Funny Facts About the Mentalist Show
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In most of season five, Amanda Righetti (Grace Van Pelt) was pregnant. Since it didn't fit in with the story line, she can only be seen sitting behind a computer or in dark shadows in almost every scene, and doesn't go into the field.
Owain Yeoman is in fact Welsh; he puts on the American accent he uses, which even fooled the other cast members, as he always stayed in character, even when the cameras weren't rolling.
Lapsang souchong, the tea that Patrick Jane drinks, is a type of black tea originating from China. Black tea is called "hong cha" in Chinese, which translates literally to "red tea".
In most episodes the victim or perpetrator has a name indicative of his true character. Examples: McTyranny, Quick, Just, Unjust.
At the end of the pilot episode Jane brings the team donuts to celebrate closing the case. The case-closing celebration becomes a CBI tradition, with the food of choice changing to pizza.
Patrick Jane's personal car is an early 1970s model Citroën DS, manufactured in France from 1955-75, and sold in the U.S. from 1956-72. The DS was the first mass production car to offer hydropneumatic self-leveling suspension with an option for the driver to manually raise or lower the chassis at the push of a button.
The concept for the show (a man who is hyper-observant and fakes being a psychic) is the same as the series Psych (2006), which aired two years earlier.
The Citroën DS 20 he drives is the same one Rupert Giles drives in Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Patrick Jane's birth date is September 16, 1974.
Charlotte Jane, the daughter of Patrick Jane, received her name from producer Bruno Heller's father, who wrote Hush, Hush, Sweet CHARLOTTE, and What ever Happened to Baby JANE.
Of the five original lead actors of the show, Tim Kang (Kimball Cho) is the only one who is from California, the show's primary setting. Simon Baker (Patrick Jane) is from Tasmania, Australia; Robin Tunney (Teresa Lisbon) is from Illinois; Owain Yeoman (Wayne Rigsby) is from Wales, UK and Amanda Righetti (Grace Van Pelt) is from Utah.
It's mentioned that Lisbon is from Chicago, which actually is Robin Tunney's hometown.
Many fans of the show believe this series' main character Patrick Jane to be inspired by the fictional character of Sherlock Holmes. Jane can read a crime scene with his observation skills and uses his team as his own version of John Watson/Inspector Lestrade and has an enemy with Red John being Patrick's own version of Professor James Moriarty. Other fictional 21st Century Detectives inspired by Sherlock Holmes are:
- Dr. Gil Grissom and D.B. Russell, from CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (2000).
- Detective Robert Goren from Law & Order: Criminal Intent (2001).
- Adrian Monk from Monk (2002).
- Shawn Spencer from Psych (2006).
Also, even though he doesn't use his detective skills to solve crimes, Medical Doctor Gregory House from House M.D. (2004), uses Sherlock Holme's investigative technique to diagnose medical diseases.
The first seven minutes of the opening of The Mentalist has Jane living vicariously through a character named June who kills the man who killed her daughter, just as he would like to do.
Frequently there is talk of putting out a "BOLO" on a suspect or missing person. This is an acronym for "Be On The Lookout", a term synonymous to an APB--All Points Bulletin--stating all the specifics of the person(s) being searched for.
You can see Patrick Jane mocking or taunting people about relationships while keep wearing ring whenever a female approaches for date or relationship, despite being manipulative, mentalist he suffers a condition until last season which is called Philophobia, which means being afraid of love or relationship.
The actor who played Craig O'Laughlin also had to be a member of the Blake Association, and he had to get a three-point tattoo on the members of the association, given that the actor had a relationship with the actor playing Grace. Grace should have seen this tattoo, and after understanding the story of this association and the tattoo for members, she should have referred to it, but this did not happen.
Season 7 Episode 11 (Byzantium) Media persons are referred to as animals twice. Once as vultures (2:32) and then as sharks (35:18)...
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Every episode title, until Season 6, Episode 8, "The Mentalist: Red John (2013)", contains a reference to the color red, like "Paint it Red", "Scarlet Fever", "Russet Potatoes", or "Bloodshot". This is because Patrick Jane's nemesis is the ingenious, sadistic serial killer Red John. Beginning with Season 6, Episode 9, "The Mentalist: My Blue Heaven (2013)", Red John has been caught, so this theme is discontinued.
A victim of Red John is able to write "He is Mac" on the wall, misspelling McAllister, but giving away the real name of Red John. Another possibility is that the sentence written on wall reads "He is Mar", meaning either "He is Marshal" (confusing Red John's occupation as Sheriff with that of a Marshal) or, more likely, "He is Marked" referring to the shoulder tattoo the members of the Blake Association have.
The series premiere and series finale are mirrored reversals of each other. Whereas "The Mentalist: Pilot (2008)" begins with Jane having lost his wife and daughter, "The Mentalist: White Orchids (2015)" ends with him and Lisbon beginning their new life as a married couple and her revealing that she's pregnant.
Xander Berkeley, who played Red John, was born the same year as the Happy Face Killer, Keith Jesperson. According to 'The Mentalist and the Search for Red John', this is one of two reasons he was chosen.
The only actor in the first six seasons, with one exception, to have the word "red" in his name, frontwards or backwards, is Xander (xan-DER) Berkeley, the actor who played Red John. This is reported to be on purpose as one of the reasons he was chosen to be Red John.
Red John never made an attack, nor directly influenced the events of any season premiere. He never attacked, nor acted in some way, shape or form in every single season finale. In general, the season premieres dealt with the repercussions of Red John's actions from the previous season's finale.
Red John's right-hand man, Oscar Cordero (Cor-DER-o) and his right-hand woman, Rebecca Anderson (an-DER-son) are the only two characters ever on The Mentalist with the word "red" frontwards or backwards in their name except for the three characters named 'Xander,' who were named after the actor who played Red John.
The original term Mentalist came from Harry Houdini. Harry Houdini disliked mediums and psychics.
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