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• 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 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 seeing his friend in the kitchen with a knife and an ear print being discovered at the first crime scene.
• Actor Shared Background:
  • Richard Belzer has openly stated that John Munch is basically "me as a cop".
  • 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.
• 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: 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 Mothership's TV movie.
  • RoboCop (the second one) is now a Lieutenant at the Internal Affairs Bureau.
  • Superman is a serial rapist who promptly marries his girlfriend to prevent her from testifying against him.
  • Speaking of Superman, Lois Lane engages in an incestuous relationship with her son Byron Montgomery.
  • Jango Fett is a cop in one episode. Unfortunately there weren't thousands of him.
  • River Song is a defense attorney in a couple of episodes, with the last name POND. And she's awesome.
  • Lily Charles is a corrupt-as-all-hell judge.
  • What, you're telling me Iago is a TARU Technician now?
  • Clarissa Darling a.k.a. Sabrina Spellman graduated to become a teacher who was raped by Cassidy Casablancas. She also marries a religious Roman Catholic man. Too bad magic couldn't save her.
  • Zach Morris is found shot and sexually assaulted in an alley outside of a gay bar.
  • Being raped and brow-beaten into falsely-accusing her coach may have influenced how Sam Puckett became the person she is today.
  • Kim did porno before going to work at Sacred Heart.
  • Mrs. Doubtfire?! When did you become an anti-authoritarian sociopath?
  • Well, Albert, I'd like to see you con your way out of this one.
  • Peter Petrelli framed his stepfather of rape. Claire wants Olivia to adopt her and then grows up and gives oral sex for clothes.
  • Debbie Jellinsky is a foster parent whose daughter goes missing.
  • Peyton Flanders is a wheelchair-bound woman whose husband Gambit had an affair with a stripper, who worked for him.
  • G.O.B. was a prominent member of a pedophile ring.
  • Sandy Ryerson is a sex offender... again... although it's rather more serious this time.
  • Gunnery Sergeant Hartman as a Smug Snake serial rapist and murderer in "Trophy":

"LAWYER, BITCH!"

• • Boone beats his father Richard Nixon, rapes his brother 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 INCONCEIVABLE!
  • The most ironic of them all: Chris Keller on a crusade against sexual offenders.
    • With Father Ray and Vern Schillinger helping him out as psychiatrists!
    • And John Munch's first partner on the show is Ryan O'Reilly.
  • Hey look! Scar is a psychologist! His client? Why, it's none other than a meek piano teacher accused of murder, 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 Alex Reiger!
  • So I heard through the grapevine that Michaela Quinn killed her husband when she discovered he was having an affair...oh, and apparently her son is Jeremiah.
  • Bill Goldberg shows up wrecking the police department and throws Stabler through a glass window.
  • The detectives seek the help of former agent Sylvia Fine after a woman is murdered. She has them interview the various girlfriends of a former 'Mattress Maestro', which include Jennifer Pace, Kim McAfee, and Velma Von Tussle. Kelly Garrett gets involved as well, but she's no angel.
    • Also in that episode, Walter Peck, still a New York City official, tries to put the moves on an undercover Olivia.
  • Maxwell Sheffield raped his mother's best friend Gigi when he was a teen.
  • Paige Halliwell, in addition to seducing a married man and having sex with her twin brother, is a con artist who also goes by the aliases of Tatum Riley, Cherry Darling, and Courtney Shayne.
  • 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 Truman is an owner of an online dating website who takes the fall for a murder his daughter had committed.
  • Dr. Kavita Rao is a detective who may have had some involvement in the murder of an ADA.
  • Arlene Fowler's a woman who might have cancer. But that's probably nothing compared to her mentally unfit sister...
  • Emily Prentiss's father was a wanted criminal whose partner-in-crime took care of her, after her biological father wanted to kill her.
  • Uncle Jesse managed to get around 20 women pregnant by deception. And that's just in New York.
  • April O'Neil is a defense attorney who assaulted a male stripper. And a decade later, she played the Maria Shriver to Special Agent Dale Cooper's Arnold Schwarzenegger.
  • Not to mention that some years earlier, 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 Diffy raped a TV star and bragged about it on Ben Lewis's radio show. Only for his Moral Guardian mom, 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 The Big Bad Wolf.
  • 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, Tiana accuses Italian diplomat Lancelot of raping her. The case is brought to court, and the diplomat's attorney? Why, it's none other than Arvin Sloane!
  • Speaking of defense attorneys, Detective Claudette Wyms appears as one often. Aibileen Clark, Ellen Griswold, Mary Jo Shively, Boon Schoenstein and John Hamilton pop up from time to time.
  • Randall Winston and Carter Heywood have both left the Mayor's Office in favor of the New York State Bar.
  • There was that one time Clairee Belcher showed up to defend Angie Bolen's son, who stood accused of murdering his father.
  • Jordan Collier a.k.a. The Rocketeer is an art professor accused of raping his student. He may or may not be in prison for it.
  • "Torch" has Billy Babbitt as a fire expert.
  • In "Name", Al Neri is a terminally-ill killer and Captain Roy Montgomery is his accomplice.
  • In terms of judges: 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!"
    • D.A. (then Judge) Barry Moredock used to be an Alaskan bar & grill owner named Holling Vincoeur.
    • Angela Bower has left the advertising world for the Manhattan District Attorney's Office.
    • Judge Lois Preston was once an abrasive madam named Ray Parkins.
    • Judge Karen Taton was one of the Sisters, and before that one of the Thirtysomethings.
  • Angel Guzman ended up as a serial killer who slashes Olivia's throat (she got better).
  • Before he terrorized Woodsboro as one of the Ghostface Killers, Charlie Walker shot two classmates when he was on unsolicited medication.
  • In "Demons", Elliot goes undercover to gain the trust of the recently-paroled T-1000.
  • Captain Kathryn Janeway is now a federal prosecutor with the U.S. Attorney's Office.
  • Jessica Fletcher is a socialite trying to shield her son Ricardo Morales from prosecution. Awkward.
  • Miranda Hobbes is a woman who seemingly has Dissociative Identity Disorder.
  • Brad Chase is once again involved in a paternity dispute, though he deals with it rather differently...
  • Dylan McKay is a foster father who's revealed to be a serial rapist, having married one of his victims.
  • Leon Carp is a doctor who denies that HIV leads to AIDS.
  • Michael Scofield is a cop who's forced to work with Elliot (in an episode titled "Unstable", no less!).
  • The Fonz is a con man who orchestrates the attempted murder of his wife and steals her money.
  • Dwight Schrute is a janitor at a hospital where a comatose woman is raped.
  • Lorraine Baines-McFly became a surrogate mother who kidnaps her biological daughter in "Birthright".
  • Luther survived his pummeling from the Gramercy Riffs to become both a child molester and a lawyer who defends them in "Possessed".
  • Felix Garcia is a gay teen who is suspected of killing the boyfriend of an NFL hot shot that's in the "Closet".
  • Eunice Higgins raised Stu Macher from childhood and started having sex with him when he was 18. Dear god, not Stunice!
    • Also, her husband is Johnny Sack. Unfortunately, he is not so faithfully devoted to his wife. Or alive.
• 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.