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* LeftTheBackgroundMusicOn: The background music from one scene of Shirley spying on a new student in "The Case of the Rising Moon" turned out to be a student playing a flute.
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** In [[spoiler:"The Case of the Rising Moon", a Princess was being targeted because some of her subjects didn't like the idea of a woman being their ruler]].
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* HeirClubForMen: As revealed in the intro, SherlockHolmes expected a "young ''man''" to solve his puzzle. Shirley didn't seem to mind.
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* DiplomaticImpunity: Robert Holmes was once accused of abusing his diplomatic status to sell information to another country. In another episode, it was believed he was harboring a suspected murderer ([[spoiler:a woman who turned out to be innocent]]). The police officer interrogating him acknowledged he couldn't arrest Holmes but warned he could lose his job over that. That risk was quite real.
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* SmallNameBigEgo: Molly's major weakness. "The Case of The Broken Oath" is a good example of this. Molly [[spoiler: creates an anonymous internet account using the name "Y" and blackmails up-and-coming rock band Oath into performing the terrible song that she wrote.]] When Shirley gets a copy of the lyrics to the song, she discovers that the first letter of the first word in each verse spells out "Molly Hardy." When Shirley confronts Molly, she points out that if she could have gotten away with the scheme if she'd resisted the impulse to literally put her name on it. Molly ends up getting away with it anyway, by blackmailing Shirley with the threat of exposing her detective work (which would obviously make it much more difficult).
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* TheSociopath: Molly is directly referred to as one by a psychologist who analyzes her as part of her attempting to get an important job at the United Nations. Needless to say, she becomes obsessed with trying to find and destroy all the copies of the psychologist's report.
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* VisionaryVillain: It's implied that Molly plans to use her job at the United Nations, her budding social media presence and other connections to end up controlling the tastes and trends of her entire generation.
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-->'''Molly:''' Of course you realize nothing's changed.
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* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: The only time Molly genuinely cares about someone is when she learns that her horse has to be put to sleep. The look on her face is [[TearJerker gut-wrenching]].
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* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: The only time Molly genuinely cares about someone is when she learns that her horse has to be put to sleep. The look on her face is [[TearJerker gut-wrenching]]. [[UngratefulBitch Not that this makes her show the slightest bit of gratitude to Shirley for saving said horse.]]
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* ScrewedByTheNetwork: In the United States, [[ABCFamily FOX Family Channel (now ABC Family)]] only aired the first two seasons on Saturdays and Sundays before it stopped airing the show. To add insult to injury, the episodes were usually aired out of order.
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* ScrewedByTheNetwork: In the United States, [[ABCFamily [[Creator/ABCFamily FOX Family Channel (now ABC Family)]] only aired the first two seasons on Saturdays and Sundays before it stopped airing the show. To add insult to injury, the episodes were usually aired out of order.
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* SympathyForTheDevil: At the end of "The Case of the Crooked Comic", Shirley says that she feels pity for Molly, because she's so empty inside that she'll never know true friendship.
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* SympathyForTheDevil: At the end of "The Case of the Crooked Comic", Shirley says that she feels pity for Molly, [[TheSociopath Molly]], because she's so empty inside that she'll never know true friendship.
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* StuffyBrit: While he's far from being emotionless, Shirley's father is a quiet, reserved man who enjoys his morning tea, some posh activities and never goes overboard with showing his emotions. Come to think of it, Shirley herself sometimes has shades of this as well. Well, considering their family history..
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* StuffyBrit: While he's far from being emotionless, Shirley's father is a quiet, reserved man who enjoys his morning tea, some posh activities and never goes overboard with showing his emotions. Come to think of it, Shirley herself sometimes has shades of this as well. Well, considering their family history..history.
* SympathyForTheDevil: At the end of "The Case of the Crooked Comic", Shirley says that she feels pity for Molly, because she's so empty inside that she'll never know true friendship.
* SympathyForTheDevil: At the end of "The Case of the Crooked Comic", Shirley says that she feels pity for Molly, because she's so empty inside that she'll never know true friendship.
