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Quincy, M.E.

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Quincy, M.E.	comment	A popular late 1970s-early/mid 1980s Forensic Drama about the eponymous Quincy, M.E. (Jack Klugman) and his work handling cases in an LA coroner's office. Arguably created the Forensic Drama genre that became so popular many years later.The show began as an entry on The NBC Mystery Movie before being shifted into a full-fledged series in its own right, and enjoyed a lengthy run of 8 seasons (1976-1983). The basic formula had Quincy working on a corpse whose death had been ruled an accident or suicide. In each episode he would find something strange in the autopsy which would lead him to suspect murder. Quincy would then start sleuthing, inevitably picking up on clues the police missed. He'd eventually find enough evidence to force the always-clueless cops to re-classify the death as a homicide, at which point Quincy would expose the identity of the killer.During his time solving suspicious suicides and uncovering evildoers, Quincy was assisted by loyal Lab Rat Sam Fujiyama (Robert Ito) and was constantly at odds with both Lt. Monahan (Gary Walberg), who resented Quincy's meddling, and Dr. Asten (John S. Ragin), who resented all the overtime hours Quincy and Sam racked up.
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Quincy, M.E. / int_1042bae6	comment	Limited Advancement Opportunities: Over the course of eight seasons, the ONLY character to get any sort of promotion was Quincy, who was bumped up to deputy coroner sometime around season 7 (which placed him as head of the coroners on his floor, but still under Asten). Everyone else stays in their respective jobs.
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Quincy, M.E. / int_1282bf4f	comment	No Celebrities Were Harmed: Dr. Hiro from "Has Anybody Here Seen Quincy?" is pretty clearly based on Dr. Thomas Noguchi, LA's "coroner to the stars." At one point, Yuki Shimoda (who starred as Dr. Hiro was considered for a possible spinoff series as a forensic examiner similar to Dr. Thomas Noguchi, but nothing further ever became of it. And Quincy was based on Noguchi.
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Quincy, M.E. / int_143350c6	type	Officer O'Hara
Quincy, M.E. / int_143350c6	comment	Officer O'Hara: Lt. Monahan mentions his Irish grandmother from time to time.
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Quincy, M.E. / int_1439161f	comment	Heroic BSoD: One episode dealt with child abuse as Quincy tried to determine which parent was beating the kid. When he found out it was the father, who had taken his son off to a fishing trip and intended to beat his son further, Quincy tracks them down and completely loses it, almost strangling the father as he ranted on about how horrid the act of child abuse was. Quincy only snapped back to sanity when the child begged Quincy not to hurt his father. In the episode where Sam is poisoned as fallout of a plot by an animal handler to kill his lover with snake venom, Quincy breaks down and threatens the killer with a live snake to get the needed information out of him. Something similar happens again in the final season when Quincy is mugged. He spends much of the episode terrified and traumatized, unwilling to even identify the muggers for the police, partly because of the others discussing the low conviction rate of muggers, how so many end up on the streets in short order and how so many witnesses who come forward end up suffering retaliation. Ultimately, Quincy sees a trauma therapist and admits that he isn't afraid of the muggers- he's afraid of himself. he fears that if he ever gets his hands on them he may kill them (as listed above, he's already displayed the possibility of violent assault against another human being, despite his generally high value of human life, if he's provoked).
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Quincy, M.E. / int_1561fbc4	type	Mystery Magnet
Quincy, M.E. / int_1561fbc4	comment	Mystery Magnet: Quincy and Danny can't even go on a simple fishing trip without getting dragged into a web of intrigue.
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Quincy, M.E. / int_15f64844	comment	Lying by Omission: A kidnapper manages to get himself arrested by the police without the victim being recovered. Quincy figures out from the forensic evidence that the victim was stashed on the grounds of a national park, and the state prosecutor throws the case in exchange for the victim's exact location. The kidnapper is then arrested by the FBI while walking out of the courtroom, and the state prosecutor helpfully explains that because he kidnapped the victim in California but stashed them on federal land, the FBI also has jurisdiction in the case.
