Whenever a movie plot hinges on your own profession

Aug 26, 2017 6:10 PM

Kingdom of Heaven and Braveheart… I liked them both, but the original history was entertaining enough.

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They have magical stetoscopes. You can hear what's wrong with the trauma patient while people yell around you.

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I am a plumber, flushing the toilet will not make water come out of the sink tap

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"Hacking into Pentagon - 90% complete" - protagonist's laptop screen.

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As a 'car guy' it took me years to give the Fast and Furious franchise a chance. They're actually really fun movies.

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I'm a spartan warrior and 300 is basically my average Tuesday

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Is it true that the way they separate the men from the boys in the Spartan army is with a crowbar?

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I'm a preschool teacher and I can confirm that Children of the Corn is based on true events

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Radiation safety, nuclear power contracting then nuclear waste. So much rage. All the time.

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As a Senior Reactor Operator, I feel your pain

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I deliver pizza and not ONCE have I had sex with a woman who didn't have money for the pizza. Movies are such bs sometimes.

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This is the reason I hate Dexter

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Psychotherapist here with many a doctor friend. So. Much. Frustration.

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You should have a different name. Psycho the rapist doesn't sound too appealing

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Naa, really doesn't. Should scrape that off my old beatem up van then. No wonder I can't find any clients. Thanks dude! ;)

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Applies to TV too. Watching iZombie when they did one on computer games. I was screaming my education in interactive systems at my monitor.

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Just watched NCIS NewOrleans, apparently drug dealers find it so hard to get solvents that they make toluene from stolen military TNT

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I work in a psych ward. The inconsistencies are SO annoying--especially when we have new pts come in terrified cause they think that's real!

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Dr doolittle just slips into vet med. Nevermind the years of prep, prereqs for application, and the 4 years of actual school. I call bull

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I'm a nurse. Every time I see a nonexistent heart rhythm, I die a little on the inside

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Haha I am headed towards nursing and I can't see House as anything to take seriously anymore

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when they shock a flatline...

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Me too. Basically flip out when I watch any medical show.

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I'm an IT consultant now and used to be a security system consultant. Almost any movie with a computer or an alarm can be frustrating now

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Most movies based on security guard jobs are surprisingly accurate.

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I'm in the military. There are some that are pity close. Morse are way off.

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I've worked with Navy personnel and married to a now retired sailor 10 years. Many mil. movies/shows are just no -Can't unsee what I know

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how the hell did tyrese get such a big promotion between transformers movies. he went from E-6 to E-9 in 2 years.

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My favorite is when their ribbon rack is upside down (like a 10 ribbon with the single on the bottom). It happens all the time too.

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I get that uniforms will be a little off, but 6 Oscars for Hurt Locker and they wore the wrong uniform the whole time.

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Thats the one where he endangers people for cheap replaceable gloves, right??

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I'm always bothered by the salutes. You'd think it would be simple to get that right, but nope.

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My buddy from the army pointed that out as one of the things that annoys him the most. Fingertips edge of brow, hand stiff? I think he said

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Pretty much. I don't know why movies always have the hand over the forehead or a bent wrist. Haircuts can also be pretty bad.

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Everytime they shoot a sprinkler head and they all pop. NOT HOW THAT WOOORKS!!!

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I wanna see a movie where some dude with a ladder and a red hot frying pan sets off all the sprinklers in a multi level carpark. Long movie.

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or pull the fire alarm and all the sprinklers go off

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No. It's totally normal for 2 programmers to simultaneously use the same keyboard to go faster. We call it pair programming and it's extreme

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I only know of this instance. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Y2zo0JN2HE Is there another?

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Oh thank you! I actually didn't remember where it came from and this is the exact scene I had in mind.

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Why I’m a designer. Nothing hinges on good kerning.

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Keming*

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I'm pretty sure that lot of people get mildly irritated when they see bad keming. Not to the extent that a movie is made but enough.

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W h y ? W ha t e v er d o yo u m ea n?

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This hurt my eyes. Take my upvote, asshole

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I hate when people mess with kerning. Grabs my eye, sure, but it's a bad touch.

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"The Devil Wears Prada"

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I Googled kerning, what kind of designer are you?

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Graphic.

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Ahhh

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I'm an electrician. It's amazing how little people who make movies understand the basics of it. I see BS in movies all the time

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Yeah, little people really don't know much. Probably because their heads are so damn small

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In the same boat as an electrician. My wife hates when I watch movies with her.

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i'm an electrician and i love the obviously fake dumb crap. sometimes i use it as explanations to customers instead of patronizing them.

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Try working in IT or being a radio amateur... or worse, both.

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"Here, I'll help you program FASTER!" *starts typing furiously while another person types on the same keyboard*

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Part of it is not understanding, but electricians are used on sets all the time. I think they just don't care enough to make it right.

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You mean I can't just poor water on a high tech lock to make the door open?

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They should just ask the gaffer. "Hey, stop gaffing for a minute & tell us if this makes any sense".

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I'm a geologist. Yeah...

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We salute you. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fPf6L0XNvM

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What's ur favorite rock?

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Limestone.

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Did you make it through The Core?

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I did. It was worse than Volcano, but not by much

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Is it tough being Stan's dad?

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I do autopsies. I literally can't sit through crime shows because of this.

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What are the most obvious, blatant errors?

