That NCIS scene is ridiculed a lot. But I think it was here that someone told me writers intentionally write s like this to f with people like us and laugh about it. And I now think that is true and it changed me.
The two hackers on one keyboard portion of that scene may have been to screw with people. But the last portion of that sequence, I think, was actually meant to pander to the elder generation that makes up the vast majority of their viewership. What happens at the end is that the older, no-nonsense detective just waltzes over to the outlet and unplugs the monitor, this stopping the hacker in his tracks. the two hackers give a sort of "why didn't I think of that look" as the old detective grins.
Ha! I always though it was a power plug, but it indeed looks more like the plug from a monitor... That's even stupider. Or... they laugh at us even more.
The thing is, everyone who has ever said or done anything stupid can say the same, that they were only doing it to troll people. Pretending to be stupid isn't trolling, it's making yourself look stupid.
