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* CityWithNoName: We never find out just the name of the city the series is based in, though Jack's closing monologue in "Palookaville Express" jokes about how Trixie of the [[CanadaEh Northwest Mounted Police]] [[AlwaysGetsHisMan got her man]], as usual.
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* CityWithNoName: We never find out just the name of the city the series is based in, though Jack's closing monologue in "Palookaville Express" jokes about how Trixie of the [[CanadaEh Northwest Mounted Police]] Police [[AlwaysGetsHisMan got her man]], as usual.
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* ProdigalFamily: In "The Reunion". Edie desperately tries to reach her twin sister Jane, who loathes the idea so much that Edie needs to hire a private detective to track her down. [[spoiler:In reality, Jane killed Edie and has been pretending to be her all this time, {{invok|ed}}ing this trope to strengthen her alibi and ultimately {{subvert|ed}}ing it]].
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* PutOnABus: "Button Down" Theo in season 10 [[spoiler:after he marries someone who isn't Trixie]], and "Freddy the Finger" Hawthorne in season 11 [[spoiler:to infiltrate Communist groups on behalf of the Feds]].
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* PutOnABus: "Button Down" Theo in season 10 [[spoiler:after he marries someone who isn't Trixie]], and Officially, "Freddy the Finger" Hawthorne in season 11 [[spoiler:to infiltrate Communist groups on behalf of the Feds]].Feds]]. Unofficially, "Button Down" Theo in season 10 [[spoiler:after he marries someone who isn't Trixie]]; there's no mention that h's leaving town or anything, but he never appears again, even in his original role as a good source of information from inside rival (and much larger) agency Braithwaite's.
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** "The Reunion" features a woman, Edie, hiring the detectives to help facilitate a reunion with her estranged twin sister, Jane. The patsy comes in when it's revealed that [[spoiler:Edie ''is'' Jane. Jane murdered Edie in the heat of the moment and tried to pretend to make up, with Jack and Trixie as witnesses, so that she wouldn't be suspected when Edie was missed]]. Small inconsistencies in the situation trigger Jack's radar, making him suspicious throughout until he's able to confirm the truth while confronting Jane.
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** "The Reunion" features a woman, Edie, hiring the detectives to help facilitate a [[ProdigalFamily reunion with her estranged twin sister, sister]], Jane. The patsy comes in when it's revealed that [[spoiler:Edie ''is'' Jane. Jane murdered Edie in the heat of the moment and tried to pretend to make up, with Jack and Trixie as witnesses, so that she wouldn't be suspected when Edie was missed]]. Small inconsistencies in the situation trigger Jack's radar, making him suspicious throughout until he's able to confirm the truth while confronting Jane.
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** In "The Empty Desk", with Jack inexplicably absent, "Button Down" Theo steps into the role of male lead for the duration. [[spoiler:His hopes of a permanent "Dixon & West" arrangement are foiled by Jack's reappearance.]]
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* IKnowMortalKombat: In "Death and Taxes", Jack brings Freddy the Finger along on a job that involves staying the night in a deserted and potentially haunted house. Freddy tells Trixie that he is a student of the occult by virtue of having seen every Creator/AbbottAndCostello movie, and ''Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy'' three times. He even compares one of the odd noises to the sound heard in one movie before Boris Karloff jumped out at Bud & Lou.
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* IKnowMortalKombat: In "Death and Taxes", Jack brings Freddy the Finger along on a job that involves staying the night in a deserted and potentially haunted house. Freddy tells Trixie that he is a student of the occult by virtue of having seen every Creator/AbbottAndCostello movie, and ''Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy'' ''Film/AbbottAndCostelloMeetTheMummy'' three times. He even compares one of the odd noises to the sound heard in one movie before Boris Karloff jumped out at Bud & Lou.
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* LegFocus: Multiple characters make note of Trixie's "gumshoe gams", with "leggy blonde" being one of the phrases most commonly used to describe her. Trixie herself considers her legs a point of personal pride and even Jack, someone who has no romantic interest in Trixie whatsoever, recognizes Trixie primarily by her legs on one occasion when he sees her in silhouette.
