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:::This is just after Michael Weatherly and Jessica Alba broke up.
** A retroactive one: Early in Season 7, a Metro detective who annoys Gibbs is described as having "tugged on [[Justice League Crisis On Two Earths|Superman]]'s cape".
** In the Season 9 episode "Newborn King", Jimmy Palmer, when explaining that his future Father-in-Law, Ed Slater, is visiting the NCIS building, he mentions that the first time he learned that Palmer was marrying his daughter, "[Ed Slater] laughed, and then he cried from laughing too hard". Ed Slater is played by Larry Miller, who himself used the phrase "I laughed, I cried" during his first [[Is This Thing Still On?]] moment as Principal Jindrake in the movie [[Max Keebles Big Move]].
* [[Adorkable]]: In ''Jurisdiction'', the CGIS expy of Abby is a cute Asian [[Meganekko]] wearing [[Nerd Glasses]].
* [[Affably Evil]]:
** The merchant of death, René Benoît.
** Arguably, Ari.
** The Reynosas, a Mexican [[Brother -Sister Team]] that declared a [[Feuding Families|feud]] on Gibbs. They are actually among the series' most sympathetic villains.
* [[Alternate Timeline]]: In the 200th episode {{spoiler|1=Gibbs has a near-death experience and while in limbo he's shown glimpses of alternate time lines where he saw Ari in time (Kate and Dinozzo become a couple, get married and have kids as do Abby and McGee, but Ziva remains hostile and antisocial), didn't shoot the Reynosa siblings' dad (being unable to get revenge eventually turns him into a bitter alcoholic), and if his wife didn't testify against the drug dealers (she and their daughter live but Gibbs is killed shortly thereafter during a tour of duty)}}.
* [[Alternate Universe Fic]]: There are stories where {{spoiler|Caitlin Todd is not killed by Ari and is still with NCIS, more often than not alongside her (in the original universe) replacement Ziva}}...which has led to several fics detailing {{spoiler|explicit love scenes between the two.}} There are also rewrites of the transcripts for all season three episodes so that {{spoiler|Kate was still alive and having passionate sex with Abby}}.
* [[Always Gets His Man]]: Gibbs...because, well, [[Memetic Badass|he's Gibbs]].
* [[Alone With the Psycho]]: Usually resulting in a [[What Kept You?]]. Sometimes, it's been subverted, as the obvious person in danger isn't actually. In one case, an undercover Ziva {{spoiler|killed the guy before help arrived and moped for the rest of the episode}}. Also, this seems to happen to Abby about once a season.
* [[Anyone Can Die]]: {{spoiler|Kate Todd, Jenny Shepard, Mike Franks}}... that's not counting the multitude of other NCIS agents and the like who have died, or the spinoff series.
* [[Arcade Sounds]]: Subverted in the episode "Honor Code". The sounds heard from the Nintendo DS are, in fact, the sounds of the user's info (date, time, etc.) being entered into a brand new Nintendo DS.
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** Female cadavers are usually shown with their chest cavity already opened so that they do not have to cover their breasts too.
* [[Batman Gambit]]: In the eighth season premiere, and in order to put a stop to the Reynosa Cartel, {{spoiler|Gibbs and Vance trick a crooked Mexican government official into killing his own sister, who runs the cartel. They do this by "accidentally" leaking where Gibbs and his father are, and allowing the official to find out that she'd been "killed." The plan, however, required him to arrive while the sister was searching the safehouse, and to react to that news by shooting the shit out of said house indiscriminately.}}
* [[Beam Me Up, Scotty]]: Abby is repeatedly misquoted as having screamed "Stop looking up my skirt!" in "Bloodbath". What she actually says is "And ''don't'' look up my skirt!"
* [[Beauty Is Never Tarnished|Beauty/Handsomeness Are Never Tarnished]]: The team averts it regularly, but especially in Season 7's premiere.
* [[Becoming the Mask]]: Tony in season four.
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* [[Bilingual Bonus]]: Ziva is Hebrew, even though it's sorta mangled. Also, Abby and Gibbs using sign language. Gratuitous second-year undergrad level Russian for a lot of characters. Passable French and some level of Arabic.
