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5	Četnické humoresky is a Czech crime television series about a gendarmerie investigative unit, stationed in the city of Brno. The story is set in the period of interbellic First Czechoslovak Republic and combines elements of crime drama and comedy. The stories are based on real case files from that era.
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8	!! Tropes of Četnické humoresky:
9	* ThirteenIsUnlucky: The bus driver in ''Lázeňské intermezzo'' notes that he always remembers when he drives thirteen passengers, because every time he drives thirteen passengers, something bad happens.
10	* AlliterativeName: ''K''amila ''K''liková, the journalist.
11	* AndThereWasMuchRejoicing: In ''Volavka'', when Stela quits once the gendarmes start tossing her undercooked spaghetti at the ceiling, all of them start cheering the moment she leaves the room. Even [[NotSoAboveItAll Šiktanc]] is happy.
12	* AntiVillain: Doctor Korous in the episode ''Doktor Smrt'' might be considered as one. He is killing his patients but it's only because they are likely to die and further treatment only prolongs their suffering.
13	* AristocratsAreEvil: The murder culprit in ''Beáta'' is an [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain antisemitic]] former Austro-Hungarian aristocrat.
14	* AscendedExtra: Karabela and Zahálka first appear as guest characters before joining the main cast.
15	* AssholeVictim: The murder victim from ''Klaudynka'' ultimately turns out to be such a reprehensible human being that even Arazím feels much sympathy with the murderer.
16	* AtrociousAlias: Jarý is audibly amused reading anarchists' nicknames out loud in ''Černá ruka''.
17	* BadPeopleAbuseAnimals: The victim in ''Lázeňské intermezzo'', Mrs. Steiner, is noted to have been very fond of cats. After her death, her husband, Dr. Steiner, poisoned them all after her death to get rid of them. It is also eventually revealed he was the one who killed his wife.
18	* TheBait: Jarý in ''Volavka'' becomes one to lure out and catch the SerialRapist.
19	* BaldOfEvil: Exner in ''Repetent'' does not have a single hair on his head, and he is a conman wanted far and wide for his crimes.
20	* BarBrawl: One happens at the start of ''Návrat'', caused by an exchange of insults between two locals.
21	* BigBad: Kugel is the closest thing the series has to overall main antagonist. He first appears as a minor antagonist in Season 2's final episode until he becomes the main antagonist of the final season.
22	* BittersweetEnding: The series ends with one thanks to incoming World War 2. One could argue that its more of a DownerEnding. [[spoiler: Kugel is killed by gendarmes. Arazím's wife Ludmila with her children, Arazím's daughter Klaudie with her baby, Kamila Kliková, Elly Vienna and [=McGregor=] fly to England while Arazím and Jarý stay on duty in Brno. In the end they celebrate with other gendarmes that they are together but incoming occupation and war is inevitable leaving their fates unknown]].
23	* BlackWidow: Rozálie Mašková in ''Vdavky za všechny prachy'' is a serial black widow, having murdered three of her husbands for money. She ends up disposing of Hroch, another villain of the episode, as her fourth and final victim.
24	* BluffingTheMurderer:
25	** Arazím pulls this off in ''Ferda Mravenec'' during the reenactment of the tramp's death.
26	** Jarý manages to orchestrate this in a non-murder case in ''Návrat'', arranging Jandák's accidental confession to being the author of the MaliciousSlander that had been appearing in the town throughout the episode, planting a sealed letter accusing the mayor of buying votes, prompting Jandák to write it, thus confirming their suspicion and concluding the case.
27	* BoomHeadshot: The victim in ''Grunt'' gets shot in the head by the murderer at the beginning of the episode.
28	* BreakTheCutie: [[spoiler:Toníček's death]] has a huge negative impact on the usually nice Anděla, leaving the poor girl in tears. [[spoiler:Not helping is the fact that she is at the time pregnant with Toníček's child.]]. She gets better though, [[spoiler:falling in love with the new dog handler Ryba, eventually marrying him]].
29	* BusmansHoliday: ''Lázeňské intermezzo'' involves Arazím and Ludmila going on holidays to a spa resort. A murder takes place there, and Arazím ends up spending more time investigating it than relaxing with Ludmila.
30	* ButtMonkey: Zahálka tends to get himself into humiliating situations and often finds himself mocked by his fellow gendarmes for it.
31	* CallBack:
32	** Jarý mentions his girl disguise from ''Volavka'' in ''Repetent'' when Zahálka complains that his first case involves studying train schedules.
33	** The bad mead from ''Medovina'' is referenced in ''Narodil se Kristus Pán''.
