History Funny / NCIS

'''Ziva:''' No, you have said it is always the janitor, or the butler, or [[TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers anyone assigned to]] [[RunningGag work in Abby's lab]].

** [=McGee=] takes part in a search of a Navy ship, looking for date-rape drugs, but the search only turns up "A case of Cuban cigars, some bootleg [=DVDs=], and [[TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers one stowaway ferret]]".

** Abby's hunt for the person who ate her cupcake. The suspects: Tony, Ziva, [=McGee=], Gibbs, Ducky, and [[TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers Therman Addeberry, the night watchman.]]

--->''Oh, please, it's not that impressive. It's not as if they were '''real''' ninjas.

** Ducky and Palmer show up to a crime scene with their van having been egged. When asked if they got a good look at the culprits, Ducky responds by telling Jimmy to "Release the captives!" as Jimmy lets two teenagers dressed in ninja costumes out of the back. The boys then have to clean up their handiwork. Palmer then reveals ''Ducky'' chased them down for at least three blocks.

** The team is interrogating a member of a group of teenagers who break into empty houses to party when the kid's mother comes in. She proceeds to break the kid in two sentences, causing the interrogators to note that they should bring their suspect's mothers in more often.

--->'''Tony:''' Please tell me you're playing the part of the drag queen Tza-Tza.

** Kate and Tony are arguing over who gets to have the bedroom whose private bathroom is the only one that has a bathtub. Gibbs ends the argument simply by taking that bedroom for himself. As a kicker, he throws the bags Tony and Kate were using trying to call dibs by putting them in the room out into the hallway.

* In the ChristmasEpisode "Newborn King", the entire cookie interrogation scene. It works, and their suspect eventually crushes a cookie in his fist out of frustration.
-->'''Tim:''' ''[sadly]'' Aw, not the frosted cut-outs...
** In the same episode, when Lt. Reynolds goes into labor, she manages to keep a positive attitude via the power of [[DeadpanSnarker snark]]:

* In [[MilestoneCelebration Life Before His Eyes]], if you look at the foreground carefully, you can see [[FunnyBackgroundEvent Ari and Leon Vance playing chess.]]

* "Seek" has a really funny one involving Dobermans and their owner who mistook Tony and Tim for people from the bank (Pitt was late on a loan payment).
-->'''Pitt:''' You boys have four seconds.\\

* In "Damned If You Do", [=McGee=] has just engaged in epic hackage, part of which involved cozying up the a "DOD beauty" name of Delilah.
-->'''Tony:''' So proud of you. ''[hugs [=McGee=] and kisses him on top of the head]''\\

** Diane bursts into the [=NCIS=] conference room to confront Gibbs (1st husband), Fornell (2nd husband and current lover), and Eddie (most recent ex and undercover Secret Service agent) only for all three men to turn it around on her before she can collect herself and dominate the room like she usually does.

* In "Kill Chain", [=McGee=] and Delilah are having a disagreement, accidentally interrupted by Bishop while they ride the elevator together. When they arrive in the squadroom, Tony is able to sum it all up for Bishop, because Tim accidentally butt-dialled him.

* In "Bulletproof", Ellie Bishop officially joins Gibbs' team (having only been on temporary joint duty assignment in previous episodes) and [=DiNozzo=] and [=McGee=] proceed to show her what it means to be a probie. To start with, they make her search and process a ''very'' dirty, stinky van all by herself.
** Abby sets up her lab to look like a schoolroom, dresses as a schoolteacher, and gives the representative of an weapons company who had made defective body armor a timeout.

* In "We Build, We Fight", Jimmy and Breena finally having their baby makes a humorous and heartwarming subplot in an otherwise serious episode. To start, Tony's baby shower gift to Jimmy and Breena is a basket containing: industrial-grade earplugs, a bottle of wine, and a hundred dollars in cash.

-->'''Jake:''' ''[kisses her goodbye]'' [[DelayedReaction Good luck. Be careful]]. ''[does a DoubleTake]'' Wait. You'll '''''what'''''?!

* In "The Lost Boys", Dorneget reveals to Tony and [=McGee=] that he learned to overcome his typical nervousness by developing a confident alter-ego. Which he's named ''Gilroy Libbs''.

* "Neverland": The French intelligence officer in MTAC addressing [=McGee=] as "Elf Lord" with a perfectly straight face.

* "Lockdown": Abby's constant over-the-top attempts to butter Gibbs up and beg him to get Accounting to let her switch offices with them. It culminates in Abby giving Gibbs a "field trip permission slip" for him to sign. It's handwritten, and reads, [[FreezeFrameBonus "ABBY'S SOLITARY CONFINEMENT RELEASE FORM -- 21 Oct 2015 -- I as the big cheese/boss/el jefe, hereby give permission to Abby Sciuto to be free on this date of all Earthy (and NCIS related) shackles to visit Celodyne Pharmaceuticals for the expressed reason of seeing the sky and sun at least once this week -- and to maximally fulfill her professional crime solving obligations. Time of return: when Abby can stomach the shame of being a subterranean castaway."]] Drama queen much, Abs?

** Many of Gibbs's interactions with the Sherlock Consortium. Especially his interactions with Judith [=McKnight=]... a DirtyOldWoman with a thing for BDSM who takes a shine to Gibbs. The icing on the cake is Jessica Walter’s [[LargeHam gleeful performance.]] She obviously [[ChewingTheScenery had the time of her life with this part.]]

* The case in "Return to Sender" is originally an FBI case, and Fornell kicks up a fuss when NCIS [[JurisdictionFriction claims jurisdiction]], even storming out of Vance's office. Gibbs follows him, and accuses him of ''wanting'' NCIS to take the lead (as they might not have found out as soon as they had if Fornell hadn't invited Gibbs's team to the crime scene). Fornell bursts out laughing, and says yes, because the case, which involves international co-ordination, is going to be a paperwork nightmare. Then Vance pops his head out of the office, and tells Fornell that he'll still be representing the FBI on this case.

* In "Rogue", after Torres's WomanScorned stalks away, Gibbs takes her seat and asks Torres if he's ready to go. Torres can't leave because his chair is rigged to blow once he gets up. Gibbs is just laughing about the situation. When Gibbs has taken a look at the bomb, Torres asks him how it looks, and Gibbs responds: [[BlackComedy "Like it might hurt for a second."]]

* In "Being Bad" Bishop is teaching Torres how to use the remote for the plasma in the squadroom, including the "Oops, how did that get there?" button. Apparently, it's used to distract Gibbs when he asks for the impossible by pulling a photo from a folder of pictures that include [[CallBack Gibbs's exes, Palmer preparing a turducken]], etc. Meaning that, [[RunningGag every time in the past several seasons]] that someone has accidentally pulled up an unrelated photo, ''it was actually on purpose''!

* "Privileged Information": Gibbs comes home and finds that Fornell has prepared a dinner to thank him for his hospitality... except the way it's set up, with the lights off and candles everywhere, looks more like a romantic evening. It later turns out that the candles, and the warm beer that Gibbs complains about, are because Fornell blew out the power while trying to fix the washing machine.

* Throughout "Home of the Brave", Abby, [=McGee=], and Bishop try to woo [=DiNozzo=] Sr. into handing over Tony's apartment -- Abby tries to "Caf Pow" and dine him, [=McGee=] gives him a photo book of him and Delilah, and Bishop writes an essay. And in the end, it's [[DarkHorseVictory Torres]] that gets the apartment after the elder [=DiNozzo=] decides to draw a name out of a hat -- Ducky's hat. Though Torres later cedes the apartment to Tim after seeing the photo book.

* In the Thanksgiving episode "Enemy Combatant", it's revealed that Bishop's gotten over her failed marriage and has started dating again -- with a coworker. Her brothers (who are visiting for the holidays) spend the entire episode scouring NCIS trying to identify and [[TwerpSweating Twerp Sweat]] their sister's new boyfriend.

** The brother interrogate Torres, pulling off a very impressive intimidation act. When Torres makes his escape (by throwing Reeves under the bus), one of them comments "You know he could have taken us all down with one hand, right?"

* Throughout "Fake It 'Til You Make It", Tim is thrown when someone digs up his old high school photo with a ridiculous haircut and turns it into a meme. Even a random bystander recognizes him from the meme when he goes to interview someone. He spends the episode figuring out who did it and eventually the culprit is (of course), Tony from Paris. So Tim gets him back by doing a meme of Tony's own regrettable high school photo with the caption "Payback is a Bitch".

* "[[Recap/NCISS15E11 High Tide]]": Bishop and Torres's badinage as they debate her undercover skills, after posing as a call girl and her jealous boyfriend:
-->'''Torres''': You shouldn't have slapped his hand away.
-->'''Bishop''': [[BecomingtheMask I don't give out free samples! I got three kids to feed and a sick Nana in Boca.]] ''(off his look)'' What? You told me to have a backstory, that's my backstory.
-->'''Torres''': No, that's actually... that's actually pretty good.
-->'''Bishop''': Thank you.

* "Double Down": The heckling duel between a stand-up comedian doing a USO tour in Afghanistan and an ex-Marine General Senator who was visiting the troops is actually funnier than the comedian's intended routine.

* From "Keep Your Friends Close": Gibbs bursts into Vance's office, steps ahead of Fornell.
-->'''Gibbs:''' He's right behind me and you gotta say no.

* From "Keep Your Enemies Closer": Paul Triff, the former occupant of Tony's apartment (now [=McGee=] and Delilah's apartment) and serial killer is a comedy goldmine, especially his interactions with [=McGee=].

* From "Death From Above": Jimmy complains about the protocol regarding pre-evacuation evidence storage, and states that it must have been written by an "out-of-touch bean counter". Bishop tells him ''[[IResembleThatRemark she]]'' helped write that protocol during her time at the NSA.

* Gibbs cock-blocking the reporters from getting a scoop in "One Step Forward" goes on the air and becomes sensationalized, leading to Torres to coin the incident "When Gibbs Attacks". Gibbs shoots a ''piercing'' DeathGlare at that remark.

* At the beginning of "Fallout", Gibbs is attending the memorial service of his friend, Phil, who seemed to be lost at sea. Checking out the basement, Gibbs finds Phil alive and well. It seems someone took a shot at him on his boat so he's been lying low. He's naturally thrown to realize everyone thinks he's dead and talks Gibbs into keeping it up while they investigate. This means Gibbs having to keep this quiet from the guy's "widow", leading to hijinks.

* "Boom": The team investigate a bomb meant for a soldier who's on a "Real Wives of Army" reality TV show. Tim turns out to be a fan because Delilah watches it, and naturally gets needled by the others.

