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* 4, 8, 15, 16, 23, 42 all added together equal [[108]], the total of minutes left to enter those very numbers into the computer each time, and the number of days that the castaways spent on the island before the Oceanic Six were rescued.
* During the scenes where Charlie is handling and using heroin, the heroin is actually cane sugar.
* Charlie's shoulder tattoo reads "Living is easy with eyes closed
* Charlie's role was originally written for someone much older, but, when Dominic Monaghan auditioned, the writers and producers loved him so much that they set about rewriting the part to Dominic's strengths.
* The rocks used in the waterfall cave set are made of rubber so that the sound of the actors, and crew members walking about are not picked up on camera.
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* Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje came up with his own character's name, "Mr. Eko", while he and the writers were developing the character.
* Although in the cast list Sun is listed as having her husband's last name of Kwon, in real life it's highly unusual for Korean women to take their husband's last name.
* The series began development in January 2004 when Lloyd Braun, then head of ABC, ordered a script that fused the concepts of the film ''Cast Away'' and the popular reality TV show ''Survivor''. Jeffrey Lieber was tasked with writing the pilot, but Braun was unimpressed with the initial effort and subsequent rewrites and he contacted J.J. Abrams, whose series ''Alias'' was a hit for the network. Although initially hesitant, Abrams gave it a go in collaboration with Damon Lindelof. Their script was greenlit, but because it had been commissioned so late in the 2004 development cycle it was under very tight deadlines. Ironically, before the pilot aired Lloyd Braun was sacked by ABC's parent company, Disney - for greenlighting such an expensive and risky project. Abrams only worked on the show for a handful of episodes in the first season before leaving Lindelof as
* Evangeline Lilly was one of the last actors to be cast for the show, but the fact that she is a Canadian citizen gave the producers concern that she might not be able to obtain the appropriate U.S. employment visa that would grant her permission to stay in the country long enough to shoot the entire series. They pushed back all of Kate's scenes when they were shooting the pilot, just to be sure that they could get the proper employment visa, a category "O-1" for "aliens of extraordinary ability in arts, science, education, business or athletics" for Lilly. As her body of work as an actor was not extensive at the time she was cast, they had a difficult time proving to the USCIS (formerly known as the INS) that Lilly was deserving of this classification as an "artist of extraordinary ability". It wasn't until they had shot almost every scene without the Kate character that she was finally granted the O-1 visa and signed on. That same day she was put on a plane in Canada and flown directly to Hawaii for the shooting.
* Originally, Michael Keaton was cast as Jack. In the first draft of the script, Jack was to be killed by the monster after they arrived at the cockpit, with Kate then becoming the main protagonist. ABC told the producers that they shouldn't kill off the hero so soon in the series and the script was changed. After the change, Michael Keaton backed out of the role since he did not want to commit to a regular series.
* Jorge Garcia was cast as Hurley after J.J. Abrams saw him in an episode of ''[[Curb Your Enthusiasm]]''.
* Both John Locke and his father, Anthony Cooper, are named after 17th- and 18th-century English philosophers; the real Anthony Cooper was educated as a boy by the real John Locke.
* Danielle Rousseau's name is a reference to Jean Jacques Rousseau, an eighteenth-century Enlightenment philosopher and creator of the [[Rousseau Was Right|"good savage" theory]], a view that defends that Man is born free and pure and is subsequently corrupted by society and "civilization".
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** When he first meets Jacob, Richard Alpert asks if he is The Devil. Mark Pellegrino not only plays Lucifer on ''[[Supernatural]]'' but also previously starred as a servant of the Devil in ''[[Brimstone]]''.
** Sawyer referring to Charlie as "the Munchkin" in "Tricia Tanaka is Dead" ''could'' be construed as a reference to his resemblance to a Hobbit, especially given the slight smile that starts to appear before the shot cuts.
** Charlie definitely gets one in an earlier episode "Further Instructions" during which a mute John Locke is trying to convey a message and Charlie remarks, "Trees? Yeah, I've heard they're wonderful conversationalists." This is a direct allusion to the fact that Dominac Monaghan played Merry in the ''[[Lord of the Rings]]'' films and did in fact talk to the trees.
** Not to mention him talking to Rose when she was carrying a ring on a chain around her neck.
** A rare ''soundtrack'' example: Michael Giacchino, the series composer, also composed for ''[[Medal of Honor]]''. Because of this, nearly every appearance of a submarine is accompanied by the submarine theme from the game.
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