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Quincy, M.E. / int_1616e13	comment	Ripped from the Headlines: Season 5's "The Money Plague" was based on the real-life D.B. Cooper plane hijacking. Also from season 5, "Sweet Land of Liberty" was heavily based on the (then recently declassified) MK Ultra experiments. The final season episode, "On Dying High", was based on the Richard Pryor freebasing incident. In this episode, country singer J.J. Chandler (played by real-life country singer Roger Miller) is freebasing cocaine before his show and, like Pryor, got caught on fire and was severely burned. Fortunately for Chandler, Quincy happened to be in the audience when he ran out on stage afire, and Quincy was able to put out the flames.
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Quincy, M.E. / int_1759af2f	comment	Feghoot: An entire episode about a pair of property developers with the surname Butler who killed a man with X-ray machine-induced radiation poisoning (the X-ray machine being equipment used to inspect building structures for construction flaws). Seemingly all to set up Quincy's Quip to Black before the end credits: "You've known [whodunnit] for years! The Butlers did it."
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Quincy, M.E. / int_19d06ef7	type	A Father to His Men
Quincy, M.E. / int_19d06ef7	comment	A Father to His Men: Asten, at least at first, appeared to be a bureaucrat more worried about the budget and efficient performance. Hurt anyone under his employee, however, and he would often drop the facade and start to throw around his political weight to assist, and in one case he physically assaulted a diamond smuggler that tried to kill Quincy.
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Quincy, M.E. / int_1bf3170b	type	The McCoy
Quincy, M.E. / int_1bf3170b	comment	The McCoy: This describes Quincy to a T. He's impulsive, emotional, very humanistic, and frequently argues with more logical characters.
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Quincy, M.E. / int_1d311757	type	DoppelgÃ¤nger Replacement Love Interest
Quincy, M.E. / int_1d311757	comment	DoppelgÃ¤nger Replacement Love Interest: Quincy's first wife died before the series started, and then in the final season he marries a woman played by the same actress.
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Quincy, M.E. / int_1e4ad177	type	Technicolor Science
Quincy, M.E. / int_1e4ad177	comment	Technicolor Science: Justified, since Quincy and his team work on lots of actual scientific tests, including chemical reaction tests that really do involve prettily colored liquids.
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Quincy, M.E. / int_227f74e1	type	Hollywood Tourette's
Quincy, M.E. / int_227f74e1	comment	Hollywood Tourette's: Though the portrayal was more tempered compared to most examples of this trope.
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Quincy, M.E. / int_28d87218	comment	Food End: Many, many episodes end with Quince and his buddies discussing the case's conclusion at their favorite Italian restaurant.
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Quincy, M.E. / int_2e90b7fb	comment	"Into The Murdering Mind" may well share the honours, with a touch of The Bad Guys Win thrown in for good measure (it's implied that the guy who's murdered all but one member of his family will be going after his mother as well when - not IF - he gets out of the clinic he's sent to...).
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Quincy, M.E. / int_3036294e	type	Scary Black Man
Quincy, M.E. / int_3036294e	comment	Scary Black Man: Starvin' Marvin from "Dead Stop" comes off friendly enough when we first meet him — until he later learns his partner is involved in the illegal dumping of chemical wastes, which has led to the death of a friend, and forces him to spill the beans.
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Quincy, M.E. / int_319e4a2f	type	Even Evil Has Standards
Quincy, M.E. / int_319e4a2f	comment	Even Evil Has Standards: Inverted in "Stolen Tears"- a Jewish man who runs a small Holocaust remembrance museum has been sued for defamation by a professional Holocaust denier. The running B-plot is that an elderly Nazi war criminal has murdered another Jewish man. After being arrested, the Nazi agrees to testify at the lawsuit trial, on behalf of the Jewish man- he openly admits that everything happened and that he'd personally executed thousands of Jews in the camps. However, he wasn't remorseful- he was quite pleased with what he'd done, considering it a victory over a people he personally hated, and was merely disgusted that anyone would deny what he considered to be personal accomplishments, and he considered anyone who denied the Holocaust to be "beneath" Jews.
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Quincy, M.E. / int_34258d8a	comment	Good-Guy Bar: Danny's.
