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2* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic:
3** Music/TheWho song chosen as the theme of this show [[https://youtu.be/mR3jnW2kcUs "Won't Get Fooled Again"]], a song that fits with the intense action that is present in this show.
4** The utterly nonchalant music playing during the climax of "All In" that captures both the utter confusion of the bad guy as to [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lcgXrbdkPxc what the hell]] just happened and how badly the team outclasses him in the end.
5** A little before her decade smash-hit resurgence of "Climbing Up That Hill" to Gen-Z in ''Series/StrangerThings'', millennials will remember Music/KateBush's hit [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXzx--YefD8 "This Woman's Work"]] from the episode "Back Fire" as Calleigh literally travel's back and forth between life and death.
6* BrokenBase:
7** The Eric/Calleigh romance: the best thing that's ever happened to the show? Or a 'nomance' that's been dragging the show to its grave for years?
8** This show itself for the CSI fandom in general. It was either a great show or the show that was made unwatchable (and made other CSI entries unwatchable) by Creator/DavidCaruso.
9* CargoShip: Horatio and the sunglasses.
10* CompleteMonster: See [[Monster/CSIVerse here]].
11* EnsembleDarkhorse: Julia Winston, who appeared in all of ''seven'' episodes, yet keeps popping up in the fandom.
12* FanNickname:
13** The Sunglasses of Justice: Horatio's shades.
14** The Hummer of Justice: The Hummers they drive.
15** Super H : Horatio, especially during his dramatic escapes without injury.
16* SugarWiki/FunnyMoments:
17** The cast does their best [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ul8gZIGZbdc Horatio imitations]].
18** David Caruso was also pretty good at taking the mickey out of himself. In this [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kXrUNXtPboA video]], he makes jokes about his young daughter not liking the Halloween costume he picked out and the immortal line (while he's having his hair brushed) "In the second half of the day, we turn the wig around." Caruso also loved [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJSqkwyL1Zo Jim Carrey's imitation]] of Horatio.
19* HarsherInHindsight: In the episode "Blown Away", the team nabs a pair of storm-chasers who have actually been looting homes abandoned by people fleeing an approaching storm and murdered a young woman who interrupted them. In the wake of 2017's Hurricane Irma in Florida, there are reports of people doing precisely the same thing--no violence yet, fortunately.
20* HoYay: If one looks at the most popular pairings on fanfiction sites, there's Eric/Ryan, Horatio/Stetler, Horatio/Mac (in a CSI: New York crossover), Horatio/Ryan, Horatio/Speedle...
21* LikeYouWouldReallyDoIt:
22** Season six finale: Horatio goes to an airport to send his ex-wife and son into hiding and gets shot in the stomach, appearing to die (on the shiniest tarmac in history, no less) as Wolfe gets a text reading: "It's done". Season seven reveals Horatio to have faked his death, Wolfe to be in on it, and it all to have been part of a gambit to lure Ron Saris out of hiding... in the space between the first and second commercial breaks.
23** 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.
24* MemeticMutation: Looks like it's time for... ''[[GlassesPull *puts on sunglasses*]]'' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=_sarYH0z948 the opening sequence]].[[note]]'''''[[Music/TheWho YEEEEEEAAAAAAHHHHHHH!]]'''''[[/note]]
25* {{Misblamed}}: David Caruso is blamed for Caine's cheesy portrayal, but he emotes a lot more in earlier seasons and can actually ''act'' on other shows. It seems like the producers deliberately decided to [[{{Flanderization}} Flanderize]] him.
26* NarmCharm: Horatio's QuipToBlack one-liners are half the reason people remember this series, and even if some missed the mark into {{Narm}} territory, it still fell into this for the series trying to stick the formula so hard and still getting a few good ones in. Later episodes had Horatio easing up on the one-liners, lowering both sides of the coin altogether.
27** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3d54Ok6Uz_A Horatio Caine Parks His Car.]] So Narmy it's ''TOTALLY AWESOME.''
28* RetroactiveRecognition:
29** Closer to Simultaneous Recognition: Adam Baldwin got famous playing Jayne on ''Series/{{Firefly}}'', but while it was airing and before it had become a cult classic, he was running a radiation response team in a first-season episode of ''Series/CSIMiami''.
30** Similarly, Creator/KimCoates played recurring villain Ron Saris in seasons six and seven just as he was finally gaining some mainstream recognition as Tig Trager in ''Series/SonsOfAnarchy''. Hilariously, there's an episode where he accidentally kills Juice (Theo Rossi)!
31** [[Series/{{Numb3rs}} Colby Granger]] hit someone with his car during the hurricane evac.
32** Before playing Captain Kirk in ''Film/StarTrek2009'', Creator/ChrisPine played a murder suspect in "Extreme".
33** 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, including with Gustin's own character.
34** Creator/ChanningTatum appeared in one episode as small-time criminal Bob Davenport.
35* ShipToShipCombat: Between Calleigh/Horatio, Calleigh/Delko and Calleigh/Ryan fans, mostly, although there was also a smaller one between fans of Natalia/Eric and Natalia/Ryan.
36* SoBadItsGood: Everything ridiculous about the original ''CSI'', distilled to pure form.
37* 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.

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