History NightmareFuel / CSI

* Season Eleven gives us the debut of Squeegel. Brrrrrrrrrr.

** That poor guy whose lower jaw (and most of the face below the eyes for that matter) was blown off by an exploding cigar.

* [[http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/fuelriffic_Rylan_Gauss_2_1515.JPG Rylan Gauss]] in "418[=/=]427". Incredibly creepy pedophile. No matter how liberal you are, you'll probably be ''glad'' when [[spoiler: he's killed, even though he's not the perp.]]

** Another victim is [[spoiler:locked inside of a tanning booth and left to ''suffocate and burn alive at the same time''.]]
** It's ultimately revealed that the victims [[spoiler:were complete {{Sociopath}}s. Not only did they uber-haze a {{Woobie}} college student to the point of dropping out and becoming a recluse years ago, but they recently even ''came over to her home'' and continued to invoke KickThemWhileTheyAreDown, even when she had nothing left to lose at this point (and they knew it, too), solely ForTheEvulz. After that, you really can't blame her PapaWolf father for absolutely losing it and subjecting them to the aforementioned two moments.]]

* The recent episode "19 Down" (aka the episode where [[spoiler: Lawrence Fishbourne debuts]]). Specifically, the freak of the week, who [[spoiler: looked like Noah Bennent/HRG from Heroes as a serial killer. The way he described what he did to his victims in front of a whole class (albeit via a live feed, not in person) must have rather traumatised the students.]]
* Then there's the opening of the same episode, which gives us a nice time-lapse (with cuts) of a body stuffed into a plastic bag bloating, putrefying, and essentially ''melting''.

* * Las Vegas Season 5 Episode 8 "Ch-Ch-Changes"... the discovery of the second body. Full stop.

** The recent episode "Deep Fried and Minty Fresh" features a guy getting killed by having his head [[DeepFriedWhatever dunked in a deep-fat fryer]]. Of course, the NecroCam shows it happen about three times. One sequence details the hot grease entering his trachea, burning it up and causing him to asphyxiate.

* "Sqweegel," from Season 11 Episode 4. Essentially an unholy combination of [[LordOfTheRings Gollum]] and a contortionist in a Gimp suit... ''uugggghhhh.''

* One episode of ''CSI: Miami'' had a guy get knocked into a pool, the water of which was replaced some kind of horribly corrosive chemical. We're treated to pretty much a minute straight of the guy thrashing and screaming as the stuff eats away at him, and in the end he looks like one of The Skinless from ''Film/{{Hellraiser}}'' (and is still sizzling away when the team arrive).

* ''{{CSI}}'', original flavor, [[GoryDiscretionShot doesn't shy away]] from gruesome cadavers or their stages of decomposition. However, there are those who take the cake. Liquid Man,[[spoiler: a homeless man stuffed into a duffel bag and killed, turned into so much soup by advanced decomposition and the Nevada heat. The bag ''sloshed'' when moved, and the man's remains weren't so much cleaned off the coroner's table as ''flushed down'' with a hose.]]

* ''CSINewYork'' -- people getting gassed to death by exhaust fumes in the back of a cab. Knowing that the Nazis did something very similar before switching to Zyklon B makes it worse.

* "Toe Tags". A good portion of the episode involves the dead bodies talking to one another. That alone is creepy, but then they show the back of one of the victim's heads while she's talking, showing a jagged hole and a ''gaping cavity'' where her brain once was.[[{{squick}} Ugh]].

* Episode 17 of ''{{CSI NY}}'', season 2. It starts off with a [[spoiler:''half-eaten corpse of a woman, who is still being devoured by beetles to the point she lacks a face.'']] Oh, and we get some very [[{{squick}} pretty]] close ups of her. We're later shown a montage of her [[spoiler:''[[{{Body Horror}} flesh being washed off]], [[{{Stripped To The Bone}} leaving nothing but a skeleton.]]'']]

* Another episode features a special machine gun that practically''liquefies'' anyone it hits... Gah... just... ''GAH''!

** It was almost a relief to know that that's what happened to her -- because the episode was entitled "Necrophilia Americana". The title alone gives enough disturbing mental images about [[ILoveTheDead the episode's subject.]] (It's actually the scientific name of the carrion-eating beetled in question.)

