The Mentalist/Trivia


 * Hey, It's That Guy!: The appearances of the following people:
 * Stacie Leah Rippy, from ''True Blood (where she was a vampire), a one-time bit-part actor, now getting major roles.
 * Also, Jessica from True Blood has a small role in the episode "Red Brick and Ivy".
 * Jaime Murray, from Hustle.
 * Tina Hobley, although apparently she went uncredited in one episode. Or so Popcultural Osmosis would have you believe...
 * For that matter, Tim Kang was previously best known as "that Asian guy" in the commercials for Cingular, Dairy Queen and Home Depot.
 * HRG is the husband of a murder victim.
 * Bobby Singer shows up as the owner of a stables.
 * Christina Cox, of Nikki & Nora cult fame, turns up as a girlfriend in the same episode.
 * John Billingsley (Dr. Phlox) and Connor Trineer (Charles "Trip" Tucker) guest-starred together in the 11/18 episode "Red Moon."
 * And Hoshi consulted with the CBI (ep 3x12).
 * The show is loaded with former 24 cast members. Just a couple examples are Gregory Itzen (Charles Logan) as Virgil Minelli and Leslie Hope (Teri Bauer) as Kristina Frye.
 * Morena Baccarin (a.k.a. Anna, Inara, Adria) is a matchmaker, recently widowed, in the episode "Every Rose Has Its Thorn."
 * Josh Lyman is.
 * Or not.
 * Christopher Judge (Teal'c) plays a casino's security chief. Jay Avocone (Maj. Charles Kawalsky) is his boss.
 * Simon Tam is a mayor's aide moonlighting as an environmental terrorist.