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Trivia: The character's name, Doug Kinney, is a tribute to writer Chris Miller's friend, Doug Kenney. Miller and Kenney wrote National Lampoon's Animal House.

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Trivia: The name on the delivery van Floss and The Octopus arrive in is "Ditko's Delivery." Steve Ditko is a hall of fame comic artist known for creating Doctor Strange and co-creating The Amazing Spider-Man. In 1994 he was also inducted into the Will Eisner Award Hall of Fame. Will Eisner is the creator of The Spirit comics.

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The Magnificent Eight - S1-E11

Trivia: In the town of Salvation there's a place called "Kubert's Barber Shop." Joseph Kubert was a comic book artist for DC Comics and creator of Hawkman/Carter Hall.

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Trivia: When Scott first shrinks, one of the things he encounters is a Kirby brand vacuum cleaner. Jack Kirby was one of the co-creators of Ant-Man.

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Trivia: Mustafa's "battle cry" when he attacks Austin Powers with the knife is "daktari." Daktari is a Swahili word meaning "doctor." It also happens to be the name of a TV show from the late 60's.

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Trivia: Although it sounds made up to fit the plot of the movie, the song "If You've Only Got a Moustache" was a real song from the 1860's. It was written by Stephen Foster (lyrics by George Cooper) who also wrote "Camptown Races" and "Oh! Susanna," although some of the lyrics were changed in the film. Foster (who is also brought up in a later scene) incidentally died at the age of 37 from a fall and fever, which also seems to fit the plot of the movie of so many random ways to die.

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Left Behind - S1-E9

Trivia: Not quite a mistake given the fictitious nature of the show; but in 1960, as a college physics professor, Ray makes a comment indicating one of the guys in his class is Bill Gates' father. Bill Gates' proper name is William Henry Gates III, and the man in class would be William Henry Gates II (or William Gates Jr.), which should have been enough of a clue for Ray who this man was. However, Bill Gates' father graduated from law school in 1950 and would have been 35 in 1960, not some young college kid taking a physics class as shown.

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Left Behind - S1-E9

Trivia: After being stranded in 1958, Sara, Kendra, and Ray go to Hub City. Hub City is home to the DC comics character, The Question.

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Trivia: While the film is a parody of many of the 70's disaster movies, including the Airport film series, it's mainly a parody of the film Zero Hour! In fact, the creators bought the rights to the screenplay Zero Hour! and kept many of the plots and character names, and even dialog. Arthur Hailey who wrote Zero Hour! also wrote the Airport series.

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Trivia: Laurie Holden plays Adele in this film. She also played Adele in the film The Majestic, which also starred Jim Carrey.

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Trivia: Douglas Quaid's line of "who the hell am I" and Lori's reply are the exact same lines from the original Total Recall.

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Poison - S1-E7

Trivia: At Loretta Marlon's plea hearing, her lawyer mentions a ham sandwich after ADA Carver says the evidence was good enough for a grand jury to indict her. This is a reference to the ease district attorneys have in getting indictments. It is said it originated from a former New York chief judge, Sol Wachtler, who said "district attorneys now have so much influence over grand juries that by and large they could get them to indict a ham sandwich." Later, Tom Wolfe used the reference in the novel "The Bonfire of the Vanities."

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Trivia: All the names on Danny McGrath's "people to kill" list, save Billy Madison, are various crew members. Perry Blake, production designer, has worked on over 25 Adam Sandler films. The names of Fitch Cady and Martin Walter were extended to "Cadyton" and "Walterson."

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Trivia: The story Lt. Valeris tells of the word origin for "sabotage", with sabots being thrown into machinery, is simply not true (although a persistent enough falsehood not to be considered a movie mistake). While the word does take its roots from sabots (wooden shoes), it comes from French anarchist Pouget wanting to translate the British practice of ca'cannery, deliberately working slowly, into a French word. Those who wore wooden shoes moved clumsily and slower than those with leather shoes.

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Trivia: Dr. Spencer Reid is the son of an attorney, born in Las Vegas. In real life, Matthew Gray Gubler, the actor who plays Reid, is also the son of an attorney, born in Las Vegas.

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Trivia: Ray Walston, who plays Nineenert, played the original Uncle Martin in the TV show "My Favorite Martian." In the movie he says his antennae are always giving him problems and everything is in black and white and that his gum had lost its flavor in '66. The original TV show was in black and white and its final season was in 1966.

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Trivia: The scene of Barry lying in the pool and daydreaming about Vanessa is a parody of The Graduate where Dustin Hoffman is daydreaming in the pool.

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Trivia: Mr. Montgomery's license plate says "ALIBUY" (as in alibi, which lawyers use for reasonable doubt).

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Trivia: During production, Jerry Seinfeld visited a beekeeper to see how beehives work and look like and ended up getting stung on the nose.

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Trivia: When the town welcomes the new sheriff, it's with a "laurel and hearty handshake." This is a reference to the great comedy duo, Laurel and Hardy.

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