Actually, Gibbs is a Marine, not Navy. I’m pretty sure DiNozzo was only ever a Baltimore cop, never an actual military member. Neither Torres nor Bishop were ever in the Navy, with the former being an undercover cop and the latter a part of the NSA.

For some even more obscure SF - I was reading CL Moore’s “Shambleau” for the first time when Bette Davis Eyes came on the radio. They both feature mysterious and strangely entrancing women, so that’s stuck forever.

Funnily enough, this little nugget surfaced in my memory just the other day. As a very young child in the early 80s, I must have watched the disaster clunker “When Time Ran Out” on one of the cable channels. If you don’t know it, and why should you, it features an extended sequence of characters attempting to cross a…

If “billiards” can count as pop culture, so can this

The weirdest part of these two being together in your mind to me is that it doesn’t not work. You’d have to pick your scenes, but you could fit that scene to a Batman and make it work.

There may have been some Asian one-offs in the early seasons, but once LA and Five-O came around, especially the latter, since one of them was a recurring bad guy on that show, they moved over there. 

“Life is like a box of chocolates. Dark chocolates. Like the night”

I paused this after a few seconds because I’ve not seen season 6 yet, but it made me laugh right away and is a perfect combination of cheese and awesomeness.

Less confusingly, I also associate the album ABBA Gold with the Ps1 video game Driver, but that’s because I was obsessively listening to the former and playing the latter as part of a frantic attempt to maintain some level of sanity during my last year of high school.

Quick question: what’s the piece of music that you would associate the least with Batman? Like, a piece of music that would, for most people, be the furthest thing from an encapsulation of pretty much any incarnation of the Caped Crusader, up to and including Adam West?

Just for clarification, China and North Korea weren’t frequent enemies on NCIS, at least the OG. Sure, sometimes they were, but it was usually Russia or Iran. And even then, that was usually saved for season finales, the normal episodes typically had regular Americans as criminals.

I really didn’t think that DiNozzo and McGee (especially not McGee) were ever in the Navy. I knew Gibbs was. And I’m pretty sure Kate wasn’t ex-Navy, either. (I know she was working on Air Force One when Gibbs hired her.)

Funny you mention NCIS: LA, since both LL Cool J’s character and another character named “Fatima” are both practicing Muslims in the show.
It’s funny how that particular branch of NCIS is always wrapped up in espionage, international intrigue, Russian operatives, and terrorist plots, while the other two are all, “who…

I always wondered about that. The AF investigative group (OSI) is made up of active duty members (although they wear civvies, not uniforms.) So, I always wondered about NCIS, because some of those folks on the show were never in the Navy. IIRC (and it’s been a looong time since I watched the show) just Gibbs (unless…

I think Bakula’s accent has gotten better . . . either that or I’ve just gotten used to it. But yeah, holy shit it was distracting as hell in the early going.
It’s a bummer it’s leaving, though, if for no other reason that it’s by far the most socially conscious network show your parents probably watch. Maybe that was…

His character’s backstory was that he came from law enforcement, was a Jefferson Parish Deputy Sheriff, so lived in the area for most of his life other than NCIS field ops. 

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That would’ve made perfect sense. They could’ve even made it a thing; when he was dealing with rivals/opponents/suspects who knew him growing up, giving him grief and saying he didn’t even sound like a native anymore.

That’s my read, too. It’s the lowest-rated of the three, averaging ~1.5MM fewer viewers than NCIS: LA. And I read that being on-location added pretty significantly to the cost.