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* ShesGotLegs: Multiple characters make note of Trixie's "gumshoe gams", with "leggy blonde" being one of the phrases most commonly used to describe her. Trixie herself considers her legs a point of personal pride and even Jack, someone who has no romantic interest in Trixie whatsoever, recognizes Trixie primarily by her legs on one occasion when he sees her in silhouette.
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* TakenOffTheCase: The episode "The Albatross" features police lieutenant Sabien hiring Jack and Trixie to pursue the murder of a pregnant black teenager. The reason he does this is that he was removed from the case after looking into the possibility the unborn baby's father was white. Jack and Trixie take the case, reluctantly as the case has clearly gotten to Sabien in a big way, and discover [[spoiler: the baby's father and murderer is a city councilman who won the black vote to get elected]].
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* ShesGotLegs: Multiple characters make note of Trixie's "gumshoe gams". Trixie herself considers her legs a point of personal pride and even Jack, someone who has no romantic interest in Trixie whatsoever, recognizes Trixie primarily by her legs on one occasion when he sees her in silhouette.
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* ShesGotLegs: Multiple characters make note of Trixie's "gumshoe gams".gams", with "leggy blonde" being one of the phrases most commonly used to describe her. Trixie herself considers her legs a point of personal pride and even Jack, someone who has no romantic interest in Trixie whatsoever, recognizes Trixie primarily by her legs on one occasion when he sees her in silhouette.
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"Much Ado About Norman" is a hilarious, easygoing misadventure sandwiched between "The Reunion" a twisted family piece, and "Dance, Justice, Dance", perhaps one of the most action packed episodes in the series.
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** "Much Ado About Norman" is a hilarious, easygoing misadventure sandwiched between "The Reunion" a twisted family piece, and "Dance, Justice, Dance", perhaps one of the most action packed episodes in the series.
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* BreatherEpisode: "Much Ado About Norman" is a hilarious, easygoing misadventure sandwiched between "The Reunion" a twisted family piece, and "Dance, Justice, Dance", perhaps one of the most action packed episodes in the series.
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** "The Albatross" is one is the series most serious episodes, touching on pre-Civil Rights Movement racism in a way no other episode does and forcing PapaWolf Lieutenant Sabien to decide WhatYouAreInTheDark when holding the life of a man who killed a pregnant black teenager in his hands. It is buffeted on both sides by much more light-hearted episodes. Before it is the LowerDeckEpisode "Cops and Robbers", in which Freddie the Finger distracts a bumbling Sergeant Nelson, and followed by "Man's Best Friend", whose PrivateEyeMonologue is primarily delivered by King the dog.
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** "The Albatross" is one is the series most serious episodes, touching on pre-Civil Rights Movement racism in a way no other episode does and forcing PapaWolf Lieutenant Sabien to decide WhatYouAreInTheDark when holding the life of a man who killed a pregnant black teenager in his hands. It is buffeted on both sides by much more light-hearted episodes. Before it is the LowerDeckEpisode "Cops and Robbers", in which Freddie the Finger distracts a bumbling Sergeant Nelson, and followed by "Man's Best Friend", whose PrivateEyeMonologue is primarily delivered by King the dog.
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** "Payback" opens with Jack preparing to get even with the person responsible for him spending 30 days in jail be cleaning all of his guns. Noticing this, Trixie subverts the trope by selling Jack on much more proportionate retribution. By the end of it, the episode's killers are in jail, the client who'd screwed them over spent time in jail before being exonerated, and the judge who sent Jack to jail in the first place was made to look foolish. Jack's narration states that it all felt ''exactly'' like getting thirty days of his life back.
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** "Payback" opens with Jack preparing to get even with the person responsible for him spending 30 days in jail be by cleaning all of his guns. Noticing this, Trixie subverts the trope by selling Jack on much more proportionate retribution. By the end of it, the episode's killers are in jail, the client who'd screwed them over by running when he was a suspect spent time in jail before being exonerated, and the judge who sent Jack to jail in the first place was made to look foolish. Jack's narration states that it all felt ''exactly'' like getting thirty days of his life back.
