History Series / HawaiiFive0

** Hawaii's pidgin English[[hottip:*:Officially "Hawaii Creole English"]] features in most episodes, as spoken by various minor characters. [=McGarrett=], Kono, and Chin Ho all understand and can also speak it -- to the confusion of Danno, the only member of the Five-0 team not born and raised in Hawaii. Even when not speaking purely in Pidgin, [=McGarrett=], Kono, and Chin Ho often use da Pidgin kine expressions and phrases, brah.

** Al Harrington, who appeared in six different roles in the 1968-80 original, plays an elderly surfer first seen in "Ke Kinohi".[[hottip:*:The role was originally intended for James [=MacArthur=], who played Danny in the 1968 series, but he died unexpectedly before the episode was filmed.]]

* AllForNothing: In season 2, [[spoiler:Jenna sells out Steve]] to Wo Fat for her already dead fiancé and YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness Wo Fat kills her afterward. Quite a GenreBlindness, indeed.

* RealityEnsues: In the aftermath of Steve's rescue in North Korea, Joe White has to face the Navy inquiry hearing.

* CanonDiscontinuity: Doubles as a RetCon. In "Kalele", August March tells Steve that a "young officer" that was ALSO named [=McGarrett=] arrested him 30 years ago. Steve nods and acknowledges that the other [=McGarrett=] is his father, the same father who died in the pilot episode. Apparently, this show wants us to forget that Steve's father was named "John" and now wants us to pass him off as "Steve [=McGarrett=] Sr.".
** Actually, March says he was arrested by a cop named McGarrett and no first name is mentioned. In fact this August March is NOT the same character as the one from the original since it has been repeatedly established that this is a new Hawaii Five-0 universe. Just think of this August March as a parallel universe character.

* OnlySaneMan: Danny, as a regular cop, is Five-0's voice of reason. In universe, Danny sees himself as this to the entire population of Hawaii. Especially in "Oia'i'o", when [[spoiler:Kono and Steve are arrested, Chin has possibly gone over to the opposition and Rachel's decided to leave Hawaii with about thirty seconds warning...]]

* WhatTheHellHero: Danno does this to Steve on regular basis. (Example: see the dialogue under DeadpanSnarker and GeneHuntInterrogationTechnique above.)

* GeneHuntInterrogationTechnique: [=McGarrett=] seems to have taken lessons from the Gene Genie himself when it comes to inventive interrogation:
** In "Pilot," [=McGarrett=] threatens to deport Sang Min's family to war-ravaged Rwanda.
** In "Malama Ka Aina", [=McGarrett=] and Danno convince an associate of the Samoan mob that they're leaving him in a shark cage with vicious man-eating sharks and chum, when in actuality, the sharks are harmless and the chum is just water. Steve and Danno crack open beers and watch the guy freak out.
** In "Lanakila", [=McGarrett=] threatens a corrupt prison guard with a trip to the cell block:
-->'''[=McGarrett:=]''' Billy, so help me God, you answer incorrectly one more time, I gonna put those scrubs on you myself and then drop you in general population. How long do you think you'll last there?
** In "Nalowale", [=McGarrett=] and Danno witness a suspect drug a girl's drink in a club. Danno tells the suspect to drink it, if he "didn't do anything to it", and if he doesn't drink it, Danno will break his teeth and make him drink it. He drinks it, and passes out. [=McGarrett=] wakes him up in an interrogation room with ''an air horn''.
** In "Mana'o," Danno ''ties a suspect to the hood of his car'', then proceeds to drive around the streets of Honolulu like a madman to get information out of him.
-->'''[=McGarrett:=]''' Just for the record, if I pulled something like this, [[WhatTheHellHero you would be reading me the riot act on proper police procedure]].\\
'''Danno:''' No. I'd probably just arrest you.\\
'''[=McGarrett:=]''' Compared to this, hanging a guy off a roof and throwing a guy in a shark tank is pretty tame.\\
'''Danno:''' You know what? I disagree. Shark cage is way worse.\\
'''[=McGarrett:=]''' Whatever. You're wrong. I'm just saying, to be clear, next time I get a free pass, okay?
** In "Alaheo Pauʻole", Chin and Danno discover a small cache of weapons in a murder suspect's home. When the suspect tells them that the grenades in the cache are fakes, Danno makes him hold one and takes the pin out, which immediately makes the suspect start talking. Also elicits a WhatTheHellHero from Chin:
-->'''Chin:''' You've been hanging out with [=McGarrett=] too long!

** ...[[ChekhovsGunman Gunman]]: Wo Fat, the BigBad, is first seen as a golfing partner of the villain they're investigating in an early episode.

** In "Ka Iwi Kapu", Max delivers a [[CSIMiami Horatio Cain]] [[GrissomOneLiner one-liner]], complete with sunglasses.

* LittleMissConArtist [[YourMileageMayVary and/or]] ChildProdigy: In "Kai 'e'e", Grace ''dominates'' Kamekona and his friends at the poker table. They're only playing for candy, though.

* {{Defictionalization}}: A throwaway reference to "Kukui High School" in the pilot has led to fans [[http://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/Global/story.asp?S=13227331 creating]] a whole [[http://www.staradvertiser.com/columnists/20100926_five_0_artistic_license_spurs_offshoots_online.html backstory]] for an otherwise fictional school, complete with [[http://www.kukuihigh.com/logo-shop/ logo wear.]] In Hawaii, high schools are a big deal.

