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* KickTheDog: After Kendra admits she and Anton are in love, Bitsy takes a moment to laugh at Ambrose since his fiancee was in love with his assistant all along.
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* SpitTake: Owen does the twice in this episode.
** The first time is when he spits out his bacon after Cole reveals that Abby is working at the Brandenham.
** The second time is when he spits out his water after Abby sees Bitsy approaching the restaurant.
---> '''Molly:''' Okay, no more giving dad news around food.
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* CantKillYouStillNeedYou: Another reason for why Bitsy isn't the one responsible for trying poison Ambrose is because if her brother is dead, then she wouldn't be able to brag about her successes to him.

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* CantKillYouStillNeedYou: Another reason for why Bitsy isn't the one responsible for trying to poison Ambrose is because if her brother is dead, then - she wouldn't be able to brag about her successes to him.



* ConspicuousTrenchcoat: During Bitsy's fantasy on how she thinks Owen stole the steak, she fantasizes Owen in a trenchcoat and fedora. After Bitsy's fantasy, Molly points out her father is too skinny to pull off the trenchcoat look.
* DisabilityAlibi: When Bitsy is accused of being the one poisoning Ambrose with the steak sauce when steak sauce packets are found in her pockets, Abby points out Bitsy couldn't do it because she's physically unable to due to being so fragile and needing to have others do things for her, as shown when she failed to cut the tag off the steak with the scissors, so she wouldn't be able to open the steak sauce packets on her own.

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* ConspicuousTrenchcoat: During Bitsy's fantasy on how she thinks Owen stole the steak, she fantasizes about Owen in a trenchcoat and fedora. After Bitsy's fantasy, Molly points out her father is too skinny to pull off the trenchcoat look.
* DisabilityAlibi: When Bitsy is accused of being the one poisoning who tried to poison Ambrose with the steak sauce when steak sauce packets are found in her pockets, Abby points out Bitsy couldn't do it because she's physically unable to due to being so - in fact, she's ''so'' fragile and needing that she needs to have others do things for her, as shown when she failed to couldn't even cut the tag off the steak with the scissors, so she wouldn't be able to open the small steak sauce packets on her own.
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The Tillermans visit Abby at her new job as a waitress at the Brandenham Hotel. But when a precious item goes missing in the restaurant, everyone is a suspect.

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The Tillermans visit Abby at her new job as a waitress at the Brandenham Hotel. While the Tillermans have dinner at the hotel's restaurant, someone order the côte de boeuf, a very expensive steak, and Bitsy is furious to learn that it was ordered by her brother Ambrose, who came to her restaurant just to mess with her. But when a precious item the expensive steak goes missing in the restaurant, everyone is a suspect.



* EveryoneIsASuspect: Everyone involved in the mystery of who stole the cote de boeuf is a suspect (minus Molly and especially Cole because he's too bad at being bad) with everyone having a motive: Helen accuses Paige because with the steak stolen she could write a story about it to make Bitsy look bad and win an award for it, Paige accuses Kendra because she doesn't want to kiss Ambrose after he drinks the steak, Kendra accuses Chef Jean-Luc because he doesn't want the steak to be ruined by having it liquified, Chef Jean-Luc accuses Ambrose because he loves making Bitsy look like a failure, Ambrose accuses Bitsy because of the fact she really hates him, and Bitsy accuses Anton because of the fact [[TheButlerDidIt he's the butler]]. Owen and Abby aren't suspected because they both have alibis.

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* EveryoneIsASuspect: Everyone involved in the mystery of who stole the cote côte de boeuf is a suspect (minus Molly and especially Cole because he's too bad at being bad) with everyone having a motive: Helen accuses Paige because with the steak stolen she could write a story about it to make Bitsy look bad and win an award for it, Paige accuses Kendra because she doesn't want to kiss Ambrose after he drinks the steak, Kendra accuses Chef Jean-Luc because he doesn't want the steak to be ruined by having it liquified, Chef Jean-Luc accuses Ambrose because he loves making Bitsy look like a failure, Ambrose accuses Bitsy because of the fact she really hates him, and Bitsy accuses Anton because of the fact [[TheButlerDidIt he's the butler]]. Owen and Abby aren't suspected because they both have alibis.



