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* [[Actor Allusion]]:
* [[Actor Allusion]]:* When Tutuola joined the show, his previous background was in Narcotics, which was the job of [[Ice T|Ice-T]]'s character in ''[[New Jack City]]''.
** And when Lee Tergesen guest-starred as a suspect in the episode "Savior,", he and Elliot got very touchy-feely in the interrogation room as they prayed together, undoubtedly a reference to their intimate times [[Oz|in prison together.]]
** A [[Cold Opening]] of an episode had Bill Goldberg as a perp hopped up on PCP. Elliot clocks him in the back of the head with a fire extinguisher and gets trashed for his efforts. What finally stops the rage? Fin with a chair to the head.
** "Ballerina": A roommate [[Scream (Filmfilm)|seeing his friend in the kitchen with a knife]] and an ''[[The Carol Burnett Show|ear print]]'' being discovered at the first crime scene.
* [[Actor Shared Background]]:
* [[Fan Nickname]]: After one too many uses of the [[Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique]], Elliot became widely known as "UnStabler."▼
** Richard Belzer has openly stated that [[John Munch]] is basically "me as a cop".
* [[Hey It's That Guy]] / [[Retroactive Recognition]]: [[Lampshade Hanging|Lampshaded]] when a Character of the Day tells Fin he looks like a pimp. [[Ice T|Ice-T]] was a pimp before getting into rap ''and'' later played a pimp in the [[Law and Order|Mothership's]] TV movie.▼
** Fin was in the Army, just as Ice-T was.
** [[Robo Cop]] ([[The Other Darrin|the second one]]) is now a Lieutenant at the Internal Affairs Bureau.▼
** Both Amaro and Barba are Cuban-Americans who speak fluent Spanish, reflecting that Danny Pino and Raúl Esparza are as well.
** Kelli Giddish is from Georgia, as is Rollins.
* [[The Danza]]: In the episode "Friending Emily", Taylor Spreitler guest stars as the victim's sister, Taylor Culphers.
* [[Fake American]]: Adam Beach, who played Chester Lake, is from Manitoba.
* [[Fandom Nod]]: In 11x13 "P.C.", {{spoiler|Kathy Griffin's lesbian character [[Ho Yay|coming onto Liv]]. The reasons she gives for her mistake are pretty much the same ones fans have been using for their [[Slash Fic]] since, oh, the start of the show}}.
** The best part being when Olivia asks, "Why does everyone think I'm a lesbian?"
*** No, the best part has to be Olivia fooling the suspect into confessing by ''pretending'' to be a lesbian, [[Fetish Fuel|swaggering into the interrogation room in a leather jacket.]]
▲* [[Fan Nickname]]: After one too many uses of the [[Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique]], Elliot became widely known as "UnStabler.".
▲* [[Hey, It's That Guy!]] / [[Retroactive Recognition]]: [[Lampshade Hanging|Lampshaded]] when a Character of the Day tells Fin he looks like a pimp. [[Ice T|Ice-T]] was a pimp before getting into rap ''and'' later played a pimp in the [[Law and Order|Mothership's]] TV movie.
▲** [[Robo CopRoboCop]] ([[The Other Darrin|the second one]]) is now a Lieutenant at the Internal Affairs Bureau.
** [[Lois and Clark|Superman]] is a serial rapist who promptly marries his girlfriend to prevent her from testifying against him.
** Speaking of ''[[Superman]]'', [[Superman (Filmfilm)|Lois Lane]] engages in an incestuous relationship with her son [[Pretty Little Liars|Byron Montgomery]].
** [[Star Wars|Jango Fett]] is a cop in one episode. Unfortunately there weren't thousands of him.
** [[Doctor Who (TV)|River Song]] is a defense attorney in a couple of episodes, with the last name POND. And she's ''awesome''.
** [[Pushing Daisies|Lily Charles]] is a corrupt-as-all-hell judge.
** What, you're telling me [[Aladdin (Disney film)|Iago]] is a TARU Technician now?
** [[Clarissa Explains It All|Clarissa Darling]] a.k.a. [[Sabrina the Teenage Witch (TV series)|Sabrina Spellman]] graduated to become a teacher who was raped by [[Veronica Mars|Cassidy Casablancas]]. She also marries a religious Roman Catholic man. Too bad magic couldn't save her.