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* MasqueradingAsTheUnseen: In "The Trouble with Doubles", Jack and Trixie's current client, Simon Cale, is the son of the black sheep of a well-to-do Florida family who suddenly wanted to reconnect after Cale became the sole inheritor of the family fortune. Cale wanted nothing to do with them, and hired Jack to pose as him for a family reunion. Jack's resemblance to Cale begins and ends at a similar height and build, but the Cale family doesn't know that. In fact, they are so convinced Jack is Cale that, when they hire a hitman to take "Simon" out so the family fortune could come home, the assassin guns for Jack. Later, when he ''does'' shoot Cale, he doesn't finish the job because he thinks he got the wrong man.
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* RealStitchesForFakeSnitches: "No Justice" opens with Trixie and Lieutenant Sabien hassling a numbers man named Ricky for information on where to find Jack and Freddy the Finger, who have been missing for two days following their snooping into mobster Chick Mason's fight fixing racket. When the guy makes the mistake of saying he's more afraid of Mason than Sabien, Trixie suggest that the guy be commended as publicly as possible and hailed for his assisting police with apprehending the Mason Gang. Ricky folds almost immediately.
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** It doesn't matter how big of a fish you are in the pond, bullets work just as well on you as they would anybody.
** Trixie is the love 'em and leave 'em type, and constantly threatens to shoot people. In "The One That Got Away", we learn that [[spoiler:she breaks up with her suitors by way of abuse. And bottles to the head. And gunfire]]. There's almost no humor about this revelation, and Theo points out she's clearly afraid of opening herself up to a man. Turns out the FemmeFatale routine ain't exactly good for long-term emotional satisfaction.
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** It doesn't matter how big of a fish you are in the pond, bullets work just as well on you as they would anybody.
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* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome:
** It doesn't matter how big of a fish you are in the pond, bullets work just as well on you as they would anybody.
** Trixie is the love 'em and leave 'em type, and constantly threatens to shoot people. In "The One That Got Away", we learn that [[spoiler:she breaks up with her suitors by way of abuse. And bottles to the head. And gunfire]]. There's almost no humor about this revelation, and Theo points out she's clearly afraid of opening herself up to a man. Turns out the FemmeFatale routine ain't exactly good for long-term emotional satisfaction.
** It doesn't matter how big of a fish you are in the pond, bullets work just as well on you as they would anybody.
** Trixie is the love 'em and leave 'em type, and constantly threatens to shoot people. In "The One That Got Away", we learn that [[spoiler:she breaks up with her suitors by way of abuse. And bottles to the head. And gunfire]]. There's almost no humor about this revelation, and Theo points out she's clearly afraid of opening herself up to a man. Turns out the FemmeFatale routine ain't exactly good for long-term emotional satisfaction.
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"Sabien" isn't a misspell. It's the character's name.
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* RealStitchesForFakeSnitches: "No Justice" opens with Trixie and Lieutenant Sabien hassling a numbers man named Ricky for information on where to find Jack and Freddy the Finger, who have been missing for two days following their snooping into mobster Chick Mason's fight fixing racket. When the guy makes the mistake of saying he's more afraid of Mason than Sabin, Sabien, Trixie suggest that the guy be commended as publicly as possible and hailed for his assisting police with apprehending the Mason Gang. Ricky folds almost immediately.
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** Jack loves his coffee. ("Put the safety back on the Baretta, Trix. I died five seconds ago from a tragic lack of coffee.")
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* NothingIsTheSameAnymore: The agency price went up ("$39.95/day plus expenses"), Jack [[spoiler:got married]], "Button Down" Theo [[spoiler:got married]], Freddy [[spoiler:became an undercover agent for the federal government]], Alice [[spoiler:moved to Florida to wait for Freddy]], and Sabien [[spoiler:who was going to get promoted and retire, and ended up getting two promotions and not retiring yet]]. It seems the only person who isn't going to change is Trixie, even if she got a very on-point Deconstruction from a drunk "Button Down" Theo [[spoiler:after his bachelor party and before his marriage to someone not her]].
