History Trivia / TheGoodWife

** As of 5x17, the new State's Attorney is [[Series/Fringe September]].

** [[Series/{{HouseofCardsUS}} Peter Russo]] played a bouncer in a minor role.

* HeyItsThatGuy: So, we have [[{{ER}} Nurse Carol]] married to [[SexAndTheCity Big]], best friends with [[BendItLikeBeckham Pinky]], and working for [[DeadPoetsSociety Knox]] (or [[SportsNight Dan Rydell]]) and [[Film/{{Chicago}} Mary Sunshine]]. Sometimes [[Series/TrueBlood Russell Edgington]] and [[Film/BackToTheFuture Marty McFly]] stop by. [[RaisingHope Virginia Chance]] is a frequent adversary.
** [[{{Eureka}} Henry]]/[[{{Terminator}} Miles Dyson]]! [[TheWire Frank Sobotka]]! [[{{Lost}} The Man in Black]]! Et cetera! Et cetera!
** MirandaCosgrove guest starred in an episode about a teen starlet going off the rails. It talked about the ContractualPurity of the real-life Disney stars and how they generally have to smash that purity into bits once they turn 18 to get work outside Kids TV even if it's not who they are inside, poked at Sloan being a NoCelebritiesWereHarmed version of LindsayLohan, and managed to be an ActorAllusion since Sloan was dressed up in a way that made her look like a grown up version of [[DrakeAndJosh Megan]] as well as one episode where [[{{iCarly}} Carly Shay]] dressed up as a punk rock chick.
** Diane Lockhart was one of Meryl Streep's friends in MammaMia and is also [[TheBigBangTheory Leonard's cold fish mother.]]
** UglyBetty has a guest role for a few episodes.

** In this universe, [[TheWire Bodie]] is still a smart-ass pawn. Likewise, [[TheWire Commissioner Burrell]] became a pastor (as did his son, [[TheWire Chris Bartlow]]), but he's kept his scheming ways. [[TheWire Cutty Wise]], however, ended up on death row.

** [[GilmoreGirls Logan Huntzperger]] went into law rather than follow his dad into the newspaper biz.

** [[{{ER}} Carol]]! [[SexAndTheCity Mr. Big]]/[[LawAndOrder Mike]] [[LawAndOrderCriminalIntent Logan]]! [[SportsNight Dan Rydell]]/[[DeadPoetsSociety Knox Overstreet]]! [[{{Eureka}} Henry]]/[[{{Terminator}} Miles Dyson]]! [[TheWire Frank Sobotka]]! [[{{Lost}} The Man in Black]]! Et cetera! Et cetera!
** There really are an awful lot of people from [[TheWire Baltimore]] working/living in Chicago.

** Childs is the MIB from Lost.

** Peter Florrick is played by [[SexAndTheCity Mr. Big]].

** Kalinda is Jess's ditzy sister from "Bend it like Beckham" (Wow, Kalinda being a ditz, that's just impossible to imagine.)

** [[RaisingHope Virginia Chance]] and [[Film/BackToTheFuture Marty McFly]] have both played opposing attorneys at various points...including a team-up in the season three finale.

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

** Becca is [[Series/{{DontTrustTheBInApartment23}} June Colburn]]

* FakeAmerican: Scottish-born (now a US citizen) Alan Cumming playing Eli Gold. Also Londoner Archie Panjabi playing Kalinda Sharma.

** [[Series/{Fringe}} Walter Bishop]] is Alicia's headache-inducing [[spoiler:dead]] client Matthew Ashbaugh

* HeyItsThatGuy:

** [[Series/{{ER}} Abby Lockhart]] aspires to be DA and becomes a [[spoiler: [[PoisonousFriend Poisonous]] ]] friend to Alicia, [[spoiler: but she's a BitchInSheepsClothing]].

** [[Series/{{Community}} Britta Perry]] appears as an seemingly overworked Cloudcuckoolander legal assistant in the pilot episode.

** Alicia herself is Moragine La Fay from "The Mists of Avalon"

** [[Community Britta Perry]] appears as an seemingly overworked Cloudcuckoolander legal assistant in the pilot episode.

** [[Series/{{Smallville}} Lionel Luthor]] represents a university that Lockhart & Gardner sues for permitting hazing.

* HeyItsThatGuy: [[{{ER}} Carol]]! [[SexAndTheCity Mr. Big]]/[[LawAndOrder Mike]] [[LawAndOrderCriminalIntent Logan]]! [[SportsNight Dan Rydell]]/[[DeadPoetsSociety Knox Overstreet]]! [[{{Eureka}} Henry]]/[[{{Terminator}} Miles Dyson]]! [[TheWire Frank Sobotka]]! [[{{Lost}} The Man in Black]]! Et cetera! Et cetera!

** [[RaisingHope Virginia Chance]] and [[Film/BackToTheFuture Marty McFly]] have both played opposing attorneys at various points...including a team-up in the season three finale.

** [[RaisingHope Virginia Chance]] and [[BackToTheFuture Marty McFly]] have both played opposing attorneys at various points...including a team-up in the season three finale.

** [[GilmoreGirls Logan Huntzperger]] went into law rather than follow his dad into the newspaper biz.

*** Between the ones above, Kima, Carver, Clay Davis, Rawls and Cheese it's safe to say that someone in the casting department is a "Wire"-fan.

** Diane Lockhart was one of Meryl Streep's friends in MamaMia.

** MirandaCosgrove guest starred in an episode about a teen starlet going off the rails. It talked about the ContractualPurity of the real-life Disney stars and how they generally have to smash that purity into bits once they turn 18 to get work outside Kids TV even if it's not who they are inside, poked at Sloan being a NoCelebritiesWereHarmed version of LindsayLohan, and managed to be an ActorAllusion since Sloan was dressed up in a way that made her look like a grown up version of [[DrakeAndJosh Megan]] as well as one episode where [[{{iCarly}} Carly Shay]] dressed up as a punk rock chick.

** There really are an awful lot of people from [[TheWire Baltimore]] working/living in Chicago.

* HeyItsThatGuy: [[{{ER}} Carol]]! [[SexAndTheCity Mr. Big]]/[[LawAndOrder Mike]] [[LawAndOrderCriminalIntent Logan]]! [[{{Eureka}} Henry]]/[[{{Terminator}} Miles Dyson]]! [[TheWire Frank Sobotka]]! [[{{Lost}} The Man in Black]]! Et cetera! Et cetera!