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Jonathan Creek

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Jonathan Creek	comment	A cult British Detective Drama about the eponymous Jonathan Creek (Alan Davies), a celebrity magician's trick-designer with a keen eye for detail and lateral thinking who helps solve seemingly impossible crimes, often a Locked Room Mystery. He works together with Intrepid Reporter Maddy Magellan (Caroline Quentin) — and later, with Carla Borrego (Julia Sawalha) in the fourth series and with Joey Ross (Sheridan Smith) in the subsequent specials. After a significant hiatus and Character Development, this role was transferred to Jonathan's new wife Polly (Sarah Alexander). The show was written by David Renwick, otherwise known for One Foot in the Grave. The two shows share his trademark intricate plotting and black sense of humour.Jonathan has a thing or two in common with Sherlock Holmes, in that he's a bit of a social dolt and obsessed with his job, and feels most comfortable just quietly working on his gadgets. However, unlike Holmes, he's neither very crass nor particularly brilliant (just regular clever and Good with Numbers). Love Interest Maddy subverts a number of tropes as well: she's not part of The Beautiful Elite, and the tension between her and Jonathan just quietly builds up without too much drama. Both are simply rather ordinary people with a keen eye for detail, caught up in extraordinary events.The show's chief theme was the same one expressed by Sherlock Holmes in his aphorism "once you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth". Jonathan would explain that most people are much more willing to consider something "impossible" or invent a supernatural explanation, than allow themselves to believe that a man would put himself to the trouble of arranging a complex set of events to make it look that way. Jonathan takes this one step further by pointing out that most people are eager to believe extraordinary phenomena simply because the solutions are mind-numbingly banal: "People beg me to explain, but itâ€™s the last thing you want to hear. Because Iâ€™m disproving a miracle."Jonathan's employer, Adam Klaus, became a regularly appearing character from the second series, usually in a comic-relief subplot rather than getting involved in the mystery-solving. Although a skilled magician, Adam is also a great big jerk.The first three series aired between 1997 and 2000. A Christmas special aired in 2001, introducing TV presenter Carla Borrego as Maddy's replacement and was followed by a full fourth series in 2003-04. A few feature-length specials (featuring third female sidekick, Joey Ross) followed; one at New Year 2009, one at Easter 2010, and one at Easter 2013. Prior to the airing of the 2013 special, it was announced that a new series (consisting of three 60-minute episodes) had been commissioned for 2014, the show's first full run in a decade; this was followed by a Christmas special in 2016, considered an early 20th anniversary special. Renwick has since confirmed that he has no plans to write any further episodes, citing his growing disillusionment with the television industry.
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Jonathan Creek / int_126ce03c	type	I Was Quite a Looker
Jonathan Creek / int_126ce03c	comment	I Was Quite a Looker: The old (dead) homeless lady in "Mother Redcap" was once a fairly literal femme fatale.
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Jonathan Creek / int_12c65d9b	type	Abnormal Ammo
Jonathan Creek / int_12c65d9b	comment	Abnormal Ammo: In "The Letters of Septimus Noone", Ridley proposes a solution to the crime that involves the victim being shot with a crossbow bolt made of frozen blood. He's wrong, especially as his theory also involves the victim lying on the floor doing stretching exercises in her underwear when she was shot in order to explain the angle of the wound.
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Jonathan Creek / int_1300dc5c	type	Inspector Lestrade
Jonathan Creek / int_1300dc5c	comment	Inspector Lestrade: Rarely played straight. Some variations on the Lestrade used in the show include... Gideon Pryke from "Black Canary" and "The Curse of the Savant's Thumb", who is a genuinely brilliant detective in his own right, just not quite as good as Jonathan. Inspector Ted Parnevik in "The Coonskin Cap", who seems like a pretty straightforward Lestrade except he turns out to be behind one of the murders he's investigating. Ridley in "The Letters of Septimus Noone", who is the particularly hilarious combination of a Lestrade who thinks he's a Holmes, coupled to being a Teen Genius.
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Jonathan Creek / int_1320d787	type	Playing Sick
Jonathan Creek / int_1320d787	comment	Playing Sick: "Gorgon's Wood" includes a sub-plot of Adam being potentially sued by the family of an old woman who claim that the woman was hypnotised by Adam over a television broadcast and remains in a trance state. Jonathan and Adam are each aware that the woman is faking it, but their attempts to provoke her into breaking character by doing things such as making loud noises or surprising her fail. Ultimately she is exposed when Adam comes to the final meeting smelling of animal waste after taking part in a reality series where celebrities live on a farm, Adam's stench being so great that the woman stands up and runs out of the room screaming for fresh air.
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Jonathan Creek / int_14beeefd	type	Darker and Edgier
Jonathan Creek / int_14beeefd	comment	Darker and Edgier: Over time, the show became noticeably darker, with Jonathan investigating psychopaths, pimps, gangsters and corrupt policemen, who stood in stark contrast to the duplicitous suburbanites of earlier series; one story even saw Maddy being held at gunpoint by a gang member who was only just disarmed thanks to a card trick Jonathan had picked up recently. The 2009 special contained a hybrid of elements from earlier and later series, with the lethal engineering element, somewhat reminiscent of "Mother Redcap", and the torture and murder of a young woman as she is held dangling by a rope in the middle of a room. This theme continued on in "The Judas Tree" with a murderer being killed and her accomplice then being framed for the crime.
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Jonathan Creek / int_15c0289	type	Bullet Dancing
Jonathan Creek / int_15c0289	comment	Bullet Dancing: Mr Ipswich does this to the two burglars who break into his house at the end of "The Sinner and the Sandman"; pulling a pistol out of his stuffed rabbit. The burglars think it is a prop till he starts shooting at their feet.
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Jonathan Creek / int_1616e13	type	Ripped from the Headlines
Jonathan Creek / int_1616e13	comment	Ripped from the Headlines: In series 4, Adam Klaus does several copycat tricks inspired by those of Derren Brown and David Blaine (the originals are mentioned, so this is an in-universe example of Follow the Leader).
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Jonathan Creek / int_1777688d	type	Genre Savvy
Jonathan Creek / int_1777688d	comment	Genre Savvy: See Broken Pedestal above, Jonathan knows exactly how meeting one of his icons in the flesh is going to destroy his image of him. It's played for laughs, though, since the shocking fact that disillusions Jonathan is that the icon in question happens to enjoy watching The Waltons.
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Jonathan Creek / int_1869b4b1	type	Unreliable Narrator
Jonathan Creek / int_1869b4b1	comment	Unreliable Narrator: When the crime is shown being committed in flashback during The Summation, this is often just Jonathan's hypothesis rather than what actually happened — sometimes because all the witnesses are dead, or because the suspect doesn't confirm it until after he's spoken. This rarely comes up, however — the best example is in the pilot "The Wrestler's Tomb", where we see the main suspect pulling off the impossible alibi that would let her commit the crime as Jonathan explains how it could happen, but at the end we find out she wasn't the killer, so she never did the acts shown in the earlier reconstruction scene. Heck, Jonathan even admits immediately after the aforementioned summation that while it's a working theory, it hinges on too many random things going right to be plausible.
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Jonathan Creek / int_18e11001	type	Victim of the Week
Jonathan Creek / int_18e11001	comment	In "The Coonskin Cap", the Victim of the Week is found asphyxiated with what seems to be a ligature mark around her neck, it appears she has fallen victim to a Serial Killer who strangles their victims, despite her being killed inside a locked room. However, she had actually been killed by an airbag hidden in her protective vest that inflated and compressed her chest to the point where she could not breathe. The red mark on her neck came from having a necklace ripped off.
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Jonathan Creek / int_19209d54	type	Sibling Rivalry
Jonathan Creek / int_19209d54	comment	Sibling Rivalry: A very bitter one, said to be the result of divorced parents poisoning the children's minds, forms the motivation for most of the conspiracy in "Gorgon's Wood".
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Jonathan Creek / int_19d1c1ae	type	Always Someone Better
Jonathan Creek / int_19d1c1ae	comment	Always Someone Better: Gideon Pryke, Rik Mayall's character in "Black Canary", is The Ace — just as clever as Jonathan, and extremely Genre Savvy. In a very sweet twist on the trope, though, the two instantly get along well and they happily work together on the case. In-universe, a lot of people seem to think that Joey is this to Jonathan, with him even being referred to as her "Watson" at one point in "The Judas Tree", which she does not even try to deny.
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Jonathan Creek / int_1b4e322c	type	Mr. Fanservice
Jonathan Creek / int_1b4e322c	comment	Mr. Fanservice: Jonathan gets naked a lot. He also has a fair number of snogging scenes.
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Jonathan Creek / int_1c445e86	type	Poor Communication Kills
Jonathan Creek / int_1c445e86	comment	Poor Communication Kills: That damn harvest fly in "The Seer of the Sands". And there's also a difference between "East Barn" and "EA St Barn.".
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Jonathan Creek / int_1c751b35	type	The Vicar
Jonathan Creek / int_1c751b35	comment	The Vicar: "Daemons' Roost" gave us Warwick Davis putting in a particularly hilarious turn as one.
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Jonathan Creek / int_1e584efa	type	Cruel and Unusual Death
Jonathan Creek / int_1e584efa	comment	Cruel and Unusual Death: "Black Canary" involves a magic trick featuring a table saw that... doesn't stop cutting when it's supposed to.
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Jonathan Creek / int_1fc8335e	type	Deal with the Devil
Jonathan Creek / int_1fc8335e	comment	Deal with the Devil: "The Curious Tale of Mr Spearfish" revolves around a man who thinks he's made one of these.
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Jonathan Creek / int_216dab44	type	Framing the Guilty Party
Jonathan Creek / int_216dab44	comment	Framing the Guilty Party: In "The Judas Tree" it turns out that the murder was faked. Years before, two young women had killed a young man to steal his car and got away with it. Now, the victim's brother and his wife have killed one of the murderers (but made it look like the wife was killed) and framed the other for the crime.
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Jonathan Creek / int_21f19cfa	type	Fake American
Jonathan Creek / int_21f19cfa	comment	Fake American: In-Universe one, with Adam Klaus. In one episode Adam Klaus's (much) older half sister appeared, and she had a strong Scottish accent. No one comments on it.
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Jonathan Creek / int_22cf50f9	type	Chekhov's Gag
Jonathan Creek / int_22cf50f9	comment	Chekhov's Gag: In "Miracle in Crooked Lane", Vincent mentions that he was married for years and then his wife ran off with a guy who makes balloon animals at kid's parties. It initially sounds like a throwaway gag, but it later turns out that Vincent killed the guy and the episode's mystery was accidentally caused by his attempt to establish an alibi.
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Jonathan Creek / int_22cf536c	type	Chekhov's Gun
Jonathan Creek / int_22cf536c	comment	Chekhov's Gun: Many of them. A noteworthy one is Carla's anklet in "Satan's Chimney."
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Jonathan Creek / int_253c1204	type	Obfuscating Postmortem Wounds
Jonathan Creek / int_253c1204	comment	Obfuscating Postmortem Wounds: In "Mother Redcap," the victim was stabbed through the heart to disguise the fact that he died by electrocution. In "The Coonskin Cap", the Victim of the Week is found asphyxiated with what seems to be a ligature mark around her neck, it appears she has fallen victim to a Serial Killer who strangles their victims, despite her being killed inside a locked room. However, she had actually been killed by an airbag hidden in her protective vest that inflated and compressed her chest to the point where she could not breathe. The red mark on her neck came from having a necklace ripped off.
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Jonathan Creek / int_26eb6287	type	Funny Background Event
Jonathan Creek / int_26eb6287	comment	Funny Background Event: Twice. In "No Trace of Tracy", Maddy interviews a man in a sound-proof room whilst his colleagues have a brawl in the two-way mirror behind them, and in "Time Waits for Norman", Maddy holds a conversation with a man outside his house whilst Jonathan snoops around for clues and gets attacked by a vicious Jack Russell. A dismayed Maddy sees all this through the bay windows. To add insult to injury, it turns out that it was not even the man's house — he was just doing some yardwork for an old lady who lived there, so there WERE no clues to be found in the first place. What makes it even funnier is that the man then walks to into a different house.
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Jonathan Creek / int_26fa627a	type	Elephant in the Living Room
Jonathan Creek / int_26fa627a	comment	Elephant in the Living Room: The really big Black Canary statue next to the stairwell, in "Black Canary", is never mentioned by anyone and has no connection whatsoever to the murder.
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Jonathan Creek / int_2719ab04	type	Special Guest
Jonathan Creek / int_2719ab04	comment	Special Guest: Among those who made guest appearances include Bill Bailey, Colin Baker, Steven Berkoff, Warwick Davis, Peter Davison, Joanna Lumley, Paul McGann, Rik Mayall and Bob Monkhouse
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Jonathan Creek / int_27a42ebc	type	Spiritual Successor
Jonathan Creek / int_27a42ebc	comment	Spiritual Successor: A mild case, but the show's format - oddball, super-smart male hero investigates weird, supernatural mysteries with a rotating cast of female sidekicks to whom he has to explain everything and who occasionally need rescuing - shares many similarities with Doctor Who, enough that Alan Davies has frequently been touted to play the Doctor since the latter show came back. It was even produced by Doctor Who founding producer Verity Lambert! Ironically, series writer David Renwick was approached by Steven Moffat several times to write for New Who, but turned him down, because apparently he hates the show.
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Jonathan Creek / int_29e6dc40	type	HypocriticalHumour
Jonathan Creek / int_29e6dc40	comment	Hypocritical Humour: Meta example—Alistair McGowan appeared in the pilot episode, but later repeatedly mocked the show's complicated plots on his own show The Big Impression. One sketch has McGowan, as Creek, trying to give The Summation by coming up with increasingly far-fetched solutions implicating each unlikely suspect in turn, while ignoring a man in the corner carrying an axe, covered in blood and grinning.
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Jonathan Creek / int_2a552d44	type	Recurring Element
Jonathan Creek / int_2a552d44	comment	Recurring Element: The series has a penchant for twinkly-eyed, blustery old women (usually witnessing murders) as well as creepy, craggy-faced old men (perpetrating them).
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Jonathan Creek / int_2d3f662b	type	Chained Heat
Jonathan Creek / int_2d3f662b	comment	Chained Heat: A set-up for a humorous sequence rather than the main plot in "The Seer of the Sands". An overturned can of glue drips down on Jonathan and Carla while they are eavesdropping, resulting in their heads getting glued together. Results in a Low-Speed Chase as they try to run after a slow moving gypsy caravan in this condition.
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Jonathan Creek / int_2de495bb	type	Missing Child
Jonathan Creek / int_2de495bb	comment	Missing Child: In "No Trace of Tracy", a teenage girl (the titular Tracy) goes missing after heading out to meet her favourite rock star, who'd invited her over to his house in response to her fan-letter.
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Jonathan Creek / int_308a5ff0	type	Strange Minds Think Alike
Jonathan Creek / int_308a5ff0	comment	Strange Minds Think Alike: In "Daemon's Roost", Jonathan makes a scarecrow of Alfred Hitchcock for a village competition. Everyone else who sees it assumes it is Phill Jupitus, despite it not looking anything like Phill Jupitus.
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Jonathan Creek / int_30d2ae29	type	Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
Jonathan Creek / int_30d2ae29	comment	Self-Fulfilling Prophecy: A sad variation. An old woman is having precognitive dreams, including one involving the initials R.P. and a creature with wings. The next day, a woman is killed in a car accident (the registration number was R.P. and she drove a Jaguar (a car has wings). However, the dream the woman had was about a harpy (the Greek monster) and was not precognitive at all. But because she had been going around telling everyone about them, the woman - whose name was Rebecca Philips and who was about to go on a business trip despite a terrible fear of flying - thought that it was a warning about her imminent plane trip. She was so worried and distracted that she got into a car accident on the way to the airport.