34	** Peřina mentions to Arazím in ''Táta'' that he defended Deputy Slepička from ''Slepice versus Slepička'' as a lawyer.
35	* CandlelitRitual: Menšíková organises one with other old ladies in ''Medovina'' to curse the thief who stole her hives.
36	* CaughtWithYourPantsDown: In ''Návrat'', Ládíček, the farm hand of Jandák who was stealing and planting poppies upon the orders of the farm owner Jandák, ultimately reveals the reason why he carried out Jandák's orders was because Jandák walked in on him "not having a girl" and then threatened to tell everyone.
37	* ChristmasEpisode: ''Narodil se Kristus Pán'' takes place during the Christmas period.
38	* ConcealingCanvas: In ''Slepice versus Slepička'', a painting in Deputy Slepička's mansion conceals a hidden electricity meter which allows him to steal electricity from local electric power company.
39	* LesCollaborateurs: The episode ''Čest rodu'' focuses on a group of conspirators aiding Austrian fascists by secretly smuggling weapon plans.
40	* ConMan:
41	** The main villain of the serious case in ''Repetent'', a disabled man named Exner, presents himself as a trustworthy and generous individual, but he turns out to be using forged bank books to defraud banks of huge sums of money. He's convincing enough to have Zahálka trust in his innocence for a moment.
42	** Aleš Hroch in ''Vdavky za všechny prachy'' is a marriage fraudster who impersonates Jiroušek as a part of his latest con. To his bad luck, he tries to scam certain Mašková, a BlackWidow.
43	* CoolOldGuy: Šiktanc. He is an old gendarme who retires in Season 1 but he still remains mentor figure to Arazím and other gendarmes and when asked for help, he goes to action.
44	* CorruptCorporateExecutive: Rýgl in ''Ohněstrůjce'' is a mining company co-owner and director who falsifies the amounts of mined stone, swindling the other company co-owners, and who forces the quarry worker Kolomazník to take blame for the injury which was caused by him being forced to use excessive amount of explosives by the company higher ups.
45	* CorruptPolitician: Two of them in the first episode, ''Slepice versus Slepička''. The mayor, who turns out to be the poacher poaching on Deputy Slepička's grounds, and Deputy Slepička himself, who is revealed to be stealing electricity with the use of a secret electricity meter.
46	* CounterfeitCash: A part of the scheme to steal money from the post office in ''Černá ruka'' involves replacement of a proper stack of a hundred thousand Czechoslovak crowns with a stack of counterfeit copies during counting of money.
47	* DarkenedBuildingShootout: One happens in the finale of ''Svatba'' between the killer Buzek and the gendarmes.
48	* DeadGuyJunior: [[spoiler:Anděla's daughter is named Tonička in honour of her deceased father Toníček.]]
49	* DeadlyDoctor: The villain of Arazím's plotline in ''Lázeňské intermezzo'', Dr. Steiner, kills his wife.
50	* DeadpanSnarker: While [[WorldOfSnark about every member of the gendarmerie unit]] throws in a snarky line every now and then, Arazím still stands out as the biggest snarker of them all.
51	* DeathFromAbove: In ''Beáta'', the titular nun gets murdered this way, getting killed by a church bell dropped on her head.
52	* DefiledForever: ''Volavka'' features several rape victims fearing their reputation becoming tarnished after the rape they endured.
53	* DemotedToExtra: Šiktanc is one of main characters in the first season. After he retires he becomes more of a guest character.
54	* {{Deuteragonist}}: Jarý is this to Arazím's protagonist as he is the second most important character.
55	* DisappearedDad: One of the overarching plot points of Season 2 is the disappearance of Ondra's father and Karlička's husband who left to search for oil in Arabia and hasn't returned in years. [[spoiler:He ultimately returns in the second half of the season and reveals what caused him to be unable to return for so long - a five year sentence in an Arabian prison.]]
56	* DisinheritedChild: The debauched Vilém Kesler in ''Beáta'' knows his father's will has his sister inherit the vast inheritance, and spends the episode using various underhanded means to ensure he would get a bigger share from it. When he learns of his sister's death, he goes celebrate to a brothel, overjoyed of becoming the heir. Ultimately though, his celebrations turn out to be premature, as his father ends up changing his will, disinheriting him.
57	* DownerEnding:
58	** ''Svatba'' ends [[spoiler:with Argo injured by stabbing and Toníček shot dead the night before before his wedding with Anděla]].
59	** ''Klaudynka'' ends with the case resolved [[spoiler:with the sympathetic murderer's death, Jarý forced to ask for transfer, Ludmila departing to Florida with [=McGregor=] due to Arazím's reluctance to marry and Klaudie leaving to study in Paris]].