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* NothingIsTheSameAnymore: The agency price went up ("$39.95/day plus expenses"), Jack [[spoiler:got married]], married (and not to Trixie)]], "Button Down" Theo [[spoiler:got married]], [[spoiler:also got married (also not to Trixie)]], Freddy [[spoiler:became an undercover agent for the federal government]], Alice [[spoiler:moved to Florida to wait for Freddy]], and Sabien [[spoiler:who was going to get promoted and retire, and then ended up getting two promotions and not retiring yet]]. It seems the only person who isn't going to change is Trixie, even if she got a very on-point Deconstruction from a drunk "Button Down" Theo [[spoiler:after his bachelor party and before his marriage to someone not her]].
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"Thirty-five dollars a day, plus expenses." (In season five, this phrase changes to "Thirty-nine ninety-five a day." "Plus expenses." "Plus expenses." and remains thus for the rest of the series.)
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"Thirty-five dollars a day, plus expenses." (In season five, this phrase changes to "Thirty-nine ninety-five a day." "Plus expenses." "Plus "... plus expenses." and remains thus for the rest of the series.)
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* RealStitchesForFakeSnitches: "No Justice" opens with Trixie and Lieutenant Sabien hassling a numbers man named Ricky for information on where to find Jack and Freddy the Finger, who have been missing for two days following their snooping into mobster Chick Mason's fight fixing racket. When the guy makes the mistake of saying he's more afraid of Mason than Sabien, Trixie suggest that the guy be commended as publicly as possible and hailed for his assisting police with apprehending the Mason Gang. Ricky folds almost immediately.
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* RealStitchesForFakeSnitches: "No Justice" opens with Trixie and Lieutenant Sabien hassling a numbers man named Ricky for information on where to find Jack and Freddy the Finger, who have been missing for two days following their snooping into mobster Chick Mason's fight fixing racket. When the guy makes the mistake of saying he's more afraid of Mason than Sabien, Sabin, Trixie suggest that the guy be commended as publicly as possible and hailed for his assisting police with apprehending the Mason Gang. Ricky folds almost immediately.
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* BittersweetEnding: "Justice and The Deluge", you know things are going downhill when Jack starts the episode bright eyed and chipper on a ''rainy'' day. The detectives are approached by a man seeking his runaway sister, only to learn that her "brother" is a stalker that's pursued her across multiple states and cities. The sweet comes in that the detectives help this woman, one of the first people we see Jack be truly personable and compassionate with, get away from her stalker for good by sending him on a wild goose chase and sending her in the opposite direction. The "bitter", warranting even a MomentOfSilence save the sound of a train leaving the station, is Jack lamenting having to let her go for her own safety.
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* DownerEnding: "Justice and The Deluge", you know things are going downhill when Jack starts the episode bright eyed and chipper on a ''rainy'' day.
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* DownerEnding: "Justice and The Deluge", you know things are going downhill when Jack starts the episode bright eyed and chipper on a RAINY day.
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* DownerEnding: "Justice and The Deluge", you know things are going downhill when Jack starts the episode bright eyed and chipper on a RAINY ''rainy'' day.
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* InSeriesNickname: Jack used his nickname because it was good for business. [[spoiler: Jack earned his nickname by being sapped on a regular basis before the [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarII War]]. ]]
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* InSeriesNickname: Jack used his nickname because it was good for business. [[spoiler: Jack earned ''earned'' his nickname by by [[spoiler: being sapped on a regular basis before the [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarII War]]. ]]
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** One case is set partially in a museum, where Jack spends several hours guarding a mummy. He carries four Thermoses. It's all he had brewed.
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* NothingIsTheSameAnymore: The agency price went up ("$39.95/day plus expenses"), Jack [[spoiler:got married]], "Button Down" Theo [[spoiler:got married]], Freddy [[spoiler:became an undercover agent for the federal government]], and Alice [[spoiler:moved to Florida to wait for Freddy]]. The only people who have not changed up to this point are Sabien (still an overworked homicide detective) and Trixie (who is still... Trixie).
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* NothingIsTheSameAnymore: The agency price went up ("$39.95/day plus expenses"), Jack [[spoiler:got married]], "Button Down" Theo [[spoiler:got married]], Freddy [[spoiler:became an undercover agent for the federal government]], and government]], Alice [[spoiler:moved to Florida to wait for Freddy]]. The only people who have not changed up to this point are Freddy]], and Sabien (still an overworked homicide detective) [[spoiler:who was going to get promoted and Trixie (who retire, and ended up getting two promotions and not retiring yet]]. It seems the only person who isn't going to change is still... Trixie).Trixie, even if she got a very on-point Deconstruction from a drunk "Button Down" Theo [[spoiler:after his bachelor party and before his marriage to someone not her]].