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Jonathan Creek / int_31df118	type	Attention Whore
Jonathan Creek / int_31df118	comment	Attention Whore: Adam. He is willing to be buried alive, stand a public trial for sexual assault, literally be crucified, and then live in a pigsty with pigs, to get publicity.
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Jonathan Creek / int_32816ab	type	The Great British Copper Capture
Jonathan Creek / int_32816ab	comment	The Great British Copper Capture: Happens in at least one episode. Surprisingly, Jonathan ends the standoff - guess how. Go on. He throws a palmed playing card in the guy's face. Yeah.
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Jonathan Creek / int_33c2a4f9	type	Second Prize
Jonathan Creek / int_33c2a4f9	comment	An in-universe example; in one episode, Adam is forced into a date-from-hell with an uncouth woman who won (Second Prize in) a raffle to date him. It's comedically embarrassing, and Jonathan gets plenty of amusement from it. The next morning, Adam shows up to the theatre shell-shocked, and recounts the rest of the evening; it initially continues in the same humourously embarrassing vein as before, but much to Jonathan's shock swerves wildly into Black Comedy territory when Adam reveals that she ended up choking to death on her own vomit.
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Jonathan Creek / int_3403abfc	type	Mugged for Disguise
Jonathan Creek / int_3403abfc	comment	Mugged for Disguise: In "The Three Gamblers", Maddie finds a dead body in its underwear stuffed in a wardrobe and realises that the this is the constable who was supposed to be guarding the house, and that the policeman with her is the killer, having murdered him and stolen his uniform. In "The Curse of the Bronze Lamp", the kidnappers (posing as security guards) knock out a pair of DJs who run a mobile disco, steal their clothes and van, and use it it gain access to their victim's home.
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Jonathan Creek / int_35ae6a23	type	Lethal Chef
Jonathan Creek / int_35ae6a23	comment	Lethal Chef: Maddy. Almost literally - Jonathan is appalled to find that she's got a canister of petrol in her kitchen at the same time the gas stove is on. On fire, specifically. The meal turned out alright, funnily enough. Played with in case of Jonathan. At the end of "Mother Redcap", he makes Caesar Salad for Maddie who then loudly decries it as the worst thing she's ever tasted. However, as they are leaving to eat out, she slips back and eats another mouthful, proving that the meal was actually good and she was just messing with Jonathan so he wouldn't feel so superior all the time.
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Jonathan Creek / int_3b113b7	type	Character Development
Jonathan Creek / int_3b113b7	comment	Character Development: As the series progresses, Creek gradually changes from an asocial anorak to a man with a great deal of wit and charm. This helps to fuel the romantic thread between him and Maddy.
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Jonathan Creek / int_3c0a4666	type	Noodle Incident
Jonathan Creek / int_3c0a4666	comment	Noodle Incident: In "The Reconstituted Corpse", we don't get to see the disastrous rehearsal of the levitating elephant trick. Nor do we see the equally disastrous funeral of said elephant.
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Jonathan Creek / int_3ec18c6f	type	Sherlock Scan
Jonathan Creek / int_3ec18c6f	comment	Sherlock Scan: Rarely played straight — Jonathan tends to look and then only really see the key point later on in a "Eureka!" Moment. Parodied with Ridley in "The Letters of Septimus Noone", who does a textbook Sherlock Scan and draws Entertainingly Wrong conclusions from it.
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Jonathan Creek / int_3fbdb8aa	type	Quote Mine
Jonathan Creek / int_3fbdb8aa	comment	Quote Mine: Sinister example in "Satan's Chimney", using an edited recording.
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Jonathan Creek / int_439e50f7	type	What Have We Ear?
Jonathan Creek / int_439e50f7	comment	What Have We Ear?: Jonathan and Adam do this on a few occasions (but Jonathan draws the line when Adam asks him to design a trick that allows him to pull a postage stamp from under the Queen's tongue).
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Jonathan Creek / int_4510b368	type	Ambiguous Gender
Jonathan Creek / int_4510b368	comment	Ambiguous Gender: Sergeant Richie (Gideon Pryke's deputy in "Black Canary"); in an episode-long Running Gag, Jonathan and Maddy disagree on his/her gender and have a Â£10 bet - just before the resolution, they spot him/her heading for the end of a corridor with male toilets and one side and female on the other, but Pryke closes the door before they can see. Amusingly at the end they've managed to switch positions and each try to pay the other — but neither they nor the viewers find out which it was. The character was played by a man.
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Jonathan Creek / int_4733b5a5	type	Saying Too Much
Jonathan Creek / int_4733b5a5	comment	Saying Too Much: In "The Problem at Gallows Gate" Maddy is at the house of the woman whose flatmate was murdered. During their conversation, the woman offhandedly mentions that Maddy had recently experienced a burglary, along the lines of: "I moved out here to get away from crime. You know how bad burglary gets in London; you've just been on the receiving end of one." It's not until much later that Maddy realizes she never actually mentioned this burglary to the woman, and the only way she could have possibly known about it was if she was at the crime scene in the seconds after the murder, when Maddy and Jonathan were trying to get into the house and Maddy is griping about how her burglar didn't just give up when he found the front door locked.
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Jonathan Creek / int_4781adbb	type	Jerk with a Heart of Gold
Jonathan Creek / int_4781adbb	comment	Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Maddy can be petty and immature but she also works to clear the name of wrongly accused people for little money.
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Jonathan Creek / int_479f9ad0	type	Characterization Marches On
Jonathan Creek / int_479f9ad0	comment	Characterization Marches On: In his first appearance (when played by Anthony Head), in addition to his hedonistic woman-chasing Adam Klaus is suggested to be scheming, manipulative and slightly malicious towards Jonathan. In subsequent appearances when played by Stuart Milligan, while still an egotistical and hedonistic jerk, Klaus had generally become a bit more of an amiable dimwit.
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Jonathan Creek / int_47fea76b	type	Butt-Monkey
Jonathan Creek / int_47fea76b	comment	Butt-Monkey: Adam may be a jerk but he also suffers a lot of humiliations throughout the series. Pretty much anything he does wrong is guaranteed to backfire. Even when he isn't doing something wrong, the universe still seems to punish him just for being smarmy.
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Jonathan Creek / int_4814d132	type	Big Fancy House
Jonathan Creek / int_4814d132	comment	Big Fancy House: Ghosts Forge is one and the implications go a long way in covering up that the actual owner of the house isn't as old as the viewer might think...
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Jonathan Creek / int_48b9731f	type	Paper-Thin Disguise
Jonathan Creek / int_48b9731f	comment	Paper-Thin Disguise: In "Gorgon's Wood", a disfigured prostitute only needs a relatively basic mask to trick a man into thinking that she is his niece.
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Jonathan Creek / int_4918b32a	type	Scully Syndrome
Jonathan Creek / int_4918b32a	comment	Scully Syndrome: Discussed and inverted in the first episode: Jonathan points out that his entire career designing tricks hinges on the fact that people, when confronted with a seemingly impossible series of events, would rather accept that it occurred "by magic" rather than believe that someone actually would undertake a preposterously convoluted, intricate and lengthy series of events in order to make it look like it happened by magic. Furthermore, when faced with the inevitably quite mundane and prosaic ways in which a magic trick is performed, the result is inevitably disappointment, so why tell anyone?
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Jonathan Creek / int_4aaffbd5	type	I Never Said It Was Poison
Jonathan Creek / int_4aaffbd5	comment	I Never Said It Was Poison: In "The Problem at Gallow's Gate", the murder victim's housemate makes a comment about how Maddy's flat got burgled. When she's been revealed as the killer, Maddy points out that she never told her about her burglary; she had overheard Maddy mention it on the night of the murder when she and Jonathan were trying to enter the house. Played with in "Satan's Chimney"; Carla comes on stage with a phone in her hands to tell Alan Kalanak "It's Vivian" (referring to Kalanak's ex-wife, Vivian Brodie, the ep's murder victim). As Jonathan later notes, anyone else in that scenario would assume Carla meant that it was Vivian on the phone, but Alan immediately asks what happened to Vivian, planting the first seeds in Jonathan's mind that Kalanak was responsible for her murder.
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Jonathan Creek / int_4bdbca25	type	Irregular Series
Jonathan Creek / int_4bdbca25	comment	Irregular Series: Aired as a combination of specials and series, most notably with three specials released during 2009-2013, which came between the fourth (2003-2004) and fifth (2014) full series of the show.
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Jonathan Creek / int_4c851777	type	Black Comedy Rape
Jonathan Creek / int_4c851777	comment	Black Comedy Rape: In a deleted scene in "The Grinning Man", Joey's actress friend Mina gives her tickets to her new play and warns her that there's a graphic rape scene. Cut to Mina getting taken from behind by a man in a papier-mÃ¢chÃ© bull's head making loud mooing noises.
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Jonathan Creek / int_4cacfcc3	type	Honey Trap
Jonathan Creek / int_4cacfcc3	comment	Honey Trap: Gillian Bailey in "Gorgon's Wood".
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Jonathan Creek / int_4cbc7f95	type	Blasting It Out of Their Hands
Jonathan Creek / int_4cbc7f95	comment	Blasting It Out of Their Hands: A non-gun example of this occurs in "The Three Gamblers"; Jonathan uses a card trick he's been learning to throw a playing card with such force that it forces a criminal to drop a gun when the criminal was threatening Maddie (although Jonathan admits that he was actually "aiming for his balls").
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Jonathan Creek / int_4cf9fe88	type	Clueless Mystery
Jonathan Creek / int_4cf9fe88	comment	Clueless Mystery: Not used often, but at least once or twice. In one episode, which looked like a Locked Room Mystery, the victim was apparently stabbed in the back with a sword but the actual murder weapon was a drug which made him hallucinate violently and lose his balance while trying to climb a bookcase and fall on his own sword. While there were clues to what the murder weapon was, the murderer was not well-known to any characters and never appeared on camera..
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Jonathan Creek / int_4e3d253b	type	Downer Ending
Jonathan Creek / int_4e3d253b	comment	"Gorgon's Wood ends like this, with the doulbe Downer Ending of the main plot and Clara's B-plot contrasting with a pig-waste splattered Adam managing to get the old women trying to defraud him to break character with his odor.
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Jonathan Creek / int_4e46d247	type	I Did What I Had to Do
Jonathan Creek / int_4e46d247	comment	I Did What Ihad To Do: In "The Three Gamblers", Jonathan figures out that the girlfriend of a repentant petty criminal is actually an undercover police officer, who was just using him as a way to get to the episode's Big Bad, the Inspector in charge of the case states that he knows how heartbroken the young man will be when he finds out but justifies it by stating that it was to help solve the crime.
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Jonathan Creek / int_4e52a624	type	Screw the Money, I Have Rules!
Jonathan Creek / int_4e52a624	comment	Screw the Money, I Have Rules!: Jonathan in "The Scented Room", when Asshole Victim Le Fley (a critic who had written scathing reviews of Jonathan's magic shows in the past) offers a huge financial reward for finding his missing painting. Which he is then forced into anyway, by way of Le Fley's wife applying Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! to threaten to shut down a major performance by Adam Klaus.
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Jonathan Creek / int_4f1288b8	type	AuthorExistenceFailure
Jonathan Creek / int_4f1288b8	comment	Author Existence Failure: David Renwick had notes and ideas for two more Specials, but he stopped writing, claiming to be disillusioned with TV writing, and says he has burned all his unfinished work.
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Jonathan Creek / int_4f243887	type	Magician Detective
Jonathan Creek / int_4f243887	comment	Magician Detective: Jonathan's a magician's assistant technically, but he has far more knowledge of the material even than the magician itself, so he definitely counts.
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Jonathan Creek / int_4f40039e	type	All Drummers Are Animals
Jonathan Creek / int_4f40039e	comment	All Drummers Are Animals: The band Edwin Drood had Marty Crowe who got the band thrown out of Zaire by riding a wildebeest into the presidents' jacuzzi and was known for his stunt of urinating on the audience.
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Jonathan Creek / int_50b05d30	type	Disproportionate Retribution
Jonathan Creek / int_50b05d30	comment	Disproportionate Retribution: In "Murder at Gallows Gate". On realizing that his Love Interest is sleeping with one of his friends, Duncan Proctor fakes his own suicide in order to punish her. Even Jonathan calls it "a sick joke".
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Jonathan Creek / int_50ca4422	type	Unresolved Sexual Tension
Jonathan Creek / int_50ca4422	comment	Unresolved Sexual Tension: Like any good male/female detective team, Maddy and Jonathan have this in spades. Lampshaded in the first episode, when Jonathan point-blank asks Maddy if she's trying to bed him. Plenty of UST with Carla as well, with the added twist that between their first and second meetings, she's got married. It's significant enough that Carla's husband outright asks them to play it up to boost viewer ratings for her show, of which he's the producer. Hinted at toward the end of Jonathan and Joey's first special together, when their respective romantic interests end up with each other at the end. Other than that, Joey and Jonathan operate more Like Brother and Sister. By the time they meet again for "The Case of the Savant's Thumb", Jonathan is married.
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Jonathan Creek / int_516f986d	type	Loving a Shadow
Jonathan Creek / int_516f986d	comment	Loving a Shadow: Played rather poignantly in "Ghosts Forge". Initially Robin Priest seems like a jerk for cheating on his wife with the vile Mimi Tranter. By the end of the episode it turns out that Shirley is not only not his wife but that he was only attracted to Mimi because of her resemblance to his real (long dead and much mourned) wife. Though the show never explicitly spells it out, the portraits displayed throughout Ghosts Forge explain why he was so instantly drawn to her, even though he probably didn't understand the attraction himself.
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Jonathan Creek / int_518de95b	type	Always Murder
Jonathan Creek / int_518de95b	comment	Always Murder: Murder is involved in most of the stories. The exceptions are "The Seer of the Sands" and "Time Waits for Norman" which involve unravelling an elaborate con, "No Trace of Tracy" and "The Curse of the Bronze Lamp", kidnappings where the victims are eventually rescued, uninjured, "The Curious Tale of Mr Spearfish", which explains a Deal with the Devil, "The Omega Man", a fake alien hoax, "The Scented Room", a stolen painting, "The Clue of the Savant's Thumb" an accidental death that gets covered up, "The Letters of Septimus Noone" attempted murder covered up by the victim, who later recovers. Other episodes can contain a murder, but as a sub-plot that isn't part of the main mystery "Miracle on Crooked Lane", whilst others have suicide or euthanasia as the solution. Notably series 5 has no murders at all.
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Jonathan Creek / int_53fe38a0	type	"Rear Window" Witness
Jonathan Creek / int_53fe38a0	comment	"Rear Window" Witness: In "The Problem at Gallows Gate", Adam's sister Kitty witnesses a murder through a pair of high-powered binoculars during a badger watch.
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Jonathan Creek / int_541c0283	type	Jumping the Shark
Jonathan Creek / int_541c0283	comment	Jumping the Shark: Arguably occurs when Jonathan is shown to have left the world of magic behind for a high-powered job in advertising, moved out of his windmill and married Polly in "The Clue of the Savant's Thumb".
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Jonathan Creek / int_54428f7b	type	Ashes to Crashes
Jonathan Creek / int_54428f7b	comment	Ashes to Crashes: A woman spilling her mother's ashes, and the ashes then vanishing while she is out of the room, forms a minor mystery in "The Letters of Septimus Noone". The woman is convinced that her mother's remains have been called to Heaven. Jonathan finds a more prosaic solution.
