CSI: Las Vegas - Recap - Episode 8.16 - Two and a Half Deaths
May 9, 2008 by Jonathan
Episode 8.15 - Two and a Half Deaths
Air Date: 8 May 2008
Loads of fun, this episode was written by the people who bring us Two and a Half Men. It’s also quite funny, and packed with guest stars, including Diedrich Bader (Office Space, Drew Carey Show), Katy Sagal, and even Jon Cryer, Charlie Sheen, and Angus T. Jones. This is also a good example of a couple different shades of meta-fiction –various types of fiction portrayed within a work of fiction, or references to fiction. For the most part, I found the action to be funnier than the dialog.
Annabelle Fundt, a feisty, mean comedic star, is bitching at her show’s creator, and everyone else involved. The next morning, she’s dead on her hotel room floor, with a blow to the head, and a rubber chicken stuffed into her mouth. The team estimates time of death around midnight. The creator tells Brass that the rest of the cast and crew returned to LA, right after rap. Annabelle insisted that he stay behind, because she doesn’t travel at night.
Annabelle’s former driver, then writer, then producer, rushes into the hotel room, and tells the team that he and Annabelle married two days earlier. [Everybody! Suspect time.] Annabelle didn’t like to look at him after sex, so they slept in separate rooms.
Mr. Little: [in the crime lab corridor] Beautiful people doing high tech police work. There might be a series in this.
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