BRUCE CAMPBELL FTW
02.19.10We Internet denizens have a lot of fun with Horatio Caine, the “CSI: Miami” investigator played by David Caruso. Anyone who’s ever seen Endless Caruso One-Liners has enjoyed the comedic alchemy that comes from Caruso’s hammy seriousness and Roger Daltrey’s scream.
And it seems that Hollywood is catching on to what’s cool on the Internet. In last night’s episode of “Burn Notice” — which, like Caruso’s “CSI,” takes place in Miami — Sam Axe (played by the legendary Bruce Campbell) awesomely pulled Horatio Caine’s “one-liner + sunglasses” move. And not to pooh-pooh Caruso’s style, but I don’t think there’s anyone in Hollywood who can handle a one-liner as well as Campbell. This might be the coolest thing he’s done since he since he had a chainsaw attached to his severed arm.
“This… is my BOOM STICK!”
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Derelix — did you just say “broken English”?
The “cliched gay character” is pretty annoying. There are people who act like that in real life, but not many gay people. In fact i wonder if most of them are even gay, i mean i very rarely see black people wearing tons of chains and speaking in broken English yet i see people pretending to be black doing the same thing, maybe its the same thing for cliched gay characters.
TO some skank…damnit..
Back in the day he was in a feature called “Running Time” about a man who gets out of prison and pulls a job off immediately after. It was in real time and he was in it, so IT WAS AWESOME!
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120042/
I wish he would have said some skank last night:
“Hail…(pauses to put on sunglasses)..to the King baby”
i miss Briscoe County, Jr. anyone catch his opus ‘My Name Is Bruce?’
no boobs in it.
Bruce Campbell is a living fucking god.
If the CSI producers aren’t already thinking about dropping that ginger pussy and putty Ash in the role, the world is a very screwed up place.
This is hardly the first mainstream reference to Horatio (somebody putting on sunglasses with a one-liner followed by a YEAAAAAAH!!!). To name a few: “The Simpsons”, “How I Met Your Mother”, “My Name is Earl”, “Psych”.
I love Bruce, too (Evil Dead 2 over Army of Darkness, to settle that argument), but this joke is already tired and played out.
Groovy.
Are you sure, LL? You might just be smelling barbecue.
My brain just tried to picture Don Rickles in Bubba Ho Tep and I think I had a stroke
//drool falls out of left side of mouth
yup. that’s a stroke.
For one-liners I agree with Matt, Army of Darkness is absolutely the most awesome…
Buttttttt, For Bruce Campbell awesomeness….ED2 > AoD
@ Enrico: I love Don Rickles. That said, Army of Darkness > Don Rickles.
The joke was that it was a fashion designer that was killed and Sam was undercover as a CSI. The second time Cambell does it he says: “Looks like the killer’s plan…(Pauses to put on sunglasses)…is coming apart at the seams.
This show is the best show nobody has heard of.
I too love this show, but for the love of Christ can they get a female co-star that doesn’t look like a starving Ethiopian?
I just refuse to believe that the fashion industry employs homosexuals.
Steel, sure. Aerospace, absolutely. But fashion? Get real.
@ Otto
I couldn’t tell either. I mean, he didn’t start every sentence with “Girl,” (when talking to females) or “Honey,” (when talking to straight men), so he was probably as straight as 6 o’clock.
/gets Gaydar from watching Bravo and E!
Wait, that designer was gay?
I liked last night’s episode a little less than normal, mostly because I wanted to repeatedly punch that flaming designer in the face. Also, why does Hollywood think that audiences are so stupid that gay characters need to practically wear glitter for us to get the point?
I don’t think there’s anyone in Hollywood who can handle a one-liner as well as Campbell.
Two words: Don Rickles
Fanfuckingtastic. The best part was that he did it not once, but twice.
I’ve watched Burn Notice since the first episode and I love it, and the hipster that I hide shamefully in my soul loves that nobody watches it because it’s this awesome.
I also liked the subtle (well, subtle for TV) burn when they were introducing that scene, where they talked about how no one would question “a lowly crime scene investigator.”
If Campbell is #1 I’d put Chevy Chase, during his oh so brief prime, as #2. I submit Fletch as evidence (and strike Fletch Lives from the record).