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Dahl adapted his own story into a 1958 episode of ''Series/AlfredHitchcockPresents'', one of the handful to be directed by Creator/AlfredHitchcock himself; Creator/BarbaraBelGeddes starred as Mary.
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Dahl adapted his own story into a 1958 episode of ''Series/AlfredHitchcockPresents'', one of the handful to be directed by Creator/AlfredHitchcock himself; Creator/BarbaraBelGeddes starred as Mary.
Mary. It was later adapted as a 1979 episode of ''Series/TalesOfTheUnexpected'' as well.
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* BelievingTheirOwnLies: Briefly. [[spoiler:Mary gets so deep into her happy housewife act when she's establishing her alibi that when she gets back home, she starts crying over Patrick's body]].
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* BelievingTheirOwnLies: Briefly. [[spoiler:Mary gets so deep into her happy housewife act when she's establishing her alibi that when she gets back home, she starts crying over Patrick's body]].body.]]
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* AccidentallyAccurate: [[spoiler: Yes, officers, the murder weapon ''is'' "right under your noses"...because you're eating it.]]
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* VillainProtagonist: Mary is the main protagonist and the story is about her trying to get away with murdering her husband.
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* DivorceRequiresDeath / TilMurderDoUsPart: The result of Patrick asking Mary for a divorce.
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* TheUnsolvedMystery: In-universe. The police never find the weapon as [[spoiler: they ate it]], and presumably, never catch Mary.
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* TheUnsolvedMystery: In-universe. The police never find the weapon as [[spoiler: they ate it]], and presumably, never catch Mary.Mary.
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"Lamb to the Slaughter" is a short horror story written by Creator/RoaldDahl, first published in ''Harper's Magazine'' in 1953.
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"Lamb to the Slaughter" is a short horror story written by Creator/RoaldDahl, Creator/RoaldDahl and first published in ''Harper's Magazine'' in 1953.
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"Lamb to the Slaughter" is a short horror story written in 1953 by Creator/RoaldDahl. Mary Maloney greets her husband Patrick when he returns home from work, sullen and upset, and finds that he wishes to get a divorce. [[WomanScorned Mary doesn't take it well.]]
Dahl adapted his short story into a 1958 episode of ''Series/AlfredHitchcockPresents'', one of the handful to be directed by Creator/AlfredHitchcock himself; Barbara Bel Geddes starred as Mary.
Dahl adapted his short story into a 1958 episode of ''Series/AlfredHitchcockPresents'', one of the handful to be directed by Creator/AlfredHitchcock himself; Barbara Bel Geddes starred as Mary.
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"Lamb to the Slaughter" is a short horror story written by Creator/RoaldDahl, first published in 1953 by Creator/RoaldDahl. ''Harper's Magazine'' in 1953.
Mary Maloney greets her husband Patrick when he returns home from work, sullen and upset, and finds that he wishes to get a divorce. [[WomanScorned Mary doesn't take it well.]]
Dahl adapted hisshort own story into a 1958 episode of ''Series/AlfredHitchcockPresents'', one of the handful to be directed by Creator/AlfredHitchcock himself; Barbara Bel Geddes Creator/BarbaraBelGeddes starred as Mary.
Mary Maloney greets her husband Patrick when he returns home from work, sullen and upset, and finds that he wishes to get a divorce. [[WomanScorned Mary doesn't take it well.]]
Dahl adapted his
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* AccidentallyAccurate: [[spoilers: Yes, officers, the murder weapon ''is'' "right under your noses"...because you're eating it.]]
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* AccidentallyAccurate: [[spoilers: [[spoiler: Yes, officers, the murder weapon ''is'' "right under your noses"...because you're eating it.]]
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* AccidentallyAccurate: [[spoilers: Yes, officers, the murder weapon ''is'' "right under your noses"...because you're eating it.]]
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* {{Irony}}: Often used in high school English classes as a definitive example of such.
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* {{Irony}}: Often used in high school English classes as a definitive example of such. [[spoiler: In the final moments, the cops searching for the murder weapon comment that it must be "right under their noses"...as they're literally eating the now-cooked leg of lamb that Mary used to kill Patrick.]]
* LaughingMad: [[spoiler: In the final moments, after hearing the cops remark that the murder weapon (which they're eating) is "right under their noses," Mary starts to giggle hysterically in the next room.]]
* LaughingMad: [[spoiler: In the final moments, after hearing the cops remark that the murder weapon (which they're eating) is "right under their noses," Mary starts to giggle hysterically in the next room.]]
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* FriendOnTheForce: Patrick was friends with all of the detectives and police officers who come to investigate his case. [[spoiler:{{Averted}} in that Patrick is both dead and his case left unsolved.]]
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* FriendOnTheForce: Patrick Patrick, himself a senior police officer, was friends with all of the detectives and police officers who come to investigate his case. [[spoiler:{{Averted}} in that Patrick is both dead and his case left unsolved.]]
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* BelievingTheirOwnLies: Briefly. [[spoiler:Mary gets so deep into her happy housewife act when she's establishing her alibi that when she gets back home, she starts crying over Patrick's body]].
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* AdaptationalKarma: Hilariously in the ''Alfred Hitchcock Presents'' version, Mary gets caught attempting to murder her second husband in the exact same way. The meat isn't hard enough to even injure him because "he was the forgetful type and had forgotten to plug in the freezer".
