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A snappy, one-liner comment just before the commercial break or opening sequence. Often takes this form: The cut is what differentiates this from a standard One-Liner. Commonly found on detective/mystery series; a frequent (but not exclusive) use of this is when the detectives make a pithy Gallows Humor comment about the crime of the week in the Cold Open, followed by a cut to the credits. The usual purpose is to convey a sense that the detective has seen this level of horror before, and that he's so used to it he can make a joke about it. Often will include a Glasses Pull for emphasis. Due to the CSI-verse's abuse of this trope, it's also become a Stock Parody of the franchise. Used frequently enough, the audience can be trained to expect one of these. Comments after the one-liner are usually a gag. Failure to make the one-liner means the situation is serious. Real Life use by actual police detectives is seriously frowned on, as it is considered disrespectful to the deceased and/or their families. |
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Law & Order: Special Victims Unit has Elliot pull one on occasion, as it is implied multiple times that working at SVU has desensitized the detectives a bit. Olivia once or twice lampshaded the inappropriate nature of this by giving Elliot an annoyed look. In one slightly less serious (at least initially) episode, the detectives are investigating a remote-transmitting toilet-cam set up in a coffee shop. Most of the shop's patrons are on laptops. | |
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Trish and Dante share their one-liner. | |
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Dragon Age: In Dragon Age II's "Mark of the Assassin" DLC, snarky-Hawke pulls off a one-liner so intentionally cringe-worthy it must be a Shout-Out to CSI: Miami. After the villain, an Orlesian duke, falls off a cliff, Hawke says, "Looks like the Duke...has fallen from grace." Complete with a shot of Hawke walking away from the cliff with his/her companions framing him/her on the background. For some reason, it's funnier with the Fenris and Anders formation. The only things missing were the sunglasses and this. |
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Astrid: Fournier, The Coroner, pulls an understated one on Raphe in "Memento Mori". Off Astrid's deduction that a murdered Benedictine monk wiped off the candle spike he was fatally stabbed with, Raphe wonders aloud what kind of victim would protect his own murderer. | |
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Dead man found dressed as a giant cigarette; "Let's just say it now to get it over with, Smoking Kills." This was shamelessly lifted from Grindhouse Planet Terror, though, of course, the delivery style was entirely different. | |
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Futari wa Pretty Cure Dragon: Parodied to the letter after prima ballerina Wing Lynn injures her ankle during a rehearsal. Bonus points for Susan Chan doing a Glasses Pull from Hammerspace. Done again in episode 36 when a burglar uses previously-unknown psychic powers to temporarily knock out a police force. A police officer does a glasses pull and subtly hints that he'll be facing a lot of charges when he's captured. Bonus points for the officer in question being named after the former Trope Namer. |
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Bones: Deconstructed in "The Priest in the Churchyard". Bones makes a quip about consecrated ground and has a complaint filed against her for it. The series mocks this trope in "The Beaver in the Otter". After describing how a corpse had been shot with a cannon filled with bric-a-brack, pelted by a crowd, and set on fire at a pep rally: |
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CSI: NY: On discovering that a corpse that has fallen from the Empire State Building has had its brain go out of the hole in its skull, Stella opines, "Looks like a no-brainer." Lampshaded by her colleagues: Dead man found dressed as a giant cigarette; "Let's just say it now to get it over with, Smoking Kills." This was shamelessly lifted from Grindhouse Planet Terror, though, of course, the delivery style was entirely different. Lampshaded on the 21 March 2007 episode, when Det. Flack responds to Messer's failed attempt at a Quip To Black by giving it a numerical grade like an Olympic judge. Body discovered sitting peacefully at a park bench; when Lindsay tries to figure out what happened and connect the clues they have there, Mac promptly tells her "Not everything's connected," grabbing the corpse's cleanly decapitated head and lifting it off its body. Man found buried in a potting bed with a buzzard picking at him. Mac's response: "I thought the only vultures that lived in this city worked on Wall Street." The episode, "Hammer Down," pulled off a two-person Quip To Black: Another when a would-be Adventurer Archaeologist is found dead: |
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Kojak had several. For example, upon seeing a young woman's dead body, "Baby, why'd you have to go get yourself killed and ruin both our mornings?" | |
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MythBusters: A CSI-themed episode naturally parodies this as well, complete with Who sample. Only it cut to the next narrative segment instead of commercial. | |
