
Gil Grissom's frequent one-liners right before the opening credits or an ad break are a well known example of a Quip to Black, although Horatio Caine's versions are perhaps the best known - mostly due to the heaping layer of cheese added to them. Please note, however, that it is not the oldest of the current crop of forensic shows, a title held by British show Silent Witness, while Waking the Dead aired its pilot a few weeks earlier. As of the 2008-2009 season, there are over 600 total episodes of CSI, CSI: Miami ( Yeeeeeeeaaaaahhhh!), and CSI: NY, not including books, comic books, and video games related to the franchise. It also followed in Law and Order's 'franchise' footsteps, with CSI: Miami ( Yeeeeeeeaaaahh!) and CSI: NY. Influenced a great many subsequent programs most directly, it inspired its producer, Jerry Bruckheimer, to try and replicate this success with Without a Trace and Cold Case (both in the same verse). It has also moved on from a fairly straightforward forensics approach to more high-tech approaches that aren't necessarily possible in real life, requiring some degree of suspension of disbelief from the viewer.

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Initially touted as a show where the evidence was the main character and the actual characters were little more than flat stereotypes with "quirks" added almost as an afterthought, the series has progressed over its ten seasons to make the characters a little more rounded and include more of their personal lives and histories in the storylines.

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (sometimes unofficially referred to as CSI: Las Vegas when comparing or differentiating the shows in the franchise) is a highly successful TV show (2000-present) about a group of graveyard-shift crime scene investigators in Las Vegas led originally by enigmatic scientist Gil Grissom,then, following his departure, by ex-stripper and single mother Catherine Willows,and now, by quirky scientist D.B.
