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* EatTheDog: Darkly subverted and played for laughs. Poirot is shanghaied into taking care of a parrot for an entire week, one who annoys him sufficiently that he alternatively deigns to train or threaten it depending on his mood. Sufficiently annoyed, he invites Hastings and Japp to a lovely fowl roast dinner, which they proceed to cut up and eat in front of the parrot who spends a great part of their meal shrieking in fearful distress.
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* WigDressAccent: How Davenheim hides out as Billy Kellett - shaving off his beard, exchanging his fine suit for something more worn and torn, and dropping his posh accent for something more lower class. Also how Davenheim hides out between his first imprisonment and his disapperance, adopting a fake beard and shaving regularly so that he can be himself a while longer.
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* WigDressAccent: How Davenheim hides out as Billy Kellett - shaving off his beard, exchanging his fine suit for something more worn and torn, and dropping his posh accent for something more lower class.accent. Also how Davenheim hides out between his first imprisonment and his disapperance, adopting a fake beard and shaving regularly so that he can be himself a while longer.
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* BigFancyHouse: The Davenheims' art deco home, Kimberley House - in reality [[https://www.joldwynds.com/ Joldwynds]] in Surrey.
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* MagicianDetective: Temporarily. Poirot uses the magic tricks of a StageMagician, which he learned from reading a book called ''The Boy's Book of Conjuring'' (which is out of character, but it works) and from watching a magic show. (According to David Suchet, he apparently did all the magic tricks himself.) Subverted at the end, however, when he tries making a parrot disappear... only to find that the bird is still here.
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* MagicianDetective: Temporarily. Poirot uses the magic tricks of a StageMagician, which he learned from reading a book called ''The Boy's Book of Conjuring'' (which is out of character, but it works) and from watching a magic show. (According to David Suchet, he apparently did all the magic tricks himself.) Subverted at the end, however, when he tries making a parrot disappear... only to find that the bird is still here.there.
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* NeedleInAStackOfNeedles: What's the best place for a criminal to hide till the heat dies down? In prison, on a lesser charge.
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* StealingFromTheTill: Davenheim's plot to frame Lowen unfolded over several months as he stole from his bank and purchased expensive jewellery - ostensibly for his wife, but also for him to steal from himself and exchange into cash for his getaway.
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* WigDressAccent: How Davenheim hides out as Billy Kellett - shaving off his beard, exchanging his fine suit for something more worn and torn, and dropping his posh accent for something more lower class. Also how Davenheim hides out between his first imprisonment and his disapperance, adopting a fake beard and shaving regularly so that he can be himself a while longer.
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* PublicDomainSoundrack: Music/PyotrIlyichTchaikovsky's ''The 1812 Overture'' is played and later becomes [[ChekhovsGag Chekhov's]] RunningGag in the plot.
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* PublicDomainSoundrack: PublicDomainSoundtrack: Music/PyotrIlyichTchaikovsky's ''The 1812 Overture'' is played and later becomes [[ChekhovsGag Chekhov's]] RunningGag in the plot.
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* EatTheDog: Darkly subverted and played for laughs. Poirot is shanghaied into taking care of a parrot for an entire week, one who annoys him sufficiently that he alternatively deigns to train or threaten it depending on his mood. Sufficiently annoyed, he invites Hastings and Japp to a lovely fowl roast dinner, which they proceed to cut up and eat in front of the parrot who spends a great part of their meal shrieking in fearful distress.
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* MagicianDetective: Temporarily. Poirot uses the magic tricks of a StageMagician, which he learned from reading a book called ''The Boy's Book of Conjuring'' (which is out of character, but it works) and from watching a magic show. (According to David Suchet, he apparently did all the magic tricks himself.) Subverted at the end, however, when he tries making a parrot disappear... only to find that the bird is still here.
-->'''Poirot:''' At least it was worth a try.\\
'''Parrot:''' Worth a try, worth a try!
-->'''Poirot:''' At least it was worth a try.\\
'''Parrot:''' Worth a try, worth a try!
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* PollyWantsAMicrophone: Poirot gets a parrot that gets chatty with squawks and whistles... and sometimes mimics other people's words.
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* ProductPlacement: There are signs all over the race course that say "BP", "Mobiloil" and "Shell", all petrol companies.
* PublicDomainSoundrack: Music/PyotrIlyichTchaikovsky's ''The 1812 Overture'' is played and later becomes [[ChekhovsGag Chekhov's]] RunningGag in the plot.
* PublicDomainSoundrack: Music/PyotrIlyichTchaikovsky's ''The 1812 Overture'' is played and later becomes [[ChekhovsGag Chekhov's]] RunningGag in the plot.
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* TwoScenesOneDialogue: Captain Hastings and Inspector Japp discuss Mrs. Davenheim and her maid. What's interesting is that Hastings speaks with Mrs. Davenheim upstairs, while Japp speaks with her maid downstairs, but both ladies speak about Matthew Davenheim's disappearance but are not sure why. At the end of the dialogue:
--->'''Hastings:''' ''[to Mrs. Davenheim]'' Perhaps I'll go have a chat with your maid.\\
''[cut to downstairs at the same time]''\\
'''Japp:''' ''[to the maid]'' Perhaps I'll go have a chat with your mistress.
--->'''Hastings:''' ''[to Mrs. Davenheim]'' Perhaps I'll go have a chat with your maid.\\
''[cut to downstairs at the same time]''\\
'''Japp:''' ''[to the maid]'' Perhaps I'll go have a chat with your mistress.