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Dragnet ran on this trope long before CSI made it a staple. Every scene change was punctuated by some pithy one-liner from Friday or some other character, followed by a music sting as the scene changed. The same applied to both TV series, as well. | |
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Back to the Future: "Roads? Where we're going we don't need *glasses flip* roads!" | |
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On The Dukes of Hazzard, the narrator (Waylon Jennings) usually employed one of these to accompany each Commercial Break Cliffhanger. | |
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In Borderlands 2, the side-quest "Won't Get Fooled Again" is a CSI: Miami parody where you help a detective in Sanctuary solve a murder mystery. If you solve it correctly, the detective will gun down the suspect before he can escape then make a wisecrack, complete with Glasses Pull. | |
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Shows up twice in Bookhunter. Agent Bay defuses a perp-and-weapon standoff, by shooting the perp in the stomach. As the man lies on the floor, bleeding and screaming in pain, Agent Bay just says "Shhhhhhhhhh." The pursuit of another book thief ends with said thief being flung through a plate glass window, into the library's pro-literacy diorama. |
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Community: Played with in the Season 1 episode "Investigative Journalism". Jack Black plays an abruptly introduced new character, Buddy, who is desperate to become part of the study group. This was parodied during their Law & Order episode, "Basic Lupine Urology". After a smashed yam is found in the biology class (the yam being the group's now ruined class project), Troy and Abed are tasked with finding out who killed it. They stand over the yam, having this exchange: |
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The meme has since been unofficially retired since one of the veteran posters pulled it off Hamlet style. VEEEEEERRRRRILYYYYYYYYYY!! | |
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Dragon Age: Inquisition: During the Jaws of Hakkon DLC, the Inquisitor can stand in judgment of a bear. Yes...a bear. Accept and s/he can quip, "Very well. I wouldn't want things in the hold to become... unbearable. | |
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Melinda and Melinda: The Framing Device ends the film justly: | |
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Dead Rising 2: Chuck Greene has a tendency to drop one of these after taking out the more unsympathetic psychopaths. For bonus points, he can even get a pair of shades. | |
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Supernatural: Parodied in "Changing Channels", where the boys are Trapped in TV Land and have to act out a CSI clone. Both of them actually do both this and Glasses Pull about a dozen times, mostly to distract The Trickster. | |
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Even Sesame Street has got in one the CSI parodies, as seen in this video for Entertainment Weekly. The "YEEAAAH" eventually gets stuck on a loop. | |
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In Brooklyn Nine-Nine, when Peralta and Santiago are working a case with the best detective in the NYPD, they have a competition of trying to do this in an effort to impress him. Neither are very effective. Though he still tries to ask out Santiago anyways. | |
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World of Warcraft: In the third expansion, Stormwind's town guard is investigating the murder of a beloved horse (and his two owners). To top it all off, Blizzard gives this NPC a fairly ridiculous looking pair of sunglasses◊. And just in case you don't get the joke first time, said NPC then goes on to crack several more quips to black in the course of the quest line. |
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An episode of Cops: L.A.C. opens with the police attempting to break up a protest over what used to be a naturist beach, Nathan trying to get the naturists to leave for one of two other nude beaches up the coast. They're interrupted when Priscilla finds a suitcase washing up on shore, and Daniel opens it up to find a severed human leg inside. | |
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Wesker (after capturing the Marvel superheroes to experiment on them): "The fantastic specimens from this new world should yield zombies to truly...marvel." He's even wearing sunglasses (as always). The fact he's talking to himself, and that he laughs at his own one-liner, might slightly diminish the effect, however. | |
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Mario Party 6: "Seer Terror", an unlockable minigame, consists almost entirely of Bowser making bad things happen to you and making witty remarks in the guise of fortunes. "You'll feel crushed by stress!" he'll say after you're crushed by a Thwomp. | |
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xkcd: Isaac Newton parodies Horatio Caine's one-liners in this strip. Rick Astley does it in this one. |
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Stargate-verse: Stargate SG-1: Parodied in "200". Martin Lloyd pitches a number of show ideas, including T'ealc P.I., a shameless ripoff of Shaft and Magnum, P.I. featuring a scene where the one liner is simply Teal'c's Character Catchphrase "Indeeeed." Stargate Atlantis: Vegas is set in an alternate reality, where Sheppard never joined the SGC. "Detective John Sheppard" pulls a one liner at the end of The Teaser. |
