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* The ChristmasSpecial "The Tree of Truth" is full of these related to the ''Literature/{{Cinderella}}'' panto show that Kembleford is putting on:
** Father Brown auditions with a pretty terrible performance of Theatre/RichardIII. When he looks at the cast list, he and Sid, who just showed up on stage and didn't even audition, are both listed as "Bessie". They realize that they're stuck playing [[TwoMenOneDress a cow in a two-part costume]].
** Inspector Mallory and Sergeant Goodfellow get roped into the show as well. Mallory isn't happy about it, but is willing to grin and bear it, thinking they'll just be playing "[[BitCharacter Seventh and Eighth Villager]]". Instead, they get cast as [[CrossCastRole Cinderella's mean step-sisters]] and have to do a bunch of slapstick fighting on stage.
** During the actual show, Mallory and Goodfellow's scene has a bit of a slip-up when they mess up the choreography and Goodfellow accidentally punches Mallory for real, knocking him out for a moment so he has to be dragged off-stage.
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* In Maddest of Them All, when Father Brown gets himself admitted in the hospital:

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* In Maddest "Maddest of Them All, All", when Father Brown gets himself admitted in the hospital:
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* In Maddest of them all, when Father Brown gets himself admitted in the hospital:

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* In Maddest of them all, Them All, when Father Brown gets himself admitted in the hospital:



'''Father Brown:''' Frequently.Mr. Hammond's apple tree
is a particular casualty.\\

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'''Father Brown:''' Frequently. Mr. Hammond's apple tree
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* In "The Miracle of Moon Crescent" a man miraculously disappears right from his apartment. However, detective inspector Collins seems to imply that the three men waiting outside just weren't practical men and didn't adhere to the facts, unlike himself. This leads to a magnificent retort by one of the witnesses:

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* In "The Miracle of Moon Crescent" a man miraculously disappears right from his apartment. However, detective inspector Detective Inspector Collins seems to imply that the three men waiting outside just weren't practical men and didn't adhere to the facts, unlike himself. This leads to a magnificent retort by one of the witnesses:



** And later in the same story, professor Vair puts forward an idea that the witnesses just experienced an optical illusion and didn't notice the man going out of the apartment. To which another witness replied:

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** And later in the same story, professor Professor Vair puts forward an idea that the witnesses just experienced an optical illusion and didn't notice the man going out of the apartment. To which another witness replied:

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'''Father Brown:''' Frequently. Mr. Hammond's apple tree

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'''Father Brown:''' Frequently. Mr. Hammond's apple tree



--> '''Dr Henshaw:''' Do you ever have the urge to
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--> '''Dr Henshaw:''' Do you ever have the urge to
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'''Father Brown:''' Frequently.
Mr. Hammond's apple tree

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'''Father Brown:''' Frequently.
Frequently. Mr. Hammond's apple tree



'''Father Brown:''' Often, especially during mass.

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--> '''Father Brown:''' Often, especially during mass.
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* In Maddest of them all, when Father Brown gets himself admitted in the hospital:
-->'''Nurse Fallow:''' Kleptomania?\\
'''Father Brown:''' Frequently.
Mr. Hammond's apple tree
is a particular casualty.\\

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--> '''Dr Henshaw:''' Do you ever have the urge to
take off your clothes in public?
'''Father Brown:''' Often, especially during mass.
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* In "The Passing Bell", Father Brown tries to comfort Ruth over her feelings for Phoebe. Also doubles as a Heartwarming moment:

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* In "The Passing Bell", Father Brown tries to comfort Ruth over her feelings for Phoebe. Also doubles as a Heartwarming moment:SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoment:

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* In "The Wisdom of the Fool", when Inspector Mallory thinks Father Brown is trying to leave the police station without having given his statement, he aims a blow dryer at him.




