Metal Gear Solid's score was composed by a number of Konami in-house musicians, including Metal Gear and Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake composer Kazuki Muraoka. It set the style for the later games in the series.

Contestants must be legal U.S. residents and, for the first three seasons, had to be 16 to 24 years of age. For the fourth season, the upper age limit was raised to 28 to attract more mature and diverse contestants.

The contestants selected despite lack of singing talent for appearance before the panel provide a major attraction to the viewing audience as they simultaneously proclaim their talent while turning out gut-wrenching performances which are ridiculed by the judges.

In October 2003, Maryland First Lady Kendel Ehrlich, the wife of Governor Robert Ehrlich, was criticized for saying that she would like to shoot Britney Spears in an address to a domestic violence conference. After her comments made national headlines, she was forced to apologize.

Power violence is a sub-genre of grindcore that tends to refocus it's musical energies on the original crust punk and hardcore punk, that had created the genre (grindcore) in the first place.

USS Venture is a starship in the fictional Star Trek universe. Like the Enterprise-D, the Venture was a Galaxy class starship. She was first seen in the Deep Space Nine episode The Way of the Warrior, Part II.