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Parodied in American Dad! when someone from animal control attempts this in complete with him putting on shades, jumping up and yelling "Yeeeeeeeeagh!". but it falls flat when his friend doesn't get the reference. | |
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The fourth Codex Alera book has one at the end of a chapter that's just begging for an anachronistic Glasses Pull: | |
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Dragon Ball Z Abridged parodies this. Krillin tries to set one up after he and Gohan take out a pair of Freeza's soldiers, all it does is give him his first owned count point of the season. No glasses or The Who though. | |
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In the "C. S. Pie" episode of Ultra Fast Pony, once Pinkie sees that her cake's been eaten in the opening scene, she says, "I guess that this mystery food thief... takes the cake." For bonus points, the opening was redone in the style of CSI, complete with theme song change. Twilight attempts another one later in the episode, but because it isn't a pun, it fails. | |
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Stargate SG-1: Parodied in "200". Martin Lloyd pitches a number of show ideas, including T'ealc P.I., a shameless ripoff of Shaft and Magnum, P.I. featuring a scene where the one liner is simply Teal'c's Character Catchphrase "Indeeeed." | |
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In The Key to a Successful Interview, Nabiki keeps a pair of sunglasses in her pocket and this as her ringtone. She loans them to Ranma on occasion. | |
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CSI-verse: Abused this so much it became the Stock Parody of the CSI franchise, particularly CSI: Miami. CSI is a famous example. Gil Grissom made these so frequently that he used to be the Trope Namer, which became rife for Self-Deprecation later in the series. A Self-Parody appears in the episode "Fight Night": Grissom delivered the usual quip and the credit music started...then his cell phone rang, the credit music reversed, and the teaser went on for about two more minutes before the real credits started. Lampshaded in "Crow's Feet" when Catherine Willows, who had reported to the scene and therefore got the chance to quip, stated "It's my turn now" before the credits rolled. Double Subverted in "Iced". Upon finding a college couple dead in a dorm room, Grissom gets his usual comment in, before Greg Sanders, The Lab Rat, ruins the moment, leaving Grissom to leave on a less poignant note. Lampshaded by "Meet Market". With Grissom on sabbatical it is left to someone else to pick up the slack. Subverted in "Grissom's Divine Comedy". The opener ends with a shot of a very ill Gil Grissom at home, making himself chicken soup and coughing into his handkerchief. When his cell phone rings, calling him in to handle a case, Grissom says nothing...he just sighs in frustration. Roll credits. Double Subverted in "Two and a Half Deaths". After finding a dead comedy actress with a rubber chicken stuffed in her mouth (it's a long, complex and hilarious story), the lab techs ask Grissom why he hasn't done a One-Liner, suggesting "I suspect fowl play" and "This is poultry evidence." Grissom goes for neither, instead making a Lame Pun Reaction: "Dying is easy. Comedy is hard." "A Space Oddity": Hodges and Simms are at a sci-fi convention when a corpse is found. Hodges calls up Captain Brass, flips open his phone communicator-style, and tells him there's a problem with one of the exhibitors: "He's dead, Jim." Parodied in "Field Mice".. Hodges is recounting the story of an old murder case to two rookie CSIs, challenging them to solve it. On two occasions Hodges' story appears to end with a Quip To Black, complete with the intro music starting to fade in...only for someone to interrupt, lampshading the ridiculous nature of the quip. He finally manages to play the trope straight on the third attempt. In another episode, the characters are all being filmed in a COPS-esque derivative. Grissom delivers his one liner, and there's a pause, and then the producers ask him to repeat it because they didn't catch it. Roll commercials. The final such one-liner in the show goes to Grissom in "Immortality", the show's original finale. Now an independent eco-warrior, he holds up two severed shark fins in front of a bunch of cops wondering why he has broken into a ship and comments "Looks like someone jumped a shark." CSI: Miami: Main character Horatio Caine reputedly pulls a quip-to-black almost Once an Episode, inevitably following the format of one-liner âž¡ Glasses Pull âž¡ opening credits that begin with the opening Metal Scream from The Who's "Won't Get Fooled Again". Even Caruso's cast mates do Horatio impressions. That said, it's something of a Beam Me Up, Scotty!: most of Caine's one liners aren't actually quips, but rather straightforward observations about the case made in a ridiculously deadpan manner that the Metal Scream unintentionally makes sound like a dad joke. CSI: NY: On discovering that a corpse that has fallen from the Empire State Building has had its brain go out of the hole in its skull, Stella opines, "Looks like a no-brainer." Lampshaded by her colleagues: Dead man found dressed as a giant