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* [[Did Not Do the Research]]: When Sheridan talks to {{spoiler|the "Inquisitor" AKA Sebastian}} as he's seeing him off, he mentions the date of his last known appearance (Nov. 11, 1888) as the day after the end of a series of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitechapel_murders gruesome murders]. You can read his lips as he says "West Side" (even the closed captioning reads it as West Side) but it was over-dubbed as "East Side".

** [[Word of God]] is that he did do the research, and in fact had the relevant information right in front of him as he wrote the scene, and was so angry he could kick himself when he realized the mistake.

* [[Hey ~~Its~~ That Guy]]: Primary and recurring cast members included [[Tron|Bruce]] [[Scarecrow and Mrs. King (TV)|Boxleitner]], [[Lost in Space|Bill Mumy]], [[Animal House|Stephen Furst]], [[Grease|Jeff]] [[Taxi|Conaway]] and [[Star Trek the Original Series (TV)|Walter Koenig]], with guest appearances by [[Animal House|Bruce McGill]], [[The Man From UNCLE|David]] [[Sapphire and Steel|McCallum]], [[Tron (Film)|David Warner]], [[Childs Play (Film)|Brad Dourif]], [[Re Animator|Jeffrey Combs]], [[Dawn of the Dead (Film)|Ken Foree]], [[Twin Peaks|Russ Tamblyn]], [[Blade Runner (Film)|William Sanderson]], [[The A-Team (TV)|Dwight Schultz]], [[Star Trek II the Wrath of Khan (Film)|Paul Winfield]], [[Night Court|Richard Moll]], [[Harlan Ellison]] (as a Psi Cop), and the legendary June Lockhart, among others. And while Londo was his most visible role, Peter Jurasik is a character actor with over thirty years and 70 roles under his belt; for our purposes it's most interesting that he, like Boxleitner and David Warner, was in ''[[Tron]]'' (as CROM, an accounting program destined for the games grid).

* [[Hey It's That Guy]]: Primary and recurring cast members included [[Tron|Bruce]] [[Scarecrow and Mrs. King (TV)|Boxleitner]], [[Lost in Space|Bill Mumy]], [[Animal House|Stephen Furst]], [[Grease|Jeff]] [[Taxi|Conaway]] and [[Star Trek the Original Series (TV)|Walter Koenig]], with guest appearances by [[Animal House|Bruce McGill]], [[The Man From UNCLE|David]] [[Sapphire and Steel|McCallum]], [[Tron (Film)|David Warner]], [[Childs Play (Film)|Brad Dourif]], [[Re Animator|Jeffrey Combs]], [[Dawn of the Dead (Film)|Ken Foree]], [[Twin Peaks|Russ Tamblyn]], [[Blade Runner (Film)|William Sanderson]], [[The A-Team (TV)|Dwight Schultz]], [[Star Trek II the Wrath of Khan (Film)|Paul Winfield]], [[Night Court|Richard Moll]], [[Harlan Ellison]] (as a Psi Cop), and the legendary June Lockhart, among others. And while Londo was his most visible role, Peter Jurasik is a character actor with over thirty years and 70 roles under his belt; for our purposes it's most interesting that he, like Boxleitner and David Warner, was in ''[[Tron]]'' (as CROM, an accounting program destined for the games grid).

* [[Hey ~~Its~~ That Voice]]: Numerous examples.

* [[Hey It's That Voice]]: Numerous examples.

** Byron the telepath is also the Medic from ''[[Team Fortress 2 (Video Game)|Team Fortress 2]]'', among many others.

** When the computer is rebooted after a systems shutdown, it comes back online with an obnoxious, stubborn personality voiced by [[Harlan Ellison]].

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** Mel Winkler, Aku Aku from the ''[[Crash Bandicoot]]'' series, appears in the episode "And The Rock Cried Out, No Hiding Place".

** In the 2002 TV movie ''Legend Of The Rangers'', Sarah Cantrell is played by Myriam Sirois -- better known to a generation of North American anime fans as the voice of Akane Tendo from the English dub of ''[[Ranma One Half|Ranma 1/2]]''.

* [[Line to God]]: JMS was a frequent poster on the [[~~Use Net~~]] group rec.arts.tv.scifi.babylon5.moderated during the show's run.

* [[Line to God]]: JMS was a frequent poster on the [[UseNet]] group rec.arts.tv.scifi.babylon5.moderated during the show's run.

* [[Retroactive Recognition]]:

** Mira Furlan (Delenn) went on to play a [[Wild Hair|wild-haired]] [[Crazy Survivalist]] on ''[[Lost (TV)|Lost]]''.

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** And ''[[The Demolished Man (Literature)|The Demolished Man]]'' by Alfred Bester -- which is about a telepathic cop.

*** Not just a [[Shout Out]]-that was the entire inspiration for the Psy Corps and the death of personality.

*** The Psi Corps was a [[Whole Plot Reference]] of sorts; the true [[Shout Out]] was naming the head psicop Alfred Bester.

*** The Psi Corps was a [[Whole-Plot Reference]] of sorts; the true [[Shout Out]] was naming the head psicop Alfred Bester.

** Multiple Shout Outs to George Orwell's ''1984'': Ministry of Peace, rewriting the dictionaries, etc.

** The episode ''Passing Through Gethsemane'' has a Biblical shout out in its title, and a plot based on [[HP Lovecraft]]'s {{spoiler|''The Case of Charles Dexter Ward'' -- right down to naming one of the characters Charlie Dexter.}}