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* OfCorpseHesAliveWhen Ned reawakens [[BodyOfTheWeek dog breeder Harold Hundin]] from the dead to ask who killed him, he says his wife killed him. The team quickly finds out this is not so cut-and-dry, since Hundin had four wives. While the murder turns out to have more to do with the new dog Harold and his wives invented, a Coll-A-Dor-Russell-A-Poo [[note]]Cross-breed of a Border Collie, a Labrador Retriever, a Jack Russell Terrier, and a Poodle, the dog breeds each of his wives owned[[/note]] named Bubblegum, the murder was still connected to the polygamous marriage situation. [[spoiler: Harold's first wife Hilary is revealed to have not been happy that she couldn't be her husband's one-and-only. She put up with it and took solace in the one-of-a-kind Bubblegum, until Harold mentioned his plans to clone the dog with a rival breeder, setting Hilary off.]]
--> '''Narrator:''' So [[spoiler: Hilary]] made her own decision. Refusing to subject her baby to the same tortuous, shared existence she had been cursed to live... [[spoiler: Hilary]] poisoned Harold and framed Hallie to take any fall, knowing good Hallie served, but did not drink, caffeine herself.
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* MarriageOfConvenience: Simone eventually reveals that her marriage to Harold was purely a business relationship and that they were never intimately involved.
* OddNameOut: Harold is married to Hilary, Heather, Hallie and '''S'''imone.
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* {{Polyamory}}: The heroes are pissed about Hundin having four wives -- not for any moral reason, but because it makes "My wife killed me" a whole lot more complicated than it needs to be. It also turns out to be one of the causes of Hundin's death, since first wife Hilary grew more frustrated and resentful with each new wife Hundin added to the marriage; his plan to clone Bubblegum was just the straw that broke the camel's back.

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* {{Polyamory}}: The heroes are pissed about Hundin having four wives -- not for any moral reason, but because it makes "My wife killed me" a whole lot more complicated than it needs to be. It [[spoiler:It also turns out to be one of the causes of Hundin's death, since first wife Hilary grew more frustrated and resentful with each new wife Hundin added to the marriage; his plan to clone Bubblegum was just the straw that broke the camel's back.]]

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The four of them split up to interrogate the wives. They discover that Hundin had just bred the ultimate dog, Bubblegum, but that Bubblegum had ''also'' just been killed--and then they're outmaneuvered when the wives--who are on good terms--compare notes and figure out what's going on. Ambushing the detectives at the Pie Hole, they suggest interrogating fellow dog breeder Ramsfield Snuppy, to whom Harold had sold Bubblegum just before his death.

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The four of them split up to interrogate the wives. They discover that Hundin had just bred the ultimate dog, Bubblegum, but that Bubblegum had ''also'' just been killed--and killed -- and then they're outmaneuvered when the wives--who wives (who are on good terms--compare terms) -- compare notes and figure out what's going on. Ambushing the detectives at the Pie Hole, they suggest interrogating fellow dog breeder Ramsfield Snuppy, to whom Harold had sold Bubblegum just before his death.


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* {{Polyamory}}: The heroes are pissed about Hundin having four wives -- not for any moral reason, but because it makes "My wife killed me" a whole lot more complicated than it needs to be. It also turns out to be one of the causes of Hundin's death, since first wife Hilary grew more frustrated and resentful with each new wife Hundin added to the marriage; his plan to clone Bubblegum was just the straw that broke the camel's back.

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* ArtisticLicenseLaw: Polygamy is illegal in America; while there's nothing stopping one man from being in a relationship with multiple different women, it's unlikely a high profile guy like Hundin would be able to get away with officially ''marrying'' all four.

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* ArtisticLicenseLaw: Polygamy is illegal in America; while obviously that doesn't stop certain people from doing it, and there's nothing stopping preventing one man from being in a an unofficial relationship with multiple different women, it's unlikely a high profile guy like Hundin would be able to get away with officially ''marrying'' all four.four.
* AssholeVictim: Harold Hundin; he subjected his first wife Hilary to a polygamous marriage she clearly didn't sign up for and wasn't happy in, and wanted to clone her beloved Bubblegum against her wishes, further emotionally abusing her.
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* ArtisticLicenseLaw: Polygamy is illegal in America; while there's nothing stopping one man from being in a relationship with multiple different women, it's unlikely Hundin would be able to get away with officially ''marrying'' all four.

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* ArtisticLicenseLaw: Polygamy is illegal in America; while there's nothing stopping one man from being in a relationship with multiple different women, it's unlikely a high profile guy like Hundin would be able to get away with officially ''marrying'' all four.
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* *ArtisticLicenseLaw: Polygamy is illegal in America; while there's nothing stopping one man from being in a relationship with multiple different women, it's unlikely Hundin would be able to get away with officially ''marrying'' all four.
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* BilingualBonus: Hundin means female dog (or bitch)in German.
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* RasputinianDeath: Downplayed. Hundin drank poisoned coffee, slipped on the spilled coffee, and in doing so, accidentally stabbed himself with a particularly pointy designer hairbrush multiple times.

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* RasputinianDeath: Downplayed. Hundin drank poisoned coffee, slipped on the spilled coffee, and in doing so, accidentally stabbed himself with a particularly pointy designer hairbrush multiple times.times.
* WeNamedTheMonkeyJack: Both variations at the same time. Ned and Digby swap names when they perform their interrogation.
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* RasputinianDeath: Downplayed. Hundin drank poisoned coffee, slipped on the spilled coffee, and in doing so, accidentally stabbed himself with a particularly pointy designer hairbrush multiple times.
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* EvilBrit: Simone. [[spoiler:Subverted--she's not the killer, and while much more pragmatic and callous than the other wives, she is definitely not evil]].
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* EroticDream: Ned has one involving Olive disguised as Chuck, which makes him nervous around both girls. The facts that he can never be intimate with Chuck and that the current case concerns a polygamist (Emerson: "One to have...one to hold") make him nervous the entire episode.
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* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: There's a lot of dog terminology applied to people in this episode.
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Harold Hundin's death seems tricky at first - a stabbing with no witnesses and no fingerprints on the weapon - until he's revived by Ned and reveals that he was actually ''poisoned'', and stabbed himself accidentally as he panicked and slipped around near an unfortunately pointy dog brush. As Harold's minute ends, he gives them the crucial testimony - "my wife did it."

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Puppy breeder Harold Hundin's death seems tricky at first - a stabbing with no witnesses and no fingerprints on the weapon - until he's revived by Ned and reveals that he was actually ''poisoned'', and stabbed himself accidentally as he panicked and slipped around near an unfortunately pointy dog brush. As Harold's minute ends, he gives them the crucial testimony - "my wife did it." "



The four of them split up to interrogate the wives. They discover that Hundin had just bred the ultimate dog, Bubblegum, but that Bubblegum had ''also'' just been killed--and then they're outmaneuvered when the wives--who are on good terms--compare notes and figure out what's going on. Ambushing the detectives at the Pie Hole, they suggest interrogating fellow dog breeder Ramsfield Snuppy, to whom Harold had sold Bubblegum just before his death.



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