# Criminal Minds/CSI -- are they always this dumb? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 27, 2011, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/criminal-minds-csi-are-they-always-this-dumb/600938 "2011-10-27T03:26:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2011, 7:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/criminal-minds-csi-are-they-always-this-dumb/600938/21 "2011-10-28T07:32:43Z")
> [@Greg\_Charles](#): > > Actually though, I’ve been known to watch CSI: Miami just for the laughs. One of these days, that guy (David Caruso?) is going to pull off his sunglasses to reveal a smaller pair of sunglasses underneath, ala Rex Kramer. I lived in Miami and I’ve got several years’ experience as a lab tech (QC, not forensics), so when I’m visiting my mother likes watching that one and asking me how long would any given trip or lab result take. She says “it’s like they think you can fold the map and jump from one corner of the paper to the other where they touch!” ---
**Author:** ![Morbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morbo/32/389_2.png) [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2011, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/criminal-minds-csi-are-they-always-this-dumb/600938/22 "2011-10-28T18:59:38Z")
I mostly watch these to laugh uproariously at the computer scenes. Anyone with a simple working knowledge of computers will love [this](http://youtu.be/hkDD03yeLnU). I guess the writer wasn’t one of those people - does he use a typewriter? And then there’s [this](http://youtu.be/39CRw7zH_2A). That writer must have never used a keyboard in his life. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/criminal-minds-csi-are-they-always-this-dumb/600938.md?page=1)