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* The exchanges of insults between Mrs. Van Schuyler (Bette Davis) and Miss Bowers (Maggie Smith).

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* The exchanges of insults between Mrs. Van Schuyler (Bette Davis) and Miss Bowers (Maggie Smith).(Dame Creator/MaggieSmith).
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* Poirot asks Race to order him a plate of ''morilles''. Race thinks he means ''moray'', so Poirot arrives at dinner to find an eel on his plate.
--> '''Poirot:''' I asked for a plate of ''morilles''!
--> '''Race:''' Well, what's that when it's at home?
--> '''Poirot:''' Mushrooms!
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* "Frankly, Mrs. Otterbourne, I don't consider being likened to a nymphomaniacal baboon flattering."
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** "[Bowers] did fifteen rounds once with Jack Dempsey. He was never the same man again."
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* The exchanges of insults between Mrs. Van Schuyler (Bette Davis) and Miss Bowers (Maggie Smith).
-->'''Mrs. Van Schuyler''': Come Bowers, it's time to go, this place is beginning to resemble a mortuary.
-->'''Miss Bowers''': Thank god you'll be in one yourself before too long, bloody old fossil.
-->'''Mrs. Van Schuyler''': Now, temper, temper, Bowers. What you need is a nice cool holiday. I was thinking of a trip through the Gobi Desert!
* Any scene with the perpetually drunk Mrs. Otterbourne (Angela Lansbury).
-->'''Mrs. Otterbourne''': Do forgive me for butting in, but I have a bet with my daughter here, that you're Hercules Porridge, the famous French sleuth.\\
'''Hercule Poirot''': Not quite. I am Hercule Poirot, the famous Belgian sleuth.
* Race's reaction to Louise's opinion of the crime, after everyone has been commenting on how many different motives there are and how much they disliked the murder victim.
-->'''Louise:''' Cette pauvre Madame Doyle! Tout le monde l'aimait.\\
'''Poirot:''' She says that - er - all the world loved Madame Doyle.\\
'''Race:''' Well, at least that's a fresh approach.
* In a FunnyBackgroundEvent, Poirot does a quadruple jump in checkers, to a flabbergasted Col. Race.
* Poirot has a sleeping hair net and a sleeping ''mustache'' net.

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