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* [[MacGuffin Delivery Service]]: At the climax of "Wormhole X-Treme!", Teal'c rescues O'Neill and Martin from Tanner and the three of them return to the studio to retrieve the control that Martin had hidden... which was exactly why Tanner had left them unguarded for Teal'c to save.
* [[MacGyvering]]
** In the pilot episode, Carter refers to control computers for the Earth Stargate as a MacGyvered device, which was something that actress Amanda Tapping had ad-libed during her audition.
** When O'Neill, [[MacGyver
** When the descended Ancient Orlin crashes at Carter's place, he builds a way to make precious gems and a functioning stargate from household parts and some special order supplies.
* [[Magical Defibrillator]]
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* [[Medieval Stasis]]: Some of the [[Transplanted Humans]] have developed their own unique societies, culture and technology descended from the peoples they were before being taken off Earth, but more planets have remained completely unchanged from their technological and cultural status five thousand years ago. The Asgard Protected Planets Treaty addresses this point with regards to planets that the Goa'uld have agreed ''not'' to conquer, deliberately limiting their development so they do not become a threat.
* [[Medium Shift Gag]]: A segment in the season ten episode "200" humorously re-imagined bits of [[Stargate (
* [[Meet the New Boss]]: The Ori, the replacement [[Big Bad]] after the defeat of the Goa'uld in season eight and the [[Retool]] of the show for season nine, replicate the ''modus operandi'' of the Goa'uld: the impersonation of gods in order to inspire worship and subservience. The difference is simply one of scale: the Goa'uld used advanced technology for their masquerade, whereas the Ori really do have god-like powers.
* [[Men Are the Expendable Gender]]: In "The Tomb", three of four Russians sent offworld are killed, with the only survivor being the single female officer.
* [[Mental Story]]: "Avatar" takes place in a virtual-reality scenario that's effectively going on inside Teal'c's head.
* [[Merlin]]: Season nine reveals that Merlin was an Ascended Ancient who descended to mortality in order to build a weapon to use against the Ori. In his first life he was Moros, who was the last High Chancellor of [[Stargate Atlantis
* [[The Men in Black]]: NID, who start out as a sometimes-antagonistic, sometimes-allied "The Ends Justify The Means" civilian counterpart to the SGC, but later lose the antagonistic aspects once the shady leaders, after being exposed, go underground to form a different group.
* [[Me's a Crowd]]: Ba'al developed cloning technology in season nine, creating dozens of other Ba'al's to help him reclaim his power after the overthrow of the Goa'uld.
* [[Metaphorgotten]]: Dr. Lee tries to think up a clever analogy for how hard it will be to develop an anti-Prior weapon, but cannot even ''start'' before he trails off into [[Buffy-Speak]]. He and Carter laugh at his failed attempt, and he explains that he has not had a chance to sleep recently.
* [[Mildly Military]]: Present in every show in the [[
* [[Mind Probe]]
** The Goa'uld have a memory recall device that can read a persons mind and portray their memories on a screen for others to see, and it can help the subject recall suppressed or forgotten memories, but its use in interrogation is (relatively) limited since it can only display memories that the subject ''wants'' displayed. This forces the Goa'uld to go through the standard methods of torture and questions before they can bring up the desired memories.
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** In "Collateral Damage", Mitchell reveals that he once bombed a refugee convoy on Earth after he was told by his commanding officer that it contained enemy combatants; the order to abort the mission came seconds after he had released his payload.
** In "Stronghold", though the precise details [[Noodle Incident|are never revealed]], it shows that before Mitchell joined the F-302 program he did something extremely reckless that another pilot, and close friend, had to rescue him from. The other pilot was wounded by shrapnel during the rescue and was therefore disqualified from joining the F-302 program, and Mitchell was granted his spot in his place. Mitchell believes that he is unfairly living the other pilot's life, and blames himself for the life-threatening aneurysm that has been threatening the other pilot since he was wounded.