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* PrivateDetective: Jack and Trixie.
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* PutOnABus: "Button Down" Theo in season 10, and "Freddy the Finger" Hawthorne in season 11.
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* StockPhrase: At least once in every single episode, the agency rate is mentioned. ("thirty-five dollars a day, plus expenses") [[spoiler: Later, this is increased to $39.95/Day, plus expenses.]]
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* StockPhrase: At least once in every single episode, the agency rate is mentioned. ("thirty-five dollars a day, plus expenses") [[spoiler: Later, this is increased to $39.95/Day, plus "thirty-''nine'' dollars a day. Plus expenses.]]
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** "Payback" opens with Jack preparing to get even with the person responsible for him spending 30 days in jail be cleaning all of his guns. Noticing this, Trixie subverts the trope by selling Jack on much more proportionate retribution. By the end of it, the episode's killers are in jail, the client who'd screwed them over spent time in jail before being exonerated, and the judge who sent Jack to jail in the first place was made to look foolish. Jack's narration states that it all felt ''exactly'' like getting thirty days of his life back.
** "The Dead Duck" features a price being put on Jack's head, much to Trixie's delight due to the bounty being hilariously small. The episode ends with the reveal that [[spoiler:the price was never on Jack's head, but Trixie's. The job came from a would-be suitor Trixie had spurned. The comically small bounty was his life savings, which he dedicated to killing Trixie for turning him down]].
** "Payback" opens with Jack preparing to get even with the person responsible for him spending 30 days in jail be cleaning all of his guns. Noticing this, Trixie subverts the trope by selling Jack on much more proportionate retribution. By the end of it, the episode's killers are in jail, the client who'd screwed them over spent time in jail before being exonerated, and the judge who sent Jack to jail in the first place was made to look foolish. Jack's narration states that it all felt ''exactly'' like getting thirty days of his life back.
** "The Dead Duck" features a price being put on Jack's head, much to Trixie's delight due to the bounty being hilariously small. The episode ends with the reveal that [[spoiler:the price was never on Jack's head, but Trixie's. The job came from a would-be suitor Trixie had spurned. The comically small bounty was his life savings, which he dedicated to killing Trixie for turning him down]].
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Swapping to "Freddy" for consistency
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* TheCameo: [[Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000 Mary Jo Pehl]] appears in "A Midsummer Night's Noir" as Anna Castle, star of an extraordinarily cheesy detective movie. Appropriately enough, Jack and Freddie spend part of the episode heckling the movie as they watch it.
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* TheCameo: [[Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000 Mary Jo Pehl]] appears in "A Midsummer Night's Noir" as Anna Castle, star of an extraordinarily cheesy detective movie. Appropriately enough, Jack and Freddie Freddy spend part of the episode heckling the movie as they watch it.
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* FemaleGaze: In "Requiem for an Elf", Trixie and Lieutenant Sabien are examining what appears to be the corpse of Freddie the Finger, which Trixie insists is not Freddie. The body is unrecognizable because a gunshot to the head took out the face, but the body itself is in Freddie's most well-known hideout and matches Freddie's short, tubby physique, so when Sabien demands to know why Trixie is so certain it is not Freddie, Trixie reveals she has a bad habit Sabien does not. She frequently watches men as they leave a room, even if she knows full well she won't like what she sees, and because of that knows the body in front of them doesn't have Freddie's posterior. Sabien, whose previous statement that he could recognize Jack's fingerprints at a glance was referred to by Trixie as somewhere between "creepy" and "impressive", calls Trixie's ability to recognize a man by the shape of his butt much more "creepy" than "impressive".