60	* DownfallBySex: The perpetrator of the rapes in the ''Volavka'' episode, Mr. Černý, is an affable man with a house, loving family and a decent job of a foreman in a sizeable factory. His inability to control his sexual thirst however causes him to end up getting caught and arrested.
61	* DraggedIntoDrag: In ''Volavka'', Jarý is ordered by Arazím to dress in female clothes and join the female factory workers as TheBait to lure out the rapist that attacked several of them before.
62	* DrivenToSuicide: This happens several times.
63	** In ''Volavka'', one of the victims hangs herself after a furious husband attacks her when he hears her confession about being raped.
64	** In ''Medovina'', the arsonist, Mrs. Kadrnožková, kills herself after the gendarmes take her son for questioning.
65	** At the end of ''Grunt'', Pavelka Sr., the father of the episode's murderer as well as the uncaught murderer from many years ago commits suicide.
66	** At the end of ''Repetent'', Arazím is informed the conman Exner hanged himself in a prison cell using the straps of his prosthetic leg.
67	** Margareta from ''Klaudynka'' chooses to drown herself after admitting being the murderer who killed her father. While Arazím laments he could have saved her if his leg was alright and that the justice system would have likely freed her due to the sheer amount of mitigating circumstances, it is ultimately noted that this would have made little difference since she wouldn't have been able to live a fulfilling life after all the trauma that she had to suffer.
68	* DueToTheDead: The gendarmes salute and fire a rifle salvo during [[spoiler:Toníček's]] funeral.
69	* DumbMuscle: ''Návrat'' features Ládíček, the farm hand of Jandák, a guy strong enough to beat up a pursuing gendarme but also clearly not the sharpest tool in the shed, easily blackmailed into doing Jandák's bidding by his threats that he will tell the village [[CaughtWithYourPantsDown that he was masturbating]] if he doesn't listen to him.
70	* EvilCripple: The villain of ''Repetent'', Exner, a wanted conman, is a one-legged man who uses a prosthetic peg leg and a pair of crutches to walk.
71	* EvilLaugh: Arazím dreams of the treasurer Komiš having one targetted at him in ''Černá ruka''.
72	* EvilOldFolks:
73	** The murderer in ''Beáta'' is an elderly former aristocrat with adult children who ends up killing one of them due to his antisemitism.
74	** The villain of ''Černá ruka'', Komiš, is an elderly man just ahead of retirement.
75	* EvilRedhead: Rozálie Mašková in the episode ''Vdavky za všechny prachy'' has dark red hair and is a serial BlackWidow.
76	* ExtremeLibido: The victim of the episode ''Směšný vrah'' turns out to be an extreme nymphomaniac, to the degree that the murderer says that [[UsefulNotes/{{Claudius}} Messalina]] was a virgin when compared to her.
77	* FilchingFoodForFun: In ''Repetent'', Ryba lets other gendarmes have his pankakes, as he does not eat in the morning. Jarý claims his plate. The gendarmes then first grab all the pancakes on it, then proceed to return them to him... [[BaitAndSwitch Only to then take pancakes from both Jarý's and Ryba's plate, leaving him with just one pancake in the end]].
78	* TheFoodPoisoningIncident: Nearly happens to the gendarmes and guests celebrating Anděla and Toníček's engagement in ''Medovina'' as they are to toast with bad mead produced by the thief of hives, baker's helper Kotrba. Menšíková stops them moments before they drink it, then forces Kotrba to drink a full glass of it as a punishment for the theft. It causes him a very quick PottyEmergency.
79	* {{Foreshadowing}}: An OuijaBoard ritual in one of the episodes of the first season shows Arazím the word "Klaudie". Noone makes much sense of that at that moment. The meaning reveals itself in the ending of ''Narodil se Kristus Pán'', Klaudie being the name of Arazím's Russian daughter who came to Czechoslovakia to seek him out.
80	* FourEyesZeroSoul:
81	** Dr. Steiner in ''Lázeňské intermezzo'' is a bespectacled man who murders his wife.
82	** Treasurer Komiš in ''Černá ruka'' wears a pair of thick glasses and he works with a counterfeiter to steal tens of thousands of crowns from the postal office he works at.
83	* GagPenis: In the episode ''Volavka'', it's mentioned several times that the rapist has a particularly sizeable penis. Jarý is subsequently tasked with finding out who has the biggest penis in the factory where the rape victims worked.
84	* GenteelInterbellumSetting: The series is set in 1930s First Czechoslovak Republic and ends around the time [[UsefulNotes/NaziGermany the Third Reich]] begins to encroach on the country.