cigarette; "Let's just say it now to get it over with, Smoking Kills." This was shamelessly lifted from Grindhouse Planet Terror, though, of course, the delivery style was entirely different. Lampshaded on the 21 March 2007 episode, when Det. Flack responds to Messer's failed attempt at a Quip To Black by giving it a numerical grade like an Olympic judge. Body discovered sitting peacefully at a park bench; when Lindsay tries to figure out what happened and connect the clues they have there, Mac promptly tells her "Not everything's connected," grabbing the corpse's cleanly decapitated head and lifting it off its body. Man found buried in a potting bed with a buzzard picking at him. Mac's response: "I thought the only vultures that lived in this city worked on Wall Street." The episode, "Hammer Down," pulled off a two-person Quip To Black: Another when a would-be Adventurer Archaeologist is found dead: |
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The Unspeakable Vault (of Doom): YEAAAHHHAARRGL! | |
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Phineas and Ferb: From the episode "Finding Mary McGuffin McGuffin": Lampshaded in "Rollercoaster: The Musical", after Doofenshmirtz finishes a Broadway performance of his own: |
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Rad Spencer (to She-Hulk, while fighting some mooks): "Hey, I said I'd take you to dinner and a show. This is the show part." | |
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The Onion's AV Club forums have a commenter who calls him-/herself David Caruso and posts nothing but one-lines, with the Glasses Pull and YYYYYEEEAAAAHHHH copied from CSI. | |
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In another episode, the characters are all being filmed in a COPS-esque derivative. Grissom delivers his one liner, and there's a pause, and then the producers ask him to repeat it because they didn't catch it. Roll commercials. | |
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Monk: Parodied in "Mr. Monk gets Lotto Fever", where Randy Disher repeatedly tries (and fails) to pull a snappy one-liner off. Though really, the phrase "Randy repeatedly tries (and fails) to say something clever" could be applied to any episode he appears in. And smashed into pieces in "Happy Birthday, Mr. Monk" when Stottlemeyer does a couple one liners about a body followed by Monk describing how the man would probably have been alive as his body was sliced up and crushed. |
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Law & Order'': Before Briscoe joined the cast, it was generally Mike Logan who delivered the one-liner. In the later seasons it's usually Cyrus Lupo. During Jerry Orbach's tenure, it was usually Lennie Briscoe's line. These lines can also be delivered by other characters. An episode opens with two runners, one of whom falls down. The other asks him "Are you okay?", and the fallen runner says "Yeah, but he's not," and the camera cuts to a body. A witness in a murder trial was killed before testifying against her ex, and the gunfire killed a bird as well. The detectives and the DA muse about how her ex found her. |
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Mirai Nikki The Abridged Series: During the first episode, right after Yukkiteru kills Three by destroying his phone, he is rightfully confused about what just happened: | |
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One of the subcategories on Comixed.com, a now-defunct Cheezburger Network yonkoma creation site, is a Quip To Black (usually featuring Horatio Caine but occasionally characters from other series as well) with the last panel being a establishing shot of Miami (or wherever) with YEAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH captioned across it. | |
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Law & Order: Frequently used at the end of The Teaser before the credits roll. Law & Order'': Before Briscoe joined the cast, it was generally Mike Logan who delivered the one-liner. In the later seasons it's usually Cyrus Lupo. During Jerry Orbach's tenure, it was usually Lennie Briscoe's line. These lines can also be delivered by other characters. An episode opens with two runners, one of whom falls down. The other asks him "Are you okay?", and the fallen runner says "Yeah, but he's not," and the camera cuts to a body. A witness in a murder trial was killed before testifying against her ex, and the gunfire killed a bird as well. The detectives and the DA muse about how her ex found her. Law & Order: Special Victims Unit has Elliot pull one on occasion, as it is implied multiple times that working at SVU has desensitized the detectives a bit. Olivia once or twice lampshaded the inappropriate nature of this by giving Elliot an annoyed look. In one slightly less serious (at least initially) episode, the detectives are investigating a remote-transmitting toilet-cam set up in a coffee shop. Most of the shop's patrons are on laptops. |
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From Futurama Leela laments that she and the crew are in a difficult situation and wishes for a few minutes to think of a solution, then the show cuts to commercial. | |
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The West Wing frequently had someone make a dry comment about whatever impending crisis had just been set in motion before the smach cut to the credits. | |
