History Funny / MurderSheWrote

* Miriam's attempts to keep her husband finding out about the book (even hiding it in the refrigerator as he comes in from work), although this becomes a bit of a FunnyAneurysmMoment after she becomes the murder victim. At one point, when her friends assure her that not everyone will identify the character with her, Ideal Molloy has this to say.

* "The name I use in Quebec...is... Fletcher." says respectable Mrs.Fletcher dramatically, implying her role as a shady character working for Mr. Quail. The conversation just gets sillier from there.

* Rick Rivers chews Gordon Fairchild out for messing up chances of good publicity by rudely brushing off Jessica, the local intellectual and celebrity. Fairchild tries to win her over, [[DiggingYourselfDeeper telling her he had no idea she was someone]]. Jessica tells him that in Cabot Cove, nobodies are allowed to be respected as well.

-> "I've been here a ''year'', and this is my fifth murder! What is this, the death capital of Maine!? On a per capita basis this place makes the South Bronx look like Sunnybrook Farm! Is that why Tupper quit? He couldn't take it anymore? Someone really should have warned me, Mrs. Fletcher! Now perfect strangers are coming to Cabot Cove to die!”

* Most of the SpitefulWill that the [[spoiler: supposedly]] deceased tycoon left behind, beginning with "To my weak and lazy son Jason, and his greedy and arrogant wife Valerie, I leave exactly what they deserve, my contempt."

* After Lieutenant Ballinger is ReassignedToAntarctica teaching a criminology class at the college for keeping a politically sensitive operation open, he makes an opening speech designed to intimidate all of his students into dropping the class, so that he doesn't have to spend time teaching it, and can continue his investigation. His exasperation when a few still show up the next day, and how he ends up putting them to work on the case, for hands on experience, make for some funny moments.

* A lot of the lines of the IntimidatingRevenueService agent, such as when he insinuates he thinks Jessica is a tax cheat who hasn't been caught, a a brief {{Adorkable}} moment when Jessica flatters him with comparisons to the accountants who nailed Al Capone, and when he comments that he doesn't trust a suspect after reading that the man has filed his tax returns early and never taken any deductibles.

-->'''Metzger: You get more mileage out of a blank sheet of paper than almost anyone I've ever met.

* "The name I use in Quebec...is... Fletcher." says respectable Mrs.Fletcher dramatically, implying her existance as a shady character to decieve the PI.

* Jessica's expression that speaks louder than words as she gets a spa facial mask for the first time in prep for a "TV appearance" in NYC.

* After Benny is murdered, Wilton approaches his nephew Kevin about the antiques in the house, offering him a partnership; as he speaks, his assistant gives Kevin a good view of her legs, and he tells his uncle that "I think I'm considering another offer."

* When erotic novelist Lucinda Lark reveals that he alibi was a one night stand with the most romantic man she'd ever met.... and that it was [[TheAlcoholic Horace]] the police's current suspect. It then cuts to Horace in deep brooding that he got to sleep with Lucinda and can't even remember it.

* When erotic novelist Debbie Delancey reveals that he alibi was a one night stand with the most romantic man she'd ever met.... and that it was [[TheAlcoholic Horace]] the police's current suspect. It then cuts to Horace in deep brooding that he got to sleep with Debbie and can't even remember it.

-> "I've been here a ''year'', and this is my fifth murder! Now total strangers are coming here to get murdered! What is this, the death capital of Maine!? On a per capita basis this place makes the South Bronx look like Sunnybrook Farm! This is why Tucker retired, wasn't it, he couldn't take it anymore. Someone should have warned me!”

* The whole zombie sequence

* As Ballinger talks about politicians "groveling toadie," the camera happens to focus on his own over eager student.

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* A puppeteer on a ''Series/SesameStreet'' like show uses the puppets to conduct a mock trial for the boss he suspects of robbing him (said boss is absent at the time and isn't the VictimOfTheWeek) and sentences him to two hundred years in the electric chair.

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* When a local calls Jessica's friend to harass her, Jessica shuts him down with a short speech that is equal parts awesome and funny. She tells him that if he's trying to shock them with his language, he's only showing how little he knows; they've both heard those words before, used much more creatively.

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