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* SpectatorCasualty: In "Blindfold," Starsky accidentally hits a young woman who runs into his line of fire during a shootout, temporarily blinding her.
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* StrayShotsStrikeNothing: Averted in "Blindfold," when Starsky accidentally hits a young woman who runs into his line of fire during a shootout, temporarily blinding her.
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* WolfWhistle: The "massage parlor" that employs Gillian sells novelty whistles that do this.
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* FruitCart: Combined with CardboardBoxes in Bust Amboy. A hearse the guys are chasing smashes into a fruit stand; a moment later, the Torino drives through the boxes scattered on the ground.
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* FruitCart: Combined with CardboardBoxes cardboard boxes in Bust Amboy. A hearse the guys are chasing smashes into a fruit stand; a moment later, the Torino drives through the boxes scattered on the ground.
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* BridalCarry: In "Shootout," Hutch carries Starsky to a back office like this after he's shot.
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* TunelessSongOfMadness: In "Lady Blue," a woman's mind is destroyed by a "narco-hallucinogenic highball" and she's reduced to singing "I know where my head is at, won't somebody find my body?" over and over again.
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* FellAsleepCrying: In "Little Girl Lost," Hutch takes in a recently-orphaned twelve-year-old girl so she won't have to spend Christmas in Juvie. For most of the day she acts tough and angry and doesn't show any weakness, but that night she cries herself to sleep while Hutch listens from the next room, unable to help her.
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* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Huggy Bear's last name is revealed to be Brown in "Huggy Bear and the Turkey," but his real first name is never mentioned in any episode.
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* TomboyishName: Molly "Pete" Edwards from "Little Girl Lost" and Joey Carston from "The Trap," both played by Kristy [=McNichol=].
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* TomboyishName: Molly "Pete" Edwards from "Little Girl Lost" and Joey Carston from "The Trap," both played by Kristy [=McNichol=].Creator/KristyMcNichol.
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* TheFoodPoisoningIncident: In "The Game," Hutch gets botulism from a can of soup. By the time Starsky realizes what has happened, Hutch has gone into hiding for the weekend as part of an elaborate hide-and-seek game. Starsky frantically searches for him and finally finds him just as he is starting to fall seriously ill.
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* SignatureTeamTransport: The Striped Tomato.
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* ReplacedTheThemeTune: ''Three times'': Lalo Schifrin's was replaced by Tom Scott's, which got replaced by Mark Snow's, which in turn got replaced by a rearranged version of Tom Scott's. Got that? ([[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BrGBrV8fRZg You can hear each one - plus the very different theme song used in France - here.]])
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* ReplacedTheThemeTune: ''Three times'': Lalo Schifrin's Music/LaloSchifrin's was replaced by Tom Scott's, which got replaced by Mark Snow's, which in turn got replaced by a rearranged version of Tom Scott's. Got that? ([[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BrGBrV8fRZg You can hear each one - plus the very different theme song used in France - here.]])
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* FeudEpisode: In the appropriately-named "Starsky vs. Hutch," Hutch sleeps with Starsky's girlfriend, causing Starsky to be furious and upset for most of the rest of the episode. By the tag, they seem to have made up offscreen.
* HomosocialHeterosexuality: In "Starsky vs. Hutch," Hutch sleeps with Starsky's girlfriend, Kira, and the two of them later come to blows over it. Kira yells at them to stop fighting over her, but they aren't; they're fighting over Hutch's betrayal.
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* HurtFootHop: Starsky does this in "Foxy Lady" after kicking a trash can.
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** Starsky does this in "Foxy Lady" after kicking a trashcan.can.
** In "Starsky vs. Hutch," a girl Starsky is dancing with hops up and down after he accidentally steps on her foot.
** Starsky does this in "Foxy Lady" after kicking a trash
** In "Starsky vs. Hutch," a girl Starsky is dancing with hops up and down after he accidentally steps on her foot.
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* BegoneBribe: When Starsky finds out that Hutch's girlfriend is a prostitute, he tries to pay her a large amount of money to leave town so Hutch won't have to find this out. She declares her love for Hutch and refuses to go; he accepts this, though he warns that she needs to tell Hutch her secret, or he'll do it for her. It being [[CartwrightCurse that kind of show]], she's dead before she has a chance to.
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* GuysAreSlobs: Hutch sometimes leaves quite a mess in his LTD.