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Chick Tracts: Jack Chick climaxed his tract "The Pilgrimage" with this exchange in Heaven: | |
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This was referenced in an episode of Joan of Arcadia in which a police officer makes a quippy comment about a crime scene, followed by a Law & Order-esque musical sting. Her partner gives her a bewildered look, to which she responds, "What? Too Law and Order?" | |
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On the WrestleCrap Radio podcast, Blade Braxton's character C. S. Irwin was a parody of Horatio Caine. Ostensibly the podcast's TNA correspondent, Caine (like all previous correspondents) never actually recapped TNA; instead, he'd do a sort of TNA-related "Shaggy Dog" Story that ended in a lame pun, followed by the signature Who music. | |
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Parodied on Saturday Night Live with "CSI: Sarasota" featuring an elderly pair of detectives. Each of Betty White's lines is a one-liner accompanied by removing her sunglasses and YYEEEAAAHHHH!!!!! | |
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The opening cutscene of Left 4 Dead 2. | |
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SpongeBob SquarePants: At the end of "Pizza Delivery": At the end of "Scaredy Pants", after SpongeBob's exposed brain scares every Bikini Bottomite at the Halloween party, including Patrick and the Flying Dutchman: At the end of "Whale of a Birthday": |
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Delightfully parodied on an episode of Two and a Half Men - Alan's ditzy buxom girlfriend Kandi gets the Grissom role on a show called "Stiffs." The video shows it far better than I ever could. | |
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Marvel vs. Capcom 3: some characters have this in their endings. (There are lots of other quips in the games, but these ones count as Quip to Black because they will be the last line of the game when playing as these characters.) Wesker (after capturing the Marvel superheroes to experiment on them): "The fantastic specimens from this new world should yield zombies to truly...marvel." He's even wearing sunglasses (as always). The fact he's talking to himself, and that he laughs at his own one-liner, might slightly diminish the effect, however. Chun-Li (after Kingpin tells her he'll be out of prison in less than a day ): "Well, then I guess I've got something to do tomorrow." Trish and Dante share their one-liner. Blade: Rad Spencer (to She-Hulk, while fighting some mooks): "Hey, I said I'd take you to dinner and a show. This is the show part." |
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Seto Kaiba pulls one at the end of Yu-Gi-Oh! The Abridged Series Episode 44. | |
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An exceptionally hilarious one by a YouTube commenter: | |
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Parodied often and hard on The Soup, also, with David Caruso even winning a soup award and recording an acceptance speech. | |
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Played with on The Wire, in an effort to distinguish itself from traditional cop shows. The pilot opens with McNulty questioning a witness about a dead kid named "Snot Boogie," a knucklehead who always hung around the local craps games and tried to steal the winnings because he "couldn't help himself." So McNulty asks why they kept letting him hang around if they knew he was going to grab the cash, and the kid says "You got to. This is America, man." The somber theme song "Way Down in the Hole" dampens the humor of the moment, but the characters find it hilarious, since McNulty opens the next scene by re-telling the story to Bunk. | |
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CSI is a famous example. Gil Grissom made these so frequently that he used to be the Trope Namer, which became rife for Self-Deprecation later in the series. A Self-Parody appears in the episode "Fight Night": Grissom delivered the usual quip and the credit music started...then his cell phone rang, the credit music reversed, and the teaser went on for about two more minutes before the real credits started. Lampshaded in "Crow's Feet" when Catherine Willows, who had reported to the scene and therefore got the chance to quip, stated "It's my turn now" before the credits rolled. Double Subverted in "Iced". Upon finding a college couple dead in a dorm room, Grissom gets his usual comment in, before Greg Sanders, The Lab Rat, ruins the moment, leaving Grissom to leave on a less poignant note. Lampshaded by "Meet Market". With Grissom on sabbatical it is left to someone else to pick up the slack. Subverted in "Grissom's Divine Comedy". The opener ends with a shot of a very ill Gil Grissom at home, making himself chicken soup and coughing into his handkerchief. When his cell phone rings, calling him in to handle a case, Grissom says nothing...he just sighs in frustration. Roll credits. Double Subverted in "Two and a Half Deaths". After finding a dead comedy actress with a rubber chicken stuffed in her mouth (it's a long, complex and hilarious story), the lab techs ask Grissom why he hasn't done a One-Liner, suggesting "I suspect fowl play" and "This is poultry evidence." Grissom goes for neither, instead making a Lame Pun Reaction: "Dying is easy. Comedy is hard." "A Space Oddity": Hodges and Simms are at a sci-fi convention when a corpse