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Quincy, M.E. / int_37065c74	comment	Hangover Sensitivity: In the episode "Tissue of Truth", after solving the case Sam and Quincy stagger into work the next morning incredibly hungover. Quincy gloats that at least Dr Asten, their boss, will be worse because he kept topping up Asten's glass every time he wasn't looking. Then Asten walks in all bright and cheery and not hungover in the slightest, much to Quincy's dismay.
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Quincy, M.E. / int_38b05ae7	comment	Poorly Disguised Pilot: "The Cutting Edge," the final episode of the series, barely features Quincy (the other regulars don't appear at all) and focuses instead on a surgeon who specializes in state of the art surgical techniques. No points for guessing it was meant as a spin-off. The "Has Anybody Here Seen Quincy?" episode (from which Jack Klugman was absent) starred Yuki Shimoda as Dr. Hiro. Shimoda was reportedly considered for a Quincy spinoff in which he would play a character similar to Los Angeles County Coroner Thomas Noguchi.
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Quincy, M.E. / int_3b5fcbb7	comment	Artifact of Doom: The pistol from "Guns Don't Die" is a rare non-magical example, as every time it passes to a new owner, it's used in short order to kill someone before being almost immediately ditched and into new hands quickly. Then when finally returned to its original owner, the owner's kids find it in a closet and one shoots the other while playing with it. The star emblem on the handle almost seems like it was there to enforce the idea that the thing is just evil.
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Quincy, M.E. / int_4023b8c8	comment	First-Name Basis: Sam, Danny and Ed (the crime scene photographer who serves as a recurring character) are typically referred to by their first name by everyone. Sam, of course, has a last name that's used often (Fujiyama), while Danny's family name Tovo is not mentioned much. Given that Ed is only a minor character, he was never given a last name.
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Quincy, M.E. / int_40cc0c7e	type	Bittersweet Ending
Quincy, M.E. / int_40cc0c7e	comment	Bittersweet Ending: "Memories Of Allison" ends with the arrest of several mobsters, but the title character unfortunately didn't make it to the end before this happened and it's evidence of her death that resulted in the arrest.
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Quincy, M.E. / int_44bed14c	comment	A kidnapper is arrested without the victim being found, creating a de facto Hostage Situation. Quincy figures out from the forensic evidence that the kidnapper stashed the victim on the grounds of a national park, and the prosecutor tosses the case in exchange for the victim's exact location so they can be rescued. The kidnapper starts to walk out of the courtroom only to be immediately arrested by the FBI, and the prosecutor helpfully explains that because the national park is federal land, the federal Department of Justice also has jurisdiction in the case, so he's getting sent up the river by Uncle Sam.
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Quincy, M.E. / int_45cd286c	comment	Corrupt Politician: A few show up, including a labor union boss who threatens to ruin another doctor's career if Quincy doesn't falsify the findings on a murder case. Averted in "Murder By S.O.P." with the town mayor- he's merely been framed and has no problem giving Quincy full authority to find out who is really behind the murders.
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Quincy, M.E. / int_49f20c6a	type	Gory Discretion Shot
Quincy, M.E. / int_49f20c6a	comment	Gory Discretion Shot: Corpses generally aren't shown on-screen even during the autopsy scenes, and even in later episodes they're only shown in brief shots. Actual autopsies are never shown, their greens never have a drop of blood on them, and organs are almost never seen. This is played for laughs during the opening titles, in a scene from "Go Fight City Hall... To The Death" (the pilot). Quincy is performing an autopsy as some rookie police officers observe. They all pass out, but all we see are the tools used and the cops dropping.
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Quincy, M.E. / int_4e3d253b	comment	Downer Ending: Several, but "Guns Don't Die" is the champion. (Quincy and pals are having a great time at Danny's; cut to a little boy finding a gun hidden at home while he and his sister are playing... and shooting her. Roll credits.) "Into The Murdering Mind" may well share the honours, with a touch of The Bad Guys Win thrown in for good measure (it's implied that the guy who's murdered all but one member of his family will be going after his mother as well when - not IF - he gets out of the clinic he's sent to...).