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* HoneyTrap:
** One episode involves a dance studio whose employees are seducing and then blackmailing wealthy married clients. Hutch reverses the trap, going undercover as a client and sleeping with one of the blackmailers to get them to incriminate themselves.
** In "I Love You, Rosey Malone," Starsky romances the daughter of a mobster in a bid to get information. However, he falls in love with her just as hard as she falls for him, and he winds up disgusted with himself.
** One episode involves a dance studio whose employees are seducing and then blackmailing wealthy married clients. Hutch reverses the trap, going undercover as a client and sleeping with one of the blackmailers to get them to incriminate themselves.
** In "I Love You, Rosey Malone," Starsky romances the daughter of a mobster in a bid to get information. However, he falls in love with her just as hard as she falls for him, and he winds up disgusted with himself.
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* {{Malaproper}}: Starsky does this occasionally, for example, pronouncing "hippopotamus" as "hoppopitamus." Hutch usually makes fun of him for it.
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* MirandaRights: In one episode, Hutch is Mirandizing a man whom he and Starsky caught in the process of raping a bruised and struggling woman, but as soon as he says "You have the right to remain silent," the man, instead of keeping his trap shut, interrupts by yelling, "Aw, c'mon, I was just trying to have a little fun! She came with me for kicks!" Hutch stubbornly keeps Mirandizing with "If you ''waive'' your right to remain silent, anything you say may be used against you," but it's not much help to the rapist anymore.
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* MurderByMistake: The pilot is set up as this, with a hit on Starsky mistakenly taking out an innocent couple with an identical car; it develops that they actually were the intended victims, with Starsky set up as a fake target to misdirect attention from the real motive.
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* TheSyndicate: James Gunther is the leader of a vast criminal organization with its fingers in almost every government agency whose members include federal judges.
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* BigBad: James Gunther, a criminal who controls so much of the government that he once turned down a chance at the presidency because it would be a step down. He's the villain of the three-parter "Targets Without a Badge," and the final episode "Sweet Revenge."
* IDontPayYouToThink: When a henchman in "Targets Without a Badge" reports that one of his coworkers thinks surveilling Starsky and Hutch is a poor use of their resources, his boss answers, "Soldier isn't paid to think."
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* PreviouslyOn: The second parts of "The Set-Up" and "The Plague" open this way.
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* ToBeContinued: The first halves of "The Las Vegas Strangler," "The Set-Up," and "The Plague" end this way.
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* ToBeContinued: The first halves of "The Las Vegas Strangler," "The Set-Up," and "The Plague" and the first two parts of "Targets Without a Badge" end this way.
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* InsigniaRipoffRitual: Throwing their badges into the ocean at the end of "The Snitch".
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* MakeItLookLikeAnAccident: People who try to testify against the corrupt Judge [=McClellan=] in "Targets Without a Badge" tend to die in freak accidents. One witness slipped on a banana peel and fell on a kitchen knife. Another had a color TV fall on him from a third-story window.
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* MusicVideoSyndrome: "Huggy Can't Go Home" has a scene where Huggy wanders through the poor, crime-ridden neighborhood where he grew up while "Huggy Can't Go Back," a song written for the episode, plays in the background.
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-->'''Announcer''': The previous segment of ''The Disenchanted'' found Phil and Mary leaving for Montego Bay on what they hope to be a rescue mission for their splintered marriage. Shaun, meanwhile, remains in Lakefield, desperately attempting to persuade Rebecca to consider an abortion, little aware she is carrying the child of…
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* AndImTheQueenOfSheba: In "Photo Finish," a landlady catches Starsky and Hutch snooping in an apartment she owns. Hutch says, "We're the police." The landlady replies, "And I'm Tatum O'Neal."
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** In "Photo Finish," a landlady catches Starsky and Hutch snooping in an apartment she owns. Hutch says, "We're the police." The landlady replies, "And I'm Tatum O'Neal.""
** In "Ninety Pounds of Trouble," an underage girl tries to order a drink from Huggy Bear.
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'''Huggy''': We're fresh out of strawberries. Why don't you try the malt shop?\\
'''Joey''': I'm eighteen!\\
'''Huggy''': And I'm Reggie Jackson.\\
'''Joey''': No you're not, you're Huggy!