* "A Thousand Words": Ducky explains he had to give up the lecture circuit because "I just can't stand droning on for hours." Jimmy's look is priceless.

* Early in "Once Upon a Tim", [=McGee=] brings in a PC he built as a teenager and says he was planning on using it to teach his twins. Bishop is examining it and touching it when he reveals that the twins puked and peed on it.

* "Daughters": The overall implication of Gibbs having hallucinations of his dead ex-wife? Not funny. The way Diane constantly harasses and roasts Gibbs? Entertainment we've been sorely missing for the past 4 years.

* The "Out of the Darkness"/"Into the Light" two-parter: Torres says he knows Bishop is lying because "your neck sweats when you do." Bishop claims that's not true even as she wipes her neck constantly.

* "Wide Awake": Gibbs and Sloane can't believe it when an insomniac patient actually falls asleep during her interrogation.

* Torres is dating a woman whose son is "coming home from camp" and gets him some toys. He then finds out it's ''military'' camp as the "kid" is a fully-grown Special Forces soldier who is ''significantly'' taller than Torres.

* "Musical Chairs": One thing that Tim is looking forward to during the three days when Delilah and their kids took a vacation to visit family is that he gets to cook fish sticks without Delilah complaining about the smell and getting to watch a "history of tap" documentary.
--> '''Torres:''' That is the lamest thing I ever heard.

* The gang run into a rare coin expert in "Ephemera":
-->'''Woman:''' I take it none of you are numismatists?\\

* In "Schooled", it's revealed that Tim and Delilah had started potty-training their twins, and apparently Bishop and Torres overheard [=McGee=] making up potty-training songs for them in the NCIS breakroom.
-->'''[=McGee=]:''' You guys heard that?\\

** In "Sunburn" Jimmy shows Torres the "Man Van" he's looking at, which has some impressive features and a powerful engine. Torres actually starts to get interested only to realize he's man-bonding over minivans and shuts the conversation down.
* "Everything Starts Somewhere": Forty years ago, Gibbs looks at a ship in a bottle and admits he doesn't understand the point when [[RunningGag you'll never be able to get the boat out]].

* "Blood And Treasure": The night before, Gibbs joined the others at a bar. Gibbs drank [=McGee=] and Bishop under the table, Torres was laid out by food poisoning, and Kasie got drunk enough that she and Bishop sang karaoke without a karaoke machine. The next morning [=McGee=] and Bishop are hung over, Torres is exhausted, and Gibbs... is fine.

* "Sunburn": [=McGee=] goes on vacation, and leaves a bunch of sticky notes on Bishop and Torres's desks. One of them says that they're running low on sticky notes and need to order more. Torres also plans to throw the notes away, but one of Bishop's notes [[TheTapeKnewYouWouldSayThat tells her not to let him do that. Or to let him claim the cleaning crew got rid of them.]]

* "Head of the Snake": Gibbs and Fornell's argument during a [[ItMakesSenseInContext staged gunfight]].

* In "Unseen Improvement", Ducky gives Gibbs an electronic tablet. When the latter receives a video call from the former, he decides to shut him out, with only moderate success.

* "Great Wide Open": When Parker checks Gibb's house, he finds out a hole was made in the basement -- and that's how the boats get out.
* "Face the Strange": Parker tries to blow off the case, saying "It's been a blast"... and then the M.E. van blows up.

* "Docked": A murder on a yacht has the only witness being... Tim's mother-in-law. HilarityEnsues.

* "All Hands": The episode is basically one big ShoutOut to ''Franchise/StarTrek'', starting with the action taking place on a research ship named ''Stargazer'', which Parker and [=McGee=] recognize from ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration''. The navy commander giving them the briefing has to remind them to focus on the ''Stargazer'' down on Earth.

--> '''Owen''': I've seen dozens of dead bodies before... on TV, I mean... I'm still weighing my options (wondering if he still wants to be a cop).

* "Daddy Issues"
** The inherent silliness of Congress getting up in arms about a breaking into a heavily secured, top-secret, government... cheese repository.

--->'''[=McGee=]:''' ''[showing Ziva his watch]'' You see this? Nine hours and twenty-one minutes!\\

** Tony (who is outside the elevator and obnoxiously talking to them by using a rubber pylon as a megaphone) starts joking about how Gibbs will feel perfectly comfortable during the crisis:
--->'''Tony:''' You don't need electricity to use hand tools and drink Bourbon.\\

'''Tony:''' (quietly) Yes, he is.

** [=McGee=] is forced to look through paper credit card and bank statements, Tony and Ziva have reached a dead end with their lead, and Abby has taken two hours instead of a few minutes to find the make and model of the car that left the tyre tracks they found. RuleOfThree kicks in as they vent their frustration:

--->'''[=McGee=]:''' What was that for?!\\

---> '''Tony:''' You don't need electricity to use hand tools and drink Bourbon.\\

** Also:
--->[[RunningGag "You're going back to Mexico?"]]

-->'''Kate:''' Speaking of more than hinky, Tony...
-->'''Tony:''' Okay, alright, give to me Kate, [[TemptingFate I can take it.]]

-->'''Tony:''' [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere Alright, I can't take it.]]

*** Later, the same iguana is used for a transition spacer, happily sitting on a rock outside while the same dramatic camera close-ups and horror movie stings used for dramatic scenes like the corpses are played on it.

** [=McGee=] has to report failure after Gibbs tasks him to find a survivor of Yost's unit on Iwo Jima during World War II, but is surprised when Gibbs announces success in finding an eyewitness, in the presence of Lt. Cmdr. Coleman and two Marine [=MPs=]:

*** Even the [=MPs=] crack a smile.

* "Silver War": Ziva David first going to a crime scene with her new coworkers.
-->'''Ziva:''' What about me?\\

** Later, when Tony and Ziva are interviewing the site's webmaster, a Manchild living in his mother's basement; Ziva is [[{{Corpsing}} trying as hard as she can to be professional]], while Tony is openly poking fun, until:

*** And that is it for Ziva.
* In "Under Covers", [[FlockOfWolves the armed confrontation between the FBI and NCIS agents]], which consists of about 10 seconds of inaudible yelling and screaming before they all suddenly go silent when they realize who each other are.

** This episode also gives us Tony and Ziva's first night sharing a bed under said FBI agents' surveillance. At first it seems Tony is a very loud snorer, but a second later it is revealed to actually be Ziva, with Tony not even being able to sleep due to her snoring.
*** Tony tries waking Ziva up. Ziva, still half-asleep, pulls out a gun under her pillow and points it right at Tony's face. Tony, understandably freaked out, quickly says nevermind, and she tiredly mumbles and turns to go back to sleep while Tony mutters "Crazy chick."

* "Frame Up": When Tony is framed for murder, all the evidence seems to point to him, much to Abby's displeasure. When she finds [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GaZdaickRJE contrary evidence]], she perks right up.
-->'''Abby:''' ''[With gospel preacher accent]'' For a moment, ah lost my faith in... But now I know, that forensics was just testing me. And ah will rise up, and find the man who did this to Tony ''[voice spontaneously echoes]'' and ah will '''CRUCIFY HIM!'''\\

* "Model Behavior": Gibbs fails to show for an award ceremony. His excuse: he was working a case. He fills Jenny in on the details, which don't amount to much.
-->'''Jenny:''' Why aren't you there?\\

* "Deception": Abby's take on TheyCallMeMisterTibbs:
-->'''Abby:''' Thank you, sir.\\

* "Light Sleeper": Tony says that the house where the two murdered Korean-born women were found reminds him of his cousin's house minus all the blood. [[NoodleIncident Unless you counted that Thanksgiving back in 1998]].
-->'''Jimmy:''' I always say, you can pick your nose but you can't pick your family!\\

* "Iced": Gibbs puts the deadpan in DeadpanSnarker.
-->''[Gibbs is staring at [=McGee=] as the team gets in the elevator]''\\

* "Untouchable": Ducky brings his mother to work. HilarityEnsues.

-->'''Abby:''' And don't look up my skirt!

* The first episode, "Shalom", gives us a hypercaffeinated Abby. [=McGee=] advises on her sugar intake, whereupon she comments she's now eating for two. The ''look'' on [=McGee's=] face is priceless, even if she didn't mean it like that.

* "Escaped": At the beginning, we learn that [=McGee=] overbleached his teeth the night before. He spends the entire episode keeping his mouth as closed as possible so his teeth are never seen, with Tony trying to get a look and the rest of the team offering tips on how to darken them, including Gibbs telling him to gargle a Caf-Pow before he makes everyone else go snow-blind. Finally, at the end when they arrive at work to see Gibbs has returned from his TenMinuteRetirement, the camera pans across the stunned faces of Ziva, Tony, until it comes to [=McGee=] with a big goofy grin on his face, showing off the brightest teeth ever. It even gets a joke in the "grey-out", complete with a TwinkleSmile and an AudibleGleam. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7cslc32fB90 See it here]].

* "Witch Hunt": The way Gibbs describes the crime scene they're going to:
-->[[ItMakesSenseInContext "General Custer has been shot, and there's a dead skeleton in his living room."]]

* "Driven" begins with Team Gibbs attending [[SensitivityTraining a sexual harassment lecture]] and demonstrating why -- between Abby hugging people with her mind, Ziva licking Tony's ear, and nobody ''quite'' having the guts to mention Gibbs's fondness for the DopeSlap -- it's generally for the best that they usually manage to skip these lectures. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWZO_zehR9w See it here.]]
** Jimmy Palmer is the scene-stealer. "WHY are you touching dead naked people?"
*** He also inadvertently owns her in that scene, too, responding to her accusatory question with "Well, I work in autopsy, so..."
** Later, when Abby gets pulled from a trap in a vehicle, even after being in serious danger, she asks, "Permission to hug?"
*** Which switches to SugarWiki/{{Heartwarming|Moments}} when Gibbs tells her she never has to ask.

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xzLpi-3Eb0c This clip]] from "Suspicion".
-->'''[=McGee=]:''' [[WhereTheHellIsSpringfield Where the hell is Edenvale?]]\\

** Made funnier from Ziva's look of "This does not answer my question. What the hell are you doing?" and Gibbs's look to Tony of "You're gonna do that the whole ride up there, aren't you?"

* "In the Dark": Ducky finds a leopard-patterned bra in one of the drawers in autopsy, and Palmer's panicked reaction tells the audience that it's from one of his and Agent Lee's little escapades. He then calls her to tell her he found the bra, then gets worried about her reply: "What do you mean, a matching set?"