** Averted hard in the episode "Primitus Victor". "Victor" isn't Latin for "victim;" it's Latin for "victor".
* [[Birth Death Juxtaposition]]: In "Newborn King." The poor woman gives birth in {{spoiler|the backseat of a broken down car, parked in a gas station garage, in a blizzard, on Christmas, [[It Got Worse|during a shootout with Russian mercenaries who want to kill her and kidnap her child,]] [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking|with ''Gibbs'' as the midwife.]] This is interspersed with a desperately outnumbered and outgunned Ziva singlehandedly defending them against an onslaught of Russian mercenaries.}}
* [[Black Comedy]]: ...including having the team cracking jokes while examining a body.
** Palmer has been called out when making jokes around the autopsy table several times, though, usually because they're not very funny.
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** The season six finale features scenes at an airfield in Israel clearly shot at Sacramento. Look for the USCG Hercules behind Ziva at the end.
** In another episode, where Tony pretends to be a convict to trace artifacts smuggled out of Iraq, they end up in a storage facility across the street from the WalMart in Lynchburg, VA; such a facility doesn't exist.
** Another episode has members of the team follow a lead in Arizona. In clear view behind them when talking to a local cop, [[KirksKirk's Rock]].
** An episode from season 9 ends with the team racing to a football stadium to stop an attack on some high ranking military members in attendance. The overhead shot of the stadium is of [[Ever Bank]] Field, which is in Jacksonville, Florida.
* [[Call Back]]: All the way to JAG in season 6 with Tony being Agent Afloat on the ''USS Seahawk'' a ship commonly seen in the parent series.
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* [[Clingy Jealous Girl]]: Abby plays the halves of the trope title separately with McGee. The "clingy" can kick in when she's upset or worried. The "jealous" can kick in if there's a non-team member around who pulls McGee's attention away from her (e.g. an ICE agent played by Jaime "''[[Hustle]]"'' Murray). You'd swear at times that they were still dating...
* [[Coast Guard]]: In "Jurisdiction", the CGIS (Coast Guard Investigating Service) features in a major way.
* [[Cold -Blooded Torture]]:
** In "Broken Bird", from an interrogator that Ducky had to work with during his RAF service in Afghanistan. Late in the episiode, he reveals that his repeatedly torturing one particular person that Ducky kept patching up {{spoiler|and that he knew had no information}} was {{spoiler|actually to torture ''Ducky'', as a means of breaking his spirit}}.
** Ziva has been known to threaten use of this trope on multiple occasions quite convincingly (and hints to prior experience with it as a Mossad agent).
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** Ari is portrayed as one.
* [[The Commandments]]: The fifty-or-so Rules that Gibbs uses to run his team.
* [[The Consigliere]]: It's revealed in one episode that whenever Tony is left in charge of a case, he secretly has meetings with {{spoiler|[[Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass|Palmer]]}} to help point him in the right direction whenever Tony feels that he's lost on what to do next.
* [[Contamination Situation]]: the penultimate episode of season two, "SWAK"
* [[Continuity Nod]]: The show is quite good about referencing things that seem like one-time gags in later episodes, making the series [[Better On DVD]].
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** Complete with in-universe [[Fridge Logic]] on how he gets the finished boat ''out'' of the basement. Knocking down one of the walls is mentioned a few times, but it's never confirmed.
* [[Cool Old Guy]]: Gibbs, and to a lesser extent, Ducky.
* [[Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass]]:
** Subverted. Tony gives this impression, especially in the early seasons, but he's not at all incompetent...if he were, Gibbs would've never recruited him.
** Palmer has a moment of this in the episode where he nearly gets shot. Towards the end, the guy who fired at him nearly gets away from the team. Palmer nixes these plans [[Ramming Always Works|by smashing his car into the bastard's truck]] while screaming like a maniac.
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* [[Film At Eleven]]: In one episode, Gibbs doesn't show up and the rest of the team suspects something happened to him (he lives alone and no one would know, after all). Tony, in his usual style, parodies the concept, complete with [[Lampshade Hanging|desk lamp shade]] and a coincidental ZNN news report in the background.
{{quote| '''Tony''':[[Kent Brockman News|In a tragic story of obsessive hobbying turned deadly]], an NCIS agent was discovered in his basement, crushed between a large homemade boat and an even larger bottle of bourbon. (''dramatic pause'') Film at eleven.}}
* [[First -Name Basis]]: Gibbs's father, Jackson, is the only one who addresses him by his first name of Leroy. Everyone else who doesn't call him by his middle name of Jethro
* [[Five -Man Band]]: It depends on the episode.
