Galaxy Quest/Trivia


 * Fake Nationality: Parodied with Arab-American Tony Shalhoub playing Chinese-named Fred Kwan/Sgt. Chen, a reference to Japanese-American George Takei playing totally not Japanese-named Sulu on Star Trek the Original Series, Englishman Patrick Stewart playing French Jean-Luc Picard on TNG, and Canadian James Doohan playing Scotty.
 * Kwan isn't even his real name. He visibly squints for the camera in an attempt to make his eyes look Asian.
 * Hey, It's That Guy!: Justin Long, the Mac Guy (from the "I'm a Mac, and I'm a PC" commercials) in his first film role as one of the Galaxy Quest fanboys.
 * Also Dwight Schrute (Rainn Wilson) as one of the aliens! And Ted Buckland (Sam Lloyd) as another!
 * And Crewman Daniels as a third!
 * And Adrian Monk!
 * He even mentioned how clean the floor of the space ship was.
 * Though the trope applied at the time, audiences would have recognized him as the Funny Foreigner from Wings.
 * Alexander is Hans Gruber!.
 * And the Sheriff of Nottingham, and the Metatron, and Severus Snape...
 * (You are reading this in Mr. Rickman's bored voice)
 * Daddy Mars is Mathazar, the head alien!
 * He's also That archaeologist who got captured with Daniel Jackson in Honduras!
 * Look! One of the Kids in the Hall!
 * Are you people kidding?? What about Ellen Ripley?!
 * And you all forget Tim Allen "The Tool-Man" Taylor and Buzz Lightyear.
 * And Sarris himself is Giles' least favorite chaos warlock, Ethan Rayne. He's also Zaeed Massani
 * Listen closely, Garrus is in this film!
 * Myth Busters: Adam, Grant, and Tory all did model work for the film.
 * Name's the Same: A very different Jason Nesmith is a singer-songwriter, and son of The Monkees' Michael Nesmith.