They parodied it on Burn Notice, too, when Sam Axe posed as a CSI agent and kept doing the act with the sunglasses.
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.
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?
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?
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.
Right, that was Robert Stack in Airplane!:
That would be the “deal with it” meme, a different thing.
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.
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!
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.
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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.
Just remember to do it in the right order. You don’t want to accidentally do a Val Kilmer:
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