exactly, if caruso stopped delivering lines like caruso it just wouldn't be the same. that's the whole point. and a show isn't really a show if you don't get to hear the yell to start the theme song. it's always right after caruso doing a caruso and it's just perfect.
We're a Law & Order family. I don't get CSI. Since when do CSI's do anything more than forensics? Since when do they interrogat, carry weapons and make the arrests themselves?