I don't really watch
NCIS, truth be told -- my wife does, and I nod appreciatively when the situation calls for it. I was half-watching
tonight's episode when a familiar shape caught my attention... and then a jolt of
cognitive dissonance surprise made me sit straight up on the couch and exclaim "
What did he say?!?"
Resident NCIS geek Tim McGee (the same character who, in a past episode,
managed to download a taxicab security video directly onto his iPhone) unpacks a boxful of his childhood computer gear; he proudly announces the computer you see above as his "Mac SE," when you don't need
HDTV to know that it's a
Mac Classic -- but if you do have an HDTV, you can clearly see "Macintosh Classic" printed on the front of the machine. McGee either can't read, or he has a delusional disorder of some kind that prevents him from properly recognizing vintage Mac gear. Later in the episode, he gets taunted for his childhood Macloverdom. It's just trouble from Jump Street on down.
McGee also unloads a
PowerBook Duo and a nondescript PC laptop from his magic box. You can see the entire video, including the SE/Classic flub, in the continuation of this post.
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