** Configuration one:
*** [[The Hero]]: Gibbs
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* [[Frame Up]]: In the season 9 premiere "Nature of the Beast," Tony DiNozzo ended up framed for killing a fellow NCIS agent, Cade, whom he was also intending to bring into custody for stealing equipment from the watchers. Cade also implies in what ultimately turned out to be his last moments that he was actually framed for stealing the microchips and selling them onto the black market. {{spoiler|It was later revealed that a fake FBI agent as well as the Director of Special Operations, both of whom were in Watcher 8 were the ones who were actually doing this action.}}
** Also, the season 3 episode Frame Up where Tony was pointed out as the killer through the evidence collected, no matter what Abby did. {{spoiler|She did clear Tony in the end, it turned out to be her lab partner Chip, who wanted revenge on Tony for costing him his job.}}
* [[Freaky Fashion, Mild Mind]]: Abby.
* [[Funny Background Event]]: In [[Milestone Celebration|Life Before His Eyes]], if you look at the foreground carefully, you can see {{spoiler|Ari and Leon Vance are playing chess.}}
* [[Gay Aesop]]:S8 Ep12, "Recruited"
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* [[Grade School CEO]]: A bit character from one early episode runs a nightclub while still in high school.
* [[Grievous Harm With a Body]]: In episode "Singled Out" Ziva threatened a guy who grabbed her ass that she'll rip his arm off and beat him to death with it.
* [[The Grim Reaper]]: In the fourth season finale "[[Exactly What It Says On the Tin|Angel of Death]]", Dr. Jeanne Benoît encounters [[Creepy Child|a little girl]] outside the hospital who [[Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane|may or may not be the Angel of Death]]. An odd example from a show usually so completely grounded in reality, especially since {{spoiler|it's heavily implied to the viewer that she really is the Angel of Death}}.
* [[Gun Stripping]]: Ziva mentioned once that she cleans her gun every day, even when she hasn't fired it. Of course, unless someone with a gun is wallowing around in extremely dusty or gritty places, cleaning the weapon ''every day'' is unnecessary, but given that Ziva's Mossad background means she spent most of her time with her life in danger, her behavior is understandable. She was also shown cleaning her gun while hiding out in Gibb's basement during season 4's "Shalom", and Gibbs has also been shown cleaning his gun a few times.
* [[Halloween Episode]]: "Witch Hunt", "Murder 2.0", and "Code of Conduct"
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* [[Happily Married]]: Vance.
** Gibbs' first marriage was, from all evidence, happy...not so much since then.
* [[Head -Tiltingly Kinky]]: Page 57 from S3 Ep04, "Silver War". Tony shows Ziva an FHM/Maxim-esque magazine called "[[Bland -Name Product|GSM]]".
{{quote| '''Tony''': You want something to read?<br />
'''Ziva''': What do you have?<br />
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** Gibbs and Ducky
** Gibbs and Fornell. They also share a common ex-wife.
* [[Hey ItsIt's That Guy]]: the guy at the toy shop that likes CSI in chapter 1x13 is [[Bones|Hodgins]].
** In chapter 4x03, "Singled Out", it looks like [[Castle|Detective Kevin Ryan]] was a bartender in a bar where fast dates are held. {{spoiler|He's also a robber, and the man who kidnapped the [[Victim of the Week]].}}
* [[Hidden Depths]]: McGee's writing career and, far more importantly, Tony's growing maturity. Unfortunately, Tony seems to have been getting more and more [[Flanderization|Flanderized]] and less mature in the most recent seasons, although this may just be [[Obfuscating Stupidity]].
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* [[Hollywood Nerd]]: McGee and Palmer.
* [[Hot Amazon]]: Ziva.
* [[Hypocritical Heartwarming]]: In the episode "Guilty Pleasure" we are introduced to Det. Philip [[Mc Cadden]] of Baltimore PD. He was a [[Flanderization|Flanderized]] [[Expy]] of Tony and the two [[The Movie Buff|movie buffs]] became fast friends. But when Tony saw [[Berserk Button|McCadden disrespecting McGee]] during an NCIS case ([[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking|and not caring if he got some movie trivia wrong]]), [[Disproportionate Retribution|Tony effectively ended their friendship, without even telling McCadden why]].
* [[I Call It Vera]]:
** Abby's "Major Mass Spec", and, apparently, her own ''teeth'', though they appear to be masculine names - one is Frank.
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{{quote| '''Ziva''': There's nothing good on the internet anymore.<br />
'''McGee''': [[Sarcasm Mode|Yeah, I think that internet thing has just about run its course]]. }}
* [[ItsIt's Personal]]:
** Even if a case doesn't involve anyone the main cast knows personally, Gibbs takes his ties to the military very seriously. His {{spoiler|hunting down the man who murdered his family}} goes without saying.
