worse, a Discovery TV geek?

With no knowledge ahead of time, I watched my taped version of last night's CSI (the original).

I had had a fun night out, much longer than usual and had settled in for a later night watching my

VHS tape of the evening's prime time line up. 

CSI was interesting, weird, and started with a more than usual disturbing scene - someone accidentally (?) set on fire in the police station (here we suspend belief and accept that a potential suspect would be questioned in the fornesics lab). 

Investigating the incident, where the suspect, when tasered, went up like a bonfire, the team recreated the event trying to figure out why the fire occured - inebriated suspect? faulty taser? ingredients of the pepper spray adminsitered prior to the tasing?

A 3rd party phone video of the action gave new info - that the pepper spray used was not from a standard police issue bottle, but by a banned older model that has a flammable quality to it. 

So the CSIs then go into the lab to try to recreate that, spraying the older pepper spray on a dummy and then tasering it, and VOILA, it lights up like a roman candle!

You still with me?  As this experiment is done, in the background are two guys in lab coats, and I'll be damned if they aren't Adam and Jamie, the former hollywood special effects guys who are now hosts of their own Discovery show, the MythBusters!  Freaking hilarious!  They then replay the experiment and in the slow-mo, you more clearly see the two of them, big grins on their faces, and Jamie gives a big thumbs up that the experiment played out as expected.  Great cameo, congrats to CBS for having the originality to do something fun like that!

 
   

 


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sandyquill on
Re: So Does This Make Me A TV Geek?
I saw them and was all... COOL! Mythbusters!!



Of course, I'm a CSI regular, sad to say. lol

The little chick with the tinfoil? Evelyn? She was Danny DeVito's girlfriend in Twins
perrye on
Re: So Does This Make Me A TV Geek?
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5g_j-3NZ-DCgbV61YmeO-s0YRQDXwD90BRN581
resable on
Re: So Does This Make Me A TV Geek?
OMG, I would have given my old can of pepper spray top see THAT one. LOVE the Mythbusters. I'm sure they'll do a rerun at some point.
bbmyls2go on
Re: So Does This Make Me A TV Geek?
see my reply below, you can watch it anytime on line.  I've never been into looking at much on-line for entertainment, but that CBS site alone could keep you busy for hours if not days watching deleted scenes, sneek previews, special effects stuff as well as most of the full episodes.
jacksmom on
Re: So Does This Make Me A TV Geek?
We love Mythbusters! Matt loves to watch Discovery, the history channel, A and E, Biography.  Pretty much anything educational and turned me on to that show.  It is great and that is so cool that they would have a cameo of sorts on CSI.  
hypnagogic on
Re: So Does This Make Me A TV Geek?
yes, you are a Discovery TV geek - but then i'll admit that i am one, too.  have not watched CSI before but wish i had.  do you remember the name of the episode?  love to have seen that.
bbmyls2go on
Re: So Does This Make Me A TV Geek?
"The Theory of Everything" you can view the episode on-line here :

http://www.cbs.com/primetime/the_captain/video/video.php?cid=446409122&pid=ActPEXMJlLQA2H26MaBQw8D9OP5rZXXf&play=true&cc=0

 

also, a promo says next week's episode will be one written by Chuck Lorre of sitcom fame ("2 1/2 Men").

hypnagogic on
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i've watched some episodes of 2 1/2 Men and although some of the lines are clever and overall the writing is decent, i cannot bear the constant laugh track that stalls the show to no purpose.  so annoying!
thanks for the link!

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