* [[My Species Doth Protest Too Much]]: The Tok'ra, renegade Goa'uld who do not use the sarcophagi and thus avoid becoming [[
* [[Myth Arc]]: Stargate Command had a mission statement, enumerated in the pilot episode: to defend Earth from aggressive aliens, explore space, and acquire alien technology. In almost every season they made tangible progress toward those goals. At the end of the first season they had recruited Teal'c, befriended his mentor Bra'tac and discovered vague information about several other potential allies out there; by the end of the fourth they had made permanent allies of the Tok'ra and Asgard and claimed enough Goa'uld hand weapons to outfit their own teams; and by the end of the sixth season they had stolen, discovered or reverse-engineered enough technology to ''build an interstellar spaceship on Earth''.
* [[A Nazi
* [[Neglectful Precursors]]: The Ancients left a lot of their technology lying around when they left the Milky Way, including some weapons and society-shaking devices, without any adequate instructions or explanations. The technology which ''is'' the instructions, the Repository of the Ancients which has ''all'' their knowledge, does not have any labels for ''itself''. It is only identified as "The Place of Our Legacy", and without using it (and potentially dying from its use) there is no way to determine what that means. Of course, considering they "left" the Milky Way by dying ''en masse'', with the survivors fleeing a wide-spread plague, it might be a bit much to expect them to have left a notebook behind.
* [[Never Sleep Again]]
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** O'Neill getting an Ancients' databse downloaded into his brain, twice, after which he subconsciously builds things and goes places without understanding ''why''.
** In "Secrets", they learn that a Goa'uld that inhabits a pregnant woman remains dormant so as not to cause a miscarriage, and the host can access the knowledge of the symbiote during this time.
* [[Never Heard That One Before]]: When Dr. Weir is about to make a [[Who's
* [[Nice Guy]]: Daniel Jackson
* [[Nice Hat]]: Teal'c has a variety of classic headware that he wears on Earth when trying to obscure his Apophis symbol.
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** In "Uninvited", the SGC discovers that it was their modifications to the Sodan armbands that created the giant, vicious creatures that have begun killing innocent people on three planets (including Earth).
* [[Noble Demon]]: The System Lord Yu.
* [[No Good Deed Goes Unpunished]]: Orlin got a particularly raw deal when he descended to a mortal form in order to provide valuable intel on the Ori and helped to develop a cure for the Prior plague. For his troubles, he not only became trapped in his mortal form, but also suffered permanent brain damage, consigning him to spend the rest of his life (which is considerable, as he came back as a 12-year-old boy) in a sanitarium.
* [[No Gravity for You]]: Does not appear in the show proper, but rather the [[Show Within a Show]] that is made about the Stargate crew. Such elaborate tactics are unnecessary in the regular series since they, you know, [[Why Don't Ya Just Shoot Him|have guns]].
* [[Nom De Guerre]]: Cameron Mitchell was given the call-sign "Shaft" when he was an F-302 pilot stationed aboard the ''Prometheus''. Off Carter's look, he explained that it came from the term "''cam'''''shaft'''", which is a mechanical part that resembles the shortening of his first name.
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** [[Multiple Choice Past|Everything Vala ever mentions about her past]].
* [[No One Gets Left Behind]]: Practically the motto of the SGC, particularly O'Neill, who was left behind by his team during the First Gulf War and spent several months in an Iraqi prison because of it. {{spoiler|It comes back to bite him when he bonds with a Tok'ra symbiote and it feels compelled to use him to go back for someone it used to spy on Ba'al, and we all know how [[It's Personal|that relationship is defined]].}}
* [[No OSHA Compliance]]: Most Goa'uld technology.
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* [[No Party Given]]
** The President of the United States from the show's first seven seasons, 1997-2004, was [[Invisible President|never seen]], and his party was never given.
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* [[No Sense of Humor]]
** O'Neill declares this of the Aschen, describing them as being like an entire planet of accountants. [[Genre Savvy|He also states this is why he does not trust them]].
