General Hospital/Trivia


 * Actor Allusion: In a dream episode during Thanksgiving 2008, Maxie meets Matt and asks him if she's sure they hadn't met before, even asking, "did we go to high school together?" Their portrayors Kirsten Storms and Jason Cook had previously played High School Sweethearts, Shawn and Belle, on Days of Our Lives. Additionally, Matt and Maxie met by bumping into each other which is how Shawn and Belle first met.
 * Similarly when Sam McCall and John McBain meet. Both actors played vampire lovers on the short-lived supernatural spin-off of General Hospital, Port Charles.
 * A recent storyline took it a step further, having the man playing McBain reprise the role he portrayed on Port Charles.
 * The Character Died with Him: Dr. Steve Hardy, when actor John Beradino passed away from pancreatic cancer in 1996, was written out as having suffered a fatal heart attack. Hardy, whom Beradino had portrayed since the show's beginning in 1963, remained in the opening montage as late as 2004.
 * Anna Lee's Lila Quartermaine and John Ingle's Edward Quartermaine.
 * Fake Irish: Oregonian Erin Chambers plays Siobhan with an extremely thick accent that sounds as fake as it is.
 * Fan Nickname: "Scrubs" for Patrick and Robin, currently the only couple where both actually work at the hospital.
 * Most GH couples have a nickname of this sort. It's usually some form of smushing the character's names together or else calling the couple by their initials. Examples include "Liason", and "Spixie".
 * Hey, It's That Guy!: Rick Springfield as Dr. Eli Love; Vinny "Big Pussy" Pastore as Maximus Giambetti, Delia Fisher as Winnifred, James Franco as Franco, etc.
 * ...and you can tell what metal the balloons that were made to celebrate these big guest roles were composed of...
 * Roseanne Barr played Jennifer Smith #2 in 1994. Jennifer was married to Billy Boggs, played by Roseanne's then husband Tom Arnold.
 * Baltar tried to freeze Port Charles and take over the world. Why am I not surprised?
 * Hey, It's That Voice!: Maxie is Bonnie Rockwaller, Jason is Freakin' CLOUD STRIFE!!!
 * Dr. Chris Ramsey is Nathan Drake