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The below info was taken from posts made to the scifi.com Bboard made

by Eberts (Mike McCafferty) .

So when "I" appears in the posts its Eberts speaking, not me.

And all of the Eberts files are in order of episodes aired.

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CAT AND MOUSE

* The Chinese guy who got killed in the intro works at Stu Segall on occasion.

* Daniel Roebuck (agent Miller) is one of those actors that keep popping up. You may remember him from

"Matlock", "US Marshalls" or "The Late Shift" as a be-chinned Jay Leno. He makes a great "Guy you love to

hate" , except on the set in which he was fabulous. Someone pointed out that it's strange that an actor of his caliber

would take that a small role unless he might come back sometime. Strange indeeed... (hmmm...)

* I don't believe Eberts is Jewish, but out of deference to Hobbes he wore a yarmulke (or kippah) during the funeral.

* The funeral once again occurred at Mt. Hope Cemetary.

* Eddie ad-libbed a funny line at the end of the book keeping scene that got cut. At the end, he looks at the books

and asks "Who ordered the sushi?" Eberts says nothing but sheepishly buries his head in the book.

* Eddie also ad-libbed the "He's already invisible" line.

* The number to the president is on speed dial. Originally it was left unclear that it was the president that Miller was

speaking to. Josh Butler set it during rehearsals.

BEHOLDER

* I loved the tri-dimensional data viewers! What fun they were. If you listen, Darien and I pronounce "data" in it's

two different forms. This is because I pronounced it differently on different takes and Vince followed my lead. The

result as you may well guess is two different takes in one scene. Tomato, Tomato, potato...

* The slides actually featured 3-D shots from the movie "Dinosaur" except one that had disney shots. I used that one.

The hard part was trying to speak about serious topics while looking at Bambi and Snow White.

* Someone pointed out that I have the difficult job of leading beautiful women around the agency. Yes, it is grueling

but Eberts somehow carries on. In the lab scene, the script only says that 'The Offical looks at Eberts, who then

escorts Leila out.' My question was, how would Leila know it was time to leave if no one said anything? While I

pondered the idea of just dragging her out unannounced, I managed to talk Josh into letting me ad-lib a little line so

that she would know.

* More praise for Vince. The actress who played Leila had to act blind, Vince WAS blind. The contacts that gave

his eyes the milky appearance made his vision completely blurred. As a result, most of the day he had to be led

around by the make-up crew. The high point was during a break when Eddie was telling a long and involved joke

to everyone where the punch-line was visual. Vince had to have it explained to him. It was only then that I really

realised how much this guy gives to the show.

* My toughest run-on sentence was the second scene in The Officials office. It was such a mouth full and Josh is a

stickler for accuracy that many a take were wasted getting the line.

* The beach at the ocean during the photo shoot is Ocean Beach in Point Loma, the sunset was in La Jolla.

* The last of our "Cemetary" trilogy. One more and I think we win a prize or something...

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