* JobSong: During "A Positive Light", while Birdie sings explaining what the cote de boeuf is, Abby sings to the Tillermans how great it will be at the Brandenham's hotel restaurant while showing off her workplace to them.

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* JobSong: During "A Positive Light", while Birdie sings explaining what the cote côte de boeuf is, Abby sings to the Tillermans how great it will be at the Brandenham's hotel restaurant while showing off her workplace to them.



* SnootyHauteCuisine: Bitsy has a very expensive dish, the cote de boeuf, that she put on the menu simply for the bragging rights. It is specially raised and aged and costs $20,000, and requires a specially trained chef to prepare. When someone orders it at last, she sets up a big presentation for the customer... who turns out to be her brother Ambrose, who ordered it just to see how badly she'll screw it up.

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* SnootyHauteCuisine: Bitsy has a very expensive dish, the cote côte de boeuf, that she put on the menu simply for the bragging rights. It is specially raised and aged and costs $20,000, and requires a specially trained chef to prepare. When someone orders it at last, she sets up a big presentation for the customer... who turns out to be her brother Ambrose, who ordered it just to see how badly she'll screw it up.



** For Shampagne: When Abby and Helen are trying to hold back Chef Jean-Luc from attacking Ambrose, Anton uses this opportunity to switch the cote de boeuf with a cheap steak, but Shampagne gets in his way and wasn't able to place the cheap steak in place before everyone notices the cote de boeuf is missing. When Shampagne starts sniffing around Anton because he has two steaks on him, Anton tries to feed the cheap steak to him, but accidentally drops the cote de boeuf and Shampagne eats it up, unknowingly revealing that the steak has steak sauce on it after coughing it out, which would have killed Ambrose if he had eaten the steak.
** For Abby: In the kitchen, Chef Jean-Luc needs one of the waiters to help present the cote de boeuf, and because Abby is the only waitress in the kitchen, she is chosen to help. Because Abby is involved, the Tillermans also get involve when Abby is accused of stealing the steak with Paige's investigating skills coming in handy to reveal more of the truth. When Bitsy is accused of poisoning Ambrose because steak sauce packets were found in her pockets, Abby is the only one who believes Bitsy is innocent and proves she's innocent when she points out that her [[DisabilityAlibi fragile hands are too weak to open the sauce packets]]. It all leads to Paige figuring out that Anton is responsible, but he confess he only stole the steak, and not wanting him to take the heat for the poisoning, Kendra confesses to covering the steak sauce on the cote de boeuf.

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** For Shampagne: When Abby and Helen are trying to hold back Chef Jean-Luc from attacking Ambrose, Anton uses this opportunity to switch the cote côte de boeuf with a cheap steak, but Shampagne gets in his way and wasn't able to place the cheap steak in place before everyone notices the cote côte de boeuf is missing. When Shampagne starts sniffing around Anton because he has two steaks on him, Anton tries to feed the cheap steak to him, but accidentally drops the cote côte de boeuf and Shampagne eats it up, unknowingly revealing that the steak has steak sauce on it after coughing it out, which would have killed Ambrose if he had eaten the steak.
** For Abby: In the kitchen, Chef Jean-Luc needs one of the waiters to help present the cote côte de boeuf, and because Abby is the only waitress in the kitchen, she is chosen to help. Because Abby is involved, the Tillermans also get involve when Abby is accused of stealing the steak with Paige's investigating skills coming in handy to reveal more of the truth. When Bitsy is accused of poisoning Ambrose because steak sauce packets were found in her pockets, Abby is the only one who believes Bitsy is innocent and proves she's innocent when she points out that her [[DisabilityAlibi fragile hands are too weak to open the sauce packets]]. It all leads to Paige figuring out that Anton is responsible, but he confess he only stole the steak, and not wanting him to take the heat for the poisoning, Kendra confesses to covering the steak sauce on the cote côte de boeuf.



