"Fur and Loathing" is the fifth episode of the fourth season of the television series CSI: Crime Scene Investigation.
A grisly collision between a Mercury Sable and an eighteen-wheeler leads to a murder investigation at a furry convention. Meanwhile, a man is found dead in a freezer in an apparent robbery-homicide.
The show is often cited by fans as an example of misrepresentation of furry fandom by the mass media.[1][2][3]
[edit] PafCon (Grissom and Willows)
Gil Grissom and Catherine Willows inspect the death of a woman involved in a traffic collision with a large truck, and find another victim: a man in a raccoon fursuit.[1] Evidence leads to a Plushies and Furries Convention, whose members are depicted in a costumed orgy.[2][3] Later, more "animals" are introduced and they stumble upon something much deeper than dressing up as animals.
[edit] Big & Best (Stokes & Sidle)
Nick Stokes and Sara Sidle investigate a case where a man is found shot dead and frozen to the floor of a cold storage room. The case becomes more interesting when a man arrives at the station in a distraught state to report that he had been kidnapped. He claims that he witnessed the murder, and was stuffed in a trunk until he escaped and arrived at the station.
[edit] Cultural references
- The title, as well as Grissom's last line and an earlier line by Willows ("I think I'm having Hunter Thompson's flashbacks"), reference Hunter S. Thompson's Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.
- When questioning a suspect, Nick refers to a special style of burger, Animal Style, from the Secret Menu of In-N-Out Burger. Later, Nick and Sara make a bet in which the loser buys the winner an In-N-Out Double-Double burger, Animal Style.
- Catherine mentions the name Bill W., the man formally known as William Griffith Wilson, the co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous, Robert Pitt being a member.
- A costumed speaker at "PAFcon" quotes from Erik Erikson's Eight Ages of Man.
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