# If you were NCIS director, how many times would you have fired Gibbs by now?

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**Created:** [October 5, 2016, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-were-ncis-director-how-many-times-would-you-have-fired-gibbs-by-now/767707 "2016-10-05T14:46:58Z")\
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**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\
**Post date:** [October 12, 2016, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-were-ncis-director-how-many-times-would-you-have-fired-gibbs-by-now/767707/41 "2016-10-12T22:01:35Z")

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> [@Reluctant\_A](#):
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> I feel like that’s a problem of their own making, the simplest solution being to give Dinozzo a spinoff _instead_ of making _NCIS: Los Angeles_ or _NCIS: New Orleans_.
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> Hell, _NCIS: Los Angeles_ should have been the Dinozzo spinoff.

The only DiNozzo show I’d want would be a sci-fi one, in which DiNoozo was murdered by a time-travelling shapeshifting robot in each episode. He’d be mysteriousy come back to life at the beginning of each new ep, so we’d get to see him die again again again and again.

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**Post date:** [October 12, 2016, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-were-ncis-director-how-many-times-would-you-have-fired-gibbs-by-now/767707/42 "2016-10-12T22:06:38Z")

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> [@bump](#):
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> Maybe, but I suspect they thought that a Tony spinoff would have been the “Tony Show”, and not something that might catch the same lightning in a bottle that the original NCIS did with the ensemble cast. It seems pretty clear to me that the other NCIS shows are very formulaic in terms of team makeup- they have the forensics weirdo, they have the lead agent, a couple of quirky but super-competent sidekicks, and the surprisingly normal autopsy gremlins.

It’s a Donald Bellisario show; there’s the wisecracking hero, the father figure, the geeky sidekick(s), and the hyper-competent female, all in a hierarchical/military organization.

There have been variations on the theme, but very slight.

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**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\
**Post date:** [October 13, 2016, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-were-ncis-director-how-many-times-would-you-have-fired-gibbs-by-now/767707/43 "2016-10-13T14:54:14Z")

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> [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](#):
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> He wasn’t an agent then. And I’m fairly sure Tomr Morrow (director before Jenny) didn’t know that Gibbs had even HAD a murdered wife & child to avenge; neither Ducky nor Jenny did until she looked into his past. And Jenny didn’t KNOW what Gibbs had done. Ducky pointed out that it was a reasonable guess based on Gibbs’s personality (in that Reynosa was long since disappeared and that Gibbs was not spending every waking moment hunting him down), but that was only a guess, not proof. She was hardly going to expend agency resources on solving a 15-year-old cold case that wasn’t even in her jurisdiction.

If his boss had watched the show, he woulda known. 😛

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