Dark Angel was the first American television series to feature an openly transgender actress playing a transgender character. In the season one episode "Out", transgender actress Jessica Crockett portrayed "Louise", a young woman on a date with Normal.
Bronk's airplane is a Grumman CSR-110 Albatross owned by the Royal Canadian Air Force. It is a rescue sea-plane with the RCAF symbols and the word "Rescue" covered over. The rest of the distinctive RCAF paint job is intact.
Repeated references to tricolore sauce and pasta tricolore. The word 'tricolore' in this case means having the three colors of the Italian flag, green-white-red. While 'puttenasca' or 'marinara' sauces have fairly specific recipes 'tricolore' can be anything with green-white-red ingredients. To complicate matters pasta tricolore can refer to penne or fusilli pasta made with a mix of spinach-plain-tomato flours.