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Day of the Jackanapes - S12-E13

Trivia: The episode title is a reference to The Day of the Jackal, but the plot more closely resembles The Manchurian Candidate.

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Bar Bet - S3-E18

Trivia: This episode aired two days after Nicholas Colasanto died.

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Trivia: As a tie-in to the series, shortly after it premiered, ABC began publishing Castle's Nikki Heat books, ghostwritten by a real author and credited to Castle. In 'Heat Rises', a murder victim is mentioned as having owned a copy of the movie 'Air Force One', which was written by "Castle" creator Andrew Marlowe.

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Trivia: There is no character who appears in all 293 episodes.

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Trivia: The producers were careful not to put stools in Cafe Nervosa, in order to distance it visually from the eponymous bar in "Cheers."

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Trivia: At five complete seasons, Casey Novak is the longest-running Assistant District Attorney in the Law and Order franchise. While Jack McCoy was also a long-running ADA, he was eventually promoted to District Attorney, replacing Arthur Branch.

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Trivia: Michael Gross and Meredith Baxter, who play the Keaton parents, share the exact same birthday.

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Election Day (Part 2) - S7-E17

Trivia: The election originally ended with Arnold Vinick as the victor. But in light of John Spencer's death (and by necessity, Leo's), the writers felt it would be too emotionally taxing on the audience for Santos to lose both his running mate and the election.

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Trivia: The real Penny Chenery, the owner of Secretariat, makes a cameo as a spectator at the Belmont Stakes.

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Trivia: According to Seth MacFarlane, all of the abuse Meg suffers is due to the show's male writers' inability to write for a teenage girl.

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Trivia: Because she suffered an allergic reaction to her Mystique makeup while filming the previous movie, Jennifer Lawrence wore a specially-made bodysuit for this movie.

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Time's Arrow (2) - S6-E1

Trivia: When Counselor Troi is leading Mark Twain to his quarters, Twain asks if the Enterprise has ever encountered Halley's Comet. It's a well-known fact that Twain was born a couple of weeks after the comet's appearance in 1835.

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The Grand Experiment - S2-E24

Trivia: When Mycroft mentions a conversation between Sherlock and their father that he once overheard, the content of said conversation is how Sherlock describes Mycroft to Watson in "The Adventure of the Greek Interpreter."

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Control - S5-E9

Trivia: Mariska Hargitay's father Mickey plays the grandfather on the escalator at the beginning of the episode.

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Trivia: In Finch's opening voiceover narration, a clip of the episode's eponymous 'person of interest' appears when Finch says "victim or perpetrator, we'll find you."

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The Hound of the Cancer Cells - S2-E18

Trivia: "The Hound of the Cancer Cells" is a loose reference to "The Hound of the Baskervilles", perhaps the most famous of the four Sherlock Holmes novels.

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Trivia: The scene where Dark Helmet is playing with his "Spaceballs" dolls was improvised by Rick Moranis.

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Season 2 generally

Trivia: Sherlock's brother Mycroft has an international franchise of restaurants called Diogenes. This is a reference to the Diogenes Club, the gentleman's club Mycroft co-founded in the Holmes short stories.

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Trivia: Across the show's seven seasons, only three episodes featured all of president Bartlet's daughters together.

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Trivia: Christopher Lee is arachnophobic, and his fear in the scene where Sherlock discovers the spider in Sir Henry's hotel room is completely genuine.

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