Dollhouse/Trivia

Everything About Fiction You Never Wanted to Know.


  • Actor Allusion: On occasion, Echo's imprints reference Eliza Dushku's real life.
    • Jordan the backup singer/bodyguard is from Boston.
    • The outdoorsy persona from "The Target" had three brothers, and learns to bow hunt.
  • Hey, It's That Guy!/Hey, It's That Voice!
    • If you've seen Joss Whedon's previous work (or even non-Whedon genre TV), there's a lot of familiar faces on display.
    • The leader of the cult in "True Believer" (1x05) played the Terminator "Carter" in The Sarah Connor Chronicles, the actor who plays Zone in "Epitaph One" (1x13) gets a cameo in the same series as a human resistance fighter, and the pedophile kidnapper in "Echoes" (1x01) played the Terminator "Vick". And then Cameron showed up in "The Public Eye" (2x05) and "The Left Hand" (2x06). The actor who plays Clyde in "The Attic" also played the doctor who helped Cromartie regrow his skin in the first season of SCC, too. Adding the surreality of that, Bennett's assistant is the same actress who played the guidance counselor who interviewed Cameron at the halfway house in SCC's "Allison From Palmdale."
    • Say, isn't that The Middleman Hunting Echo in "The Target" (1x02)?
    • Victor's Handler in "A Spy In The House Of Love" (1x09) is the same actress who played Murphy in The Dresden Files TV series.
    • And then the Devil himself showed up as the chief of the D.C. Dollhouse, or was it Leland Palmer?
    • And the warden at the prison in "Meet Jane Doe" (2x07) is Aaron Pierce.
    • Patton Oswalt played an Internet tycoon named Joel Mynor in "Man on the Street" and "A Love Supreme." You may recognize him as the voice of Remy from Ratatouille, which is given a Shout-Out in that Mynor's most famous creation is named Bouncy the Rat.
    • Harry Lennix played Commander Jason Locke in The Matrix trilogy.
    • DeWitt is Bruce Willis's wife from The Sixth Sense
    • Ballard is Helo, Karens (from 'Belle Chose') is Saul Tigh, Martin Klar (from 'Vows') is Apollo from Battlestar Galactica
    • Tanaka is Romo Lampkin (from Battlestar Galactica) and/or Badger (from Firefly). Actually all of them are just Crowley.
    • Ballard's friend in the records department of the FBI is Miss Jeanette without the voodoo bus.
    • Matthew Harding, a Rossum exec, is Special Agent Frank Lundy.
    • Mr.Dominic was once a Baltimore homicide detective in Homicide: Life on the Street.
    • Dichen Lachman (Sierra) is better known as Katya from Neighbours.
    • Dr. Nolan Kinnard is The Invisible Man and Fun Bobby.