* {{Troll}}: Ambrose gets under Bitsy skin by buying the $20,000 cote de boeuf at her restaurant and demanding to have the steak liquified due to his multiple dietary restrictions. He not only pissed off Bitsy, but also the chef who takes his love for the steak seriously. He only came to her restaurant just to see how badly she'll screw it up.
* TwoDunIt: At first, the mystery was who stole the cote de boeuf, and then it also became a mystery on who tried to poison Ambrose. It turns out Anton tried to steal the steak during the commotion, but before he stole it, Kendra applied steak sauce to the steak.

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* {{Troll}}: Ambrose gets under Bitsy skin by buying the $20,000 cote côte de boeuf at her restaurant and demanding to have the steak liquified due to his multiple dietary restrictions. He not only pissed off Bitsy, but also the chef who takes his love for the steak seriously. He only came to her restaurant just to see how badly she'll screw it up.
* TwoDunIt: At first, the mystery was who stole the cote côte de boeuf, and then it also became a mystery on who tried to poison Ambrose. It turns out Anton tried to steal the steak during the commotion, but before he stole it, Kendra applied steak sauce to the steak.



* {{Whodunnit}}: During the melee at the presentation of the cote de boeuf, it goes missing, and everyone on the private room is a suspect. The song "A Real Whodunnit" [[LampshadeHanging hangs a lampshade]] on this.

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* {{Whodunnit}}: During the melee at the presentation of the cote côte de boeuf, it goes missing, and everyone on the private room is a suspect. The song "A Real Whodunnit" [[LampshadeHanging hangs a lampshade]] on this.
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* DisabilityAlibi: When Bitsy is accused of being the one poisoning Ambrose with the steak sauce when steak sauce packets are found in her pockets, Abby points out Bitsy couldn't do it because she's physically unable to due to being so fragile and needing to have others do things for her, as shown when she failed to cut the tag off the steak with the scissors, so she wouldn't be unable to open the steak sauce packets on her own.

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* DisabilityAlibi: When Bitsy is accused of being the one poisoning Ambrose with the steak sauce when steak sauce packets are found in her pockets, Abby points out Bitsy couldn't do it because she's physically unable to due to being so fragile and needing to have others do things for her, as shown when she failed to cut the tag off the steak with the scissors, so she wouldn't be unable able to open the steak sauce packets on her own.
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-->'''Bitsy:''' I have a tragic case of wealthy fingers.

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* SuspiciouslySpecificDenial: After Paige correctly pins Anton as the steak thief, Helen says she never expected it because "assistants are totally loyal and wouldn't back stab their boss".



* WideEyedIdealist: Discussed. Paige spends the entire episode trying to talk Abby out of working at the Brandenham, believing that her sister’s status as this is making her blind to the kind of person Bitsy is. However, Abby later admits that she knows Bitsy is the worst sometimes, but is willingly choosing to try and find the good in her and the Brandenham anyway- not just [[Main/FreudianExcuse because of her experience with playing villains in her past plays by questioning what their reasons would be for being “evil”]], but because she knows she’ll never make it in New York if she just goes around believing everything is the worst all the time instead of trying to find the good in something, impossible as it may seem.

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* WideEyedIdealist: Discussed. Paige spends the entire episode trying to talk Abby out of working at the Brandenham, believing that her sister’s status as this is making her blind to the kind of person Bitsy is. However, Abby later admits that she knows Bitsy is the worst sometimes, but is willingly choosing to try and find the good in her and the Brandenham anyway- not just [[Main/FreudianExcuse [[FreudianExcuse because of her experience with playing villains in her past plays by questioning what their reasons would be for being “evil”]], but because she knows she’ll never make it in New York if she just goes around believing everything is the worst all the time instead of trying to find the good in something, impossible as it may seem.
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'''Season Three''': [[Recap/CentralParkS3E01AStarIsOwen 1]] | [[Recap/CentralParkS3E02PaigesNextChapter 2]] | [[Recap/CentralParkS3E03IceIceNotBaby 3]] | [[Recap/CentralParkS3E04ATriptychDownMemoryLane 4]] | [[Recap/CentralParkS3E05GoldenOwenManagerDamager 5]] | '''6''' | [[Recap/CentralParkS3E07SlumberDogMollyAnAire 7]] | [[Recap/CentralParkS3E08LunarPalaver 8]] | [[Recap/CentralParkS3E09AKillerDeadline 9]] | [[Recap/CentralParkS3E10MoneyCandy 10]] | [[Recap/CentralParkS3E11ThePuffsGoPoof 11]] | [[Recap/CentralParkS3E12AHotDogToRemember 12]] -]]]]]

