best place to use his skills.

* McLeaned: When [[spoiler: Josh Charles]] decided to leave, [[spoiler:Will]] was killed off suddenly in a courtroom shooting.

* Vivian Vance and William Frawley, who played Ethel and Fred Mertz on ''Series/ILoveLucy''.

* RealLife/MeanCharacterNiceActor: Mike Colter shows a sense of humor that LeMond Bishop doesn't have on AfterBuzz on https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s43bdzNPaBI.

** To lesser extent, Sarah Silverman is a host of ''Ashley Madison''-esque site.

** When Fred Thompson guest starred in one episode, his client referred to him as [[Series/LawAndOrder The DA]] as he played one on TV and his character referred to actually passing the bar before going into acting, [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Thompson#Career_as_an_attorney which Fred Thompson actually did]].
** The show takes place in Cook County, Chicago, the same county as [[Series/{{ER}} Cook County General Hospital]], the setting of ''Series/{{ER}}'', where Julianna Margulies played Nurse Carol Hathaway.
** In "KSR", Dr. Portnow’s wife, a clinical psychiatrist, is an obvious {{Expy}} of [[Series/TheBigBangTheory Leonard Hofstadter’s mother]], played by Christine Baranski, who plays Diane.

* FakeAmerican: Scottish-born (now a US citizen) Alan Cumming playing Eli Gold. Also Londoner Archie Panjabi playing Kalinda Sharma (though her in-universe nationality remains unknown, and she's shown to have an English husband).
* HostilityOnTheSet: A notorious example was the dislike between Julianna Margulies and Archie Panjabi during the later seasons, which led to them refusing to be on set together to the point that a pivotal scene in the show's finale had to be created using green-screen.

* MeanCharacterNiceActor: Mike Colter shows a sense of humor that LeMond Bishop doesn't have on AfterBuzz on https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s43bdzNPaBI.

** Wallace Shawn's role as Charles Lester is far more sinister than the neurotic characters that he's been known to play.
** Michael J. Fox as an unscrupulous lawyer willing to use his disease to manipulate juries. Probably one of the only outright Jerkass characters that Fox has played in his career.
** Matthew Perry was also willing to avoid playing it safe by taking on the role of slimeball Mike Kresteva.[[note]]Though not for the first time: he’s appeared as a cutthroat weasel before in a guest appearance on ''Series/DreamOn'', and even dropped a few F-bombs there![[/note]]

* WrittenInInfirmity: Michael J. Fox plays a lawyer with a neurological disorder (tardive diskinesia, rather than Fox's own Parkinson's, but close enough) which he plays up to gain sympathy from jurors he argues in front of. This backfires against a paraplegic judge in one episode: the judge basically says, "Yeah, so what?" and tells him to get on with the case.

* PlayingAgainstType
** Creator/MirandaCosgrove guest-starred as Sloan, a LindsayLohan-esque singer.

** MirandaCosgrove guest-starred as Sloan, a LindsayLohan-esque singer.