** Averted once again in the Season 2 finale, where the HPD garage is full of... Ford Crown Victorias!!

* EstrogenBrigadeBait: The boys of the Five-0 team. InUniverse, too: Kensi Blye apparently got a little hot and bothered when Danno and Chin Ho showed up in L.A. in part two of the big crossover.

* ByTheBookCop: Danno tries to be this but it's tough when the CowboyCop is the boss.

*** Un-averted by the end of the first season, as the HPD seems to have acquired a lot of new Impalas to replace the Crown Vics.
**** Averted once again in the Season 2 finale, where the HPD garage is full of......Ford Crown Victorias!!

** Averted in part: the Honolulu Police Department marked cars shown in the series are Ford Crown Victoria Police Interceptors, just like the real HPD uses.
** Un-averted by the end of the first season, as the HPD seems to have acquired a lot of new Impalas to replace the Crown Vics.
*** Averted once again in the Season 2 finale, where the HPD garage is full of......Ford Crown Victorias!!

** [[MasiOka Max]] begins an episode talking about the [[{{Series/Heroes}} plausibility of time-travel]]. In another episode, he asks an ICE agent (played by Greg Grunberg) if they've met before. Both were on Heroes.

* XanatosGambit: Wo Fat pulls off a beauty in "Oia'i'o".

** [[MasiOka Max]] begins an episode talking about the [[{{Series/Heroes}} plausibility of time-travel]].

** In the penultimate episode of Season 2, "Ua Hopu" ([[MeaningfulName Caught]]), Steve McGarrett [[spoiler:arrests Wo Fat]] with the help of the Japanese police force. The episode ends [[spoiler:with Wo Fat entering his prison cell.]]

** In the episode before Season 1 Finale, Sang Min [[spoiler:turns himself in because he considers Wo Fat is too much a CompleteMonster to be associated with]].

'''''Hawaii Five-0''''' (with a zero) is a [[TheRemake re-imagining]] of the 1968-1980 series ''Series/HawaiiFiveO'' (with a O), started airing in Fall 2010.

** Do ''not'' hurt, threaten, or breathe wrong near [=McGarrett's=] family. Children who lose a parent also seem to be a trigger for him ("He

Kane Hewa' Ole").

** What [=McGarrett=] becomes, on the implicit approval of the Governor, with his new unit.

:: Justified, or at least justifiable, in that [=McGarrett=] was trained as a special forces officer, and not as a police officer. He approaches a criminal suspect as an enemy to be defeated and not as an offender to be arrested and tried, and he has little or no appreciation of the Fourth and Fifth Amendments because they don't apply to SEAL teams in combat.

* {{Defictionalization}}: A throwaway reference to "Kukui High School" in the pilot has led to fans

[[http://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/Global/story.asp?S=13227331 creating]] a whole [[http://www.staradvertiser.com/columnists/20100926_five_0_artistic_license_spurs_offshoots_online.html backstory]] for an otherwise fictional school, complete with [[http://www.kukuihigh.com/logo-shop/ logo wear.]] In Hawaii, high schools are a big deal.

** Same thing with the uniforms of Japanese police officers. Although the basics are correct (e.g. vest, cap, shirt), the shoulder patches and the kanji for the vests are incorrect. In the episode, the kanji is portrayed as

"特殊部隊警察官", which means "Special police officer" in Japanese. Although it's correct, all Japanese police officers have vests with the kanji "警察庁", which means "National Police Agency". And don't get us started on the Osaka Police crime scene investigators.

* DrivingQuestion: Who is Shelburne? Answered, apparently, in the second season finale, "Ua Hala":[[spoiler:McGarrett's mother, whom he (and we) thought had died years ago in a car bombing]].

** Averted: While we've seen Chin-Ho in Kono's Cruze and other Chevy products, he seems to tool around on a

[[http://www.imcdb.org/vehicle_337560-Harley-Davidson-FXSTS-Softail-Springer.html Harley-Davidson]].

* FictionalCounterpart: A few episodes reference the "King's Medical Center", instead of the real-life [[http://www.queensmedicalcenter.net/

Queen's Medical Center]].

** In the 1968 original, the team was called "Five-O" from the very start, with no in-show explanation of how the name came about. The re-imagined version provides one. At the end of "Pilot", the characters are sitting around the office trying to come up with something better to call themselves than the prosaic "[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Governor's Task Force]]", but [[AvertedTrope can't think of anything.]] Two

episodes later, at the end of "Malama Ka Aina", Kono derives the nickname from [[spoiler:[=McGarrett's=] high school football jersey number]].

-->'''[=McGarrett:=]''' What are you doing? The guy is clearly a psychopath. You're trying to make friends with him. You're trying to

''connect?''\\

* RippedFromTheHeadlines: The plot of the episode "Kupale" is based partly on the real-life drama of the

[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawaii_Superferry Hawaii Superferry]].

** For Chin Ho, it's the drug case where [[spoiler: the $28 million was seized]]. Led to Chin Ho being blamed [[spoiler: for embezzling

$200,000 of it]]. [[spoiler:Subverted. In "Ma Ke Kahakai" it is revealed that Chin already knows who the embezzler is.]]

* WhatTheHellHero: Danno does this to Steve on regular basis. (Example: see the dialogue under DeadpanSnarker and

GeneHuntInterrogationTechnique above.)