CSI: NY/YMMV

• Broken Base / Base Breaker: Danny and Lindsay's relationship in general. Lindsay herself.
• Canon Discontinuity: Danny was said to be from a family of cops, but episodes like 'Tanglewood' and 'Run Silent Run Deep' cast doubt on that. The producers tried to retcon by saying it was extended family, but many still don't buy it.
  • Mac tells the victim in 'Blink' that he used to sit with his wife in the hospital as he was sitting with her. This indicates a probable intent to have Claire found near death after the towers fell and then have died of her injuries later. In season 4, though, he tells Reed her body was never found.
    • The novel with Mac visiting Claire's grave and the one where he recalls not being able to contact Claire on 9/11 published before the respective revelations (of the body never being found and the fact that they did have a cell phone conversation, albeit one that was cut off in the middle) and novels aren't usually canon anyway, so it's easily excused.
  • Stella tells a suspect in 'Until Death Do Us Part' that she lived at Saint Basil's Orphanage until age 18, but in season 4, there was a big plot about her and a girl she shared a foster home with.
• Complete Monster: Klaus Braun. He pretended to aid a Jewish family seeking to escape in exchange for a brooch......only to drive them to Auchwitz where they were slaughtered. When confronted with proof of his crime he simply says "we should have killed them all."
• Crowning Moment of Heartwarming: Lindsay finding Danny out of his wheelchair and taking care of the baby. Another is when Mac is shown footage of a Holocaust survivor his father saved
• Fan Disservice: The one time we see Flack without a shirt, he's got a whopping great hole in his chest where he was seriously injured in an explosion.
• Fan-Preferred Couple: Mac and Stella. You can literally hear the hearts of many Smacked fans shatter into a million pieces after Melina Kanakaredes decides to not return for season 7.
  • Mac/Jo has replaced it, though it causes Ship-to-Ship Combat with the Smacked shippers and the fans of Mac's girlfriends(first Audrey and now Christine)
• Fridge Logic: If Adam and Lindsey were in "The Pile" for weeks after 9/11 and around chemicals the rest of the time wouldn't their health be a lot worse?
• Hey, It's That Guy!: Harold Lauder and Stu Redman are in New York together in 'Night,Mother' in season 1.
  • Ray Vecchio is a rat catcher and Victoria Metcalfe is a detective. Or {{Providence Syd Hansen, take your pick.}}
• Narrowed It Down to the Guy I Recognize: Subverted; an episode features a case of a guy who looks like retired tennis champ John McEnroe and then brings the man himself on to clear things up.
• Nightmare Fuel: The show's first official episode, "Blink" involved a real condition known as "Locked-in Syndrome," where a person is fully conscious but unable to move a single muscle except for maybe an eyelid. The French name for this translates literally to "walled in alive." Oh and if this happens to you, there is no cure. Think on that a while and try sleeping soundly tonight. Bonus points for it being in the first episode, too.
  • The inventor's House of Death in season six is pretty damn creepy. Spikes that swing from the ceiling to impale you, a room that can either roast you to death or smush you, and the list goes on. All concealed in what appears to be an ordinary penthouse.
  • Another episode showed a dead man hammered to a tree. Through his empty eye sockets. With railroad nails. But that's not all. Mac then finds the missing eyeballs in the man's front pocket, and we get a lovely close-up of them.
  • In one episode, one of the victims was embalmed in a particularly crude way: one needle vacuuming out the blood, one needle replacing it with household cleaner. The victim was jabbed both times in the neck. He was also still alive.
  • Another episode involved a magician murdering his victims in ways based off of his three new, high-profile tricks. The start of the episode shows him sticking his ex-assistant in a box and sawing her in half for real, using your run of the mill hand saw. Not only do they give you a lovely shot of the bloody stump where half her body used to be, but they make it explicitly plain that she was still alive as he sawed her in half.
  • The episode with the guy who cut off his victim's eyelids before killing her.
  • 'Tanglewood'. The gang members used a workshop-type sander to *sand off* the wannabe's fake tattoo before offing him. Yikes.
  • The guy who got his head slammed in the door of a burning hot oven.
• The Scrappy: Reed. Joe is also turning into one of these after her first episode, replacing Stella.
  • Peyton.
  • Lindsay.
• Shipping: Danny/Lindsay, referred to as "M&M" (Monroe & Messer) and probably should now be called "3M" or "M cubed" (Messer Monroe Marriage-or possibly 3 Messers, as in Danny, Lindsay and Lucy.)
  • Flack/Angell has a pretty vocal contingent as well (including many shippers who are royally pissed at the season 5 finale).
  • Mac/Stella is also a favourite among fans. However, many shippers are either sad and/or angry because Melina Kanakaredes isn't coming back for season 7.
    • Mac/Jo is quickly taking that ship's place now.
• Ship-to-Ship Combat: Mac is in the middle of most of it. Some want him with Stella, others with Jo, and others say no one can take Claire's place. Turns his girlfriends into The Scrappy sometimes.
• The Woobie: Adam. Possibly Danny as well, although he doesn't have the kicked puppy thing going like Adam does-- he just can't catch a break.