** Amusingly, Gibbs' Rule Number 10 is: Never get personally involved in a case. He admits he has trouble with that one.
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** Subverted at the (apparent) end of the Benoît arc, when Gibbs, Tony and Ziva are on his boat, and figure he must've disappeared. Then the camera pans out over the water to reveal {{spoiler|Benoît's corpse in the water with a hole in his head}}. End credits.
* [[Killed Off for Real]]:
** {{spoiler|Kate Todd}}. And [[Killed Mid -Sentence|mid-sentence]], talking sarcastically about never expecting to live to see something, to boot.
** The murderer [[Karmic Death|suffers the exact same fate]] not 2 episodes later, at the hands of {{spoiler|his own sister, no less.}}
{{quote| {{spoiler|Ari}}: Sorry to spoil your --{{[[[Boom Headshot]] BANG!}}]}}
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* [[Lampshade Hanging]]: The show has now started lampshading ''itself''.
{{quote| '''Ziva''': "No, Tony, I am ''not'' going to rate your butt, you know Gibbs [[Right Behind Me|is going to be around that corner!]]}}
* [[LaymansLayman's Terms]]: Gibbs does this about [[Once an Episode]].
* [[Locked in A Freezer|Locked In A Shipping Crate]]: Tony and Ziva in "Boxed In", to capitalize on the [[UST]].
* [[Locking MacGyver in The Store Cupboard]]: In one episode, a panicking suspect tries to run, leaving behind his high-powered hunting rifle, right next to Gibbs, the ''Marine Corps sniper''. Not that that would have been bright to do that under any circumstances, but still. It should be noted that it was ''very'' highly insinuated that Gibbs let the suspect go so that he would have an excuse to shoot him in the ass. Cue Tony and McGee wondering, "You don't think he did that on purpose...?" "No...no, of course not," and Gibbs just doing a badass walk with a huge smile on his face.
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** In the stalker boyfriend episode when Abby was staying with McGee, she was wearing a man's shirt and panties.
* [[The Munchausen]]: Ducky.
* [[Murder Dot .Com]]: "Murder 2.0".
* [[Must Have Caffeine]]: Gibbs needs coffee to get through the day to the point where McGee has an [[Oh Crap]] moment when he accidentally knocks over and spills Gibbs coffee. Abby prefers the Big Gulp-esque drink, [[Bland -Name Product|Caf-POW]].
** Also, the terrorist who {{spoiler|captures Ziva}} at the end of Season 6. {{spoiler|His addiction to Caf-POW! is so great he has it imported, which winds up being how the team finds him.}}
* [[My Beloved Smother]]: Ducky's mom, although she's suffering from Alzheimer's and can't really help herself.
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== P-T ==
* [[Pac -Man Fever]]:
** Played painfully straight in "The Immortals" (see [[Did Not Do the Research]] above).
** Subverted in "Bete Noir", when Gibbs asks if Kate and Tony checked the computer of the man whose house they were sent to search. Kate says he didn't even have a [[Game Boy]]. Tony points out a Game Boy is a handheld system, and she's thinking more of an [[X Box]] or [[Play Station 2]].
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** Oh, can Gibbs make them sweat. One of the best examples involves taking the suspect down to Ducky's area to "prep" him. It involves Ducky and Gibbs telling the guy exactly how he's going to be ''dissected''. This is ''after'' Gibbs kills the guy and makes it look like a suicide, which it is heavily implied that he wouldn't hesitate to do if the guy didn't cooperate.
** Sometimes, when Gibbs can't make them sweat, he gives Ziva a turn. Ziva's presence is also occasionally used by Gibbs as a threat: 'Cooperate with us or we'll extradite you to Israel'. The people this threat is used on are those who really, ''really'' would rather ''not'' end up in the custody of the Mossad.
*** What makes Ziva's interrogations work is [[The Un -Reveal|almost never shown on-screen]], but it tends to quickly reduce the perp to a crying wreck. In one fairly early episode with a female accessory who won't talk, Gibbs locks her in her office with Ziva. In the next scene, as they're interrogating her, Ziva just slowly, calmly walks around her; the woman is a weepy, trembling mess and flinches like she's been shocked when Ziva lightly touches her neck. In the one instance where we do see her at work (in "Hiatus," after Gibbs is caught in the bomb blast), Ziva harshly interrogates the Turkish ship captain...at gunpoint.
