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Although this is a good way to cover up a lower-budget set, the light can sometimes become glaring and/or induce too many shadows.
Nowadays, the rise of [[Orange
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* ''[[CSI]]''
** ''[[CSI: NY]]'' used this ''a lot'' in their first season, not only in the lab but in the outside sets too. To the point where many viewers kept feeling that New-York looked cold or in perpetual twilight. In an example of good [[Executive Meddling]], the producers were asked to tone it down in the later seasons. This and a change in sets for the lab (from cement basement to windowed skyscraper) helped the show feel less like ''CSI: Antarctica''.
** ''[[CSI: Miami]]'' uses orange and yellow light a lot to enhance the "sunny" feel of the scenes. They are more subtle about this than ''[[CSI: NY]]'' was with the blue lighting, but it still shows, especially on sets located indoors.<br /><br />One instance where this became humorous was when they had a crossover with ''[[CSI: NY]]'', and David Caruso obviously brought his orange with him when everything else was blue. This gets a [[Shout
** The lighting used on the shows seems to extend to the DVD packaging with CSI being in green boxes, ''[[CSI: NY]]'' being in blue boxes and ''[[CSI: Miami]]'' being in -- you guessed it -- orange boxes.
* ''[[Stargate SG 1]]'' and its spinoff ''[[Stargate Atlantis (TV)|Stargate Atlantis]]'' has this in spades, the Asgard and Human spaceships especially. The Ancients get into it as well.
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* Parodied on ''[[The Suite Life of Zack and Cody]]''.
{{quote| "Let's try the blue light" *yellow light comes on* "No, the blue that's not yellow."}}
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