The Good Wife/Trivia

"Judge Charles Abernathy is none other than Russel Edgington."
 * Actor Allusion: When Fred Thompson guest starred in one episode, his client referred to him as The DA as he played one on TV and his character referred to actually passing the Bar before going to acting, which Fred Thompson actually did.
 * Fake American: Scottish-born (now a US citizen) Alan Cumming playing Eli Gold. Also Londoner Archie Panjabi playing Kalinda Sharma. Also Londoner Archie Panjabi playing Kalinda Sharma (though her in-universe nationality remains unknown, and she's shown to have an English husband).
 * Hey, It's That Guy!: Carol! Mr. Big/Mike Logan! Dan Rydell/Knox Overstreet! Henry/Miles Dyson! Frank Sobotka! The Man in Black! Etc! Etc!
 * There really are an awful lot of people from Baltimore working/living in Chicago.
 * Miranda Cosgrove guest starred in an episode about a teen starlet going off the rails. It talked about the Contractual Purity of the Real Life Disney stars and how they generally have to smash that purity into bits once they turn 18 to get work outside Kids TV even if it's not who they are inside, poked at Sloan being a No Celebrities Were Harmed version of Lindsay Lohan, and managed to be an Actor Allusion since Sloan was dressed up in a way that made her look like a grown up version of Megan as well as one episode where Carly Shay dressed up as a punk rock chick.
 * Childs is the Man in Black from Lost.
 * Diane Lockhart was one of Meryl Streep's friends in Mamma Mia! and is also Leonard's cold fish mother.
 * Ugly Betty has a guest role for a few episodes.
 * The judges are an endless parade of these, including David Paymer, Ana Gasteyer, and Jerry Stiller.


 * Peter Florrick is played by Mr. Big.
 * Elsbeth Tascioni is played by Arlene Fowler Bellefleur.
 * Alicia herself is Moragine La Fay from The Mists of Avalon.
 * Kalinda is Jess's ditzy sister from Bend it like Beckham (wow, Kalinda being a ditz, that's just impossible to imagine).
 * In this universe, Bodie is still a smart-ass pawn. Likewise, Commissioner Burrell became a pastor (as did his son, Chris Bartlow), but he's kept his scheming ways. Cutty Wise, however, ended up on death row.
 * Between the ones above, Kima, Carver, Clay Davis, Rawls and Cheese it's safe to say that someone in the casting department is a "Wire"-fan.
 * Logan Huntzperger went into law rather than follow his dad into the newspaper biz.
 * Virginia Chance and Marty McFly have both played opposing attorneys at various points... including a team-up in the Season Three finale.
 * Playing Against Type:
 * Miranda Cosgrove guest-starred as Sloan, a Lindsay Lohan-esque singer.
 * To lesser extent, Sarah Silverman is a host of Ashley Madison-esque site.
 * Wallace Shawn's role as Charles Lester is far more sinister than the neurotic characters that he's been known to play.
 * Michael J. Fox as an unscrupulous lawyer willing to use his disease to manipulate juries. Probably one of the only outright Jerkass characters that Fox has played in his career.
 * Word of Saint Paul: Mike Colter, who plays Lemond Bishop, said on the After Buzz videocast that Bishop got his MBA before going into the drug dealing business. He simply saw the drug game as the best place to use his skills.
 * Written in Infirmity: Michael J. Fox plays a lawyer with a neurological disorder (not Fox's own Parkinson's, but close enough) which he plays up to gain sympathy from jurors he argues in front of.
 * Except for one time when it's an utter No Sell against a judge who himself suffers from a disability.