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-->'''Bellhop:''' ...why am I blue. Does everyone glow blue? What does blue mean? '''What does blue mean!?'''

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-->'''Bellhop:''' ...why am I blue. blue? Does everyone glow blue? What does blue mean? (''Follows the inspector's gaze to the various stains in the room'') '''What does blue mean!?'''
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-->'''Bellhop:''' ...why am I blue. Does everyone glow blue? What does blue mean!? mean? '''What does blue mean!?'''

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* ''Series/{{CSINY}}'': As is true for the entire franchise, investigators use blacklights quite frequently. One of the cases in "Tanglewood" has Danny and Adien searching for clues in a seedy massage parlor. He aims his light in a waste basket and declares, "This is Chernobyl."

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* ''Series/{{CSINY}}'': As is true for the entire franchise, investigators use blacklights quite frequently.
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One of the cases in "Tanglewood" "[[Recap/CSINYS01E13 Tanglewood]]" has Danny and Adien Aiden searching for clues in a seedy massage parlor. He aims his light in a waste basket full of used condoms and declares, "This is Chernobyl.""
** In "[[Recap/CSINYS07E16 The Untouchable]]," Mac and Flack are searching a room in a gentlemen's club for clues after a woman died at a party there. Mac turns on his ALS and finds semen stains on the couch. Flack makes a comment about a different kind of party. Mac says, "Sex isn't illegal, murder is. We need to find blood." He shines his light on the other side of the room and promptly finds cleaned-up blood stains there.
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* In Lee Goldberg's novel ''Literature/MrMonkAndTheDirtyCop'' (based on [[Series/{{Monk}} the series]]), Adrian Monk's assistant Natalie Teeger recalls Lt. Disher using a blacklight to show her the amount of fluids in an apparently clean hotel room. After that experience, she is, for once, in agreement with her boss's extreme hypochondria and fear of hotel rooms.
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* In ''Literature/TheStrain'', veteran New York exterminator Vasily Fet always carries a black light to track rats by their urine stains. This proves critical in back-tracing the lair of the vampires who have colonized Manhattan's underground and driven the rats from their usual lairs.
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* ZigZagged in ''Film/{{Orphan}}'' (2009). John, the husband, becomes suspicious of his adopted daughter, and turns her aquarium's black light onto the paintings in her room. Under the happy, pastoral scenes, the blacklight reveals a series of gory, pornographic images. The daughter (presumably) used invisible ink instead of actual bodily fluids, but the scenes revealed by the light are graphic, to say the least.
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* ''VideoGame/PAYDAY3'': In ''Under The Surphaze'', two of the target paintings will be marked with a splatter that only appears up-close. In-universe, this is explained as dried blood getting mixed in with the paint after the artist behind them, Pedro Vicario, [[DrivenToSuicide attempted suicide]] whilst working on them.
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* ''WebAnimation/NaturalHabitatShorts'' mentions that platypi will glow under UV-light, [[https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Zxf2MgYCOm0 so one is used as a hotel bellhop]].

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* ''WebAnimation/NaturalHabitatShorts'' mentions that platypi will glow under UV-light, [[https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Zxf2MgYCOm0 so one is used as a hotel bellhop]].bellhop]] during a routine inspection.
-->'''Bellhop:''' ...why am I blue. Does everyone glow blue? What does blue mean!? '''What does blue mean!?'''
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* ''WebAnimation/NaturalHabitatShorts'' mentions that platypi will glow under UV-light, [[https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Zxf2MgYCOm0 so one is used as a hotel bellhop]].
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* In the pilot episode of ''[[Series/TouchMeImKarenTaylor Touch Me, I'm Karen Taylor]]'' on [[Creator/TheBBC BBC Three]], Taylor plays a police detective named Susan who arrives late to a crime scene. The scenes of crime officer asks what took her so long. Susan rebukes that it's four in the morning and she has a social life. The SOCO uses a UV light to look for traces of semen on a bed. He finds none, but he then notices large glowing patches on Susan's face and hair.
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* ''WesternAnimation/{{Farzar}}'' In ''Robot Revolution'', Zobo the Chaos-elot puts together an elaborate Rube Goldberg-esque chaotic chain reaction at a strip club that includes switching out the venue’s fluorescent lights with black lights. When the manager switches on the lights, they reveal the walls are covered in sperm splotches, to the disgust of everyone.

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* ''WesternAnimation/{{Farzar}}'' ''WesternAnimation/{{Farzar}}'': In ''Robot Revolution'', Zobo the Chaos-elot puts together an elaborate Rube Goldberg-esque chaotic chain reaction at a strip club that includes switching out the venue’s fluorescent lights with black lights. When the manager switches on the lights, they reveal the walls are covered in sperm splotches, to the disgust of everyone.
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* ''WesternAnimation/{{Farzar}}'' In ''Robot Revolution'', Zobo the Chaos-elot puts together an elaborate Rube Goldberg-esque chaotic chain reaction at a strip club that includes switching out the venue’s fluorescent lights with black lights. When the manager switches on the lights, they reveal the walls are covered in sperm splotches, to the disgust of everyone.
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* ''Series/{{Bones}}'': Temperance Brennan carries around a small blacklight to reveal traces of blood at crime scenes, which often reveal where or how someone was murdered.
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* ''Series/TheBigBangTheory'': Implied in "The Hawking Excitation". When Howard tells Sheldon to polish his belt buckles in order to get the chance to meet Stephen Hawking, he tells Sheldon to use a blacklight (since the buckles tend to get... splashed... when Howard goes to the urinal). Even worse, he then advises Sheldon [[ADateWithRosiePalms not to shine the light around the rest of Howard's bedroom]].
* ''Series/BrooklynNineNine'': In "Halloween IV". As the competitors realize something is wrong with the heist, the entire precinct gets switched to blacklight. While this is meant to reveal a secret message on the fake heist plaques, it also has the unintended consequence of showing how filthy the precinct is. Hitchcock and Scully's desks in particular look radioactive compared to the rest of the room.

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* ''Series/TheBigBangTheory'': Implied in "The Hawking Excitation". When Howard tells Sheldon to polish his belt buckles in order to get the chance to meet Stephen Hawking, he tells Sheldon to use a blacklight (since the buckles tend to get... splashed... when Howard goes to the urinal). Even worse, he then advises Sheldon [[ADateWithRosiePalms not to shine the light around the rest of Howard's bedroom]].
bedroom for his own peace of mind.
* ''Series/BrooklynNineNine'': In "Halloween IV". As IV", when the competitors realize something is wrong with the heist, the entire precinct gets switched to blacklight. While this is meant to reveal a secret message on the fake heist plaques, it also has the unintended consequence of showing how filthy the precinct is. Hitchcock and Scully's desks in particular look radioactive compared to the rest of the room.

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