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| 6 | A snappy, one-liner comment just before the commercial break or opening sequence. Often takes this form: |
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| 8 | ->"Chief, we found the marine's body. Cause of death is electrocution."\ |
| 9 | "Looks like he's been... discharged." (Cut to black/credits.)\ |
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| 11 | '''''[[AC:[[http://instantrimshot.com/index.php?sound=csi&play=true YYYYEEEEEEAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!]]]]''''' |
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| 13 | The cut is what differentiates this from a standard OneLiner. |
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| 15 | Commonly found on detective/mystery series; a frequent (but ''not'' exclusive) use of this is when the detectives make a pithy GallowsHumor comment about the [[MysteryOfTheWeek crime of the week]] in the ColdOpen, followed by a cut to the credits. The usual purpose is to convey a sense that the detective has [[SeenItAll seen this level of horror before]], and that he's so used to it he can make a joke about it. Often will include a GlassesPull for emphasis. Due to the ''Franchise/CSIVerse'''s abuse of this trope, it's also become a StockParody of the franchise. |
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| 17 | Used frequently enough, the audience can be trained to expect one of these. Comments after the one-liner are usually a gag. [[SarcasmFailure Failure to make the one-liner means the situation is serious]]. |
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| 19 | RealLife use by actual police detectives is ''seriously'' frowned on, [[DudeNotFunny as it is considered disrespectful to the deceased and/or their families.]] |
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| 21 | !!Examples: |
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| 23 | [[foldercontrol]] |
| 24 | |
| 25 | [[folder:Comicbook]] |
| 26 | * Shows up twice in ''Comicbook/{{Bookhunter}}''. |
| 27 | ** Agent Bay defuses a perp-and-weapon standoff, by shooting the perp in the stomach. As the man lies on the floor, bleeding and screaming in pain, Agent Bay just says "Shhhhhhhhhh." |
| 28 | ** The pursuit of another book thief ends with said thief being flung through a plate glass window, into the library's pro-literacy diorama. |
| 29 | --->'''Agent Finch:''' Are you okay boss?\ |
| 30 | '''Agent Bay:''' Read him his rights. |
| 31 | * ''ComicBook/ChickTracts'': Jack Chick climaxed his tract "The Pilgrimage" with this exchange in Heaven: |
| 32 | -->'''Abdul''': But I was a very sincere Muslim.\ |
| 33 | '''God''': I'm sorry Abdul, but you were sincerely wrong. |
| 34 | [[/folder]] |
| 35 | |
| 36 | [[folder:Fan Works]] |
| 37 | * The final line of "Help Wanted", from ''Fanfic/CalvinAndHobbesTheSeries'': |
| 38 | --> '''Hobbes:''' Another day, another dollar. |
| 39 | * ''FanFic/FutariWaPrettyCureDragon'': |
| 40 | ** Parodied to the letter after prima ballerina Wing Lynn injures her ankle during a rehearsal. Bonus points for Susan Chan doing a GlassesPull from {{Hammerspace}}. |
| 41 | ---> '''Susan''': Well, she's certainly no... [[ActorAllusion Yellow]] [[Series/PowerRangersDinoThunder Ranger]]. |
| 42 | ** Done again in episode 36 when a burglar uses previously-unknown psychic powers to temporarily knock out a police force. A police officer does a glasses pull and subtly hints that he'll be facing a lot of charges when he's captured. Bonus points for the officer in question being named after the former TropeNamer. |
| 43 | ---> '''Officer Grissom''': The force will be strong with him, all right.\ |
| 44 | '''''[[Music/TheWho Yeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!]]''''' |
| 45 | * In ''FanFic/TheKeyToASuccessfulInterview'', Nabiki keeps a pair of sunglasses in her pocket and [[http://instantrimshot.com/index.php?sound=csi this]] as her ringtone. She loans them to Ranma on occasion. |
| 46 | [[/folder]] |
| 47 | |
| 48 | [[folder:Film -- Live-Action]] |
| 49 | * Billy Baldwin gets some memorable ones in his part on the ShowWithinAShow ''[[ShapedLikeItself Crime Scene: Scene of the Crime]]'' in the movie ''Film/ForgettingSarahMarshall''. One example: "She's going to have a hard time reentering the pageant...without a face." |
| 50 | * ''Film/BackToTheFuture1'': "Roads? ''Where we're going we don't need *glasses flip* roads!''" |
| 51 | * In the TV movie ''Recap/LawAndOrderExiled'', Logan and some of the other cops make quips of this nature about the recent case. Unfortunately for them, the victim's sister happens to overhear them. She's not amused. |
| 52 | * ''Film/MelindaAndMelinda'': The FramingDevice ends the film justly: |
| 53 | -->'''Sy:''' We just got to accept it and enjoy it, because it can end... like ''that''. ''(Snaps Fingers. Quip To Black. CreditsRoll.)'' |
