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A subtrope of [[Victim of the Week]].
Some weekly TV shows revolve around dead people. A [[Mystery of the Week|homicide unit]] is pretty boring without a dead guy to investigate. A coroner needs someone to cut open. A funeral parlor that has no corpse is just no fun at all. Thus, these shows feature a Body of the Week.
Most shows of these genres open with a living person who goes on to die early in the show. On most of these shows, the dead body is implicit. You don't actually need to see the corpse to know that it exists. On others, the body becomes an integral prop. A funeral home needs a casket and mourners to interrupt the family squabbles.
All these shows have in common is the need for a corpse. Every single week.
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* ''[[NCIS]]'' lives and breathes on this trope. Even if the episode's A plot focuses on an arc, the body of the week will always occupy the accompanying B-plot.
* ''[[Bones]]'' does this with ''freaky'' corpses.
* ''[[Pushing Daisies]]'' is interesting in that the corpse is [[Back
* On ''[[Castle]]'', the vic is sometimes only shown after the corpse is discovered, but sometimes show getting killed.
* ''[[CSI]]'', ''[[CSI: Miami]]'', and ''[[CSI New York]]'' each have this at the core of their plot.
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