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Jonathan Creek / int_54f999c	type	AlternateCharacterInterpretation
Jonathan Creek / int_54f999c	comment	Alternate Character Interpretation: Invoked and discussed as part of the "Eureka!" Moment for "The Coonskin Cap", which is partly triggered when Jonathan sees a reproduction of Edvard Munch's The Scream. When explaining himself to Carla, he tells her that sometimes you have to look at the facts you're given from a different perspective in order to solve the crime; as an example, Jonathan points out that while the most common interpretation of the painting is that it depicts someone screaming in horror, some art experts argue that it in fact depicts someone hearing a terrible scream and reacting in horror.
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Jonathan Creek / int_55b1f9a1	type	Easy Amnesia
Jonathan Creek / int_55b1f9a1	comment	Easy Amnesia: Robin Parr has a case of Identity Amnesia brought on by a Tap on the Head.
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Jonathan Creek / int_56572916	type	Bedtime Brainwashing
Jonathan Creek / int_56572916	comment	Bedtime Brainwashing: The solution to "The Eyes of Tiresias" hinges on this, with an old woman hearing details of a planned murder that had been recorded on to a CD that played while she slept, causing her to have what she believed was a prophetic dream about the coming murder.
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Jonathan Creek / int_58626d87	type	Genius Ditz
Jonathan Creek / int_58626d87	comment	Genius Ditz: Joey Ross has the same level of lateral thinking skills as Jonathan, but without any technical knowledge whatsoever.
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Jonathan Creek / int_59907e4f	type	Police Are Useless
Jonathan Creek / int_59907e4f	comment	Police Are Useless: Averted. The police only turn to Jonathan for dealing with those bizarre crimes he specialises in. Rik Mayall's Inspector Gideon Pryke is shown as being equal in brilliance to Jonathan himself.
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Jonathan Creek / int_5a3b8032	type	The Un-Reveal
Jonathan Creek / int_5a3b8032	comment	The Unreveal: Jonathan tells Maddy who he thinks Alice Spearfish's real father is — on a piece of paper that we don't see.
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Jonathan Creek / int_5d86966a	type	Man on Fire
Jonathan Creek / int_5d86966a	comment	Man on Fire: In "Daemon's Roost", the murderous Patrick Tyree meets his end when he is soaked in flammable oil by a centuries old deathtrap, and then ignited by Jonathan and Polly.
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Jonathan Creek / int_5f52cfcf	type	Intrepid Reporter
Jonathan Creek / int_5f52cfcf	comment	Intrepid Reporter: Both Maddy and Carla will go to considerable lengths to land a story.
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Jonathan Creek / int_5fcedca	type	Big Eater
Jonathan Creek / int_5fcedca	comment	Big Eater: Maddy.
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Jonathan Creek / int_60194b82	type	Spanner in the Works
Jonathan Creek / int_60194b82	comment	Spanner in the Works: Andre Masson's plan to commit suicide and frame the business associate who's sleeping with his wife for murder would have gone perfectly, were it not for one factor he couldn't possibly have accounted for — the associate's flat being burgled and the crucial piece of planted evidence being stolen. Thelma Bailey very nearly got away with stealing a million-pound statue from her hated brother but couldn't possibly have anticipated that her daughter would get fatally mugged by the pimp of the prostitute she'd used to persuade her brother into giving up the statue.
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Jonathan Creek / int_623d69e0	type	The Power of Acting
Jonathan Creek / int_623d69e0	comment	The Power of Acting: Carla reminds Jonathan in "Satan's Chimney" that all the suspects are trained actors who will naturally be able to put up a convincing show of grief for the murder victim. She's absolutely right, but not for the reasons she thinks she is.
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Jonathan Creek / int_62fd5552	type	Bavarian Fire Drill
Jonathan Creek / int_62fd5552	comment	Bavarian Fire Drill: Maddy, being an investigative journalist, is pretty good at throwing these.
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Jonathan Creek / int_664bc28f	type	British Brevity
Jonathan Creek / int_664bc28f	comment	British Brevity: A very notable example, because Renwick needs a lot of time to formulate each locked room mystery.
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Jonathan Creek / int_675c2212	type	Axe Before Entering
Jonathan Creek / int_675c2212	comment	Axe Before Entering: In "Satan's Chimney", an axe is used to break down the door (during movie shooting) to reveal a Locked Room Mystery: the actress has been shot dead in an empty, locked with with the window closed and no hole in the glass. The axe was part of the murder. The killer used a gun hidden in the handle of the axe to shoot her as he smashed in the door.
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Jonathan Creek / int_680f950	type	Gilligan Cut
Jonathan Creek / int_680f950	comment	Gilligan Cut: At the end of "The Seer of the Sands", after Jonathan has summarised a series of events that has led to Adam's small bodyguard being eaten by a snake, Carla muses that, being a charismatic media professional, Adam should be able to talk his way out of the situation without any real trouble. Cut to a brief shot of Adam in the middle of a literal riot outside the courthouse being attacked by little people and animal rights activists.note Made even funnier by the fact it wasn't even really Adam's fault in the first place, because while the snake escaping its cage was a result of someone on his payroll getting careless his bodyguard probably would have been fine if he hadn't chugged a bottle of Jack Daniels and passed out while he was on the clock. In "The Clue of the Savant's Thumb", we get a woman who's about to return to her partner from a long research trip, to which it's commented: "Sixteen weeks on his own? The poor man will be pining for you desperately." Cut to "the poor man" having riotous sex in a barn with another woman. In another episode, Jonathan and Adam are attending an event and are introduced to a frail old man in a wheelchair whose carer explains to them, "He's been dying to show you his magic trick." Cut to a man attempting a Houdini-style escape whilst strung upside down in a body-bag over burning coals.
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Jonathan Creek / int_6836fbcb	type	All Musicals Are Adaptations
Jonathan Creek / int_6836fbcb	comment	All Musicals Are Adaptations: "The Letters of Septiumus Noone" is set around an operatic adaptation of The Mystery of the Yellow Room by Gaston Leroux, which Locked Room Mystery fan Jonathan thinks is a travesty.
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Jonathan Creek / int_691de918	type	Death by Looking Up
Jonathan Creek / int_691de918	comment	Death by Looking Up: In "The Clue of the Savant's Thumb", the killer attempts to topple a stone angel off the roof on to Fariba. She looks up and sees it coming. Her adoptive mother knocks her out of the way and is instead killed by the statue.
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Jonathan Creek / int_6a0297a8	type	What Do You Mean, It's Not Didactic?
Jonathan Creek / int_6a0297a8	comment	What Do You Mean, It's Not Didactic? — invoked In "Angel Hair", Jonathan works out the core mystery pretty quickly but keeps schtum about it while he tries to work out the details. To help Carla along, he writes two proverbs on a piece of paper and she spends half the episode trying to find any hidden meaning in it. After spending hours agonising over it, her husband leans over and casually notes that it's the first two lines to Bob Dylan's "Blowin' in the Wind", in the wrong order.
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Jonathan Creek / int_6a25c388	type	Mummies at the Dinner Table
Jonathan Creek / int_6a25c388	comment	Mummies at the Dinner Table: In the episode "The Seer of the Sands".
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Jonathan Creek / int_6ae4dedd	type	The Unfair Sex
Jonathan Creek / int_6ae4dedd	comment	The Unfair Sex: Even though Jonathan and Maddy aren't in a relationship, this trope is very much in effect. Maddy's able to turn any complaint Jonathan may have about her (for example, her driving) into a complaint about him. Plus, when she stays over at the windmill, she kicks him out of his own bed and forces him to sleep on the sofa.
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Jonathan Creek / int_6c1cc4b	type	Everyone Looks Sexier if French
Jonathan Creek / int_6c1cc4b	comment	Everyone Looks Sexier if French: Francesca in "The Wrestler's Tomb." The actress was actually Dutch but they made her character French because they didn't think Dutch was sexy enough.
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Jonathan Creek / int_6d332aea	type	Driven to Suicide
Jonathan Creek / int_6d332aea	comment	Driven to Suicide: Played with in "Murder at Gallows Gate". Not only do we have Duncan Proctor (who faked his own suicide), but also Felicity Veil, who attempts suicide, only to be prevented by a friend, only to then be murdered by her flatmate.
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Jonathan Creek / int_6d7026fa	type	Punny Name
Jonathan Creek / int_6d7026fa	comment	Also Punny Name. When they first met:
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Jonathan Creek / int_6df8075f	type	Clueless Chick-Magnet
Jonathan Creek / int_6df8075f	comment	Clueless Chick-Magnet: Jonathan, to a tee. Maddy, Carla and several other gorgeous women throughout the series take a shine to him, but either he's oblivious to their advances or he somehow manages to ruin it for himself.
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Jonathan Creek / int_6ef9d3fe	type	Christmas Episode
Jonathan Creek / int_6ef9d3fe	comment	Christmas Episode: All movie-length, two of which were also introductory episodes to Jonathan's new sidekicks.
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Jonathan Creek / int_708614d3	type	Killer Outfit
Jonathan Creek / int_708614d3	comment	Killer Outfit: Used as a murder weapon in "The Coonskin Cap". The killer rigs a policewoman's protective vest with an airbag that he can inflate remotely. When he does so, it constricts her chest to the point where it cannot expand for her to breathe and she asphyxiates. He then deflates the bag and it looks as if she has been strangled while alone in an empty locked room.
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Jonathan Creek / int_727a65e0	type	Gaslighting
Jonathan Creek / int_727a65e0	comment	Gaslighting: In "The Judas Tree". Jonathan also refers to the Trope Namer during the episode.
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Jonathan Creek / int_7286e96d	type	Idiot Ball
Jonathan Creek / int_7286e96d	comment	Idiot Ball: On more than one occasion held first by Jonathan (who thinks he has figured out how a lethal booby trap was sprung and rushes off to test his theory, only telling his companion "don't move!" but not telling them why they shouldn't move) and then passed straight to his companion (who promptly starts wandering around and puts themselves directly in mortal danger).
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Jonathan Creek / int_7315fd38	type	Covers Always Lie
Jonathan Creek / int_7315fd38	comment	Covers Always Lie: This trope was parodied with the poster for a play from a local theatre. Technically it didn't lie, just used some misleading formatting. The names of the stars were set out as follows: Steve Martin Harrison Ford It turned out you were supposed to read the names up-to-down, meaning it starred Steve Harrison and Martin Ford.
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Jonathan Creek / int_7374ab13	type	Once More, with Clarity
Jonathan Creek / int_7374ab13	comment	Once More, with Clarity: The show enjoys doing this as part of The Summation. For example, in "The Coonskin Cap" we see a scene which appears to be setting up a Ret Irony / Fatal Family Photo type moment by having a policeman proposing to his female colleague before she ends up being the villain's next murder victim. However at the end we see the scene again in flashback and it continues, showing the engagement ring-looking box actually contained a necklace he used to plant a false clue that she was killed by the villain when he did it himself, and that their relationship was less close than it seemed in the first scene.
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Jonathan Creek / int_737a65f4	type	The Watson
Jonathan Creek / int_737a65f4	comment	The Watson: Maddy, Carla, Joey.
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Jonathan Creek / int_7491142c	type	Thermometer Gag
Jonathan Creek / int_7491142c	comment	Thermometer Gag: In "The Problem at Gallows Gate (Part 1)", Adam's girlfriend is feeling sick and Adam's sister Kitty—who is a nurse—decides she is going to look after her; over Adam's objections. One of her first actions is to take her temperature:
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Jonathan Creek / int_754df088	type	Put on a Bus
Jonathan Creek / int_754df088	comment	Put on a Bus: Maddy moves to the US for a while. Jonathan keeps in touch, and she helps him solve a case at one point via email.
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Jonathan Creek / int_7587e97d	type	Mistaken for Superpowered
Jonathan Creek / int_7587e97d	comment	Mistaken for Superpowered: "The Curious Tale of Mr Spearfish" revolves around a man who thinks he's gained supernatural powers after making a deal with the devil, and cites several incidents as evidence. Jonathan figures out that some of them were just coincidences and some were the work of a secret service protection detail that was only incidentally interested in Mr Spearfish himself.
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Jonathan Creek / int_76b4b7dd	type	The Comically Serious
Jonathan Creek / int_76b4b7dd	comment	The Comically Serious: Jonathan Creek himself, whose response to the (often) bizarre situations he ends up in, is to either snark about it or shrug it off entirely. It's this aspect of his personality (and his Deadpan Snarker tendencies) that make him such a funny character to watch.
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Jonathan Creek / int_78540917	type	Like Brother and Sister
Jonathan Creek / int_78540917	comment	Hinted at toward the end of Jonathan and Joey's first special together, when their respective romantic interests end up with each other at the end. Other than that, Joey and Jonathan operate more Like Brother and Sister. By the time they meet again for "The Case of the Savant's Thumb", Jonathan is married.
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Jonathan Creek / int_796bffea	type	Mistaken for Racist
Jonathan Creek / int_796bffea	comment	Mistaken for Racist: Adam deals with this in "The Judas Tree" due to some poorly chosen but innocent remarks. For example when entering an African village in an area with a high population of locusts and saying he hoped they wouldn't be eaten alive, the press takes this as a reference to "cannibals and cooking pots".
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Jonathan Creek / int_7ab84d9a	type	Punctuation Changes the Meaning
Jonathan Creek / int_7ab84d9a	comment	Punctuation Changes the Meaning: In "The Seer of the Sands", a man named Justin Mallory receives a letter from his girlfriend, who is trying to persuade her estranged husband to agree to a divorce. He reads: "Pressing Rex for a divorce again this morning. He said no, one would have to suffer much longer." This causes him to fly into a rage, get drunk, crash his boat and drown. Had he looked more closely, he would have realized that what he thought was a comma was actually a fly that had landed on the page, and she was actually telling him that Rex had agreed to the split.
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Jonathan Creek / int_7b6e47a5	type	Armor-Piercing Question
Jonathan Creek / int_7b6e47a5	comment	Amusingly enough, the series opened with something of a subversion in its first episode "The Wrestler's Tomb" where an elaborate series of events involving fake legs, a smoking machine and a walkie-talkie is proposed to explain how a suspect in a murder could've escaped a locked room, but despite Jonathan being the one to propose and explain the scenario, he shoots it down with a single Armor-Piercing Question "Why?", observing that anyone attempting that plan would have relied on a Gambit Pileup involving such risks as the possibility that someone would come into the room and reveal what had happened. Indeed, said suspect is actually innocent and never left the room at all.
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Jonathan Creek / int_7e5b0184	type	Time-Delayed Death
Jonathan Creek / int_7e5b0184	comment	Time-Delayed Death In "The Reconstituted Corpse" this trope was responsible for a dead woman ending up in a wardrobe: A pipe from some construction work fell on her head. And in "The Letters of Septimus Noone", this how an actress is seemingly stabbed in a locked dressing room just minutes after a witness had seen her apparently hale and hearty.
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Jonathan Creek / int_7e6c0522	type	Off with His Head!
Jonathan Creek / int_7e6c0522	comment	Off with His Head!: A sabotaged chainsaw leads to a decapitation in "The Clue of the Savant's Thumb". This leads to an elaborate cover-up in which a body seems to vanish from a locked room.
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Jonathan Creek / int_7ef728b1	type	Tsundere
Jonathan Creek / int_7ef728b1	comment	Tsundere: Maddy and Carla. Carla's deredere side is vestigial.
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Jonathan Creek / int_7fbb2a3	type	Nice Job Breaking It, Hero!
Jonathan Creek / int_7fbb2a3	comment	Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: In "Jack in the Box", Maddy was heavily involved in the effort to free Alan Rokesmith, the man convicted of murdering Jack Holiday's first wife. Turns out, he actually did kill her, and thanks to Maddy's campaigning he's free to kill again.