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* FemaleGaze: In "Requiem for an Elf", Trixie and Lieutenant Sabien are examining what appears to be the corpse of Freddie Freddy the Finger, which Trixie insists is not Freddie. Freddy. The body is unrecognizable because a gunshot to the head took out the face, but the body itself is in Freddie's Freddy's most well-known hideout and matches Freddie's Freddy's short, tubby physique, so when Sabien demands to know why Trixie is so certain it is not Freddie, Freddy, Trixie reveals she has a bad habit Sabien does not. She frequently watches men as they leave a room, even if she knows full well she won't like what she sees, and because of that knows the body in front of them doesn't have Freddie's Freddy's posterior. Sabien, whose previous statement that he could recognize Jack's fingerprints at a glance was referred to by Trixie as somewhere between "creepy" and "impressive", calls Trixie's ability to recognize a man by the shape of his butt much more "creepy" than "impressive".
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* FemaleGaze: In "Requiem for an Elf", Trixie and Lieutenant Sabien are examining what appears to be the corpse of Freddie the Finger, which Trixie insists is not Freddie. The body is unrecognizable because a gunshot to the head took out the face, but the body itself is in Freddie's most well-known hideout and matches Freddie's short, tubby physique, so when Sabien demands to know why Trixie is so certain it is not Freddie, Trixie reveals she has a bad habit Sabien does not. She frequently watches men as they leave a room, even if she knows full well she won't like what she sees, and because of that knows the body in front of them doesn't have Freddie's posterior. Sabien, whose previous statement that he could recognize Jack's fingerprints at a glance was referred to by Trixie as somewhere between "creepy" and "impressive", calls Trixie's ability to recognize a man by the shape of his butt much more "creepy" than "impressive".
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* SiblingMurder:
** "The Reunion" features Jack and Trixie being hired by Edie, a woman hoping to reconcile with her estranged twin sister Jane after Edie had stolen the man Jane loved. Small inconsistencies add up for Jack until he's finally certain [[spoiler:that Edie is dead, killed by Jane in the course of an argument when Edie did indeed come back seeking condolences when her husband, Jane's past love, had passed away. Jane tried to engineer a fake reconciliation so that she wouldn't be suspected when Edie was missed]].
** "Small Mercies". The episode opens with Jack and Trixie learning an acquaintance of theirs, Mick Parker, had been shot and was dying. Everyone's suspicion immediately falls on Mick's brother, Ted. The brothers had been at one another's throats longer than any but those who knew them all their lives could remember and Ted ''was'' there, but had been so drunk even he isn't sure what happened. During a conversation with Mick's wife Angie, the thing that had driven them apart so long ago, Jack lays out that [[spoiler:he's long since realized Ted was innocent. Angie had tried to arrange a situation in which one brother would kill the other, the law would deal with the survivor, and Angie would be free without having to worry about inconveniences like divorce proceedings. When the situation didn't go as expected, Angie wound up having to do the deed herself]]. Despite that, it still might have worked because, [[spoiler:as Mick lay dying, he named Ted as his killer instead of Angie. Between that and Ted's unreliability, the surviving brother would have been sunk if not for Jack and Trixie]].
** "The Reunion" features Jack and Trixie being hired by Edie, a woman hoping to reconcile with her estranged twin sister Jane after Edie had stolen the man Jane loved. Small inconsistencies add up for Jack until he's finally certain [[spoiler:that Edie is dead, killed by Jane in the course of an argument when Edie did indeed come back seeking condolences when her husband, Jane's past love, had passed away. Jane tried to engineer a fake reconciliation so that she wouldn't be suspected when Edie was missed]].
** "Small Mercies". The episode opens with Jack and Trixie learning an acquaintance of theirs, Mick Parker, had been shot and was dying. Everyone's suspicion immediately falls on Mick's brother, Ted. The brothers had been at one another's throats longer than any but those who knew them all their lives could remember and Ted ''was'' there, but had been so drunk even he isn't sure what happened. During a conversation with Mick's wife Angie, the thing that had driven them apart so long ago, Jack lays out that [[spoiler:he's long since realized Ted was innocent. Angie had tried to arrange a situation in which one brother would kill the other, the law would deal with the survivor, and Angie would be free without having to worry about inconveniences like divorce proceedings. When the situation didn't go as expected, Angie wound up having to do the deed herself]]. Despite that, it still might have worked because, [[spoiler:as Mick lay dying, he named Ted as his killer instead of Angie. Between that and Ted's unreliability, the surviving brother would have been sunk if not for Jack and Trixie]].
