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* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: Director Shaw, who turns abusing sarcasm into an art form.

** Leo, especially when teasing Steven about his past relationship with Samantha.

* [[Mr. Fanservice]]: Unavoidable when your male lead is Boris Kodjoe.

* [[Fake American]]: Gugu Mbatha-Raw is English. Boris Kodjoe is a naturalized American: he was born in Austria with a German mother and Ghanaian father.

* [[Fake Defector]]

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* [[Hey, It's That Guy!]]: Samantha looks a lot like [[Doctor Who|Martha's little sister Tish]].

*** [[Uncanny Family Resemblance|Probably a cousin]].

** And Steven looks like [[Resident Evil Afterlife|Luther]].

** And Steven looks like [[Resident Evil: Afterlife|Luther]].

** The Blooms run missions for [[Major Dad]].

** In 1.02, [[Burn Notice|Nate Westen]] took espionage lessons from his big brother.

** [[Alias (TV series)|Julian Sark]] shows up in episode 7 as a reporter / corrupt oil executive. His name? Matt ''[[Mission Impossible|Hunt]]''.

** [[Alias (TV series)|Julian Sark]] shows up in episode 7 as a reporter / corrupt oil executive. His name? Matt ''[[Mission: Impossible|Hunt]]''.

** Hoyt tried to buy a nightclub with [[Parks and Recreation|Tom Haverford]].

** Apparently [[Dollhouse|Boyd]] and [[Dollhouse|Victor]] are involved in busting and aiding (respectively) the world of counterfeit.

* [[Ho Yay]]: One sided by Hoyt to Steven.

{{quote|'''Samantha:''' It's the wife of the man you're in love with...}}

* [[Idiosyncratic Wipes]]: Setting changes are announced by postcards come to life, complete with a modern [[Regional Riff]].

* [[Ivy League for Everyone]]: Samantha was recruited while at Yale. [[Truth in Television]], the CIA and other organizations tend to look for intelligent, highly motivated recruits and Yale specifically has a long association with the agency.

* [[Magical Computer]]

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* [[Stock Scream]]: Used in the pilot.

* [[Television Geography]]: In "Not Without My Daughter", there's no way the first scene takes place in North Korea - it's too well-lit. North Korea at night is [http://doctorbulldog.files.wordpress.com/2006/10/northkorea-at-night.jpg a big black empty space above South Korea], not to mention that in Pyongyang, there is a mandatory lighting reduction after 9 pm at night.

** Anybody who has been to Madrid once could write a long list of things that are plain wrong with the pilot, but those [[Decade Dissonance|1970s-looking posters]] advertising [[The World Cup]] with grammar mistakes and a chubby guy in a three-piece suit sporting a mustache straight from [[The Edwardian Era]] <ref>The lamest possible cameo Greg Grunberg could made in his career</ref> deserve an award. And just as we thought soccer was making inroads in the United States...

* [[Tempting Fate]]: The minefield scene.

{{quote|'''Russian:''' I assure you, This is safe procedure. Follow me. *'''''BOOM!'''''*

(Later)

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