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Gibbs: Tony likes to hide behind the face of a clown. But he's the best young agent I've ever worked with.

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Navy NCIS: Naval Criminal Investigative Service (2003) - 35 trivia entries

starring David McCallum, Lauren Holly, Mark Harmon, Michael Weatherly, Pauley Perrette (add more)

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There is a picture of Donald P. Bellisario (one of the show's creators) hanging on the "NCIS Most Wanted Wall."

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Season 6, episode 13 "Broken Bird": The two actors playing Mr. Pain are father and son, William Morgan Sheppard and Mark Sheppard.

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Sean Murray, who plays McGee, appeared in the fourth season of JAG as a naval ensign, and Muse Watson, who plays Gibbs' training officer Mike Franks, played Murray's CO. Murray also had a supporting role in season six as the son of Admiral Chegwidden's love interest.

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Sean Murray is Donald Bellisario's stepson, and his stepbrother Michael played Bud Roberts' brother Mikey on JAG. In addition, his stepsister Troian has played McGee's sister Sarah.

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Gibbs' first and middle names, Leroy and Jethro, are the first and middle names of Donald Bellisario's brother and father, respectively.

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Since the two-part episode "Legend" is also technically part of NCIS: Los Angeles canon, it makes Gibbs, Tony, Abby, and Ducky the only characters who have appeared on the two NCIS shows and its parent series JAG. Abby is the only one who also appears in a stand-alone NCIS: LA episode.

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The final shot of the opening credits is actually part of a scene from the JAG crossover episode "Ice Queen".

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The show originally premiered as "Navy: NCIS", and ran with that title for the first season. Beginning with season 2, the title was shortened to just "NCIS", after the producers convinced CBS (the network had insisted on the longer title) that "Navy: NCIS" was redundant, since the "N" in "NCIS" stands for "Naval".

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In the season 8 episode "Baltimore", a flashback shows Chris Pacci joking to Gibbs about an ulcer and that his gut will be the death of him. In the episode "Dead Man Talking" in season 1, Pacci was murdered and found disemboweled.

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In the episode "Sins of the Father", Tony DiNozzo Sr. calls a Metro cop "Officer Krupke." This is the name of the beat cop in West Side Story, an Academy Award-winning musical that starred Robert Wagner's wife Natalie.

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Michael Weatherly is the only cast member Donald Bellisario allows to ad-lib lines.

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There is an episode where someone is killing people in the same ways McGee describes in his yet unpublished next book. Over the course of the investigation, they question McGee's book publisher. Along the wall of her office, there are pictures of all the authors that the company publishes. Show creator Donald Bellisario is pictured as one of those authors.

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Dead Man Talking (series 1)

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While talking with Amanda Reed, Tony calls himself "Stringfellow", and later tells McGee that he got the name from the TV series Airwolf, which was also created by Donald Bellisario.

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The Immortals (series 1)

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Sean Murray's brother Chad plays the murdered Navy officer in this episode. Sean made his first appearance as McGee three episodes later in "Sub Rosa."

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Yankee White (series 1)

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During the flight on Air Force One, Gibbs mentions the Harrison Ford movie of the same name, and alludes to a double agent inside the Secret Service. The character he's referring to, played by Xander Berkeley, is also named Gibbs.

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When Commander Trapp and Major Kerry collapse, the foam coming out of their mouths is dissolving Alka-Seltzer antacids.

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