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** A recurring event, if not RunningGag, is prospective clients entering Jack's and Trixie's office and immediately asking if they're detectives, despite having to walk through a door that clearly says, depending on where you are in the series, either "Jack Justice Investigations" or "Justice & Dixon, Private Investigations". Jack and Trixie are often quick to rib the visitors for this and are so used to it that, in "As The Northern Star", when a prospective client walks in ''without'' asking if he's at Justice & Dixon, Jack and Trixie are slow to react because they don't know how to when someone doesn't ask the question. When this is explained to their visitor, Rawley, he has a theory as to why this happens.
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** A recurring event, if not RunningGag, is prospective clients entering Jack's and Trixie's office and immediately asking if they're detectives, despite having to walk through a door that clearly says, depending on where you are in the series, either "Jack Justice Investigations" or "Justice & Dixon, Private Investigations". Jack and Trixie are often quick to rib the visitors for this and are so used to it that, in "As The Northern Star", when a prospective client walks in ''without'' asking if he's at Justice & Dixon, Jack and Trixie are slow to react because they don't know how to react when someone doesn't ask the question. When this is explained to their visitor, Rawley, he has a theory as to why this happens.
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* ShesGotLegs: Multiple characters make note of Trixie's "gumshoe gams". Trixie herself considers her legs a point of personal pride and even Jack, someone who has no romantic interest in Trixie whatsoever, recognizes Trixie primarily by her legs on one occasion when he sees her in silhouette.
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* IKnowMortalKombat: In "Death and Taxes", Jack brings Freddy the Finger along on a job that involves staying the night in a deserted and potentially haunted house. Freddy tells Trixie that he is a student of the occult by virtue of having seen every Creator/AbbottAndCostello movie, and ''Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy'' three times. He even compares one of the odd noises to the sound heard in one movie before Boris Karloff jumped out at Bud & Lou.
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* RescueRomance:
** Played in both directions in the relationship between Jack and Dorothy Evans. Dorothy is introduced in "Journey's End", where she finds Jack injured, treats him, and unknowingly endangers him all over again when the help she calls for him is a crooked police precinct whose watch commander is the one who wounded Jack in the first place. Jack tries to protect her from the danger he's brought to her door despite being so concussed he can't move under his own power, but by the end of the episode it's ''Dorothy'' who saves the day by taking out three dirty cops one-by-one when they go into the basement Jack had her hide in. Jack's PrivateEyeMonologue describes her coming out of said basement with fire in her eyes, still armed with the weapons she used, and kissing him.
---> '''Jack's Monologue:''' ''I have failed you in the role of narrator to this chronicle, my friends, for there are no words that can describe my elation as Dorothy Evans née Maxwell née Evans emerged from the basement with fire in her eyes. And if I thought that was good, it was ''nothing'' to when she strode across the room, coal scuttle and pistol still in hand, and kissed me hard and with a desperate longing born of having feared one would never feel like this again. A night terror I know all too well.''\\
'''Jack ''(out loud)'':''' Thought I wasn't your type.\\
'''Dorothy:''' I'm a dirty liar.\\
'''Jack:''' Hello, nurse!
** In "The Empty Desk", Jack has been nowhere to be seen in the two weeks since the previous episode, "The Late Mr. Justice". In that episode, Jack rescued Dorothy from an old enemy who had kidnapped her to force Jack to surrender himself to be killed. He's absent for much of "The Empty Desk" itself, appearing only at the end to reveal that, during those two weeks, he and Dorothy married and had been enjoying a honeymoon in the Poconos.
--->'''Trixie:''' Her response to being kidnapped was to marry you?\\
'''Jack:''' Her response to being rescued in cinematic fashion was to marry me.\\
'''Trixie:''' Baffling. I am officially baffled.
** Played in both directions in the relationship between Jack and Dorothy Evans. Dorothy is introduced in "Journey's End", where she finds Jack injured, treats him, and unknowingly endangers him all over again when the help she calls for him is a crooked police precinct whose watch commander is the one who wounded Jack in the first place. Jack tries to protect her from the danger he's brought to her door despite being so concussed he can't move under his own power, but by the end of the episode it's ''Dorothy'' who saves the day by taking out three dirty cops one-by-one when they go into the basement Jack had her hide in. Jack's PrivateEyeMonologue describes her coming out of said basement with fire in her eyes, still armed with the weapons she used, and kissing him.