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Jonathan Creek / int_7fe66c69	type	Hand of Death
Jonathan Creek / int_7fe66c69	comment	Hand of Death: How the killer is portrayed in "The Clue of Savant's Thumb": first stalking Joey and later toppling a statue off the roof.
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Jonathan Creek / int_7febc23b	type	Establishing Character Moment
Jonathan Creek / int_7febc23b	comment	Establishing Character Moment: Jonathan is first seen in a grocery store, mentally tallying up the numbers that appear on the checkout computer screen and then politely but firmly insisting that the total sum is wrong. One manager with a calculator later, the checkout is closed thanks to the faulty equipment. What further establishes his character (slightly weird but sharply observant and essentially decent and good-hearted) is that it's the shopping of the woman in front of him that he's figuring out is charged wrong, not his own—and that the woman is nonetheless weirded out by the fact that he's buying a doll and some knives (in order to make a scale model for a planned magic trick). Adam Klaus is first seen making a heartfelt and sincere thank you to an audience, calling them the best crowd he's ever performed for. The next camera shot reveals that it's an empty theatre, and he's just rehearsing, thus instantly demonstrating what a smarmy, insincere phony he is.
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Jonathan Creek / int_8015df5d	type	Reverse Whodunnit
Jonathan Creek / int_8015df5d	comment	Reverse Whodunnit: The main plot of "The Letters of Septimus Noone", unusually, where the audience sees how an impossible (near-)murder was committed before Jonathan figures it out.
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Jonathan Creek / int_80f4e386	type	Ignorant of Their Own Ignorance
Jonathan Creek / int_80f4e386	comment	Ignorant of Their Own Ignorance: Essentially the reason the killer was exposed in "Jack in the Box"; Alan Rokesmith was the only person with a motive to kill Jack Halliday who didn't know about Jack's arthritis (as he'd been in prison for nine years), foiling his attempt to stage Jack's death as a suicide as it would've been impossible for Jack's arthritic fingers to pull a trigger. In fairness, the episode frames it as an open secret in the entertainment industry and it's cited as the main reason for Jack's work having dried up, but the average man on the street wouldn't have known about it. Jonathan certainly doesn't know, but he's not Jack's biggest fan....
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Jonathan Creek / int_81bdc398	type	He's Back!
Jonathan Creek / int_81bdc398	comment	He's Back!: About half an hour into "The Case of the Savant's Thumb", advertising exec Jonathan Creek finally gets interested enough in the case to go to the wardrobe, shove the nice suits out of the way, and pull out his trademark duffel coat.
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Jonathan Creek / int_829b958e	type	Embarrassing First Name
Jonathan Creek / int_829b958e	comment	Embarrassing First Name: "Adam" Klaus, called "Chester" by his sister.
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Jonathan Creek / int_83446991	type	UST
Jonathan Creek / int_83446991	comment	Plenty of UST with Carla as well, with the added twist that between their first and second meetings, she's got married. It's significant enough that Carla's husband outright asks them to play it up to boost viewer ratings for her show, of which he's the producer.
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Jonathan Creek / int_838366f2	type	Failure Knight
Jonathan Creek / int_838366f2	comment	Failure Knight: Maddy, to a certain extent. Her particular niche of crime writing — exposing bungled police investigations — is implied to have been inspired by her mother's suicide shortly after being brought up on a (possibly) false shoplifting charge.
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Jonathan Creek / int_84d24bd	type	Ghostwriter
Jonathan Creek / int_84d24bd	comment	Ghostwriter: Ezra Carr was this for George Eastland in "Ghosts Forge". The name of the house â€” note the lack of an apostrophe â€” is a clever way of pouting this out. And, contrary to what everyone assumes, the body found in the house is not that of Ezra, but Ezra's distinctly old-fashioned name (and amnesia) conceals this for a good while.
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Jonathan Creek / int_859bbabc	type	The Cassandra
Jonathan Creek / int_859bbabc	comment	The Cassandra: Jack Holiday's wife, who insists that a recently released prisoner was responsible for her husband's death, despite all evidence to the contrary.
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Jonathan Creek / int_85cefc44	type	Sympathetic Adulterer
Jonathan Creek / int_85cefc44	comment	Sympathetic Adulterer: Played with. While no adulterer is outright portrayed sympathetically, adultery is a common Red Herring used to establish an obvious motive that conceals the true motive. As a result most of the adultery in the series is softballed, or portrayed with mitigating factors; "The Wrestler's Tomb": The murder victim was having an affair behind his wife's back, but he was having that affair with the homely cleaner, not the younger model. Said model was so outraged at having been rejected that she murdered him over it. "The Eyes of Tiresias": The adulterer was framed by the husband, who commited suicide after realising he was about to be caught for embezzlement. "Ghosts Forge": The husband cheated on his wife with a woman who bore a striking resemblance to his actual long-dead wife, whom he never really got over after she died. He had a severe case of Identity Amnesia encouraged by his not-actually-real-wife. "Angel Hair": The husband was in love with his wife's stage persona, not the real person she was. Arguably the least sympathetic case in the series.
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Jonathan Creek / int_863fa679	type	What Happened to the Mouse?
Jonathan Creek / int_863fa679	comment	What Happened to the Mouse?: In the episode "The Tailor's Dummy" there is an entire subplot about Kenny helping the Mafia kidnap attractive women. Jonathan demands that Kenny get them out of trouble, or he'll go to the police, but he and Carla are imprisoned in one of the theatre's props by the men before this can happen. Kenny is last seen being dragged away by the Mafia, and neither he nor the women are ever mentioned again. A few episodes in the second series show that Adam has a pet tiger, which he clearly dotes on. It disappears completely after this series and is never mentioned again. In "The Curse Of the Bronze Lamp", the kidnappers gain access to their victim by knocking out the DJs at her party and taking their place. The real DJs are never mentioned again.
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Jonathan Creek / int_868409c	type	Broken Pedestal
Jonathan Creek / int_868409c	comment	Broken Pedestal: Jonathan lampshades this when he finds he's about to meet his hero, hardcore prog-rock icon Roy Pilgrim: Sure enough, a minor case ensues; Jonathan is struck dumb with mild disillusionment when he learns that Roy Pilgrim is a devoted viewer of The Waltons.
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Jonathan Creek / int_8797239c	type	Bait-and-Switch
Jonathan Creek / int_8797239c	comment	Bait-and-Switch: Writer David Renwick loves these. In "The Wrestler's Tomb" (the very first episode), artist Hedley Shale is shot dead and the episode appears to point towards his wife Serena as the murderer as revenge for an affair with Francesca, one of his past models who is found bound and gagged in his bedroom. One problem; Serena was supposedly in her office the whole morning her husband was murdered, with her secretary confirming she never left. Jonathan works out a completely plausible way how Serena could have left the office to commit the murder without anyone seeing her... and then instantly rubbishes this as it would still leave too much to chance (in fact Serena had truly never left her office). It emerges that Hedley was actually having an affair with his cleaning lady, and Francesca, furious that he turned her down, bound and gagged herself and shot Hedley using her toes to operate the gun. In "The Tailor's Dummy", the victim's granddaughter is presented as a rather quiet, pale, nervous girl who always seems twitchy and uncomfortable and at the climax reacts in horror when one of the other characters discovers her with a needle, with the heavy implication that she's a drug addict who may have had some involvement in her grandfather's death. She's actually a diabetic, the needle is for her insulin, and she was about to take it when she happened to stumble upon evidence implicating the other character in her grandfather's death, hence the horror. In "The Seer of the Sands", Adam is persuaded to hire a midget as his bodyguard. The guy is well-trained but seemingly unable to get a break due to his diminutive size. It soon becomes apparent, though, that the actual reason for his unemployability is that he is an alcoholic.
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Jonathan Creek / int_87a38662	type	Murder-Suicide
Jonathan Creek / int_87a38662	comment	Murder-Suicide: "Jack in the Box", where the murderer killed his victim inside a locked room, then concealed himself behind a wall and committed suicide.
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Jonathan Creek / int_87dccc00	type	Living a Double Life
Jonathan Creek / int_87dccc00	comment	Living a Double Life: An interesting aversion in "Time Waits for Norman"; it's actually a case of two people living one life — Norman and Melvyn have arranged things so that Melvyn pretends to be "Norman" whenever Norman's job involves going to New York, which is often. Also played straight, as Norman is using this in order to live out a double life of his own, being in simultaneous relationships with two women in different parts of the country.
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Jonathan Creek / int_88efd1f4	type	Classical Music Is Boring
Jonathan Creek / int_88efd1f4	comment	Classical Music Is Boring: At the start of "The Clue of the Savant's Thumb", Jonathan is taken to a classical music performance, and falls asleep during it.
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Jonathan Creek / int_8928fe5f	type	Dead Man's Chest
Jonathan Creek / int_8928fe5f	comment	In "The Three Gamblers", Maddie finds a dead body in its underwear stuffed in a wardrobe and realises that the this is the constable who was supposed to be guarding the house, and that the policeman with her is the killer, having murdered him and stolen his uniform.
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Jonathan Creek / int_8a8f37f9	type	Artistic License â€“ Law Enforcement
Jonathan Creek / int_8a8f37f9	comment	Artistic License â€“ Law Enforcement: "The Problem at Gallows Gate" has a woman identify a murderer from a line-up of suspects...whilst in the same room with them. She's actually escorted past them, giving the would-be killer ample opportunity for a good look at the key witness. This was actually a practice in police line-ups at one point historically, though should not have been by the time of this episode.
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Jonathan Creek / int_8bbf64f	type	Unsuspectingly Soused
Jonathan Creek / int_8bbf64f	comment	Unsuspectingly Soused: In "Daemon's Roost", Polly takes The Vicar's advice to suck on a mouthful of ice cubes to cure her nausea. What she didn't know was that the owner of the house had taken to filling the ice cube trays with neat vodka to hide his drinking.
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Jonathan Creek / int_8bd16732	type	The Law of Conservation of Detail
Jonathan Creek / int_8bd16732	comment	The Law of Conservation of Detail: Par for the course for a mystery series, but there is one notable scene in which an episode devotes several seconds to Maddie channel-flicking for no discernible reason. But due to a plot involving a forged tape recording, the audience needed to know what was on television at that exact moment.
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Jonathan Creek / int_8c170cb1	type	Ethical Slut
Jonathan Creek / int_8c170cb1	comment	Ethical Slut: Joey, who will sleep with a guy knowing only that his name is Brad, but back off and apologise sincerely to his girlfriend when she realises he has one.
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Jonathan Creek / int_8dc8a02d	type	Derailing Love Interests
Jonathan Creek / int_8dc8a02d	comment	Derailing Love Interests: Nicola from "The Grinning Man" dumps Jonathan in order to run off with a man she's never met.
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Jonathan Creek / int_8ed5c6e4	type	Asshole Victim
Jonathan Creek / int_8ed5c6e4	comment	"The Scented Room" shows Maddy explaining to her psychiatrist that unfortunately she won't be able to publish the story, since she and Jonathan sided with the perpetrator against the Asshole Victim. Presumably she doesn't publish other cases of the sort as well. Out of interest, the Asshole Victim in this particular case wasn't a murder victim, but simply a smarmy critic who had a valuable painting stolen.
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Jonathan Creek / int_8ee823b6	type	Knife-Throwing Act
Jonathan Creek / int_8ee823b6	comment	Knife-Throwing Act
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Jonathan Creek / int_928ca2cc	type	You Have Outlived Your Usefulness
Jonathan Creek / int_928ca2cc	comment	You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: The killer's accomplice in "The Grinning Man". She is rescued.
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Jonathan Creek / int_95cb7004	type	Only Sane Employee
Jonathan Creek / int_95cb7004	comment	Only Sane Employee: Jonathan's role within the Adam Klaus magic act.
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Jonathan Creek / int_9633f14b	type	Badass Bystander
Jonathan Creek / int_9633f14b	comment	Badass Bystander: In "The Scented Room", a little old lady watches Adam get nailed into a coffin to be lowered into the ground as part of an endurance test. Unfortunately, she thinks they're gangsters, and attacks them with a tree branch, a can of mace, and a whistle. She manages to take out three grown men!
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Jonathan Creek / int_969fd766	type	Theme Song Reveal
Jonathan Creek / int_969fd766	comment	Theme Song Reveal: In the episode "Satan's Chimney", Allan Kallanak's first appearance shows him rehearsing his escape act to the sound of the Eurythmics' Missionary Man. In hindsight, this not only gives away his identity as the killer, but his motivation as well: "don't mess with a missionary man..."
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Jonathan Creek / int_96a33f11	type	Riddle for the Ages
Jonathan Creek / int_96a33f11	comment	Riddle for the Ages: Did Beryl Carney murder her own twin sister in the most horrific way possible in order to steal her life and family, or was Marella's death a genuine tragic accident that Beryl merely took advantage of? Either way, the answer died with Beryl.
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Jonathan Creek / int_97926168	type	Rewatch Bonus
Jonathan Creek / int_97926168	comment	Rewatch Bonus: In "Gorgon's Wood", when Thelma is alone with the statue she licks her lips. This stands out a lot more once you know the statue is a hollow, edible copy that she eats.
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Jonathan Creek / int_97a383e7	type	Interdisciplinary Sleuth
Jonathan Creek / int_97a383e7	comment	Interdisciplinary Sleuth: Jonathan designs conjuring tricks for a living and is relectantly brought in to the world of crime-fighting by a chance meeting and a love of puzzles. Maddy (and Carla and Joey, for that matter) technically all play this trope straight. While none of them are cops or law enforcement, they are all journalists of different sorts specializing in crime stories.
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Jonathan Creek / int_9816a70b	type	Appeal to Audacity
Jonathan Creek / int_9816a70b	comment	Appeal to Audacity: Happened quite a lot, in which suspects and witnesses alike would come up with ridiculous stories — and Jonathan would believe every word, working with the logic that if they were truly covering for a crime, they'd hardly be stupid enough to come up with a story that no one would ever believe.
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Jonathan Creek / int_9858c391	type	Chick Magnet
Jonathan Creek / int_9858c391	comment	Chick Magnet: A lot of women fall for Jonathan, just a pity that most of them are, shall we say... unsuitable.
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Jonathan Creek / int_987be393	type	Gambit Roulette
Jonathan Creek / int_987be393	comment	Gambit Roulette: The plot of "The Judas Tree" hinges on the assumptions that Emily wouldn't just quit her job, that the local vicar wouldn't be asked to identify the body, and that the police wouldn't do a tox screen on the body or a paternity test or look up the family of Emily's previous victim. See the Headscratchers page. The explanation Jonathan gives for how the murder could have been done by the most obvious suspect in "The Wrestler's Tomb" is also one ... which is why Jonathan dismisses it as too unlikely to be plausible.
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Jonathan Creek / int_997bd551	type	Home Nudist
Jonathan Creek / int_997bd551	comment	Home Nudist: In "Mother Redcap", Maddie starts dating a man only to discover that he is a home nudist. In fairness to him, he did actually tell her this before she arrived at his house. She just wasn't listening.
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Jonathan Creek / int_9ca12273	type	Handy Feet
Jonathan Creek / int_9ca12273	comment	Handy Feet: In "The Wrestler's Tomb", the murderer tied themselves up and shot the Victim of the Week with a gun held in their feet, thereby giving themselves the seemingly perfect alibi of having been Bound and Gagged at the time of the murder.
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Jonathan Creek / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
Jonathan Creek / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: In "Jack in the Box", when the police first enter the bunker, the scene when the officer stoops down to examine Jack Holiday's corpse has the wall behind which Alan Rokesmith walled himself up featured prominently in the background. In hindsight, the newer bricklaying does look rather obvious, meaning that the solution is Hidden in Plain Sight. The dimmer lightbulb also makes this a form of literal foreshadowing too!
