# Wherein I give mad props to Ted Danson on CSI **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 1, 2012, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wherein-i-give-mad-props-to-ted-danson-on-csi/614463 "2012-03-01T16:52:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Springtime\_for\_Spacers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Springtime\_for\_Spacers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Springtime_for_Spacers)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2012, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wherein-i-give-mad-props-to-ted-danson-on-csi/614463/21 "2012-03-02T13:47:30Z")
I’m in the UK, where this series is just about to start. I’m another one who liked Danson in Damages but … I have this problem that whatever part he plays I can’t forget that he is _Ted Danson_. I don’t know whether it’s his looks or something else. It’s not his acting per se but every time he’s on screen this little voice in the back of my head goes “that’s Ted Danson, that is.” I really hope it keeps quiet so I can watch this new CSI. ---
**Author:** ![smithsb](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smithsb/32/12107_2.png) [@smithsb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smithsb)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2012, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wherein-i-give-mad-props-to-ted-danson-on-csi/614463/22 "2012-03-02T15:15:49Z")
I’ve actually liked all three leads. Like a business when a new president/CEO comes in, things change, get less comfortable (for some), take on a different focus. I liked Fishburne’s darkness and intensity. I had to pay attention unlike some of the other Sci-Fi forensic shows where I can cruise the interwebs while still keeping up with the “plot”. And Danson is so “different”. They should mess up his hair more, the mad scientist look becomes him. It would be a real play on his “perfect” hair from the Cheers days. ---
**Author:** ![Nunzio\_Tavulari](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Nunzio\_Tavulari](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nunzio_Tavulari)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2012, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wherein-i-give-mad-props-to-ted-danson-on-csi/614463/23 "2012-03-02T15:49:25Z")
> [@DMark](#): > > Speaking of Peterson - why in the hell did he just up and leave the show back then? I heard it was his idea to leave the show (he wasn’t fired or anything) and just wondered why? > Unlike Fishburne, Peterson doesn’t have a huge film career to fall back on. I believe that he owns a piece of the action on the original series, not sure about the spin-offs. He made over half a million per episode ads an actor so he’ll probably be OK. ---
**Author:** ![fiddlesticks](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fiddlesticks/32/18129_2.png) [@fiddlesticks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fiddlesticks)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2012, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wherein-i-give-mad-props-to-ted-danson-on-csi/614463/24 "2012-03-02T17:20:24Z")
Yeah, Petersen is still an executive producer of CSI. He officially left to do stage acting. Not sure how much of that he’s doing. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2012, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wherein-i-give-mad-props-to-ted-danson-on-csi/614463/25 "2012-03-03T18:32:30Z")
> [@fiddlesticks](#): > > Yeah, Petersen is still an executive producer of CSI. He officially left to do stage acting. Not sure how much of that he’s doing. Heck, Sam Simon is still listed as an executive producer of _The Simpsons_, despite severing his ties with the show’s production back in 1993. He still gets a sizable chunk of the show’s revenues, was briefly married to a Playboy playmate, pays high-stakes poker and runs a charity that rescues stray dogs. If Petersen’s doing half that well, he gets no pity from _me_. ---
**Author:** ![Moonlitherial](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4bbf92/32.png) [@Moonlitherial](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moonlitherial)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2012, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wherein-i-give-mad-props-to-ted-danson-on-csi/614463/26 "2012-03-04T03:09:45Z")
> [@Skara\_Brae](#): > > I am not really feeling Elisabeth Shue’s character though. Someone over at TWOP speculated that maybe they’re brother and sister, rather than former lovers, which would be a neat twist. > [@FrillyNettles](#): > > That’s what my husband and I assumed from the start. They interact like estranged siblings, not past lovers. Also, Danson’s character has stated that he has been with his wife since high school, and she is the only woman he has ever slept with. I think she’s his wife’s sister. When he first shows up at the mock crime scene she said “I know you don’t make social calls unless you want to make your wife happy and I don’t see her around” ---
**Author:** ![AllShookDown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d9b06d/32.png) [@AllShookDown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AllShookDown)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2012, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wherein-i-give-mad-props-to-ted-danson-on-csi/614463/27 "2012-03-04T13:39:53Z")
> [@detop](#): > > I agree with you, but I think the fault is more due to the writers who didn’t know where to go with the character. Although I really liked the episodes were he was bonding with Doc Robbins, it gave these characters more depth. I wish they had pursued it longer. Yeah, “miscast” was the wrong term. I really meant what you said. The character was awful. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wherein-i-give-mad-props-to-ted-danson-on-csi/614463.md?page=1)