85	* GracefulLoser: Exner in ''Repetent'' recognises his defeat when the gendarmes catch him in a hotel room and only asks Arazím to let him finish his bottle of cognac.
86	* GratuitousRussian: Klaudie's appearances have her often speak Russian. Justified, considering that Klaudie was raised by her Russian mother and Russian was thus her mother tongue.
87	* GraveMarkingScene:
88	** In ''Beáta'' Arazím and the Jewish doctor visit the Kesler family grave after the murder case is concluded.
89	** In ''Táta'', Arazím, inspired by the investigation of Ondra's father's disappearance he was tasked with, starts searching for his own father as well. It however turns out that his own father died a few years ago, and so the only thing he can do is go to his grave to pay his respects.
90	* GreedMakesYouDumb: In ''Lázeňské intermezzo'' the murderer has a plan to have both himself and his accomplice escape justice, having the accomplice carry evidence - murder weapon and jewellery - from the crime scene, while he would claim to gendarmes that he and his wife were robbed and shot by the robbers. He also instructs the accomplice to destroy the items to make the gendarmes unable to prove that there was no robbery, as evidence to disprove that would never be found. The accomplice however decides to keep an ornamental necklace of the victim for herself, being too charmed by its beauty. She then gets seen trying to hide it, giving the gendarmes the evidence they need. When the gendarmes confront the murderer with the evidence, he snaps at the accomplice for ruining their plan due to her stupid greed.
91	* HateCrimesAreASpecialKindOfEvil: In ''Beáta'', we see Arazím at one of his most furious points in the whole series when he confronts the antisemitic murderer, and he has to hold himself not to stab him with a bayonet when he keeps spitting antisemitic remarks. At that point, he even utters that he regrets that he has to respect the law.
92	* HateSink:
93	** The murderer in ''Beáta'', Ervín Kesler, is a particularly horrid villain. He is a former Austro-Hungarian [[AristocratsAreEvil aristocrat]] who has a HolierThanThou attitude toward Arazím because the latter happens to be an atheist and who happens to be a staunch antisemite, to the degree that he [[OffingTheOffspring murders his own daughter]] over her being in love with a Jewish doctor, and later attempts to kill the Jewish doctor as well. Arazím visibly does not enjoy being in his presence, and when confronting him in the episode's finale, he is livid to the point that he nearly stabs him with a bayonet over his antisemitic talk.
94	** The murder victim of ''Klaudynka'' - the miller - is without a doubt one when his backstory is revealed. He turns out to have been a tyrannical father who terrorrised the family and who [[ParentalIncest regularly raped his underage daughter]], infecting her with syphilis and breaking the poor girl's mental health. He was also responsible for the his wife's death by leaving her to die in a burning barn that was set alight in a struggle caused by him - even calmly eating a dinner after the incident. He later tried to murder his daughter by attempting to strangle her at night, and he would have succeeded if his sons were not awakened during the struggle, with the ensuing fight giving the daughter a window of opportunity to finally kill him with an axe. It is quite telling that noone missed him afer his sudden disappearance and when the daughter tells Arazím the whole truth, he feels sympathetic for her more than anything.
95	* HeroesLoveDogs: All members of the unit love dogs.
96	* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:After Buzek sets fire to the building he was hiding in, Toníček rushes into the building to save children trapped in the building from the fire, exposing himself in the process while the killer is still around. While Toníček manages to save the children from the fire, he ends up getting fatally shot in the back by Buzek who uses the window of opportunity.]]
97	* HoistByHisOwnPetard: The murdering tramp in ''Ferda Mravenec'' dies while attempting to commit another murder, strangled by the very scarf he used to strangle his victims with.
98	* ICantHearYou: When Jarý comes to Arazím waiting in a pub in ''Medovina'', he notes that it's too loud in there. Arazím says that he can't hear him... Because it's too loud in there.
99	* ImmoralJournalist: Subverted with Kliková who is always looking for story but when it comes to it she acts morally and helping others.
100	* INeverGotAnyLetters: Rozsíval is baffled when he finds out his love never got any letters he sent her from the United States. When Urbánek reveals to Rozsíval that he intercepted those, read them and then burned them during their confrontation, Rozsíval becomes so furious he immediately punches Urbánek in the face in response.
101	* TheInsomniac: It is revealed in ''Repetent'' that Turko is one. His trouble sleeping at night stems from an incident that left him crippled and his colleague killed, which was caused by him sleeping too hard once.