** [[Saved Byby the Bell (TV)|Zach Morris]] is found shot and sexually assaulted in an alley outside of a gay bar.
** Being raped and {{spoiler|brow-beaten into falsely-accusing her coach}} may have influenced how [[I CarlyiCarly|Sam Puckett]] became the person she is today.
** [[Scrubs (TV)|Kim]] did porno before going to work at Sacred Heart.
** [[Mrs. Doubtfire (Film)|Mrs. Doubtfire]]?! When did you become an anti-authoritarian sociopath?
** Well, [[Hustle|Albert]], I'd like to see you con your way out of this one.
** [[Heroes (TV series)|Peter Petrelli]] framed his stepfather of rape. Claire wants Olivia to adopt her and then [[You Look Familiar|grows up]] and gives oral sex for clothes.
** [[The Addams Family (TV)|Debbie Jellinsky]] is a foster parent whose daughter goes missing.
** [[The Hand That Rocks the Cradle|Peyton Flanders]] is a wheelchair-bound woman whose husband [[X -Men|Gambit]] had an affair with a stripper, who worked for him.
** [[Arrested Development (TV series)|G.O.B.]] was a prominent member of a pedophile ring.
** [[Glee (TV)|Sandy Ryerson]] is a sex offender... again... although it's rather more serious this time.
** [[R. Lee Ermey|Gunnery Sergeant Hartman]] as a [[Smug Snake]] serial rapist and murderer in "Trophy":
{{quote| '''"[[Chewing the Scenery|LAWYER, BITCH!]]"'''}}
** [[Lost (TV)|Boone]] beats his father [[Frost /Nixon|Richard Nixon]], rapes his brother [[Joan of Arcadia|Kevin Girardi]], and forces people (even those of the same gender) to have sex before killing and robbing them.
** Wallace Shawn was on ''SVU'' too. The fact that you don't know him by name is [[The Princess Bride (Filmfilm)|INCONCEIVABLE]]!
** The most ironic of them all: [[Oz|Chris Keller]] [[Your Head Asplode|on a crusade against sexual offenders]].
*** With [[Oz|Father Ray and Vern Schillinger]] helping him out as psychiatrists!
*** And [[John Munch]]'s first partner on the show is [[Oz|Ryan O'Reilly]].
** Hey look! [[The Lion King|Scar]] is a psychologist! His client? Why, it's none other than a meek piano teacher accused of murder, [[Lost (TV)|Juliet]].
*** That was her second appearance on the show. In the first, she's charged with killing her ill infant daughter, and the child's pediatrician is none other than [[Taxi|Alex Reiger]]!
** So I heard through the grapevine that [[Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman|Michaela Quinn]] killed her husband when she discovered he was having an affair...oh, and apparently her son is [[The Princess Diaries|Jeremiah]].
** Bill Goldberg shows up wrecking the police department and throws Stabler through a glass window.
** The detectives seek the help of former agent [[The Nanny|Sylvia Fine]] after a woman is murdered. She has them interview the various girlfriends of a former 'Mattress Maestro', which include [[Search for Tomorrow|Jennifer Pace]], [[Bye Bye Birdie|Kim McAfee]], and [[Hairspray|Velma Von Tussle]]. [[CharliesCharlie's Angels|Kelly Garrett]] gets involved as well, but she's no ''angel''.
*** Also in that episode, [[Ghostbusters|Walter Peck]], still a New York City official, tries to put the moves on an undercover Olivia.
** [[The Nanny|Maxwell Sheffield]] raped his mother's best friend [[Gigi]] when he was a teen.
** [[Charmed (TV)|Paige Halliwell]], in addition to seducing a married man and [[Twincest|having sex with her twin brother]], is a con artist who also goes by the aliases of [[Scream (Filmfilm)|Tatum Riley]], [[Grindhouse|Cherry Darling]], and [[Jawbreaker (Film)|Courtney Shayne]].