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'''Season Three''': [[Recap/CentralParkS3E01AStarIsOwen 1]] | [[Recap/CentralParkS3E02PaigesNextChapter 2]] | [[Recap/CentralParkS3E03IceIceNotBaby 3]] | [[Recap/CentralParkS3E04ATriptychDownMemoryLane 4]] | [[Recap/CentralParkS3E05GoldenOwenManagerDamager 5]] | '''6''' | [[Recap/CentralParkS3E07SlumberDogMollyAnAire 7]] | [[Recap/CentralParkS3E08LunarPalaver 8]] | [[Recap/CentralParkS3E09AKillerDeadline 9]] | [[Recap/CentralParkS3E10MoneyCandy 10]] | [[Recap/CentralParkS3E11ThePuffsGoPoof 11]] | [[Recap/CentralParkS3E12AHotDogToRemember 12]] | [[Recap/CentralParkS3E13TheBrandenpireStrikesBack 13]] -]]]]]
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* VaryingCompetencyAlibi: Molly points out while anyone can be the culprit, it can't be Cole because he's too bad at being bad. Cole tries to prove he can be bad by [[PokeThePoodle spilling over a pepper shaker]] and then instantly regretting it, proving Molly's point. When Shampagne is accused of eating the steak, Cole tries TakingTheHeat to save Shampagne, but nobody buys it at all due to him being too innocent.
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'''Season Three''': [[Recap/CentralParkS3E01AStarIsOwen 1]] | [[Recap/CentralParkS3E02PaigesNextChapter 2]] | [[Recap/CentralParkS3E03IceIceNotBaby 3]] | [[Recap/CentralParkS3E04ATriptychDownMemoryLane 4]] | [[Recap/CentralParkS3E05GoldenOwenManagerDamager 5]] | '''6''' | [[Recap/CentralParkS3E07SlumberDogMollyAnAire 7]] | [[Recap/CentralParkS3E08LunarPalaver 8]] | [[Recap/CentralParkS3E09AKillerDeadline 9]] | [[Recap/CentralParkS3E10MoneyCandy 10]] | [[Recap/CentralParkS3E11ThePuffsGoPoof 11]] -]]]]]

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'''Season Three''': [[Recap/CentralParkS3E01AStarIsOwen 1]] | [[Recap/CentralParkS3E02PaigesNextChapter 2]] | [[Recap/CentralParkS3E03IceIceNotBaby 3]] | [[Recap/CentralParkS3E04ATriptychDownMemoryLane 4]] | [[Recap/CentralParkS3E05GoldenOwenManagerDamager 5]] | '''6''' | [[Recap/CentralParkS3E07SlumberDogMollyAnAire 7]] | [[Recap/CentralParkS3E08LunarPalaver 8]] | [[Recap/CentralParkS3E09AKillerDeadline 9]] | [[Recap/CentralParkS3E10MoneyCandy 10]] | [[Recap/CentralParkS3E11ThePuffsGoPoof 11]] | [[Recap/CentralParkS3E12AHotDogToRemember 12]] -]]]]]
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'''Season Three''': [[Recap/CentralParkS3E01AStarIsOwen 1]] | [[Recap/CentralParkS3E02PaigesNextChapter 2]] | [[Recap/CentralParkS3E03IceIceNotBaby 3]] | [[Recap/CentralParkS3E04ATriptychDownMemoryLane 4]] | [[Recap/CentralParkS3E05GoldenOwenManagerDamager 5]] | '''6''' | [[Recap/CentralParkS3E07SlumberDogMollyAnAire 7]] | [[Recap/CentralParkS3E08LunarPalaver 8]] | [[Recap/CentralParkS3E09AKillerDeadline 9]] | [[Recap/CentralParkS3E10MoneyCandy 10]] -]]]]]