* "Family": Ziva thinks Tony is acting uncharacteristically because of how things ended with Jeanne.
-->'''Ziva:''' I thought maybe you needed a little cheering up.\\

* From the episode "Ex-File": Abby uses her tax refund to get everybody on Team Gibbs new [=iPods=], which leads to some funny moments in the first bullpen scene:

* "Identity Crisis" starts with [=McGee=], Ziva, and Tony looking at animal rescue websites, because [=McGee=] is thinking of adopting a puppy. Then Gibbs comes in, sees what's going on, and suggests that [=McGee=] get an Australian Shepard... because they're ''working'' dogs. The team gets the hint that they should get back to work.
*** Then Gibbs goes down to autopsy to see why Ducky is keeping a cadaver the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology lent him[[note]]He discovered that the body in question was actually murdered by mercury poisoning instead of dying from choking on his vomit after fainting from an alcohol overdose[[/note]], and [=McGee=], Tony, and Ziva start to get up from their desks to follow him. Here's how Gibbs orders them to stay in the bullpen.
----> '''Gibbs:''' Sit. ''[They do so]'' Stay. ''[Smirks as he walks towards Autopsy]'' Roll over.

* In "Chimera", Ziva getting mixed up between a black sheep and a black ship (the fact that Tony brought up the latter with a fake Jamaican accent didn't help).

* From "Requiem": Even distraught, Tony, having just saved Gibbs from drowning, attempts to avoid administering CPR.
-->'''Tony:''' Don't do this to me! Don't make me kiss you, Boss!
** Later in the episode, a more-than-usually flustered Abby shows up at autopsy to collect a dead Marine's clothes and fingernail scrapings, and tries to shoo Ducky and Gibbs out of "[her] lab" so that she can get on with the processing. Gibbs and Ducky exchange a look as it slowly dawns on Abby that she isn't ''in'' her lab.
** Earlier in the episode, Abby takes portrait photos of the team to attach to her cell phone's caller [=IDs=]: Tony's deliberate mugging is hilarious (even though Abby complains, the photo is on the wall of her lab in "Last Man Standing");
* "Designated Target": Ziva is having a tense personal phone call, and asks Tony how to tell someone they no longer want to see them. Tony then grabs Ziva's phone and pretends to be her jealous husband, promising to kill the man on the other end, and hangs up. Except it ''wasn't'' a man on the other end, but Ziva's aunt, who wanted advice on how to break things off with her old bridge partner.
-->'''Tony:''' Why didn't you stop me?\\

* "Lost & Found": Ziva fails to read between the lines that when Washington PD says they're hand-delivering evidence, it really means they'll invite themselves in on the investigation. After detectives have arrived and set up in the squadroom and the predictable (half-whispered) argument between Tony and Ziva:
-->'''Ziva:''' ''[whispering to Tony and looking rather annoyed/amused at his accusations]'' This is not my fault!\\

* "Corporal Punishment": Tony [[ItMakesSenseInContext asks Ziva to hit him in the stomach.]]
-->'''Tony:''' Go ahead.\\

* In "Tribes", Gibbs's meeting with Agent Langer, an old buddy of his, and actually reacting the way other people do when meeting old friends. Just seeing Jenny's face as he laughs and jokes along with the previously stone-faced FBI agent is ''hilarious.'' It's rather jarring to see him acting like, you know, a normal person.

* "Stakeout": [=McGee=] and the prostitute in the first scene.

* In "Dog Tags", [=McGee=] is attacked by a seemingly vicious dog, while the rest of the teem looks at the Crime scene inside. Then [=McGee=]'s gun fires. They run outside and find [=McGee=] getting up while the dog is whimpering on the ground. During this whole scene a really loud and obnoxious song called "Bad Dog, No Biscuit" by Daron Norwood blares in the background. While were looking at the wounded dog, the last lines of the song before the opening credits are "Bad dog, ''no'' biscuit!"

* In "Judgment Day, Part 1", Ziva and Tony are away guarding Director Shepard at a funeral, and Gibbs is in another part of HQ. [=McGee=] comes in late... and sees Abby at Ziva's desk and Ducky at Tony's desk, impersonating them both, including a fake accent and Ducky putting his feet up on the table. When [=McGee=] asks where Gibbs is, Palmer rushes in with a perfect Gibbs impression... after which Gibbs actually arrives. It turns out that autopsy and forensics had been closed for a random bug sweep and Abby, Ducky, and Palmer just had nothing else to do.

* While "Judgment Day, Part 2" is mostly a Tearjerker, there is a moment where Abby is going around and complimenting everyone's fashion style (after tearfully mourning the fact that she never got around to complimenting Jenny's), and when she gets to [=McGee=], she can only pause for a few seconds before hugging him without another word.

* "Last Man Standing": Gibbs's utter misery in dealing with his inept new team, particularly his massive eye roll after the elevator doors close with him not on it.

* "Capitol Offense": Abby's hunt for the person who ate her cupcake. The suspects: Tony, Ziva, [=McGee=], Gibbs, Ducky, and [[TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers Therman Addeberry, the night watchman.]]

** Ducky arriving at an early-morning crime scene in a tuxedo, ''and'' picking up Tony's reference to "[[Film/ANightattheOpera A Night at the Opera]]":

* In "Nine Lives": Ziva going on a ForeignLanguageTirade that makes Tony ask her if her "Men of Mossad" calendar got lost in the mail. Or is it her "''[[HoYay Women]]'' of Mossad" calendar?

* In "Collateral Damage": Vance walks into Tony stealing from the break room vending machine:
-->'''Tony:''' Inside man did an inside job! ''[smacks the machine, which drops a free chocolate bar]''\\

-->'''Ziva:''' What is this place?\\

* "Road Kill": Tony is participating in a "Best Deep-In-Thought Face" contest on a social media website where people compete in "best whatever" contests. Ziva dismisses it as childish and tries to get [=McGee=] to back her up, but she sees him trying out for the "Best Psycho Face" contest on the same website. Then Tony goes over and puts his fingers on Tim’s face to help him contort his face into a good one.
--> '''Gibbs:''' ''[Walking into the bullpen]'' Would you two like some alone time together?\\

* "Silent Night": Abby's concern over what to get Gibbs for Christmas.
-->'''Abby:''' What do you get for the man who has nothing and ''wants'' nothing?\\

-->'''Tony:''' You know [=McGee=], sometimes a man can be loved more for his weaknesses than his strengths.\\

* When Ducky's in the hospital in "Broken Bird", Abby [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]] how often the team is in danger:
-->'''Abby:''' If I keep going to Crazy Town every time one of you gets hurt, I'm going to have to get my mail forwarded.

* "Love & War": The ongoing B-story of [=McGee=] and his new online girlfriend, "Claire" (who is really Tony -- ItMakesSenseInContext).

* "Deliverance": Abby confusing Gibbs and Franks by comparing them to ''Franchise/{{Batman}}'' and ''Franchise/StarWars'' characters.

* Palmer's CaptainObvious moment in "Knockout":

** Note that the guy was ''shot''.
** From the same episode:

* Team Gibbs's involvement in the case in "Hide and Seek" starts with Abby coming into the squad room and telling the team about the gun that a woman found among her son's things, trying to mobilize them while doing her impression of Gibbs, complete with [[MustHaveCaffeine coffee in hand]] (which she doesn't seem to like). No matter what she says, nobody on the team thinks that it's worth investigating--until Gibbs walks in and tells them to get moving, which they promptly do.
--> '''Abby:''' They only listen to their master, Gibbs. Only you can crack the whip; only you can drink the swill.

* "Dead Reckoning": Gibbs meeting [[SmugSnake Kort]] and finding two dead bodies with him is [[BlackComedy darkly amusing]].
-->'''Kort:''' I think they shot each other.\\

* From "Toxic": Frank is sick. Frank is also one of Abby's teeth.
-->'''Tony:''' You name your teeth?\\

* In the Season 7 premiere, "Truth or Consequences", Tony and [=McGee=] are looking for a potential replacement for Ziva, and find one they think is tough enough for the team (the specific word they use is "unflappable"), and send her to meet Gibbs. While they're in the hallway, talking about how unflappable she is, they are InstantlyProvenWrong when she bursts out of the room, crying.

* From "Reunion": At the beginning of the episode, Tony greets the woman currently using Ziva's desk, but she just continues typing angrily at her computer. While talking to [=McGee=], they speculate that she'll be gone by the end of the month, only for for her to print off the document she'd been typing up and present it to them: her ''very long'' resignation letter. She loudly calls Tony childish and rude, and dismisses [=McGee=] as his "faithful sidekick" before storming away.

-->'''Ziva:''' When you shot Michael, I almost killed you where you stood.
-->'''Tony:''' I wasn't standing.
-->'''Ziva:''' No, you weren't. You were lying on the ground, without adequate backup, completely violating protocol...
-->'''Tony:''' [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking And double-parked.]]
-->'''Ziva:''' Yes, I noticed.
* In the third episode, "The Inside Man": Tony, Ziva and [=McGee=] taking bets on what interrogation technique Gibbs will use.

* In a callback to "Escaped" above, the end of "Code of Conduct". Well, this whole scene is a [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments CMoF]] beginning with Abby rigging [=McGee's=] keyboard to foam and ending with Ziva tainting Tony's coffee to turn his teeth blue, a joke that, like [=McGee's=] overbleached teeth, continued into the "grey-out." [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PaB1hFh6VKY Can't believe she pulled it off with a straight face.]]
* From "Outlaws And In-Laws": The team's argument over Ziva becoming an American citizen, which devolves into this:
-->'''[=McGee=]:''' Do you have any idea what you're talking about?\\

* "Child's Play": Ziva learns that Tony has plans for Thanksgiving.
-->'''Ziva:''' Are you letting some blonde bombshell [[UnusualEuphemism baste your bird]], Tony?

* From "Ignition", when Ziva gets frustrated over the Internet:
-->'''Ziva:''' There is nothing good on the Internet anymore.\\

** [=McGee=] spends the whole episode [=McGeeking=] out over jet-packs. He even shows a video he made under his pen name, Thom E. Gemcity.
*** At one point, [=McGee=] is showing Gibbs his cinematic love letter to the jet pack. [[FunnyBackgroundEvent Behind them, Tony and Ziva come in,]] [[OhCrap see what Gibbs and [=McGee=] are watching,]] [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere and try to beat feet back to the elevator.]] Unfortunately for them, Gibbs sees them.

* From "Masquerade": Two words: Online Wedding.

* "Jack Knife" had a running gag where [=McGee=] keeps trying to catch up to Gibbs, but keeps falling asleep in all the wrong places as a result. But then at the climax he drinks a coffee with ''lots'' of sugar and turns into a MotorMouth.

