CSI Sunglasses Meme Template

A serious face, a pair of sunglasses, a terrible pun, and the Miami skyline. Use the first and third panels for a setup and punchline, with the glasses providing the pause.

The sunglasses give a small wordplay joke the ceremony of a crime-show revelation. A completely ordinary subject can work because the delivery is far more dramatic than the observation.

Read the grid left to right across each row. The upper right panel delays the answer, the lower left delivers it, and the printed shout over the skyline closes the joke.

David Caruso plays Lieutenant Horatio Caine in CSI: Miami. The show repeatedly pairs his crime-scene one-liners with sunglasses and the opening theme. Know Your Meme documents a montage, CSI Miami – Endless Caruso One Liners, uploaded to YouTube on November 4, 2006, as an early part of the online parody. [1]

A 2007 Bigger Than Cheeses comic by Desmond Seah turned the routine into a four-panel joke. On the original page, Seah explains the gag of putting another pair of sunglasses over the first. The photo-based template here uses the same setup, pause, and punchline rhythm. [2] [1]

Write the situation on the black divider beneath the upper left panel. Add a short bridge in the upper right, then place the pun beneath the face in the lower left. Leave the final skyline panel alone.

Start with the pun and work backward to a setup that makes both meanings fit. You do not need a murder or a real crime; office problems, food, and misplaced objects can all support the same delivery.

The situation

On the black divider beneath the upper left panel.

The dramatic pause

Across the clothing in the upper right panel.

The punchline

Below the face in the lower left panel.

• Read the panels across the top row, then across the bottom.
• Keep the bridge shorter than the setup.
• Use a punchline with a double meaning.
• Do not cover the sunglasses or the printed final shout.