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Quincy, M.E. / int_4f4372e9	comment	Early-Installment Weirdness: The beginning episodes make it clear that Lt. Monahan finds Quincy to be an incredibly annoying thorn in his side and even Sgt. Brill doesn't like him very much. Quincy is merely a single man living on a house boat with almost no backstory beyond his current girlfriend, Lee. Lee would later vanish without a word, the subplot of Quincy's deceased wife would be worked in, Lt. Monahan was retconned into having been friends with Quincy for years, and Brill even owed his job to Quincy for clearing him in a possible shooting death of a hostage. The first two seasonsâ€™ opening credits do not feature the signature scene of Quincy walking past a row of police recruits to a gurney and throwing back the cover, nonchalantly going about his work as each recruit faints, vomits, etc., at the sight of the dead body. The Season 1 opening was typical of the Mystery Movie opening; Season 2 was a single frame montage of clips, before the more familiar opening came with the fall 1977 (Season 3) episodes.
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Quincy, M.E. / int_4f62bde6	comment	Kavorka Man: Two words that leap to mind to describe Quincy physically are "craggy" and "wizened", also, he cuts up dead people for a living. He's never lacking for skimpily-dressed 20-something female company, though.
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Quincy, M.E. / int_518de95b	comment	Always Murder: Actually no. It's usually murder, but: "Semper Fidelis" is about a young soldier who dies on night maneuvers. Also averted in "Murder By S.O.P." with the town doctor who knows the true identity of this week's murderer. He's killed in a car accident which is a genuine car accident. Averted again in "The Hope Of Elkwood," where a cross-country running coach was accused of working his star pupil to death. The judge threw out the involuntary manslaughter charge on grounds of the specifics of the crime not matching the definition of the charge, only to have the guy sued for wrongful death. It finally turned out that the Body of the Week had a small tumor on his adrenal gland, making his C.O.D. natural causes exacerbated by training for his next race. And again averted in "Nowhere To Run," which begins with a pregnant teenager running from her boyfriend; her corpse is later brought in. She jumps off a cliff and kills herself because the father of her unborn child was... her father. An unusual example in one episode, when a businessman accused of burning down his own business for the insurance money, killing a janitor, is tried for several counts of mail fraud rather than arson or homicide, though the charges carry a combined 50-year sentence so it amounts to the same thing. Despite accusations of Mafia connections, Quincy takes the businessman's side and accuses the prosecutor of running a Kangaroo Court, especially after he convenes a second grand jury when the first one finds no grounds to indict. The Teaser shows that the fire was accidental: the janitor's cleaning chemicals leaked into a lit kerosene heater.
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Quincy, M.E. / int_5565bf30	comment	Three-Way Sex: The Double Standard attached to it is discussed in one episode as an analogy to alcoholism: a woman Quincy talks to about a female colleague's drinking problem notes that a man who has sex with two women at once gets praised, while a woman who has a devil's threesome gets a dose of Slut-Shaming.
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Quincy, M.E. / int_59907e4f	comment	Police Are Useless: Subverted for the most part- Monahan and Brill are quite competent, but they're also overworked and Quincy's extra-curricular examination work tends to throw more on their plate than they need, although they usually go along with it anyway. Other police officers that become vital to the plot are also shown to be decent at their jobs even when accused of something. Notably played straight in "Even Odds" however when Monahan makes the stupid mistake of waving a loaded gun, dangling off a pencil by the barrel, at a suspect allowing him to grab it, the resulting firefight getting Quincy shot. Asten rips him a new one for such incompetence that a lieutenant(or any police officer) never should have displayed.
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Quincy, M.E. / int_5f207a1a	comment	Courtroom Episode: There were a few, the most notable being "Guilty Till Proven Innocent", which put Quincy up against a McCarthy-esque Federal Attorney (played brilliantly by Eugene Roche) who was out to nail a friend of Quincy's for Mail Fraud, among other things, all having to do with the poor guy being related to a Syndicate family (he changed his name to avoid any association with them). Quincy winds up going to jail for refusing to testify at the Grand Jury proceedings, seeing it for the witch hunt that it really is. Another notable one in this trope is "Jury Duty", where Quincy's called to serve as a juror on the trial of a young man accused of killing his girlfriend. Guess who infuriates the other jurors by being the only one who thinks the defendant is innocent?