'''Gibbs (annoyed):''' Yes.\\

* This exchange from "Jurisdiction":
-->'''Tony:''' [A house] says a lot about a man. Take your house, for instance. Clean, no-nonsense, stoic.\\

'''Missy:''' [[TheDitz You mean he's]] ''[[TheDitz deceased]]''[[TheDitz , too?!]]

* The two stoned witnesses early in "Moonlighting".

*** And then, at the end of the episode, he gets even worse welts on his back from a henna tattoo. And then begs either Tony or Ziva to [[IntimateLotionApplication rub lotion on his back]] while [[IHaveToGoIronMyDog they make themselves scarce]], only for him to chase them into the elevator still begging and them still refusing.

* "Borderland": Abby performing a forensic SherlockScan on a bitchy policewoman...
-->'''Abby:''' One orange tabby and two calicos. You're allergic to citrus. You went bowling last night, you're Vitamin D deficient. Oh, and you're ovulating. ''[class laughs]''
** From earlier in the episode, Tony random-chatting with pretty girls, only to be quickly rejected each time. He tries to make things interesting with gag glasses/nose -- just as Gibbs walks in.

* "Worst Nightmare": Tony describes Gibbs's tendency to pull {{Right Behind Me}}s to the college interns that are shadowing the team for a week, just as Gibbs does exactly that to him.
-->'''Tony:''' See, I'm not gonna answer that question, because if I do, he's gonna walk up and stand right behind me and make me regret it, because that's the way he works. He slithers through the grass like a snake. He's not friendly. He's oily--\\

* From "Dead Air": Tony trying to interrogate an explosives dealer while his own voice was giving out, talking while on helium level of funny. He actually has to call Gibbs to stand in for him.
** Shortly thereafter, Ducky examines Tony and says that Tony should be just fine... provided that he refrain from talking for 24 hours. Then Ziva and Ducky have ''waaayyyyy'' too much fun trolling Tony over this.
*** More specifically, Ducky quotes a movie, which Ziva deliberately misidentifies, and Tony simply ''cannot'' resist correcting her.

* From "Cracked": ItMakesSenseInContext, we swear. Sort of.
-->'''Tony:''' No, Boss, I'm sure you would never wear a leotard. But if you did, you could pull it off.

* In "Enemies Foreign", the looks on Tony's and [=McGee=]'s faces when the girl they arrest continues the RunningGag of not knowing what NCIS is.

* From "Enemies Domestic": Eli David tells a bit of his history, including building a particular bomb, which happens to be the same kind used earlier in the episode.
-->'''Abby:''' He knew how to do it. He just confessed to knowing how to build the murder weapon. I mean, ''come on''. How many people know how to build a homemade claymore mine?\\

* From "False Witness": The NWTFDNAD: National Wild Turkey Federation [=DNA=] Database. And Gibbs's reaction to the fact that there actually ''is'' a database for turkey DNA.
-->'''Abby:''' They really need a new acronym.

* "Ships in the Night": Abigail Borin returns, this time introduced while on a bad date aboard a dinner cruise. She's seriously considering jumping overboard.

* "Recruited": We'd expect nothing less from Tony, as they're going to a high school, to start singing "The Wheels On The Bus". But for ''Gibbs'' to join in...

* "Freedom": Tony, Ziva and [=McGee=]'s expressions as [=McGee=] opens a mystery package on his desk -- [[MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext and a hula girl balloon inflates out of it.]] Then Gibbs comes by and tells [=McGee=] [[KickTheDog to deflate his girlfriend.]]

* Tony imitating a horse dance in "A Man Walks Into a Bar...". While the doctor who will be doing his psych evaluation is [[RightBehindMe right behind him]]. Vance witnesses the whole thing and [=McGee=] tells him to stop imitating a jackass... in other words, quit imitating his usual self. And as Tony heads out with Gibbs and co to investigate a murder, Vance gives him the stinkeye.
** Earlier in the same scene, Tony is waving around a wad of money, and Ziva asks him where he got it.

* "Kill Screen" opens with a pickpocket lifting a purse off someone, only to be confronted by a police officer. The pickpocket insists that it's his, and that he bought it for his mother. The cop takes a look inside the purse, drops it, and pulls his gun on the man. The pickpocket, upon seeing the teeth and finger bits that have fallen out onto the ground, ''immediately'' changes his story.
-->'''Pickpocket:''' "Whoa! That's not my purse!"

* The VictimOfTheWeek in "One Last Score" is discovered by a teenaged couple. When Gibbs and Tony interview the boy, all the boy can talk about is the girl and kiss they shared earlier, which was his FirstKiss. When prompted to tell them about the body, he replies that "Her body was slammin'." Tony has to clarify that they meant the ''dead'' body.

* At the beginning of "Baltimore", Tony announces that he's lost his cell phone. When Ziva tells him that, as an investigator, he should simply ''investigate'', his idea of investigation is to immediately rip out his desk drawer and dump all its contents onto the floor.

* "Restless": Ziva and [=McGee=] notice Tony's been moping, so they each decide to get him presents to cheer him up. Ziva gets him two tickets to see female mudwrestling. [=McGee=] does the same.

* From "The Penelope Papers": Palmer is being overwhelmed with his wedding preparations and asking for advice.
-->'''Palmer:''' What do I do?\\

* "Enemy On The Hill": A possible target for assassination finds the idea that someone wants to kill him ludicrous, and brushes off Gibb's advice to move to a safehouse. He even declines the offer of an agent simply guarding him -- until he notices Ziva and, apparently rethinking the notion, asks who would be guarding him.

* "Safe Harbor": Agent Borin shows up again, and Tony expresses the belief that she and Gibbs would be perfect for each other. Overhearing, Borin comments that she doesn't think the same. Tony needles her to have one of his steaks grilled over the fireplace while watching black-and-white tv, which admittedly sounds like something Gibbs would do. She dryly declines, whereupon Tony says it's more charming than you'd think. [[HoYay Leading to the inference that Tony and Gibbs have done that before.]]

* "Devil's Triangle": Finding out that Tony is so vain that he counts the hairs in his shower drain to make sure he's not going bald. And he's been doing it for a ''long'' time.
-->'''Ziva:''' ''Every day?''\\

*** When Diane yells at her current husband, ''"I am going to make your life a living Hell!"'' Gibbs and Fornell trade a smirk, knowing how much pain he's in for; when he charms her into melting into his arms and sobbing gratefully that he's all right, they trade a look of severe confusion.

* "Engaged, Part 2": The team has a bomber at gunpoint, while he is holding the detonator. He presses the last button, screaming, expecting himself to be shot dead and made a martyr. Instead... nothing happens. [=McGee=] jammed the cell signal, so the team knew nothing was going to happen. Meaning the terrorist was just standing there screaming for no reason.

* "Sins Of The Father": Tony's dad is a suspect in a murder case. Obviously, Tony is banned from the case. However, he wants to talk to him. How does he get past the agent guarding him? First, bribery with cake. Then reasoning. Then:
-->'''Tony:''' Well, then, I guess I'd have to tell [Gibbs] about your little antics at the Halloween party last month with Susan Grady from Polygraph, down in the copy room? Huh? She was dressed as a nun, and you were dressed as -- Leroy Jethro Gibbs, with a little silver wig?\\

* "Secrets": It finally happens: Ziva [[DrivesLikeCrazy gets a speeding ticket.]] For going eighty in a forty. It's also tempting to call the cop who was unfortunate enough to pull her over to have had a SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome for pulling her over and surviving.

--->'''Vance:''' Oh, please tell me that you weren't married.
*** They weren't- but she and Tony almost were.

* "Need to Know": [=McGee=]'s blithe signing of a form -- with a dead-on forgery of Tony's signature. While Tony is right in front of him. Tony is not happy to find out he's apparently been doing it for ''years''.
-->'''Dorneget:''' I don't know if I can use this...

* In "The Missionary Position", Tony and Ziva are checking into their Colombian hotel room. Tony hands the hotel employee a large bill, as he doesn't have anything smaller, as a tip, and the man leaves, ostensibly to make change. After Ziva sarcastically comments "Oh, ''sure'' he is.", Tony dashes off to get his money back (and it's likely that he doesn't get it).

* Abby watching ''Series/{{Mythbusters}}'' for research[[labelnote:note]]It's taken a whole new level of funny considering that ''Mythbusters'' came out the same year as ''NCIS'', then ended in 2016 (pretty much just the end of one era, as it's set to re-launch with a new cast in a premiere aimed sometime around 2018), and ''NCIS'' is ''still'' going.[[/labelnote]] in "Rekindled".
-->'''Gibbs:''' Pyromaniacs.\\

* "Up in Smoke": Palmer is desperate to learn what Abby has planned for the bachelor party. NoodleImplements abound, and her chosen party outfit is something along the lines of a skeletal circus ringmaster frenchman with a cattle prod and handcuffs.

* "Phoenix": Tony, [=McGee=] and Ziva... ''asking''... Palmer for information on why Ducky exhumed a body.
-->'''Ziva:''' ''[cracks knuckles]'' Close the blinds.

* "Lost at Sea": Ziva, annoyed that [=DiNozzo=] and [=McGee=] went and hung out together without her the previous night, challenges them to pick up the first woman they see. Said first woman (other than her) is Agent Borin. Cue the two of them trying to ask her out throughout the rest of the episode, resulting in some cringe-worthy yet funny moments.

* "The Namesake": Finding out that Jimmy and Breena had their first fight because she asked him what he thought of her new hairstyle, and he was honest
-->'''Palmer:''' What do you think I should do?\\

* "Gone": The entire conversation about Ziva's friend Shmeil in the beginning. And when he shows up at the end.

* "Devil's Trifecta": When Gibbs finds out in the beginning that Fornell survived his shooting because he was too tired to take off his bulletproof vest from work.
-->'''Gibbs:''' Not too tired to shoot back.\\

** This is soon followed by the looks on all three of their faces when Vance announces that the three will be working jointly on the investigation. ''Especially'' Gibbs, whose [[DeathGlare eyes narrow into the dirtiest look he has]] ''ever'' given to [[YouBastard Vance.]]
*** Vance being [[ScaryBlackMan Vance]], he isn't phased in the slightest.

*** Equally funny for the fact that Gibbs has clearly been standing in the room watching them for a while with a blank look on his face as if he's trying to process what he's looking at. It isn't until Fornell enters a moment later that we learn what's on his mind.

