Series Detective Mugs

You're on the "Ask Sadie" show. What's your problem?! I just found out "Empire" and "Star" are in the same universe. For months I've been telling everyone I knew that "Star" was a blatant ripoff of "Empire." But then I found out they're made by the same people and they're in the same tv universe, and I'm like totally fine with it now. Stop it! We speak "English" on this show, not "tv addict"! Wait a minute ... are we talking about soap operas? Because there's an exception for soap operas. No, we

'I remember when you used to look for answers using your astute powers of deduction.'

'Assuming their porridge was poured at the same time, how could it then be too hot, too cold and just right?'

"You can't prove that I broke it! Where's your physical evidence? Fingerprints or a DNA profile?"

Not to be a motion picture. Will remain just a book.

Joan Hickson

'Listen up, Baskerville! This is MacDonald! Those hounds of yours are scaring the E-I-E-I-O out of my animals!'

'This is the worst film noir I've ever seen.'

The Philip Marlow family

"Is this fiction, non-fiction or historical fiction?"

"We subscribe to five streaming services so why are we never able to see the hot new show everybody is raving about?"

"Another CSI spinoff? What's this one called?"

A bunch of global warming skeptics want to join eco club. It's a school organization. You have to let them in. But they just want to harass us with selective facts! Today: Eco club. So? Debate is good. You have :An Inconvenient Truth" to counter their arguments. Oh. Great. Now we'll have to read it.

"He did it!"

A spy

'So, what's it gonna be? Are we gonna watch a good cop show tonight, or a bad cop show?'

Weird – I think everything they watch is called, That actor looks so familiar what else have we seen him in.

Private detective looking very conspicuous while the suspect is saying 'He hasn't really got the hang of discreet surveillance, has he?'

"Marlowe filled the crooked gumshoe full of lead. He watched the smoke from his .38 coil in the air as he… mommy’s behind me, isn’t she?"

"Any clues?"

"I found a partial thumbprint. Let's get the heck out of here"

"Of course I got rid of him...in my own way."

Violence on TV.

Where were you on the night of December 24th between 10pm and 5am

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

"Hmmm...this'll be a tough one..."

"We've picked up a tail."

Crime

The Future of Detective Work

'I want you to try an alternate cure for your insomnia-start watching daytime television.'

'Yes Sarge - looks like another carbon footprint'

"Hey - didn't I see you on TV last night?"

"I love my unreliable narrator. You?"

An I.R.S. car stakes out a limo

"You're not leaving until we know everything."