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Quincy, M.E. / int_60ac6ae4	comment	The Lab Rat: Sam and Mark.
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Quincy, M.E. / int_680bb6b1	type	Hot-Blooded
Quincy, M.E. / int_680bb6b1	comment	Hot-Blooded: Quincy seems to be extremely passionate about, uh... well, just about everything he puts his mind to, especially the social cause of the week. If bureaucracy or plain ignorance get in the way of his investigations, he'll be sure to ramp up the shouty aggressiveness exponentially.
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Quincy, M.E. / int_69d46274	type	Justice by Other Legal Means
Quincy, M.E. / int_69d46274	comment	Justice by Other Legal Means: A kidnapper is arrested without the victim being found, creating a de facto Hostage Situation. Quincy figures out from the forensic evidence that the kidnapper stashed the victim on the grounds of a national park, and the prosecutor tosses the case in exchange for the victim's exact location so they can be rescued. The kidnapper starts to walk out of the courtroom only to be immediately arrested by the FBI, and the prosecutor helpfully explains that because the national park is federal land, the federal Department of Justice also has jurisdiction in the case, so he's getting sent up the river by Uncle Sam. An antagonistic example in one episode: after the owner of a burned-down warehouse is discovered to have been born into a mafia family, a federal prosecutor gets involved and charges him not with arson or the death of a janitor, but with enough counts of mail fraud to carry a fifty-year sentence—stemming from his attempts to collect on the insurance policy. The prosecutor then compounds this by convening a second grand jury when the first one declines to indict, which doesn't count as double jeopardy since the grand jury isn't an actual criminal trial. Quincy accuses the prosecutor of engaging in a Witch Hunt (and briefly ends up in jail for contempt after pulling Godwin's Law), and finally shuts him down by proving that the fire was accidental.
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Quincy, M.E. / int_6d332aea	type	Driven to Suicide
Quincy, M.E. / int_6d332aea	comment	Driven to Suicide: The Victim of the Week in "Semper Fi," the disfigured model at the start of "The Depth Of Beauty," Asten's niece Melody in "Unhappy Hour" and the teenage daughter in "Nowhere To Run."
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Quincy, M.E. / int_6d7cd3e	comment	Dead Person Impersonation: "Images."
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Quincy, M.E. / int_6eef5fc6	type	Temporary Substitute
Quincy, M.E. / int_6eef5fc6	comment	Temporary Substitute: Dr. Hiro from the Klugman-less episode "Has Anybody Here Seen Quincy?"
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Quincy, M.E. / int_738d1a0f	type	Because You Were Nice to Me
Quincy, M.E. / int_738d1a0f	comment	Because You Were Nice to Me: Quincy volunteers to assist a prison medical staff so he can investigate an unusual death that took place there the warden has been running illegal fighting tournaments and had killed an inmate that wouldn't go along with it. His kind treatment of an injured inmate saves him later when said inmate fights off several others sent to kill Quincy on orders from the warden.
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Quincy, M.E. / int_7b8b3def	type	Celebrity Paradox
Quincy, M.E. / int_7b8b3def	comment	Celebrity Paradox: Quincy is friends with Rosie Grier, so this trope may apply.
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Quincy, M.E. / int_7d89315b	type	"The Reason You Suck" Speech
Quincy, M.E. / int_7d89315b	comment	"The Reason You Suck" Speech: Usually once an episode, Quincy would find an excuse to chew out the murderer, a corrupt businessman, a politician, or perhaps Monahan or Asten for sitting on their butts. It's a miracle it's not known as "the Quincy speech".
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Quincy, M.E. / int_7fd142ef	type	Shared Universe
Quincy, M.E. / int_7fd142ef	comment	Shared Universe: With BJ and the Bear, believe it or not — the Poorly Disguised Pilot "The Girls of Hollywood High" has the PDPs' stars visiting his place of work. Asten and Sam appear but not the main man, understandably given the episode was scripted by both shows' co-creator Glen A. Larson.