---> '''Jack's Monologue:''' ''I have failed you in the role of narrator to this chronicle, my friends, for there are no words that can describe my elation as Dorothy Evans née Maxwell née Evans emerged from the basement with fire in her eyes. And if I thought that was good, it was ''nothing'' to when she strode across the room, coal scuttle and pistol still in hand, and kissed me hard and with a desperate longing born of having feared one would never feel like this again. A night terror I know all too well.''\\
'''Jack ''(out loud)'':''' Thought I wasn't your type.\\
'''Dorothy:''' I'm a dirty liar.\\
'''Jack:''' Hello, nurse!
** In "The Empty Desk", Jack has been nowhere to be seen in the two weeks since the previous episode, "The Late Mr. Justice". In that episode, Jack rescued Dorothy from an old enemy who had kidnapped her to force Jack to surrender himself to be killed. He's absent for much of "The Empty Desk" itself, appearing only at the end to reveal that, during those two weeks, he and Dorothy married and had been enjoying a honeymoon in the Poconos.
--->'''Trixie:''' Her response to being kidnapped was to marry you?\\
'''Jack:''' Her response to being rescued in cinematic fashion was to marry me.\\
'''Trixie:''' Baffling. I am officially baffled.
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* FailedASpotCheck:
** A recurring event, if not RunningGag, is prospective clients entering Jack's and Trixie's office and immediately asking if they're detectives, despite having to walk through a door that clearly says, depending on where you are in the series, either "Jack Justice Investigations" or "Justice & Dixon, Private Investigations". Jack and Trixie are often quick to rib the visitors for this and are so used to it that, in "As The Northern Star", when a prospective client walks in ''without'' asking if he's at Justice & Dixon, Jack and Trixie are slow to react because they don't know how to when someone doesn't ask the question. When this is explained to their visitor, Rawley, he has a theory as to why this happens.
--->'''Rawley:''' I suggest that visitors to your office ask their obvious question in part because you and your partner stop and look at them as if the next line is theirs, and they can't think of anything else to say.\\
'''Trixie:''' So it isn't that they're stupid, it's that we're rude?\\
'''Rawley:''' Possibly.\\
'''Trixie:''' It's probably true, but you still shouldn't say it.
** In episode 67, "The Dead Duck", the client opens the door and asks if he's at Jack Justice Investigations. Jack says "yes" and Trixie says "no". It takes a few back-and-forths before it's made clear that their firm has been Justice & Dixon for several years by this point. To Trixie's irritation, the client leaves, only to come back and confirm if the "Justice" in "Justice & Dixon" is Jack Justice, which it is.
** A recurring event, if not RunningGag, is prospective clients entering Jack's and Trixie's office and immediately asking if they're detectives, despite having to walk through a door that clearly says, depending on where you are in the series, either "Jack Justice Investigations" or "Justice & Dixon, Private Investigations". Jack and Trixie are often quick to rib the visitors for this and are so used to it that, in "As The Northern Star", when a prospective client walks in ''without'' asking if he's at Justice & Dixon, Jack and Trixie are slow to react because they don't know how to when someone doesn't ask the question. When this is explained to their visitor, Rawley, he has a theory as to why this happens.
--->'''Rawley:''' I suggest that visitors to your office ask their obvious question in part because you and your partner stop and look at them as if the next line is theirs, and they can't think of anything else to say.\\
'''Trixie:''' So it isn't that they're stupid, it's that we're rude?\\
'''Rawley:''' Possibly.\\
'''Trixie:''' It's probably true, but you still shouldn't say it.
** In episode 67, "The Dead Duck", the client opens the door and asks if he's at Jack Justice Investigations. Jack says "yes" and Trixie says "no". It takes a few back-and-forths before it's made clear that their firm has been Justice & Dixon for several years by this point. To Trixie's irritation, the client leaves, only to come back and confirm if the "Justice" in "Justice & Dixon" is Jack Justice, which it is.
