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Mr. Beauregard: [begging for his life] Ah, Master Rick. Remember when you weren't gonna shoot me?
[Rick Sanchez points the laser rifle at Mr. Beauregard and blasts him. Mr. Beauregard turns back into an alien parasite and then dies.]
Rick: Well, I guess I did the butler! [laughs] Does...Does that scan?
Ghost in Jar: Oh, I-I get it. It's a play on "the butler did it".
Rick: [unsealing jar] Thanks, Ghost-in-a-Jar. You always were good at pointing out potentially obscure comedy. [pours ghost out of jar and then blasts it with a laser pistol. The ghost and jar turn into the top and bottom halves of an alien parasite, which writhe in pain before dying.]

Flack: [lists the hired help of a billionaire found dead in his own panic room]
Stella: That's it? No butler?
Flack: No.
Stella: Too bad. I though we could wrap up this one up quick.
Flack: What?
Stella: In a mansion like this, it's always the butler.
CSI: NY, ("Trapped")

Dix: Do you realise we're almost to Hong Kong, the last British colony until we get to London?! If we don't arrest Willy Fog there, we may never get another chance! The reputation of Scotland Yard will be tarnished! (Beat) Well, Bully?
Bully: But what if he's innocent?
Dix: Eh? How can he be innocent when there's a warrant out for his arrest? Answer me that.
Bully: You know, sir? Like when people say the butler did it, but it always turns out to be somebody else.

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