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!!The original novel



!!The 1978 film
* The exchanges of insults between Mrs. Van Schuyler (Bette Davis) and Miss Bowers (Maggie Smith).
-->'''Mrs. Van Schuyler''': Come Bowers, it's time to go, this place is beginning to resemble a mortuary.
-->'''Miss Bowers''': Thank god you'll be in one yourself before too long, bloody old fossil.
-->'''Mrs. Van Schuyler''': Now, temper, temper, Bowers. What you need is a nice cool holiday. I was thinking of a trip through the Gobi Desert!
* Any scene with the perpetually drunk Mrs. Otterbourne (Angela Lansbury).
-->'''Mrs. Otterbourne''': Do forgive me for butting in, but I have a bet with my daughter here, that you're Hercules Porridge, the famous French sleuth.\\
'''Hercule Poirot''': Not quite. I am Hercule Poirot, the famous Belgian sleuth.
* Race's reaction to Louise's opinion of the crime, after everyone has been commenting on how many different motives there are and how much they disliked the murder victim.
-->'''Louise:''' Cette pauvre Madame Doyle! Tout le monde l'aimait.\\
'''Poirot:''' She says that - er - all the world loved Madame Doyle.\\
'''Race:''' Well, at least that's a fresh approach.
* In a FunnyBackgroundEvent, Poirot does a quadruple jump in checkers, to a flabbergasted Col. Race.
* Poirot has a sleeping hair net and a sleeping ''mustache'' net.
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* Ferguson's shock when Cornelia says that she doesn't want to marry him.



-->'''Mrs. Van Schuyler''': Now, temper, temper, bowers. What you need is a nice cool holiday. I was thinking of a trip through the Gobi Desert!

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-->'''Mrs. Van Schuyler''': Now, temper, temper, bowers.Bowers. What you need is a nice cool holiday. I was thinking of a trip through the Gobi Desert!



--> '''Mrs. Otterbourne''': Do forgive me for butting in, but I have a bet with my daughter here, that you're Hercules Porridge, the famous French sleuth.
--> '''Hercule Poirot''': Not quite. I am Hercule Poirot, the famous Belgian sleuth.

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--> '''Mrs.-->'''Mrs. Otterbourne''': Do forgive me for butting in, but I have a bet with my daughter here, that you're Hercules Porridge, the famous French sleuth. \n--> \\
'''Hercule Poirot''': Not quite. I am Hercule Poirot, the famous Belgian sleuth.

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* In the film, Race's reaction to Louise's opinion of the crime, after everyone has been commenting on how many different motives there are and how much they disliked the murder victim.

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!!The original novel

!!The 1978 film
* In The exchanges of insults between Mrs. Van Schuyler (Bette Davis) and Miss Bowers (Maggie Smith).
-->'''Mrs. Van Schuyler''': Come Bowers, it's time to go, this place is beginning to resemble a mortuary.
-->'''Miss Bowers''': Thank god you'll be in one yourself before too long, bloody old fossil.
-->'''Mrs. Van Schuyler''': Now, temper, temper, bowers. What you need is a nice cool holiday. I was thinking of a trip through
the film, Gobi Desert!
* Any scene with the perpetually drunk Mrs. Otterbourne (Angela Lansbury).
--> '''Mrs. Otterbourne''': Do forgive me for butting in, but I have a bet with my daughter here, that you're Hercules Porridge, the famous French sleuth.
--> '''Hercule Poirot''': Not quite. I am Hercule Poirot, the famous Belgian sleuth.
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Race's reaction to Louise's opinion of the crime, after everyone has been commenting on how many different motives there are and how much they disliked the murder victim.



* In the 1978 film, in a FunnyBackgroundEvent, Poirot does a quadruple jump in checkers, to a flabbergasted Col. Race.
* In the 1978 film, Poirot has a sleeping hair net and a sleeping ''mustache'' net.

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* In the 1978 film, in a FunnyBackgroundEvent, Poirot does a quadruple jump in checkers, to a flabbergasted Col. Race.
* In the 1978 film, Poirot has a sleeping hair net and a sleeping ''mustache'' net.
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* In the 1978 film, Poirot has a sleeping hair net and a sleeping ''mustache'' net.
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* In the film, Race's reaction to Louise's opinion of the crime, after everyone has been commenting on how many different motives there are and how much they disliked the murder victim.
-->'''Louise:''' Cette pauvre Madame Doyle! Tout le monde l'aimait.\\
'''Poirot:''' She says that - er - all the world loved Madame Doyle.\\
'''Race:''' Well, at least that's a fresh approach.
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