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Quincy, M.E. / int_816694e7	type	Body of the Week
Quincy, M.E. / int_816694e7	comment	Averted again in "The Hope Of Elkwood," where a cross-country running coach was accused of working his star pupil to death. The judge threw out the involuntary manslaughter charge on grounds of the specifics of the crime not matching the definition of the charge, only to have the guy sued for wrongful death. It finally turned out that the Body of the Week had a small tumor on his adrenal gland, making his C.O.D. natural causes exacerbated by training for his next race.
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Quincy, M.E. / int_8183248	type	Never Mess with Granny
Quincy, M.E. / int_8183248	comment	Never Mess with Granny: Salome Jens plays a recently-widowed trucker in "Dead Stop" who comes of as a total badass when she has to hunt down truckers hauling illegal and deadly chemical wastes. She's well-respected by the other truckers on the road.
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Quincy, M.E. / int_8797239c	type	Bait-and-Switch
Quincy, M.E. / int_8797239c	comment	Bait-and-Switch: The episode "Mode Of Death" makes a big deal of showing off how wonderful the psychological autopsy is, dedicating most of the episode to it... only for the team to come up with no definitive answer, forcing Quincy to go back and check his initial autopsy results. He finds something that he'd normally have spotted right away in any other episode and determines the cause to be murder. Take away the extended display of the group that went nowhere and the episode would be less than 15 minutes long.
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Quincy, M.E. / int_8807b10e	type	Wheel Program
Quincy, M.E. / int_8807b10e	comment	Wheel Program: The first season.
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Quincy, M.E. / int_8a295a46	type	Cool Car
Quincy, M.E. / int_8a295a46	comment	Cool Car: Well, unique at any rate. It's a hearse that says "CORONER" across the back. Danny hated it when Quincy parked it outside the bar. He did own a restored early 20th century car but it was rarely seen, since he had little opportunity to go on a proper vacation in it.
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Quincy, M.E. / int_8ce55ec6	type	Ransom Drop
Quincy, M.E. / int_8ce55ec6	comment	Ransom Drop: In "Tissue of Truth", a criminal kidnaps a boy, buries him alive, and demands money in exchange for the boy's location. The police plan to meet with the man to give him his ransom and then follow him.
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Quincy, M.E. / int_8d6d9535	type	Artistic License â€“ Medicine
Quincy, M.E. / int_8d6d9535	comment	Artistic License â€“ Medicine: Despite the series often going out of its way to be accurate, season 5's "Diplomatic Immunity" really exaggerates the effects of heparin on blood clotting to the point of making it look like a super drug. One man dies from a gunshot wound after being jabbed with a needle of it, and the intended victim bleeds profusely during surgery from only a small amount. Heparin IS a blood thinner, but it's nowhere near as potent as shown in the episode- in fact, patients with certain clotting disorders that are on blood thinners are given the drug by IV prior to surgeries as an alternative to their usual medications. The small amounts given in the episode would not have been so deadly.
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Quincy, M.E. / int_8ed5c6e4	type	Asshole Victim
Quincy, M.E. / int_8ed5c6e4	comment	Asshole Victim: None more prevalent than in "Sleeping Dogs", with the Victim of the Week being a man who constantly terrorized a town and always got away with it. When his body was discovered, several people confessed at the same time. To drive the point home just how much he was hated, everyone in town, even the local sheriff, did everything they could to obstruct Quincy trying to learn the truth.
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Quincy, M.E. / int_9099c21c	type	GPS Evidence
Quincy, M.E. / int_9099c21c	comment	GPS Evidence: In "Tissue of Truth", when a kidnapper dies in a car accident, taking the location of his Buried Alive victim with him, the only way to find the boy is to look over the corpse for clues in order to narrow it down.
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Quincy, M.E. / int_90e31482	type	Laser-Guided Karma
Quincy, M.E. / int_90e31482	comment	Laser-Guided Karma: At the end of "Bitter Pill", after Quincy's attempt to pass a law to get rid of lookalike drugs fails, a senator brags that he was right that a law wasn't needed. The ending scene then depicts the senator's daughter, high on lookalikes, about to take more pills, with the implications that she was going to suffer cardiac arrest as a result.
