History Main / QuipToBLack

* Played with on ''Series/TheWire'', in an effort to distinguish itself from traditional cop shows. The pilot opens with [=McNulty=] questioning a witness about a dead kid named "Snot Boogie," a knucklehead who always hung around the local craps games and tried to steal the winnings because he "couldn't help himself." So [=McNulty=] asks why they kept letting him hang around if they knew he was going to grab the cash, and the kid says "You got to. This is America, man." The somber theme song dampens the humor of the moment, but the ''characters'' find it hilarious: [=McNulty=] opens the next scene by re-telling the story to another cop.

* IsaacNewton parodies Horatio Caine's one-liners in [[http://xkcd.com/626/ this]] ''Webcomic/{{xkcd}}'' strip.

* An episode of ''Cops: LAC'' opens with the police attempting to break up a protest over what used to be a naturist beach, Nathan trying to get the naturists to leave for one of two other nude beaches up the coast. They're interrupted when Priscilla finds a suitcase washing up on shore, and Daniel opens it up to find a severed human leg inside.

* On the ''Website/{{WrestleCrap}} Radio'' podcast, Blade Braxton's character [[FunWithAcronyms C. S. Irwin]] was a parody of Horatio Caine. Ostensibly the podcast's {{TNA}} correspondent, Caine (like all previous correspondents) never actually recapped TNA; instead, he'd do a sort of TNA-related ShaggyDogStory that ended in a lame pun, followed by the signature Who music.

'''''[[TheWho Yeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!]]'''''

* ''Series/CSIMiami'' regularly uses [[http://youtube.com/watch?v=_sarYH0z948 Quip To Black.]] Caruso's delivery and his frequent GlassesPull tends to make this moment hilariously {{Narm}}y. The device is used less frequently of late. The GlassesPull followed by a sample from TheWho ("''YEEEEEAAAAAHHHHH!!!''") is imitated frequently. Especially on this very page.

--->'''[[TheWho Yeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!]]'''
*** Except that part of the shows rules was for them to follow actual police procedure, which includes police professionalism. [[note]]No, not "'''[[TheWho Yeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!]]'''" because that's fun, and I want you to [[StopHavingFunGuys stop it]].[[/note]]

'''[[TheWho Yeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!]]'''

* One of the subcategories on Comixed.com, a yonkoma creation site, is a Quip To Black (usually featuring [[Series/CSIMiami Horatio Caine]] but occasionally characters from other series as well) with the last panel being a establishing shot of Miami (or wherever) with '''''[[TheWho YEAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH]]''''' captioned across it.

--> ''[[TheWho Yeeeeeaaaaahhh!]]''

* ''Series/CSIMiami'' regularly uses [[http://youtube.com/watch?v=_sarYH0z948 Quip To Black.]] Caruso's delivery and his frequent GlassesPull tends to make this moment hilariously {{Narm}}y. The device is used less frequently of late. The GlassesPull followed by a sample from TheWho ("''[[MemeticMutation YEEEEE]][[MetalScream AAAAA]][[BigYes HHHHH!!!]]''") is [[MemeticMutation imitated]] frequently. Especially [[OverusedRunningGag on this very page.]]

----> '''Frank''': "The suspect was identified by an eye-witness as one RickAstley and was seen leaving the scene of the crime with the missing {{Pixar}} movies."\\

--> '''Hawke''': It looks like the Duke... has fallen from grace.

* Parodied in the first episode of ''HectorBadgeOfCarnage'', when a punk, who desperately wants a record, gets tasered by an old lady. Hector says something like "looks like he...''puts on sunglasses''... just got charged", followed by the start of the ''Series/CSIMiami'' theme, before it's cut off. Hector takes off the sunglasses and [[BreakingTheFourthWall apologizes to the player]], not sure what came over him.

*** Except that part of the shows rules was for them to follow actual police procedure, which includes police professionalism. [[note]]No, not "'''[[TheWho Yeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!]]'''" because that's fun, and I want you to [[StopHavingFunGuys stop having it]].[[/note]]

** Parodied on SaturdayNightLive with CSI: Sarasota featuring an elderly pair of detectives. Each of Creator/BettyWhite's lines is a one-liner accompanied by removing her sunglasses and YYEEEAAAHHHH!!!!!

-->'''''[[AC:[[http://instantrimshot.com/index.php?sound=csi YYYYEEEEEEAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!]]]]'''''

** The final such one-liner in the show goes to Grissom in "Infinity". Now an independent eco-warrior, he holds up two severed shark fins in front of a bunch of cops wondering why he has broken into a ship and comments "Looks like someone [[JumpingTheShark jumped a shark]]".

