BRA. VO. This mutation of the “CSI: Miami” comic meme is the coolest thing I’ve seen all day. And people, I’ve looked at a LOT of dinosaur pictures today. [Chicken Crap via Nerd Salad]

Who should replace Kevin Eubanks on ‘The Tonight Show’? Some interesting, unlikely, and unorthodox choices here. I would’ve gone with an old toaster. [Inside TV]

Must-watch video of the day: Santa Claus versus Coolio on a Bay Area bus. Oh, and the old guy in the video? Yeah, he’s the same guy who got tased at an A’s game last year. [With Leather]

NBC, sucking to the max. On NBC’s Olympic website: tweets from Olympians about how much NBC’s Olympic coverage sucks. That’s a burn. [Deadspin]

‘Woody Harrelson dons a homemade superhero costume and fights crime with a teenaged prostitute.  Also, he’s in a movie.’ Love you, RoboPanda. [Gamma Squad]

Wu-Tang, still badass after all these years. Their new album art is comics-inspired. [Comics Alliance]

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As soon as CBS announced that the Who would play the Super Bowl halftime show, I had one thought: if they don’t play all three “CSI” theme songs, then I’ve greatly overestimated CBS’s predictability. Well, chalk one up for CBS’s predictability, because the Who is gonna play all three “CSI” theme songs:

“We’re kinda doing a mashup of stuff,” [Pete Townsend] tells Billboard. “A bit of ‘Baba O’Riley’ [CSI: NY], a bit of ‘Pinball Wizard,’ a bit of the close of ‘Tommy,’ a bit of ‘Who Are You,’ [CSI] and a bit of ‘Won’t Get Fooled Again’ [CSI: Miami]. It works — it’s quite a saga. A lot of the stuff that we do has that kind of celebratory vibe about it — we’ve always tried to make music that allows the audience to go a bit wild if they want to. Hopefully it will hit the spot.”

Surprised by the inclusion of “Pinball Wizard”? You shouldn’t be. CBS is working on “CSI: Special Needs Unit” with “Pinball Wizard” as the theme. “That deaf, dumb and blind kid/Sure. Solves. A mean. Mur-der!” Dun-dun. Dun. Dun! DUN!

You ever notice how every law enforcement agency on TV and the movies is able to solve crimes by enhancing grainy footage? Of course you have, because it’s the one thing that every police computer can do that nobody’s personal computer can do. Well, that and find the states where I’m a sex offender. Whatever, I didn’t want to live in Alabama anyway.

That’s why this awesomely edited mash-up from dunk3d is one of the best things I’ve seen all week. The shows listed in the tags don’t even make a complete list of all the shows used in this clip, and it doesn’t even include the handful of movies that made the cut, as well.

There is, however, one glaring omission:

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Next week, each of the three variants of “CSI” — “CSI: Miami,” “CSI: New York,” and “CSI: Original Flavor” — will take part in a “triple crossover” episode in which Laurence Fishburne goes around to all three cities because a killer has cast the various limbs of slain hookers across those cities. Probably not the most efficient way to kill hookers, but then I’m not an expert. *knowing wink*

The behind-the-scenes promo video below features Fishburne’s narration and some fabulous overacting from Warming Glow muse David Caruso. There’s also a point where Fishburne puts on Caruso’s sunglasses and instantly looks like Morpheus. Well, Morpheus if Morpheus got fat. Anyway, that’s how the Photoshop happened. I guess I could’ve Voltronned it up with some robot lions, but I didn’t want it to look too busy. I’m an artist, you know.

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Part of the reasoning for NBC feeling all cocky about Jay Leno’s 10 p.m. talk show was the belief that new Leno shows would gain in the ratings when the dramas competing in the time slot inevitably went to reruns. According to a new report from Schadenfreude Daily, nope.

Monday, the presence of a repeat of “C.S.I. Miami,” the most formidable network competition Mr. Leno faces on that night, did not provide any relief from a recent spate of declining numbers for NBC in the 10 p.m. hour.

In the initial overnight ratings, Mr. Leno hit his lowest numbers yet for a Monday, with just 4.6 million viewers and only a 1.3 rating among the group that NBC uses as its standard for success –viewers between the ages of 18 and 49.

That 1.3 was below even the modest number NBC executives announced before the season as what would be acceptable for Mr. Leno: a 1.5. [NYT]

I honestly can’t get enough of these stories about Leno failing. I actually kind of hope he stays on the air just so I can keep reading about him continuing to fail. Thank you, NBC, for making this atrocious decision. Now if CBS would just get around to firing Letterman, we can finally anoint Conan king. Nothing personal, Dave, but you did get to nail a lot of women during your tenure.