Law & Order: Special Victims Unit/Trivia

""LAWYER, BITCH!""
 * Actor Allusion:
 * When Tutuola joined the show, his previous background was in Narcotics, which was the job of Ice T's character in New Jack City.
 * And when Lee Tergesen guest-starred as a suspect in the episode "Savior", he and Elliot got very touchy-feely in the interrogation room as they prayed together, undoubtedly a reference to their intimate times in prison together.
 * A Cold Opening of an episode had Bill Goldberg as a perp hopped up on PCP. Elliot clocks him in the back of the head with a fire extinguisher and gets trashed for his efforts. What finally stops the rage? Fin with a chair to the head.
 * "Ballerina": A roommate seeing his friend in the kitchen with a knife and an ear print being discovered at the first crime scene.
 * Actor Shared Background:
 * Richard Belzer has openly stated that John Munch is basically "me as a cop".
 * Fin was in the Army, just as Ice-T was.
 * Both Amaro and Barba are Cuban-Americans who speak fluent Spanish, reflecting that Danny Pino and Raúl Esparza are as well.
 * Kelli Giddish is from Georgia, as is Rollins.
 * The Danza: In the episode "Friending Emily", Taylor Spreitler guest stars as the victim's sister, Taylor Culphers.
 * Fake American: Adam Beach, who played Chester Lake, is from Manitoba.
 * Fandom Nod: In 11x13 "P.C.",.
 * The best part being when Olivia asks, "Why does everyone think I'm a lesbian?"
 * No, the best part has to be Olivia fooling the suspect into confessing by pretending to be a lesbian, swaggering into the interrogation room in a leather jacket.
 * Fan Nickname: After one too many uses of the Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique, Elliot became widely known as "UnStabler".
 * Hey, It's That Guy!/Retroactive Recognition: Lampshaded when a Character of the Day tells Fin he looks like a pimp. Ice T was a pimp before getting into rap and later played a pimp in the Mothership's TV movie.
 * RoboCop (the second one) is now a Lieutenant at the Internal Affairs Bureau.
 * Superman is a serial rapist who promptly marries his girlfriend to prevent her from testifying against him.
 * Speaking of Superman, Lois Lane engages in an incestuous relationship with her son Byron Montgomery.
 * Jango Fett is a cop in one episode. Unfortunately there weren't thousands of him.
 * River Song is a defense attorney in a couple of episodes, with the last name POND. And she's awesome.
 * Lily Charles is a corrupt-as-all-hell judge.
 * What, you're telling me Iago is a TARU Technician now?
 * Clarissa Darling a.k.a. Sabrina Spellman graduated to become a teacher who was raped by Cassidy Casablancas. She also marries a religious Roman Catholic man. Too bad magic couldn't save her.
 * Zach Morris is found shot and sexually assaulted in an alley outside of a gay bar.
 * Being raped and may have influenced how Sam Puckett became the person she is today.
 * Kim did porno before going to work at Sacred Heart.
 * Mrs. Doubtfire?! When did you become an anti-authoritarian sociopath?
 * Well, Albert, I'd like to see you con your way out of this one.
 * Peter Petrelli framed his stepfather of rape. Claire wants Olivia to adopt her and then grows up and gives oral sex for clothes.
 * Debbie Jellinsky is a foster parent whose daughter goes missing.
 * Peyton Flanders is a wheelchair-bound woman whose husband Gambit had an affair with a stripper, who worked for him.
 * G.O.B. was a prominent member of a pedophile ring.
 * Sandy Ryerson is a sex offender... again... although it's rather more serious this time.
 * Gunnery Sergeant Hartman as a Smug Snake serial rapist and murderer in "Trophy":


 * Boone beats his father Richard Nixon, rapes his brother Kevin Girardi, and forces people (even those of the same gender) to have sex before killing and robbing them.
 * Wallace Shawn was on SVU too. The fact that you don't know him by name is INCONCEIVABLE!
 * The most ironic of them all: Chris Keller on a crusade against sexual offenders.
 * With Father Ray and Vern Schillinger helping him out as psychiatrists!
 * And John Munch's first partner on the show is Ryan O'Reilly.
 * Hey look! Scar is a psychologist! His client? Why, it's none other than a meek piano teacher accused of murder, Juliet.
 * That was her second appearance on the show. In the first, she's charged with killing her ill infant daughter, and the child's pediatrician is none other than Alex Reiger!
 * So I heard through the grapevine that Michaela Quinn killed her husband when she discovered he was having an affair...oh, and apparently her son is Jeremiah.
 * Bill Goldberg shows up wrecking the police department and throws Stabler through a glass window.
 * The detectives seek the help of former agent Sylvia Fine after a woman is murdered. She has them interview the various girlfriends of a former 'Mattress Maestro', which include Jennifer Pace, Kim McAfee, and Velma Von Tussle. Kelly Garrett gets involved as well, but she's no angel.
 * Also in that episode, Walter Peck, still a New York City official, tries to put the moves on an undercover Olivia.
 * Maxwell Sheffield raped his mother's best friend Gigi when he was a teen.
 * Paige Halliwell, in addition to seducing a married man and having sex with her twin brother, is a con artist who also goes by the aliases of Tatum Riley, Cherry Darling, and Courtney Shayne.
