Perhaps the greatest advancement of the geek-tech that has invaded media is the fact that little tidbits of winning material can be crafted, tuned, and uploaded for all the world to see within minutes. In some cases, the perceived phenomenon of something that is decidedly as obvious as a slap in the face is made even more famous by geekery tools such as Youtube.
Such as it is with David Caruso on CSI: Miami – part of the franchise of series that has made their bread and butter around amazingly detailed, “extreme close-up” CGI (another result of enterprising geekery, no doubt) and discouraging real crime from happening. I mean hell, wouldn’t you think twice about committing a crime if you knew an overworked, disparate, and sleep-deprived set of people could get to you with nothing more than an adult’s chemistry set and 10000x zoom technology? I would.
But I digress. The little phenomenon I’m referring to this time is in regard to David Caruso’s character’s talent of being able to deliver the corniest one-liner openings to television episodes ever. Sure, they’re meant to be witty, serious business quotables that bridge you into a really upbeat Who song, but they come off as having more corn than the state of Iowa.
Now normally, this kind of thing would go relatively unnoticed except among CSI fans, who’d exchange meaningful glances whenever someone decides to slowly slide on their shades and say something cheesy. But because of the magic of consumer-level editing software, viral marketing, and the ease of Youtube, everyone gets to see how facepalm-worthy some of Caruso’s comments truly are. And when someone can Tweet to an audience of thousands that you tripped and fell into the sewer within seconds of it happening, the turnaround seems even faster. This is the age of the geek that we live in, folks.
Hell, if you wanted to have something to cue up for the same corny moments, you could simply summon up InstantCSI, right at your fingertips (supposedly created or at least first hosted by the mysterious Bernard of Ingress Tech). Isn’t it great?
Don’t believe me? Check out the compilation someone with a little too much time on their hands put together:
Look like this fictional investigator…needs to use shades *puts on shades*
…to shield himself from more than just Miami sun…
I humbly submit this possibly NSFW Caruso gem http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZrTkmDLUm2w