Dear Reader,

My wife v1.22 (the lovely and talented Kathy) got a TIVO for Christmas. Since it’s hers, of course, her Season Passes come before everyone else’s.

Just below Battlestar Galactia, My Name is Earl and The Office I’ve slipped in CSI. (Vegas, the real CSI, not the knock-offs Miami or NY.) Since SpikeTV place 2-3 episodes a night, there’s never a shortage of them when I get ready to unwind at night.

The downside is that my daughter has now gotten in the habit of watching them also. She comes home from school and watches an episode. (careful not to delete it lest daddy go postal on her.) So when I sit down at night to watch my one episode she wants me to pick one she hasn’t watched so we can watch it together. Oh well, she’s 17, I guess I should be thankful that I get to spend any time together with her and count CSI as quality time.

Our favorite point in the show is what we call ‘The Grissom Line’. The Grissom Line is that point at the beginning of the show, just before the opening sequence, when one of the characters, usually Grissom, delivers a witty, or just well timed, line. William L. Peterson delivers them with such deadpan. He truly is a master of his craft. I really don’t understand why they let the other members of the ensemble attempt something as difficult as TGL.

This past Thursday’s episode had the greatest Grimmon Line I’ve seen to date. The crew is being shadowed by a crew from a ‘forensics TV show’. They walk into the hotel room after the crew has followed them down the hall asking questions so inane that the writers must have consulted with actual journalists. The TV crew is blocked from entering the room as it’s the crime scene but they can see Grissom staring at something. They setup the line by hollering at Grissom, “Mr. Grissom, what are you starring at?”

Road weary form the walk down the hall and the endless barrage of questions, Grissom replies, without missing a beat and starring straight ahead “A long night.”

Quite honestly, the greatest Grissom line ever. I just had to share.

=C=

p.s. William L. Peterson was also in one of my favorite dark movies “To Live and Die in L.A.” I had no idea.

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