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November 23, 2006: Road Pizza
"Mashed potatoes, gravy and cranberry sauce. Whoooooo!"
Gobble gobble everybody. For those of you outside of the celebrating country, you really are missing out on a wonderful day. This tryptophan is going to let me get a great night sleep. I wish the day didn't have to end but it does, so what better way than with an entertaining CSI.
Let me say it up front and get it out of the way now. If CBS was going to show a repeat next week, then why not push the new episode off of Thanksgiving Day and show it 7 days from now instead? Shame on TV programmers for putting new shows on a holiday.
Anyway, overall this was a fun show with some great acting, some funny moments and some of the cheesiest scenes of the season. It started out with those silly moments with the bad news station graphics and the barely audible Mexican guy claiming to have found the car of legendary Las Vegas mob boss, Mickey Dunn. And after the guy in the wheelchair got pushed into the street, Brass calls it a "homicide related road pizza" and Grissom chimes in with "who ordered it?" Cheesy!! But Brass killed me reading back the statements of the drunk people in the car, "dude goes bam...we go ahhhh." Funny moment.
(Side note: One of the great things about CSI was always the line said right before the opening tune kicks in. In past seasons they were almost always quite amusing or quite cynical from Grissom's perspective. This season, they've been really boring for the most part and this one was just dumb. I really used to love those lines for some reason and I wish they would start getting better again.)
A really cool moment was when the photographer was in the morgue and Dr. Robbins kicked his butt all over the place. The doc can sing and he can kick ass — this is my kind of dude.
The way the killings happened was a little predictable. Once you saw the picture show up on the first dead guy, you knew the others were going to bite it too and the pictures would show up on them as well. But it played out in an entertaining way. It turns out Mickey Dunn never died the night he disappeared. But he's found out that the bullet he has in him has shifted and he's got one week to live. So he decides to play his own little game and wack all the people that tried to kill him back in the day because he'll die without going to jail. He makes himself into a karaoke drunk, a black woman and one of the guys he just murdered and leads the cops on a crazy chase to get him. The greatest part about all of this is when he pulls off the last face to reveal himself as the legend — by golly it's Roger Daltrey! The Who front man turns in an Emmy worthy guest spot (if you ask me) as the mob boss. When he was being interrogated and said the bones couldn't show that "when I smashed his face in, I enjoyed it" that was the scene I'm going to expect to be shown before he wins the award for this great cameo. How great was it too, that Catherine played her own little game with him, by not telling him until the full story came out that the doctors had removed the bullet. Excellent work.
Finally, Cat found out her dad protected her from some underage activity with Dunn decades earlier. Since we rarely hear anything good about the late Sam Braun, that was interesting. However, I don't even want to address how she was "hot and ready" for Mickey at only 16 years old. If I start talking about that, I fear my computer will be tapped into by those predator catching guys. Listen up Stone Phillips, you got nothin' on me!
Until December 7th, friends.
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Nov 23, 2006 11:38 PM
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I'm not sure why but I found this episode a bit on the boring side. I do agree though that Roger Daltry did a great job. When he gleefully announced how much fun it was to bash someone's teeth in it gave me chills.
Upsides: I loved the shout out to Sam Braun (I miss the old guy) and the girl who played young Catherine really resembled Marg to me! I liked how they worked that into the story with Sam telling Mickey to back off his 'family.' Other upsides, lots of Brass and the fact that everyone was used in the show to some degree.
Downsides: The cheesy newscast was really bad; Grissom seems never to smile anymore these days - he seems a bit bummed - which I'm supposing is supposed to be the case so WP can take his leave. The ep was shown on a Holiday... not a great idea since I had to tape it which I hate! LOL
A good episode but not as good as Kiss Kiss, Bye Bye (not that they should be compared necessarily).
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Nov 24, 2006 12:15 AM
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I thought this episode amusing, but for me it was boring, because from the very first sight of the karaoke guy, I knew it was a guy in mask/makeup. And it was obvious within minutes of hearing the Mickey Dunn story that it was Mickey Dunn doing the impersonating. Everything was too obvious, but at the same time entertaining.
I think with every passing week, Brass is becoming my favorite character. Him and the doc.
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Nov 24, 2006 3:00 AM
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I guess everyone is too young to realize that this was not a true CSI episode at all.
It was a 1965 Mission: Impossible episode! Note that Barbara Bain received the main "guest-star" credit, not Roger Daltrey! The original Mission: Impossible (catch the DVDs or reruns) was known for those lifemasks.
Martin Landau (the resident master of disguise and Bain's husband) used at least one per episode.
All in all, a good entertaining holiday episode.