** Colonel O'Neill once tells a reporter that [[Spell My Name
* [[No Such Thing
* [[Nothing Is the Same Anymore]]: In the season six episode "Disclosure", the Stargate program and all related information is revealed to the United Nations Security Council (The United Kingdom, France and China. Russia was already aware of the Stargate) for the first time. For the rest of the series, and continuing into ''[[
* [[Nothing Personal]]: Richard Woolsey is working to get the command staff of the SGC removed, and perhaps even brought up on charges, because he honestly believes that they are doing a poor job of defending the planet, not because he has anything against them on a personal level. When asked if he believes that O'Neill and Carter are engaged in some sort of inappropriate relationship he begins to deny it, only to be interrupted by Vice-President Kinsey who insists that they ''are''. [[Heel Realization|Woolsey is flustered by the unwarranted personal attack]].
* [[Not Me This Time]]: After Carter has been kidnapped, Maybourne recommeneds that O'Neill look into Colonel Simmons at the NID. Simmons, however, explains that he had no part in this, and points out that Maybourne might have been part of the operation himself. {{spoiler|Simmons does ''get'' involved at the end of the episode}}.
* [[Not Now, Kiddo]]: [[Played for Drama]] in the backstory episode "The Gamekeeper". The revisiting of events happens the same way as the original because Daniel's parents will not listen to him.
* [[No
** The first season episode "Emancipation", the first episode after the initial plot of the pilot, took place on a world where descendants of the Mongols have created a complicated system of laws restricting women's freedoms, ostensibly to protect them by keeping them hidden from the Goa'uld. They are forbidden from unveiling their faces or speaking outside of their tents, and are subject to stoning if they break the laws. The episode was criticized for its generally inaccurate depiction of Mongol society, although it did get some points for having [[Mortal Kombat (
** The Goa'uld Moloc decreed prior to the start of the series that only male Jaffa in his domain would be allowed to live, sacrificing all female children born in order to make sure that his society is solely devoted to giving him soldiers in his war with the other Goa'uld. The Jaffa as a whole have a heavily patriarchal society; women, though trained in combat, are forbidden from actually serving in the army of their ruling Goa'uld and are viewed as subservient to their husband. These traditions, referred to as the "old ways", are maintained even after the overthrow of the Goa'uld, and multiple episodes deal with Teal'c and other progressive Jaffa attempting to reform Jaffa society into greater equality.
* [[The Nth Doctor]]
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* [[Nuclear Weapons Taboo]]: The episode "Icon" and its sequel "Ethon" takes place on a world where the two main powers, Rand and Caledonia, are locked in a state of [[Cold War]] technologically equal to 1950's Earth. Though both episodes eventually descend into full-scale war between the two powers, with the complete destruction of all infrastructure and the decimation of the planets population, none of the weapons are ever referred to as "nuclear". They are instead just called "missiles" and "bombs", without any specifics.
* [[Number of the Beast]]: P3X-666
* [[Obfuscating Stupidity]]: O'Neill constantly makes snide comments, is obsessed with ''[[The Simpsons (
* [[Obstructive Bureaucrat]]: Several. Senator Kinsey [[Jumping Off the Slippery Slope|eventually became a villain]]; most others are merely well-meaning but misguided.
* [[Off to See
* [[Oh Crap]]
** Heru'ur when {{spoiler|Apophis' cloaked fleet of ''Ha'taks''}} uncloaks near the end of "The Serpent's Venom".
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** The Asgard place testing sites on the planets that they protect in order to determine when the inhabitants are capable of understanding that they are aliens, not gods, and can interact with them on equal footing. These sites judge their selflessness and courage, but also require that they have a knowledge of pi (the ratio of a circle's radius to its circumference) to indicate that their society has developed a knowledge of mathematics and geometry.
** Merlin arranged for several tests before somebody can gain access to Avalon, the hidden chamber beneath the Glastonbury Tor where riches and Ancient technology is hidden. The tests determine the applicants [[Only the Knowledgable May Pass|knowledge of Ancient philosophy and their language]], their [[Only Smart People May Pass|ability to solve logic puzzles]] and [[Only the Worthy May Pass|their trustworthiness]].
* [["On the Next..."]]
* [[Open the Iris]]: Actually about eyes, so the frequently heard line is only the [[Trope Namer]], [[This Index Is Not an Example|not an example]]. However, the title sequence for seasons 1-5 uses this image, with the wormhole swirl superimposed on O'Neill's iris.
* [[Operation: Jealousy]]: [[Alternate Universe|Alternate]] Carter: "I'm kind of attracted to Daniel."
