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* [[Actor Allusion]]:
** One of the many, '''many''' people who have taken the court hostage over the years was a woman with a grenade who couldn't distinguish television shows from reality. She was played by Marion Ross, aka [[Happy Days|Mrs. Cunningham]]. She lists her many friends which were fictional TV characters and it included "The Fonz".
** Another episode has Dan being held hostage by an insane woman who acts out scenes from horror movies. When the TV announces that ''[[The Texas Chainsaw Massacre]]'' is about to begin, he says, "Seen that already." John Larroquette was the narrator for the original film.
* [[Author Existence Failure|Actor Existence Failure]]: Selma Diamond after the second season, Florence Halop after the third. Marsha Warfield was hired because she was much younger, so this could be prevented from happening a third time.
* [[The Character Died with Him]]: When Selma Diamond and then Florence Halop died, their respective characters were written as having passed away too.
* [[Colbert Bump]]: Mel Tormé's guest appearances introduced him to a whole new audience who otherwise would have never heard of him and he developed a following among Generation Xers.
* [[The Danza]]: Selma Hacker/Selma Diamond, and Florence Kleiner/Florence Halop.
** Could also be invoked for Mac Robinson/Charles Robinson.
** Averted with Harry Stone played by Harry Anderson, oddly enough. According to series creator and executive producer Reinhold Weege's DVD commentary, the character was called Harry and was a devoted Tormé fan and magician before magician turned actor Harry Anderson auditioned.
*** So it was more of a case of [[Typecasting]] Harry Anderson.
** Yakov Smirnoff's occasional guest appearances as Yakov Korolenko.
* [[Dawson Casting]]: Don Cheadle plays a robber in one episode. The character was supposed to be 16, Cheadle was 24 at the time.
* [[Directed by Cast Member]]: Several.
** John Larroquette directed 2 episodes.
** Harry Anderson directed 2 episodes. He also wrote 5 of them. (One - "Caught Red Handed" from the fourth season - he both wrote ''and'' directed).
** Charles Robinson directed 3 episodes.
* [[Hey, It's That Guy!]]: Brent Spiner, before he hit it big on ''[[Star Trek: The Next Generation]]'', made recurring appearances as Bob Wheeler.
** Lou Ferrigno - most famous at that time for playing ''[[The Incredible Hulk]]'' on TV - played a professional wrestler who was beat up by an old lady in one episode.
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** John Astin (aka [[The Addams Family|Gomez Addams]]) as Buddy.
** [[A Nightmare on Elm Street|Robert Englund]] pops up in Season 3.
** [[Jackie Brown|Pam Grier]] was one of the pregnant women trapped in the building by a hurricane.
** Leon, the young shoeshine boy that Harry adopted in
** Al Craven, a sleazy tabloid reporter who hassled the gang a few times during the first two seasons [[Weekend at
** Estelle Harris, best known as George Costanza's mother on ''[[Seinfeld]]'' played a hooker that got arrested with Christine's father in
* [[Hey, It's That Voice!]]:
** Ellen Foley, who sang the female lead in [[Meat Loaf]]'s "Paradise by the Dashboard Lights", played defense attorney Billie Young for a season.
* [[Keep Circulating the Tapes]]: Warner began issuing DVDs of the show in 2005; seven years later, they still haven't made it past Season 5 (and Seasons 4 and 5 are [[Vanilla Edition|no-frills]], "manufactured-on-demand" releases available only online). Shameful considering ''Night Court'' was part of NBC's vaunted '80s Thursday Night Line-Up, along with ''[[The Cosby Show]]'', ''[[A Different World]]'', ''[[Family Ties]]'', ''[[Cheers]]'', ''[[Hill Street Blues]]'', ''[[L.A. Law]]'', ''[[Seinfeld]]'', ''[[Wings (TV series)|Wings]]'', and ''[[Frasier]]''.
* [[The Other Darrin]]: Phil Sanders was played by a different actor (and had a quite different characterization) when he first appears (and is revealed to actually be a wealthy former Wall Street banker who suffered a breakdown).
* [[Reality Subtext]]: "Flo's Retirement" was a fitting sendoff for Florence Halop, who was dying of breast cancer. And she ''still'' managed to finish out the season.
* [[Technology Marches On]]: Averted. Dan makes use of a cell phone several times, Harry owns several laptop computers, and Mac eventually trades in his beloved files for a computer as the series goes on.
* [[What Could Have Been]]: We never did get to see [[30 Rock|a three-part episode with werewolf lawyer Sparky Monroe]].
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