| 54 | [[/folder]] |
| 55 | |
| 56 | [[folder:Literature]] |
| 57 | * The fourth ''Literature/CodexAlera'' book has one at the end of a chapter that's just ''begging'' for an anachronistic GlassesPull: |
| 58 | -->"It would seem," Ehren said, "that someone doesn't want you making this trip."\ |
| 59 | "Then someone," Tavi replied, "is going to be very disappointed." |
| 60 | * In Gregory [=McDonald's=] novel ''Literature/{{Flynn}}'', Inspector Flynn finds a severed hand on his front porch the morning after a plane exploded over Boston Harbor. He says "Pull yourself together, Charlie," and muses about the dark humour professionals use to deal with such sights. |
| 61 | [[/folder]] |
| 62 | |
| 63 | [[folder:Live-Action TV]] |
| 64 | * ''Series/{{Astrid}}'': Fournier, TheCoroner, pulls an understated one on Raphe in "Memento Mori". Off Astrid's deduction that a murdered Benedictine monk wiped off the candle spike he was fatally stabbed with, Raphe wonders aloud what kind of victim would protect his own murderer. |
| 65 | -->'''Fournier:''' You're not going to like it. ''(tips his head at the icon of Christ on the cross, roll credits off Raphe's nonplussed look)'' |
| 66 | * ''Series/{{Bones}}'': |
| 67 | ** {{Deconstructed}} in "[[Recap/BonesS2E17ThePriestInTheChurchyard The Priest in the Churchyard]]". Bones makes a quip about consecrated ground and has a complaint filed against her for it. |
| 68 | ** The series mocks this trope in "[[Recap/BonesS4E24TheBeaverInTheOtter The Beaver in the Otter]]". After describing how a corpse had been shot with a cannon filled with bric-a-brack, pelted by a crowd, and set on fire at a pep rally: |
| 69 | --->'''Cam''': Now that's what I call team spirit. ''(Vaziri and Angela stare at her)'' I'm a wise-cracking pathologist with a dark sense of humor. ''(cut)'' |
| 70 | * In ''Series/BrooklynNineNine'', when Peralta and Santiago are working a case with the best detective in the NYPD, they have a competition of trying to do this in an effort to impress him. Neither are very effective. Though he still tries to ask out [[FairCop Santiago]] anyways. |
| 71 | * ''Series/BurnNotice'': Used in "[[Recap/BurnNoticeS3E14PartnersInCrime Partners in Crime]]" in a humorous ShoutOut to ''Series/CSIMiami'' (both shows are set there). Sam goes undercover as a crime scene investigator and uses this joke to scare Team Westen's suspect in the murder of a fashion designer. |
| 72 | -->'''Sam:''' Looks like murder... ''(GlassesPull)'' ... is in style this season.\ |
| 73 | ''(and again later)''\ |
| 74 | '''Sam:''' Looks like the killer's plan... ''(GlassesPull)'' ... is coming apart at the seams. |
| 75 | * ''Series/{{Castle|2009}}'' plays this for laughs; Richard Castle is frequently given to making some comment of this nature, prompting Beckett to just give him an exasperated look in response, and ''then'' the cut. |
| 76 | ** On the other hand, Castle is delighted to learn how real cops operate, because the ones on TV "seem to be obsessed with their sunglasses." |
| 77 | ** Subverted in the season two episode "[[Recap/CastleS2E7FamousLastWords Famous Last Words]]". |
| 78 | ---> '''Castle's Mother''': Now does that man look like a killer to you?\ |
| 79 | '''Castle''': Everybody looks like a killer to me; it's a job requirement.\ |
| 80 | '''Castle's Daughter''': You didn't say that about [the victim's sister].\ |
| 81 | '''Castle''': Just...let me have this moment. |
| 82 | ** Subverted delightfully in "[[Recap/CastleS5E21TheSquabAndTheQuail The Squab and the Quail]]". Beckett is pursued romantically by a brilliant and charming billionaire. The episode ends with Castle showing his rival to the elevator out, having been chosen by Beckett. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8l1i8k5YeHw Castle intends to get the last word in a well-earned Quip To Black, only to be out-jousted by his rival]]. |
| 83 | ---> '''Billionaire''' (''gets in the elevator''): You know, that's an extraordinary woman you have there. \ |
| 84 | '''Castle''' (''after a pause, and as the door is closing''): I know. \ |
| 85 | '''Billionaire''' (''just before door shuts''): Do you? \ |
| 86 | (''Cue Castle trying to pry the door back open to get the last word.'') |
| 87 | * The opening sequence for ''Series/ColdCase'' is set up for this, though it's only occasionally preceded by a quip. |
| 88 | ** In "[[Recap/ColdCaseS5E14AndyInCMinor Andy in C Minor]]" when they find a body in a school for the deaf. |
| 89 | ---> '''Lilly''': ...Killed in a place where no one can hear you scream. |
| 90 | ** In the episode "[[Recap/ColdCaseS6E11Wings Wings]]", when they find a winged pin that means the victim was a flight attendant. |
| 91 | ---> '''Lilly''': Looks like someone clipped her wings. |
| 92 | * ''Series/{{Community}}'': |
