'Cracker' - nickname?

I supose "Cracker" is supposed to mean that Fitz "cracked" the crime cases because of his deep understanding of how the criminal mind works, there is always some forensic proof but it is only when Fitz gets the criminal in the interrogation room that he makes them "crack".

And, altho he seems to be aware of his own problems, gambling, drinking, smoking, his unhappy marriage, he is a little "cracked", as in crazy, in his inability to deal with all of that.

I love this series, I have watched all of it about a dozen times now, it never gets old, but "Cracker" seems to me a very bad title for it.



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This is not a slang term (at least with that meaning) in the UK, where "Cracker" was made. Here it means something good, particularly a joke ("that's a cracker!") although that's not the meaning of the title as far as I know.

It refers, as another poster pointed out, to the fact that Fitz "cracks" the cases/suspects.

(Of course you could be trolling, but it's pretty much a waste of time as us Brits don't find the term offensive.)

FITZ (RITZ) CRACKER I would have guessed.

The pub test was wrong. His nickname is Fitz, Cracker is as stated above in these informative posts. Someone more informed needs to be creating the list of questions for that pub quiz. :(

I am British/Irish---I watched the show when it first came out, and I have just rewatched all twelve episodes on DVD ove about a three week period. You are right--Fitz is never once referred to as "Cracker", and I certainly cannot remember the word "cracker" ever being used in the series, and I certainly always assumed that it referred to the fact that he used crack the cases. Usually in the UK "cracker" refers to some thing that is excellent, if you see a very good football match it might be referred to as a "cracker", a very pretty girl (or man!!) could be referred to as a "cracker", so I suppose that Fitz is a cracker of a criminal psychologist, and maybe there was meant to be some sort of clever word play there, but it certainly was not his nickname. There was another British series called "Minder" about a man Terry who was a sort of bodyguard for a dodgy business man called Arthur Daley. It was called "Minder" as that is what the main character did, but it was certainly not a nickname, and I think that is true of "Cracker" also.

. . .or maybe that he always cracks a case. . ..thus Cracker?

IIRC there was a scene in the first episode where fitz explains two ways of eating chocolates. One way is savouring the experience by sucking on the piece slowly. The other way is biting it going straight to the treat. He´s a cracker.