NCIS

NCIS (standing for Naval Criminal Investigative Service) is a CBS police procedural that debuted in 2003. The spin-offs NCIS: Los Angeles, NCIS: New Orleans, and NCIS: Hawaii later followed.
==References==
*In The Muppets, CDE's network comparison schedule shows NICS on CBS on Tuesday (the then-regular NCIS time-slot) followed by NICS: California.
==Muppet Mentions==
*In the fourth season NCIS episode "Smoked," Jeanne describes her day as "Kind of like a cross between Trains, Planes and Automobiles and The Muppets Take Manhattan." When Tony calls that a "heady brew of strange cinematic references," Jeanne clarifies that she interned in the children's ward.
*In the eleventh season NCIS episode "Page Not Found," the team questions a hacker who is also a kindergarten teacher, with Tony calling her "the Wolf of Sesame Street."
*On NCIS: Los Angeles, Detective Marty Deeks' expletive of choice is "Fraggle Rock," first used in the fourth season episode "Kill House" and periodically thereafter.
*In the tenth season NCIS: Los Angeles episode "The Guardian," Kensi mistakes Deeks' Yoda impression for Gollum and says, "The only difference is the ears and one sounds like Grover."
*In the season one NCIS: New Orleans episode "The Insider," Sebastian Lund complains that Danny Malloy got to go to a crime scene. Danny responds with "Today the crime scene, tomorrow your job, Big Bird" to which Sebastian replies, "First of all, I consider me more like a Beaker than a Big Bird." Shortly after, Wade tells "Beaker" to settle down as there's plenty of work for the two of them.
*In the second season NCIS: New Orleans episode "Sic Temper Turanis," Sebastian says "Snuffleupagus" during a conversation with Pride.
*In the second season NCIS: New Orleans episode "I Do," Big Bird is mentioned several times. Christopher LaSalle finds an image of Sonja Percy on Facebook wearing a yellow dress to which he says, "Big Bird called, and he wants his feathers back." Shortly after the agents have a video conference with Sebastian, Sonja checks up on a clue and Christopher interrupts her. Sonja complains that they are stealing her thunder to which Meredith Brody says, "Yeah, by all means, Big Bird, continue." Sebastian quickly says, "Finally others are being called Big Bird around here."
*In the first season NCIS: Hawaii episode "T and T," Kasie Hines addresses Ernie Malik as "Bert."
==Connections==
NCIS
* Claudia Black played Velvet Road in "Borderland" (2010)
* Sterling K. Brown played Elijah Banner in "Devil's Triad" (2013)
* Jamie Lee Curtis played Dr. Samantha Ryan (5 episodes, 2012)
* Michael Gilden played Marty Pearson in "Once a Hero" and "Smoked" (2006)
* Margo Harshman plays Delilah Fielding (2013-)
* China Anne McClain played Delilah "Lily" Vance in "Knockout" (2009)
* Kunal Nayyar played Youssef Zidan in "Suspicion" (2007)
* Victoria Platt played NCIS Special Agent Veronica Tyler in "Sturgeon Season" (2020) and "Gut Punch" (2021)
* Wilmer Valderrama plays Agent Nick Torres (2016-)
NCIS: Los Angeles
* LL Cool J played Agent Sam Hanna
* Nia Long played Executive Assistant Director Shay Mosley (2017-2018)
* Chris O'Donnell played Agent G. Callen
* Nitya Vidyasagar played Natasha in "Mother" (2019)
NCIS: New Orleans
* LeVar Burton directed 6 episodes
* Angel Desai played Dr. Beth Tanaka in "Bad Apple" (2019), "Waiting for Monroe" (2020), and "The Man in the Red Suit" (2020)
* Victoria Platt played IRS Agent Michelle Silvera in "Legacy" and "Checkmate, part 2" (2018)
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