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'''Graeme:''' ...I dunno, I shall have to think. }}
'''Graeme:''' ...I dunno, I shall have to think. }}
* This is also a [[Once an Episode]] occurrence on the 1975-6 ''[[Ellery Queen]]'' TV series. In the final act Ellery will be in some mundane activity, usually with his police Inspector father, say "Of course!" and [[Breaking the Fourth Wall|break the fourth wall]] to outline the evidence and then ask the audience if they've solved the mystery.
* This is also a [[Once an Episode]] occurrence on the 1975-6 ''[[Ellery Queen]]'' TV series. In the final act Ellery will be in some mundane activity, usually with his police Inspector father, say "Of course!" and [[Breaking the Fourth Wall|break the fourth wall]] to outline the evidence and then ask the audience if they've solved the mystery.
* The title character of ''[[Jin (TV)|Jin]]'', an early 21st-century doctor flung 140 years back in time to 19th-century Edo, has one when, after wracking his brain for quite a while for all the details of his fiancée's steampunk-level process for making penicillin, he accidentally knocks over a jug of oil. This reminds him that oil is a key element of the step of the process where he was stuck.


== [[Newspaper Comics]] ==
== [[Newspaper Comics]] ==