** After the case is closed, Vance comments that it worked out so well, he's thinking of having the trio as a permanent team whenever the three agencies need to work together. All three of them flee the office before he can finish making the offer, and he doesn't look the slightest bit surprised.
*** Vance doesn't even look surprised when they do so. As he's speaking, he sits at his desk to write something down, and is looking down at his paperwork. When he looks up, he only sees an empty office, with the door still swinging behind the three agents. He just smiles and goes back to his paperwork.
* "You Better Watch Out": Tony's visible panic when his dad says he'll be staying at his place for Christmas.

* From the otherwise dark TearJerker two-parter "Shabbat Shalom"/"Shiva": The first episode opens with a father and teenaged son on a "bonding time" fishing trip, which the son clearly hates. Then one of them hooks a piece of a human body. The son's reaction? "Cool!" When Tony interviews them, the teen is still raving about the coolness of the whole situation. Tony can only express his sympathy to the dad.

-->'''Kev:''' ''[shouting angrily in Arabic]''\\

** Earlier, there's Ziva and Tony's bickering about their undercover roles.

* "Detour": How do Ducky and Jimmy determine who will drive the van on the way back to NCIS from a crime scene? They flip a finger bone.

* "Past, Present and Future": Tony shows the team Ziva's list of childhood aspirations through MTAC. [=McGee=]'s comment: "I will be a ballerina? Shouldn't that say ninja or something?"
** Earlier in the episode, Tony is brought to Mossad headquarters to speak with Orli about where Ziva may have gone. Tony questions why Mossad is looking for her, since she is no longer with the organization. Orli tells him it's the same reason he is looking for her. Tony replies that he [[AlwaysSaveTheGirl doubts that]]. There's a pause... and then Orli concedes his point.
* "Under The Radar": [=McGee=] lost his ID badge, and there's a cop who is actually giving their [=IDs=] a thorough examination at the crime scene. His solution? Grab everything he can carry in both hands, stuff a pad in his mouth, and make various muffled noises. The cop lets him through.

* "Anonymous Was a Woman": Tim learns that Tony is writing an apology letter to an old girlfriend. He asks if Tony is in "some sort of twelve-step program for recovering misogynists".

* Tony in the beginning of "Gut Check". He's all alone in the squadroom, so he tries to make conversation with a random coworker. First he tries a NotListeningToMeAreYou move, then when she finally starts talking to him he tries to get her to give him "a jibe, a scoff, a little stinkeye". When Gibbs finally comes in and scoffs, Tony turns to the coworker with a big smile and says "See?"

* At the beginning of "Devil's Triad", Bishop is being given an overwhelming amount of paperwork by [[ObstructiveBureaucrat Rhoda from HR]]. She holds her own by calmly and politely telling [[TheDreaded Rhoda]] that one of the forms is outdated. Tony and [=McGee=] give her a short round of applause after Rhoda stalks off.

*** Made all the better by Gibbs and Bishop quietly watching what's going on. Bishop's face says, "Okay, does this happen all the time around here??" while Gibbs's face says, "Nope, I'm not getting in the middle."

* "Double Back": Gibbs, without any phone call prompting him, suddenly tells Tony and Bishop to "Grab your gear!". Tony wonders if Gibbs just heard about a dead body telepathically, declaring "I knew this day would come!"

* "Monsters and Men": Tony and [=McGee=] are coming off a tense encounter with Vance while trying to avoid Gibbs.
-->'''Vance:''' Do I look like Dr. Phil to you, Agent [=DiNozzo=]? (ItMakesSenseInContext)\\

* "Crescent City: Part 1": NCIS Agent [=LaSalle=] meets Agent Brody, who apparently likes to do crossword puzzles in her head. When she asks him for a three-letter word for 'mistake', [=LaSalle=] quickly responds "FBI"[[note]]having recently been butting heads with an FBI agent who is [[JurisdictionFriction interfering in their case]][[/note]].

*** Later, in interrogation, they unnerve the guy by completely ignoring him and playing ''TabletopGame/GoFish''.

* "Crescent City, Part 2": [=LaSalle=] is enjoying a cup of coffee at a local bar when a kid tries to rob the place.
--> '''[=LaSalle=]:''' Federal agent. ''[Pulls back his jacket to reveal his badge and gun]'' Put down the gun. ''[Continues to sip his coffee without even looking up or getting out of his chair]''\\

* In "Page Not Found" Tony gets away from [=McGee=] to take a call in private, hiding in a closet. He turns on the light to find... himself. Specifically, [[BrickJoke the cardboard cutout of him from season 8]].
-->'''Tony:''' ''Who put you in here?''\\

* "Alleged": While Tony and Bishop are looking for a possible suspect in a bar, a drunken patron approaches Tony and asks "D'you mind if I have a dance with your daughter?"

* "Twenty Clicks" has Gibbs, [=McGee=], and IT Kevin stuck in the Russian wilderness while being chased by terrorists who shot their helicopter down. Gibbs takes the time to build a compass out of a magnet, a paperclip, and a leaf, and [=McGee=] comments on its accuracy... while looking at the compass he's been carrying the whole time. Turns out he was curious to see if Gibbs's improvised compass would work.

-->'''Francis:''' Can I ask you something, Bishop? You enjoy working for Gibbs? I mean, I heard he's tough, a real hardass.\\

* "So It Goes": Jimmy wonders how Ducky knows that the VictimOfTheWeek isn't his childhood best friend: the victim has both his front teeth, while Angus's had been knocked out in a fight. When Jimmy asks if Ducky's sure, Ducky pleasantly responds: "Of course. I'm the one who knocked them out."

* In "The San Dominick", Tony tells Bishop that "360 degree awareness" comes with experience.
-->'''Tony:''' Right, Borin? ''[Turns around, sees that Borin has left without him noticing]''

* In "Parental Guidance Suggested", Bishop's [[EpicFail attempt at breaking down a door]], particularly when they had a master key to open the door.
** Same episode, when Gibbs and Tony go [[ConsultingAConvictedKiller talk to the psycho]]. Just [[ChewingTheScenery the whole scene]].
* "Grounded": Shortly after meeting Ellie's husband Jake, they and Tony encounter a rude airline passenger:
-->'''Tony:''' [[Film/{{Chinatown}} Forget it, Jake. It's Chinatown]].\\

*** Jake's squeamishness during this scene is pretty amusing to those who remember that his actor, Creator/JamieBamber, spent several years playing a cop on ''Series/LawAndOrderUK''.

* "House Rules": Ajay Khan is initially intrigued at the idea of seeing a dead body in autopsy. Cut to him looking like he's going to puke at the sight.

* "Check" kicks off with Jimmy informing the other agents that Gibbs is off caffeine:
-->'''Jimmy:''' The guy's scary enough when he's properly medicated. Can't imagine what he'd be like with caffeine withdrawal. Can only imagine someone taking away King Kong's bananas. ''[laughs, then sees everyone else's OhCrap faces and cringes]'' I'm not going to turn around.\\

* At the beginning of "Cadence", Jake and Ellie arrive at work in their sweaty gym clothes. Gibbs announces that they have a case and the team rushes out, with Ellie hurriedly declaring that she'll change in the car.

** Jake and Ellie plan to have dinner with the rest of the team, but Tony and Ellie can't make it due to the case, and they call Gibbs and Jake to tell them. As soon as the latter pair (already at the diner) hang up, we see [[FunnyBackgroundEvent over Gibbs's shoulder]] as Tim enters the diner, checks his phone, and [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere bugs out]].
*** As a result, Jake ends up stuck having dinner with Gibbs alone. The next day, Jake reveals that he and Gibbs hit it off, gushing about how "he's so easy to talk to!", earning utterly flabbergasted looks from Tony and Ellie. From then on, Tim and Tony's reactions to their friendship can only be described as jealousy.
* In the ColdOpen of "Cabin Fever", Fornell getting pulled over for drunk driving [[DudeNotFunny isn't funny at all]], especially considering the wider context. His comment to the cops pulling him over, however, could be considered [[BlackComedy darkly humorous]].
-->"Don't worry. It's prescription bourbon."

* The episode "Blast From the Past" starts with some ''very'' BlackComedy when the VictimOfTheWeek is shot as he's driving up to a meet. As he crashes and dies, his GPS navigator tells him "You have reached your final destination." No kidding!

*** Earlier, we're provided with another example of Gibbs' lack of tech-savviness when [=McGee=] gets him a new smartphone. One scene transition later, Gibbs has already smashed it.
* "The Artful Dodger": Tim, undercover as Tony [=DiNozzo=] the catalogue model [[ItMakesSenseInContext (long story)]], is asked to strike a pose. The result is a patently fake runway model-esque pouty pose.

* "Patience": [=McGee=] and Abby's reactions to finding out Gibbs and Tony had been working a cold case without them knowing -- their reaction is like they were cheated on.

* "Lost in Translation": Tony is told that [=McGee=] got chosen to be the new face of NCIS in their recruitment materials, causing him to go all GreenEyedMonster. When Tony finally gets over it at the end, [=McGee=] looks at him and says "Happy April Fool's Day". After sputtering over how the whole thing (Including some very realistic looking fake recruitment materials with Tim's image on them) was an elaborate prank until his coworkers are out of earshot, Tony admits to himself that he's ''proud'' of how well he was set up.

* In "Troll", Jake shows up at NCIS with Bishop, and Tony attempts to make a quip before his morning caffeination.
-->"Oh, if it isn't Jake the Snake, who takes the cake, and... never wakes and bakes and... [[MustHaveCaffeine I haven't had my coffee, yet."]]

* "Stop the Bleeding": Hallucination!Mike Franks is still hanging around, and he's less impressed with the [[BunnyEarsLawyer wise-cracking doctor]] working on Gibbs's injuries.
-->"All the sawbones in the world, and you get Chuckles the Clown. Bet this guy's a hoot at parties."

* "Personal Day" opens with [=McGee=] and Bishop analyzing the changes in Gibbs's hair and wardrobe on the plasma. Later, Abby accidentally reveals that she has a collection of pictures of Gibbs with different hairstyles photoshopped on.

*** [=McGee=] once got a single pity vote for Homecoming King. His ''mother'' somehow managed to sneak it in.

* "Incognito": [=McGee=] and Bishop go under as a married couple. And at one point start arguing like a married couple even when alone.

* In "Double Trouble", Vance asks to ride along with Gibbs on a case. Gibbs agrees more quickly than Vance predicted -- and wastes little time in calling him "Probie".
--> '''Ducky:''' BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor, Director.