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Off the top of my head, they always fuck up the brain removal and it's my biggest irritator. Some will have generic lab personal doing

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them, which is totally wrong. They qlwi leave out the entire field of Histology, which I also do, and that's where diagnosis comes from. The

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whole process can take weeks but they all seem to get the answers in two hours. I'm sure there are more but I can't quite think of them

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I would love to do a work stories post but wouldn't know how to format it without violating HIPPA or being super vague

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Aircraft mechanic. Directors don't know the first thing about airplanes. Or physics, for that matter.

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I'm an accountant. That movie was dead on accurate.

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It was 2009 and I was happy to see a movie about my proud proffesion. I left the theater after 30 minutes, screaming and swearing.

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So, you the Terminator?

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Are you an English teacher ?

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Did you find the representation of your trade in Ball Gaggers 4 not up to your standards?

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Thank you. I actually woke my wife up I laughed so loud. Well done

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Fucking legendary, im in tears

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Guessing not a spelling teacher harhar

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What do you do

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Nothing grammatically correct, surely

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Horse porn editor

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I"m a mall cop.

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As a former rent-a-cop, if it wasn't for the actually being friends with the local swat team, Blarts attitude was my boss. Tryhard.

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I love you.

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You cursed cuz you don't have a segway, didn't you? :p

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Well played, sir.

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These four words are literally more funny than that entire movie.

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God damn incredible

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You cheeky fuck. That's brilliant. +1

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Wowtstanding

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OH FOR FUCK'S SAKE

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I'm in hysterics 10/10 comment bravo

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I dont get it

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google movies about mall cops 2009

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Hubby was a mall cop when it came out also. Couldn't enjoy the movie; he nitpicked everything. Ugh, you security guys are all the same lol

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Fucking lol

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Kudos for your patience in waiting for someone to take the bait before delivering the punchline.

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How are you not glorious?

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You fucking legend, pardin me while I go upvote everything youve ever done

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My husband complains any time there is IT stuff involved. Watching McGee "hack" into the FBI? "What the fuck. It wouldn't be that quick!"

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*Plugs special usb into computer* "He's hacking us, Launch the firewall!" *Loading bar increases dramatically* "He'll make our PC Explode!"

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My favorite is still two idiots one keyboard.

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Zoom! And Enhance! I have found a weakness in the firewall! They will never know we were here! All possible with McDonalds free wifi.

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"Enhance"

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*furious keyboarding**adjusts glasses*... "I'm in"

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That's also how I lost my virginity.

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Far and away the most accurate "hacking" scene in movie history: http://imgur.com/DAGcsf4

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I recently installed a wall receptacle with USB ports on it so I could hack into my house.

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Haha

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He's hacking us! *Office geek starts furiously typing to counter-battle him online for defense of their databse* This is how hacking works!

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"Im going to make a GUI in visual basic to track the hackers IP address." - NCIS (The line that made me livid as a software engineer)

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It's like they took random terms and slapped them together. xD

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In tv shows (like Star trek) they just write *tech* then the tech guys come in later and make it all work, but sometimes the writers do it

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Small correction, it was CSI not NCIS. Not that the IT in NCIS is depicted accurately.

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My bad, seen so many shows I cant keep track at this point ;)

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CSI: NY actually

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Ah, couldn't remember the specific one. Although from what I have seen the differences are negligible.

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Have him watch Mr. Robot, he'd appreciate the hell out of it.

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I've heard good things about it. We don't have cable. Where can we find it?

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It's on Amazon prime video! Use their free trial and watch! It's 8 episodes per season, 2 seasons currently available!

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Mr Robot treated hacking a lot more realistically. Not perfectly, but so much better than normal.

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I loved that show

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How was season 2? Lost interest a few episodes in, did it get better? Season 1 was excellent.

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Season 2 gets fucking insane. The finale left me craving Season 3. Give it another shot

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Listen to that dude ^

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Use SQL to hack the database! (actual line from the Bourne Identity)

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SQL_injection That works. Often. I don't know about the FBI though.

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Well sql is a perfectly valid way to hack a database

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SANITIZE YOUR INPUTS PEOPLE!!!

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Obligatory: https://xkcd.com/327/

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I watched the sequel to see more SQL.

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regular-ass programming noob: "l0l im a 1337 h4kkz0r!!!!

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My husband and I watched that a little while ago, and we were both like "...WHAT?"

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Well you could fuck the data up with SQL injection if it's a shit system

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Like clearly you wouldn't use PHP

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But "use SQL to hack the database" is just not the phrase anyone who knows how to use a database would say.

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Lol I mean if you're using SQL chances are you already have access to the database

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"Thanks for telling me to use SQL instead of HTML, because it wasn't working! Now I'm in." *furious typing*

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Honestly, its 2017.. who doesnt have sql injection security measures.

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That's what I'm saying

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Don't forget the double keyboarding!

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Oh, and making a GUI interface using Visual Basic to track that IP.

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Great NCSI reference

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Ncis?

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NCIS?

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Correct NCIS. Apparently I was typing with two hands at the time

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There was a scene where two characters tried to stop someone hacking into their system with both typing on one keyboard simultaneously.

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I remember that, lol

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Isolate the node and dump them on the orher side of the router.

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American TV show, McGee is a character

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No, they misspelled NCIS, and put NCSI. I referenced NCIS in my original comment.

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