Ducky: *Walks into autopsy and puts a human skull on the table where Gibbs, McGee, Ziva and DiNozzo are sitting*
Gibbs: Uhhh... Duck?
Ducky: What?
Ziva: The skull?
Ducky: Oh yeah, that's Mother's.
DiNozzo: *lurches back*
McGee: OH MY GOD!!!
Ducky: No, it's not Mother, it belonged to Mother. She'd put it out every Christmas to remind us that even though it's the holidays, people still die, I've have it up every year. Mr Palmmer always seemed to enjoys it when he comes over at christmas.
Ducky: Plus, you can put candy in it!
Jimmy: *Enters* Hey guys... Aww, the Christmas candy skull! You remembered!
David McCallum was a mentor, a great scene partner, a wonderful father and husband, and he was my dear friend.
I met David on my first day of work at NCIS. I was booked to work one day on the show, but David and I hit it off. Our scene turned out well and they invited me back for more scenes with this screen legend. Several more.
Over the course of the next 20 years, David and I (along with our alter-ego’s Ducky and Jimmy) developed a deep friendship and love of our shared work.
He was a joy to work with. Always had a smile. Always had something new to add to the page, and ALWAYS had the ability to steal every scene he was in!
He had a quick and wry sense of humor and was generous with advice when I asked for it. He was also quick to share praise for work well done. I loved getting a phone call from him after a show aired to hear him talk about the scenes (even as he appeared less and less in our show).
The friendship and respect people saw between Ducky and Jimmy over the years mirrored the relationship we’d developed off camera. Whether it was going on field trips for character research, attending charity events or catching some golf together, he was always up for an adventure. The guy could do anything.
He lived to be 90 years old, was a part of multiple hit tv shows, movies, broadway shows, and wrote a couple novels, all while raising a loving family.
Thank you David. Love you my friend. I’ll miss you.
Sending all my love to the McCallum family today.
Now, a rundown of the pics:
1: the guy
2: fake lunch. But still… lunch.
3: always up to help a charity (with Weatherly and Pauley)
4: me trying to replicate the foreboding look he patented. (Once in a while it works for me.)
5: Hanging with Jim Nantz and Sir Nick in the booth on a Sunday at Riviera!
6: My daughter found this small picture that was a part of a fan package we received. She loved it. She was probably only 3 at the time, but she grabbed this picture of David and put it on her bookshelf and kept it there for several years. She didn’t know David well, but for some reason she just loved it.
" I may not be your father, But will always be your dad"
I have always loved this quote.. One of the reasons I love Gibbs so much is because of the kind of father figure he was to his team.. He may have lost his biological child but he found himself so many children along the years and gave them the kind of father's love they never got from their own father's... He once again found a child to love in his team and in return they found a dad.. I think this is what made ncis so special and beautiful... People choosing eachother and loveing eachother despite not being blood.. family is indeed not just DNA... Gosh.. i miss this man so much...
I know this is a beating a dead horse, but this is still correct.
Why couldn’t have they gotten together before Will made his first appearance in “Jones”? If that were the case, maybe none of us would be against Reid and JJ being together.
Also, I heard Josh Stewart isn’t coming back to the reboot for the next season. I really hope that won’t be the reason why Spencer Reid might come back to Criminal Minds: Evolution. He went through enough in the original series.
Heteronormativity really ruins certain shows. That’s why I’ve been avoiding Law and Order: Special Victims Unit and Law and Order: Organized Crime because I know that Olivia and Elliot are probably together now. What was the point of Stabler being married in the beginning of his debut appearance if the writers knew that he never loved Kathy, or fell out of love with Kathy as soon as Elliot met Olivia?
Also, again, I haven’t seen NCIS in a long time, but I find it so disrespectful to Jimmy Palmer’s character for him to jump into a relationship after his wife passed away from COVID. That just doesn’t seem right, especially since Breena was Jimmy’s soulmate, like how Maeve was Reid’s soulmate.
This is just a bunch of rambling, but I wanted to talk about this again.
My take on NCIS characters. Not including any from after dinozzo leaving as I've not yet watched those seasons and will be soon and well characters i care most about-
Baby girls-
Protectors-
Sunshine, light of everyone's life-
The favourite child-
Just happy to be there (aka the ultimate grandfather who loves them all equally and loves spoiling them)-
Sick and tired of gibbs and his teams shit-
Jenny Sheperd too. But ran out of room
Sick and tired of Tony's shit-
Tobias Fornell. But I have no more photo spaces left. So imagine his face here.
(Jimmy and Tony arriving late at a crime scene.)
Dukcy: Where have you and Anthony been Mr Palmer?
Jimmy, smilling: Tony came and picked me up after I was supprised adopted.
Gibbs: What?
Tony: Kidnapped boss. Autopsy Gremlin was kidnapped.
Jimmy: They where very nice. One of them wants to go to art school.
Tony: They called me to come pick him up as he was being too nice and supportive of them that they felt bad for kidnapping him.