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  • Alternate Character Interpretation:
    • In "The Best Insurance", Mustard insists that Biddle promised that he could get Mustard on the insurance company's board of directors while Biddle insists he only said he's do his best. Does Mustard have a Self-Serving Memory, or is the otherwise likable Biddle lying? If he is lying, was he stringing Mustard along to get business from him, or did he merely overestimate his ability to persuade his colleagues and then get embarrassed when he couldn't convince them to hire Mustard.
    • In "Murder in Merrie England", developer Max Gold has some definite Kick the Dog moments with Professor Plum and Reverend Green, but he also offers Ms. Scarlet, Colonel Mustard and Mrs. White jobs which could help them financially but that they find demeaning. Is he being a deliberately insulting Slime Ball? Or is he making a sincere effort to Pet the Dog and help people who his development plan is uprooting that is received badly due to Mustard and the others being overly prideful and Gold having No Social Skills?
    • In "Blackmail and the Fourth Estate", Professor Plum is being threatened over how a drug he helped make killed several people in clinical trials and eventually claims that the company disregarded safety protocols without his knowledge. Is this accurate, or does Plum have a case of Never My Fault?
  • Base-Breaking Character: Animal rights activist Gordon Ferrar from "A Hunting We Will Go" is either a sympathetic victim and man of principle with the moral high ground over the cast or an unbearably obnoxious Hypocrite.
  • Ensemble Dark Horse: Several Victim of the Week characters are quite popular.
    • George Biddle from "The Best Insurance", due to implicitly being a Retired Badass and Self-Made Man (Colonel Mustard calls Biddle the best sergeant he ever had and was happily surprised by his rise in the insurance industry) who makes people want him dead just by doing his job of being a polite but diligent investigator and appraiser rather than the usual Jerkass (except for his grievance with Colonel Mustard).
    • Marianne Kray from "Fatal Distraction" is a nasty person, but fans still adore her humorous Large Ham personality and flashy quirkiness (such as using her stiletto heel as a corkscrew).
    • Dave from "A Traveller's Tale", due to being a quirky hippie who turns out to be more calculating and devious than he looks.
    • Jack Peacock from "The Bolivian Connection", due to the rich history he has with all the regular suspects and his briefly discussed Back Story as a dashing (albeit slimy) figure who mysteriously vanished years ago.
    • Candice Costello from "The Word, the Flesh, and the Devil" is a particular fan favorite for her Ms. Fanservice appearance, humorous Sugary Malice barbs toward several of the suspects, and for how, unlike most guest stars, she has the moral high ground over some of the people who hate her.
    • Marjary Hunt from "The Hanged Man", due to being both a smart and well-meaning old woman and the source of some creepy Tarot Troubles scenes.
  • Retroactive Recognition: The final Mrs. White is played by Liz Smith, who would later be best known for playing Mrs. Cropley in The Vicar of Dibley and Nana in The Royle Family.
  • The Scrappy: Nigel Hussey from "Seven Deadly Sinners" might be the least popular victim of the show, due to being too grating and odious to Love to Hate the way most victims are and for having a rather stupid and ridiculous business plan.

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