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Jonathan Creek / int_9d72c7fe	type	Fan Boy
Jonathan Creek / int_9d72c7fe	comment	Fanboy: In "No Trace Of Tracy", Jonathan completely geeks out when he gets to investigate a case surrounding his prog-rock idol, Roy Pilgrim. Jonathan meets a group of his own fanboys in "Miracle on Crooked Lane"; they all dress like him and have long hair (on seeing a photo of them all lined up at a table, Maddy notes the similarity with the Last Supper). Two of them even live in windmills, and one of them has a girlfriend who actually fancies Jonathan himself.
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Jonathan Creek / int_9f6fb586	type	Leitmotif
Jonathan Creek / int_9f6fb586	comment	Leitmotif: "Danse Macabre" by Camille Saint-Saens. Aside from being the show's theme tune, it (or a variation on it) is often used as a motif whenever Jonathan is pondering a clue to the mystery of the week.
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Jonathan Creek / int_9fda81a7	type	The Summation
Jonathan Creek / int_9fda81a7	comment	The Summation: Every episode, always intercut with scenes of the crime itself being committed. One exception is "The Judas Tree", where all we see is Jonathan's hypothesis and the implication that it is true, quite a way before the end of the episode.
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Jonathan Creek / int_a084f0e0	type	Never Speak Ill of the Dead
Jonathan Creek / int_a084f0e0	comment	Never Speak Ill of the Dead: Subverted in "Jack in the Box" — turns out, Jonathan's not a huge fan of recently-dead comic legend Jack Holliday (an old-school Benny Hill-style comedian).
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Jonathan Creek / int_a18042f1	type	Left the Background Music On
Jonathan Creek / int_a18042f1	comment	Left the Background Music On: In "No Trace of Tracy", the opening titles segue into Roy Pilgrim listening to "Danse Macabre" on Classic FM. Then it shifts to Vivaldi and he turns off his personal stereo.
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Jonathan Creek / int_a195379b	type	Murder by Cremation
Jonathan Creek / int_a195379b	comment	Murder by Cremation: In "Daemons' Roost", the Victim of the Week is flung to his death in a fiery furnace, seemingly by black magic.
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Jonathan Creek / int_a2836be5	type	Identity Amnesia
Jonathan Creek / int_a2836be5	comment	"Ghosts Forge": The husband cheated on his wife with a woman who bore a striking resemblance to his actual long-dead wife, whom he never really got over after she died. He had a severe case of Identity Amnesia encouraged by his not-actually-real-wife.
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Jonathan Creek / int_a2b38d3b	type	Eye Scream
Jonathan Creek / int_a2b38d3b	comment	Eye Scream: In the episode "The Reconstituted Corpse" a man looks through the peep hole on his front door, whilst a revolver is put up against the other side, and then fired into his eye.
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Jonathan Creek / int_a431b0e6	type	The Butler Did It
Jonathan Creek / int_a431b0e6	comment	The Butler Did It: Zig-zagged in "Black Canary." The butler certainly shot the victim - the rub was that she'd already died of a self-inflicted overdose hours before.
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Jonathan Creek / int_a4c37cbe	type	Mood Whiplash
Jonathan Creek / int_a4c37cbe	comment	Mood Whiplash: "The Grinning Man" has a plot about a stage magician killing people and just generally being a Magnificent Bastard and a sub-plot about... 3-D porn. An in-universe example; in one episode, Adam is forced into a date-from-hell with an uncouth woman who won (Second Prize in) a raffle to date him. It's comedically embarrassing, and Jonathan gets plenty of amusement from it. The next morning, Adam shows up to the theatre shell-shocked, and recounts the rest of the evening; it initially continues in the same humourously embarrassing vein as before, but much to Jonathan's shock swerves wildly into Black Comedy territory when Adam reveals that she ended up choking to death on her own vomit. Then there's the slapstick montage of Maddie and Shelford getting a wardrobe up three flights of stairs followed by Maddie opening the wardrobe and screaming in horror as the dead body of her client falls on her. "Gorgon's Wood ends like this, with the doulbe Downer Ending of the main plot and Clara's B-plot contrasting with a pig-waste splattered Adam managing to get the old women trying to defraud him to break character with his odor.
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Jonathan Creek / int_a536f3a3	type	Gender-Blender Name
Jonathan Creek / int_a536f3a3	comment	Gender-Blender Name: Joey Ross in the 2009 special, the character being played by an actress who herself has a Gender-Blender Name, Sheridan Smith. Also Punny Name. When they first met:
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Jonathan Creek / int_a58e5ad7	type	Naked People Are Funny
Jonathan Creek / int_a58e5ad7	comment	Naked People Are Funny: The series is all over this trope. Jonathanâ€™s naked scenes are sometimes played for laughs, like the time he opens the window in the nude to find a camera crew outside. In "Mother Redcap", Maddy accidentally starts dating a guy who lives in a nudist commune. He tells her in advance, but she wasnâ€™t listening, leading to her getting a shock when she goes round for tea and finds him and his housemates in the altogether. In "The Coonskin Cap", a streaker runs onto the stage during Adamâ€™s show. The audience finds it funny (and it distracts them from noticing how the trick heâ€™s performing is done), so he hires the guy.
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Jonathan Creek / int_a5e0c01	type	As Himself
Jonathan Creek / int_a5e0c01	comment	As Himself: In "The Three Gamblers", Adam appears on Friday Night with Jonathan Ross. In "The Grinning Man", The Puppini Sisters are performing at a fete.
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Jonathan Creek / int_a5fa9313	type	Faked Kidnapping
Jonathan Creek / int_a5fa9313	comment	Faked Kidnapping: The mistress in Angel Hair seemed to set one of these up to get money out of the wealthy man she was seeing, but it's much more complicated than that. The housekeeper arranged the whole thing to make it look like the a Faked Kidnapping to end the infidelity, but the mistress wasn't in on it.
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Jonathan Creek / int_a6f23b2d	type	Skepticism Failure
Jonathan Creek / int_a6f23b2d	comment	Skepticism Failure: Averted. The explanation for any mystery would never be supernatural, no matter how impossible it seemed. Some crooks would actually use this to cover their tracks, knowing most people would rather believe in magic than accept they had been conned.
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Jonathan Creek / int_a7b324e	type	Handicapped Badass
Jonathan Creek / int_a7b324e	comment	Handicapped Badass: Gideon Pryke in "The Clue of the Savant's Thumb". Since his previous appearance he was hit by a sniper's bullet, and can only move one finger ... which was apparently enough to tell his superiors what he thought of being retired.
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Jonathan Creek / int_a7ba94de	type	Inferiority Superiority Complex
Jonathan Creek / int_a7ba94de	comment	Inferiority Superiority Complex: Carla is suffering from a pretty big one of these, as lampshaded at the end of "Satan's Chimney":
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Jonathan Creek / int_a82ff02f	type	Meet Cute
Jonathan Creek / int_a82ff02f	comment	Meet Cute: Jonathan and Maddy meet at a magic show when Jonathan mistakes Maddy's thumb for a cocktail sausage and sticks a toothpick into it.
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Jonathan Creek / int_a94eaaa4	type	Odd Friendship
Jonathan Creek / int_a94eaaa4	comment	Odd Friendship: Jonathan and Adam. Sure, Jonathan is employed by Adam and so has to spend time with him, but as the series goes on, the two occasionally socialize with each other outside of work and act as each other's confidants.
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Jonathan Creek / int_a98abeda	type	Roguish Romani
Jonathan Creek / int_a98abeda	comment	Roguish Romani: In "The Seer of the Sands", a couple pose as a romantic gypsy couple in order to better con a gullible American woman.
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Jonathan Creek / int_aa07ca54	type	Obfuscating Disability
Jonathan Creek / int_aa07ca54	comment	Obfuscating Disability: In "The Problem at Gallows Gate", a friend of Adam's is a famous blind blues musician. However, he actually had an operation several years earlier which restored his sight. He maintains the pretense of being blind because people respect blind blues musicians, and because it allows him to spy on women and "accidentally" grope them.
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Jonathan Creek / int_acb01a17	type	Nothing Up My Sleeve
Jonathan Creek / int_acb01a17	comment	Nothing Up My Sleeve: In "Mother Redcap", the killer uses a spring loaded spike to stab the Victim of the Week on the pretext of examining the 'body' (who was actually just stunned by an electric shock). The spike disappears back up their sleeve as they stand up and announce the victim is dead, thereby creating a Locked Room Mystery.
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Jonathan Creek / int_acd7e590	type	Sticky Situation
Jonathan Creek / int_acd7e590	comment	Sticky Situation: In "The Seer of the Sands", Jonathan and Carla get their heads stuck together when they are attempting to eavesdrop on a conversation with their heads pressed to to the same crack in the wall, and a can of glue on the shelf above gets overturned and drips down over them.
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Jonathan Creek / int_acecb17d	type	Chekhov's Skill
Jonathan Creek / int_acecb17d	comment	Chekhov's Skill: Card-throwing in "The Three Gamblers". And in the same episode, Maddy's ability to faint convincingly.
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Jonathan Creek / int_ad1ab367	type	The Masochism Tango
Jonathan Creek / int_ad1ab367	comment	The Masochism Tango: Platonic version with Jonathan and Adam.
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Jonathan Creek / int_ad768026	type	Accident, Not Murder
Jonathan Creek / int_ad768026	comment	Accident, Not Murder: In "The Reconstituted Corpse", a new wardrobe is delivered to Maddy's flat. After seeing that it is empty she gets it up to her flat only to find the dead body of a murder suspect inside it. This turns out to a case of Time-Delayed Death, as the victim had suffered a blow to the head earlier. She had broken into the flat and was forced to hide in the wardrobe as it was being pushed into Maddy's bedroom, but promptly expired from a slow bleed on the brain from the earlier blow. In "The Letters of Septimus Noone", an accidental blow reopens a wound from an attempted murder the Victim of the Week was deliberately concealing, causing a Time-Delayed Death that turns what would have been a mundane (if tragic) death into a Locked Room Mystery. Granted, she didn't actually die.
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Jonathan Creek / int_ae3d6438	type	Deadpan Snarker
Jonathan Creek / int_ae3d6438	comment	Deadpan Snarker: Many characters tend towards this, but Jonathan masters it.
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Jonathan Creek / int_ae8038f1	type	Collective Identity
Jonathan Creek / int_ae8038f1	comment	Collective Identity: In "Time Waits for Norman", the mystery is how the titular Norman can be at his job in America and a fast food restaurant in Britain within the hour. Maddie's comment that he's "not Superman" prompts Jonathan to realise that they're dealing with two men with one identity; Norman has been sharing his name with his old partner in a business that closed years ago, as the job made enough money to support two and thus his friend could do the job in America while leaving Norman free to pursue other interests in Britain.
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Jonathan Creek / int_aec3e0b8	type	Glory Hound
Jonathan Creek / int_aec3e0b8	comment	Glory Hound: On her blog, Joey takes all of the credit for solving the cases she investigates with Jonathan. When Polly meets her in "The Clue of the Savant's Thumb", she approves of this as she doesn't care for what Jonathan used to do.
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Jonathan Creek / int_af7d483f	type	Dreaming of Things to Come
Jonathan Creek / int_af7d483f	comment	Dreaming of Things to Come: An old lady in "The Eyes of Tiresias" believes she's capable of doing this.
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Jonathan Creek / int_b032e4ed	type	Ms. Fanservice
Jonathan Creek / int_b032e4ed	comment	Ms. Fanservice: Julia Sawalha as Carla, who is considerably more sexualised in her role as Jonathan's sidekick than either Maddy or Joey ... to the point where there are sex dolls with her likeness, while her "work out" video proves to be popular with the, ah, wrong demographic.
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Jonathan Creek / int_b1a7cd14	type	Tap on the Head
Jonathan Creek / int_b1a7cd14	comment	Tap on the Head: Played straight in "No Trace Of Tracy" ... which is extremely noticeable considering that in just the previous episode, someone actually died from a blow to the head.
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Jonathan Creek / int_b39b810e	type	Fiery Coverup
Jonathan Creek / int_b39b810e	comment	Fiery Cover Up: In "The Seer of the Sands", a pair of fake gypsies burn down their caravan and leave a skeleton dug up from the local graveyard inside it to cover their escape and allow them to slip out of the country with no one looking for them.
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Jonathan Creek / int_b476386f	type	Sweetie Graffiti
Jonathan Creek / int_b476386f	comment	Sweetie Graffiti: A clue in "Gorgon's Wood", though it wasn't carved by "sweethearts".
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Jonathan Creek / int_b4fb830c	type	Smarter Than You Look
Jonathan Creek / int_b4fb830c	comment	Smarter Than You Look: the homeless man in "Time Waits For Norman" — despite his circumstances, and acceptance of methylated spirit (which he clearly intends to drink) as payment, he's up-to-date enough on current affairs to recognise Newt Gingrich when Jonathan tests the accuracy of his testimony.
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Jonathan Creek / int_b53077b3	type	Take That!
Jonathan Creek / int_b53077b3	comment	A slightly more affectionate Take That! occurs in "The Letters of Septimus Noone". Jonathan is accompanied in his investigation by the son of a friend of his wife, an affectionate parody of Sherlock Holmes as portrayed in Sherlock, wearing a similar scarf/trench-coat ensemble. Not-Sherlock routinely attempts Sherlock Scans which are always completely inaccurate due to his Awesome, but Impractical interpretation of the evidence Seriously, a crossbow bolt made of blood?.
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Jonathan Creek / int_b545453b	type	Internal Homage
Jonathan Creek / int_b545453b	comment	Internal Homage: The 2016 Christmas special "Daemons' Roost", being something of a 20th anniversary episode, contains numerous references and allusions to previous episodes: "Jack in the Box": The surprise when they open the grave is likened to a jack in the box. "The Reconstituted Corpse": Someone hides in one of Adam Klaus' old magic cabinets, and is knocked unconscious. "The House of Monkeys": Jonathan is stalked by Dr. Strange's murderer, who has just been paroled. "Ghosts Forge": Nathan Clore, Alison's aged stepfather, peers out of a window in a scene reminiscent of the one from this episode. "Mother Redcap": Alison's mother standing at the window with a terrified expression on her face references the final moments of Mother Redcap's victims. Polly's encounter with dead rats is similar to that of Maddy when she explores the inn. "Satan's Chimney": The hidden dungeon and its associated history and plot are similar. Wendell Wilkie, the vicar, points out how similar a cafetiÃ¨re is to the crushing device, a scene which is itself repeated from this episode. "The Judas Tree": The central theme of retribution is shared. Ryman's desire to avenge the murder of his sister-in-law, and the fact that he does it so elaborately, mirrors the actions of Hugo and Harriet Dore in avenging the death of Hugo's brother. "The Clue of the Savant's Thumb": Something is hidden inside a globe. Jonathan beheads his (relatively) lifelike scarecrow, putting the head on another scarecrow. Franklin Tartikoff suffered a similar fate. The company which produced Nathan Clore's films, "Great Portland Productions", is the same as (or, at least, has the same name as) the one which created the satirical video. The overly-dramatic presentation of Nathan Clore's cheesy horror films bears a striking resemblance to Adam Klaus' magic shows. Wendell Wilkie drives a Volvo estate car just like the one Maddy Magellan drove.
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Jonathan Creek / int_b6caa5b4	type	Operation: Jealousy
Jonathan Creek / int_b6caa5b4	comment	Operation: Jealousy: Maddy tries this in "The Reconstituted Corpse", but unfortunately her date ends up looking and acting like (in Jonathan's words) "The bastard son of Forrest Gump."