** [[Will and Grace (TV)|Grace Adler]] is a television journalist who is receiving death threats, so she decides to assist the detectives on a case that ignites a cold case in her past.
** In turn, [[Will and Grace (TV)|Will Truman]] is an owner of an online dating website who takes the fall for a murder {{spoiler|his daughter}} had committed.
** [[X -Men|Dr. Kavita Rao]] is a detective who may have had some involvement in the murder of an ADA.
** [[True Blood|Arlene Fowler]]'s a woman who ''might'' have cancer. But that's probably nothing compared to her mentally unfit sister...
** [[Criminal Minds (TV)|Emily Prentiss]]'s father was a wanted criminal whose partner-in-crime took care of her, after her biological father wanted to kill her.
** [[Full House (TV)|Uncle Jesse]] managed to get around 20 women pregnant by deception. And that's ''just in New York''.
** [[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Filmfilm)|April O'Neil]] is a defense attorney who assaulted a male stripper. And a decade later, she played the Maria Shriver to [[Twin Peaks|Special Agent Dale Cooper]]'s Arnold Schwarzenegger.
** Not to mention that some years earlier, [[Twin Peaks|Agent Cooper]] murdered a sociopathic boy who had killed his son.
** Related to the above, it was a bit jarring for those that watched Novak as the ADA for a few seasons to finally catch a rerun of "Ridicule"... in which Novak (with a different name and hair color) was convicted of raping a male stripper.
** [[Phil of the Future|Phil Diffy]] raped a TV star and bragged about it on [[Accepted|Ben Lewis]]'s radio show. Only for his [[Moral Guardian]] mom, [[Exit to Eden|Mistress Lisa]], to shoot Lewis to make herself a martyr for her cause.
** Abandoning the love of her life, Valerie left the old town of Daggerhorn for the bustling city of New York. She donned the name "Tandi" and ends up being raped. I guess you can't escape [[Red Riding Hood (Filmfilm)|The Big Bad Wolf]].
** [[Spider -Man (Filmfilm)|Aunt May]] is quite the evil bitchy grandmother, isn't she? And to think, it all started over mushrooms.
** In a rather odd allusion to the Dominique Strauss-Kahn case, [[The Princess and Thethe Frog|Tiana]] accuses Italian diplomat [[Camelot (Theatretheatre)|Lancelot]] of raping her. The case is brought to court, and the diplomat's attorney? Why, it's none other than [[Alias (TV series)|Arvin Sloane]]!
** Speaking of defense attorneys, [[The Shield|Detective Claudette Wyms]] appears as one often. [[The Help|Aibileen Clark]], [[National Lampoon's Vacation|Ellen Griswold]], [[Designing Women|Mary Jo Shively]], [[Animal House|Boon Schoenstein]] and [[The Notebook|John Hamilton]] pop up from time to time.
** [[Spin City|Randall Winston]] and [[Spin City|Carter Heywood]] have both left the Mayor's Office in favor of the New York State Bar.
** There was that one time [[Steel Magnolias|Clairee Belcher]] showed up to defend [[Desperate Housewives|Angie Bolen]]'s son, who stood accused of murdering his father.
** [[The 4400|Jordan Collier]] a.k.a. [[The Rocketeer (Filmfilm)|The Rocketeer]] is an art professor accused of raping his student. [[No Ending|He may or may not be in prison for it.]]
** "Torch" has [[One Flew Over the CuckoosCuckoo's Nest|Billy Babbitt]] as a fire expert.
** In "Name", [[The Godfather (Film)|Al Neri]] is a terminally-ill killer and [[Castle (TV)|Captain Roy Montgomery]] is his accomplice.
** In terms of judges: [[Buffy the Vampire Slayer|Professor Maggie Walsh]] presides over several of the cases.
*** Judge Mary Clark was once a young actress from Brewster, New York. In other words, "[[That Girl (TV)|THAT GIRL!]]"
*** D.A. (then Judge) Barry Moredock used to be [[Northern Exposure|an Alaskan bar & grill owner named Holling Vincoeur]].