 * Grace Adler is a television journalist who is receiving death threats, so she decides to assist the detectives on a case that ignites a cold case in her past.
 * In turn, Will Truman is an owner of an online dating website who takes the fall for a murder  had committed.
 * Dr. Kavita Rao is a detective who may have had some involvement in the murder of an ADA.
 * Arlene Fowler's a woman who might have cancer. But that's probably nothing compared to her mentally unfit sister...
 * Emily Prentiss's father was a wanted criminal whose partner-in-crime took care of her, after her biological father wanted to kill her.
 * Uncle Jesse managed to get around 20 women pregnant by deception. And that's just in New York.
 * April O'Neil is a defense attorney who assaulted a male stripper. And a decade later, she played the Maria Shriver to Special Agent Dale Cooper's Arnold Schwarzenegger.
 * Not to mention that some years earlier, Agent Cooper murdered a sociopathic boy who had killed his son.
 * Related to the above, it was a bit jarring for those that watched Novak as the ADA for a few seasons to finally catch a rerun of "Ridicule"... in which Novak (with a different name and hair color) was convicted of raping a male stripper.
 * Phil Diffy raped a TV star and bragged about it on Ben Lewis's radio show. Only for his Moral Guardian mom, Mistress Lisa, to shoot Lewis to make herself a martyr for her cause.
 * Abandoning the love of her life, Valerie left the old town of Daggerhorn for the bustling city of New York. She donned the name "Tandi" and ends up being raped. I guess you can't escape The Big Bad Wolf.
 * Aunt May is quite the evil bitchy grandmother, isn't she? And to think, it all started over mushrooms.
 * In a rather odd allusion to the Dominique Strauss-Kahn case, Tiana accuses Italian diplomat Lancelot of raping her. The case is brought to court, and the diplomat's attorney? Why, it's none other than Arvin Sloane!
 * Speaking of defense attorneys, Detective Claudette Wyms appears as one often. Aibileen Clark, Ellen Griswold, Mary Jo Shively, Boon Schoenstein and John Hamilton pop up from time to time.
 * Randall Winston and Carter Heywood have both left the Mayor's Office in favor of the New York State Bar.
 * There was that one time Clairee Belcher showed up to defend Angie Bolen's son, who stood accused of murdering his father.
 * Jordan Collier a.k.a. The Rocketeer is an art professor accused of raping his student. He may or may not be in prison for it.
 * "Torch" has Billy Babbitt as a fire expert.
 * In "Name", Al Neri is a terminally-ill killer and Captain Roy Montgomery is his accomplice.
 * In terms of judges: Professor Maggie Walsh presides over several of the cases.
 * Judge Mary Clark was once a young actress from Brewster, New York. In other words, "THAT GIRL!"
 * D.A. (then Judge) Barry Moredock used to be an Alaskan bar & grill owner named Holling Vincoeur.
 * Angela Bower has left the advertising world for the Manhattan District Attorney's Office.
 * Judge Lois Preston was once an abrasive madam named Ray Parkins.
 * Judge Karen Taton was one of the Sisters, and before that one of the Thirtysomethings.
 * Angel Guzman ended up as a serial killer who slashes Olivia's throat (she got better).
 * Before he, Charlie Walker shot two classmates when he was on unsolicited medication.
 * In "Demons", Elliot goes undercover to gain the trust of the recently-paroled T-1000.
 * Captain Kathryn Janeway is now a federal prosecutor with the U.S. Attorney's Office.
 * Jessica Fletcher is a socialite trying to shield her son Ricardo Morales from prosecution. Awkward.
 * Miranda Hobbes is a woman who seemingly has Dissociative Identity Disorder.
 * Brad Chase is once again involved in a paternity dispute, though he deals with it rather differently...
 * Dylan McKay is a foster father who's revealed to be a serial rapist, having married one of his victims.
 * Leon Carp is a doctor who denies that HIV leads to AIDS.
 * Michael Scofield is a cop who's forced to work with Elliot (in an episode titled "Unstable", no less!).
 * The Fonz is a con man who orchestrates the attempted murder of his wife and steals her money.
 * Dwight Schrute is a janitor at a hospital where a comatose woman is raped.
 * Lorraine Baines-McFly became a surrogate mother who kidnaps her biological daughter in "Birthright".
 * Luther survived his pummeling from the Gramercy Riffs to become both a child molester and a lawyer who defends them in "Possessed".
 * Felix Garcia is a gay teen who is suspected of killing the boyfriend of an NFL hot shot that's in the "Closet".
 * Eunice Higgins raised Stu Macher from childhood and started having sex with him when he was 18. Dear god, not Stunice!
 * Also, her husband is Johnny Sack. Unfortunately, he is not so faithfully devoted to his wife. Or alive.
 * Life Imitates Art:
 * During the first half of the 2011 season, the episode "Missing Pieces" bore more than a passing resemblance to the still-unfolding Sky Metalwala case. Another episode "Personal Fouls",, originally aired a few weeks before the Penn State molestation story broke. However, according to The Other Wiki, this one was actually based on a different sports abuse case.
 * Technology Marches On: Inevitable given that SVU premiered in 1999. The show's adjustment to the existence of social media occasionally veers into the hilarious.