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* ChessmasterSidekick: It is only late in the film that the Lipton's recruit Marcia to help with their investigation, but as soon as they do, she quickly pieces together all of their hard-gathered clues to understand how and why the murder must have happened and also comes up with the plan about how to expose Mr. House.
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* HitlerAteSugar: Larry breaks his promise to Diane to sit through the entire opera she drags him to, explaining: ''"I can't listen to that much Wagner, I start getting the urge to conquer Poland."''
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* TheCameo: Creator/JoyBehar and Ron Rifkin play the Lipton's dinner guests.
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* ArtisticLicenseGeography: Carole sees [[spoiler:the "dead" Mrs. House]] riding a bus going past her wine tasting. The background scenery shows it's near Bellevue South Park, which no New York City bus drives by. Later, Carole and Ted are following the M23 bus to its appropriate terminal, near FDR Drive on E. 23rd St; that bus drives down 23rd St, but Bellevue is on E. 27th.
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-->'''Larry:''' ''(amused)'' He doesn't look the type!
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* CastingCouch: Ted admits he had to sleep with Helen Moss (a hungry actress) several times to keep her distracted. Marcia muses he really had to work hard to do that.
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* GoodGirlsAvoidAbortion: Helen Moss (a suspected accomplice to murder) has apparently had four abortions.
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* GoodGirlsAvoidAbortion: Helen Moss (a suspected accomplice to murder) has apparently had four abortions.abortions, though this is just part of her being a TalkativeLoon offscreen.
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* FakingTheDead: [[spoiler:Mr. and Mrs. House pretended the woman who died of a heart attack was Mrs. House. Unfortunately, for her, Mr. House was going to make her death very real soon after.]]
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* AmbiguouslyEvil: It's speculated that [[spoiler: Helen Moss]] is in on the entirety of the plan, and Mr. House doesn't seem too surprised to hear her discussing the Lipton's knowledge of the crime, but it isn't confirmed in as many words.
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* AmbiguouslyEvil: It's speculated that [[spoiler: Helen Moss]] is in on the entirety of the plan, and Mr. House doesn't seem too surprised to hear her discussing the Lipton's knowledge of the crime, but it isn't confirmed in as many words. Mrs. House was definitely in on the plan [[spoiler:except she had no idea that Mr. House was unfaithful with her with two other women, and was going to be KilledToUpholdTheMasquerade]].
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* ActuallyPrettyFunny: The last lines of the film have Larry laughing at Carole's loving put-down of him in a heartwarming moment -- especially if you pretend the Liptons are [[Film/AnnieHall the Singers]].
-->'''Larry:''' Ted?! You've gotta be kiddin'! Take away his elevator shoes and his fake suntan and his capped teeth and what do you have?\\
'''Carol:''' You!
-->'''Larry:''' Ted?! You've gotta be kiddin'! Take away his elevator shoes and his fake suntan and his capped teeth and what do you have?\\
'''Carol:''' You!
