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** When Joel and Marilyn's suspect acts calm during Joel's speech, Joel thinks he is innocent, even after the money is mysteriously returned until Marilyn does another SherlockScan of the envelope.

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** When Hayden, Joel and Marilyn's suspect suspect, acts calm during Joel's speech, Joel thinks he is innocent, even after the money is mysteriously returned until Marilyn does another SherlockScan of the envelope.



* One scene in "Northern Hospitality" shows a town debate about whether to censor Chris's show after an unstable listener got depressed by a song and killed himself. Marilyn is one of Chris's most vocal and passionate defenders, and a SpearCarrier outdoorsman gets one of the best monologues of the episode by casually citing the writings of Alexis de Tocqueville while arguing against giving into blind anger or panic.

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* One scene in "Northern Hospitality" shows a town debate about whether to censor Chris's show after an unstable listener got depressed by a song and killed himself. Marilyn is one of Chris's most vocal and passionate defenders, and a SpearCarrier outdoorsman the bumbling and occasionally shifty Hayden gets one of the best monologues of the episode by casually citing the writings of Alexis de Tocqueville while arguing against giving into blind anger or panic.
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** In "The Great Mushroom," he uses herbs to cure shingles (although he forgets the ingredients).

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** In "The Great Mushroom," he uses herbs to cure shingles (although he forgets the ingredients).ingredients), and starts making a computer database of his work with mentorship from Walt.
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* In "Let's Dance", Marilyn teaches a dance class, calls out another student for making fun of the novice Chris, and then assigns that girl to be Chris's personal dance partner as a lesson.

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* In "Let's Dance", Marilyn teaches a dance class, calls out another student for making fun of the novice Chris, and then assigns that girl to be Chris's personal dance partner as a lesson.lesson.
* In the series finale, Joel's MaybeMagicMaybeMundane rabbi parachutes into town while still wearing a suit to give Michelle some important advice.
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* CityMouse Michelle turns out to be the star of the new bowling team in "Balls", despite having not bowled in nearly a decade.

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* CityMouse Michelle turns out to be the star of the new bowling team in "Balls", despite having not bowled in nearly a decade.decade.
* In "Let's Dance", Marilyn teaches a dance class, calls out another student for making fun of the novice Chris, and then assigns that girl to be Chris's personal dance partner as a lesson.
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* CityMouse Michelle turns out to be the star of the new bowling team in "Balls."

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* CityMouse Michelle turns out to be the star of the new bowling team in "Balls.""Balls", despite having not bowled in nearly a decade.
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** In "The Great Mushroom," he uses herbs to cure shingles (although he forgets the ingredients).


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* In "Realpolitik", newly elected Mayor Maggie O'Connell refuses to take advantage of Chris's new infatuation with her to win a town council vote when she sees how his crush is making him act against his principles. She calls him out on what he's doing and gives him a chance to change his vote (which he does) by citing an obscure council bylaw.
* "The Mommy Curse" reveals that flighty socialite Mrs. O'Connell has taken up day trading LikeADuckTakesToWater and is making more money at it than her husband did after years of doing it for a living.
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* A lot of the scenes where Ed further develops his shaman skills.
** In "The Letter," he is able to partially see the outline of a vision manifestation that Maggie is having and even chats with her about it.
** In "Sons of the Tundra," Ed is able to see a vision of the future showing himself being injured and starts working out the medical treatment beforehand.
* In "Sons of the Tundra," Michelle wades up to her torso into a freezing river to retrieve a lost computer part rather than have an injured Ed do it.
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* Much of Joel's mid-season arc of GoingNative and thriving in the wilderness outside of town is both impressive for the character and beautifully filmed.

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* Much of Joel's mid-season arc of GoingNative and thriving in the wilderness outside of town as a MountainMan is both impressive for the character and beautifully filmed.

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* In "Blood Ties":
** Joel gets into a fistfight with Maggie's old boyfriend over how the boyfriend’s hunting hawk killed a local dog and makes it clear that he views that as the unforgivable last straw rather than how the man has been throwing condescension at Joel for the whole episode and trying to drive him and Maggie apart.
** Maurice wins a blood drive contest against a bigger town by diverting a cruise ship to the docks near Cicely and getting more tourists to come out from local campsites with bribes to get donations from those people.
* In the season finale, Holling lends his services to help with a manhunt and tracks down an escaped mental patient in just a couple of hours.



* * In "Shofar, No Good," Ruth-Anne grants "sanctuary" to a fox hunt fox and staring Maurice down.