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Nov 24, 2006 10:19 AM
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I thought it was pretty good. They did use everyone to a small degree. I just can't get over the fact that there is only one case per episode and everyone is shown very little. I miss the old days and I too love the little comments usually, if not always, made by Grissom before the opening credits and sometimes before commercials. They are funny or serious and put a definate end to a scene.
All in all, this season just keeps getting better and better, with another minature serial killing in two weeks!!
Is it just me, or is this season absolutely flying by? I mean, we've already scene 9 episodes!
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Nov 24, 2006 10:39 AM
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I find it surprising that so many people found this episode boring, when in fact it was one of my favorite episodes of the season so far. I thought it had the dark humor the original CSI is noted for, and yet it was interesting and a wild goose chase. I think that the episode lived up to past CSI episodes, and I loved it!
I loved the way Micky looked when the cops were chasing him, by the way...great scene. I don't know about everyone else, but this episode was amazing and I hope there are more that will be just as good!
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Nov 24, 2006 12:24 PM
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I'm old enough to have recognized B. Bain but didn't put any of the rest of that together LOL so thanks for that information on Mission Impossible. The ep was ok, I'm just feeling no connection with the characters this year when THIS is supposed to be the year when we're knowing more about the characters. Like someone above said... Brass is quickly taking the lead as the character I most enjoy and somehow I doubt that's what the writers are going for. It's supposed to be a Grissom year and all I seem to feel when he's on screen is annoyed because he seems annoyed. I don't know. Something is just off to me lately. I hope it gets better.
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Nov 24, 2006 12:32 PM
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I got a million laughs from this one. My favorite line of the nite was when Brass was reciting the witness statement:
"We go, 'errrrrr!'"
"Dude goes, 'ahhhh!'"
"We go, 'Bam!'"
"Dude goes, 'ahhhh!'"
... Gotta love drunken teen logic!
Also, my favorite line of the nite that was NOT in the show courtesy of my mom...
In the opening sequence, when the news crews are showing the "Breaking News: Mob Boss Found" my mom says, "Oh Gosh, they found Whitey Bulger!!!???"
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Nov 24, 2006 12:44 PM
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The episode was okay. Something really bugged me though: I swear Mickey Dunn's eye were dark when he was young and Roger Daltry's were blue. That fact made the whole story unbelievable to me. Big mistake on the show's part.
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Nov 24, 2006 2:08 PM
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guccilizzy - he could have bought blue contacts to help hide his true identity...
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Nov 24, 2006 3:15 PM
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I didn't really care too much for this episode. First of all, the story was horribly predictable, and second, I thought Roger Daltry detracted from the show. For one of his "personas" I swear he was channelling Jimmie Durante.
And why must everything always somehow get to be about Catherine? I wish he'd just take a back burner already.
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Nov 24, 2006 6:49 PM
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I knew from the start that karaoke guy and the black lady were the same person. It was even funnier when he used Mike Myers and Pamela Voohavens as his alias. Later, Catherine explained that he got his name from the great horror movies: Mike from "Halloween" films and Pamela from the very first "Friday 13th" movie where she not Jason was committing the crimes until the end of the film.
It is even greater when Catherine informed poor Mickey(Roger Daltrey)that the homeboys in prison never heard of him.
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Nov 25, 2006 11:36 PM
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I was blown away by how awesome Roger was at singing a standard. I love The Who, but that was sureal.
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Nov 26, 2006 1:49 AM
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I hear ya on that FelineFan! I also figured out early that Karoke guy and all the murderers-in-disguise were the awesome Roger Daltry. The close-set eyes were a dead give away. I was thinking "Damn, that boy can still sing".
By the way, for my fellow Who fans, they just released a brandy new album and are touring again (sans the great Mr. Entwistle's smooth bass licks). I know I'm adding their CD to my Christmas list! 
PS: Of course it's also very cool that Roger Daltry appeared on one of the three TV series that his music opens every week. I wonder if he'll show up in NY and Miami too!
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Nov 27, 2006 9:32 AM
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This was probably my least favorite episode this season, maybe ever. For one, I could tell it was a mask or facial prosthetics from the first shot. I quickly figured out that the singer was the lady in the motel, etc. I also said early on that the body recovered from the car was going to be the cop and Mickey Dunn was still alive. To me, it was just so predictable. And the fact that NONE of the CSIs (until near the end of the end of the epi) looked at the photographs of the supposed murderers and noticed either a) they looked like they had on masks and b) the similarities around the eyes, just didn't ring true to me. These folks are supposed to be observant! Okay, rant over. I was just very disappointed in this episode, and it made me wish I had watched Grey's (which I recorded, having elected to watch CSI in real time).
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Nov 27, 2006 9:52 AM
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