Rizzoli & Isles (TV series)/Trivia

Trivia about Rizzoli & Isles (TV series) includes:

Non-Trope Trivia

• The show had a heavy presence on Twitter: Jane, Maura, Frost, Korsak, Frankie, Jr., Angela and Frankie, Sr. all have their own real-life Twitter accounts. Oh, and so do Joe Friday and Bass.
  • And now^[when?] The Dirty Robber, the bar the characters frequent.
    • Even Jane and Maura's tweets have a Les Yay vibe to them, and Jane has some interesting Twitter banter with lesbian entertainment reporter Dorothy Snarker from AfterEllen.com.

Trivia Tropes

• Actor Allusion: While the detectives are investigating a college murder, Frost asks, "Where did you go to college, Korsak?" Korsak's answer: "Didn't, watched Animal House a few times." Korsak is played by Bruce McGill, who played D-Day in that movie.
• Missing Episode: Apparently there are two, according to Twitter.
• Shout-Out: Already quite a few to Dragnet. Jane set her phone to use the show's theme song as a ringtone when Frost calls. And in a gender-flipping version of We Named the Monkey "Jack", Korsak rescues a dog from a freeway and names her Joe Friday (Joe being short for Josephine).
  • Rizzoli & Isles is one of many shows where many of the episode titles are shout-outs to popular songs. See the Shout-Out subpage page for a list.
• Slash Fic: Go to Fanfiction.net, and you will see that almost every story is Jane/Maura. It's not hard to see why these two are constantly being shipped, with all the heavy-duty Les Yay and whatnot.
• Typecasting: Two series in a row may not be enough, but Angie Harmon's last show had her as a tomboyish cop who is married to the job (the difference between Women's Murder Club and Rizzoli & Isles is that her character was divorced in WMC and single by choice on this show). This is also her third law show, but on Law and Order, she was an A.D.A., not a cop. Averted for Sasha Alexander, who was on a law show the last time she was on TV, but she goes from a federal agent who can hang with her male counterparts on NCIS to a more feminine ME with an advanced degree here. Donnie Wahlberg, on the other hand, seems to be type-cast into the cop role.
  • Of course, Harmon played a tomboyish detective on Baywatch Nights.