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)
- And the Sheriff of Nottingham, and the Metatron, and Severus Snape...
- Daddy Mars is Mathazar, the head alien!
- 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!
- Also Dwight Schrute (Rainn Wilson) as one of the aliens! And Ted Buckland (Sam Lloyd) as another!
- Myth Busters: Adam, Grant, and Tory all did model work for the film.
- Shout-Out:
- After surviving his initial encounter with Jason, Sarris gets a bolted on Eyepatch of Power similiar to General Chang in Star Trek VI the Undiscovered Country