** It was almost a relief to know that that's what happened to her -- because the episode was entitled "Necrophilia Americana". The title alone gives enough disturbing mental images about [[ILoveTheDead the episode's subject.]]

** "Blacklist (Featuring Grave Digger)" - episode 2 from season 6 - there's something about the murderer's raspy voice over the phone and on the GPS in the car gives me chills.

* Episode 17 of ''{{CSI NY}}'', season 2. It starts off with a [[spoiler:''half-eaten corpse of a woman, who is still being devoured by beetles to the point she lacks a face.'']] Oh, and we get some very [[{{squick}} pretty]] close ups of her, and it [[{{It Got Worse}} gets worse.]] We're later shown a montage of her [[spoiler:''[[{{Body Horror}} flesh being washed off]], [[{{Stripped To The Bone}} leaving nothing but a skeleton.]]'']] I think I need a hug.

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* ''CSINewYork'' -- people getting gassed to death by exhaust fumes in the back of a cab. Knowing that the Nazis did something very similar before switching to Zyklon B makes it worse.
** Whoever wrote the last part of the episode where it appears that the much-loved Lindsay Monroe is about to suffer the same fate deserves public castigation.
** And so does whoever wrote the secondary plot of the episode "Heroes," wherein Det. Aiden Burn (dismissed early on season 2, after violating the chain of custody of the evidence in a serial rapist case) is brought [[spoiler: BackForTheDead as a charred corpse, [[PunnyName of all things]] -- killed by the same rapist she was trying to apprehend.]] The imagery alone is enough to induce more than a few nightmares.
*** Until they reconstructed her face (which is creepy enough), they were treating her exactly the same as any other body, completely unaware of who she was. Hearing them talk about her in such a clinical way just emphasises the horror when they look at the reconstruction and figure out it was her...
** That poor guy whose lower jaw (and most of the face below the eyes for that matter) was blown off by an exploding cigar.

* The recent episode "Deep Fried and Minty Fresh" features a guy getting killed by having his head [[DeepFriedWhatever dunked in a deep-fat fryer]]. Of course, the NecroCam shows it happen about three times. One sequence details the hot grease entering his trachea, burning it up and causing him to asphyxiate.
* "Appendicitement". [[{{squick}} Waugh]]. Killer makes a bunch of people [[ImAHumanitarian humanitarians]] without their knowledge.
* One episode of ''CSI: Miami'' had a guy get knocked into a pool, the water of which was replaced some kind of horribly corrosive chemical. We're treated to pretty much a minute straight of the guy thrashing and screaming as the stuff eats away at him, and in the end he looks like one of The Skinless from ''Film/{{Hellraiser}}'' (and is still sizzling away when the team arrive).
* Episode 17 of ''{{CSI NY}}'', season 2. It starts off with a [[spoiler:''half-eaten corpse of a woman, who is still being devoured by beetles to the point she lacks a face.'']] Oh, and we get some very [[{{squick}} pretty]] close ups of her, and it [[{{It Got Worse}} gets worse.]] We're later shown a montage of her [[spoiler:''[[{{Body Horror}} flesh being washed off]], [[{{Stripped To The Bone}} leaving nothing but a skeleton.]]'']] I think I need a hug.
** It was almost a relief to know that that's what happened to her -- because the episode was entitled "Necrophilia Americana". The title alone gives enough disturbing mental images about [[ILoveTheDead the episode's subject.]]
* In the CSI: Miami episode "Guerillas in the Mist" the bad guy of the week utilizes a powerful machine gun called that ''fucking liquifies its victims'' in ''graphic'' detail. Dear '''LORD''', that's not a mental image I wanted...
* Las Vegas Season 5 Episode 8 "Ch-Ch-Changes"... the discovery of the second body. Full stop.

* CSI Miami's "Tipping Point". A fellow is [[spoiler:BuriedAlive in a construction site, and is only discovered when a giant drilling machine breaks through the coffin he's imprisoned in and ''rips him apart'']]. And of course, said event is repeated over and over again. Only CSI: Miami I had to turn off and, to this day, have never been able to think about rewatching.