* This was referenced in an episode of ''JoanOfArcadia'' in which a police officer makes a quippy comment about a crime scene, followed by a ''LawAndOrder''-esque musical {{sting}}. Her partner gives her a bewildered look, to which she responds, "What? Too ''Law and Order''?"

* Used by [[WebVideo/TheSpoonyExperiment The Spoony One]] in his LetsPlay of ''[[{{Phantasmagoria}} Phantasmagoria 2: A Puzzle of Flesh]]'':

* ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoIV''' has commercial for a TV show about [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything a forensic crime lab]], complete with a different YEEAAAAAAAAHHHHH scream (that's available as a ringtone).

-->'''Agent Finch:''' Are you okay boss?\\

--> '''Officer Grissom''': The force will be strong with him, all right.\\

--> '''Frank''': "The suspect was identified by an eye-witness as one RickAstley and was seen leaving the scene of the crime with the missing {{Pixar}} movies."\\

-->As Phillips and Keppler wheel out this week's corpse...
--->'''Stokes''': Hey. You know what Grissom would say here, don't you?
--->'''Phillips''': Something ironic, I'm sure.
-->...but we do not cut at this point. Instead we move to the autopsy where Robbins and Keppler discover that there are several foreign objects inserted into the body. After removing and opening an umbrella which covers Robbins in blood...
--->'''Keppler''': That's bad luck, isn't it?

--> '''Stella''': Looks like the end of the road for her.
--> '''Mac''': And the start of the line for us.
--> (I'm not sure if I quoted it correctly, but that's the gist of it.)

-->'''Stella''': Looks like he thought of himself as Indiana Jones.
-->'''Mac''': Until someone made this his last crusade.

--> '''Lilly''': Looks like someone clipped her wings.

--> '''Lilly''': ...Killed in a place where no one can hear you scream. '''Aaaaaauuuuuuuuwwww'''

* Series/HowIMetYourMother parodied this in one episode with Ted having been analysing the 'crime scene' of his apartment for evidence of a fight between Lily and Marshall and determining the cause was leaving the lid of the peanut butter, explained with CSI intenseness and use of shades. Though he wasn't even remotely right, as Robin kept trying to correct him and Ted kept ignoring her so that he could do his idiot analysis.

--> ''After finding a victim with quarters jammed down his throat:''
--->'''Sam Winchester''': Well I say . . . jackpot.

---> "Looks like murder...is in ''style'' this season."
---> "Looks like our killer's plan...is coming apart ''at the seams''."
--->'''[[TheWho Yeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!]]'''

---> '''Castle's Mother''': Now does that man look like a killer to you?
---> '''Castle''': Everybody looks like a killer to me; it's a job requirement.
---> '''Castle's Daughter''': You didn't say that about [the victim's sister].
---> '''Castle''': Just... let me have this moment.

---> '''Billionaire''' (''gets in the elevator''): You know, that's an extraordinary woman you have there.
---> '''Castle''' (''after a pause, and as the door is closing''): I know.
---> '''Billionaire''' (''just before door shuts''): Do you?
---> ''Cue Castle trying to pry the door back open to get the last word.''

--->'''Jimmy Palmer''': So, light meat or dark?
--->[Abby gives him a look]
--->'''Jimmy Palmer''': Inappropriate?
--->'''Abby Sciuto''': With a big dash of creepy, Jimmy.

-->'''Troy''': Looks like it's gonna be a late night. How'd we manage to pull the short straw?
-->'''Abed''': It's not a short straw...it's a hot potato.
-->'''Troy''': Yeah well, looks pretty ''cold'' to me.
-->'''Abed''': Cold or ''dead''?
-->'''Troy''': Survey says-
-->'''Abed''': We can't both do the zinger.
-->'''Troy''': Sorry.
-->[''Cut to credits'']

-->'''Buddy''': "I’m sure you guys have a natural rapport and timing, and you’re scared that adding a new member might throw everything off of its natural" — CUT TO TITLE SEQUENCE — "rhythm."

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* [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] and/or a case of SarcasmFailure in the computer game ''S.W.A.T. 4: The Stetchkov Syndicate'', where in a particularly gruesome shooting in a subway, normally smart-alecky Officer Fields has nothing to say, which is mockingly mentioned by Officer Reynolds, the veteran of the group.
--->'''Reynolds''': Nothin' to say, Fields?
--->'''Fields''': There's nothing funny about this.
* Used by [[WebVideo/TheSpoonyExperiment The Spoony One]] in his LetsPlay of ''{{Phantasmagoria}} 2: A Puzzle of Flesh'':

--->'''Zoey''': Pilot's license... revoked! ''Dun Dun Duuun!''

