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The Secret of the Flame Tree - S6-E2

Stupidity: The whole plot hinges on the fact that Goodman trusts 100% without any doubt ever the time of death (even if it would have been easy for the killer to change the time on the watch, one of the most common tricks used in murder mysteries), and that out of over 100 people nobody mentioned that one of the suspects was nowhere to be seen at the time in question, especially with the police asking specifically for that sort of hole in alibis. Also, the stage is tiny and the show happened literally in the middle of the day; during a slideshow projection it's practically impossible that everyone's eyes would be focused on the screen to the point of not noticing the movement from the tent.

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The Secret of the Flame Tree - S6-E2

Stupidity: Sylvie Baptiste is a successful writer, and she published novels after her masterpiece. The idea that she'd lose all her fame and fortune if someone published an academic paper making a completely unsubstantiated claim (if Sylvie does not have an original manuscript of the novel, neither does Lizzie) about her novel being the work of her crazy sister, is simply absurd. A good copyright lawyer or even any decent PR agency would put the appropriate spin to the accusations easily, and since her sister is certainly not gonna sue her and Sylvie is her only possible tutor, all those people supposedly very well connected with the academia and industry and shrewd in marketing their work, overreact for nothing. Even better; Humphrey has not even exposed the killer (or that it is a murder at all), and the university announces already that they plan to give a posthumous PhD to the deceased, for the paper she hasn't finished, based on an accusation with no evidence.

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Erupting in Murder - S6-E1

Stupidity: There is just one CCTV camera in the building, and it is pointed in the control room. You basically look at yourself all day. That's kind of a terrible security arrangement - but very convenient for the plot.

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Die Schwarzen Saints - S1-E5

Stupidity: Shaun thanks Seiya for revealing the weak point of the armors of the Black Knights, but Seiya didn't actually do anything; the armor malfunctioned on its own. If Shaun is able to deal strikes with her chain precise enough to target a small box on the back of the enemy's neck, one would argue that she could have easily hit any other vital point the armors leave completely unprotected - especially since she showed also that she could elude their shield commanding the chain to take a sharp turn around it - which hit the supposed weak spot but didn't do anything, contradicting what is shown later.

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A Personal Murder - S5-E4

Stupidity: The entire episode hinges on the fact that a police officer would receive from a close friend, the mentor who changed their life even, their most precious keepsake necklace they always keep with themselves, with ominous words, and kinda ignores the fact for a week. Anybody would be hugely upset and worried by such a turn of events and investigate. Dwayne remembers all this only after he receives the mysterious text message - not even after his friend DIES.

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Die Kette des Nebels - S1-E4

Stupidity: In the original, the knight of the Phoenix suddenly appeared during the arena fights interrupting the show and stealing the Gold Cloth. In this remake of the saga, Sienna/Saori Kido leaves the arena by plane during a bombardment that occurs way before Nero/Ikki arrives to steal the Cloth. There is no reason why she would fly off in her VTOL without bringing the Golden Cloth with her, then (there's a lot of time for that). Instead she leaves it for the 4 Saints for them to "protect it", against a whole army and on foot in the middle of the desert.

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Episode #4.7 - S4-E7

Stupidity: It is stated that the police got the fingerprints of the culprit thanks to a certain object. In other words, they investigated the murder without taking any fingerprints from any suspect - even the one who has been jailed for shooting the corpse - and they even had his file already from the previous inquiries.

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Episode #4.6 - S4-E6

Stupidity: This is another episode when with a very limited number of suspects, not checking the phone records makes the case more complicated than it would be, but more importantly, the bad guy keeps the phone used for the shady affairs constantly switched on for no reason. No attempt is made by the police to trace the area it comes from, either - in fact it's very naive of the Commissioner to even try to call the number - but it works.

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Episode #4.6 - S4-E6

Stupidity: The police finds a message the victim recorded on the phone. Conveniently, there is no timestamp on the message; it's a vital clue and with a modicum of effort surely a date of the recorded file could have been determined - but of course it would have made the mystery easier.