| 93 | ** Played with in the Season 1 episode "[[Recap/CommunityS1E13InvestigativeJournalism Investigative Journalism]]". Creator/JackBlack plays an [[RememberTheNewGuy abruptly introduced new character]], Buddy, who is desperate to become part of the study group. |
| 94 | --->'''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." |
| 95 | ** This was parodied during their ''Franchise/LawAndOrder'' episode, "[[Recap/CommunityS3E17BasicLupineUrology Basic Lupine Urology]]". After a smashed yam is found in the biology class (the yam being the group's now ruined class project), Troy and Abed are tasked with finding out who killed it. They stand over the yam, having this exchange: |
| 96 | --->'''Troy''': Looks like it's gonna be a late night. How'd we manage to pull the short straw?\ |
| 97 | '''Abed''': It's not a short straw...it's a hot potato.\ |
| 98 | '''Troy''': Yeah well, looks pretty ''cold'' to me.\ |
| 99 | '''Abed''': Cold or ''dead''?\ |
| 100 | '''Troy''': Survey says- \ |
| 101 | '''Abed''': We can't both do the zinger.\ |
| 102 | '''Troy''': Sorry.\ |
| 103 | [''Cut to credits''] |
| 104 | * An episode of ''Series/CopsLAC'' 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. |
| 105 | -->'''Daniel''': At least it's wearing something. (''A sock'') |
| 106 | * ''Franchise/CSIVerse'': Abused this so much it became ''the'' StockParody of the ''CSI'' franchise, particularly ''Series/CSIMiami''. |
| 107 | ** ''Series/{{CSI}}'' is a famous example. Gil Grissom made these so frequently that he used to be the TropeNamer, which became rife for SelfDeprecation later in the series. |
| 108 | *** A SelfParody appears in the episode "[[Recap/CSIS3E7FightNight Fight Night]]": Grissom delivered the usual quip and the credit music started...then his cell phone rang, the credit music reversed, and the teaser went on for about two more minutes before the real credits started. |
| 109 | *** {{Lampshaded}} in "[[Recap/CSIS5E4CrowsFeet Crow's Feet]]" when Catherine Willows, who had reported to the scene and therefore got the chance to quip, stated "It's my turn now" before the credits rolled. |
| 110 | *** DoubleSubverted in "[[Recap/CSIS5E23Iced Iced]]". Upon finding a college couple dead in a dorm room, Grissom gets his usual comment in, before Greg Sanders, TheLabRat, ruins the moment, leaving Grissom to leave on a less poignant note. |
| 111 | ---->'''Grissom''': 'For never was a story of more woe than this of Juliet and her Romeo.'\ |
| 112 | '''Greg''': Found a condom!\ |
| 113 | '''Grissom''': So much for safe sex. |
| 114 | *** {{Lampshaded}} by "[[Recap/CSIS7E14MeetMarket Meet Market]]". With Grissom on sabbatical it is left to someone else to pick up the slack. |
| 115 | ---->''As Phillips and Keppler wheel out this week's corpse...''\ |
| 116 | '''Stokes''': Hey. You know what Grissom would say here, don't you?\ |
| 117 | '''Phillips''': Something ironic, I'm sure.\ |
| 118 | ''...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...''\ |
| 119 | '''Keppler''': That's bad luck, isn't it? |
| 120 | *** {{Subverted}} in "[[Recap/CSIS8E12GrissomsDivineComedy Grissom's Divine Comedy]]". The opener ends with a shot of a very ill Gil Grissom at home, making himself chicken soup and coughing into his handkerchief. When his cell phone rings, calling him in to handle a case, Grissom says nothing...he just sighs in frustration. Roll credits. |
| 121 | *** DoubleSubverted in "[[Recap/CSIS8E16TwoAndAHalfDeaths Two and a Half Deaths]]". After finding a dead comedy actress with a rubber chicken stuffed in her mouth (it's a long, complex and hilarious story), the lab techs ask Grissom why he hasn't done a OneLiner, suggesting "I suspect ''fowl'' play" and "This is ''poultry'' evidence." Grissom goes for neither, instead making a LamePunReaction: "Dying is easy. Comedy is hard." |
| 122 | *** "[[Recap/CSIS9E20ASpaceOddity A Space Oddity]]": Hodges and Simms are at a sci-fi convention when a corpse is found. Hodges calls up Captain Brass, flips open his phone communicator-style, and tells him there's a problem with one of the exhibitors: "[[Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries He's dead, Jim]]." |
| 123 | *** Parodied in "[[Recap/CSIS10E18FieldMice Field Mice]]".. Hodges is recounting the story of an old murder case to two rookie [=CSIs=], challenging them to solve it. On two occasions Hodges' story ''appears'' to end with a Quip To Black, complete with the intro music starting to fade in...only for someone to interrupt, [[LampshadeHanging lampshading]] the ridiculous nature of the quip. He ''finally'' manages to play the trope straight on the third attempt. |
| 124 | *** In another episode, the characters are all being filmed in a ''Series/{{Cops}}''-esque derivative. Grissom delivers his one liner, and there's a pause, and then the producers ask him to repeat it because they didn't catch it. Roll commercials. |