102	* InterrogationByVandalism: In ''Grunt'', Arazím needs to find a murder weapon, a gun matching the bullet that killed the victim. The suspect, Pavelka Jr., is however very uncooperative and adamantly refuses to reveal its location. He is also a man extremely proud of his ownership of the largest farm in the village he lives in, and Arazím makes use of this in the episode's finale. First, he tricks Pavelka into giving the gendarmes permission to search his estate, then he orders the gendarmes to commit an extremely thorough search of the grounds, all while Pavelka would be watching. Pavelka protests the search making a mess of his precious estate, but keeps refusing to tell where the gun is, getting Arazím to order the roof of the farmhouse to be dismantled. The sight of the roof getting taken apart is too much for Pavelka, and so he capitulates and reveals the weapon's location.
103	* InterruptedIntimacy:
104	** Vilém Kesler in the finale of ''Beáta'' is about to have sex with a prostitute when one of the gendarmes finds him. The gendarme notes to him that he should be glad, for it means he has an alibi.
105	** This also happens in ''Ferda Mravenec'' to a pair of unsuspecting lovers accidentally caught by the gendarmes.
106	* ItsPersonal: The ConMan Hroch in ''Vdavky za všechny prachy'' impersonates the gendarme Sláva Jiroušek. The real Jiroušek understandably takes it personally and starts investigating on his own despite Arazím banning him from the investigation.
107	* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Arazím. He is rude and often angry, but ultimately, he is a loyal friend and overall a good guy.
108	* KarmaHoudini:
109	** Cinkánová in ''Krkatá bába'' turns out to be organising trade of newborn infants from mothers who don't want to keep them to mothers who do want them but can't give birth, not for personal gain, but [[WellIntentionedExtremist because she believes she is doing the right thing]]. Due to moral ambiguity of the matter, the gendarmes ultimately decide to let her go.
110	** Doctor Korous in the episode ''Doktor Smrt'' gets away with his crimes.
111	* KindheartedCatLover: The murder victim in ''Lázeňské intermezzo'' is noted by the masseur to have been a generally kind woman very fond of cats. It soon turns out her husband didn't share his wife's love for her numerous cats and [[BadPeopleAbuseAnimals had them them after her murder]].
112	* LadykillerInLove: At the start of the series, Arazím has a reputation of a big womaniser and is in the process of ending yet another relationship in the first episode. He genuinely falls in love with the florist Ludmila, though his reputation causes him troubles courting her. When Ludmila departs Czechoslovakia, he genuinely falls in love again with Karlička. After circumstances force him to end his relationship with Karlička and after Ludmila returns to Czechoslovakia, he returns to courting her and ultimately ends up marrying her.
113	* LanguageBarrier: Downplayed. While Klaudie mostly speaks [[GratuitousRussian Russian]] and knows next to no Czech when she arrives in Czechoslovakia and all of the gendarmes speak Czech and have little to no knowledge of Russian, they more or less manage to understand each other, as the two languages are both Slavic. There are however still some differences which lead to misunderstandings, like when Arazím accidentally insults Klaudie's cooking while intending to praise it[[note]]he calls the cooking "úžasné", meaning "amazing", which however sounds like the Russian word ужасные, which means "awful, horrible"[[/note]].
114	* LethalChef: Stela, the Gendarmerie unit's cook in Anděla's absence. Pretty much all of the gendarmes hate her cooking and not even the Station's dogs want to eat food cooked by her.
115	* LongLostRelative: Arazím and Klaudie are a father and daughter who never met each other, with Arazím departing Russia before her birth. Klaudie only knew of her father's existence from her mother's stories, and in fact, Arazím had no idea that he had a daughter. By the time they first meet in ''Narodil se Kristus Pán'', Arazím is a middle-aged man and Klaudie is an adult woman.
116	* LoveObstructingParents:
117	** Due to her own experience of her husband dying in the Great War, Anděla's mother refuses to let her marry Toníček, as she fears that as a gendarme, he is working a too dangerous job that will get him killed and leave Anděla a widow as well. [[spoiler:She turns out to be right.]]
118	** Arazím himself becomes one during ''Klaudynka'', frantically trying to prevent her and Jarý from developing a romantic relationship. This ultimately leads to the two gendarmes getting in a fight at the end of the episode.
119	* LowerDeckEpisode: The episode ''Rýhonosec řepný'' focuses on Zahálka.
120	** ''Poklad'' gives very small role to the main cast and focuses mostly on guest characters.
121	** ''Skokan'' focuses mainly on Kvido who is a guest character.
