Funny / Mrs. McGinty's Dead

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• Poirot having to endure the terrible state of the Summerhayes' home, as the disorder troubles him a lot and he does his best to rearrange the disordered items (which actually leads to him solving the murder).
• Similarly, Mrs. Oliver having to endure Robin constantly talking about adapting her detective to the stage.
  • Her description to Poirot of what it's like:
    Mrs. Oliver: Imagine someone stuck a mustache on Superintendent Battle and said he was you.
    Poirot: But...it is a nightmare what you describe!
• Oliver throws an apple core out her car window while driving by, and accidentally hits Poirot in the face.
• Poirot has his "Eureka!" Moment while discussing the case with a thoroughly frustrated Spence:
  Bon Dieu, how stupid I have been,’ said Hercule Poirot. ‘The whole thing is simple, is it not?’
  It was after that remark that there was very nearly a third murder—the murder of Hercule Poirot by Superintendent Spence in Kilchester Police Headquarters.
• Mrs. Oliver's Creator Backlash rant about her eccentric Finnish detective, Sven Hjerson. Dame Agatha is very clearly working through some frustrations:
  Mrs. Oliver: How do I know why I ever thought of the revolting man? I must have been mad! Why a Finn when I know nothing about Finland? Why a vegetarian? Why all the idiotic mannerisms he’s got? These things just happen. You try something—and people seem to like it—and then you go on—and before you know where you are, you’ve got someone like that maddening Sven Hjerson tied to you for life. And people even write and say how fond you must be of him. Fond of him? If I met that bony, gangling, vegetable-eating Finn in real life, I’d do a better murder than any I’ve ever invented.

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