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* PoorCommunicationKills: Since Hastings and Japp are investigating the case without cooperating due to TheBet, this lead to a situation where Japp mistakes Hastings for Lowen and attempts to question him.
* StealthInsult: Poirot snarks at Hastings by unfavorably comparing him to the parrot:
---> '''Poirot''': Please, do not fraternise with that creature. I am still training him.
---> '''Hastings''': It's just a parrot.
---> '''Poirot''': I was talking to the parrot.
* StealthInsult: Poirot snarks at Hastings by unfavorably comparing him to the parrot:
---> '''Poirot''': Please, do not fraternise with that creature. I am still training him.
---> '''Hastings''': It's just a parrot.
---> '''Poirot''': I was talking to the parrot.
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** Since showing Poirot doing nothing at his flat would be dull and boring otherwise, the episode includes Poirot pet-sitting a friend's parrot and practicing some magic tricks.
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** Since showing Poirot doing nothing at his flat would be dull and boring otherwise, the episode includes Poirot pet-sitting a friend's parrot and practicing some magic tricks.tricks to help him pass the time.
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* WholePlotReference: The episode and its source story evoke the plot of Literature/SherlockHolmes' story ''The Man with the Twisted Lip'', wherein a wealthy man lives a double life as one of the downtrodden classes (a tramp in this case), and therefore gets [[MistakenForOwnMurderer accused of their own murder]] when their respectable persona disappears. The key difference is that here, the man in question is doing it for a far less innocuous reason.
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* WholePlotReference: The episode and its source story evoke the plot of Literature/SherlockHolmes' story ''The Man with the Twisted Lip'', wherein a wealthy man lives a double life as one of the downtrodden classes (a tramp in this case), and therefore gets [[MistakenForOwnMurderer accused of their own murder]] when their respectable persona disappears. The key difference is that here, the man in question is doing it for a far less innocuous reason.reason.
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'''Recurring cast:''' Captain Hastings, Inspector Japp, Miss Lemon
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'''Recurring cast:''' Captain Hastings, Inspector Japp, Miss LemonLemon
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* AdaptationExpansion:
** Since showing Poirot doing nothing at his flat would be dull and boring otherwise, the episode includes Poirot pet-sitting a friend's parrot and practicing some magic tricks.
** The rivalry between Davenheim and Lowen is expanded upon in the introductory scenes.
* AdaptationalJobChange: Mr Lowen is now a race car driver in addition to being a business rival/partner of Mr Davenheim.
* BavarianFireDrill: Hastings pretends to be an interested buyer of one of Lowen's cars in an attempt to get to him. Lowen isn't quite fooled, however.
* CacophonyCoverUp: Davenheim uses the cannon blasts of the 1812 Overture to mask the sound of him breaking into his own safe.
* ExactWords: Since TheBet with Japp means that Poirot is supposed to solve the case without leaving his place, he deputizes Hastings to do the dirty work for him. In the original story, it was Japp who fed info to Poirot.
* ObfuscatingDisability: Billy Kellett pretends to be blind in order to make it easier for him to steal things.
* WholePlotReference: The episode and its source story evoke the plot of Literature/SherlockHolmes' story ''The Man with the Twisted Lip'', wherein a wealthy man lives a double life as one of the downtrodden classes (a tramp in this case), and therefore gets [[MistakenForOwnMurderer accused of their own murder]] when their respectable persona disappears. The key difference is that here, the man in question is doing it for a far less innocuous reason.
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* AdaptationExpansion:
** Since showing Poirot doing nothing at his flat would be dull and boring otherwise, the episode includes Poirot pet-sitting a friend's parrot and practicing some magic tricks.
** The rivalry between Davenheim and Lowen is expanded upon in the introductory scenes.
* AdaptationalJobChange: Mr Lowen is now a race car driver in addition to being a business rival/partner of Mr Davenheim.
* BavarianFireDrill: Hastings pretends to be an interested buyer of one of Lowen's cars in an attempt to get to him. Lowen isn't quite fooled, however.
* CacophonyCoverUp: Davenheim uses the cannon blasts of the 1812 Overture to mask the sound of him breaking into his own safe.
* ExactWords: Since TheBet with Japp means that Poirot is supposed to solve the case without leaving his place, he deputizes Hastings to do the dirty work for him. In the original story, it was Japp who fed info to Poirot.
* ObfuscatingDisability: Billy Kellett pretends to be blind in order to make it easier for him to steal things.
* WholePlotReference: The episode and its source story evoke the plot of Literature/SherlockHolmes' story ''The Man with the Twisted Lip'', wherein a wealthy man lives a double life as one of the downtrodden classes (a tramp in this case), and therefore gets [[MistakenForOwnMurderer accused of their own murder]] when their respectable persona disappears. The key difference is that here, the man in question is doing it for a far less innocuous reason.
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! The Disappearance of Mr Davenheim
-->'''Original Airdate''': 4 February 1990 \\
'''Written by:''' David Renwick \\
'''Directed by:''' Andrew Grieve \\
'''Recurring cast:''' Captain Hastings, Inspector Japp, Miss Lemon
-->'''Original Airdate''': 4 February 1990 \\
'''Written by:''' David Renwick \\
'''Directed by:''' Andrew Grieve \\
'''Recurring cast:''' Captain Hastings, Inspector Japp, Miss Lemon