** The Miniature Killer is far and away the creepiest thing the series has produced thus far.
** Meet Dr Jekyll, your friendly unlicensed surgeon who [[spoiler: orders a sophisticated device for brain surgery custom-made, then drugs the guy who made it, DRILLS HIS HEAD OPEN AND PUTS RADIOACTIVE SEEDS INTO HIS BRAIN, makes a wig out of his hair, puts it back, and leaves without a tip. He also specialises in putting an extra appendix in you while you're deeply asleep, and tying your guts into a bowtie through your bellybutton. ]]
*** Don't forget [[spoiler: inserting a device into a victim's artery that will cause it to gradually expand (resulting in increasingly excruciating pain) until it ruptures. Oh yeah, the guy he does this to? ''His own father''.]]
** The recent episode "19 Down" (aka the episode where [[spoiler: Lawrence Fishbourne debuts]]). Specifically, the freak of the week, who [[spoiler: looked like Noah Bennent/HRG from Heroes as a serial killer. The way he described what he did to his victims in front of a whole class (albeit via a live feed, not in person) must have rather traumatised the students.]]
*** Then there's the opening of the same episode, which gives us a nice time-lapse (with cuts) of a body stuffed into a plastic bag bloating, putrefying, and essentially ''melting''.
** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cGpfu4pGXhY&feature=related/ 7:56]] of the ''Fur and Loathing'' episode.
*** Is this episode about... ''furries''?
**** [[CaptainObvious Yeah. Yeah, it is.]]
** The sixth season opener, with two bodies left to [[strike:decompose]] ''melt'' in the trunk of a car. And Greg having to grope inside the contents looking for the drain plug... and getting (warning: severe {{Squick}}) [[spoiler:a mouthful of the liquefied corpse juice]] for his troubles.
** Try that young girl who jumped off the roof in a bikini. [[spoiler:Turns out, her hypnotist was responsible for not only indirectly murdering her, but also a series of bank robberies as well.]] But dear, sweet God, the girl's legs HAD. NO. BONES. [[AndIMustScream They were liquefied upon landing!]] And seeing all those people in the bus screaming as the girl hits the roof...I had nightmares for months!
** I need to avert my eyes, whenever any of the guys cut a corpse's finger off, remove the bone and [[{{Squick}} put the finger on their own hand, similar to a glove, to get the print]]! Not to mention the episode 4x4 with the bodybuilder who had that black goo behind or in his eyeballs.
** The final part of the sitcom episode. It's all very kooky and staged until [[spoiler: the two murderers implicitly reveal that any one who drank from a bottle of vodka laced with anti-coagulant will die in the same manner as the victims of that episode. Cut to one of the sitcom actors shaving, nicking his throat with the blade which causes blood to ''literally pour down his neck,'' all the while trying to stop it.]]
** Season Eleven gives us the debut of Squeegel. Brrrrrrrrrr.
** [[http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/fuelriffic_Rylan_Gauss_2_1515.JPG Rylan Gauss]] in "418[=/=]427". Incredibly creepy pedophile. No matter how liberal you are, you'll probably be ''glad'' when [[spoiler: he's killed, even though he's not the perp.]]
* ''CSINewYork''- people getting gassed to death by exhaust fumes in the back of a cab. Knowing that the Nazis did something very similar before switching to Zyklon B makes it worse. I had some uncomfortable feelings in the back of a New York when I went a couple of months later.
** Whoever wrote the last part of one of the episodes where it appears that the much-loved Lindsay Monroe ([[YourMileageMayVary at least for me]]) is about to suffer the same fate deserves public castigation.
** And so does whoever wrote the secondary plot of the episode "Heroes," wherein Det. Aiden Burn (dismissed early on season 2, after violating the chain of custody of the evidence in a serial rapist case) is brought [[spoiler: BackForTheDead as a charred corpse, [[PunnyName of all things]], --killed by the same rapist she was trying to apprehend.]] The imagery alone is enough to induce more than a few nightmares.
*** What really creeped me out about that was that until they reconstructed her face (which is creepy enough), they were treating her exactly the same as any other body, completely unaware of who she was. Hearing them talk about her in such a clinical way just emphasises the horror when they look at the reconstruction and figure out it was her...
** For me the worst death will always be the shot of that guy who's lower jaw (and most of his face below the eyes for that matter) was blown off by an exploding cigar.
* Two Words: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=26wwyrVflwM KING. BABY.]]
* The entirety of ''Committed''. Creepiest BottleEpisode ever.
* The recent episode "Deep Fried and Minty Fresh" features a guy getting killed by having his head [[DeepFriedWhatever dunked in a deep-fat fryer]]. Of course, the NecroCam shows it happen about three times. One sequence details the hot grease entering his trachea, burning it up and causing him to asphyxiate.
* "Appendicitement". [[{{squick}} Waugh]]. Killer makes a bunch of people [[ImAHumanitarian humanitarians]] without their knowledge.
* I recall seeing one episode of a guy that got stabbed, then was left there for three days before the police got to the house. The guy was bloated almost beyond recognition and had to be POPPED in order to keep him from bursting inside the van.
* One episode of ''CSI: Miami'' had a guy get knocked into a pool, the water of which was replaced some kind of horribly corrosive chemical. We're treated to pretty much a minute straight of the guy thrashing and screaming as the stuff eats away at him, and in the end he looks like one of The Skinless from ''Film/{{Hellraiser}}'' (and is still sizzling away when the team arrive).
* Episode 17 of ''{{CSI NY}}'', season 2. It starts off with a [[spoiler:''half-eaten corpse of a woman, who is still being devoured by beetles to the point she lacks a face.'']] Oh, and we get some very [[{{squick}} pretty]] close ups of her, and it [[{{It Got Worse}} gets worse.]] We're later shown a montage of her [[spoiler:''[[{{Body Horror}} flesh being washed off]], [[{{Stripped To The Bone}} leaving nothing but a skeleton.]]'']] I think I need a hug.
** While I kept my gaze averted throughout that entire sequence, it was almost a relief to know that that's what happened to her - because the episode was entitled "Necrophilia Americana". The title alone was enough to give this troper disturbing mental images as to what the episode [[ILoveTheDead was going to be about.]]
* In CSI:Crime Scene Investigation, part one and two of "Grave Danger" where [[spoiler:Nick is buried alive in a glass box with only a gun and a tape recorder telling him he's going to die there. And then the air begins to run out and he has to shoot the light with his only bullet to get more time with the fan on. And then some ants start to eat him alive. And then it turns out there are explosives under the box and he must wait to be rescued.]]

