If you’re about go through a door you’re not supposed to and/or that you don’t want to be seen entering, stop and look both ways (preferably with your hand already on the handle) - because that way you won’t look at all suspicious, will you?
Yes, The Phantom was like 21st or so in a line of Phantoms, so getting married and having a kid or two was critical. Of course, from my dim memory of the comic strip, her main job was being kidnapped so he could rescue her. Also the same with John carter, Warlord of Mars.
If I remember, in the past there were several children and the best suited was picked. Also sometimes adopted.
I’ve been watching a lot of clips of relatively recent lawyer shows. Seeing just the highlights really highlights the crutches they rely on. One thing that stands out is no matter which show I’m watching our intrepid defense attorney can’t get out 3 words without hearing “Objection irrelevant!” I mean sure it happens. It’s a valid objection. But lawyers are allowed to lay a foundation to their questioning. There isn’t going to be an objection to every sentence that isn’t laser focused on the relevant testimony. Besides it’s rare that there are surprise witnesses. Many questions as to admissibility of testimony and evidence are taken care of pretrial.
Steve Martin: “I’ll have a shoe with a cheese on it, force it down my throat, and I wanna massage your grandmother, okay?”
Followed by the judge saying “I’ll allow it, but you better have a point to all this, counselor!”
I prefer the TV version. It means witnesses testify for about three minutes. I’ve been on the stand for hours. It’s torture. I wish someone would have objected to the relevance of every question.
I recall it mainly being phrased as a question addressed to the bench: “Objection! Relevance?” or sometimes “Objection! Immaterial.”
The Lincoln Lawyer (the Netflix one) is a particular offender when it comes to this.
That was the first one that came to mind.
Legal Eagle points this out in “A Few Good Men” after Nicholson’s character has been on the stand for about 2 minutes.
Somebody fools someone into thinking they’re being under fire by playing a recording of gunfire, usually from two really crappy speakers.
“Merry Christmas, ya filthy animal.”
Or the similar “person shoots a gun, turns on a TV super loud to mask the gun shot and make people think it was the TV”
It’s literally a 70 decibels vs 170 decibels
A trifecta.
In Home Alone’s defence, Kevin did use firecrackers to accompany the TV speakers. At least, for the bit with Marv.
Yeah Home Alone 2 it was speakers only, HOTEL ROOM TV SPEAKERS
I liked how they played with this trope in I Love You to Death (using a record player instead of a TV):
The gunman fires - and then his accomplice turns on the music half a second later. “You’re supposed to put it on BEFORE the shot!” “Yeah, they shoot too fast!”
Likewise in the series 1899 a Chinese girl on a houseboat gives herbal tea to her friend to “relax” her and she only intended to knock her out and take her berth on a steamer, but the friend dies. So the accidental murderer gets on the ship anyway.
Eventually it turns out that the ship is in outer space.
That no season 2 of 1899 was made is practically a crime.