* [[Our Wormholes Are Different]]: The most prominent being the ones connecting stargates, of course.
* [[Our Presidents Are Different]]: Depending on the universe and timeline.
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** Sam's park-bench meeting with Agent Barrett in "Smoke and Mirrors" after he warns her that his office is bugged.
* [[Paintball Episode]]: A couple of them, involving the Goa'uld ''intar'' training weapon instead of paintball guns.
* [[Palette
* [[Panspermia]]: The Ancients lived on Earth millions of years before humanity evolved, and when they left for the Pegasus Galaxy they re-seeded life throughout the Mlky Way and caused a "second evolution" of their form. In season nine, it was revealed that they had not originally evolved on Earth themselves, but had traveled there millions of years before ''that'' from their home galaxy.
* [[Path of Inspiration]]: "Hallowed are the Ori."
* [[Perfect Pacifist People]]: The Nox.
** One of them borders on [[Technical Pacifist]], however. In "Pretense", Lya helps Teal'c to conceal one of the Tollans' ion cannons from Jaffa saboteurs painting them as targets for an orbiting Ha'tak. In response to Sam's query, Lya replies:
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* [[Pet the Dog]]: Apophis gets a very brief [[Pet the Dog]] moment while he is dying in Stargate Command's medical ward, calling for his beloved queen in his final moments. {{spoiler|He reverts to evil form when brought [[Back
* [[Phlebotinum Dependence]]: Several examples, all the Goa'uld's fault in one way or another.
* [[Planet of Hats]]: Many, often remaining identical to their culture of origin from when they were abducted off Earth thousands of years ago.
* [[Playing Pictionary]]: Played with. Daniel and Sam are presented with a thermal image of the symbiote inside of Teal'c, and they play dumb:
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'''Sam:''' What is it?
'''Daniel:''' That... That's a duck, isn't it? }}
* [[Pop Cultural Osmosis Failure]]
** Teal'c in the early seasons. The third episode, "Emancipation", famously ended on the line "What is an [[The Oprah Winfrey Show|Oprah]]?"
** Vala, who never did get the opportunity that Teal'c did to assimilate and learn about Earth culture, and asked the rest of SG-1 to stop using cultural expressions that she would not understand.
** Daniel Jackson, despite being the one actually from Earth, did not understand what Colonel Mitchell meant when he said they were dealing with a John McClane, and Teal'c had to explain that it was a reference to ''[[
* [[Portal Cut]]: Objects are only sent through the gate in one piece; when only part of an object is past the event horizon it is held in a hyperspace buffer until the rest of the object enters the gate and the entire thing is transported to the next gate. If the gate were to shut down with part of an object in the buffer that part is lost forever; {{spoiler|Major Kawalsky}} is killed this way in the first season.
* [[Portal Slam]]: The Stargate is open as long as the directors say, so it is not unusual for characters to miss the wormhole. Also, when the iris is closed on the receiving end of a wormhole anything that attempts to travel through it suffers a "bugs on a windshield" death. O'Neill coldly orders this done to {{spoiler|the character played by Rene Auberjonois}}, but to be fair he was a {{spoiler|[[Does This Remind You of Anything?|white supremacist leader]]}}.
* [[The Power of Trust]]: In "Icon", Daniel spends several months recuperating in the home of Jared Kane and his wife Leda. Over the months, Leda became infatuated with Daniel, particularly since Jared had spent progressively less time at home over the past few years as his political responsibilities grew. When Daniel is trying to get Jared to launch a joint military assault in combination with the SGC, he asks Leda to help persuade him, but Jared has noticed their relationship and demands that Leda answer if she loves Daniel. She hesitates for a moment, then explains that she ''trusts'' him.
* [[Power Parasite]]: The Goa'uld are a literal version. Sometimes, as Ba'al/Adria demonstrated, the hosts' abilities are too powerful for the Goa'uld to handle, and the possession does not work as a result. By contrast, when they take Unas as hosts, they do so because the Unas are far tougher than humans, but their bodies are more difficult to control and repair.