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Episode #4.2 - S4-E2

Stupidity: The way the investigation proceeds makes no sense - it is especially obvious for us viewers having actually seen the scene; Karl arrives and meets the wife of the victim, who is busy in the kitchen. He walks just a few feet outside, placing his doctor bag on the bench that is right there, and again, right there with no wait, he pulls a deck of cards out of his pants and puts that on the table. A gunshot is instantly heard. Karl and Katie Peters should be perfectly able to validate each other's alibi, because there's no way that either of them could have shot the victim.in the shack in the less than 10 seconds they lost sight of each other. Instead, the whole episode goes on as if it could be possible for everyone to just go on and shoot someone while being mere meters away from each other.

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Episode #3.7 - S3-E7

Stupidity: The detectives suddenly bring everything to a dramatic halt to have a word with Joseph, because Fidel has been able to check the prints and his were the only ones on the gun and therefore he became really suspicious. It's his own gun, and people can wear gloves - in fact they do all the time! The fact that they automatically turn on him and he is unable to defend himself is simply 'because the plot this time says so', since in every other episode Joseph's prints would have been exclusion prints - they are supposed to be there and there's nothing suspicious about it.

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Episode #3.7 - S3-E7

Stupidity: Humphrey picks the gun from its case using a pen to avoid leaving prints (since for some reason he's not wearing gloves), but then starts messing with the box with his bare hands without having it dusted for any print. Since the box was owned by only one person and hidden under his bed, any other print would have been important evidence. (00:11:40)

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Episode #3.6 - S3-E6

Stupidity: The villain concocts a demented plan that puts him at absurd risk (if anything goes wrong, he is caught red-handed) and accomplishes nothing, since it does not make him and his accomplice unlikely suspects any more than anyone in the group. It does not make it look like it was an outsider doing it (no attempt is made to fake a robbery), nor a result of an accident. It makes obvious it was a murder (a knife plunged in the back!) but does not pin the guilt on anyone else in the team, which would have been really easy to do (plant the knife or any of the victim's belongings in anyone's tent) and with the two being in on the scheme without anyone suspecting they were connected to each other, it would have been easy to create an alibi for each other, but they don't have any. It should also be noted that there's no reason why the victim wouldn't have exposed the culprit's crime earlier to his fellow birders, since he knew he was going to harm the animals.

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Episode #3.6 - S3-E6

Stupidity: At Catherine's, Humphrey is browsing the photos; neither he or his agents noticed before amongst all the bird and wilderness pics the very obvious series of shots of a woman in a hotel poolside and in close-ups. And yet he has to have printed the (obviously enormous, since he already went through them in the afternoon and investigated the cane seen in them) amount of photos entirely, but finds the photos dining outside from a very small pile on his little dinner table. Those pictures stand out at first glance.

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Thank Heaven for Little Girls and Big Ones Too - S1-E4

Revealing mistake: At the boxing gym, the litigious guy throws a punch that stays clear off Tom Selleck's face by a mile. (00:15:50)

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Thank Heaven for Little Girls and Big Ones Too - S1-E4

Continuity mistake: The position of the tube at the end of the conveyor keeps changing between shots. (00:46:40)

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Other mistake: One of the trivia questions appears just as the cryptic words "Plastic flower."

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Thank Heaven for Little Girls and Big Ones Too - S1-E4

Continuity mistake: When Nancy phones Mother Goose, the hair over Leslie's shoulder moves back. (00:11:30)

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China Doll - S1-E3

Continuity mistake: The wing chun warrior prank calls Magnum telling him to walk Diamond Head. Look at the first shot when Magnum begins to actually move (after it cuts to Choi); there's a woman with a purple bag and pink ribbons, and a bearded dude with blue swim shorts and a backpack. Magnum walks, gets scared by a ninja throwing star, and when he is back to the first payphone and Choi tells him "The other way", here's Bag Lady and Backpack Guy again playing extras. (00:35:40 - 00:36:25)

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China Doll - S1-E3

Continuity mistake: The first time we see TC's chopper, the pilot is wearing brown pants - for the rest of the episode TC is wearing blue jeans. (00:05:30)

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