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Jonathan Creek / int_b74ce25a	type	Toad Licking
Jonathan Creek / int_b74ce25a	comment	Toad Licking: An hallucinogenic toad turned out to be a major plot point in one episode. The toad wasn't native to England and had been imported by a local hippie colony for this very purpose. The presence of the toad, allegedly in the prime suspect's house, was what led to Jonathan solving the case he was working on.
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Jonathan Creek / int_b778066b	type	Connect the Deaths
Jonathan Creek / int_b778066b	comment	Connect the Deaths: Deconstructed/criticised in the episode "The Coonskin Cap" in which Carla's crime show speculates that a recent serial killer is targeting women that have floral names, the three victims being called Rose, Iris and Heather. It turns out that two murders were the work of a disturbed young woman who had no discernable motive and the third was by a police officer who used the first two deaths as a cover for his own murder. The names were a coincidence, but until it was cleared up, Jonathan points out that thanks to the show's fear-mongering, women named after flowers were scared out of their wits (including a publicist called "Coral", at least until Jonathan tells her that coral is actually an animal).
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Jonathan Creek / int_b90e8dc1	type	Hard-to-Light Fire
Jonathan Creek / int_b90e8dc1	comment	Hard-to-Light Fire: In "Daemon's Roost", Jonathan is being dragged into a pit of bones by a crazed killer. He screams for Polly to grab the book of matches lying on the floor. She then fumbles desperately attempting to light one.
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Jonathan Creek / int_ba236071	type	It Makes Sense in Context
Jonathan Creek / int_ba236071	comment	At the end of "The Seer of the Sands", after Jonathan has summarised a series of events that has led to Adam's small bodyguard being eaten by a snake, Carla muses that, being a charismatic media professional, Adam should be able to talk his way out of the situation without any real trouble. Cut to a brief shot of Adam in the middle of a literal riot outside the courthouse being attacked by little people and animal rights activists.note Made even funnier by the fact it wasn't even really Adam's fault in the first place, because while the snake escaping its cage was a result of someone on his payroll getting careless his bodyguard probably would have been fine if he hadn't chugged a bottle of Jack Daniels and passed out while he was on the clock.
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Jonathan Creek / int_bb30bb0	type	Haven't You Seen X Before?
Jonathan Creek / int_bb30bb0	comment	Haven't You Seen X Before?: In "Time Waits for Norman", when Maddy is caught coming out of the men's toilets.
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Jonathan Creek / int_bc103f8b	type	Subverted
Jonathan Creek / int_bc103f8b	comment	Subverted with Jonathan, who when forced to drive Maddy's car, drives so slowly and carefully that it creates a pile-up behind him. When asked whether he's ever driven an automatic before, he replies: "I've never driven a car before!" One hilarious Gilligan Cut later, and Maddy's is back in the driver's seat.
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Jonathan Creek / int_bc708f73	type	Mistaken for Masturbating
Jonathan Creek / int_bc708f73	comment	Mistaken for Masturbating: In "The Sinner and the Sandman", Jonathan sprains his wrist while attempting to get ketchup out of a bottle. However, saying that he hurt his wrist "whacking the sauce bottle" and similar phrases causes The Vicar's wife to believe he is a chronic masturbator.
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Jonathan Creek / int_bcf1d2c1	type	Blind Musician
Jonathan Creek / int_bcf1d2c1	comment	Blind Musician: Subverted by Hewie Harper in "The Problem at Gallows Gate" — he used to be blind but had corrective surgery and only told a very small group of people about it. Following this, he pretends to be be blind in order to maintain his reputation and feel up women because that's how he "sees" what they look like. He does not get away with this.
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Jonathan Creek / int_bd0d6395	type	No Social Skills
Jonathan Creek / int_bd0d6395	comment	No Social Skills: A downplayed case; Jonathan's not a complete social ignoramus by any means, but he's definitely on the awkward-and-dorky side of the social scale, and he's got a special talent for putting his foot in his mouth.
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Jonathan Creek / int_bf95550c	type	Tie-In Novel
Jonathan Creek / int_bf95550c	comment	Tie-In Novel: The World of Jonathan Creek, released shortly before the broadcast of Series 3, was principally a book about the making of the show, but also included an original mystery by David Renwick, "The Riddle at Castle Cain", which had a competition to solve it: readers had to write in with the answer, which was later printed in an issue of the Radio Times.
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Jonathan Creek / int_bfc73a49	type	Shoot the Rope
Jonathan Creek / int_bfc73a49	comment	Shoot the Rope: Done fantastically in "Black Canary". A very decrepit old man in a wheelchair manages to snipe the rope of his daughter who attempted to hang herself from at least 300 feet away. He explains this feat with "My eyes still work!"
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Jonathan Creek / int_c0015c4c	type	Inn of No Return
Jonathan Creek / int_c0015c4c	comment	Inn of No Return: Forms part of the backstory in "Mother Redcap". Back in the 1940s, the landlord of the titular Mother Redcap pub note it's stated to be located in Edmonton in North London, although in a minor Continuity Snarl, an estate agent's leaflet gives the address as being in the E2 postal district which is actually Bethnal Green in East London had a prostitute operating out of one of the rooms upstairs. Several women paid him to eliminate their cheating husbands. He rigged up a contrivance that allowed him to push a set of raised metal studs up through the floorboards by the window, and thus electrocute them — working in collusion with the prostitute who had lured the men to the room for sex, and then had them step to the window while still barefoot. The deaths were written off as heart failure, but as more than one victim had been seen at the window with a 'shocked' expression on his face, it gave rise to an urban legend that the room was haunted by something so terrifying that it had literally scared the men to death. It ties in with the present-day murder Jonathan's investigating; the murderer had met the prostitute (now an elderly vagrant squatting in the now-derelict pub), heard her story and got the idea for how to kill the Victim of the Week.
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Jonathan Creek / int_c0633b08	type	Pain Mistaken for Sex
Jonathan Creek / int_c0633b08	comment	Pain Mistaken For S Ex: There was also a very dark usage of this in "Gorgon's Wood", in which a videotape is found showing what appears to be a young woman having a screaming orgasm. Turns out the camera had tipped onto its side, and what everyone was seeing was her getting impaled against a tree by a large garden fork.
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Jonathan Creek / int_c0e3994b	type	Double Standard: Abuse, Female on Male
Jonathan Creek / int_c0e3994b	comment	Double Standard: Abuse, Female on Male: Used as a plot-point in "The Scented Room" in which Lady Theresa's abuse of her Jerkass husband is first seen as amusing (when she puts stinging nettle in his sandwich) and then deadly serious when she hits him over the back of the head with a trowel. Later, after a valuable painting mysteriously vanishes, her husband uses this head wound to make it seem as though he'd been attacked by an intruder in order to claim money from the insurance company. A witness also points out that Lady Theresa's behaviour is completely inappropriate, especially in front of her young son.
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Jonathan Creek / int_c16b3149	type	Going by the Matchbook
Jonathan Creek / int_c16b3149	comment	Going by the Matchbook: In "Daemons' Roost", the matchbook the killer used to light the furnace turns out to be an important clue to the killer's identity (although not the one it first appears to be).
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Jonathan Creek / int_c2299d6e	type	Cutting the Knot
Jonathan Creek / int_c2299d6e	comment	Cutting the Knot: In one episode, Carla and one of the costumers are debating over a new duffle coat that Jonathan has been given to wear in Carla's show. Carla doesn't think it's suitable, and the two spend a few minutes arguing over how to make it look more lived-in and worn. Eventually, Jonathan acerbically notes that the easiest solution is for him to just take off the expensive new duffle coat bought only that morning at a high-end retailer, and to just put on his familiar old duffle-coat instead.
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Jonathan Creek / int_c2393191	type	Show Within a Show
Jonathan Creek / int_c2393191	comment	Part of the plot of "Satan's Chimney" is centered around the filming of a movie entitled Black Snow. An obvious homage to the works of David Lynch, it even has a dwarf called "The Man from the World of Shadows" in a nod to Twin Peaks' Man From Another Place.
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Jonathan Creek / int_c33ba0a8	type	Chuck Cunningham Syndrome
Jonathan Creek / int_c33ba0a8	comment	Chuck Cunningham Syndrome: Sheena from "No Trace of Tracy" is allegedly Maddy's best friend but she appears only in that one episode and is never even mentioned again. Of course, given Maddy's jealous tendencies, it is highly possible that she did not take kindly to her friend sniffing around Jonathan.
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Jonathan Creek / int_c40c8b74	type	And Starring
Jonathan Creek / int_c40c8b74	comment	And Starring: Stuart Milligan (Adam) gets this credit. In "The Clue of the Savantâ€™s Thumb", Rik Mayall gets the "with" and Joanna Lumley the "and".
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Jonathan Creek / int_c4f3a09a	type	Share the Male Pain
Jonathan Creek / int_c4f3a09a	comment	Share the Male Pain: A female example in Maddy's reaction to the story of the woman being sawed in half "lengthwise" in "Black Canary".
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Jonathan Creek / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
Jonathan Creek / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: Edwin Drood, Roy Pilgrim's old prog rock band in "No Trace of Tracy", is named for the unfinished Dickens novel, as well as being a riff on the similarly Dickensian-inspired Uriah Heep. Also, Roy's house is called Bleak House. Part of the plot of "Satan's Chimney" is centered around the filming of a movie entitled Black Snow. An obvious homage to the works of David Lynch, it even has a dwarf called "The Man from the World of Shadows" in a nod to Twin Peaks' Man From Another Place. The 1998 Christmas Special is called "Black Canary" and even features a large statue of the DC Comics character. There's also a season one character called Doctor Strange, and a Christmas Special set at a homestead called Green Lanterns. Renwick is obviously a DC fan. There's also an Iris West in "The Coonskin Cap". In the magic club that Jonathan, Maddy and Adam visit in "The Three Gamblers", a poster in the toilet is advertising Sharpe's Fortress, the (then) latest Bernard Cornwell novel. When Joey finds that Jonathan has moved on and is now a senior advertising executive in "The Clue of the Savant's Thumb", she compares him to Don Draper. In "The Letters of Septimus Noone", there's a character with a son called Ridley, a daughter called Ripley, and a house called Nostromo. As Jonathan says, you can guess what her favourite movie is. In "Daemon's Roost", Jonathan's idea for the scarecrow competition is heavily modelled on the publicity photos of Alfred Hitchcock for The Birds. Sadly, everyone else thinks it's Phil Jupitus (which qualifies as an in-joke since Jupitus has often appeared alongside Alan Davies on QI).
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Jonathan Creek / int_c78560a2	type	Stolen by Staying Still
Jonathan Creek / int_c78560a2	comment	Stolen by Staying Still: In "The Scented Room", a valuable painting disappears from inside a seemingly empty chamber. The painting never actually left the room. The thief slipped it inside the heavy, double-thickness door. Jonathan drives the owner to distraction by recovering the painting but refusing to reveal to him how the theft was committed. In the episode "Gorgons Wood", a priceless (and apparently cursed) porcelain statue disappears from a locked room, with its currently trustee (who was with it at the time) suffering a swelling of the face for no apparent reason. She was in on it; the statue was stolen ahead of time, and replaced with a sugar replica, which she ate (one of the food dyes apparently triggering an allergic reaction).
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Jonathan Creek / int_c7a5ce	type	My Sibling Will Live Through Me
Jonathan Creek / int_c7a5ce	comment	My Sibling Will Live Through Me: "Black Canary". Finding out about this is the main motivating factor for the would-be murderer.
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Jonathan Creek / int_c8f21342	type	Clock Discrepancy
Jonathan Creek / int_c8f21342	comment	Clock Discrepancy: This has cropped up in a few episodes as part of the solution to the mystery, most notably in "Miracle in Crooked Lane" whereby an ill woman was convinced that morning was evening, in order to provide an alibi for a murder.
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Jonathan Creek / int_c93a6560	type	Impaled with Extreme Prejudice
Jonathan Creek / int_c93a6560	comment	Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: Several times. There is even one example where someone gets impaled by two spikes at the same time.
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Jonathan Creek / int_c972d624	type	Slut-Shaming
Jonathan Creek / int_c972d624	comment	Slut-Shaming: In "Miracle on Crooked Lane", an ex-model and "professional bed-hopper" sells her story to the papers and the townsfolk shun her. She ends up committing suicide over it.
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Jonathan Creek / int_c9e7f2b	type	Necro Cam
Jonathan Creek / int_c9e7f2b	comment	Necro Cam: Very necessary because the show is a howdunnit more than it is a whodunnit and the complex solutions would be tricky to get across in words alone. Subverted in the original pilot The Wrestler's Tomb, in which we get this to accompany Creek describing a mere hypothetical of how the crime could have been permitted by one suspect, which turns out not to be the actual solution.
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Jonathan Creek / int_ca95473c	type	Series Continuity Error
Jonathan Creek / int_ca95473c	comment	Continuity Error: An In-Universe example in "Angel Hair". Disgusted at her boss's adultery with an air-line hostess, Dorothy tries to make it appear as though the woman has faked her own kidnapping in order to extort money from her lover. This involves a bunch of actors grabbing the woman off the street and having her read out a ransom note, and then cutting off her hair for good measure. Unfortunately, directly prior to this, the wife catches her husband and his lover kissing on the front lawn and engages in a hair-pulling Cat Fight with her rival. When Dorothy puts in the tape that she supposedly found in the woman's suitcase (though she planted it there herself) and presses play (though she's actually recording the staged kidnapping that is happening live), it poses a serious continuity problem considering the kidnappers display the day's newspaper directly before cutting off all the woman's hair, making it look like she got her hair cut off in the morning, only to grow it all back again by that same afternoon. The Cat Fight rendered the possibility of a wig or hair extensions completely impossible. She notes with some frustration that the actor she hired to stage the kidnapping was only supposed to remove a few locks of hair for dramatic effect, but got too immersed and ended up getting carried away with it.
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Jonathan Creek / int_cc278c96	type	Low-Speed Chase
Jonathan Creek / int_cc278c96	comment	Low-Speed Chase: In "The Seer of the Sands", Jonathan and Carla run after a gypsy caravan being pulled by a horse. Although the caravan is moving at no more than a walking pace, they fail to catch it: their efforts being hampered by the fact that their heads are glued together.
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Jonathan Creek / int_ce165390	type	Casting Couch
Jonathan Creek / int_ce165390	comment	Casting Couch: The consequences of this form a major part of the motive behind the events of Satan's Chimney. To wit; An actress slept with several men to advance her career in the 70's, and had to abort one pregnancy and give another child up for adoption as a result. The father of the aborted pregnancy found out about this, and manipulated the adopted child into killing her because his religious beliefs make her a murderer (the fact that he obviously had sex out of wedlock apparently doesn't require any such retribution). The actress's friends figured all this out, and lured him to his death.
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Jonathan Creek / int_d0bf8a6d	type	No Periods, Period
Jonathan Creek / int_d0bf8a6d	comment	No Periods, Period: Referenced in a couple of lines of dialogue:
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Jonathan Creek / int_d0caee40	type	Uncanny Family Resemblance
Jonathan Creek / int_d0caee40	comment	Uncanny Family Resemblance: Played for laughs in "Mother Redcap" in which a police detective passes around several photographs of potential assassins from an Asian crime family — the joke is that they're all the same actor in different clothes. Later in the episode the murder victim's wife is brought to the station to look over some possible suspects. She confidently identifies one who was prowling around in her back garden, although again — they're all the same actor.
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Jonathan Creek / int_d104235d	type	Fair-Play Whodunnit
Jonathan Creek / int_d104235d	comment	Fair-Play Whodunnit: The audience typically has the same set of clues that Jonathan does (bar one or two pieces of evidence — often police or medical records — that would make the result too easy), but the solutions often take a bit of lateral thinking. Also, the audience rarely knows whether an episode is going to be a whodunnit or a howdunnit until The Summation. One irritatingly unfair instance - in "Angel Hair," a small square of masking tape obscuring the REC light on a VCR is not visible in the case's initial flashback, but is later visible during The Summation's flashback of the same event.
