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Mal: You know, they tell ya to never hit a man with a closed fist, but it is, on occasion, hilarious.

Just before Serenity disembarks from Triumph near the beginning of the episode, there are some small areas of shrubbery and foliage surrounding the exit ramp. But once Serenity takes off, the shrubbery and foliage is gone. See more...

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Firefly (2002) - 9 trivia entries

starring Alan Tudyk, Gina Torres, Morena Baccarin, Nathan Fillion (add more)

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The Alliance troops uniforms are the exact same ones used in Starship Troopers (mentioned on The Train Job commentary).

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Nathan Fillion considers the show to be the best acting job he's ever had.

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Nathan Fillion, Gina Torres, and Adam Baldwin all later played villains on Joss Whedon's other Mutant Enemy productions: Fillion appeared as Caleb in the final five episodes of "Buffy the Vampire Slayer," while Torres played Jasmine in season four of "Angel" and Baldwin played Marcus Hamilton in season five.

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The show's theme song, "The Ballad of Serenity", was written by Joss Whedon.

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The Message (series 1)

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The scene where Kaylee is in the engine room listening to Tracy's message again, on the work bench next to her hammock you can see a small figure of Han Solo frozen in carbonite from "Star Wars".

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Trash (series 1)

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As Mal is bringing the shuttle in to land at the floating luxury home, as he flies to the left of a tower towards the gardens, behind them flying from right to left is the unmistakable silhouette of an SR-71 Blackbird cruising by. Given that this is a planet for the super rich and the heist is of a well known collector of old Earth artifacts, maybe this plane is part of another collector's collection, like John Travolta and his small fleet of planes including an airliner and other exotic aircraft.

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Serenity (1) (series 1)

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According to Joss Whedon and Nathan Fillion in the DVD audio commentary, Whedon had originally written the role of Badger for himself.

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Ariel (series 1)

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When the crew returns from their raid of the Alliance hospital, Malcolm grabs Kaylee from behind and holds her in a friendly hug. This was improvised by Nathan Fillion, and was left in the shot because Joss Whedon felt it was such a natural movement for Malcolm to make.

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Out of Gas (series 1)

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Wash sets up a big red button for Mal to push to call back the shuttles if help arrives. He tells him "When your miracle gets here, just hit this button". After the show got cancelled, Alan Tudyk sent the button to Joss Whedon with the same message enclosed.

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