122	* MaliciousSlander: Mysterious writings on a cemetery wall appear in one town throughout the episode ''Návrat'', slandering the reputation of locals. At first, they blame Kalousek, a local vineyard owner who is regarded by others as a snitch due to reporting the previous mayor Jandák's corruption once. Ultimately, it is revealed that it was the disgruntled Jandák who had been writing the lies.
123	* MayorPain: The mayor in the first episode, ''Slepice versus Slepička'', is as unhelpful to the gendarmes as possible, finding them one blind and one deaf helper, refuses to support Arazím's claim that Deputy Slepička was aiming at him with a gun despite being a witness to it and also briefly becomes Arazím's rival for Ludmila's attention. He also happens to be the poacher the gendarmes are searching for in the episode.
124	* MeanBoss: Arazím turns into one over the course of Klaudynka, relieving his annoyances with Jarý, Klaudie, Ludmila and his injured leg on the gendarmes by terrorising them with his sudden authoritarian behaviour and bad mood.
125	* MiscarriageOfJustice: One happened offscreen in ''Návrat'' to Rozsíval, who was sentenced to prison in America after he was accused of mailing a bomb to his love. We ultimately learn that he sent a Bible which was switched for the bomb by his jealous friend Urbánek.
126	* MultiPartEpisode: The episode ''Doktor Smrt'' is split into two parts, ''Doktor Smrt I'' and ''Doktor Smrt II''.
127	* MurderTheHypotenuse: The murder case in ''Krkatá bába'' turns out to be this, with a woman's husband getting killed by his friend so that the latter could later marry the widowed wife.
128	* MySignificanceSenseIsTingling: In ''Ohněstrůjce'', when Anděla's mother suffers a stroke, Anděla feels something bad happened while she is cutting onions. She cuts her finger due to being distracted by the thought.
129	* NaturalizedName: Ludmila's stepbrother Joseph [=McGregor=] used to be named Josef Řehoř, but he changed his name after emigrating to America as nobody could pronouce his Czech surname there.
130	* {{Nepotism}}: Skrčílek is implied to be the case.
131	* NeverMessWithGranny: The elderly lady Menšíková not only manages to terrify all of the gendarmes with her repeated presence and unshuttuble sharp-tongued mouth, but she also manages to investigate and solve one of the crimes in ''Medovina'' by herself, catching the thief who stole her hives and parading him all the way to the Gendarmerie Station, punishing him before the eyes of all gendarmes.
132	* NiceGirl: Anděla is a very sweet girl liked by all of the Brno gendarmes.
133	* NoMercyForMurderers: In ''Směšný vrah'', the victim turns out to be a crazy nymphomaniac who was murdered by her lover, a hairdresser named Keliš, who decided to murder her after an incident when she came to his salon, chased out his customers and demanded sex on spot. The victim was also despised by her stepdaughter Jana, who sincerely wanted something horrible to happen to her, and when Jana meets the murderer in custody, she confesses to him that she wished for her stepmother to die and even gives him a small gift. He is nevertheless imprisoned.
134	* OffingTheOffspring: The murderer of the titular nun in ''Beáta'' turns out to be her antisemitic father furious over her relationship with a Jewish doctor.
135	* OhCrap: In ''Černá ruka'', Komiš gets a magnificent look on his face acknowledging how screwed he is after the stolen money is finally found in his house.
136	* OrnamentalWeapon: The gendarmes are sometimes seen carrying sabres as part of their uniform, but they're never really used by them. It's TruthInTelevision - sabres were a part of historical interwar Czechoslovak gendarmerie's equipment.
137	* PainToTheAss: The mayor in ''Slepice versus Slepička'' ends up getting shot in the butt by the hunting grounds keeper when caught and revealed as a poacher.
138	* PapaWolf: Arazím, after he finds out he is a father, becomes very protective about Klaudie.
139	* ParentalIncest: Margareta in ''Klaudynka'' turns out to have been the victim of rape by her father a number of times, even getting infected with syphilis from him.
140	* PlanetOfSteves: A hilarious downplayed example happens in ''Černá ruka''. One of the plot points of the episode is the fact that the burglary in the post office happened on the eve of Karel's name day. Arazím, Karel himself, keeps finding characters named Karel all throughout the episode, much to his annoyance.
141	* PokeThePoodle: The perpertrator of the comedic case of ''Repetent'' breaks into schools, steals school supplies and leaves his excrements at the crime scene. Arazím is visibly more amused than anything else when finally meeting him after he surrenders and is brought to the station.
142	* PoliceLineup: At the end of ''Krkatá bába'', one happens at a courthouse. To provide the final piece of evidence to resolve the murder case, a child witness is asked to identify the man she saw entering and leaving the secret entrance of the cavern where the murder happened.