* In the CSI: Miami episode "Guerillas in the Mist" the bad guy of the week utilizes a powerful machine gun called that ''fucking liquifies its victims'', which we are shown in ''graphic'' detail. Dear '''LORD''', that's not a mental image I wanted...
* I'll boast - i've watched every episode of CSI that featured some gruesome death without a flinch. And then... Las Vegas Season 5 Episode 8 Ch-Ch-Changes... When second body was found. Full stop.

* There've been a lot of freaks and psychopaths on the CSI series over the years, but the guy from the season 4 episode "After The Show" has to be one of the creepiest. From the haunting, echoing music played on the cold open and the way he obsessively stares at the victim on TV in the dark, his weird obsession with eyes, the way he stares at Catherine and tries to manipulate her, and his final VillainousBreakdown...yikes.
* The only one that's every really haunted me was "Pirates of the Third Reich." Especially the surgically conjoined twins scene. Just...*shudder*.

*** I happen to enjoy watching ''CSI'' as I eats dinner and find nothing remotely disturbing about it, but when I saw the rotting juice from that man leaking through the ceiling and filling the entire house and the decomposing body that was growing mold with a brain that looked more like green jello than anything else, even I felt nauseated and couldn't eat for at least 12 hours.
** For me, the Miniature Killer is far and away the creepiest thing the series has produced thus far.

** I don't usually get too creeped out by CSI (barring any instance of my personal hot button, {{Eye Scream}}), but the recent episode "19 Down" (aka the episode where [[spoiler: Lawrence Fishbourne debuts]]) freaked me out a bit. Specifically the freak of the week, who [[spoiler: looked like Noah Bennent/HRG from Heroes as a serial killer. The way he described what he did to his victims in front of a whole class (albeit via a live feed, not in person) had a similar effect on me as it did on the students.]]

** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cGpfu4pGXhY&feature=related/ 7:56]] of the ''Fur and Loathing'' episode when I was little.

*** - [[CaptainObvious Yeah. Yeah, it is.]]