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[[File:midsomermurders_621.jpg|frame|John Nettles as Inspector Barnaby and Jason Hughes as DS Jones.]]
{{quote|'''Eastwood:''' ...Barnaby is [[Once an Episode|about to have]] the [[Eureka Moment|bolt of inspiration]] that cracks the case, solves the murders and the artefact-smuggling ring, and find out that the postmistress is getting off with the vicar, who's secretly her uncle.<br />
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* [[Cowboy Bebop at His Computer]] : Midsomer is [[Did Not Do the Research|a county, not one village]], contrary to what idiot TV announcers and others will tell you.
** Although Badger's Drift is a very common locale where (judging by rough guess) everyone in the town has died or been a murderer. Including the priest. It's also one of the few non-Midsomer titled locales and is close to many of the others (you see signs pointing to Badger's Drift often). So it does fit the "deadliest village in Britain" tag.
** In Australia it's "deadliest county" in the ads, which are often edited to highlight the more tart dialogue, thus making them quite amusing.
* [[Cowboy Episode]]: "Blood on the Saddle"
* [[Dead Man's Chest]]: A dismembered body is placed in a wicker hamper and left in a railway station in "Echoes of the Dead".
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* [[Enfant Terrible]]: At ''least'' two episodes have had children as the murderer (though one just masterminded the whole thing).
* [[Everybody Has Lots of Sex]]: Illicit affairs probably make up half the secrets Barnaby uncovers.
* [[Even Evil Has Standards]]: One murderer takes a small boy who he knows to be the witness to his crime out on a boat ride. Then Barnaby has his [[Eureka Moment]] and heads for the dock, expecting the worst... only to find the kid unharmed, with the murderer saying he couldn't kill him.
* [[Evil Brit]] : Pretty much everybody but the recurring characters is a lying, perverted, murdering hypocrite.
* [[Fake American]]
* [[A Fete Worse Than Death]] : In the episode "The Straw Woman"
* [[Gaslighting]] : "Beyond the Grave".
* [[Geographic Flexibility]] : The villages often gain features and places previously unseen or unheard of. The series is filmed in locations all around England and Wales. It shows. But, surprisingly, it mostly averts [[California Doubling]]. The use of this trope is to be expected, given how the series is one of the Long Runners of British TV and is set in a small fictional English administrative region with a predominantly rural, old-timey character.
* [[Girl-On-Girl Is Hot]] : Actually averted with Troy, who's a bit of a homophobe and never considers lesbians as arousing.
* [[Grievous Bottley Harm]] : In "Not In My Back Yard", the first [[Victim of the Week]] is done in with a broken bottle.
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** And again in "The Magician's Nephew".
* [[Obfuscating Disability]]
* [[Old Cop, Young Cop]]: Standard formula for a British cop show.
* [[Old-Fashioned Copper]] : Inspector Barnaby and pretty much any other standard police detective in Midsomer county. Goes hand in hand with the very British attitude of [[Doesn't Like Guns]].
* [[Overtook the Series]] : Originally based on four (now seven) books by Caroline Graham.
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* [[Pizza Boy Special Delivery]] : Fiona Conway does this (literally with the pizza boy) in "Not In My Back Yard".
* [[Pursued Protagonist]]: "The Night of the Stag" opens with the first [[Victim of the Week]] being chased through an orchard at night.
* [[Put on a Bus]] : Sergeant Troy is promoted and transferred up north. He returns for the episode "Blood Wedding".
** Similarly, Sergeant Scott goes on a [[Long Bus Trip]] - Barnaby mentions that he "called in sick" but the character is never heard from again.
* [[Real After All]] : At least two episodes featuring somebody taking advantage of or inventing a place's haunted reputation have ended with indications that the place really is haunted.
* [[Reassigned to Antarctica]]: Sergeant Scott bemoans his transfer to Midsomer has ended him up in "the Sticks".
* [[Retro Universe]] : Kind of. It's clearly set in the [[Present Day]] (mid 1990s-early 2000s), but the atmosphere is very rustic and sort of a [[George Lucas Throwback]] to the golden age of English detective fiction [[Genteel Interbellum Setting|in the inter-war period]].
* [[Self-Referential Humor]]: At one moment, the brass band from the episode "Things that go bump in the night" plays the series' main theme.
* [[Serious Business]]: Some of the murders have unbelievably ridiculous motives (except for the murderers). One woman ends up killing three people because her driving drunk would bar her from joining the village social club for life.
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* [[Stepford Smiler]] : Chief Superintendent John Cotton, coupled with [[Beware the Nice Ones]]. Or vice versa.
* [[Stopped Clock]]: Abused in at least one episode [[Never Suicide|to make a murder look like a suicide]].
* [[Surprise Incest]]: This was in an episode where a man had 'spread his seed far and wide' — you could hardly turn a corner without finding one of his bastards. One couple didn't meet until they were both in graduate school in Canada and got married, only later realizing they were half-siblings; she was totally squicked, he didn't mind.
* [[Suspiciously Similar Substitute]] : When John Nettles left the series, DCI Tom Barnaby retired, to be replaced by the younger and more energetic DCI ''John'' Barnaby. Apparently he's a cousin, and they did hang a [[Lampshade]] on it in the episode where John Barnaby was introduced, but really, it's like they're not even trying.
* [[Tag-Along Actor]]: Cully's actor boyfriend rides along with Barnaby and Jones to research the role of a detective sergeant. It's a comment of his that gives Barnaby the [[Eureka Moment]].
* [[Theme Naming]] : Most of the villages are "Midsomer *blank*".
* [[Troubling Unchildlike Behaviour]]: One episode has two primary school kids sneaking vodka and cigarettes.
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