143	* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: The murderer in ''Beáta'' is a former aristocrat holding antisemitic views. He recommends the gendarmes to read Literature/TheProtocolsOfTheEldersOfZion, murders his daughter over her relationship with a Jewish doctor and eventually tries to kill the doctor as well.
144	* PrecisionFstrike: In ''Medovina'', furious Arazím tells Menšíková he has better stuff to do than search for her (what could be translated as) fucking hives.
145	* PrettyInMink: The first appearance of Arazím's Russian aristocratic daughter Klaudie in ''Narodil se Kristus Pán'' has her dressed in a thick fur coat and hat.
146	* PrimaDonnaDirector: The theatre troupe in ''Ochotníci'' has a one, furious at every slight mistake the actors make.
147	* RankUp: After Šiktanc retires, Arazím is promoted to his position of chief gendarme of the Brno station. Jarý is then awarded a promotion as well, becoming Arazím's deputy.
148	* ReallyGetsAround: The murder victim in ''Směšný vrah'' kept a diary recalling her extensive sexual life, and while it's never specified just how many partners she had, it's implied she switched them as soon as she grew tired of them, as she planned to replace her last one (the hairdresser Keliš) once he couldn't satisfy her ExtremeLibido anymore.
149	* RightHandCat: The BlackWidow Mašková in ''Vdavky za všechny prachy'' has a Persian cat with which she discusses her plans.
150	* RomanticCandlelitDinner: Arazím and Ludmila have one at the end of their spa vacation in ''Lázeňské intermezzo''.
151	* SellWhatYouLove: This situation happens to the Derna family in ''Táta''. Derna has a sickly daughter, loses his job in the episode (which wasn't paying particularly well before either) and desperately needs to find money for hospital because his daughter's condition keeps worsening. His wife gives him an old family necklace to sell off to a jeweller, and so Derna reluctantly visits him. Thankfully, the trade ends up disrupted by the robbers who storm the store, and as Derna manages to help stop them, Arazím quickly negotiates for the jeweller to employ Derna as a security guard and to give him the money for the hospital, thus making the sale of the necklace not needed anymore.
152	* SerialRapist: The rapist in the episode ''Volavka'' rapes four women and is caught trying to rape a fifth one. The fifth one happens to be [[DraggedIntoDrag Jarý in disguise]].
153	* ShoutOut: In ''Lázeňské intermezzo'', Jarý and Anděla go to a cinema where they watch a comedy film. The comedy the two watch is ''Hej rup!'', a real 1934 Czechoslovak film starring Jan Werich and Jiří Voskovec.
154	* ShotgunWedding: In ''Narodil se Kristus Pán'', Arazím learns that Mr. Celestýn, the suspect in the less serious case, fathered a child and then proceeded to abandon the mother. Later when he is caught of comitting the crime, Arazím offers him two options - either jail, or marrying the girl he left. Celestýn chooses the marriage.
155	* SlippingAMickey: In ''Čest rodu'', the old count's sons put their father to sleep by tampering with his coffee so that they can take the incriminating message he confiscated from them.
156	* SmugSnake: Komiš in ''Černá ruka'' is noticeably smirking when the gendarmes search his house, confident that they won't find the lost banknotes there. He even smugly tells Arazím that he will oversee the gendarmes cleaning the mess they made during the search. He loses his smug composure when Arazím finds the banknotes after realising where they are really hidden in the last moment.
157	* SnarkToSnarkCombat: Ludmila is prone to engaging in these with Arazím. The unit members also engage in mutual snarking from time to time.
158	* StealingFromTheTill:
159	** In ''Repetent'', a savings bank clerk embezzles one hundred thousand Czechoslovak crowns from the bank and disappears. She is eventually caught with the conman Exner.
160	** In ''Černá ruka'', the post office treasurer Komiš orchestrates a scheme to steal tens of thousands of Czechoslovak crowns from the post office he works at.
161	* StillFightingTheCivilWar:
162	** Ervín Kesler from ''Beáta'' is a former aristocrat who still keeps a portrait of Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria-Hungary hung in his mansion even though the setting is 1930s First Czechoslovak Republic, and he keeps a book in his library which brands President Masaryk a traitor to the nation.
163	** Notably averted with the old count in ''Čest rodu'', who, despite being an officer Austro-Hungarian military, is loyal to the First Republic for allowing him to keep his family properties after the end of the war, and is utterly repulsed by the discovery that his sons are conspiring against Czechoslovakia.
164	* SupremeChef:
165	** Anděla is one, with her cooking loved by all of the gendarmes. Her getting temporarily replaced by [[LethalChef Stela]] in ''Volavka'' is regarded as a great tragedy by the entire gendarmerie unit.
