Road Kill (6.10)

Coffee count: 4
Caf-Pow! count: 3

Professor DiNozzo’s film class
  • Tony references Saturday Night Fever, Desperate Housewives and Fight Club, The Matrix, Goodfellas and quotes from Casablanca.
  • McGee references the first two Terminator movies, Godzilla and To Catch a Predator.  

Story time with Grandpa Ducky
“Did you know that legend has it that in 456 B.C. a vulture mistook a man’s bald head for its prey and dropped a stone on it? Killed him instantly. The unfortunate fellow became known as The Father of Greek Tragedy.”

You gave me a pet name
  • Tony calls Ziva “Pocahontas”. 
  • Abby calls herself the Energizer Bunny of Forensic Science. 
  • Tony calls McGee “McGeek.”

Idioms!
Ziva: “How’s that for old school slothing?”
Tony: “Sleuthing.”

You may remember me from such films as…
Antonio Sabato Jr is from General Hospital, Melrose Place (original flavor) and The Bold and the Beautiful.

Vice squad
Gibbs picks a lock.

You look so fine (or maybe not)
  • Ziva’s in a silky, paisley, brownish-purplish sort of shirt that’s pretty awful.
  • Ducky’s bow tie has little elephants on it. So cute. 

Personnel file
  • Tony’s screwing around on the ibeatyou.com website, competing with randoms to produce photos of the most thoughtful expression, best air guitar, best psycho face, best ‘do the hustle,’ etc. He says it’s very fun and very addictive, and that he’s in third place in the best air guitar competition. (He later moves up to second place.) Fucking Internet. This is why we all have limited attention spans these days…hey! Unicorns!
  • Ziva doesn’t know what air guitar is. Or understand the point of it when it’s explained to her.
  • Ziva says that she’s always found it difficult to park a car while someone is shooting at her. 
  • Abby suggests that Tony has a pretty big shoe collection. I totally buy that. 
  • Ziva says she had her first fight when she was eight with a boy named Schmuel Rubenstein. One punch and it was over. She punched him because he said he liked her. 
  • Abby and McGee say that they’d pay to see Gibbs fight the Terminator. Abby reckons Gibbs would beat him. McGee pits Gibbs against Godzilla. Abby still comes down on Gibbs’ side. Mothra? Abby picks Gibbs. No surprise there. 
  • When Tony accuses her of not knowing how to have fun, Ziva says that she gets her fun in adult ways. “Reading,” Tony states, totally disappointed in her. He asks if she doesn’t ever have the urge to act silly. Ziva says that the two of them grew up in totally different places. Where she comes from, you grow up fast. You have no choice. “Now you do,” Tony points out. (Because she’s in the US now—we’re the kids in America, yo!) Later, he asks her to come with him to a midnight screening of Goodfellas (trying to encourage her to have some fun), but she says no. And then after he leaves, she plays air guitar. 
  • Tony says “you could almost smell the IKEA” in his first apartment in college.