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* AdaptationalKarma: AdaptationalKarma[=/=]OffscreenKarma: Hilariously in the ''Alfred Hitchcock Presents'' version, Hitchcock explains in the epilogue that Mary gets got caught attempting to murder her second husband in the exact same way. The meat isn't hard enough to even injure him because "he was the forgetful type and had forgotten to plug in the freezer". This, like with many similar stories in the series, was demanded by the censors who refused to allow them having a person get away with a crime on television.
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* ImperiledInPregnancy: Mary is six months pregnant. Inverted in that she's in no immediate danger - rather the opposite - but she's initially motivated by her fear that [[spoiler:if she's caught, they won't wait for her child's birth before executing her]].
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* AdaptationalKarma: Hilariously in the ''Alfred Hitchcock Presents'' version, Mary gets caught attempting to murder her second husband in the exact same way, but the meat isn't hard enough to even injure him because "he was the forgetful type and had forgotten to plug in the freezer".
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* AdaptationalKarma: Hilariously in the ''Alfred Hitchcock Presents'' version, Mary gets caught attempting to murder her second husband in the exact same way, but the way. The meat isn't hard enough to even injure him because "he was the forgetful type and had forgotten to plug in the freezer".
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* EatTheEvidence: [[spoiler: Mary convinces the detectives who come to investigate to do this with the leg of lamb, not knowing that this is the murder weapon.]]
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* EatTheEvidence: [[spoiler: Mary murders her husband with a frozen lamb leg. She then cooks it and convinces the detectives who come to investigate to do this with the leg of lamb, eat it, not knowing that this it is the murder weapon.]]
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* HappilyMarried: So Mary wishes to believe.
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* TheUnsolvedMystery: In-universe. The police never find the weapon, weapon as [[spoiler: they ate it]], and presumably, never catch Mary.
* ValuesDissonance: The pregnant Mary asks the detective who comes to investigate her home for a drink of whiskey.Mary.
* ValuesDissonance: The pregnant Mary asks the detective who comes to investigate her home for a drink of whiskey.
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"Lamb to the Slaughter" is a short horror story written by Creator/RoaldDahl. Mary Maloney greets her husband Patrick when he returns home from work, sullen and upset, and finds that he wishes to get a divorce. [[WomanScorned Mary doesn't take it well.]]
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"Lamb to the Slaughter" is a short horror story written in 1953 by Creator/RoaldDahl. Mary Maloney greets her husband Patrick when he returns home from work, sullen and upset, and finds that he wishes to get a divorce. [[WomanScorned Mary doesn't take it well.]]
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Dahl adapted his short story into a 1958 episode of ''Series/AlfredHitchcockPresents'', one of the handful to be directed by Creator/AlfredHitchcock himself; Barbara Bel Geddes starred as Mary.
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* FrameUp: Mary does this by [[spoiler: cooking the leg of lamb with which she killed her husband and going to the store immediately after,]] giving her an alibi and making it extremely difficult to implicate her.
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"Lamb to the Slaughter" is a short horror story written by Creator/RoaldDahl. Mary Maloney greets her husband Patrick when he returns home from work, sullen and upset, and finds that he wishes to get a divorce. [[WomanScorned Mary doesn't take it well.]]
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* AlliterativeName: Mary Maloney.
* DeathByWomanScorned: [[spoiler: Mary's husband Patrick after he tells her he wants a divorce.]]
* DivorceRequiresDeath / TilMurderDoUsPart: The result of Patrick asking Mary for a divorce.
* EatTheEvidence: [[spoiler: Mary convinces the detectives who come to investigate to do this with the leg of lamb, not knowing that this is the murder weapon.]]
* FriendOnTheForce: Patrick was friends with all of the detectives and police officers who come to investigate his case. [[spoiler:{{Averted}} in that Patrick is both dead and his case left unsolved.]]
* HappilyMarried: So Mary wishes to believe.
* {{Housewife}}: Mary Maloney is one.
* ImprovisedWeapon: [[spoiler: The frozen lamb leg.]]
* MakeItLookLikeAnAccident: Mary does this by [[spoiler: cooking the leg of lamb with which she killed her husband.]]
* TheUnsolvedMystery: In-universe. The police never find the weapon, and presumably, never catch Mary.
* ValuesDissonance: The pregnant Mary asks the detective who comes to investigate her home for a drink of whiskey.
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!!!Tropes used in "Lamb to the Slaughter":
* AlliterativeName: Mary Maloney.
* DeathByWomanScorned: [[spoiler: Mary's husband Patrick after he tells her he wants a divorce.]]
* DivorceRequiresDeath / TilMurderDoUsPart: The result of Patrick asking Mary for a divorce.
* EatTheEvidence: [[spoiler: Mary convinces the detectives who come to investigate to do this with the leg of lamb, not knowing that this is the murder weapon.]]
* FriendOnTheForce: Patrick was friends with all of the detectives and police officers who come to investigate his case. [[spoiler:{{Averted}} in that Patrick is both dead and his case left unsolved.]]
* HappilyMarried: So Mary wishes to believe.
* {{Housewife}}: Mary Maloney is one.
* ImprovisedWeapon: [[spoiler: The frozen lamb leg.]]
* MakeItLookLikeAnAccident: Mary does this by [[spoiler: cooking the leg of lamb with which she killed her husband.]]
* TheUnsolvedMystery: In-universe. The police never find the weapon, and presumably, never catch Mary.
* ValuesDissonance: The pregnant Mary asks the detective who comes to investigate her home for a drink of whiskey.
