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I love when an American shows up on Midsomer Murders because you just know you're about to hear an incredibly surreal series of vowel sounds and accent choices that no human being has ever naturally uttered.

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Joyce: "COME ON BANTLING BOY!"

Cully: "COME ON BANTLING BOY!"

Barnaby: "mutter mutter, how much you put on him?"

Joyce: "30 pounds to win!"

Barnaby: "COME ON BANTLING BOY!"

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started watching midsomer murders and I don't know what's got me hooked more - barnaby versus his wife's cooking or troy versus driving

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i love this show this guy decided to poison someone and he just opened his regular cupboard with like tea and whatever else and reached into the middle of all the containers and pulled out a bottle of poison, like that's just a normal and safe place to store your poison.

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*most of the time in Midsomer Murders, s9-s13*

Ben: (nearly gets run over by a forklift while trying to retrieve a suspected murder weapon)

Ben (back at the office): sir

Tom: yes, Jones?

Ben: I found this (hands over a hammer covered in dried blood)

Tom: excellent work

Ben: I should tell you that I near lost my life in trying to retrieve it

Tom: excellent work

Ben: …thank you?

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There was something of the supernatural in the early MM episodes: levitating comic books, second sight, witches, ghosts. Even Tom couldn’t explain what it was he actually saw on that rainy night when he swerved to avoid what he thought was a woman crossing the road. I miss the unexplained in the John Barnaby episodes I’ve seen so far.

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*most of the time in Midsomer Murders, s7-s8*

*at some crime scene*

Tom: where’s Scott

Dan: (questioning someone, but lowkey flirting with them too)

Tom: for fuck’s sake

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Troy looks at painting in progress: "That's interesting..."

Painter "Good of you to say so!"

Troy "Good isn't the word..."

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“I did assure Lord Fitzgibbon that you would treat Tom with sensitivity. I could have said with your usual sensitivity, but he doesn’t know you as well as I do…”

Midsomer Murders, Season 7 - The Green Man

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One Barnaby/Troy cap an ep:

Midsomer Murders Series One, Episode One: “The Killings at Badger’s Drift”