If ever there were two sides to an entertainment coin in Los Angeles, it's lifestyle show host Kitty Lynn Hastings and Shock Jock Carl Burke. The two have had a bitter rivalry for years, and in Carl's latest promos, he is planning to reveal some of Kitty's deep dark secrets if she does not agree to a live phone interview on his show. Evidently, there is something Kitty doesn't want the world to know, as she takes the time during her interview to drive to Carl's house and tamper with his electricity and his hairdryer, which fries the guy after he takes his next- er, make that last- shower.
Kitty Lynn may just think she's in the clear, but of all the times for Carl to make his threat and of all the times for Kitty Lynn to have to commit murder, it just had to be the week she has Dr. Mark Sloan as a guest, isn't it?
"FMurder" displays symptoms of the following tropes:
- Actor Allusion: While in Kitty Lynn's studio, Mark trips over an ottoman.
- Dramatic Gun Cock: Kitty Lynn is shown assembling a handgun while Carl is delivering his speech about how he'll get her onto his show soon enough. And unlike Father Morrissey, she actually uses it for something (forcing Mark into her car after he's been poisoned).
- High-Voltage Death: Carl goes off the air as Kitty Lynn tampers with his fuse box and rewires his hairdryer so that when he uses it after his shower, it kills him.
- I Need to Go Iron My Dog: Norman, who is concerned about getting old and considers taking plastic surgery on Jesse's suggestion, quickly backs away from the notion when he sees a live operation and claims to Mark and Jesse that he has to go to a meeting, which he's immediately late for.
- Ironic Death: A Shock Jock killed by electrocution. The joke writes itself.
- It's Personal: The feud between Carl Burke and Kitty Lynn Hastings; while they were in college together Carl got Kitty pregnant and then, despite his pleading, Kitty refused to marry him and signed their baby up for adoption, engendering a lifelong hatred between the two.
- Make It Look Like an Accident: Kitty fiddles with Carl's fuse box and hairdryer, so that it would look like he accidentally electrocuted himself after taking a shower.
- Plot Allergy: Kitty is allergic to cat hair, ironically enough. This ends up being a point of evidence against her, as Carl owned a cat at his house by the time she went there to murder him.
- Reverse Whodunnit: Yet another case in which we see the culprit do the act early on. What's more, Kitty is the only real suspect.
- Shock Jock: Carl Burke, rude and crude as one can expect.
- Sore Loser: Once Mark has nearly gathered enough evidence to mount a case against Kitty, she attempts to poison him and put an end to his snooping.
- Tampering with Food and Drink: Kitty pulls this in an indirect way. When she prepares a recipe of cooking birds with Mark, she serves him a wild one known for eating a plant that doesn't hurt them any, but works wonders on people.