| 125 | *** The final such one-liner in the show goes to Grissom in "[[Recap/CSITheFinaleImmortality Immortality]]", the show's original finale. 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]]." |
| 126 | ** ''Series/CSIMiami'': Main character Horatio Caine [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_sarYH0z948 reputedly pulls a quip-to-black]] almost OnceAnEpisode, inevitably following the format of one-liner âž¡ GlassesPull âž¡ opening credits that begin with the opening MetalScream from Music/TheWho's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHhrZgojY1Q "Won't Get Fooled Again"]]. Even [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ul8gZIGZbdc Caruso's cast mates]] do Horatio impressions. That said, it's something of a BeamMeUpScotty: most of Caine's one liners aren't actually quips, but rather straightforward observations about the case made in a ridiculously deadpan manner that the MetalScream unintentionally makes sound like a dad joke. |
| 127 | ** ''Series/{{CSINY}}'': |
| 128 | *** On discovering that a corpse that has fallen from the Empire State Building has had its brain go out of the hole in its skull, Stella opines, "Looks like a no-brainer." Lampshaded by her colleagues: |
| 129 | ---->'''Sheldon:''' She didn't just say that.\ |
| 130 | '''Mac and Flack:''' [''simultaneously''] She did. |
| 131 | *** Dead man found dressed as a giant cigarette; "Let's just say it now to get it over with, Smoking Kills." This was shamelessly lifted from ''Film/{{Grindhouse}}'' ''Film/PlanetTerror'', though, of course, the delivery style was entirely different. |
| 132 | *** [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] on the 21 March 2007 episode, when Det. Flack responds to Messer's failed attempt at a Quip To Black by [[LamePunReaction giving it a numerical grade like an Olympic judge]]. |
| 133 | *** Body discovered sitting peacefully at a park bench; when Lindsay tries to figure out what happened and connect the clues they have there, Mac promptly tells her "Not everything's connected," grabbing the corpse's cleanly decapitated head and lifting it off its body. |
| 134 | *** Man found buried in a potting bed with a buzzard picking at him. Mac's response: "I thought the only vultures that lived in this city worked on Wall Street." |
| 135 | *** The episode, "Hammer Down," pulled off a two-person Quip To Black: |
| 136 | ----> '''Stella''': Looks like the end of the road for her.\ |
| 137 | '''Mac''': And the start of the line for us. |
| 138 | *** Another when a would-be AdventurerArchaeologist is found dead: |
| 139 | ---->'''Stella''': Looks like James Sutton fancied himself a real Indiana Jones.\ |
| 140 | '''Mac''': Until someone decided to make this his last crusade. |
| 141 | * On ''Series/TheDukesOfHazzard'', the {{narrator}} (Waylon Jennings) usually employed one of these to accompany each CommercialBreakCliffhanger. |
| 142 | * On ''Series/{{ER}}'', after a pizza delivery guy crashes into the hospital: |
| 143 | --> '''Tag''': Did somebody order a pizza? |
| 144 | * ''Series/HowIMetYourMother'' parodied this in one episode with Ted having been analyzing 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. |
| 145 | -->'''Ted''': Lily left the lid off (puts on sunglasses), and Marshall blew his. |
| 146 | * This was referenced in an episode of ''Series/JoanOfArcadia'' in which a police officer makes a quippy comment about a crime scene, followed by a ''Franchise/LawAndOrder''-esque musical {{sting}}. Her partner gives her a bewildered look, to which she responds, "What? Too ''Law and Order''?" |
| 147 | * ''Series/{{Kojak}}'' had several. For example, upon seeing a young woman's dead body, "Baby, why'd you have to go get yourself killed and ruin both our mornings?" |
| 148 | * ''Franchise/LawAndOrder'': Frequently used at the end of TheTeaser before the credits roll. |
| 149 | ** Series/LawAndOrder'': |
| 150 | *** Before Briscoe joined the cast, it was generally Mike Logan who delivered the one-liner. In the later seasons it's usually Cyrus Lupo. |
| 151 | *** During Creator/JerryOrbach's tenure, it was usually [[DeadpanSnarker Lennie Briscoe's line]]. |
| 152 | *** These lines can also be delivered by other characters. An episode opens with two runners, one of whom falls down. The other asks him "Are you okay?", and the fallen runner says "Yeah, but he's not," and the camera cuts to a body. |
| 153 | *** A witness in a murder trial was killed before testifying against her ex, and the gunfire killed a bird as well. The detectives and the DA muse about how her ex found her. |
| 154 | ---->'''Bernard''': Maybe a little birdie told him. (Cut to intro) |
| 155 | ** ''Series/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnit'' has Elliot pull one on occasion, as it is implied multiple times that working at [=SVU=] has desensitized the detectives a bit. Olivia once or twice lampshaded the inappropriate nature of this by giving Elliot an annoyed look. In one slightly less serious (at least initially) episode, the detectives are investigating a remote-transmitting toilet-cam set up in a coffee shop. Most of the shop's patrons are on laptops. |
