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Trivia: The swordfight between the Phantom and Raoul at the cemetery was created specifically for the film.

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About Face - S3-E6

Trivia: The scene where Rossi is bird hunting was done to show how different the character was going to be from Gideon, who was a noted bird lover.

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Trivia: Madonna has 140 spoken words of dialogue, and Antonio Banderas only has six. The rest of their lines are sung.

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Cape Feare - S5-E2

Trivia: The gag of Sideshow Bob stepping on the rakes was only supposed to be him stepping on a single rake one time. But the episode's running time was short, so the sequence was extended as a time filler.

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Trivia: Securing the rights to the music used on the soundtrack took fourteen months and used up almost ten percent of the film's budget.

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Trivia: When Andrew Lloyd Webber originally approached Michael Crawford in 1984 about starring in the show, and after reading the novel, Crawford made an assumption that Webber wanted him to play Raoul, and spent a year studying Nelson Eddy's performance in the 1943 film. It wasn't until he was at his audition that Crawford learned Steve Barton had been cast as Raoul a week earlier, and that Webber wanted him to play the Phantom.

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Trivia: Director Rob Reiner makes a cameo as the helicopter pilot helping Buster search for Paul's car.

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Snake Eyes - S7-E13

Trivia: On the plane to Atlantic City, the team is discussing their favorite Mob movie, and Rossi mentions that he's not a fan of them. Joe Mantegna, who plays Rossi, played a mobster in The Godfather Part III and, more famously, is the voice of Mob boss Fat Tony in The Simpsons.

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Trivia: The encore with Sarah Brightman featured four Phantoms from around the world: Colm Wilkinson, who was in the original Canadian production (and was also the original Jean Valjean in Les Misérables in both London and New York); John Owen-Jones, who, with over 4,000 performances, is the West End's longest-running Phantom; Anthony Warlow, the most famous Phantom in Australia; and Peter Jöback, a singer from Denmark, who made his debut as the Phantom and later took up the role on tour. And while he didn't participate, Michael Crawford, the original Phantom on both the West End and Broadway, was in attendance.

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Trivia: The Bishop of Digne is played by Colm Wilkinson, who was the original Jean Valjean on both the West End and Broadway.

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Trivia: The Enterprise-D was destroyed, in part, because the ship was designed for the aspect ratio of a television screen. The destruction of the ship allowed for the creation of a theater-friendly starship for subsequent movies.

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Trivia: The film was so poorly received that, while inducting his father and grandfather into the WWE Hall of Fame in 2008, The Rock joked about having made it.

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Trivia: In the scene where Larry hitches up the gangbanger's pants, one of the gangbanger's friends is played by Bobby Farrelly's son Jesse, who died of a drug overdose a few months before the film's release.

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Trivia: Tom Cruise modeled his portrayal of Stacee Jaxx on a combination of Axl Rose from Guns N' Roses and Bret Michaels from Poison.

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Season 6 generally

Trivia: Kiefer Sutherland's father Donald was approached to play Philip Bauer, but he was already committed to another project. He was also allegedly put off by the idea of playing a father attempting to kill his own son.

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Season 6 generally

Trivia: Although she's credited as a main cast member, Regina King only appears in nine of the season's twenty-four episodes, which is fewer than some of the season's guest stars.

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Trivia: For the majority of the novel, the Phantom is present only by implication. Characters will mention they sense his presence, but it's never explicitly stated that he's actually there.

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Trivia: During filming of the movie's opening scene, the water Jeremy Renner swims in was so cold that his facial hair frequently iced over.

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Trivia: When Raoul makes an insulting comment about the Phantom in the bar, the Phantom calls him "insolent boy". When the Phantom appears to the audience for the first time in The Phantom of the Opera, "insolent boy" is his very first line in the song "The Mirror (Angel of Music)".

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Trivia: Simple words like "work" are frequently misspelled. These were trademarks of the original shorts and illustrated the Stooges' low class.

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