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CSI: Crime Scene Investigation is a television series which debuted in 2000. The series has sparked two spin-offs, CSI: Miami and CSI: NY. All of the series center on a team of forensic scientists who investigate mysterious crimes.
References
- A Ready to Learn insert featured Ernie as a CSI-style investigator, alongside a girl and Ord (Dragon Tales). Though the format of the sketch explicitly parodied CSI, the background music was the theme to the 1960s series Peter Gunn.
- Muppets TV featured "Muppet Experts," a spoof of the series (known in France as Le Experts), and used the CSI theme song. The team consisted of Kermit the Frog (as "Kermit Grisomme," referencing series lead Carl Grissom), Fozzie Bear, Animal, and Denise.
- Sesame Street spoofed the franchise in Episode 4135 as "RSI: Rhyme Scene Investigation." The segment features June Moon and Joe Doe (a caricature of CSI: Miami star David Caruso) as two members of the RSI team who try and help a Fat Blue Anything Muppet find the thing he lost that ends in "at."
- Sesame Tree episode 8 was titled "CSI Sesame Tree".
Connections
CSI
- Stephen Baldwin appeared as Jesse Acheson the fifth season episode "Compulsion"
- Ned Beatty made a guest appearance in the seventh season episode "Sweet Jane"
- Alexis Cruz played PFC Phillip Riley in "No Humans Involved" (2004)
- Faye Dunaway appeared in the sixth season episode "Kiss-Kiss, Bye-Bye"
- Laurence Fishburne played Doctor Raymond "Ray" Langston
- Dakota Fanning played a molestation victim in the first season episode "Blood Drops"
- Jenny O'Hara played Sandra Walkey in "Secrets & Flies" (2005)
- Raphael Sbarge played Aaron Laner in " Ch-Ch-Changes" (2004)
- Allison Smith played Nancy Linden in a 2003 epidsode
- Quentin Tarantino directed the 2004–2005 season finale
- Wil Wheaton guest-starred in the season five episode "Compulsion"
CSI: Miami
- Panchito Gómez played Manny Ocola in "Extreme" (2003)
- Francesco Quinn played Fidel in "Murder in a Flash" (2004)
- Raphael Sbarge played Larry Fremont in the episode "Backstabbers" (2006)
CSI: NY
- Ed Asner
- Melina Kanakaredes
- Joey Lawrence
- Marlee Matlin
- Nelly
- Raphael Sbarge played District Attorney Latham in two episodes (2005)