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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]]'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 (film)|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]] 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.
** 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]] was a pimp before getting into rap ''and'' later played a pimp in the [[Law and Order|Mothership's]] TV movie.
** [[RoboCop]] ([[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 (film)|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|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.
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** [[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 by the Bell|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 [[ICarlyiCarly|Sam Puckett]] became the person she is today.
** [[Scrubs|Kim]] did porno before going to work at Sacred Heart.
** [[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|Debbie Jellinsky]] is a foster parent whose daughter goes missing.
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** [[Glee|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|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 (film)|INCONCEIVABLE]]!
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** 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|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]]. [[Charlie's Angels|Kelly Garrett]] gets involved as well, but she's no ''angel''.
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** 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 (film)|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 Cuckoo's Nest|Billy Babbitt]] as a fire expert.
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*** Judge Mary Clark was once a young actress from Brewster, New York. In other words, "[[That Girl|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 (film)|one of the Ghostface Killers]]}}, [[Scream (film)|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|Captain Kathryn Janeway]] is now a federal prosecutor with the U.S. Attorney's Office.
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** [[The Office|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 (film)|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]] [[Mama's Family|Higgins]] raised [[Scream (film)|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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