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** Tony once says "I've got a better chance of hooking up with Jessica Alba than these guys do of infiltrating Sea Lift." Michael Weatherly was engaged to Jessica Alba for a time. He also starred with her in ''[[Dark Angel]]'', where they kept trying to hook up.

*** In the episode ''Obsession'' (7x21), Tony obsesses over a journalist who embodies all what he finds attractive in a woman, and who is missing. When calling her at her cell phone, he says: "It would seem strange, but I feel like I know you". It's not so strange, though: the journalist is played by Ashley Scott, who also played underground operative and potential secondary love interest Asha Barlow in ''[[Dark Angel]]''.

** Harmon's turn as serial killer Ted Bundy (in the TV movie ''The Deliberate Stranger'') is referenced by Fornell in the episode "Smoked" (4x10).

{{quote|'''Fornell:''' I was on the team that nailed Bundy, Gibbs. And I'm familiar with sick, charming bastards.

* [[Directed by Cast Member]]: Michael Weatherly directed season eight episode "One Last Score".

* [[Distaff Counterpart]]: The CGIS team leader in "Jurisdiction" acts so much like Gibbs that it's essentially [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshaded]] by the ''entire'' NCIS staff. Tony even asks Gibbs whether he had any long-lost sisters or not.

** Quite obvious in season 8 episode 5, "Dead Air" in which the resident [[Badass Israeli]] [[Action Girl]] {{spoiler|jumps on an oblivious Tony to save him from a bomb blast.}}

* [[The Don]]: René Benoît.

* [[Pac-Man Fever]]:

** Played painfully straight in "The Immortals" (see [[Did Not Do the Research]] above).

** As a rule, this is averted wherever there's a throwaway reference or gag, as these tend to be pretty accurate. If any aspect of gaming or IT is central to a plotline, however, expect excruciating levels of this trope.

* [[Papa Wolf]]: