“Who would want to poison my husband?!”
“I never mentioned poison.”
HAHA GOT YOU, MURDERER. Love it, every time.
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Accused person cheerfully admitting to something, not realising that due to a misunderstanding, they’re actually admitting to something far more serious. Consistently a hilarious thing to happen.
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Male fiancés being smug dickheads
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Clueless cops giving the protagonist a good looking over, maybe even stopping them, but just going all right move along
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submarine mutinies. love them, bring them back
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aspiring rock star comes up with the song that will make them famous, on the spot
You all, everybody!
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hardass chief of police throwing the hero cop off the case… but they bloody well keep solving it anyway
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Gratuitous nudity
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”Zoom in… zoom in…THERE! What’s that?”
”Computer enhance”
“It looks like that could be our man. Hard to say, can you get any more detail and run a face recognition?”
“Of course sir, but it’ll take some time”
“Well get on it & call me right away when you’ve got a match”
Good combo of the fantasy computer skills & setting a high jeopardy countdown
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enjoyed this recent example/skewering in The Fall of the House of Usher:
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That bit where the detective/Dr House sees or hears something unrelated to the case and has a lightbulb moment.
The wheel fell off the shopping trolley lol WAIT. Wheel fell off… it’s septicaemia!!!
The cop that has subpoenas coming out of his ass
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That whole
“I would never do that”
Smash cut to person doing exactly that
joke
Always Sunny is great at it
“Ere wait a minit Brian play vat a-gen mate”
Lonely people eating sandwiches out of lunch boxes
Tough guy has an unexpected soft side
also having to hand in their badge and gun
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The dry cool wit of an 80s action hero
