# Are you familiar with this television meme? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 7, 2017, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-familiar-with-this-television-meme/800994 "2017-11-07T19:49:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2017, 6:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-familiar-with-this-television-meme/800994/21 "2017-11-08T06:43:13Z")
They parodied it on _Burn Notice_, too, when Sam Axe posed as a CSI agent and kept doing the act with the sunglasses. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2017, 1:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-familiar-with-this-television-meme/800994/22 "2017-11-08T13:08:31Z")
Isn’t there some parody somewhere where someone had layers of sunglasses? Taking off one pair and having another under it, or maybe putting one pair on top of another? Anyway, [a few clips](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mznsEcZlM2I). ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanub/32/132_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUB)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2017, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-familiar-with-this-television-meme/800994/23 "2017-11-08T14:23:18Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > Remember when Caruso was the Irish-American punk on _ **Hill Street Blues** _? I must have watched umpteen episodes of \*\*\*CSI: Miami \*\*\*before I realized he and Horatio Caine were one and the same guy. > > [http://www.nerdface.it/images/Attori/DavidCaruso/appside-david-caruso05-s.jpg](http://www.nerdface.it/images/Attori/DavidCaruso/appside-david-caruso05-s.jpg) That is. . . surreal. My memory of the series is a little foggy and I definitely don’t remember that character / scene. Was it a one off? More importantly, was it supposed to be funny? ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2017, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-familiar-with-this-television-meme/800994/24 "2017-11-08T14:37:08Z")
I knew that there was a meme of putting pixellated sunglasses on images of faces, though I have no idea what if anything it’s supposed to mean. Is that the same thing? ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2017, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-familiar-with-this-television-meme/800994/25 "2017-11-08T15:19:01Z")
> [@WOOKINPANUB](#): > > That is. . . surreal. My memory of the series is a little foggy and I definitely don’t remember that character / scene. Was it a one off? More importantly, was it supposed to be funny? The Shamrocks were an Irish-American gang who were always fighting over turf with the Hill’s Black and Hispanic gangs. Furillo occasionally brought them to the station for a sitdown or for questioning, and a gangfight would inevitably break out. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2017, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-familiar-with-this-television-meme/800994/26 "2017-11-08T15:23:04Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > Isn’t there some parody somewhere where someone had layers of sunglasses? Taking off one pair and having another under it, or maybe putting one pair on top of another? Right, that was Robert Stack in _ **Airplane!** _: [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/73UfgMoWv8E/maxresdefault.jpg "Airplane! (1980) - Rex Kramer Double Sunglasses Scene") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=73UfgMoWv8E) ---
**Author:** ![awldune](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c77e96/32.png) [@awldune](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/awldune)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2017, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-familiar-with-this-television-meme/800994/27 "2017-11-08T15:39:20Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > I knew that there was a meme of putting pixellated sunglasses on images of faces, though I have no idea what if anything it’s supposed to mean. Is that the same thing? That would be the “deal with it” meme, a different thing. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2017, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-familiar-with-this-television-meme/800994/28 "2017-11-08T18:33:06Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > Isn’t there some parody somewhere where someone had layers of sunglasses? Taking off one pair and having another under it, or maybe putting one pair on top of another? > > Anyway, [a few clips](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mznsEcZlM2I). > [@terentii](#): > > Right, that was Robert Stack in _ **Airplane!** _: > > [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=73UfgMoWv8E&pbjreload=10](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=73UfgMoWv8E&pbjreload=10) _Airplane!_ preceded _CSI: Miami_ by almost a quarter of a century, so it’s not exactly a parody, although it’s hard to say if Horatio donning his sunglasses was influenced by it. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2017, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-familiar-with-this-television-meme/800994/29 "2017-11-08T18:49:28Z")
> [@cochrane](#): > > _Airplane!_ preceded _CSI: Miami_ by almost a quarter of a century, so it’s not exactly a parody, although it’s hard to say if Horatio donning his sunglasses was influenced by it. The _Airplane!_ one was the one I was thinking of, I just couldn’t remember the context of it, and was thinking it was a CSI: Miami parody. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2017, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-familiar-with-this-television-meme/800994/30 "2017-11-08T18:55:13Z")
> [@cochrane](#): > > _Airplane!_ preceded _CSI: Miami_ by almost a quarter of a century, so it’s not exactly a parody, although it’s hard to say if Horatio donning his sunglasses was influenced by it. Right; I meant that Stack was parodying the convention, which I’m sure had been used for dramatic effect in many, many other movies and TV shows prior to _ **Airplane!** _ ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2017, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-familiar-with-this-television-meme/800994/31 "2017-11-09T03:45:09Z")
Well… I voted ‘‘yes,’’ but in all honesty, your spoiler box was revealed in the mouse-over when I clicked the link, so I got the answer before the question. I’m pretty sure I would still have said yes. ---
**Author:** ![asterion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4da419/32.png) [@asterion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asterion)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2017, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-familiar-with-this-television-meme/800994/32 "2017-11-09T14:09:42Z")
Don’t forget the single most useful single-purpose site on the Internet. [YEAH !! - Instant Sound Effect Button | Myinstants](http://www.myinstants.com/instant/yeah/) ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2017, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-familiar-with-this-television-meme/800994/33 "2017-12-20T21:07:19Z")
> [@cochrane](#): > > ( •_•) > ( •_•)\>⌐■-■ > (⌐■\_■) > > or \*dons sunglasses > > YEAAAAHHHHH! > > On the CBS show _CSI: Miami_, star David Caruso would deliver a one-liner while putting on his sunglasses, followed by Roger Daltrey screaming “YEAAAAHHHHH” from the Who’s _Won’t Get Fooled Again_. > > Not meant to be scientific, just an informal survey. Poll to follow if I don’t screw it up. The meme was also used in “The Trip” on _ **Seinfeld** _, where Kramer is suspected of being a serial killer. The episodes (Pts 1 and 2) were aired in August 1992. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2017, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-familiar-with-this-television-meme/800994/34 "2017-12-20T21:53:05Z")
Just remember to do it in the right order. You don’t want to accidentally do a Val Kilmer: (⌐■\_■) ( •_•)\>⌐■-■ ( •_•) ---
**Author:** ![Machine\_Elf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/82dd89/32.png) [@Machine\_Elf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Machine_Elf)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2017, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-familiar-with-this-television-meme/800994/35 "2017-12-20T21:55:21Z")
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