** In "Photo Finish," a landlady catches Starsky and Hutch snooping in an apartment she owns. Hutch says, "We're the police." The landlady replies, "And I'm Tatum O'Neal.
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'''Huggy''': We're fresh out of strawberries. Why don't you try the malt shop?\\
'''Joey''': I'm eighteen!\\
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'''Joey''': No you're not, you're Huggy!
* NotNowKiddo: Starsky's teenage StalkerWithACrush runs into the police station near the end of "Ninety Pounds of Trouble" to tell him that Hutch's cover has been blown. He doesn't believe her, since she's always making up fake crimes as an excuse to talk to him, and it takes her a minute to persuade him to check if she's telling the truth.
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* PrecociousCrush: Joey Carston, an adolescent girl, develops a crush on Starsky when he busts her for shoplifting, leading her to stow away in the back of the Torino.
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* PrecociousCrush: Joey Carston, an adolescent girl, develops a crush on Starsky when he busts her for shoplifting, leading her to stow away in the back of the Torino. She returns a season later and tries to hit on Starsky while he's undercover, blowing his cover and almost getting him killed.
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* ShootYourMate: When Starsky's cover is blown in "Ninety Pounds of Trouble," Hutch is ordered to kill him. As Starsky's walking down a sidewalk, Hutch shoots him in the stomach with a blank, then walks away while Starsky plays dead.
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* BrokenPedestal: Hutch's mentor Luke Huntley in "Birds of a Feather".
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* ProducePelting: When a {{heel}} walks into an arena in "The Golden Angel," the audience boos and throws lettuce at him.
* ProWrestlingEpisode: "The Omaha Tiger," in which Starsky and Hutch investigate a series of suspicious deaths at a wrestling arena, and "The Golden Angel," in which a wrestler is shot in the arm while training, requiring Starsky to go undercover as a wrestler.
* ProWrestlingEpisode: "The Omaha Tiger," in which Starsky and Hutch investigate a series of suspicious deaths at a wrestling arena, and "The Golden Angel," in which a wrestler is shot in the arm while training, requiring Starsky to go undercover as a wrestler.
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* IAmNotLeftHanded: In the tag of "Starsky's Brother," Nick Starsky plays pool right-handed, losing to Hutch and Huggy. He tricks Hutch into betting twenty dollars against him, then announces that he's actually left-handed.
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** Starsky has triple vision, then sextuple vision, after drinking drugged tea in "The Avenger."
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* WickedCultured: The show is full of evil rich people who wear suits, work in paneled offices, read classic literature, eat caviar, and listen to classical music.
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* NerdyNasalness: Hutch speaks with a nasally voice while undercover as a dweeby fashion buyer in "The Groupie."
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* TheFagin: Train from "Black and Blue" lives in an abandoned house with a gang of teenagers whom he orders to break into people's houses and steal appliances.
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* HollywoodToneDeaf: Starsky's attempts at singing usually sound like this, although he manages to sing on key in "The Avenger."
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* SplitPersonality: The villain of "The Avenger" is a woman with [=DID=] whose male alter keeps murdering her one night stands.
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* VerbThis: In "Moonshine," Starsky tells a group of moonshiners, "You're under arrest." One of them fires into the air and says, "Arrest this!"
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* EveryoneDrivesAFord: Ford provided all the cars for the show.
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** Assistant director Eldon Burke can be seen polishing the Torino in "Silence." He later appears as a gambler in "The Action."
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* AndImTheQueenOfSheba: In "Photo Finish," a landlady catches Starsky and Hutch snooping in an apartment she owns. Hutch says, "We're the police." The landlady replies, "And I'm Tatum O'Neal."
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* TrueArtIsIncomprehensible: In-universe example. In "Photo Finish," Starsky asks an art collector about a piece that looks like two tin cans fused together.
-->'''Starsky''': What is that?\\
'''Monk''': Garbage. What does it look like?\\
'''Starsky''': How much did that piece of garbage set you back?\\
'''Monk''': My dear wife paid twenty thousand.\\
'''Starsky''': Twenty thousand's quite a lot.
-->'''Starsky''': What is that?\\
'''Monk''': Garbage. What does it look like?\\
'''Starsky''': How much did that piece of garbage set you back?\\
'''Monk''': My dear wife paid twenty thousand.\\
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* DeadPartner: When he was a young man, Dobey's partner Elmo Jackson was found dead on a meat hook. The killer wasn't caught until years later.