** Gibbs is going undercover for a supposed deal to sell "one of the deadliest neurotoxins on the planet" to a Latvian crime boss, only to discover that he is selling ''botox'' to old women. Cue Gibbs' ''priceless'' OhCrap face while he {{button mash|ing}}es the panic button to signal his team to rush into the scene as the group of women approaches him like a pack of wolves to a little lamb.
*** One of the women is convinced that Tony has had a botched eye lift, and compares him to Creator/MartyFeldman. He spends the rest of the scene hung up over this.
* In "Viral", [=McGee=] and Delilah are having a lovers' quarrel in the office over what to keep and what to donate/throw out during their move-in together when Tony and Ellie come in... so they start arguing not just in binary but ''binary shorthand'' to keep the conversation as private as possible. Only you, [=McGee=]...
-->'''Tony:''' He can't even ''argue'' like a cool cyborg.

* In "16 Years", pretty much all of Gibbs's interactions with the Sherlock Consortium.
** Especially his interactions with Judith [=McKnight=]... a DirtyOldWoman with a thing for BDSM who takes a shine to Gibbs. The icing on the cake is Jessica Walter’s [[LargeHam gleeful performance.]] She obviously [[ChewingTheScenery had the time of her life with this part.]]

** When Tony gets a splinter in his finger from digging in a tree, Abby helps him get it out -- and then recites an apology to the tree. She then makes Tony return the splinter to the tree and recite a similar apology.
*** When Tony complains about having to go back to the woods before the splinter has worked its way out, Gibbs opens his combat folder (which, as Vance has already demonstrated, is large enough to stab someone in the heart) and offers to take it out. Tony meekly declines.

* In "Saviors", Tony's old flame Jeanne Benoit crosses paths with NCIS again. ''Everyone'' has the exact same thing to say:
-->'''[=McGee=]/Gibbs/Ducky/Abby:''' [[PhraseCatcher Jeanne Benoit?]] ''[[RunningGag Really?]]''

* "Day in Court": Tony and [=McGee=] drive through Tony's old beat from his Baltimore PD days, and [=McGee=] asks if it has changed a lot since then.
-->'''Tony:''' See that Thai massage parlor? Used to be a Korean massage parlor.

*** When Bishop returns to the team to work on their case and head out after learning the news:
---->'''Tony:''' Jake ''is'' aware you carry a gun, right?
* "Blood Brothers": Jake has been calling Bishop repeatedly while she's at her parents' home. While she's chopping firewood, her mother hands her her cell phone, telling her she'll feel better if she answers. Ellie takes the phone, sets it on the chopping block, and hacks it with her ax, stating that ''now'' she feels better.

-->'''Tony:''' Go ahead; you'll never guess.\\

* After 13 seasons, "Spinning Wheel" ''finally'' gives us an explanation for Gibbs' copious RightBehindMe moments when when [=McGee=] and [=DiNozzo=] are standing in a corner, discussing Bishop's marriage, assuming she can't hear them because they're too far away, only for her to reveal that she can, because their voices are reverberating off of the skylight.
-->'''[=DiNozzo=]:''' That's how he knows everything we're saying! There must be a sweet spot in this room. A little acoustic ''[popping noise]'' where he can hear ''every single thing we say''. I betcha he comes in here early; and he waits, bides his time, like a howler monkey in heat, waiting for exactly the right moment to...\\

* In "Sister Cities", the quoted "break-up bug" that afflicted Jake and Bishop has spread to Tony and Zoe too. Details of ''how'' are sketchy -- Tony says it was a mature, amicable breakup, but [=McGee=] and Team Pride think it wasn't. At all.

* In "Deja Vu", there is a massive freeze hitting the DC area combined with serial power outages, so members of the team keep having to crash with their teammates until the heating comes back on. This continues all the through the episode, which ends with the ''entire team'' sleeping in Gibbs' living room, because he has a fireplace.

* "Decompressed": Abby's Valentine's Day card to Bishop, which Bishop finds incredibly sweet:
-->''Roses are red,''\\

* "React": Secretary Porter's daughter has been kidnapped, and while waiting for a ransom call, Gibbs starts making coffee in her kitchen. When Porter comments that she [[INeedAFreakingDrink would rather have something stronger]], Gibbs dryly tells her that the her liquor cabinet's locked -- meaning that he or someone else has already tried and failed to open it.

** Gibbs suspects that Fornell is dating someone new, even stopping the elevator to interrogate him about it... only to turn it ''right'' back on when Fornell starts his explanation with the words "My sex life".
*** It turns out that Fornell is getting into online dating, and gets calls from more than one woman throughout the episode, but later tells Gibbs that he [[ThatCameOutWrong "can't get it up"]] [[VerbalBackspace (he means getting up the nerve)]].

* "Homefront": Tony's working on the previous episode's (ongoing) case with M16. Fornell comments that he can just ''hear'' the Bond references Tony must be making. Upon finding out that he'll be going to England for his own follow-up, Fornell starts spewing Literature/SherlockHolmes references. Later, he attempts to blend in at an English pub with a cheerful [[ActingUnnatural "Cheers, mate!"]] Cue all the patrons staring at him.

* For an otherwise depressing episode, there's a certain funny moment in "Family First", when Gibbs's therapist uses a feelings wheel to gauge his present emotions.

*** Earlier in the same scene, Ellie begins to talk with them using the 'Mom Voice', and one of them tells the others "Told you we shouldn't have egged Jake's car!"
* In "Pay To Play" a teenaged suspect attempts a high-speed getaway in a Driver's Ed car. The would-be escapee gets about a hundred yards before the instructor hits the backup brake.
--> '''Torres:''' You okay, sir?\\

* "The Tie That Binds": Fornell has been staying at Gibbs' house for months. Emily drops by and uses an air horn to wake him. Gibbs decided not to warn him. Offscreen, Emily persuades Fornell to move back to his own house by having her boyfriend the entomologist plant termites in Gibbs' house. Gibbs decides that the only place he has left to stay while his house is being fumigated... is Fornell's house.

* "Nonstop": What's better than the return of the Sherlockians? Their newest member: ''Anthony Sr.''
** Better is how he's the "probie" of the team.

** Anthony Sr asks if Gibbs and Judith are "still an item." Gibbs nearly chokes on his food, denying it of course; Anthony Sr assumes "a gentleman never kisses and tells." He then asks Gibbs' permission to "woo" her and Gibbs gratefully tells him to go ahead.
*** This comes back to bite Gibbs somewhat when he accidentally walks in on Senior and Judith ''bathing together.''

* "A Many Splendored Thing": Torres' tutorial to Team Gibbs about how to pick pockets.

* "What Lies Above": [=McGee=] worries (correctly) that the the thieves who broke into his apartment may have taken Delilah’s hard drive. Where did she have it hidden? [[FreezeFrameBonus In a hollowed-out copy of]] ''[[BrickJoke Deep Six]]''.

*** Nick responds to that by saying what the audience was most likely thinking:
---->'''Torres:''' ''[disturbed]'' Why the ''hell'' would she ask that?!

** Quinn, Bishop, and Torres get into an argument about whether or not Tim should tell Delilah about the corpse they found underneath the floorboards of their apartment. A good gem comes out of it:

*** Just the high-pitched tone Torres develops when saying the above line.

* Early in "The Wall", [=McGee=] and Bishop discuss a rumor that Torres and Quinn once had a fling, and the conversation segues into Bishop mentioning picturing Torres in tight jeans. The first glimpse we get of Torres in the episode, seconds later, the camera is focused on his legs in his tight jeans.

* In "Beastmaster", [=McGee=] has the rest of the team go through mandatory pepper spray re-certification, which involves being pepper-sprayed. After everyone else (sans Gibbs) has been through it, [=McGee=] tells them that there was a paperwork mix-up, and they didn't have to be re-certified for another year. With Reeves providing them with three cans of pepper spray, they get their revenge...

* "Something Blue": The three-way tuxedo-off between [=McGee=], Torres, and Reeves. Abby wins.

* The body in "Twofer" apparently smells so bad that it causes ''Gibbs'' to recoil in shock, and for Ducky to Troll him by prolonging his "welcome back" speech to keep him in the room longer. Quickly becomes HarsherInHindsight when it turns out to be the result of a toxin in the liver that knocks out Palmer.

* "Skeleton Crew": Bishop's sheer disbelief that the Commander Thomas Buckner she and Torres need to talk to is the same Tommy Buckner who bullied her in high school and whom she was literally ''just'' complaining about. Nick's amusement is pretty good, too.

*** The fact that Bishop and Jimmy pulled off an awesome LockingMacGyverInTheStoreCupboard moment by making a bomb out of the chemicals in Abby's lab in order to break out and tell the others what the bad guys were really after, only they're a little too late for it to matter because the rest of the team had already dealt with them by then.
---->'''Bishop:''' It was for the good of the case.\\

** The reveal that the secret break room on the roof is the handiwork of Gibbs, who managed to keep it a secret for only God knows how long from the team.
*** Even better? The idea that all the times Gibbs has claimed to be "going to meetings at the Pentagon", he's actually been up here.
* From "The Numerical Limit": Bishop just shrugs off Tim and Torres's warnings about Abby finding out who wrecked her mass spectrometer in the previous episode. She walks out as Torres sighs "I'm going to miss her." Bishop then sees Abby going wild figuring out clues and "I will soon find the murderer!" causing Bishop to realize she's indeed in '''deep shit'''.

*** Torres tells Palmer he's playing too well to get close to the guys and Palmer is outraged at the idea of playing worse.

* In "Love Thy Neighbor", Sloane is excited about an investigation taking place at a small neighborhood as she sees it as a "fantastic social study" she compares to research into jungle tribes.

* "Crossing the Line": A trio of high schoolers win an essay contest to tour the NCIS offices. Torres is set up as their "mentor." It goes as well as you'd expect.
** Gibbs vs teenagers goes even worse.
*** At one point, he makes it clear he has no idea what "K-hip-hop"[[note]]Korean hip-hop[[/note]] is and the teens just sigh, [[PopCulturalOsmosisFailure "Tragic."]]

* "Bears and Cubs": Jimmy is forced into a solo investigation involving both his quirky father-in-law, Ed, and Anthony Sr. HilarityEnsues.

* "Hail & Farewell": Somehow Torres has no idea who ''Creator/GeorgeLucas'' is. Even ''Gibbs'' corrects him on the name.

* "IRL": Investigating the murder of a sailor who was into video games, Tim is upset to realize how far behind he is on the latest games.

** Picture Tim's reaction when Gibbs's "video game expert" is the nine-year-old Phineas.
*** His attitude turns right around when he gets to set up MTAC as a gaming center. (It was for the case.)

