In the first episode (pilot), the boys pull an elaborate scheme in order to steal a super fast computer chip. The company that they steal it from is called EComCon.
I had recently watched the 60's thriller "Seven Days in May" - a movie about an attempted overthrow of the Federal government by the Joint Cheifs of Staff. The plot to overthrow the government was called - ECOMCON.
Anyone else pick up on that?
Yeah, they have little throwaways like that all through the show - I noticed that during the series premiere showing.
I haven't seen "Seven Days in May" in years - I have both movie versions of Burdick and Wheeler's other novel "Fail-Safe" on tape as well as copies of the novels "Fail-Safe," "Seven Days in May," and "The Ugly American." Those guys could really write, and they did their research before popping off in print.
More recently, "Seven Days" sanded off the serial numbers on that plot idea and ran with it in a two-part episode - unfortunately, nowhere near as good as "Seven Days in May."
Carter and Company also (both in Lone Gunmen and X-Files) occasionally set scenes in an Army base called "Fort Marlene," which is a pun referring to the US Army's real-life biological defense lab "Fort Detrick" (you have to be an old man like me to remember that there was a German movie star named Marlene Dietrich - get it now?).