The Pentaverate

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1. #001

   The Pentaverate was first mentioned in So I Married an Axe Murderer (1993), the film written by Charlie's father. The deep conspiracy claims that a group of five men rules the world and gathers every three years at a secret mansion known as "The Meadows".

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2. #002

   Paul Myers, credited as Additional Crew, is Mike Myers's brother. Mike had his brother Paul serve as the stand-in for his characters, as Oscar Isaac did with his brother Michael Benjamin Hernandez on Moon Knight (2022). Paul Myers also played a frozen Austin Powers (double) in the Austin Powers films.

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3. #003

   The interiors of 'The Meadows' were actually filmed at the Freemasons' Hall of the United Grand Lodge of England in London.

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4. #004

   The secret underground railway between New York and Dubrovnik is in reality the London Post Office Railway, which carried mail beneath the streets of London from 1927 to 2003.

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5. #005

   The uniform of the Pentaverate guards resembles the uniform worn by the guards of the Grand Duchy of Fenwick in Peter Sellers's The Mouse That Roared (1959). Sellers played multiple roles in that film, as Mike Myers does in this series.

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6. #006

   The name of the lead character played by Mike Myers is Ken Scarborough. Myers was born in the Scarborough district of Toronto.

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7. #007

   The music in the title sequence (and at times used as part of the score) is Orbital's "The Box", released in 1996.

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8. #008

   The music that plays every time the mustachioed man appears is from Stanley Kubrick's "Eyes Wide Shut".

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9. #009

   The helicopter and the 'you've just been poisoned' window are other references connected to 'The Prisoner'.

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10. #010

    In Season 1, Episode 3, Ken walks down a corridor lined with portraits depicting former members of the Pentaverate. He settles in front of a likeness of KFC's Colonel Sanders. So in So I Married an Axe Murderer, Colonel Sanders is the last person Mr. McKenzie lists as a member of The Pentaverate (1993). His list is as follows: 'The Queen, the Vatican, the Gettys, the Rothschilds, and Colonel Sanders before you had the breasts lifted!'.

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11. #011

    About 15 minutes into the first episode, during the transition from the welcome scene to the medical scene, the music switches to Phil Collins's famous drum sound from "In the Air Tonight".

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12. #012

    The interior of the jet is the same as the one used in the film 365 Days (2020).

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