* "The North Pole": It turns out that Palmer was so upset about the fact that he was the only member of the team still around that Ziva didn't stop to visit in her first appearance in the season that on her second, he staked out the forensics lab so he could talk to her when she inevitably swung by, giving Kasie a JumpScare in the process.

* In "Flight Plan", [=McGee=] decides to get a vasectomy because he and Delilah have agreed that Johnny and Morgan are the only children they want. While he's reluctant to talk about it, word ends up spreading around the Navy Yard anyway.

* "Lonely Hearts": Once again, Tim has managed to ''forget Valentine's Day''.

* "High Tide": Bishop and Torres's badinage as they debate her undercover skills, after posing as a call girl and her jealous boyfriend:

*** Later, the same iguana is used for a transistion spacer, happily sitting on a rock outside while the same dramatic camera close-ups and horror movie stings used for dramatic scenes like the corpses are played on it.

** The first time Ziva drives the truck - she drives down the wrong side of the road. While the others scream and throw up, and cars honk and squeal in the background, she remains so calm it's hilarious.

''[Abby's assistant turns away from her slowly with a freaked out expression - because he did it]''

* "Escaped": At the beginning, we learn that [=McGee=] overbleached his teeth the night before. He spends the entire episode keeping his mouth as closed as possible so his teeth are never seen, with Tony trying to get a look and the rest of the team offering tips on how to darken them, including Gibbs telling him to gargle a Caf-Pow before he makes everyone else go snow-blind. Finally, at the end when they arrive at work to see Gibbs has returned from his TenMinuteRetirement, the camera pans across the stunned faces of Ziva, Tony, until it comes to [=McGee=] with a big goofy grin on his face, showing off the brightest teeth ever. It even gets a joke in the "grey-out," complete with a TwinkleSmile and an AudibleGleam. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7cslc32fB90 See it here]].

--->'''Tony:''' Ah- ''[switching to callscreen]'' Hey. We were - we were just, ah, eavesdropping like little girls - But we do have suggestions!

** The first scene we see Palmer and Agent Lee together - and we immediately see they've apparently been ''together'' before and enjoy it ''immensely''.

-->'''Ducky:''' Well, as the moisture was lost, the victim's tissue - which protected the vital organs - shrank. You see these little black dots?\\

** We finally get additional info [[NoodleIncident about the time]] Ducky got angry with a French cop and pushed him off a sixty-foot cliff into a lake below all the way back from Season 1. This resulted in Ducky and Gibbs becoming ''fugitives'' after they escaped across the English Channel until a certain NCIS Agent Jenny Shepard managed to clear the mess up...even though she commandeered the boat they used to escape in the first place!
* "Driven" begins with Team Gibbs attending [[SensitivityTraining a sexual harassment lecture]] and demonstrating why - between Abby hugging people with her mind, Ziva licking Tony's ear, and nobody ''quite'' having the guts to mention Gibbs's fondness for the DopeSlap - it's generally for the best that they usually manage to skip these lectures. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWZO_zehR9w See it here.]]

'''Tony:''' Ah. Well, that - really depends.\\

* In "Friends And Lovers", we get a normal conversation between Gibbs and Ducky, discussing the victim, how he died, the message the killer left behind, how the method of death could mean there are potentially dozens of at-risk targets, and so on. They then leave - and Palmer and Lee come out from under a covered autopsy table where they were squeezed together for the entire time.

* In "Cover Story," [=McGee=] is showing his writing process to Tony, who is busy being [[ManChild Tony.]] [=McGee=] demonstrates the technique of free-writing, i.e., writing whatever comes to mind, stream of consciousness style... while Tony stands over him, continuing to goof off. What does [=McGee=] free-write? [[FreezeFrameBonus "He loomed over me like a grotesque clown, his breath reeking of garlic as he tried to discern my thoughts."]]

** Tony's completely one-sided conversation with Gibbs after the latter points out a too-curious bystander. Tony makes a crack about how pretty she is, only to instantly realize - thanks to Gibbs's [[DeathGlare look]] - that that's not what he was getting at.

** The episode introduces the [[TerrifiedOfGerms germaphobic]] Agent Jardine, who, when told to use one of the phones in the bullpen instead of her own office, obssessively begins to clean it first. The rest of the team delivers their entire update while being distracted by her. Shortly thereafter, Tony pranks her by dipping his fingers in some water and making a sneezing noise while flicking the droplets onto her neck. Mean, but funny.

** Earlier in the episode, Abby takes portrait photos of the team to attach to her cell phone's caller IDs: Tony's deliberate mugging is hilarious (even though Abby complains, the photo is on the wall of her lab in "Last Man Standing");

** A bored Ziva pranks Tony and spends the rest of the episode in watchful paranoia about possible revenge. At one point, Tony tells Agent Jardine to tell her that she saw him messing with Ziva's car (he didn't). It's not until the end of the episode - days later - that she sits down in her chair and it collapses underneath her.

* In "Dog Tags," [=McGee=] is attacked by a seemingly vicious dog, while the rest of the teem looks at the Crime scene inside. Then [=McGee=]'s gun fires. They run outside and find [=McGee=] getting up while the dog is whimpering on the ground. During this whole scene a really loud and obnoxious song called "Bad Dog, No Biscuit" by Daron Norwood blares in the background. While were looking at the wounded dog, the last lines of the song before the opening credits are "Bad dog, ''no'' biscuit!"

-->'''Abby:''' Sister Rosita bowled a 260 last week! And I finally watched [[Film/Titanic1997 The Titanic]]. It sinks at the end - very weird.

** At the end, the true killer [[EvilGloating smugly gloats]] that once he's arrested, he'll be a famous serial killer instead of Gibbs being recognised as the hero. Cut to a news report stating that the "[=CyberVid=] Killer" has been caught...but it's hammered in twice that NCIS [[LaserGuidedKarma had to hide every single detail about him]] by citing [[LoopholeAbuse he might have links to terrorism]].

'''[=McGee=]:''' Or setting up a series of pneumatic tubes - although I am partial to the concept.

* "Love & War": The ongoing B-story of [=McGee=] and his new online girlfriend, "Claire" (who is really Tony - ItMakesSenseInContext).

** Since Tony is taking over Gibbs's position, Gibbs essentially takes over for Tony - snarky comments, teasing Tim and Ziva, etc.

* In "South By Southwest," Tony has a conversation with a local sheriff, played by Creator/LanceHenriksen. Afterward, he does a ''jaw-droppingly perfect'' imitation of Henriksen's distinctive voice.

--->'''Ziva:'''I hit a stone wall.\\

'''[=McGee=]:''' I'm kiddding, I'm not really gett -\\

** The stripper's manager - a rather sleazy-looking guy - offers the team his card. [=McGee=] takes it with a pair of tweezers.

** Tony, [=McGee=], and Ziva all staring at the copy-making thing[[note]]called a "mimeograph," in case anyone's interested[[/note]] with no idea how to make it work--until Gibbs comes in and calmly shows them how it's done. Bonus points for him doing so right after [=McGee=] says they need to find a brontosaurus who knows how to work it. Note that Gibbs was [[PassThePopcorn looking on, amused,]] as they tried to make head or tail of the mimeograph, but the minute [=McGee=] makes the brontosaurus quip, he instantly goes to a sour face, and when he's done making the copy, he all but ''shoves'' the file back, as if to say, "Watch your mouth, kid!"

** Abby gets hit ''hard'' with the blackout mainly because her gadgets won't work [[SkewedPriorities and her music system is down]], sticking her with a battery-powered boombox which eventually runs out of juice, [[BigNo much to her horror]]. Eventually she hooks it up to a lemon battery and ropes Tim, Ziva and Tony into manually checking ''every'' fingerprint they have from the local PD against one lifted from a suspect...which takes a couple of hours.

* From "Ignition," when Ziva gets frustrated over the Internet:

** Tony is absent from a crime scene - so Ducky has to make the obligatatory movie reference.

** From earlier in the episode, Tony random-chatting with pretty girls, only to be quickly rejected each time. He tries to make things interesting with gag glasses/nose--just as Gibbs walks in.

** Tony makes to give [=McGee=] a smack, but he ducks - and then Gibbs smacks Tony.

** Ziva's new security system on her computer - when Tony tries and fails to get into her email, the video camera records him and alarm bells begin to blare at top volume.

** During a long briefing reviewing past cases, one retired agent unscrews the top of his cane and quietly swears, because he brought the wrong cane - the one he was ''planning'' to bring had a [[INeedAFreakingDrink hidden flask inside]].

** When [=McGee=] worries about an identity thief, he starts wondering - only half-jokingly - if he'll have to change his name. Tony's face lights up, and [=McGee's=] face is a combination of OhCrap, ThisIsGonnaSuck, and ImpliedFacepalm all rolled into one. He tries to prevent what's coming... and Tony starts rattling off a stream of [=McNicknames,=] Ziva holds back a laugh, and [=McGee=] resigns himself to it, clearly thinking, "I should've seen this coming."

** [=McGee=] and Ziva are following a blood trail to see where the victim was stabbed. They come near the end and see a cell phone - which is promptly eaten up by a street sweeper truck.
** Palmer mentioning that he was elected Homecoming King - due to the fact that the other eleven students in his class were girls.

* "Enemy On The Hill": A possible target for assassination finds the idea that someone wants to kill him ludicrous, and brushes off Gibb's advice to move to a safehouse. He even declines the offer of an agent simply guarding him - until he notices Ziva and, apparently rethinking the notion, asks who would be guarding him.

** Not ten seconds later, Gibbs pauses, puts a hand on the doorknob - and opens it to reveal Tony, [=McGee=] and Ziva huddled up against it, blatantly eavesdropping.

** Tony jokes to Fornell that Diane "can't be all bad - you married her", but it's even funnier when ''Vance'' makes the exact same joke later.

** Abby's friend Carol flirting openly with Fornell, who points out that he's old enough to be her father. It's ambiguous whether she's being serious or is just jerking his chain - and equally ambiguous which is funnier.

-->'''Tony:''' Well, then, I guess I'd have to tell [Gibbs] about your little antics at the Halloween party last month with Susan Grady from Polygraph, down in the copy room? Huh? She was dressed as a nun, and you were dressed as - Leroy Jethro Gibbs, with a little silver wig?\\

* "Need to Know": [=McGee=]'s blithe signing of a form - with a dead-on forgery of Tony's signature. While Tony is right in front of him. Tony is not happy to find out he's apparently been doing it for ''years''.

* "The Tell": Tony and Ziva find a suspect who's been hacking inside her van for ''days'', without stopping for personal hygeine.