* [[Power Perversion Potential]]: When O'Neill became invisible in the of-doubtful-canonicity episode "200", he spied on Carter while she was taking a shower. [[Genre Savvy|Carter knew something was up and asked if he was watching her]].
* [[Power Walk]]: SG-1 frequently enters the Stargate (and exits the other side) in this manner. In fact, the times they do not [[Power Walk]] usually indicate that [[Oh Crap|something is wrong]]. Subverted early on, as shortcomings in Earth's dialing program cause them to be tossed somewhat violently out the other side. Then they improve the program, and it never happens again until they override a safety protocol that they really should not have.
* [[Pragmatic Villainy]]: The System Lord Yu agrees to add Earth to the Asgard Protected Planets Treaty, votes to oppose Anubis's admission into the ranks of the Goa'uld System Lords, spares Teal'c's life after a failed assasination attempt and eventually cooperates with the SGC against Anubis. However, he does all this because [[Not Worth Killing|he has no interest in our section of the galaxy]], [[Genre Savvy|he knows Anubis is not going to peacefully integrate into the System Lords]], [[Revenge
* [[Precision F-Strike]]
** In "A Hundred Days":
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** Jack also calls the entire clergy of the medieval planet ("Demons") sons of bitches when they go to drown Teal'c to see if he's a witch.
* [[Precursor Killers]]: Starting with season four's "Window of Opportunity", the SGC learned that the Ancients suffered from a plague towards the end of their civilization. As the seasons progressed the details were gradually revealed, with the ultimate discovery that the Ori inflicted the plague on the Ancients, inspiring many of them to [[Ascend to
* [[Precursors]]: Probably holds a record for the most precursors, with three ''confirmed'' Precursor races and the implication of many more.
** The Ancients preceded all other life, built the stargates, and had an undefined relationship with [[Ancient Rome]], potentially teaching them how to effectively build roads and speak Latin. They are either [[Benevolent Precursors|benevolent]] or [[Neglectful Precursors|neglectful]], depending on your point of view and perspective on self-determination.
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* [[Psychic Powers]]: "Rite of Passage", "Metamorphosis", "Prophecy", "Prototype". Also, the Priors of the Ori are given telekinetic powers.
* [[Public Domain Artifact]]: Everything from the Sword in the Stone to Thor's Hammer. Usually [[Imported Alien Phlebotinum]] of some sort.
* [[Punch
* [[Punctuation Shaker]]
* [[Puppeteer Parasite]]: The Goa'uld, obviously.
* [[Putting the Band Back Together]]: Season nine starts with SG-1 effectively decommissioned as its three remaining members moved on to new positions following the defeat of the Goa'uld: Teal'c had left Earth to help form the new Free Jaffa Nation government, Daniel Jackson was going to [[Stargate Atlantis
* [[Race Lift]]: When the current host of a Goa'uld does not match the race that inhabited their original Earth domain, the show often documents the chain of events that lead the symbiote to change its human body. However, Zipacna, a [[Native American Mythology|Mayan]] deity, is portrayed by caucasian Kevin Durand with no explanation.
* [[Rage Against the Heavens]]: Strictly against the Ori, but they are clearly a thinly-disguised version of a popular real-life religion. {{spoiler|Although after defeated, people admit the teachings are not bad, it was the soul-stealing it was used for.}}
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** The Goa'uld grant their hosts increased longevity, which can be supplemented by the use of a sarcophagus, so the various System Lords and minor Goa'uld encountered over the course of the series are hundreds, sometimes thousands of years old. Apophis' host was actually a scribe in an Egyptian temple before the overthrow of the Goa'uld on Earth, making him ''at least'' five thousand years old.
** The Jaffa have a life-span much greater than humans; Bra'tac was 133 in the first-season episode episode "Bloodlines," and Teal'c was 101 in the fourth-season episode "The Light".
* [[Real Trailer, Fake Movie|Real Trailer, Fake Series]]: In the midst of all the half-scenes of "200" was one completed trailer for a series starring Teal'c as a [[Private Investigator]]. It appeared right at the opening of act four, right at the end of the real commcercials, to increase the chance of it being mistake for an actual production.
* [[
* [[Red Shirt]]
** Assorted SGC personnel appear in order to make first (violent) contact with the enemy before SG-1 comes in to save the day, particularly in the early seasons.
