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* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: It seems possible that Collins, the man who says he's from the Justice Department, is in reality (or at least in addition) a Nazi hunter who is going to kill Zlinka. It's chilling the way he says "Can I offer you a ride?"
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Guest Starring: Zachary Berger, Titos Vandis, Allan Miller, Miriam Byrd-Nethery]
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Guest Starring: Zachary Berger, Titos Vandis, Allan Miller, Creator/AllanMiller, Miriam Byrd-Nethery]
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* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: It seems possible that Collins, the man who says he's from the Justice Department, is in reality (or at least in addition) a Nazi hunter who is going to kill Zlinka. It's chilling the way he says "Can I offer you a ride?"
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* TensionCuttingLaughter: An extraordinarily tense scene has Mr. Beruit tell about how Mr. Zlinka took a construction work detail of over a thousand UsefulNotes/{{Romani}} and worked them for six months until only fifteen were left alive. After all this goes down, and after Mr. Beruit has to leave for prints and processing--he's still under arrest for vandalizing the joke shop--Mr. Beruit has one last thing to tell.
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* TensionCuttingLaughter: An extraordinarily tense scene has Mr. Beruit tell about how Mr. Zlinka took a construction work detail of over a thousand UsefulNotes/{{Romani}} and worked them for six months until only fifteen were left alive. After all this goes down, and after just as Mr. Beruit has to leave is leaving for prints and processing--he's still under arrest for vandalizing the joke shop--Mr. Beruit has one last thing to tell.
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* ContinuityNod: Another reference to the almost series-long plot thread about Harris writing a book about the 12th Precinct. Miss Austin the librarian recognizes Harris from the dust jacket photo on "Blood on the Badge". She says that no one has ever checked out his book.
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* DarkerAndEdgier: A Birkenau death camp guard hiding out in the 12th Precinct is certainly darker than the usual ''Barney Miller'' storyline.
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* MoodWhiplash: The joke-filled sitcom comes to a screeching halt when Mr. Beruit identifies Mr. Zlinka as a Birkenau guard.
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* MoodWhiplash: The joke-filled sitcom jokes comes to a screeching halt when Mr. Beruit identifies Mr. Zlinka as a Birkenau guard. Then there's some more whiplash when the show cuts back and forth from that extremely dark story to that of Miss Austin the gun-toting librarian.
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The second wacky case is eventually revealed to be not wacky at all. Wojo was coming to work when he sees the smashed-in window of Mr. Zlinka's joke shop. Mr. Zlinka, a genial elderly fellow who sells novelty knick-knacks like dribble glasses and fake telephones, insists that it's not that big a deal, but someone is throwing bricks through his store front and spray-painting swastikas, so Wojo insists he come in and make a report.
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The second wacky case is eventually revealed to be not wacky at all. Wojo was coming to work when he sees the smashed-in window of Mr. Zlinka's joke shop. Mr. Zlinka, a genial elderly fellow who sells novelty knick-knacks like dribble glasses and fake telephones, insists that it's not that big a deal, but deal. Still, someone is throwing bricks through his store front and spray-painting swastikas, so Wojo insists he come in and make a report.
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* JobTitle: "The Librarian." Miss Austin is a particularly stressed-out one.
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* BaitAndSwitch: Mr. Zlinka getting his store wrecked by someone spray-painting swastikas leads the men of the 12th to assume he's the victim of a Nazi hate crime; Barney even asks "Are you Jewish?" It turns out that actually, Mr. Zlinka is the Nazi.
* JobTitle: "The Librarian." Miss Austin is a particularly stressed-outone.one.
* MoodWhiplash: The joke-filled sitcom comes to a screeching halt when Mr. Beruit identifies Mr. Zlinka as a Birkenau guard.
* NaziGrandpa: PlayedForDrama. Mr. Zlinka, a cheerful old guy who sells stuff like fake sugar packets that won't open, turns out to be a former Nazi death camp guard.
* RippedFromTheHeadlines: The story of Mr. Zlinka, a nice old man who is revealed to have been a guard at a Nazi death camp, is obviously inspired by the case of Cleveland auto worker and former Sobibor death camp guard [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Demjanjuk John Demjanjuk]].
* TensionCuttingLaughter: An extraordinarily tense scene has Mr. Beruit tell about how Mr. Zlinka took a construction work detail of over a thousand UsefulNotes/{{Romani}} and worked them for six months until only fifteen were left alive. After all this goes down, and after Mr. Beruit has to leave for prints and processing--he's still under arrest for vandalizing the joke shop--Mr. Beruit has one last thing to tell.
