CSI: Crime Scene Investigation: Difference between revisions

** On "Gum Drops", given what Nick himself had [[Buried Alive|been through]] and how he could empathize with her plight, was probably an improvement. "Genetic Disorder" becoming Greg-centric can be seen as an improvement as well, as it shows how much Greg has matured as a person and as an investigator over the past decade. He ultimately refuses to jump to conclusions, waits to get official results, and calls other characters out for assuming Doc Robbins is guilty of something (Hodges and Brass). Compare to a Season 1 episode where Greg actually does jump to a conclusion about a couple, and he is found wrong about it.

* [[Accidental Hero]]: Witnesses who unknowingly obtain or provide useful evidence have made life infinitely easier for the CSIs on multiple occasions.

* [[All Girls Want Bad Boys]]: [[Serial Killer|Nate Haskel]] despite the numerous women he's killed and raped has fairly large group of women obsessed with him, even he acknowledges that he's a chick magnet making him an in-universe [[Draco in Leather Pants]]. His harem even go so far as to {{spoiler|breaking him out of prison after stabbing Langston and after being found guilty for all his past murders}}.

* [[All Psychology Is Freudian]]:

** In another episode, a missing woman is found with a [[Serial Killer]] at a place called [[Half Life|Black Mesa]].

** Hodges cat is called [[Star Trek: The Original Series|Kobayashi Maru]].

{{quote|'''Reporter''': Do you know what "fracking" is? (it's [http://gaslandthemovie.com/ explained here], which appears to be the episode's inspiration)

'''Langston''': Sounds like a sci-fi expletive.}}

** Several [[Quentin Tarantino]] motifs are used in the Season 5 finale he directed and co-wrote: Warrick and Nick have a [[Seinfeldian Conversation]] before going to work, Grissom has a rare piece of Lone Ranger memorabilia, there's a [[Death as Comedy]] moment, [[Kill Bill|a character gets buried alive for a good chunk of time, and Grissom even gets to say, "On any other day, you'd be 100% right, but today, you're 100% wrong."]]

* [[The Show Goes Hollywood]]: "Hollywood Brass" and "Two and a Half Deaths".

* [[Shut UP, Hannibal]]: Langston had several moments like this with Nate Haskell.

* [[Sick Episode]]: "Grissom's Divine Comedy".

* [[Side Bet]]: In one episode, Greg Sanders's replacement eventually cracks from the pressure to be just like Greg and quits. Nick forks over a bill to Warrick (who really [[Broken Aesop|shouldn't have been participating]]...).

** Another episode sees Catherine and Grissom make a bet over whether two murder victims' deaths were related or not (they were long lost twins). In the end, it turns out they were both right, and Catherine rips a bill apart, handing half of it to Gil. This comes after a very heavy conversation, lending to a tension breaker when Grissom reminds her that doing so is a federal offense.

* [[Skinny Dipping]]: "Fracked" opens with three teenagers skinny dipping in hot spring. They discover a dead body floating in it.