** Ducky has also broken several people just by explaining anatomy to them (eg. "this is how we cut your torso open", and "this is what happens to your skull when a bullet enters the back of your head")
** Tony, meanwhile, prefers to [[Exasperated Perp|annoy suspects into submission]]. He's very good at it; in the season six finale he manages to get the better of Ziva's father (Eli David, the ''director of Mossad'') this way.
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** Even McGee gets in on this.
*** In one episode, he informed a suspect that, as a known member of a gang suspected of terrorist ties, the Patriot Act says that he can be held at their discretion, and he doesn't have to be charged with anything, ever. Whether it's true or not doesn't matter, since the guy believed it. And Gibbs once used McGee as a blunt weapon for the same purpose; he had McGee come in and dryly rattle off a list of consequences, his banal, matter-of-fact delivery making them far scarier than any emotionally delivered threat.
*** McGee also had the luck of interrogating a teenage bully...the same kind that picked on him in high school. McGee basically gets buddy buddy with him, discussing the fun of tormenting geeks, then goes scary real fast when he reveals he was the geek in high school, and now he has the gun, badge, and paperwork know-how to make the bully go away for a long time, and he's going to ''enjoy'' it. [[The Un -Reveal|We still don't know if he was serious.]]
** It's so prevalent that the team actually ''bets'' on what kind of interrogation strategy Gibbs will use next.
{{quote| '''McGee:''' So how do you think he's going to break her down? What's the style?<br />
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** Another literal one with McGee and Jethro (nee Butch), the German Shepherd he shot (in self-defense). McGee was wary of Jethro for the whole episode; at the end, when Jethro is vindicated and Abby's landlord has said "no dogs", Abby makes an impassioned speech to a reluctant Tim about how Jethro is the dog McGee has been wanting to get for a long time. A later episode shows that Abby did eventually succeed in this little campaign, and McGee has a very loving relationship with the dog.
* [[Plucky Comic Relief]]: Tony in the first few seasons. This gets [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshaded]] early on, with the trope even mentioned by name (that one about McGee though).
* [[Poorly -Disguised Pilot]]:
** "Legend" is a pilot for ''[[NCIS Los Angeles]]''.
** ''NCIS'' itself was born from the ''[[JAG (TV)|JAG]]'' two-parter "Ice Queen/Meltdown".
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* [[Running Gag]]: Many.
** In fact, they've evolved over the years.
* [[Second Episode Introduction]]: Caitlin Todd doesn't appear in the [[Poorly -Disguised Pilot]]; she gets introduced in the first actual episode as a secret service agent who transfers to NCIS for episode 2.
* [[Sensitivity Training]]: Treated by the characters as a form of endurance trial.
* [[Sergeant Rock]]
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** When Tony refers to assistant coroner Palmer as "the autopsy gremlin", Gibbs' response is telling Tony to [[Gremlins|not get him wet.]]
*** After a tech developer insults McGee by assuming he's into ''dwebby'' role playing games, McGee's responses is: "[[Skyrim|I used to, but then I took an arrow to the knee.]]"
* [[Shut UP, Hannibal]]: In "Enemies Foreign" the Palestinian terrorist tries to lecture Gibbs about his war. Gibbs' response is basically "Yeah, you're right. Where's the other terrorist?"
* [[Silver Fox]]: Gibbs.
{{quote| '''Abby:''' I'm pregnant, McGee. Twins. Haven't told the father yet. It's Gibbs. I know it's wrong, but something about his silver hair gets me all tingly inside.<br />
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* [[Soundtrack Dissonance]]: In "Newborn King", the soundtrack of choice is "Silent Night" during a scene which is anything ''but'' silent: {{spoiler|Gibbs is helping a marine give birth, while Ziva is having a shootout with some bad guys ''in the next room''.}}
* [[Southies]]: See trope entry.
* [[Spin -Off]]: Of ''[[JAG (TV)|JAG]]'', with its own spin-off, and yes, [[NCIS Los Angeles|it's being troped]].
* [[Spoiler Title]]: {{spoiler|"Trojan Horse"}}; "{{spoiler|[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aliyah Aliyah]}}", via [[Bilingual Bonus]]; "Shariff Returns."; "Kill Ari", the title of the two-part Season 3 opener.
* [[Staggered Zoom]]
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* [[Trojan Horse]]: [[Exactly What It Says On the Tin|"Trojan]] [[Captain Obvious|Horse."]]
