Jon Gries portrays Roger Linus in the Season 3 episode "The Man Behind the Curtain".
- Gries played 'Uncle Rico' in Napoleon Dynamite and 'Lazlo' in Real Genius.
- Played the role of 'Broots' in the TV-series The Pretender from 1996 to 2000.
- This TV-series is also about a company (The Centre) that extorts prodigies to solve mysteries and uses the knowledge for clandestine projects (cf. The Lost Experience).