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Quincy, M.E. / int_94332264	type	Busman's Holiday
Quincy, M.E. / int_94332264	comment	Busman's Holiday: Quincy takes a few. He even uses the actual phrase on one episode.
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Quincy, M.E. / int_96251156	type	Deer in the Headlights
Quincy, M.E. / int_96251156	comment	Deer in the Headlights: At the start of "Images" Jessica Ross dies in an explosion because she's so shocked to see her doppelganger that she doesn't move when the doppelganger drops an explosive device on the floor.
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Quincy, M.E. / int_99ddfcec	type	Unwitting Instigator of Doom
Quincy, M.E. / int_99ddfcec	comment	Unwitting Instigator of Doom: In "Tissue of Truth", when a local sheriff gets caught up in Monahan's attempt to catch a kidnapper, he chases the kidnapper's car, causing it to crash and resulting in the man's death, taking the location of the boy he had Buried Alive with him and turning the search for the boy into a Race Against the Clock.
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Quincy, M.E. / int_9c8701b5	type	A Day in the Limelight
Quincy, M.E. / int_9c8701b5	comment	A Day in the Limelight: "Unhappy Hour" focuses more on Asten, whose niece kicks off the plot. It's also Asten, not for once Quincy, who delivers a lecture at the end... what with his niece (who becomes his late niece towards the end) having been an alcoholic.
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Quincy, M.E. / int_a4c37cbe	type	Mood Whiplash
Quincy, M.E. / int_a4c37cbe	comment	Mood Whiplash: Used to excellent effect in "Guns Don't Die" (see Downer Ending above).
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Quincy, M.E. / int_a6e8221e	type	Status Quo Is God
Quincy, M.E. / int_a6e8221e	comment	Status Quo Is God: Because they're Beleaguered Bureaucrats, Asten and Monahan tend to be leery at first about the case of the week, no matter how many previous times Quincy has been right. They also tend to throw in with Quincy pretty quickly when he gives them proof. Subverted when one of Monahan's close friends, a priest, is found dead with a prostitute. Monahan dumps all the pretense and begs Quincy to prove something funny is going on. In this case, even Quincy doesn't see anything strange until Monahan forces him to poke his nose around.
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Quincy, M.E. / int_a70223	type	Karma Houdini
Quincy, M.E. / int_a70223	comment	Karma Houdini: Quincy threatened to kill a man with a deadly snake yet receives no punishment for it. Then again, the only present witnesses to this were Monahan and Brill who probably didn't give a damn and let it slide, and if anything, they'd claim the killer's accusation was falsified.
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Quincy, M.E. / int_aa5b4f2c	type	Wedding Episode
Quincy, M.E. / int_aa5b4f2c	comment	Wedding Episode: "Quincy's Wedding", a two-parter.
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Quincy, M.E. / int_abc55125	type	Character Filibuster
Quincy, M.E. / int_abc55125	comment	Character Filibuster: Quincy does a lot of this.
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Quincy, M.E. / int_ae3d6438	type	Deadpan Snarker
Quincy, M.E. / int_ae3d6438	comment	Deadpan Snarker: Danny, the owner of the bar across the street, was king of this- moreso when dragged into the weekly plot somehow, and only averted when things involving him were serious.
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Quincy, M.E. / int_b01abe4f	type	Catchphrase
Quincy, M.E. / int_b01abe4f	comment	Catchphrase: Quincy was prone to saying "holy mackerel", often several times an episode.
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Quincy, M.E. / int_b0a529cb	type	Extreme Doormat
Quincy, M.E. / int_b0a529cb	comment	Extreme Doormat: How many times has Sam stayed late to run tests, to the detriment of his love and social life?