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Jonathan Creek / int_d129e13e	type	"Eureka!" Moment
Jonathan Creek / int_d129e13e	comment	"Eureka!" Moment: Ex-Trope Namer
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Jonathan Creek / int_d280a296	type	Teen Genius
Jonathan Creek / int_d280a296	comment	Ridley in "The Letters of Septimus Noone", who is the particularly hilarious combination of a Lestrade who thinks he's a Holmes, coupled to being a Teen Genius.
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Jonathan Creek / int_d2e4289b	type	Calling Me a Logarithm
Jonathan Creek / int_d2e4289b	comment	Calling Me a Logarithm: One episode has a streaker hired for the show. When he starts becoming abusive to the staff Jonathan fires him and points out that a streaker's dressing room is an oxymoron. He responds by saying that Jonathan is the poxy-moron.
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Jonathan Creek / int_d39d4b71	type	The Perfect Crime
Jonathan Creek / int_d39d4b71	comment	The Perfect Crime: Well, all of them to one extent or other, but special mention but go to the killer in "Jack in the Box", considering everything, including his own suicide goes according to plan, and the master-mind behind the events in "Angel Hair" who was thwarted by completely unforeseen circumstances, and still got what she wanted out of the entire exercise, though not in the way she planned: getting her employer to stop cheating on his wife.
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Jonathan Creek / int_d45c0b86	type	Refuge in Audacity
Jonathan Creek / int_d45c0b86	comment	Refuge in Audacity: Jonathan specifically states several times that the reason people fall for elaborate magic tricks and locked room mysteries is because they're unwilling to believe that someone would go to such insane lengths to fool them.
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Jonathan Creek / int_d79f4a9e	type	Heinousness Retcon
Jonathan Creek / int_d79f4a9e	comment	Heinousness Retcon: Patrick Tyree the antagonist of "The House of Monkeys" is a cerebral extreme animal rights activist who murders Doctor Eliot Strange by sending him a self-titled letter laced with a powerful hallucinogenic that would infect him when he licked the seal. Come his return thirteen years later in "Daemons' Roost" he's now a huge, thuggish psycho whose plan for revenge against Jonathan is no more complicated than stalking and attempting to gut him and his wife with a knife. Likewise, Jonathan and Polly's reactions to simply hearing his name suggest he had always been like this.
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Jonathan Creek / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Jonathan Creek / int_d8573ef9	comment	Which he is then forced into anyway, by way of Le Fley's wife applying Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! to threaten to shut down a major performance by Adam Klaus.
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Jonathan Creek / int_da910c25	type	Authentication by Newspaper
Jonathan Creek / int_da910c25	comment	Authentication by Newspaper: Subverted in the 2008 special.
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Jonathan Creek / int_db71d717	type	Thanatos Gambit
Jonathan Creek / int_db71d717	comment	Thanatos Gambit: Andre Masson rigs up his suicide to make it look as though he's been murdered by one of his employees.
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Jonathan Creek / int_dbca2c99	type	Red Herring
Jonathan Creek / int_dbca2c99	comment	Red Herring: Being a mystery series, this is par for the course. There is, however, a tendency to play with and subvert the idea of a red herring — clues dismissed early on as insignificant will often come back in an unexpected way. Of course, other times it is played deadly straight.
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Jonathan Creek / int_dc579c91	type	Contrived Coincidence
Jonathan Creek / int_dc579c91	comment	Contrived Coincidence: This was usually avoided by Maddy (or Carla or Joey) going in search of crime or people coming them for help, but in "The Problem at Gallows Gate", Jonathan heads into a nature reserve for a badger watch, taking with him Adam's sister Kitty, who ends up witnessing a strangulation in a cottage window. And the only reason she sees this is because she needed the toilet at just that exact moment. In "Mother Redcap", Maddy is contacted by an estate agent interested in collaborating on a book about the mysterious deaths at the Mother Redcap inn several decades ago. As it turns out, the murderer in Jonathan's (entirely separate) investigation happened to stumble across the Mother Redcap secret about a week earlier and used it to execute their own murder. It's pure coincidence that Jonathan and Maddy's attention was drawn to the Mother Redcap mystery at the exact same time. This was played with in "The Judas Tree". Jonathan meets a girl and they almost go to bed together, when she starts telling him details of unexplained events that have happened in her life. He doesn't believe in the coincidence that he picks up a girl in the street, she goes to bed with him straight away and just happens to have an unexplained mystery to solve (therefore assuming she knew who he was and she was only interested in him because he could help her). It's subverted when it's revealed that the only reason she was there for him to run into was because she was there to see Joey and to talk to her about the unexplained mystery.
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Jonathan Creek / int_dcaa8b35	type	Locked Room Mystery
Jonathan Creek / int_dcaa8b35	comment	To add to the mystery, most of them are deployed in sealed rooms.
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Jonathan Creek / int_dceccabf	type	Cat Fight
Jonathan Creek / int_dceccabf	comment	Cat Fight: Actually manages to be an important plot-point in "Angel Hair."
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Jonathan Creek / int_de5e9f69	type	Bluffing the Murderer
Jonathan Creek / int_de5e9f69	comment	Bluffing the Murderer: In "The Reconstituted Corpse", Maddy and Jonathan demand to know a suspect's mobile number, then demand to know why he called Maddy's flat. He asks how they could possibly know that, and they reveals the number on a piece of paper, saying they dialed 1471 to get it. It's only well after his Engineered Public Confession that he realises that 1471 doesn't store mobile numbers, and Jonathan wrote down his mobile number right there when he read it out.
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Jonathan Creek / int_e24e15a6	type	Has a Type
Jonathan Creek / int_e24e15a6	comment	Jonathan meets a group of his own fanboys in "Miracle on Crooked Lane"; they all dress like him and have long hair (on seeing a photo of them all lined up at a table, Maddy notes the similarity with the Last Supper). Two of them even live in windmills, and one of them has a girlfriend who actually fancies Jonathan himself.
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Jonathan Creek / int_e3048d1b	type	Amateur Sleuth
Jonathan Creek / int_e3048d1b	comment	Amateur Sleuth: Jonathan is a reluctant one of these, getting dragged into cases by Maddy (and sometomes kidnapped by the police when they want him to help out).
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Jonathan Creek / int_e4f48a7f	type	The "Fun" in "Funeral"
Jonathan Creek / int_e4f48a7f	comment	The "Fun" in "Funeral": Maddie decides to get payback on an Oompa Band that's been performing in the street by spraying them with water. Unfortunately, it turns out they're carrying a coffin at the time. At the end of "The Reconstituted Corpse", Maddie and Jonathan come back from a funeral. It eventually turns out that it was a funeral of an elephant (who died offscreen early in the episode) and, judging from their comments, it was definitely plagued with some unfortunate mishaps.
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Jonathan Creek / int_e8b49369	type	Lie Detector
Jonathan Creek / int_e8b49369	comment	Lie Detector: Carla has one as the gimmick on her TV show in "The Tailor's Dummy", but it's actually completely random.
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Jonathan Creek / int_e9e35e8f	type	Exact Words
Jonathan Creek / int_e9e35e8f	comment	Exact Words: In "Black Canary", Lionel is questioned by the police and asked if he murdered Marella Carney; he responds emphatically that he did not. Because it was actually Beryl Carney, her twin sister, who had been posing as Marella for fifteen years.
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Jonathan Creek / int_ea44cd34	type	Britain Is Only London
Jonathan Creek / int_ea44cd34	comment	Britain Is Only London: Averted. Maddy lives in London and Adam does his show in a West End theatre, but many of the mysteries are set in rural England — or Scotland, in the case of "The Devil's Chimney". Jonathan's windmill is in Sussex.
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Jonathan Creek / int_ea8de006	type	Traitor Shot
Jonathan Creek / int_ea8de006	comment	Traitor Shot: Used frequently with suspects, yet Maddy was instinctively good at spotting them.
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Jonathan Creek / int_eae41a	type	The Vamp
Jonathan Creek / int_eae41a	comment	The Vamp: Francesca Boutron, Zola Zbzewski, Heather Davey, Gillian Bailey, Selima Al-Sharad and the prostitute in "Mother Redcap".
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Jonathan Creek / int_eaf5a1ac	type	Groin Attack
Jonathan Creek / int_eaf5a1ac	comment	Groin Attack: "Black Canary" has a very, very nasty example indeed.
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Jonathan Creek / int_eb28ab57	type	Bound and Gagged
Jonathan Creek / int_eb28ab57	comment	Bound and Gagged: In "The Sinner and the Sandman", Jonathan finds two people bound, gagged and tied to chairs, and unties them. Unfortunately for him, they are a pair of burglars the real householders had overpowered and tied up to await the police.
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Jonathan Creek / int_eb5b71fe	type	Clingy Jealous Girl
Jonathan Creek / int_eb5b71fe	comment	Clingy Jealous Girl: Maddy. Not particularly clingy, but she can get very jealous even though she and Jonathan aren't a couple; at one stage she locks him out of her apartment simply because she saw him with another woman, and in "Black Canary" she goes out of her way to derail anything that might happen with Jonathan and Charlotte. In "The Curse Of The Bronze Lamp", Polly becomes one when Jonathan hangs around with a weather girl.
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Jonathan Creek / int_ec02c97e	type	Defied Trope
Jonathan Creek / int_ec02c97e	comment	The explanation Jonathan gives for how the murder could have been done by the most obvious suspect in "The Wrestler's Tomb" is also one ... which is why Jonathan dismisses it as too unlikely to be plausible.
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Jonathan Creek / int_ed581814	type	Dismembering the Body
Jonathan Creek / int_ed581814	comment	Dismembering the Body: The masked villain carried the unconscious victim into an old garage and was surrounded by witnesses as he closed the garage door. When the door was reopened after the police showed up, the victim lay passed out on the floor with the killer nowhere to be found. Turns out the victim was the masked villain. She (in her mask) carried a foam dummy into the garage and, while the door was closed, she cut the dummy into pieces and hid them (along with the mask and costume) in empty paint cans left in the garage, then pretended to lay down, knocked out.
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Jonathan Creek / int_ed914e98	type	Tricked into Signing
Jonathan Creek / int_ed914e98	comment	Tricked into Signing: In "Gorgons Wood", Carla is signing copies of her new work-out video and a woman with a small child asks if she could take a picture of her with her nephew on Carla's knee. Turns out that the "nephew" is a grown man. The whole thing is distraction so she wouldn't notice that she is signing a contract allowing them to license "all forms of sexual erotica, however explicit, bearing my name, face or likeness".
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Jonathan Creek / int_eea96e78	type	Swallowed Whole
Jonathan Creek / int_eea96e78	comment	Swallowed Whole: The B plot in "The Seer of the Sands" involves Adam's latest ludicrous publicity stunt. It goes awry when the obnoxious midget he has employed passes out drunk, and then the anaconda he is using for the act escapes, and devours the midget. Jonathan's shocked crew discovers the sleeping snake with a midget shaped bulge in its stomach.
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Jonathan Creek / int_eefce6c6	type	Rube Goldberg Hates Your Guts
Jonathan Creek / int_eefce6c6	comment	Rube Goldberg Hates Your Guts: "Mother Redcap": two electrocution traps. "Satan's Chimney": a piston that crushes its victims. "The Coonskin Cap": a constricting flak jacket that suffocates the wearer. "The Grinning Man": a bathtub mounted on a trapdoor that drowns the victim in a tank below. "Daemons' Roost": a ritual room where everything is rotated 90 degrees, so that victims appear to "fly" into a fiery portal, when in fact they fall. To add to the mystery, most of them are deployed in sealed rooms.
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Jonathan Creek / int_efef300	type	Put on a Bus to Hell
Jonathan Creek / int_efef300	comment	Put on a Bus to Hell: This didn't exactly happen to Carla Borrego, but in "The Grinning Man" she still gets a rather mean-spirited mention, in which Jonathan Creek learns that she's been telling people that he died of a wasting illness. Apparently writer David Renwick and actress Julia Sawalha didn't get along, which may explain the pettiness of the comments.
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Jonathan Creek / int_f27ec906	type	Identical Stranger
Jonathan Creek / int_f27ec906	comment	Identical Stranger: Gillian Bailey and the prostitute, though the latter has a badly burnt face. They're played by the same actress.
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Jonathan Creek / int_f288cf3	type	Innocent Innuendo
Jonathan Creek / int_f288cf3	comment	Innocent Innuendo: Happens quite a few times; usually with Maddy: At one point she tells Jonathan over the phone: "I need you, here in my bedroom." The next scene shows Jonathan taking off his shoes and getting on the bed while Maddy watches nervously...only for Jonathan to reach up and tip the cockroach on the ceiling into a glass jar. Another time, she interrupts their phone conversation with lines like "Oh, go on! Take me! I'm powerless to resist!" He isn't fooled:
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Jonathan Creek / int_f37c192	type	Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma
Jonathan Creek / int_f37c192	comment	Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma: At play in "Ghosts Forge" — Maddy thinks the titular house is called "Ghost's Forge" (which would make more sense), but Jonathan spots that the house name on the gate-post doesn't contain an apostrophe. Turns out, the apostrophe-less version is a literary joke - "Ghosts For G.E.", as in the owner is the ghostwriter for former MP George Eastland - which helps him to solve the mystery.
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Jonathan Creek / int_f44ad3e1	type	Twin Switch
Jonathan Creek / int_f44ad3e1	comment	Twin Switch: Used in "The Black Canary" in which one twin takes over her sister's life after her accidental death in order to spare her family the grief. In a twist on expectations, the discovery itself wasn't a big twist — Jonathan had it figured out by the middle of the episode, and the mystery is finding out how the latter twin died (though of course, the switch played a significant part in motivation). Also the basis of the same character's career. The twins were magicians and most of their act was based around the fact that the audience was unaware that the magician was actually two people.
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Jonathan Creek / int_f54a4264	type	Disability Alibi
Jonathan Creek / int_f54a4264	comment	Disability Alibi: In "Jack in the Box", a retired comedian, is found shot dead in his nuclear fall-out shelter. The otherwise empty bunker is locked from the inside, which would suggest that the man shot himself, but he had crippling arthritis in his hands and could barely pour a drink, much less pull a trigger.
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Jonathan Creek / int_f5a3e496	type	Suspiciously Similar Substitute
Jonathan Creek / int_f5a3e496	comment	Suspiciously Similar Substitute: Maddy to Carla, and then Carla to Joey. Although the Unresolved Sexual Tension common to Maddy and Carla is missing for the most part with Joey.
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Jonathan Creek / int_f777d4b9	type	You Got Murder
Jonathan Creek / int_f777d4b9	comment	You Got Murder: Occurs in "The House of Monkeys" in which a self-addressed envelope laced with poison is sent to the victim. On licking the flap, he trips out on hallucinogenic drugs and manages to impale himself on a sword.
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Jonathan Creek / int_f85d3c1e	type	Sequencing Deception
Jonathan Creek / int_f85d3c1e	comment	Sequencing Deception: In "Angel Hair", events that we think were recorded days in advance actually turn out to be happening live over a closed-circuit TV system rigged to look like a VCR.
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Jonathan Creek / int_f8730dfc	type	Clock Tampering
Jonathan Creek / int_f8730dfc	comment	Clock Tampering: In one episode, the murderer fakes an alibi by adjusting the clock in his house in order to make a respectable Christian missionary (whom he is caring for while she recovers from an injury) believe that the current time was the time when the murder was committed when she saw him in the house. In "Mother Redcap", the victim is electrocuted by a sabotaged alarm clock, making it an example of LITERAL Clock Tampering.