* [[Troubled Backstory Flashback]]
* [[True Companions]]: Put Gibbs in the "[[Team Dad]]" role, and the cast starts to look a lot like a standard sitcom [[Five -Man Band]]. Do not hurt a member of Team Gibbs. They will hunt you down. And ''they will end you''.
* [[Tyke Bomb]]: A plot point of S7 Ep07, "Endgame", involving a North Korean assassin who was raised, along with other young girls, for the purpose of being so.
 
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'''Cassidy''': I'm afraid your lawyer's going to miss your execution tomorrow.<br />
'''Tony''': He's kinda dead.<br />
'''Gibbs''': [[Pre -Mortem One -Liner|Enjoy hell]].<br />
'''Boone''': *insert breakdown and screaming here*]] }}
* [[Vomiting Cop]]: An amnesiac Gibbs, being brought up to speed on recent history, succumbs to this trope when his old mentor tells him about 9/11.
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* [[We Want Our Jerk Back]]: When Tony abruptly goes into "serious mode" Ziva and McGee first thinks he's joking, then trying to make them look bad in front of an assistant DA and later believes he is going crazy. It turns out {{spoiler|he was feeling guilty for not noticing a woman he had a one-night-stand with who thought they were soulmates was actually seriously depressed and was trying to make up for it by not making fun of everyone. He got better after Ziva gives him a pep-talk}}.
** In "Kill Ari," Gibbs briefly starts acting nice, even offering to buy Tony and McGee coffee. Abby doesn't notice a difference, but Tony is horrified and spends a portion of the episode trying to annoy Gibbs into his usual personality.
* [["Well Done, Son" Guy]]: Tony; slightly subverted in that Gibbs has always been proud of him...he just doesn't feel the need to say it. This has lessened in later seasons, after Gibbs left his team to Tony during his Mexican sabbatical. This quote is from season six's "Bounce":
{{quote| '''Tony''': Save the pep talk. We both know I screwed up.<br />
'''Gibbs''': Yeah, three years ago. But now you're making it right...and me proud. You've been doing a hell of a job, [[First -Name Basis|Anthony]]. }}
** On a related note, [[Meaningful Name|Anthony means "worthy of praise."]]
* [[Wet Sari Scene]]: A [[Nipple and Dimed]] (by pouring water) photo on one when a drunken Tony discovers {{spoiler|strait-laced Kate once entered (and won) a wet T-shirt contest.}} He never lets her live it down. {{spoiler|She doesn't get a chance to because Ari doesn't let her live three episodes later.}}
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** Gibbs fears having to be taught about technology.
** Ari fears butterflies.
* [[What Kept You?]]: Frequently.
* [[Who Dunnit to Me?]]: "Dead Man Walking". A lieutenant is poisoned via radiation and asks NCIS to solve who did it to him before he starts getting really sick. {{spoiler|He survives to the end of the episode, but dies offscreen a few shows later.}}
* [[Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?]]: "Why does it always have to be boats, and rats?"
* [[Wild Card]]: Tony describes himself as one {{spoiler|when captured by Saleem}}.
* [[Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds]]: A guy exploits vulnerabilities in the entire Navy fleet to avenge his son, who died when a terrorist exploited a flaw in his battleship.
* [[The Worf Effect]]: Want to show how awesome a new threat is?? Have them take down Ziva in a fight.
* [[Working With the Ex]]: Seasons three through five had Director Jenny Shepard and Special Agent Gibbs, who had formerly been lovers.
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* [[You Have to Believe Me]]: The show ''loves'' subverting this one. See trope page for examples.
* [[You Killed My Father]]:
** Director Shepard to La Grenouille. {{spoiler|Later she does kill him, but no one figures it out until she's already dead...[[The Un -Reveal|or was it Trent, actually telling the truth?]]}}
** {{spoiler|The daughter of the drug dealer who killed Gibbs' family to Gibbs; it turns out she's now the leader of the gang and she's the one who's been orchestrating all the Mexican intrigue.}}
** {{spoiler|Variation: You killed my daughter. [[Prepare to Die]]. -- Gibbs' former mother-in-law to the Navy captain who was the main connection to the drug dealers that killed her daughter and granddaughter (the closest she could get to the actual murderers) -- ''as he's on his knees about to propose to her''. Gibbs later reveals to her that he avenged his family and "illegally" arrests her in her lawyer's presence to negate the charges.}}
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