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* ShoutOut: In "The Case of the Dead Debutante", Alicia mentions that she [[TaughtByTelevision learned how to cast spells on people]] by watching [[Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer Buffy]].
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* InsufferableGenius: Shirley is a [[DownplayedTrope downplayed]] version of this: She doesn't ''mean'' to appear arrogant, but her inquisitiveness and intelligence are often a source of annoyance to others.
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* InsufferableGenius: Shirley is a [[DownplayedTrope downplayed]] version of this: She doesn't ''mean'' to appear arrogant, arrogant and is, in fact, a genuinely nice person, but her inquisitiveness and intelligence are often a source of annoyance to others.
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* InsufferableGenius: Shirley is a [[DownplayedTrope downplayed]] version of this: She doesn't ''mean'' to appear arrogant, but her inquisitiveness and intelligence are often a source of annoyance to others.
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* TomatoInTheMirror: In "The Case of the Left Thumbprint", someone steals a valuable decoder from Shirley's home. Shirley suspects that the same someone left a dead bird on her bed, put a sheet over a dollhouse, and set fire to some incriminating evidence, but they didn't. The person who did those things was [[spoiler: Shirley herself. The stress of her father being suspected of theft caused her to sleepwalk and unconsciously leave clues to the mystery that she would find once she was awake.]]
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--> "You cops just keep getting younger and younger!"
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--->-- Some homeless woman to [[KidDetective Shirley]].
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-->-- Some homeless woman to [[KidDetective Shirley]].
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[[caption-width:330:Elementary, my dear Bo.]]
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[[caption-width-right:330:Elementary, my dear Bo.]]
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* StuffyBrit: While he's far from being emotionless, Shirley's father is a quiet, reserved man who enjoys his morning tea, seems to enjoy some posh activities and never goes overboard with showing his emotions. Come to think of it, Shirley herself sometimes has shades of this as well. Well, considering their family history..
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* ClearTheirName: Shirley has to do this two times. In the pilot, she has to prove against the belief of police and school that Bo isn't the arsonist in the neighborhood. She does it again when her father gets accused of abusing his diplomatic status to sell information to another country.
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* UngratefulBastard: Shirley [[spoiler:saves Molly from being burned to death by Elyse and stops her MoralityPet horse from being put to death due to a fake case of rabies. Does this change Molly's attitude towards her? Nope.]]
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* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: The only time Molly genuinely cares about someone was when she learns that her horse has to be put to sleep. The look on her face is [[TearJerker gut-wrenching]].
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* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: The only time Molly genuinely cares about someone was when she learns that her horse has to be put to sleep. The look on her face is [[TearJerker gut-wrenching]].
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* WickedStepmother: In "The Case of the Rising Moon", a princess was fearing for her life and believed her stepmother was the culprit. [[spoiler:[[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] when it's revealed the stepmother was innocent and the plot had been engineered by people who didn't want a woman to rule their nation - the stepmother's son was the next in line to inherit the throne, which gave the princess a reason to believe her stepmother was guilty in the first place]].
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* ThoseTwoGuys: Parker. Well, he's only one guy but he doesn't really fit in [[ThatOneGuy that other trope]] as much as he does in this one.
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* ThoseTwoGuys: Parker. Well, he's only one guy but he doesn't really fit in [[ThatOneGuy [[ThatOnePlayer that other trope]] as much as he does in this one.
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* AdaptationDisplacement: The show was based on a series of four children's books published by Winklemania that starred an eight-year-old Shirley. Fans tend to be more familiar with the show than with the source material.
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* AlienAbduction: One episode featured a faked one.
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* AlienAbduction: One episode "The Case of the Alien Abductions" featured a faked one.one. [[spoiler: Still, you have to wonder how Peggy got that mark on her.]]
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** Not to mention Shirley herself - of course she could have been as good a detective even if her parents had named her Jane or Sarah or whatever, but that wouldn't sound as punny.