| 156 | --->'''Benson:''' So which one's the perv?\ |
| 157 | '''Stabler:''' Whoever downloaded the most crap.\ |
| 158 | (''cut to opening credits'') |
| 159 | * ''Series/{{Monk}}'': |
| 160 | ** Parodied in "[[Recap/MonkS7E3MrMonkGetsLottoFever Mr. Monk gets Lotto Fever]]", where Randy Disher repeatedly tries (and fails) to pull a snappy one-liner off. Though really, the phrase "Randy repeatedly tries (and fails) to say something clever" could be applied to any episode he appears in. |
| 161 | ** And smashed into pieces in "[[Recap/MonkS8E9HappyBirthdayMrMonk Happy Birthday, Mr. Monk]]" when Stottlemeyer does a couple one liners about a body followed by Monk describing how the man would probably have been alive as his body was sliced up and crushed. |
| 162 | * This trope was referenced and criticized in an episode of ''Series/{{Murder}}'', a reality series where two teams of three amateurs try to use forensic techniques to investigate and solve recreations of real life crime scenes. One of the members in one team kept making quips about the crime scene, causing the host (an actual police detective) to berate said contestant saying that real cops are not supposed to joke around during an investigation since doing so is highly unprofessional. To which the proper response should be "But we're not real policemen, and ''this''" ''(Puts on glasses)'' "is a TV show." |
| 163 | * ''Series/MythBusters'': A ''Series/{{CSI}}''-themed episode naturally parodies this as well, complete with Who sample. Only it cut to the next narrative segment instead of commercial. |
| 164 | * Lampshaded into a RunningGag on ''Series/{{NCIS}}'' when Jimmy constantly makes what would be a Grissom One Liner on another show; not only does it never precede a cut, he inevitably causes everyone present to either roll their eyes with the lameness of it or react in disgust with the complete inappropriateness. Sometimes both. For example, Abby is in Autopsy to collect a tissue sample from the cadaver du jour. |
| 165 | -->'''Jimmy Palmer''': So, light meat or dark?\ |
| 166 | ''[Abby gives him a look]''\ |
| 167 | '''Jimmy Palmer''': Inappropriate?\ |
| 168 | '''Abby Sciuto''': With a big dash of creepy, Jimmy. |
| 169 | * ''Series/QuincyME'': Quincy once pulls this right before the end credits, making the entire plot about a pair of crooked property developers named Butler a {{feghoot}}. Asked whodunnit by another character, Quincy gets this shit-eating grin on his face and goes, "You've known for ''years!'' [[TheButlerDidIt The Butlers did it.]]" Roll credits. |
| 170 | * Parodied on ''Series/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!!!!! |
| 171 | * Parodied often and hard on ''Series/TheSoup'', also, with Creator/DavidCaruso even winning a soup award and recording an acceptance speech. |
| 172 | * ''Franchise/StargateVerse'': |
| 173 | ** ''Series/StargateSG1'': {{Parodied}} in "[[Recap/StargateSG1S10E6200 200]]". Martin Lloyd pitches a number of show ideas, including ''T'ealc P.I.'', a shameless ripoff of ''Film/{{Shaft}}'' and ''Series/MagnumPI'' featuring a scene where the one liner is simply Teal'c's CharacterCatchphrase "Indeeeed." |
| 174 | ** ''Series/StargateAtlantis'': ''[[Recap/StargateAtlantisS05E19Vegas Vegas]]'' is set in an alternate reality, where Sheppard never joined the SGC. "Detective John Sheppard" pulls a one liner at the end of TheTeaser. |
| 175 | * ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'': Parodied in "[[Recap/SupernaturalS05E08ChangingChannels Changing Channels]]", where the boys are TrappedInTVLand and have to act out a ''CSI'' clone. Both of them actually do both this and GlassesPull about a dozen times, mostly to distract TheTrickster. |
| 176 | --> ''After finding a victim with quarters jammed down his throat:''\ |
| 177 | '''Sam Winchester''': Well I say...jackpot. |
| 178 | * Delightfully parodied on an episode of ''Series/TwoAndAHalfMen'' - Alan's ditzy buxom girlfriend Kandi gets the Grissom role on a show called "Stiffs." [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PIdS_qMHWYA The video shows it far better than I ever could.]] |
| 179 | * ''Series/TheWestWing'' frequently had someone make a dry comment about whatever impending crisis had just been set in motion before the smach cut to the credits. |
| 180 | * Played with on ''Series/TheWire'', in an effort to distinguish itself from traditional cop shows. [[Recap/TheWireS01E01TheTarget 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 "Way Down in the Hole" dampens the humor of the moment, but the ''characters'' find it hilarious, since [=McNulty=] opens the next scene by re-telling the story to Bunk. |