166	** Klaudie turns out to be one in ''Klaudynka'', her fancy dinner quickly winning her the favour of the gendarmes.
167	** Stela's sister Blažena, despite Arazím's initial fears, turns out to be a great replacement of Anděla as the gendarmerie unit's cook when the Anděla permanently leaves the station to take care of her deceased mother's farm. It is mentioned by Anděla in ''Ohněstrůjce'' that it was in fact Blažena who taught her how to cook so well.
168	* SympatheticMurderer: The murderer from ''Klaudynka'' was systematically raped by her father as an underage (as a result of which she got syphilis), saw her mother die in a fire caused by her father during a struggle in a barn and got nearly strangled by the father. Arazím sympathises with her and does not particualrly blame her when she tells him that she hit the father from behind with an axe while he fought her brothers who were trying to defend her.
169	* TellHimImNotSpeakingToHim: In ''Slepice versus Slepička'', Arazím and Jarý communicate through Arazím's dog Kikina like this for some time until Arazím warms up to Jarý a bit.
170	* ThisCannotBe: The old count in ''Čest rodu'' expresses his disbelief this way when he discovers the message proving his sons are in fact collaborating with fascists in Austria.
171	* TillMurderDoUsPart: The murder in ''Lázeňské intermezzo'' turns out to be a case of this trope - the Doctor preparing and executing a murder of his wife.
172	* TookALevelInKindness: Skrčílek is initally introduced as an unsympathetic idiot who rats on others and only creates problems. At the end he is injured when chasing robbers during which he shows more selfless side. After his injury he leaves the Gendarmerie Station. He returns during last episode when he is revealed to be transferred to police archive. He is shown in more sympathetic light during the episode as he openly shows disgust with Nazis and is one of main focuses in the B story.
173	* TwinTest: When investigating the murder case in ''Čest rodu'', the Gendarmes discover two possible suspects - a pair of identical twins, who, when brought before the Gendarmes, cover for each other, claiming that the other was resting in a hospital after an appendix surgery. Arazím is then asked with figuring which one of them was actually in the hospital and which one of them did the killing. He resolves it by ordering the twins to strip and then checking which one of them has a post-surgery scar.
174	* TwoLinesNoWaiting: Each episode usually focuses on 2 criminal cases - serious one (usually murder) and comedy relief case.
175	* VerbalBackspace: When Jarý catches the SerialRapist in ''Volavka'' and prepares to summon the nearby gendarmes to arrest him, he says he's sorry, only to immediately realise what he said, backpedal and say that he's not.
176	* VillainousBreakdown: In ''Beáta'', when confronted with the fact that many biblical characters are Jewish, the religious and antisemitic Ervín Kesler suffers a mental breakdown during which he attempts to attack Arazím with a crucifix. In his last moments onscreen, he starts LaughingMad after telling the gendarmes he disinherited his debauched son earlier that day.
177	* VillainWithGoodPublicity: The murderer in ''Krkatá bába'' is a respected professor and a city councilor.
178	* WarHero: Arazím is one, having fought in World War I and Russian Civil War as a member of the Czechoslovak Legion. It is even mentioned that he met the future President Masaryk on the Russian front and escorted him across a square shelled by the Bolsheviks once.
179	* WeddingEpisode:
180	** ''Svatba'' is set up to become one between Toníček and Anděla, with even the name of the episode literally meaning "wedding". [[spoiler:This is however averted due to Toníček's untimely death the night before the wedding]].
181	** ''Klaudynka'' starts with a wedding between Anděla and Václav.
182	* WellIntentionedExtremist: Cinkánová in ''Krkatá bába'' could be considered one. She organises trade of newborn children between mothers who don't want to keep their children and mothers want to have children who cannot give birth. She sincerely believes what she is doing is the right thing, as she believes giving the unwanted babies a loving family is much better than having them grow up in an orphanage.
183	* WorldOfSnark: About all of the members of the Brno Gendarmerie Station throw a sarcastic comment every now and then.
184	* YouGotMurder: ''Návrat'' features a case where Urbánek, the culprit of the serious case of the episode, switched a Bible his friend Rozsíval sent to his love interest for a bomb long before the episode took place. The attempt ultimately failed to hurt the woman, but nevertheless caused Rozsíval to be sent to prison in the United States where he resided at the time.
185	* YouNeedABreathMint: Arazím's date with Ludmila in ''Svatba'' ends up being unsuccessful due to Arazím's lunch - roasted pig tails with garlic - giving him foul breath.

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