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Quincy, M.E. / int_b1dde8fd	type	Loophole Abuse
Quincy, M.E. / int_b1dde8fd	comment	Loophole Abuse: D.U.I. starts out with an apparent drunk driver killing a random pedestrian and the episode digging into how lax the laws regarding drunk drivers are. However The killer in question was targeting his victim to keep him from blabbing about a money laundering scheme. He makes sure people see him drinking right before the kill, then takes several more drinks after to load up his blood alcohol. The plan relies on abusing the lax laws so avoid any prison sentence. Quincy exposes the ruse when a test on a sample of blood from a drained hematoma (the killer bumped his knee on the dashboard only seconds after) reveals negligible alcohol content.
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Quincy, M.E. / int_b593baf1	type	Author Filibuster
Quincy, M.E. / int_b593baf1	comment	Author Filibuster: Some episodes should obviously just be called "Jack Klugman's Soapbox". "A Good Smack In The Mouth," about child abuse, gives co-teleplay and story credit to guess which cast member. An episode where a college student dies in a hazing incident ends with a scene where, out of nowhere and with no prior setup, Quincy is suddenly giving a graduation speech at an unnamed college. His entire speech is about how terrible fraternity hazing is: which is all well and good, but would probably be more useful if he were giving it to a bunch of people who were NOT about to graduate. Lampshaded in the late season episode that introduced his new love interest, later to become his wife. She recognized him as the hot dogging coroner who was always incensed about some issue, only to have forgotten about it a week later, when there was some new issue that he was incensed about. The series named the trope The Quincy Punk with an episode that soapboxed about how Punk Rock derails teenagers' lives and makes you do drugs.
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Quincy, M.E. / int_bcc5c9a5	type	Replaced the Theme Tune
Quincy, M.E. / int_bcc5c9a5	comment	Replaced the Theme Tune: The Mystery Movie episodes had a more businesslike (though still optimistic) theme tune; the more familiar theme came along when the series debuted and was edited onto the shortened versions, but the original is still heard over their end credits (although the "guy on the landscape with the flashlight" background is replaced with the big Q, and the credits themselves are changed — they're white instead of yellow, and instead of "Mystery Movie Theme: Henry Mancini" there's "Theme: Glen A. Larson and Stu Phillips"). Later seasons got a new arrangement which sounded less quirky and more suitable to the series.
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Quincy, M.E. / int_bd7d0416	comment	Because they're Beleaguered Bureaucrats, Asten and Monahan tend to be leery at first about the case of the week, no matter how many previous times Quincy has been right. They also tend to throw in with Quincy pretty quickly when he gives them proof.
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Quincy, M.E. / int_bdddc73e	type	Yakuza
Quincy, M.E. / int_bdddc73e	comment	Yakuza: One Body of the Week, an LAPD organized crime detective, was the victim of a yakuza assassin. The oyabun was trying to work out a deal with The Mafia to buy black market guns for his operations in Japan.
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Quincy, M.E. / int_be9392d	type	The Quincy Punk
Quincy, M.E. / int_be9392d	comment	The Quincy Punk: The episode "Next Stop Nowhere" is the Trope Namer.
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Quincy, M.E. / int_bee8baee	type	Faint in Shock
Quincy, M.E. / int_bee8baee	comment	Faint in Shock: The opening montage has Quincy conducting an autopsy while six police academy recruits observe. Three recruits whoop their cookies while the other three faint and collapse onto the floor. Quincy takes a moment to peer beyond the corpse to assess his "audience"; after all, he's seen far worse than what the recruits just had.
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Quincy, M.E. / int_e8cb930f	comment	Accidental Suicide: In "The Final Gift", two partners in a crop dusting business that were arguing over selling out end up in a plane accident, with the one against selling suffering severe blood loss. His partner gives him a blood transfusion, but the man dies soon after. In the autopsy, Quincy discovers that the dead guy had suffered from arsenic poisoning and begins to think that his partner had poisoned him to ensure he could sell the business. It's eventually revealed that it was the other way around: the deceased had been slowly poisoning his partner with arsenic in order to stop the sale of the business. He also had a bad liver, so when his partner gave him the blood transfusion, the arsenic in his partner's blood killed him almost instantly. As Quincy put it, if the victim hadn't tried to kill his partner, ''he wouldn't have died".
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