* Chris Stevens' Masters' thesis defense in "The Graduate." He prepares a dense, deconstructive analysis of "Casey at the Bat," but over the course of the episode, comes to question this approach. At the appointed time for his defense, he summons his advisors to a baseball field, where he takes the role of the pitcher, and one of the advisors takes up a bat. Chris strikes him out while reciting the poem, with each pitch and strike at the appropriate point in the poem. Chris walks up to him, and points at his midsection. "''That's'' what 'Casey at the Bat' is about. That feeling in your gut."

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* Chris Stevens' Masters' thesis defense in "The Graduate." He prepares a dense, deconstructive analysis of "Casey at the Bat," but over the course of the episode, comes to question this approach. At the appointed time for his defense, he summons his advisors to a baseball field, where he takes the role of the pitcher, and one of the advisors takes up a bat. Chris strikes him out while reciting the poem, with each pitch and strike at the appropriate point in the poem. Chris walks up to him, and points at his midsection. "''That's'' what 'Casey at the Bat' is about. That feeling in your gut."
* CityMouse Michelle turns out to be the star of the new bowling team in "Balls.
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* In "Shofar, No Good," a BlueBlood guest of Maurice tells him off for lying to her about complications with his entertainment plans and for having preconceived notions about what she would be like just due to her aristocratic heritage.
* In "Shofar, No Good," a BlueBlood guest of Maurice tells him off for lying to her about complications with his entertainment plans and for having preconceived notions about what she would be like just due to her aristocratic heritage.

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* In "Shofar, No Good," a BlueBlood guest Much of Maurice tells him off Joel's mid-season arc of GoingNative and thriving in the wilderness outside of town is both impressive for lying to her about complications with his entertainment plans the character and for having preconceived notions about what she would be like just due to her aristocratic heritage.
* In "Shofar, No Good," a BlueBlood guest of Maurice tells him off for lying to her about complications with his entertainment plans and for having preconceived notions about what she would be like just due to her aristocratic heritage.
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* One scene in "Northern Hospitality" shows a town debate about whether to censor Chris's show after an unstable listener got depressed by a song and killed himself. Marilyn is one of Chris's most vocal and passionate defenders, and a SpearCarrier outdoorsman gets one of the best monologues of the episode by casually citing the writings of Alexis de Tocqueville while arguing against giving into blind anger or panic.


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* In "Shofar, No Good," a BlueBlood guest of Maurice tells him off for lying to her about complications with his entertainment plans and for having preconceived notions about what she would be like just due to her aristocratic heritage.
* In "Shofar, No Good," a BlueBlood guest of Maurice tells him off for lying to her about complications with his entertainment plans and for having preconceived notions about what she would be like just due to her aristocratic heritage.

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* Both times that Ed investigates something in the style of a FilmNoir detective (missing radios in season 2 and InsuranceFraud in season 6).




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* In "A Bolt from the Blue," after Adam scares away Maurice's (large) fireworks crew due to insisting their leader tried to kill him during the Iran-Contra scandal (a story which may or may not be true and also involves him being part of a team that fought their way out from behind enemy lines under hard circumstances), he fills in for them and singlehandedly sets up a breathtaking display that was probably better than anything that crew could have done.
** In a DeletedScene from that episode, Adam makes Maurice back down from his plans to commit Adam by reeling off lots of details about Maurice's past that he couldn't possibly know without at least some involvement with the [=CIA=].
* In "Fish Story," Joel spends several hours trying to reel in a sea monster or fish he hooked on one of his rare fishing trips.
* Maggie builds and flies an ultralight in "A Wing and a Prayer."

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* Maggie is calm and supportive when her boyfriend Rick's medical tests show he might have a dangerous condition, but almost the ''second'' that Joel reveals he's fine, she reads Rick the riot act for having spent the episode blaming what happened on her infamous DoomMagnet status.



* In "Oy, Wilderness", Joel fixes Maggie's broken plane despite having no experience as a mechanic by looking at the engine problems through a medical lens.



* In "The Big Feast," Shelly and Eve recreate the flavor of a rare bottle of champagne Shelly broke in just a few hours by mixing together some ingredients they find in the bar.

