The WORST episodes of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
Every episode of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation ever, ranked from worst to best by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The worst episodes of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation!
CSI is a crime drama in which the characters use cutting-edge forensic tools to examine the evidence to solve the case. Rather than asking 'whodunnit' (investigating witnesses/suspects), CSI explores the 'howdunnit'.
#1 - Poppin' Tags
Season 6 - Episode 20 - Aired 4/13/2006
The CSI team is lead into the rap music world as they investigate the murders of three street team members.
#2 - Deep Fried & Minty Fresh
Season 9 - Episode 13 - Aired 2/12/2009
Langston and Nick are called to investigate a murder at a fast food restaurant and have quite a task ahead of them when they discover that much of the evidence is coated in cooking oil.
#3 - The Grave Shift
Season 9 - Episode 11 - Aired 1/22/2009
The first day on the job for Dr. Langston turns from bad to worse when a simple burglary case quickly overlaps with a complicated arson and homicide case.
#4 - A La Cart
Season 8 - Episode 2 - Aired 10/4/2007
The CSI team investigates two unusual cases, one involving the suspicious death of a go-cart racer who took his hobby to the highway and paid the price with his life, and a murder at a hip new restaurant where patrons dine in the dark
#5 - Disarmed And Dangerous
Season 9 - Episode 12 - Aired 1/29/2009
The detectives search for the murderer of FBI agent Billy Ray Jackson, only Billy Ray isn't really an FBI agent, and neither are his impressively capable partners, Miles Baker and Emma Solomon.
#6 - Miscarriage of Justice
Season 9 - Episode 14 - Aired 2/19/2009
While Langston testifies in the trial of a respected Congressman, new evidence sends the CSIs back to the lab to reopen the investigation.
#7 - Say Uncle
Season 9 - Episode 6 - Aired 11/13/2008
The team has a hard time investigating a shooting in Koreatown when none of the witnesses will talk about the crime.
#8 - Harvest
Season 5 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/14/2004
A child is abducted. As the Amber Alert goes out, the entire team investigates in a race against time. Lindsay Willows is found hitchhiking, to the alarm of Catherine.
#9 - Bite Me
Season 6 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/6/2005
The CSIs investigate a man's claim that his wife fell down a set of stairs in their home.
#10 - Iced
Season 5 - Episode 23 - Aired 5/12/2005
Two amorous freshmen are found dead on a sleeping bag in a dorm room, and Sara and Greg run into one dead end after another as they try to determine why the students were killed. Warrick, Nick and Catherine figure out how a man is found dead in the center of a crop circle. Ecklie is called into duty for a man found dead in his car and his body later goes missing.
#11 - Shooting Stars
Season 6 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/13/2005
The CSIs come across an abandoned military compound being used by a small cult. The CSIs grow suspicious when they see that a mass suicide has taken place, but only 11 of the 12 beds are occupied.
#12 - Room Service
Season 6 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/29/2005
An up-and-coming movie star is found dead in his hotel room after a night of partying with his groupies.
#13 - Fur and Loathing
Season 4 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/30/2003
The team investigates when a man's body is found on the side of the road... dressed in a racoon suit. A gunshot victim is found in a freezer.
#14 - Killer
Season 6 - Episode 14 - Aired 2/2/2006
The CSIs must investigate when a party girl is injured and killed in a traffic accident.
#15 - Leapin' Lizards
Season 7 - Episode 22 - Aired 5/3/2007
Several suspects in a murder case are UFO-club members who believe shape-shifting aliens have been working to conquer the human race for centuries.
#16 - The Chick Chop Flick Shop
Season 8 - Episode 5 - Aired 11/1/2007
Grissom and his team investigate when an actress is killed on the set of a horror porn film.
#17 - Go to Hell
Season 8 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/11/2007
The team investigates a girl whose whole family had been killed and she is supposedly possessed by the devil.
#18 - Young Man With a Horn
Season 9 - Episode 8 - Aired 12/4/2008
A popular young singer is found dead outside an infamous Las Vegas nightclub, leading the CSI team to uncover a link between that crime and a murder 50 years earlier.
#19 - Big Middle
Season 5 - Episode 16 - Aired 2/24/2005
Catherine, Nick, and Warrick investigate a badly mutilated body in the woods. The cause of death was a shotgun blast. Nearby is a beaver dam made in part with cash. Grissom, Sarah, and Nick try to determine how a man was killed in a hotel room. It leads them to a convention of big women.
#20 - Coming of Rage
Season 4 - Episode 10 - Aired 12/18/2003
Grissom, Sara, and Warrick investigate the murder of a teenager found on a construction site. Nick and Catherine try to discover how a woman on her lawn was killed by a gunshot when no-one nearby had a gun.
#21 - Dog Eat Dog
Season 6 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/24/2005
Catherine and Brass investigate the case in which a man is found dead in a dumpster. It soon turns out the man had a serious food problem. The trail of his death soon leads to a hotdog-eating contest.Meanwhile, Nick and Sara investigate a not-so-amicable divorce with a bizarre twist. So bizarre it eventually lead to murder when both are found dead and it looks like the dog killed one of them.
#22 - Bloodsport
Season 10 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/29/2009
After a beloved college football coach is found dead and his house drenched and spattered with his blood, the CSI team hunts for the killer who didn't find Coach Jimmy lovable at all.
#23 - Working Stiffs
Season 10 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/8/2009
The team investigates the murder of Jason, a troubled computer geek working at a low-level casino support industry job who lures a colleague, Paulie, into a dangerous plan to make a working stiff's dream come true.
#24 - Suckers
Season 4 - Episode 13 - Aired 2/5/2004
Grissom, Sara, and Nick respond to an electrocution at a casino. Catherine and Warrick investigate a vampire murder.
#25 - Bodies in Motion
Season 6 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/22/2005
The two forensic teams come back together under the leadership of Grissom and Catherine just in time to tackle three separate investigations: a murdered couple found in bed in a suspicious trailer explosion; a beautiful stripper discovered dead and dumped in the worst part of town; and two bodies found baked and decomposed after spending five days in the trunk of a car exposed to the hot Vegas sun.
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