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* In "The Passing Bell", Father Brown tries to comfort Ruth over her feelings for Phoebe. Also doubles as a Heartwarming moment:
-->'''Father Brown:''' Is Mrs Sims aware of your feelings?\\
'''Ruth:''' Oh, no! Oh, never. No, I’d die if she knew!\\
'''Father Brown:''' Why?\\
'''Ruth:''' Well, it’s wrong, isn’t it? It’s in the Bible!\\
'''Father Brown:''' The Bible also says it’s wrong to wear clothes of mixed fibres. But theologians tend to ignore that.
* In "The Wisdom of the Fool", when Inspector Mallory thinks Father Brown is trying to leave the police station without having given his statement, he aims a blow dryer at him.
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'''Lady Felicia:''' Of course not. But it does explain her prostitution.\\

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'''Lady Felicia:''' Of course not. But it does explain her prostitution.\\
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* "The Man in the Tree":
-->'''Mrs [=McCarthy=]:''' A month in prison has once again failed to reform that woman.\\
'''Father Brown:''' Yes, well Annie's life has not been blessed with opportunity.\\
'''Mrs [=McCarthy=]:''' But that's hardly an excuse for... (trails off when Lady Felicia approaches)\\
'''Father Brown:''' Yes, Mrs. [=McCarthy=]?\\
'''Mrs [=McCarthy=]:''' Bad manners.\\
'''Lady Felicia:''' Of course not. But it does explain her prostitution.\\
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* From "The Wrong Shape":
-->'''Father Brown:''' God created man in his own image. It is my vocation to remind people of that.\\
'''Inspector Valentine:''' Even the atheists?\\
'''Father Brown:''' ''Especially'' the atheists!
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* In "The Mask of the Demon", upon seeing the dead body Lady Felicia is about to do her usual scream of horror, when Paulette steps in front of her and does it first. Cue Felicia making a face as if to say, "really?"
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* Last-Trick Todd's dinners in "The Mistake of the Machine".

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* Last-Trick Todd's dinners in "The Mistake of the Machine".Machine" in its totality can count as this: Father Brown has a police inspector friend who uses the then-new method of psychometry (divinity) to locate a man in rags and oust him out as a recently escaped criminal who has murdered a visiting English aristocrat. It turns out the man is the aristocrat himself, who had dressed in rags to attend a masquerade ball. The mix-up extends to the criminal himself being mistaken for the aristocrat and going on a trip with a young lady.
** The stunned reaction of the inspector and Father Brown actually snarking at the incident caps off the story.
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--> There can’t possibly be anything more easy than murder. I could murder you at this minute—more easily than I can get a drink in this damned bar. The only difficulty is committing a murder without committing oneself as a murderer. It’s this shyness about owning up to a murder; it’s this silly modesty of murderers about their own masterpieces, that makes the trouble. They will stick to this extraordinary fixed idea of killing people without being found out; and that’s what restrains them, even in a room full of daggers. Otherwise every cutler’s shop would be piled with corpses.

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--> There can’t can't possibly be anything more easy than murder. I could murder you at this minute—more easily than I can get a drink in this damned bar. The only difficulty is committing a murder without committing oneself as a murderer. It’s It's this shyness about owning up to a murder; it’s it's this silly modesty of murderers about their own masterpieces, that makes the trouble. They will stick to this extraordinary fixed idea of killing people without being found out; and that’s that's what restrains them, even in a room full of daggers. Otherwise every cutler’s cutler's shop would be piled with corpses.



---> He now proceeded, as his friend had said, to set an example in truly Christian self-control and brotherhood by reaching the wall with the bound of a tiger, tearing down one of the heavy knives hanging there and sending it smack like a stone from a sling, so that it stuck quivering in the wall exactly half an inch above Mr Raggley’s ear.

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---> He now proceeded, as his friend had said, to set an example in truly Christian self-control and brotherhood by reaching the wall with the bound of a tiger, tearing down one of the heavy knives hanging there and sending it smack like a stone from a sling, so that it stuck quivering in the wall exactly half an inch above Mr Raggley’s Raggley's ear.



--> “Mrs Maltravers is not only a widow, but she is the widow of Mr Maltravers.” - “It sounds like a shocking revelation, as you state it,” acknowledged the priest seriously.

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--> “Mrs -->"Mrs Maltravers is not only a widow, but she is the widow of Mr Maltravers." - “It "It sounds like a shocking revelation, as you state it,” it," acknowledged the priest seriously.seriously.

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