| 181 | [[/folder]] |
| 182 | |
| 183 | [[folder:Radio]] |
| 184 | * ''Franchise/{{Dragnet}}'' ran on this trope ''long'' before CSI made it a staple. Every scene change was punctuated by some pithy one-liner from Friday or some other character, followed by a music sting as the scene changed. The same applied to both TV series, as well. |
| 185 | * ''Radio/TheMensRoom'', a radio show based out of 99.9 KISW in Seattle, features a daily "Shot of the Day", where the hosts will tell a brief story about some notable person with an interesting story that's funny in some way. Typical sources include minor news stories, Cracked, etc. After reading through the story, each of the hosts will usually try to come up with a {{Pun}} to describe the situation, each capped off with the "Yeeeeeeeeagh!" stinger. Especially lame or just plain unfunny puns will receive a long vocal stinger from Journey. |
| 186 | [[/folder]] |
| 187 | |
| 188 | [[folder:Video Games]] |
| 189 | * In ''VideoGame/{{Borderlands 2}}'', the side-quest "Won't Get Fooled Again" is a ''CSI: Miami'' parody where you help a detective in Sanctuary solve a murder mystery. If you solve it correctly, the detective will gun down the suspect before he can escape then make a wisecrack, complete with GlassesPull. |
| 190 | * ''VideoGame/DeadRising2'': Chuck Greene has a tendency to drop one of these after taking out the more unsympathetic psychopaths. For bonus points, he can even get a pair of shades. |
| 191 | --> ''(While watching a psychopath get his face chewed off by the zombie of a girl he killed when she refused to marry him)''\ |
| 192 | '''Chuck:''' You may now kiss the bride. |
| 193 | * ''Franchise/DragonAge'': |
| 194 | ** 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 ''Series/CSIMiami''. After the villain, an Orlesian duke, falls off a cliff, Hawke says, "Looks like the Duke...has fallen from grace." Complete with a shot of Hawke [[UnflinchingWalk walking away from 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]]. |
| 195 | * ''VideoGame/DragonAgeInquisition'': During the ''Jaws of Hakkon'' DLC, the Inquisitor can stand in judgment of a bear. Yes...a bear. Accept and s/he can quip, "Very well. I wouldn't want things in the hold to become... unbearable. |
| 196 | * ''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). |
| 197 | * Parodied in the first episode of ''VideoGame/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. |
| 198 | * ''VideoGame/Left4Dead'': |
| 199 | ** In the Crash Course level, Zoey had just shot the group's (infected) helicopter pilot, causing the helicopter to crash. When approaching his dead body, she has a chance of saying: |
| 200 | --->'''Zoey''': Pilot's license... revoked! ''Dun Dun Duuun!'' |
| 201 | ** The opening cutscene of ''VideoGame/Left4Dead2''. |
| 202 | --->'''Coach''': "Wait for official instructions"... ''[Laughs]'' Wait, my ass.\ |
| 203 | '''Ellis''': Kill all sons-of-bitches. ''[[[DramaticGunCock Cocks shotgun]]]'' That's my official instructions. |
| 204 | * ''VideoGame/MarioParty6'': "Seer Terror", an unlockable minigame, consists almost entirely of Bowser making bad things happen to you and making witty remarks in the guise of fortunes. "You'll feel crushed by stress!" he'll say after you're crushed by a Thwomp. |
| 205 | * ''VideoGame/MarvelVsCapcom3'': some characters have this in their endings. (There are lots of other quips in the games, but these ones count as QuipToBlack because they will be the last line of the game when playing as these characters.) |
| 206 | ** [[Franchise/ResidentEvil Wesker]] (after capturing the Marvel superheroes to experiment on them): "The fantastic specimens from this new world should yield zombies to truly...marvel." He's even wearing sunglasses (as always). The fact he's talking to himself, and that he laughs at his own one-liner, might slightly diminish the effect, however. |
| 207 | ** [[Franchise/StreetFighter Chun-Li]] (after Kingpin tells her he'll [[CardboardPrison be out of prison in less than a day]] ): "Well, then I guess I've got something to do tomorrow." |
| 208 | ** [[VideoGame/DevilMayCry4 Trish and Dante]] [[FinishingEachOthersSentences share their one-liner.]] |
| 209 | ---> '''Trish:''' ''(to Mephisto)'' Either the contract gets torn up...\ |
| 210 | '''Dante:''' Or your throat does. Your choice, Big Red. |
| 211 | ** Comicbook/{{Blade}}: |
| 212 | ---> '''[[Franchise/ResidentEvil Jill]]:''' And I thought I had it bad when I just had to worry about fighting zombies.\ |
| 213 | '''Blade:''' Sister, you don't know the half of it. |
| 214 | ** [[VideoGame/BionicCommando2009 Rad Spencer]] (to ComicBook/SheHulk, while fighting some mooks): "Hey, I said I'd take you to dinner and a show. This is the show part." |
| 215 | * The flash game [[http://armorgames.com/play/5115/replaying-the-game Replaying the Game]] has one level that is nothing but these based on the deaths of Hamlet characters. |