-->'''Mr. Beruit''': I have over seven hundred parking tickets.
* JobTitle: "The Librarian." Miss Austin is a particularly stressed-out
* MoodWhiplash: The joke-filled sitcom comes to a screeching halt when Mr. Beruit identifies Mr. Zlinka as a Birkenau guard.
* NaziGrandpa: PlayedForDrama. Mr. Zlinka, a cheerful old guy who sells stuff like fake sugar packets that won't open, turns out to be a former Nazi death camp guard.
* RippedFromTheHeadlines: The story of Mr. Zlinka, a nice old man who is revealed to have been a guard at a Nazi death camp, is obviously inspired by the case of Cleveland auto worker and former Sobibor death camp guard [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Demjanjuk John Demjanjuk]].
* TensionCuttingLaughter: An extraordinarily tense scene has Mr. Beruit tell about how Mr. Zlinka took a construction work detail of over a thousand UsefulNotes/{{Romani}} and worked them for six months until only fifteen were left alive. After all this goes down, and after Mr. Beruit has to leave for prints and processing--he's still under arrest for vandalizing the joke shop--Mr. Beruit has one last thing to tell.
-->'''Mr. Beruit''': I have over seven hundred parking tickets.
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Episode: Season 7, Episode 13\\
Title: The Librarian\\
Directed by: Noam Pitlik\\
Written by: Frank Dungan, Jeff Stein, and Tony Sheehan\\
Air Date: February 19, 1981\\
Previous: Stormy Weather\\
Next: Rachel\\
Guest Starring: Zachary Berger, Titos Vandis, Allan Miller, Miriam Byrd-Nethery]
"The Librarian" is the 13th episode of the seventh season of ''Series/BarneyMiller''.
Dietrich and Harris respond to a disturbance at a local library, and bring back Miss Austin, the librarian. It seems that Miss Austin got a little too stressed out over all the petty annoyances of being a librarian, things like books that aren't returned, homeless people sleeping in the reading rooms, teens making out in the aisles. So she pulled a gun.
The second wacky case is eventually revealed to be not wacky at all. Wojo was coming to work when he sees the smashed-in window of Mr. Zlinka's joke shop. Mr. Zlinka, a genial elderly fellow who sells novelty knick-knacks like dribble glasses and fake telephones, insists that it's not that big a deal, but someone is throwing bricks through his store front and spray-painting swastikas, so Wojo insists he come in and make a report.
Mr. Zlinka is still there when the alarm goes off at his joke shop. Wojo and Harris respond and bring back one Stefan Beruit, another older man. Mr. Beruit then reveals why he's been vandalizing Mr. Zlinka's shop: Mr. Beruit was an inmate at the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp in World War II, and Mr. Zlinka was the SS guard in charge of his work detail.
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* JobTitle: "The Librarian." Miss Austin is a particularly stressed-out one.
Episode: Season 7, Episode 13\\
Title: The Librarian\\
Directed by: Noam Pitlik\\
Written by: Frank Dungan, Jeff Stein, and Tony Sheehan\\
Air Date: February 19, 1981\\
Previous: Stormy Weather\\
Next: Rachel\\
Guest Starring: Zachary Berger, Titos Vandis, Allan Miller, Miriam Byrd-Nethery]
"The Librarian" is the 13th episode of the seventh season of ''Series/BarneyMiller''.
Dietrich and Harris respond to a disturbance at a local library, and bring back Miss Austin, the librarian. It seems that Miss Austin got a little too stressed out over all the petty annoyances of being a librarian, things like books that aren't returned, homeless people sleeping in the reading rooms, teens making out in the aisles. So she pulled a gun.
The second wacky case is eventually revealed to be not wacky at all. Wojo was coming to work when he sees the smashed-in window of Mr. Zlinka's joke shop. Mr. Zlinka, a genial elderly fellow who sells novelty knick-knacks like dribble glasses and fake telephones, insists that it's not that big a deal, but someone is throwing bricks through his store front and spray-painting swastikas, so Wojo insists he come in and make a report.
Mr. Zlinka is still there when the alarm goes off at his joke shop. Wojo and Harris respond and bring back one Stefan Beruit, another older man. Mr. Beruit then reveals why he's been vandalizing Mr. Zlinka's shop: Mr. Beruit was an inmate at the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp in World War II, and Mr. Zlinka was the SS guard in charge of his work detail.
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* JobTitle: "The Librarian." Miss Austin is a particularly stressed-out one.