is found. Hodges calls up Captain Brass, flips open his phone communicator-style, and tells him there's a problem with one of the exhibitors: "He's dead, Jim." Parodied in "Field Mice".. Hodges is recounting the story of an old murder case to two rookie CSIs, challenging them to solve it. On two occasions Hodges' story appears to end with a Quip To Black, complete with the intro music starting to fade in...only for someone to interrupt, lampshading the ridiculous nature of the quip. He finally manages to play the trope straight on the third attempt. In another episode, the characters are all being filmed in a COPS-esque derivative. Grissom delivers his one liner, and there's a pause, and then the producers ask him to repeat it because they didn't catch it. Roll commercials. The final such one-liner in the show goes to Grissom in "Immortality", the show's original finale. Now an independent eco-warrior, he holds up two severed shark fins in front of a bunch of cops wondering why he has broken into a ship and comments "Looks like someone jumped a shark." |
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The Spoony Experiment: Used by the Spoony One in his Let's Play of Phantasmagoria 2: A Puzzle of Flesh: | |
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Parodied in the first episode of Hector: Badge of Carnage, when a punk, who desperately wants a record, gets tasered by an old lady. Hector says something like "looks like he...puts on sunglasses... just got charged", followed by the start of the CSI: Miami theme, before it's cut off. Hector takes off the sunglasses and apologizes to the player, not sure what came over him. | |
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On ER, after a pizza delivery guy crashes into the hospital: | |
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Erfworld: "Call it the last...of the last of the last stands." "YyyyeeEAAAAhhhh!"◊ | |
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In Dragon Age II's "Mark of the Assassin" DLC, snarky-Hawke pulls off a one-liner so intentionally cringe-worthy it must be a Shout-Out to CSI: Miami. After the villain, an Orlesian duke, falls off a cliff, Hawke says, "Looks like the Duke...has fallen from grace." Complete with a shot of Hawke walking away from the cliff with his/her companions framing him/her on the background. For some reason, it's funnier with the Fenris and Anders formation. The only things missing were the sunglasses and this. | |
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The final line of "Help Wanted", from Calvin & Hobbes: The Series: | |
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Grand Theft Auto IV has commercial for a TV show about a forensic crime lab, complete with a different YEEAAAAAAAAHHHHH scream (that's available as a ringtone). | |
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Stargate Atlantis: Vegas is set in an alternate reality, where Sheppard never joined the SGC. "Detective John Sheppard" pulls a one liner at the end of The Teaser. | |
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Blade: | |
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Mighty Mouse: The New Adventures affected this with the episode "Don't Touch That Dial." It was essentially a diatribe about the quality of Saturday morning TV and a treatise about vegetating to said programming. It ends with our hero saying this to us, the viewers: | |
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Family Guy: Subverted when Peter mentions they're going to Hollywood, "where the people are sexy and clever and they always say somethin' funny right before the commercial break". He then doesn't say anything until after the break. As the last line from the episode "Stewie Kills Lois": And lampshaded by Peter at the end of "Dial Meg for Murder": |
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Chun-Li (after Kingpin tells her he'll be out of prison in less than a day ): "Well, then I guess I've got something to do tomorrow." | |
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How I Met Your Mother parodied this in one episode with Ted having been analyzing the 'crime scene' of his apartment for evidence of a fight between Lily and Marshall and determining the cause was leaving the lid of the peanut butter, explained with CSI intenseness and use of shades. Though he wasn't even remotely right, as Robin kept trying to correct him and Ted kept ignoring her so that he could do his idiot analysis. | |
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Burn Notice: Used in "Partners in Crime" in a humorous Shout-Out to CSI: Miami (both shows are set there). Sam goes undercover as a crime scene investigator and uses this joke to scare Team Westen's suspect in the murder of a fashion designer. | |
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Left 4 Dead: In the Crash Course level, Zoey had just shot the group's (infected) helicopter pilot, causing the helicopter to crash. When approaching his dead body, she has a chance of saying: The opening cutscene of Left 4 Dead 2. |
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The opening sequence for Cold Case is set up for this, though it's only occasionally preceded by a quip. In "Andy in C Minor" when they find a body in a school for the deaf. In the episode "Wings", when they find a winged pin that means the victim was a flight attendant. |
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