--->'''Coach''': "Wait for official instructions"... (Laughs) Wait, my ass.
--->'''Ellis''': Kill all sons-of-bitches. [[DramaticGunCock *Cocks shotgun*]] That's my official instructions.
* GTAIV has commercial for a TV show about [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything a forensic crime lab]], complete with a different YEEAAAAAAAAHHHHH scream (that's available as a ringtone).

--->''Stormwind Investigator:'' Given the body temperature, I'd say they've been dead no more than six hours. Damn shame what they did to Old Blanchy.
--->''[[ShoutOut Lieutenant Horatio Laine:]]'' No kidding, rookie. Looks like they really put the cart...before the horse.

--> ''(While watching a psychopath get his face chewed off by the zombie of a girl he killed when she refuesed to marry him)''
---> '''Chuck:''' You may now kiss the bride.

---> '''Hawke''': It looks like the Duke... has fallen from grace.

-->'''Kaiba''': Looks like the rules... * pulls out shades* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0qAqAhKEk5M ... just got screwed.]]
-->--'''''[[Music/TheWho YEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!]]'''''

--> ''Yuno'': Guess he couldn't live... (''cut to Yuno, suddenly wearing sunglasses'') Without his phone.
--> '''''YEEEEEAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!'''''

-->(''After Phineas and Ferb parody Series/StarskyAndHutch and MiamiVice'')
-->'''Thrift Store Owner:''' Aren't you a little young to know about all these old detective shows?
-->'''Phineas:''' Yes. Yes we... (puts on sunglasses) ...are.
-->'''''YEAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH'''''

--->(''After Doofenshmirtz finishes a Broadway Style Song and Dance Routine)''
--->'''Dancer''': Are we done now? I have to pick my kid up from school.
--->'''Doofenshmirtz''': Just wait till it fades to black.
--->(''Jumps to black'')
--->'''Doofenshmirtz''': There.

* ''{{Erfworld}}'': "Call it the last...of the ''last'' of the last stands." [[http://www.erfworld.com/book-1-archive/?px=%2F133.jpg "YyyyeeEAAAAhhhh!"]]

* ''CSIMiami'' regularly uses [[http://youtube.com/watch?v=_sarYH0z948 Quip To Black.]] Caruso's delivery and his frequent GlassesPull tends to make this moment hilariously {{Narm}}y. The device is used less frequently of late. The GlassesPull followed by a sample from TheWho ("''[[MemeticMutation YEEEEE]][[MetalScream AAAAA]][[BigYes HHHHH!!!]]''") is [[MemeticMutation imitated]] frequently. Especially [[OverusedRunningGag on this very page.]]

* In ''VideoGame/DragonAgeII'''s "Mark of the Assassin" DLC, snarky-Hawke pulls off a one-liner so intentionally cringe-worthy it ''must'' be a ShoutOut to ''CSIMiami''. After the villain, an Orlesian duke, falls off a cliff:

* Parodied in the first episode of ''HectorBadgeOfCarnage'', when a punk, who desperately wants a record, gets tasered by an old lady. Hector says something like "looks like he...''puts on sunglasses''... just got charged", followed by the start of the ''CSIMiami'' theme, before it's cut off. Hector takes off the sunglasses and [[BreakingTheFourthWall apologizes to the player]], not sure what came over him.

* Heavily parodied in [[http://www.weebls-stuff.com/wab/CSI/ this]] ''WeeblAndBob'' cartoon, as part of a general ''Series/{{CSI}}: Miami'' parody.

* One of the subcategories on Comixed.com, a yonkoma creation site, is a Quip To Black (usually featuring [[CSIMiami Horatio Caine]] but occasionally characters from other series as well) with the last panel being a establishing shot of Miami (or wherever) with '''''[[TheWho YEAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH]]''''' captioned across it.

** In an episode of ''Series/StargateSG1'', a tv producer pitches a number of show ideas, including T'ealc P.I. (a shameless ripoff of ''{{Shaft}}'' and ''MagnumPI'') featuring a scene where the one liner is simply. "[[CatchPhrase Indeeeeed.]]"

** Complete with a shot of Hawke [[UnflinchingWalk walking away for the cliff]] with his/her companions framing him/her on the background. For some reason, it's funnier with the Fenris and Anders formation. The only things missing were the sunglasses and [[http://instantrimshot.com/index.php?sound=csi this]].

* ''DragonBallAbridged'' parodies this. Krillin tries to set one up after he and Gohan take out a pair of Freeza's soldiers, all it does is give him his first [[RunningGag owned count point of the season]]. No glasses or The Who though.

** Complete with a shot of Hawke [[UnflinchingWalk walking away for the cliff]] with his/her companions framing him/her on the background. The only things missing were the sunglasses and [[http://instantrimshot.com/index.php?sound=csi this]].