History YMMV / CSIMiami

* MemeticMutation: Looks like it's time for...(puts on sunglasses) [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=_sarYH0z948 the opening sequence]].[[note]]'''''[[Music/TheWho YEEEEEEAAAAAAHHHHHHH!]]'''''[[/note]]

* MemeticMutation: Looks like it's time for...(puts on sunglasses) [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=_sarYH0z948 the opening sequence]]. '''''[[Music/TheWho Yeeeeeeaaaaaahhhhhhh!]]'''''

* EvilIsSexy: Julia, Horatio's secret baby-mama, who [[VaporWear doesn't wear a bra]] and had a neckline steadily lower over the course of a two-parter. Well, she ''was'' a Film/{{Showgirl|s}}...

* CriticalResearchFailure: The episode "Urban Hellraisers" is widely panned by gamers for its negative depiction of their hobby. In particular, the CEO of the company that produced ''[[UltraSuperDeathGoreFestChainsawer3000 Urban Hellraisers]]'', a ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAuto'' expy, refuses to tell investigators the plot of the game, claiming that it's a trade secret. This forces the investigators to play the game in order to catch the villains, who are basing their crimes off the game's story. In reality plots of video games cannot be copyrighted, let alone be considered trade secrets, and even a non-gamer can still find out about the story through a simple internet search or watch a let's play.

* CrazyIsCool: Once you get over the fact that it's not even trying to be serious business, the show is this. The difficulty in that line of thought is that everything that happens in the show seems to suggest it takes itself [[SeriousBusiness VERY SERIOUSLY]]. Not to mention the marketing...dear god, the marketing...

* TheWoobie: Even fans that don't like him admit that when Ryan puts on the PuppyDogEyes they have the intense urge to just hug him and reassure him everything will be okay. ''Especially'' given how the show liked to beat him up - throwing him into a hurricane and getting him shot with a nail gun, among other instances.

** Season six finale: Horatio goes to an airport to send his ex-wife and son into hiding, gets shot in the stomach, appears to die on the shiniest tarmac in history. Wolfe gets text: "It's done". Season seven reveals Horatio to have faked his death, Wolfe to be in on it, and it all to be part of a gambit to lure Ron Saris out of hiding...in the space between the first and second commercial breaks.
** Season nine finale: Horatio appears to get shot in the stomach/side, Natalia gets locked in a car trunk and pushed into the harbor. Season ten premiere: Horatio jumps into the harbor out of nowhere, gets Natalia out of the trunk, incapacitates bad guy...in the space of TheTeaser.

* NarmCharm: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3d54Ok6Uz_A Horatio Caine Parks His Car.]] So Narmy it's ''TOTALLY AWESOME.''
** Later episodes had Horatio easing up on the QuipToBlack one-liners, lowering the NarmCharm somewhat.

* CrazyAwesome: Once you get over the fact that it's not even trying to be serious business, the show is this. The difficulty in that line of thought is that everything that happens in the show seems to suggest it takes itself [[SeriousBusiness VERY SERIOUSLY]]. Not to mention the marketing...dear god, the marketing...

** Creator/GrantGustin is in the episode "Terminal Velocity". There's also the twist of the episode where he has [[PlayingTheirOwnTwin a twin]]. Not only would Gustin portray a CSI himself in ''Series/TheFlash2014'', that show (and TheVerse it's a part of) would periodically abuse ActingForTwo because of alternate universes.

** Music/TheWho song chosen as the theme of this show "Won't Get Fooled Again", a song that fits with the intense action that is present in this show.

** Technically there's one every episode if you ''really'' like Music/TheWho's song. ''20 to 1'', a program where celebrities discuss the top twenty...anything, in this case best TV themes, addressed this. ''Who Are You'' brought the band back into the spotlight, by the time New York came around they were set for life and '''''YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!''''' makes you wanna go...well, '''''[[BigYes YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!]]'''''

* CriticalResearchFailure: The episode called "Urban Hellraisers". Yes, the ''entire episode''. An example: Once the team determines that the crooks are basing their crimes on the plot of a video game, they obviously need to determine what happens next in the game's plot. They go to the developer (conveniently located in Miami) who refuses to tell them the game's plot, saying that they will "just have to play the game." Not only is his reasoning that an already-released game's plot is some sort of trade secret patently ridiculous, the writers have clearly never set foot in a video game store, where there is generally an entire wall of [[StrategyGuide Official Strategy Guides]] proclaiming "All Secrets Revealed!" on the front covers. And apparently CSI Miami-verse has no such thing as online walkthroughs, story guides, or Wiki/{{Wikipedia}}.

** The theme song can lead to some meta-humor: "Won't Get Fooled Again" is a song about political upheaval and regime change, and how the folks who take over tend to be NotSoDifferent from those that came before. A ''little bit'' on the nose for a spin-off show which uses bascially the exact same premise as the original. Moreso given that CSI: Miami would not be the last such CSI spinoff, not even counting similar shows like {{Series/NCIS}}.

* HilariousInHindsight: Creator/GrantGustin appeared in an episode called "Terminal Velocity", and since 2014 he's playing the titular [[SuperSpeed speedster]] of ''Series/TheFlash2014''. Aditionally, he played twins in that episode, and, in the second season of ''The Flash'', Barry met his [[AlternateUniverse Earth-2]] counterpart.