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* NoodleIncident: Charlie's tense conversation with her sister Emily before she sneaks out of the house again implies that Charlie did ''something'' to alienate the two (involving her ability to sense lies and their father) but the shows doesn't elaborate
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** Justified in the episode "Time of the Monkey", which revolves around two former left-wing extremists who were arrested in the 1970s for [[spoiler: planning to blow up a Model UN]] and seem to have kept the aesthetic and attitude once they got out after being in prison for several decades.
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Has [[SimilarlyNamedWorks nothing to do]] with the Music/LadyGaga song.
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** Keith Owens sabotages rival Davis [=McDowell=]'s car with a device that will cause his engine's throttle linkage to stay engaged and force him to drive into the wall at full speed. [[spoiler: [=McDowell=] sees him install it and decides to punish him by tricking Owens' daughter into driving his car.]]
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* RunningGag: After Marge uses super glue to fix Charlie’s gunshot wound in the second episode, Charlie repeatedly uses the same trick to stitch up her allies throughout the rest of the season. Ouch.

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* RunningGag: After In “The Night Shift,” Marge uses super glue to fix close Charlie’s gunshot wound in and gifts her the second episode, bottle. Charlie repeatedly uses the same trick bottle of glue to stitch up her allies throughout the rest of the season. Ouch.
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* RunningGag: After Marge uses super glue to fix Charlie’s gunshot wound in the second episode, Charlie repeatedly uses the same trick to stitch up her allies throughout the rest of the season. Ouch.

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* {{Leitmotif}}: Each episode has a banjo tune that plays when Charlie's introduced and we're about to see how she factors into whatever crime we just saw take place.

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Each episode has a cheery banjo tune (aptly named “Charlie’s Theme”) that plays when Charlie's introduced and we're about to see how she Charlie factors into whatever crime we just saw take place.place.
** Similarly, we have “On The Lam,” a more suspenseful banjo theme that usually adorns each episode’s murder plot.
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** In "Rest in Metal," when asked where she found their idiotic drummer, Ruby cracks "Julliard" before revealing just off an Internet ad. Later, in a talk with Charlie, Gavin reveals he did indeed attend Julliard.

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** In "Rest in Metal," when asked where she found their idiotic drummer, Ruby cracks "Julliard" before revealing just off an Internet ad.{{internet ad|s}}. Later, in a talk with Charlie, Gavin reveals he did indeed attend Julliard.

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* CoolCar: Charlie's Plymouth Barracuda, while [[TheAllegedCar it's seen better days]], is still a damn fine car.



* CoolCar: Charlie's Plymouth Barracuda, while [[TheAllegedCar it's seen better days]], is still a damn fine car.



* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Sterling Sr. is a shady man, and has been emotionally abusive to his son for years. But deep down, he does care for Sterling Jr. [[spoiler:When he finds out that Charlie caused him to commit suicide, he makes sure to have her hunted down so that he can torture and kill her out of vengeance - though by the time of "The Hook" he has realized that this wasn't really Charlie's fault, and decides not to kill her after all]].

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* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: EvenEvilHasLovedOnes:
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Sterling Sr. is a shady man, and has been emotionally abusive to his son for years. But deep down, he does care for Sterling Jr. [[spoiler:When he finds out that Charlie caused him to commit suicide, he makes sure to have her hunted down so that he can torture and kill her out of vengeance - though by the time of "The Hook" he has realized that this wasn't really Charlie's fault, and decides not to kill her after all]].



* GeniusDitz: Charlie. She's extremely scatterbrained and bad at reading most social cues, causing a lot of people to write her off as an idiot, but once there's a mystery to be solved, she is extremely good at spotting the things that don't add up, even beyond her LivingDieDetector abilities, and piecing together what they mean.

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* GeniusDitz: Charlie. She's extremely scatterbrained and bad at reading most social cues, causing a lot of people to write her off as an idiot, but once there's a mystery to be solved, she is extremely good at spotting the things that don't add up, even beyond her LivingDieDetector LivingLieDetector abilities, and piecing together what they mean.



* HaveYouToldAnyoneElse: Done in "Time of the Monkey" as Charlie outlines how the killers did it and they're going to jail as soon as she tells the FBI. One openly goes "so you haven't told anyone yet" and Charlie has a brief OhCrap moment before the two attack her.



* HaveYouToldAnyoneElse: Done in "Time of the Monkey" as Charlie outlines how the killers did it and they're going to jail as soon as she tells the FBI. One openly goes "so you haven't told anyone yet" and Charlie has a brief OhCrap moment before the two attack her.



* NameOfCain: Kazimir Caine, an oil-rich gambler whose AwfulSecret launches the plot. He's a very bad guy.

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* NameOfCain: Kazimir Caine, an oil-rich gambler whose AwfulSecret [[TakeOurWordForIt awful secret]] launches the plot. He's a very bad guy.



* OneHitWonder: In-universe. "Rest in Metal" focuses on the aged members of a band who had one major hit song, but as the long-retired drummer wrote it, she's the one who gets all the royalties while the rest are stuck working gigs in seedy bars. When their seemingly idiotic new drummer reveals a song they all recognize can be a new hit for them, it drives them to murder him and claim the song as their own.



* OneHitWonder: In-universe. "Rest in Metal" focuses on the aged members of a band who had one major hit song, but as the long-retired drummer wrote it, she's the one who gets all the royalties while the rest are stuck working gigs in seedy bars. When their seemingly idiotic new drummer reveals a song they all recognize can be a new hit for them, it drives them to murder him and claim the song as their own.



* PunkInTheTrunk: In "Rest in Metal", Cliff tells Charlie she can ride [[TheEasyWayOrTheHardWay in the passenger seat or the trunk.]]

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In "Rest in Metal", Cliff tells Charlie she can ride [[TheEasyWayOrTheHardWay in the passenger seat or the trunk.]]
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** Creator/JosephGordonLevitt had previously played a teenaged HardboiledDetective solving a murder in Rian Johnson's 2005 high school-set FilmNoir ''Film/Brick''. [[spoiler:In "Escape from Shit Mountain", he plays the other side of the proverbial mystery genre-coin as the murderer.]]

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** Creator/JosephGordonLevitt had previously played a teenaged HardboiledDetective solving a murder in Rian Johnson's 2005 high school-set FilmNoir ''Film/Brick''.''Film/{{Brick}}''. [[spoiler:In "Escape from Shit Mountain", he plays the other side of the proverbial mystery genre-coin as the murderer.]]
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** Creator/JosephGordonLevitt had previously played a teenaged HardboiledDetective solving a murder in Rian Johnson's 2005 high school-set FilmNoir ''Film/Brick''. [[spoiler:In "Escape from Shit Mountain", he plays the other side of the proverbial mystery genre-coin as the murderer.]]

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