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Jonathan Creek / int_f96f188c	type	Drives Like Crazy
Jonathan Creek / int_f96f188c	comment	Drives Like Crazy: The DI in "Mother Redcap" which greatly unnerves Jonathan. Maddy, at times. At one point Jonathan freaks out because she's dialing a number on her cellphone whilst driving. This is not just highly dangerous, it's illegal. Subverted with Jonathan, who when forced to drive Maddy's car, drives so slowly and carefully that it creates a pile-up behind him. When asked whether he's ever driven an automatic before, he replies: "I've never driven a car before!" One hilarious Gilligan Cut later, and Maddy's is back in the driver's seat.
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Jonathan Creek / int_f9876f7e	type	Faking the Dead
Jonathan Creek / int_f9876f7e	comment	Faking the Dead: In "The Seer of the Sands", a pair of fake gypsies burn down their caravan and leave a skeleton dug up from the local graveyard inside it to cover their escape and allow them to slip out of the country with no one looking for them. Also at play in "The Problem at Gallows Gate" when a man is seemingly witnessed committing a murder three weeks after he committed suicide. Turns out, he'd faked his own death as part of a plot to get back at an ex-lover — but although she was the murder victim, it's eventually revealed that he didn't kill her.
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Jonathan Creek / int_fb0fa1ba	type	Sinister Scraping Sound
Jonathan Creek / int_fb0fa1ba	comment	Sinister Scraping Sound: In "The Clue of the Savant's Thumb", a subtle Sinister Scraping Sound can be heard drifting along an empty corridor as Jonathan and Joey explore the derelict convent, and again before someone is nearly crushed by a falling statue at the same location. We eventually learn that the sound is caused by a lurking hitman who habitually runs his thumb along the teeth of a metal comb.
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Jonathan Creek / int_fb4dbbf6	type	Roll in the Hay
Jonathan Creek / int_fb4dbbf6	comment	Roll in the Hay: In "The Clue of the Savant's Thumb", Joey's dalliance with Brad includes them rolling down a staircase of hay bales.
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Jonathan Creek / int_fbd285b7	type	Comically Missing the Point
Jonathan Creek / int_fbd285b7	comment	Comically Missing the Point: When Carla freaks out over the fact that her husband was once married to a man, all he does is casually chide her about the fact that she's being "a bit homophobic".
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Jonathan Creek / int_fbd5fda1	type	Friendly Rivalry
Jonathan Creek / int_fbd5fda1	comment	Friendly Rivalry: In his two appearances Inspector Gideon Pryke has one with Jonathan. He's just as smart and almost as good at lateral thinking. He just doesn't get the "Eureka!" Moment.
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Jonathan Creek / int_fdc1e848	type	Will They or Won't They?
Jonathan Creek / int_fdc1e848	comment	Will They or Won't They?: Maddy and Jonathan. They're on the edge of dating for entire seasons, without actually dating. They share a snog and a grope occasionally, but inevitably, one of them then immediately cocks it up. They have platonic sleepovers, Jonathan irons Maddy's bras, Maddy gets intensely possessive every time Jonathan has a date with someone else, and they still don't manage to actually have sex. They eventually do, once, but both decide it was a mistake.
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Jonathan Creek / int_fea60f97	type	Cut Apart
Jonathan Creek / int_fea60f97	comment	Cut Apart: It looks like two people are on opposite sides of a locked door and one even rattles the handle as the other watches, but it later turns out that this was an extremely elaborate trick and they were in two separate locations.
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Jonathan Creek	hasFeature	Death Dealer / int_a309575c
Jonathan Creek	hasFeature	Death Trap / int_a309575c
Jonathan Creek	hasFeature	Defective Detective / int_a309575c
Jonathan Creek	hasFeature	Derailing Love Interests / int_a309575c
Jonathan Creek	hasFeature	Descending Ceiling / int_a309575c
Jonathan Creek	hasFeature	Destroy the Abusive Home / int_a309575c
Jonathan Creek	hasFeature	Destroy the Evidence / int_a309575c
Jonathan Creek	hasFeature	Detective Mole / int_a309575c
Jonathan Creek	hasFeature	Detective Patsy / int_a309575c
Jonathan Creek	hasFeature	Disappearing Box / int_a309575c
Jonathan Creek	hasFeature	Dismembering the Body / int_a309575c
Jonathan Creek	hasFeature	Dismotivation / int_a309575c
Jonathan Creek	hasFeature	Do Not Call Me "Paul" / int_a309575c
Jonathan Creek	hasFeature	Drowning Pit / int_a309575c
Jonathan Creek	hasFeature	Eat the Evidence / int_a309575c
Jonathan Creek	hasFeature	Embarrassing First Name / int_a309575c
Jonathan Creek	hasFeature	Entertainingly Wrong / int_a309575c
Jonathan Creek	hasFeature	Ethical Slut / int_a309575c
Jonathan Creek	hasFeature	Everybody Did It / int_a309575c
Jonathan Creek	hasFeature	Fair-Play Whodunnit / int_a309575c
Jonathan Creek	hasFeature	Faked Kidnapping / int_a309575c
Jonathan Creek	hasFeature	Fatal Attractor / int_a309575c
Jonathan Creek	hasFeature	Fatal Method Acting / int_a309575c
Jonathan Creek	hasFeature	Fauxreigner / int_a309575c
Jonathan Creek	hasFeature	Fictional Mystery, Real Prize / int_a309575c
Jonathan Creek	hasFeature	Fiery Coverup / int_a309575c
Jonathan Creek	hasFeature	Finger in the Mail / int_a309575c
Jonathan Creek	hasFeature	Finger-Licking Poison / int_a309575c
Jonathan Creek	hasFeature	Framing the Guilty Party / int_a309575c
Jonathan Creek	hasFeature	Friendly Rivalry / int_a309575c
Jonathan Creek	hasFeature	Ghostwriter / int_a309575c
Jonathan Creek	hasFeature	Glass-Shattering Sound / int_a309575c
Jonathan Creek	hasFeature	Going by the Matchbook / int_a309575c
Jonathan Creek	hasFeature	Grammar Nazi / int_a309575c
Jonathan Creek	hasFeature	Hand of Death / int_a309575c
Jonathan Creek	hasFeature	Handy Feet / int_a309575c
Jonathan Creek	hasFeature	Hard-to-Light Fire / int_a309575c
Jonathan Creek	hasFeature	Haven't You Seen X Before? / int_a309575c
Jonathan Creek	hasFeature	Head-Tiltingly Kinky / int_a309575c
Jonathan Creek	hasFeature	Heinousness Retcon / int_a309575c
Jonathan Creek	hasFeature	Home Nudist / int_a309575c
Jonathan Creek	hasFeature	Horror Hippies / int_a309575c
Jonathan Creek	hasFeature	Hostage Video / int_a309575c
Jonathan Creek	hasFeature	I Don't Pay You to Think / int_a309575c
Jonathan Creek	hasFeature	Immoral Reality Show / int_a309575c
Jonathan Creek	hasFeature	Impossibly Awesome Magic Trick / int_a309575c
Jonathan Creek	hasFeature	Inn of No Return / int_a309575c
Jonathan Creek	hasFeature	Insecure Love Interest / int_a309575c
Jonathan Creek	hasFeature	Inspector Lestrade / int_a309575c
Jonathan Creek	hasFeature	Interdisciplinary Sleuth / int_a309575c
Jonathan Creek	hasFeature	Irregular Series / int_a309575c
Jonathan Creek	hasFeature	Irrevocable Message / int_a309575c
Jonathan Creek	hasFeature	Is This a Joke? / int_a309575c
Jonathan Creek	hasFeature	It Must Be Mine! / int_a309575c
Jonathan Creek	hasFeature	Keep the Reward / int_a309575c
Jonathan Creek	hasFeature	Kidnapped by an Ally / int_a309575c
Jonathan Creek	hasFeature	Killed to Uphold the Masquerade / int_a309575c
Jonathan Creek	hasFeature	Killer Outfit / int_a309575c
Jonathan Creek	hasFeature	Knife-Throwing Act / int_a309575c
Jonathan Creek	hasFeature	Laser Sight / int_a309575c
Jonathan Creek	hasFeature	Last-Second Word Swap / int_a309575c
Jonathan Creek	hasFeature	Let Off by the Detective / int_a309575c
Jonathan Creek	hasFeature	Lie Detector / int_a309575c
Jonathan Creek	hasFeature	Life Will Kill You / int_a309575c
Jonathan Creek	hasFeature	Little People Are Surreal / int_a309575c
Jonathan Creek	hasFeature	Locked Room Mystery / int_a309575c
Jonathan Creek	hasFeature	Lonely Rich Kid / int_a309575c
Jonathan Creek	hasFeature	Loony Fan / int_a309575c
Jonathan Creek	hasFeature	Losing a Shoe in the Struggle / int_a309575c
Jonathan Creek	hasFeature	Loving a Shadow / int_a309575c
Jonathan Creek	hasFeature	Low-Speed Chase / int_a309575c
Jonathan Creek	hasFeature	Lying to the Perp / int_a309575c
Jonathan Creek	hasFeature	Magician Detective / int_a309575c
Jonathan Creek	hasFeature	Man on Fire / int_a309575c
Jonathan Creek	hasFeature	Manipulative Editing / int_a309575c
Jonathan Creek	hasFeature	Minor Flaw, Major Breakup / int_a309575c
Jonathan Creek	hasFeature	Mirror Routine / int_a309575c
Jonathan Creek	hasFeature	Mismeasurement / int_a309575c
Jonathan Creek	hasFeature	Mistaken for Junkie / int_a309575c
Jonathan Creek	hasFeature	Mistaken for Masturbating / int_a309575c
Jonathan Creek	hasFeature	Mistaken for Superpowered / int_a309575c
Jonathan Creek	hasFeature	Mugged for Disguise / int_a309575c
Jonathan Creek	hasFeature	Mummies at the Dinner Table / int_a309575c
Jonathan Creek	hasFeature	Murder by Cremation / int_a309575c
Jonathan Creek	hasFeature	My Sibling Will Live Through Me / int_a309575c
Jonathan Creek	hasFeature	Necro Cam / int_a309575c
Jonathan Creek	hasFeature	Necro Non Sequitur / int_a309575c
Jonathan Creek	hasFeature	Never Suicide / int_a309575c
Jonathan Creek	hasFeature	New-Age Retro Hippie / int_a309575c
Jonathan Creek	hasFeature	Non-Action Guy / int_a309575c
Jonathan Creek	hasFeature	Not So Crazy Anymore / int_a309575c
Jonathan Creek	hasFeature	Nothing Up My Sleeve / int_a309575c
Jonathan Creek	hasFeature	Obfuscating Disability / int_a309575c
Jonathan Creek	hasFeature	Obfuscating Postmortem Wounds / int_a309575c
Jonathan Creek	hasFeature	Obliquely Obfuscated Occupation / int_a309575c
Jonathan Creek	hasFeature	Of Corpse He's Alive / int_a309575c
Jonathan Creek	hasFeature	Off with His Head! / int_a309575c
Jonathan Creek	hasFeature	Only Sane Employee / int_a309575c
Jonathan Creek	hasFeature	Operation: Jealousy / int_a309575c
Jonathan Creek	hasFeature	Orgasmic Combat / int_a309575c
Jonathan Creek	hasFeature	Pain Mistaken for Sex / int_a309575c
Jonathan Creek	hasFeature	Peek-a-Boo Corpse / int_a309575c
Jonathan Creek	hasFeature	Pet's Homage Name / int_a309575c
Jonathan Creek	hasFeature	Placebo Eureka Moment / int_a309575c
Jonathan Creek	hasFeature	Public Domain Soundtrack / int_a309575c
Jonathan Creek	hasFeature	Punctuation Changes the Meaning / int_a309575c
Jonathan Creek	hasFeature	Quote Mine / int_a309575c
Jonathan Creek	hasFeature	"Rear Window" Witness / int_a309575c
Jonathan Creek	hasFeature	Revealing Cover-Up / int_a309575c
Jonathan Creek	hasFeature	Roguish Romani / int_a309575c
Jonathan Creek	hasFeature	Romantic False Lead / int_a309575c
Jonathan Creek	hasFeature	Royal Bastard / int_a309575c
Jonathan Creek	hasFeature	Rube Goldberg Hates Your Guts / int_a309575c
Jonathan Creek	hasFeature	Rustproof Blood / int_a309575c
Jonathan Creek	hasFeature	Sausage String Silliness / int_a309575c
Jonathan Creek	hasFeature	Scrapbook Story / int_a309575c
Jonathan Creek	hasFeature	Scully Syndrome / int_a309575c
Jonathan Creek	hasFeature	Sequencing Deception / int_a309575c
Jonathan Creek	hasFeature	Sherlock Scan / int_a309575c
Jonathan Creek	hasFeature	Shoot the Rope / int_a309575c
Jonathan Creek	hasFeature	Sinister Scraping Sound / int_a309575c
Jonathan Creek	hasFeature	Smart People Know Latin / int_a309575c
Jonathan Creek	hasFeature	So Beautiful, It's a Curse / int_a309575c
Jonathan Creek	hasFeature	Stage Magician / int_a309575c
Jonathan Creek	hasFeature	Sticky Situation / int_a309575c
Jonathan Creek	hasFeature	Stolen by Staying Still / int_a309575c
Jonathan Creek	hasFeature	Suddenly Ethnicity / int_a309575c
Jonathan Creek	hasFeature	Swallowed Whole / int_a309575c
Jonathan Creek	hasFeature	Sweetie Graffiti / int_a309575c
Jonathan Creek	hasFeature	The Butler Did It / int_a309575c
Jonathan Creek	hasFeature	The Great British Copper Capture / int_a309575c
Jonathan Creek	hasFeature	The Perfect Crime / int_a309575c
Jonathan Creek	hasFeature	The Power of Acting / int_a309575c
Jonathan Creek	hasFeature	The Presents Were Never from Santa / int_a309575c
Jonathan Creek	hasFeature	The Reliable One / int_a309575c
Jonathan Creek	hasFeature	The Watson / int_a309575c
Jonathan Creek	hasFeature	Theme Serial Killer / int_a309575c
Jonathan Creek	hasFeature	Thermometer Gag / int_a309575c
Jonathan Creek	hasFeature	Time-Delayed Death / int_a309575c
Jonathan Creek	hasFeature	Toad Licking / int_a309575c
Jonathan Creek	hasFeature	Traitor Shot / int_a309575c
Jonathan Creek	hasFeature	Treehouse of Fun / int_a309575c
Jonathan Creek	hasFeature	Tricked into Signing / int_a309575c
Jonathan Creek	hasFeature	Unreliable Voiceover / int_a309575c
Jonathan Creek	hasFeature	Unsuspectingly Soused / int_a309575c
Jonathan Creek	hasFeature	"Untitled" Title / int_a309575c
VerityLambert	seeAlso	Jonathan Creek
Jonathan Creek	hasFeature	We Have the Keys / int_a309575c
Jonathan Creek	hasFeature	We Will Not Use Photoshop in the Future / int_a309575c
Jonathan Creek	hasFeature	What, Exactly, Is His Job? / int_a309575c
Jonathan Creek	hasFeature	What Have We Ear? / int_a309575c
Jonathan Creek	hasFeature	Windmill Scenery / int_a309575c
Jonathan Creek	hasFeature	Working the Same Case / int_a309575c
Jonathan Creek	hasFeature	Workplace-Acquired Abilities / int_a309575c
Jonathan Creek	hasFeature	You Got Murder / int_a309575c
Jonathan Creek	hasFeature	Appeal to Audacity / int_a309575c
Jonathan Creek	hasFeature	Blind Black Guy / int_a309575c

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