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* In "The Big Feast," Feast":
** Adam (a SupremeChef whose claims of being a well-traveled RetiredBadass are viewed skeptically) gets corroboration for some of this backstory in a doozy of a NoodleIncident when he and the head chef at Maurice's party turn out to know each other. Adam accuses the other man of stealing a recipe from him. The other chef replies that he thought Adam was dead at the time, and Adam rants about being ReducedToRatburgers for three weeks in a bombed-out basement until he was able to use his gold fillings to pay "three opium merchants and a German shepherd" to dig him out.
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Shelly and Eve recreate the flavor of a rare bottle of champagne Shelly broke in just a few hours by mixing together some ingredients they find in the bar.bar.
* In "Kaddish for Uncle Manny," the moment where Maurice methodically describes a search strategy to find the necessary Jewish observers to sit Shiva for Joel's uncle, given how Joel is the only Jew in Cicely.



* At the end of "The Mystery of the Old Curio Shop," Maurice does a high dive off a waterfall as brash music plays to signify his refusal to surrender to old age, then surfaces triumphantly, no worse for wear.

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* At the end of In "The Mystery of the Old Curio Shop," Shop":
** Joel calmly and logically explains how Maggie has been misinterpreting a series of innocent events to create a mystery scenario and gets her to calm down and admit there is nothing really suspicious happening.
** At the end of the episode,
Maurice does a high dive off a waterfall as brash music plays to signify his refusal to surrender to old age, then surfaces triumphantly, no worse for wear.




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* In "A Cup of Joe":
** Marilyn figures out who robbed the petty cash drawer with a casual SherlockScan.
** Joel acts dismissive, but takes her seriously enough to talk about how determined he is to catch the thief in front of the person Marilyn named, while adding that he'll expose the thief, whoever it is, to public humiliation unless the money is returned.
** When Joel and Marilyn's suspect acts calm during Joel's speech, Joel thinks he is innocent, even after the money is mysteriously returned until Marilyn does another SherlockScan of the envelope.
** Marilyn refuses to use her deductive skills to do more favors for Joel, cutting through his speech about the deeper meaning behind it to bluntly tell him that all he cares about is his favor and that she's not going to use her brains to be a cop.
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* Joel passes circus performer Enrico "The Flying Man" Bellati while driving through town, but Enrico ''somehow'' beats him to the other side of town, either on foot or by flying.
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!! Season 1


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!! Season 2


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!! Season 3
* In "Wake-Up Call," guest star Arthur catches a fish with his bare hands like a bear would with its paws, a feat that somehow becomes even more cooler after TheReveal that he may ''be'' a shapeshifting bear.

!! Season 4


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* In "The Big Feast," Shelly and Eve recreate the flavor of a rare bottle of champagne Shelly broke in just a few hours by mixing together some ingredients they find in the bar.


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!!Season 5
* At the end of "The Mystery of the Old Curio Shop," Maurice does a high dive off a waterfall as brash music plays to signify his refusal to surrender to old age, then surfaces triumphantly, no worse for wear.
* In "Birds of a Feather," a visiting Mrs. Fleischman manages to survive a fall off a hundred foot cliff by angling herself in the wind to glide down like she is flying, based on a story Marilyn told her.

!! Season 6
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* The array of costumes and stunts at the Day of the Dead parade in "Thanksgiving" feel like something more at home in a big city than Cicely.


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* Maggie's DoomMagnet status finally ends in "Mud and Blood" when ex-lovers and other people in her life start experiencing remarkable luck.
* In "Sleeping with the Enemy", Holling recalls an incident where he strangled a moose for food and swam through a freezing lake when he was stranded in the wild mid-winter during his HunterTrapper days.
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* "Slow Dance" ends with Joel breaking the shunning Maggie has been getting due to her perceived DoomMagnet status and asking her to dance with him (in a platonic fashion) in front of the whole town.
* The moment Chris unveils his massive homemade Christmas lights display at the end of "Northern Lights."
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* "War and Peace" -- a desperate Joel knocks down TheFourthWall to prevent Maurice and Nikolai from duelling to the death.

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* "War and Peace" -- a desperate Joel knocks down TheFourthWall the FourthWall to prevent Maurice and Nikolai from duelling to the death.
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* "The Russian Flu" -- Marilyn cures the epidemic with a foul-smelling concoction called "Hio Hio Ipsanio."
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I conflated Nikolai with Victor from "Local Hero." Not that that's hard to do.


* "War and Peace" -- a desperate Joel knocks down TheFourthWall to prevent Maurice and Victor from duelling to the death.

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* "War and Peace" -- a desperate Joel knocks down TheFourthWall to prevent Maurice and Victor Nikolai from duelling to the death.
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* "War and Peace" -- a desperate Joel knocks down TheFourthWall to prevent Maurice and Victor from duelling to the death.

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