| 216 | * [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] and/or a case of SarcasmFailure in the computer game ''VideoGame/SWAT4: 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. |
| 217 | -->'''Reynolds''': Nothin' to say, Fields?\ |
| 218 | '''Fields''': There's nothing funny about this. |
| 219 | * ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'': |
| 220 | ** In the third expansion, Stormwind's town guard is investigating the murder of a beloved horse ([[ValuesDissonance and his two owners]]). To top it all off, Blizzard gives this NPC a fairly ridiculous looking [[http://static.mmo-champion.com/mmoc/images/news/2010/june/westfall_22.jpg pair of sunglasses]]. And just in case you don't get the joke first time, [[RunningGag said NPC then goes on to crack several more quips to black in the course of the quest line]]. |
| 221 | -->''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.\ |
| 222 | ''[[ShoutOut Lieutenant Horatio Laine:]]'' No kidding, rookie. Looks like they really put the cart... before the horse. |
| 223 | [[/folder]] |
| 224 | |
| 225 | [[folder:Webcomics]] |
| 226 | * One of the subcategories on Comixed.com, a now-defunct Cheezburger Network 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 '''''[[Music/TheWho YEAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH]]''''' captioned across it. |
| 227 | %%* In ''Webcomic/{{Concerned}}'', Gordon Frohman's brother Norman likes doing these. ZERO CONTEXT EXAMPLE |
| 228 | * ''{{Webcomic/Erfworld}}'': "Call it the last...of the ''last'' of the last stands." [[http://www.erfworld.com/book-1-archive/?px=%2F133.jpg "YyyyeeEAAAAhhhh!"]] |
| 229 | * ''Webcomic/TheUnspeakableVaultOfDoom'': [[http://www.goominet.com/unspeakable-vault/vault/317/ YEAAAHHHAARRGL!]] |
| 230 | %%* Parodied in [[http://www.warehousecomic.com/comic_436.php this]] ''Webomic/TheWAREHOUSE'' strip. WEB LINKS ARE NOT EXAMPLES |
| 231 | * ''Webcomic/{{xkcd}}'': |
| 232 | ** UsefulNotes/IsaacNewton parodies Horatio Caine's one-liners in [[http://xkcd.com/626/ this]] strip. |
| 233 | --->'''Newton:''' ''(in 1666)'' I've invented calculus!\ |
| 234 | '''Gottfried Leibniz:''' ''(in 1674)'' I've invented calculus!\ |
| 235 | '''Newton:''' Really? Sounds a little bit... ''(GlassesPull)'' ... ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derivative derivative]].'' |
| 236 | ** Rick Astley does it in [[http://xkcd.com/524/ this]] one. |
| 237 | --->'''Rick Astley''': That, my dear... ''[Puts on sunglasses]'' ...is how ''I'' roll. |
| 238 | [[/folder]] |
| 239 | |
| 240 | [[folder:Web Originals]] |
| 241 | * ''WebVideo/DragonBallZAbridged'' 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. |
| 242 | * ''WebVideo/MiraiNikkiTheAbridgedSeries'': During the first episode, right after Yukkiteru kills Three by destroying his phone, he is rightfully confused about what just happened: |
| 243 | --> '''Yuno''': Guess he couldn't live... (''cut to Yuno, suddenly wearing sunglasses'') Without his phone.\ |
| 244 | '''''YEEEEEAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!''''' |
| 245 | * ''Website/TheOnion'''s AV Club forums have a commenter who calls him-/herself David Caruso and posts nothing but one-lines, with the GlassesPull and ''YYYYYEEEAAAAHHHH'' copied from Series/{{CSI}}. |
| 246 | * A [[MemeticMutation meme]] on the general-interest TabletopGames website [=RPGnet=] has forum posters doing this when somebody gets banned. |
| 247 | ** It's been nipped in the bud. Or if you prefer... ''[puts on sunglasses]'' ... it [[CriticalFailure critically failed.]] ''Yeeeeaaaaaahhh!!'' |
| 248 | ** The meme has since been unofficially retired since one of the veteran posters pulled it off ''Theatre/{{Hamlet}} style''. ''VEEEEEERRRRRILYYYYYYYYYY!!'' |
| 249 | * Even ''Series/SesameStreet'' has got in one the ''CSI'' parodies, as seen in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LGwOtTKqciY this]] video for ''Entertainment Weekly''. The "YEEAAAH" eventually gets stuck on a loop. |
| 250 | -->'''Cookie Monster:''' [[MediumAwareness Where that coming from?]]\ |
| 251 | '''Elmo:''' Elmo has no idea.\ |
| 252 | '''Cookie Monster:''' Your phone on? |
| 253 | * ''WebVideo/TheSpoonyExperiment'': Used by the Spoony One in his LetsPlay of ''[[VideoGame/{{Phantasmagoria}} Phantasmagoria 2: A Puzzle of Flesh]]'': |
| 254 | --> Well, Frank, I think we'd better check her purse for receipts, because somebody...just overcharged her. |
| 255 | * In the "C. S. Pie" episode of ''WebVideo/UltraFastPony'', once Pinkie sees that her cake's been eaten in the opening scene, she says, "I guess that this mystery food thief... takes the cake." For bonus points, the opening was redone in the style of ''CSI'', complete with theme song change. Twilight attempts another one later in the episode, but because it isn't a pun, it fails. |