*** [[WhosWho's theThe Boss?|Angela Bower]] has left the advertising world for the Manhattan District Attorney's Office.
*** Judge Lois Preston was once [[Dirty Harry|an abrasive madam named Ray Parkins]].
*** Judge Karen Taton was one of the ''Sisters'', and before that one of the ''[[Thirtysomething]]''s.
** [[Stand and Deliver|Angel Guzman]] ended up as a serial killer who slashes Olivia's throat (she [[It Got Better|got better]]).
** Before he {{spoiler|terrorized Woodsboro as [[Scream (Filmfilm)|one of the Ghostface Killers]]}}, [[Scream (Filmfilm)|Charlie Walker]] shot two classmates when he was on unsolicited medication.
** In "Demons", Elliot goes undercover to gain the trust of the recently-paroled [[The Terminator|T-1000]].
** [[Star Trek: Voyager (TV)|Captain Kathryn Janeway]] is now a federal prosecutor with the U.S. Attorney's Office.
** [[Murder, She Wrote (TV)|Jessica Fletcher]] is a socialite trying to shield her son [[Law and Order LA|Ricardo Morales]] from prosecution. ''[[Hilarious in Hindsight|Awkward]]''.
** [[Sex and Thethe City|Miranda Hobbes]] is a woman who seemingly has Dissociative Identity Disorder.
** [[Boston Legal|Brad Chase]] is once again involved in a paternity dispute, though he [[Pay Evil Unto Evil|deals with it rather differently...]]
** [[Beverly Hills, 90210|Dylan McKay]] is a foster father who's revealed to be a serial rapist, having married one of his victims.
** [[Roseanne (TV)|Leon Carp]] is a doctor who denies that HIV leads to AIDS.
** [[Prison Break (TV)|Michael Scofield]] is a cop who's forced to work with Elliot ([[Meaningful Name|in an episode titled "Unstable", no less!]]).
** [[Happy Days|The Fonz]] is a con man who orchestrates the attempted murder of his wife and steals her money.
** [[The Office (TV)|Dwight Schrute]] is a janitor at a hospital where a comatose woman is raped.
** [[Back to The Future|Lorraine Baines-McFly]] became a surrogate mother who kidnaps her biological daughter in "Birthright".
** [[The Warriors (Filmfilm)|Luther]] survived his pummeling from the Gramercy Riffs to become both a child molestormolester and a lawyer who defends them in "Possessed".
** [[The Troop|Felix Garcia]] is a gay teen who is supectedsuspected of killing the boyfriend of an NFL hot shot that's in the "[[Meaningful Name|Closet]]".
** [[The Carol Burnett Show|Eunice]] [[MamasMama's Family|Higgins]] raised [[Scream (Filmfilm)|Stu Macher]] [[Wife Husbandry|from childhood]] and ''[[Squick|started having sex with him]]'' when he was 18. Dear ''god'', not ''[[Portmanteau Couple Name|Stunice]]''!
*** Also, her husband is [[The Sopranos|Johnny Sack]]. Unfortunately, [[Your Cheating Heart|he is not so faithfully devoted to his wife]]. [[Til Murder Do Us Part|Or alive]].
* [[Life Imitates Art]]:
 
** During the first half of the 2011 season, the episode "Missing Pieces" {{spoiler|in which a mother claims that her car was stolen with her young son still buckled into his car seat}} bore more than a passing resemblance to the still-unfolding [http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/11/10/sky-metalwala-law-order-svu_n_1086268.html Sky Metalwala] case. Another episode "Personal Fouls", {{spoiler|which revolves around a well-respected coach who uses a children's charity to molest young boys}}, originally aired a few weeks before the [https://web.archive.org/web/20160405070134/http://gothamist.com/2011/11/09/did_law_order_svu_predict_the_joe_p.php Penn State molestation] story broke. However, according to [[The Other Wiki]], this one was actually based on a ''[http://www.cbc.ca/sports/hockey/story/2009/10/09/sp-fleury-tell-all.html different]'' sports abuse case.
* [[Technology Marches On]]: Inevitable given that ''SVU'' premiered in 1999. The show's adjustment to the existence of social media occasionally veers into the hilarious.
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