Exactly what I was thinking.

Blog Hoax Goes Mainstream: "

Tonight's episode of CSI: Miami ('Killer Date') must have been filmed before the 'toothing is a hoax' story broke. The show's plot featured toothing, the now possibly-debunked cultural and sexual phenomenon toothing, wherein persons used Bluetooth-enabled cell phones to engage in random sexual encounters.

On the show, a CSI's badge went missing, and he had to explain to his co-workers and internal affairs that he was unable call the girl he was with the previous night (who might know something about the missing badge) because he met her through 'toothing.' 'Toothing?' another CSI responded (I'm paraphrasing here), 'you mean random anonymous sex?'

He knew her only by her screenname--'up4anything'--through which they try to track her using some ridiculous mis-representation of the real technology. Using a soldering iron and several small screwdrivers, and accompanied by some exciting techno-rock, a nerd in a lab coat attached a '2.4 gigahertz antenna' to his phone, 'increasing the range to one mile' and he engaged in some wardriving (or, er, toothdriving?) around the streets of Miami to find the girl again.

Amazingly, the show concluded without resorting to reference to the other obvious tidbit of current events involving mobile phones... although it did end with the toothing-CSI entering a shrink's office... I guess all that engaging in a fictitious activity finally got to him?

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(Via bIPlog at boalt.org.)