Today is that all-American holiday and USA network is using that as another excuse for all-day NCIS episodes. I had the TV on while I was blowdrying my hair and the Disabled Guy came into the room. There was a platoon of Marines running on the beach and chanting their cadence. I asked DG if he was having flashbacks (He wasn't a Marine, he was in the Army, but they all do the cadence thing when they're in boot camp). He said he wasn't... and then the half-decomposed corpse of the episode made its appearance.
I said: "Well, that's enough to make you break formation."
DG: "He's had better days."
Ducky (the medical examiner, for those of you under 40 who don't watch the show) was explaining the man's injuries and Dinozzo (one of the agents) said the "This was not a boating accident!" line from "JAWS" (even though Ducky's assessment was that a boat prop had sliced off the corpse's arm).
DG: "It was a Piranha. Left him out there to get all ate up."
Me: "In salt water? Piranhas?"
DG: "Yeah. Piranhas. I saw it... [long pause]... On TV."
Me: "Of course you did."
DG: "PIRANHA! It comes from below. [long pause] And it bites you!"
Me: "I don't think I saw the same thing on TV that you did."
DG: "TV doesn't lie!"
Me: "Oh, sure. That's a real corpse."
DG: "Of course it is."
Me: "I hope they paid the corpse well. Being an extra in a TV show is tough."
DG: "He's not an extra, he's a STAR!"
Me: "He didn't have any lines. He's an extra."
DG: "He had lines. You just couldn't hear him. [lowers voice to squeaky whisper] PIRANHAS DID IT!"
