Dedicated Detective Gifts

Good Cop, Bad Clown: 'Ok, ok I'll tell you what you want! Just make that creepy clown stop staring at me!'

The Anti-Agent

"What's that? I asked for a teal lichen. That's a brown thread. Are you trying to upset me?"

A boy acting suspiciously

'That large, rolled up newspaper is a reminder - mess up in this office and you'll pay the price.'

"Work hard, make the sacrifices and in 25 years you could be just like me!"

"I wanted a Meticulous Monday or a Thorough Thursday report. This reads more like a Frivolous Friday."

The Devil's in the detail!

"Enough about the forest, why don't you show us more trees?"

Man in office, desk covered in computer equipment, uses floor for photos, desk pads etc.

We have a problem with your research. We're Encyclopedia Britannica and you're Wikipedia.

"It seemed like a long timeout."

Benjamin Bunny re-writes Beatrix Potter

Who stole my candy?

"I just want to go home, crawl into bed, and do some more work."

"Miss Jenkins, e-mail the housekeeper. Her telecommuting days are over"

Micro and Macro Department,

Don't forget to read the small print.

"Your curriculum vitae is extremely detailed, isn't it? I don't quite know what to make of the fact that your third-grade teacher, Miss Hartley, made you stand in the corner for throwing an eraser although another kid did it."

Jean, bring me everything we've got on gravity.

"You say in your resume that you're very meticulous."

Devil in the detail

'Miscellaneous' and 'Non-Miscellaneous' trays

"I just audited our books. Your register came up five cents short, Rudy."

'My school has a very strict detention policy.'

'Fingerprints on your laptop screen?... wow, that's a real mystery.'

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

When pedants take a break.

'So now you sniff out drugs. That's it, no more TV cop shows.'

Micromanagement

"We need to talk about procrastination."

Violence on TV.