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Trivia about ''[[{{ROOTPAGENAME}}]]'' includes:
* [[Pastiche]]: Chapter 131 is a deliberate pastiche of ''[[Dragnet]]'' (with a little ''[[Adam-12]]'' thrown in). Castle explicitly describes it as such.
* [[Shout-Out]]: Many many. Part of the fun is how many and how rapid-fire they are, and the characters they confuse. Just to name a few:
** ''[[Monty Python's Flying Circus]]'', including ''[[Monty Python and the Holy Grail]]''
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** Xander's rapid-fire list of suggested names for Willow's/the Rosenbergs' car.
** His disguise during the research excursion to Sacramento in chapter 87 sounds very much like Kevin Lynch, the nerd character [[Nicholas Brendon]] played in ''[[Criminal Minds]]''
** When Wesley and Xander encounter a vampire child among a group of older vampires outside of Monterey, CA, reference is made to [[Kirstin Dunst]] in ''[[Interview with the Vampire]]'' and [[Anne Rice]] is said to have much to answer for.
** At one point there is an extended exchange lifted almost directly from ''[[Get Smart]]''.
** ''[[Kim Possible]]'' gets referenced in an exchange between Xander and Willow that leaves ''Buffy'' baffled.
** Xander and Buffy together get in a three-in-one in chapter 96:
{{quote|Buffy wondered, [[Pinky and The Brain|"Xander, are you pondering what I'm pondering?”]]
He grinned at her and dropped down a few tones to his dopey voice. "Well sure Brain, but if we put [[Austin Powers|the laser beams on the sharks' heads]], how do we make [[Sharknado|the tornado toss 'em on top of the mayor?"]]}}
** Early in the Initiative arc there is a comparison of the DRI's "super taser" weapon to [[The Secret World of Alex Mack|Alex Mack's]] lightning.
** Chapter 131 is an extended [[Pastiche]] of ''[[Dragnet]]''.
** At one point Willow says the Sunnydale cops make [[Car 54, Where Are You?|Gunther Toody]] look like [[Columbo]]. It's not the first ''Car 54'' comparison she makes about the Sunnydale police.
** When Willow and Xander lead Faith down to Willow's basement workspace, Xander says, [[The Rocky Horror Picture Show|"So come up to the lab, and see what's on the slab!"]] (Faith, predictably, asks which one of them wears the corset and stockings.) He repeats the line several months later when they take Giles, Wesley and others down to the lab, only to have Willow object that she doesn't see anyone "shivering with antici..." "Pation!" Xander completes.
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