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'''Season Three''': [[Recap/CentralParkS3E01AStarIsOwen 1]] | [[Recap/CentralParkS3E02PaigesNextChapter 2]] | [[Recap/CentralParkS3E03IceIceNotBaby 3]] | [[Recap/CentralParkS3E04ATriptychDownMemoryLane 4]] | [[Recap/CentralParkS3E05GoldenOwenManagerDamager 5]] | '''6''' | [[Recap/CentralParkS3E07SlumberDogMollyAnAire 7]] | [[Recap/CentralParkS3E08LunarPalaver 8]] | [[Recap/CentralParkS3E09AKillerDeadline 9]] | [[Recap/CentralParkS3E10MoneyCandy 10]] | [[Recap/CentralParkS3E11ThePuffsGoPoof 11]] -]]]]]
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* JobSong: During "A Positive Light", while Birdie sings explaining what the cote de boeuf, Abby sings to the Tillermans how great it will be at the Brandenham's hotel restaurant while showing off her workplace to them.

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* JobSong: During "A Positive Light", while Birdie sings explaining what the cote de boeuf, boeuf is, Abby sings to the Tillermans how great it will be at the Brandenham's hotel restaurant while showing off her workplace to them.
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** Of course, Kendra didn't anticipate Anton stealing the steak after she poisoned it, which prevented her plan from succeeding.
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* EveryoneIsASuspect: Everyone involved in the mystery of who stole the cote de boeuf is a suspect (minus Molly and especially Cole because he's too bad at being bad) with everyone having a motive: Helen accuses Paige because with the steak stolen she could write a story about it to make Bitsy look bad and win an award for it, Paige accuses Kendra because she doesn't want to kiss Ambrose after he drinks the steak, Kendra accuses Chef Jean-Luc because he doesn't want the steak to be ruined by having it liquified, Chef Jean-Luc accuses Ambrose because he loves making Bitsy look like a failure, Ambrose accuses Bitsy because of the fact she really hates him, and Bitsy accuses Anton because of the fact [[TheButlerDidIt he's the butler]]. Owen and Abby aren't suspected because they both have alibis.
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* {{Gasp}}: Cole is constantly gasping at every plot twist, which gets {{Lampshaded}}.
-->'''Cole:''' I haven't gasped this much in a while. I gotta sit down.

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* DramaticGasp: Cole is constantly gasping at every plot twist, which gets {{Lampshaded}}.

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* DramaticGasp: {{Gasp}}: Cole is constantly gasping at every plot twist, which gets {{Lampshaded}}.


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* {{Gasp}}: Everyone gasps when there's a shocking twist during the mystery. When Paige reveals a twist that causes everyone gasp, she even gasped herself. Cole is constantly gasping at every plot twist, even at a moment where he isn't supposed to gasp, which gets {{Lampshaded}}.
-->'''Cole:''' I haven't gasped this much in a while. I gotta sit down.
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* TwoDunIt: At first, the mystery was who stole the cote de boeuf, and then it also became a mystery on who tried to poison Ambrose. It turns out Anton tried to steal the steak during the commotion, but before he stole it, Kendra applied steak sauce to the steak.
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* CannotKeepASecret: Cole gives away that Abby was working for Bitsy. Earlier, Abby mentions how Cole also told on her for watching an adult movie (''Film/ErinBrockovich'').

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* CannotKeepASecret: Cole gives away that Abby was is working for Bitsy.Bitsy to Owen and Paige, causing Owen to choke on his food from the shock. Earlier, Abby mentions how Cole also told on her for watching an adult movie (''Film/ErinBrockovich'').
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* CannotKeepASecret: Cole gives away that Abby was working for Bitsy. Earlier, Molly mentions how Cole also told on her for watching an adult movie (''Film/ErinBrockovich'').

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* CannotKeepASecret: Cole gives away that Abby was working for Bitsy. Earlier, Molly Abby mentions how Cole also told on her for watching an adult movie (''Film/ErinBrockovich'').

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