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* [[Relationship Upgrade]]: Daniel and Vala in the series finale, though {{spoiler|[[Relationship Reset Button|it gets undone by the time reversal]]}}.
* [[Reluctant Warrior]]: Daniel Jackson
* [[Remember the New Guy?]]
** "The Fifth Man" introduces Lieutenant Tyler, a fifth member of SG-1 that Hammond added to the team more than a month ago who had already been on three missions with them. [[Deconstructed Trope|The fact that Hammond does]] ''[[Deconstructed Trope|not]]'' [[Deconstructed Trope|remember Tyler is a big problem]].
** In "The Sentinel", Colonel Sean Grieves and Lt. Kershaw are introduced as members of the rogue NID team that was captured by the SGC in "Shades of Grey." However, neither character appeared in the prior episode, and the "Previously On..." opening of "The Sentinel" edited them into the older footage.
** Lieutenant Colonel Cameron Mitchell became the lead character in season nine, introduced as the new senior officer of SG-1 after the promotion or reassignment of all its former members. Cameron is described as a former F-302 pilot who fought against Anubis in the battle over Antarctica during "Lost City", and several scenes were shot that took place during that episodes time-frame to show other members of SG-1 interacting with him.
* [[Remember When You Blew Up a Sun?]]: [[Trope Namer]]. Samantha Carter blew up a sun. Several of them.
* [[Reset Button]]: Used very rarely (except in time-travel episodes), and then usually not without some kind of repercussions for using the button itself. In the series finale, though, there was a ''literal'' reset button... which ''still'' had a somewhat drastic repercussion for one of the characters.
* [[La Résistance]]: Season five's "The Warrior" saw the formation of an official, organized Jaffa resistance to the Goa'uld, founded by K'tano, former First Prime of the minor Goa'uld Imhotep that killed his ruler after he was inspired by Teal'c's example. {{spoiler|K'tano was eventually revealed to ''be'' Imhotep, and was killed by Teal'c in ritual combat for leadership of the rebellion}}, but the organization continued and eventually become the Free Jaffa Nation after the overthrow of the Goa'uld in season eight.
* [[Retirony]]: While filming his documentary of the SGC, Emmett Bregman recounts a story he heard from a journalist who was in Vietnam who, two days before he was going back to the US, [[Inverted Trope|was shoved out of the path of a bullet by a lieutenant who was killed by that shot.]]
* [[Retool]]: Season eight was intended to be the final season of the show, and saw the conclusion of almost all ongoing storylines: The Goa'uld were overthrown, the Jaffa gained their freedom, the Replicators were destroyed, and there were hints that Jack and Sam were finally going to resolve their sexual tension. When the series was renewed for season nine they introduced two new main characters (Colonel Mitchell and General Landry) removed Jack from the series, and introduced the Ori as the new [[Big Bad]].
* [[Revenge
* [[Reverse Grip]]: In "Emancipation", Sam wields her KA-BAR knife this way against the [[Space Romans|Space Mongol]] chieftain Turghan.
* [[Rhetorical Question Blunder]]
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* [[Rookie Red Ranger]]: Cameron Mitchell, oh so much.
* [[Rousing Speech]]: Subverted in "The Serpent's Lair":
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* [[Running Gag]]
** O'Neill inviting the rest of SG-1 to go fishing and the various ways they uncomfortably refuse. He even asked ''Thor'' to go fishing once. The offer is made across multiple seasons, and even continues after he has left the show when General Landry invites SG-1 to visit O'Neill's cabin.
** O'Neill making frequent references to "memos", usually to explain that he had not seen the latest memo that explained what would be occuring in that episodes.
** Mary Steenburgen, a [[Real Life]] actress, is frequently mentioned as either O'Neill's favorite actress or his sexual fantasy.
** [[Who's
** Daniel being declared KIA or MIA and then reappearing (see [[Death Is Cheap]], above).
** In any episode directed by Martin Wood, look closely for the following [[Funny Background Event]]: Wood in SGC coveralls, talking to Sgt. Siler. One of them carrying a crescent wrench that's gotta be a meter long.
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