| 256 | * On the ''Website/{{WrestleCrap}} Radio'' podcast, Blade Braxton's character [[FunWithAcronyms C. S. Irwin]] was a parody of Horatio Caine. Ostensibly the podcast's Wrestling/{{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. |
| 257 | * An exceptionally hilarious one by a Website/YouTube commenter: |
| 258 | ---> '''Frank''': "The suspect was identified by an eyewitness as one Music/RickAstley and was seen leaving the scene of the crime with the missing Creator/{{Pixar}} movies."\ |
| 259 | '''Horatio''': "Well Frank, he may have ''Franchise/ToyStory'' and ''WesternAnimation/MonstersInc'',\ |
| 260 | ''* Puts on Sunglasses* '' \ |
| 261 | But I'll never give him ''WesternAnimation/{{Up}}''."\ |
| 262 | YEEEAAAAAAAAH! |
| 263 | * Seto Kaiba pulls one at the end of ''WebVideo/YuGiOhTheAbridgedSeries'' Episode 44. |
| 264 | -->'''Kaiba''': Looks like the rules... ''[pulls out shades]]'' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0qAqAhKEk5M ... just got screwed.]]\ |
| 265 | '''''[[Music/TheWho YEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!]]''''' |
| 266 | [[/folder]] |
| 267 | |
| 268 | [[folder:Western Animation]] |
| 269 | * Parodied in ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'' when someone from animal control attempts this in complete with him putting on shades, jumping up and yelling "Yeeeeeeeeagh!". but it falls flat when his friend doesn't get the reference. |
| 270 | -->"I guess it wasn't this Groundhog's... (puts on shades) Day..." |
| 271 | * ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'': |
| 272 | ** {{Subverted}} when Peter mentions they're going to Hollywood, "where the people are sexy and clever and they always say somethin' funny right before the commercial break". He then doesn't say anything until after the break. |
| 273 | ** As the last line from the episode "[[Recap/FamilyGuyS6E4And5StewieKillsLoisAndLoisKillsStewie Stewie Kills Lois]]": |
| 274 | ---> '''Stewie:''' Well, at least it didn't end like ''Series/TheSopranos'', where it just cut to black in midsen-- |
| 275 | ** And {{lampshade|hanging}}d by Peter at the end of "[[Recap/FamilyGuyS8E11DialMegForMurder Dial Meg for Murder]]": |
| 276 | ---> '''Peter:''' Always end on a strong joke. |
| 277 | * From ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' Leela laments that she and the crew are in a difficult situation and wishes for a few minutes to think of a solution, then the show cuts to commercial. |
| 278 | * ''WesternAnimation/MightyMouse: The New Adventures'' affected this with the episode "Don't Touch That Dial." It was essentially a diatribe about the quality of Saturday morning TV and a treatise about vegetating to said programming. It ends with our hero saying this to us, the viewers: |
| 279 | -->'''Mighty Mouse''': But enough of all this lying and hypocrisy. Time for what television's ''really'' about. (''Cut to black, then commercial'') |
| 280 | * ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'': |
| 281 | ** From the episode "[[Recap/PhineasAndFerbFindingMaryMcGuffin Finding Mary McGuffin McGuffin]]": |
| 282 | --->(''After Phineas and Ferb parody Series/StarskyAndHutch and Series/MiamiVice'')\ |
| 283 | '''Thrift Store Owner:''' Aren't you a little young to know about all these old detective shows?\ |
| 284 | '''Phineas:''' Yes. Yes we... ''(puts on sunglasses)'' ...are.\ |
| 285 | '''''YEAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH''''' |
| 286 | ** {{Lampshaded}} in "[[Recap/PhineasAndFerbRollercoasterTheMusical Rollercoaster: The Musical]]", after Doofenshmirtz finishes a Broadway performance of his own: |
| 287 | --->'''Dancer:''' So, uh, are we done? 'Cause I gotta pick up my kid from school.\ |
| 288 | '''Doofenshmirtz:''' One second, just wait 'til it goes to black.\ |
| 289 | ''[cut to black with a guitar sting]''\ |
| 290 | '''Doofenshmirtz:''' Alright, now you can go. |
| 291 | * ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'': |
| 292 | ** At the end of "[[Recap/SpongeBobSquarePantsS1E5PizzaDeliveryHomeSweetPineapple Pizza Delivery]]": |
| 293 | ---> '''Squidward:''' Oh, my aching tentacles! |
| 294 | ** At the end of "[[Recap/SpongeBobSquarePantsS1E13ScaredyPantsIWasATeenageGary Scaredy Pants]]", after [=SpongeBob=]'s exposed brain scares every Bikini Bottomite at the Halloween party, including Patrick and [[HorrifyingtheHorror the Flying Dutchman]]: |
| 295 | ---> '''[=SpongeBob=]:''' [[GoodThingYouCanHeal Don't worry, it grows back]]! |
| 296 | ** At the end of "[[Recap/SpongeBobSquarePantsS4E11WhaleOfABirthdayKarateIsland Whale of a Birthday]]": |
| 297 | ---> '''Mr. Krabs:''' Don't push your luck, boy. |
| 298 | [[/folder]] |
| 299 | ---- |
| 300 | --> ''This page isn't nearly long enough. To get to the bottom of this, we're gonna need... [[GonnaNeedMoreX more trope.]]''\ |
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