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The season one theme music (which on DVD can only be found on the pilot) is an arrangement of an excerpt from the song "Once In A Lifetime" by the Talking Heads.
Navi Rawat's character is named "Amita Ramanujan", a reference to Srinivasa Ramanujan, a self-taught Indian mathematician who worked in the first two decades of the 20th century, most notably collaborating with G.H. Hardy in number theory.
The show's original concept had it take place at MIT rather than CalTech. At that time the character of Don was to be played by Gabriel Macht. While David Krumholtz (I) was already cast as Charlie, other actors cast at that stage of the production included Michael Rooker and Anna Deavere Smith.
The university Cal Sci is modeled on the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in Pasadena, developing characters loosely based on a Caltech professor and students. Portions of the series have been filmed on the Caltech campus. Gary Lorden, the chairman of the math department at Caltech, consults for the show. The pilot episode was screened at Caltech as well, receiving a standing ovation at the end.
Charlie's picture from his old high school year book is actually a publicity still from 10 Things I Hate About You (1999).
Don and Charlie are supposed to be about 5 years apart in age. Rob Morrow (I) (Don) is actually almost 16 years older than David Krumholtz (I) (Charlie).
When the producers prepared to pitch the series concept to the network, they prepared an elaborate presentation about the story possibilities, anticipating that the executives would wary of agreeing to such a cerebral premise. However, the network executives were immediately enthusiastic part way through the pitch that the series had good potential and insisted on production beginning immediately.
David Krumholtz (I) grew up in Rego Park, New York and did his first commercial for a Forest Hills restaurant. Rob Morrow (I) played Dr. Joel Fleischman from Forest Hills. Judd Hirsch played John Lacey who lived in Rego Park. Forest Hills and Rego Park are two adjoining areas in Queens New York.
This original version of the pilot episode had the events take place in Boston and at MIT in Cambridge, MA instead of L.A. and CalTech in Pasadena, CA.
In this original version of the pilot, the FBI boss was female and had a much larger role. The character of Terry was a much smaller role, while Don's partner was a man. The surname of the three protagonists in this version of the pilot was Emrick, not Eppes.
The only actors in both versions of the pilot were 'David Krumholtz', Peter MacNicol, Alimi Ballard and Navi Rawat.
Rainn Wilson's character (Martin Grolsch) is named after one of the most popular Dutch beers: Grolsch. Grolsch is named after a town, and it's not at all a common last name, not even in The Netherlands.
At the end of the episode when Alan [Judd Hirsch] offers to watch some classic TV with Don ['Rob Morrow'] as the show goes into ending credits, the theme music to "Taxi" (1978) is heard coming from the TV (the show that Judd Hirsch starred in from 1978-1983).
Larry's cell phone ringtone is the "communicator" sound-effect from "Star Trek" (1966).
Pi is referenced at least twice, which has the approximate value of 3.14, the number of the episode itself: A. When Charlie meets Mildred in the garden, she's reading a book called "Life of Pi". B. When Charlie explains his idea using the refrigerator example, he counts various kinds of foods, and end his list with a pie (a homophone of Pi).
The character Jason Brasher, played by Scott Waara, is a Supervisor in Los Angeles County's Sixth District; at the time of broadcast, there were only five districts in LA County.
The character name of "Ross Moore" is a combination of the names of comic artist Alex Ross (VII) and comic writer Alan Moore (III).
In one of the scenes on the convention floor, Dr. Larry Fleinhardt is shown having purchased several pieces of comic memorabilia, most notably a "Fone Bone" plush doll from the independent comic series "Bone" by Jeff Smith.
Colby mentions that climbers sometimes use drills to bolt in anchors. While that's true, such permanent alterations have been considered poor form in the climbing community for some years, for several reasons. One problem is that they make routes easier. Poorly-placed anchors can also be dangerous. More seriously, permanent alterations can be seen as a type of vandalism; they violate "Leave No Trace" principles, especially on popular routes.
Skeet (Theresa) mentions that a new climbing route "might even be as hard as a 5.14"; later, Pete says that it "might be the first 5.15 in California". These are references to the Yosemite Decimal System (YDS), one of several grading systems for the difficulty of climbing routes. The major numbers run from 1 (walkable) to 5. Originally, the scale was planned to run from 5.1 to 5.9, but the development of new techniques and disputes over relative difficulty led to expansion past 5.10 and the addition of a letter grade. In September, 2008, Chris Sharma completed a climb on Clark Mountain in California, which he called Jumbo Love. This route has a proposed YDS rating of 5.15b.
Aya Sumika's first appearance as a series regular.
The radio code names Goldilocks and Papa Bear said by Dr. Larry Fleinhardt in front of the Hollywood sign are originally from the sitcom "Hogan's Heroes" (1965).
This episode is a follow up to the Season Three premiere.
AUSA Robin Brooks says that she'll hold a suspect responsible if his cohorts kill a federal officer, and should that happen she has 'good seats in the gallery watching them cook you.' California has never used an electric chair as a form of execution. At the time of broadcast, the only two approved forms were by lethal injection or the gas chamber, and the gas chamber required a special request. Federal cases were carried out according to the laws of the states in which the crime was committed or for specific crimes by lethal injection.
Emilio Estevez directed this episode, reuniting him with David Krumholtz (I) after Krumholtz appeared in Estevez' passion project Bobby (2006).
When hacking into a computer the password is shown as LEONARDSHELDON4A. Leonard and Sheldon live in Apt. 4A on "Big Bang Theory, The" (2007).
The episode title and other elements of the story are both based on the robot stories of the late Isaac Asimov. The First Law of Robotics is, "No robot may harm a human being, or through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm." The AI program is named Bailey and Daniel Robertson's password used in the opening scene is Daniel R. Olivaw. Elijah Bailey and R. Daneel Olivaw are the main characters in the Asimov novels The Caves of Steel and The Naked Sun. The 'R' in Olivaw's name stands for 'robot'.
The episode title refers to Isaac Asimov's three laws of robotics, the first being "A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm."
The name of the company developing the AI, "Steel Cave," is a reference to one of the Asimov Robot Novels, "Caves of Steel".

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