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  • Actor-Shared Background: Sydney was born and raised in Hawaii, as was Tia Carrere.
  • The Cast Showoff: Sydney gets to sing on occasion. Tia Carrere is also a singer and sang the Award-Bait Song for Batman: Mask of the Phantasm.
  • Shoot the Money: Whenever Sydney and Nigel travel to foreign locales, particularly the castles.
  • Technology Marches On:
    • In the first episode of Season 1, Claudia excitedly tells a friend on the phone all about her new experiences of shopping on “the Net,” including trying on clothes with a picture of her own face, just like you would at the mall. Now that it’s no longer The '90s, of course, online shopping is about as commonplace as the phone, while many malls have been driven out of business from the competition.
    • In Season 3's "Vampire's Kiss", Nigel and Karen discover the client of week has prescription sunscreen, SPF 50, which Nigel describes as "industrial strength". By 2012, SPF 50+ sunscreen is available, and in some cases the standard, in many countries.
  • What Could Have Been: The final episode has a Sequel Hook about De Viega the villain still being alive, which is unresolved due to the cancellation of the show.

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