** While looking up several people under "Harper Dearing", [=McGee=] finds four potential suspects. First one is a middle-aged woman who Gibbs quickly dismisses alongside Dearing No.2 who is a 81-year old clergy. Dearing No.3...is an elementary school kid. Gibbs gives [=McGee=] a silent look that screams "Do you THINK that kid is a terrorist?!". He quickly moves to Dearing No.4 who is their main suspect.

* In "Recovery," Tony and Ziva interrogate a bigoted, misogynistic witness about a missing NCIS worker; he'd been interviewed for a job at NCIS shortly before she disappeared. He insults Ziva early on, and Tony jumps to her defense. Then:

** Gibbs' thoroughly annoyed "Geez" when he realizes that their prime suspect is not only innocent, but has an utterly mundane and legitimate excuse for his presence at the crime scene.

** Earlier in the episode, Tony is brought to Mossad headquarters to speak with Orli about where Ziva may have gone. Tony questions why Mossad is looking for her, since she is no longer with the organization. Orli tells him it's the same reason he is looking for her. Tony replies that he [[AlwaysSaveTheGirl doubts that]]. There's a pause...and then Orli concedes his point.

** Susan Grady[[note]]The polygraph specialist from previous episodes, now applying to become a field agent[[/note]] interrogating a misogynistic hitman, pissing him off by slowly and deliberately putting on her makeup in front of him - staring him down the entire time - and asking him "How do I look?"

** The witness that Tony interviews is... unusual. Tony guesses that the man believes that the CIA has been recording his thoughts through the fillings in his teeth, and the man corrects him - they use micro-waves to do it.

** The RunningGag of Ziva barging into the men's room to talk to Tony or [=McGee=] is continued - with Bishop. When Tony asks how she knew he would be there, she replies "two hours, like clockwork".

** At the end, [=McGee=] takes Delilah to meet a disabled Marine veteran who's also lost the use of his legs, but hasn't let that stop him from starting a sky-diving business. Delilah's reaction is all [=McGee=] could have hoped for - and more, when she suggests that they both participate in the veteran's next jump. Since he's terrified of heights, the episode naturally freeze-frames on his his DeerInTheHeadlights expression.

** Jake and Ellie practically mooning over each other, with him awestruck at her newfound skills--over a dead body.

** Gibbs attempts to mimic some of Abby's TechnoBabble - ''poorly''.

* "Patience": [=McGee=] and Abby's reactions to finding out Gibbs and Tony had been working a cold case without them knowing - their reaction is like they were cheated on.

** Tony and Bishop go undercover as a couple to look at a doctor's computer, supposedly at a parenting class, but it turns out to be a couple's intimacy therapy session instead - their reactions, as well as those of Gibbs and Vance (watching from MTAC) is very funny.

** Abby has information for Gibbs but can't deliver it herself, so she has Tony and Ellie do it for her - with a script to read from. It even includes her customary [[GenkiGirl "Gibbs! Gibbs! Gibbs! Gibbs! Gibbs!"]] intro, and the part where Gibbs says "Skip to the part I care about" - [[TheTapeKnewYouWouldSayThat which, of course, he does]].

* In "Double Trouble", Vance asks to ride along with Gibbs on a case. Gibbs agrees more quickly than Vance predicted - and wastes little time in calling him "Probie".

* "Lockdown": Abby's constant over-the-top attempts to butter Gibbs up and beg him to get Accounting to let her switch offices with them. It culminates in Abby giving Gibbs a "field trip permission slip" for him to sign. It's handwritten, and reads, [[FreezeFrameBonus "ABBY'S SOLITARY CONFINEMENT RELEASE FORM - 21 Oct 2015 - I as the big cheese/boss/el jefe, hereby give permission to Abby Sciuto to be free on this date of all Earthy (and NCIS related) shackles to visit Celodyne Pharmaceuticals for the expressed reason of seeing the sky and sun at least once this week - and to maximally fulfill her professional crime solving obligations. Time of return: when Abby can stomach the shame of being a subterranean castaway."]] Drama queen much, Abs?

** When Tony gets a splinter in his finger from digging in a tree, Abby helps him get it out - and then recites an apology to the tree. She then makes Tony return the splinter to the tree and recite a similar apology.

** They then come across one of his old snitches, who gleefully greets him like an old friend, then takes off. Tony casually drives after him, parks the car, and easily catches up as the guy tries - and fails - to climb a fence.

* In "Sister Cities," the quoted "break-up bug" that afflicted Jake and Bishop has spread to Tony and Zoe too. Details of ''how'' are sketchy - Tony says it was a mature, amicable breakup, but [=McGee=] and Team Pride think it wasn't. At all.

** Abby and Tony are looking for Abby's brother in an amusement park that they had gone to once as children - and absolutely hated. Abby mentions that Luca didn't speak with their parents for weeks after they got back.

* "React": Secretary Porter's daughter has been kidnapped, and while waiting for a ransom call, Gibbs starts making coffee in her kitchen. When Porter comments that she [[INeedAFreakingDrink would rather have something stronger]], Gibbs dryly tells her that the her liquor cabinet's locked - meaning that he or someone else has already tried and failed to open it.

-->'''Torres:''' On my back, naked - fresh air feels nice.
* Throughout "Home of the Brave", Abby, [=McGee=], and Bishop try to woo [=DiNozzo=] Sr. into handing over Tony's apartment - Abby tries to "Caf Pow" and dine him, [=McGee=] gives him a photo book of him and Delilah, and Bishop writes an essay. And in the end, it's [[DarkHorseVictory Torres]] that gets the apartment after the elder [=DiNozzo=] decides to draw a name out of a hat - Ducky's hat. Though Torres later cedes the apartment to Tim after seeing the photo book.

* In the Thanksgiving episode "Enemy Combatant", it's revealed that Bishop's gotten over her failed marriage and has started dating again - with a coworker. Her brothers (who are visiting for the holidays) spend the entire episode scouring NCIS trying to identify and [[TwerpSweating Twerp Sweat]] their sister's new boyfriend.

* "Nonstop:" What's better than the return of the Sherlockians? Their newest member: ''Anthony Sr.''

** Meanwhile, Reeves is clashing with the irascible witness of the week, Henry Rogers, who keeps attempting to escape custody to no avail. But the real clincher? After conning Reeves into leaving the conference room to get a heat pack for his "aching back," Henry succeeds at [[SlippedTheRopes slipping the handcuffs]] and leaving a note behind: "My back is fine, SUCKER!"

* Slightly dark example in "A Bowl of Cherries" when the three victims of the week are all frozen with liquid nitrogen. Ducky and Jimmy spend a full scene drinking tea while watching the bodies thaw--which is all they can do before they can start the autopsies.

--->'''Vance''': No. [[SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments Never take it for granted.]][[CallBack Not for one second.]] ''(smiles)'' And don't blow it.

** And then there's Abby's reaction to the news--going back to the office to tell everyone that everything's perfectly normal, even though her face has "I've got a secret" written all over it.

* In "Love Thy Neighbor", Sloane is excited about an investigation taking place at a small neighborhood as she sees it as a "fantastic social study" she compares to research into jungle tribes.
** Jimmy takes Torres on a "wild night on the town"... which ends up being painting at a studio and drinking wine.
--->'''Torres:''' So this is what marriage does.

* In "Mona Lisa," Gibbs and Vance have a video call with a Coast Guard officer in his office. They spend a few minutes admiring how the man has a huge tank in his office with a small shark.
-->'''Vance:''' What rank do you have to have in order to own a shark?
* "Hail & Farewell": Somehow Torres has no idea who ''Creator/GeorgeLucas'' is. Even ''Gibbs'' corrects him on the name.
** Torres ''finally'' discovers Gibbs's romantic history of four ex-wives and is astounded. "Does he have a marriage punch card?"

'''Nick:''' Remember that movie Film/EdwardScissorhands?\\

* "Great Wide Open": When Parker checks Gibb's house, he finds out a hole was made in the basement - and that's how the boats get out.
* "Face the Strange": Parker tries to blow off the case, saying "It's been a blast"...and then the M.E. van blows up.

* "Docked": A murder on a yacht has the only witness being...Tim's mother-in-law. HilarityEnsues.
** Poor Tim has to put up with his mother-in-law and his wife clashing on all this...and that's ''before'' they find out Judy was engaged to another man for six months.

** By her own admission Jessica is...not great with kids. She tries to be the "cool aunt" for her niece...who she doesn't even know the age of. She then wants to send a selfie at a crime scene as "Kids love dead bodies! Haven't you watched ''Film/StandByMe?''

--->'''Sportelli:''' ''[seeing Tony placing himself flush to the wall with arms outstretched]'' What is [=DiNozzo=] doing?\\

** Gibbs gets annoyed by the sound of the bells and levels his classic DeathGlare at the guy... and he doesn't even flinch, telling him, "She scares me ''way'' more than you do." Paired with "Awesome" when you consider how many hard core criminals have wilted under that look, yet this wimpy guy isn't phased in the slightest.

** Pauley's friend Carol flirting openly with Fornell, who points out that he's old enough to be her father. It's ambiguous whether she's being serious or is just jerking his chain - and equally ambiguous which is funnier.

---> '''Ziva:''' Gray can be really sexy.

** Diane calls [=McGee=] "Macauley Culkin".

* "Playing With Fire": Throughout the episode, Tony expresses curiosity in what Ziva's cancelled plans were. While they're nothing fancy (just pilates class with her landlady), everyone who knows is intent on keeping him in the dark, [[ItAmusedMe just because it's driving him crazy]].

*** And then, at the end of the episode, he gets even worse welts on his back from a henna tattoo. And then begs either Tony or Ziva to rub lotion on his back while [[IHaveToGoIronMyDog they make themselves scarce]], only for him to chase them into the elevator still begging and them still refusing.

** When the dog lovingly named Jethro escapes from Abby's car, he makes a run for the forest and she chases after him. This dialogue follows:

** When stealing info from a car lot, [[TemptingFate Tony assures [=McGee=] several times that there are no dogs.]] You can guess what happens next.

** After the blackout in the beginning, the intro ends with Washington in the background blacking out before ''the intro itself'' completely shuts down, complete with a CRT screen blip.

** Abby's precise restrictions for her new lab intern. [[FridgeBrilliance Considering what happened with the last two people who assisted her in her lab, can you really blame her?]]

* From "Royals And Loyals": Tony makes to give [=McGee=] a smack, but he ducks - and then Gibbs smacks Tony.

* "Short Fuse": Gibbs delivers a [[DopeSlap Gibbs-smack]] to a cardboard cutout of Tony. Real-Tony flinches as if struck.