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Sometimes overlaps with [[A Bloody Mess]], for which [[The Ketchup Test]] might be used for [[The Reveal]]. If the object in question is a powder or liquid, the [[Fingertip Drug Analysis]] may be used instead.
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== Comedy ==▼
* One [[Peter Kay]] skit related his [[Crazy Prepared]] dad's trouble carrying a small plastic bag of Coffeemate, a milk substitute that comes in the form of a white powder, through foreign customs.▼
* Subverted in [[Starsky and Hutch (
== [[Literature]] ==
* In ''[[Wilt]]'', after Henry Wilt is accused of murdering his wife, the police search his house and find a lot of what looks like damning evidence, including a cleaver he had used to open a can of red lead.
* In the [[Discworld]] novel ''[[
* In Arthur Conan Doyle's ''A Study in Scarlet'', victims are found surrounded by splashes of blood, including a word written in blood on the wall. Like the CSI example below, it's actually a murderer with a nosebleed. That is, there IS evidence present that helps catch the killer - but the blood isn't it.
== [[Live
* One episode of ''[[NCIS]]'' had the team investigating what they believed was a murder caught on video. Halfway in, Abby discovers that the knife that was supposedly used as the murder weapon is a prop knife that drips stage blood.
** She demonstrated the knife was fake by using it on ''herself''. This freaked out everyone that was watching.
* One episode of ''[[The Drew Carey Show]]'' had Drew's being investigated on suspicion of being a junkie. The white powder on Drew's coffee table is revealed to be powdered sugar from an extraordinary quantity of donuts, and one police officer found a professional-grade scale thinking it was being used to make meth, when Drew was trying to prove that Quarter Pounders weigh less than a quarter pound in order to file a lawsuit.
** Also, a drug-sniffing dog points to his desk at work, prompting Drew to open the drawer, which contained ribs.
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* Once on ''[[Matlock]]'', Matlock and Tyler (his private investigator) were investigating a person who had some strange powdery substance delivered to his house every day. Tyler was working undercover as a chauffeur. They met late at night in a dark alleyway for Ben to get a sample for testing. Then the cops came and busted Matlock, since it was a known drug trafficking hangout. Matlock protested his innocence but was arrested. The cops tested the powder - it was a diet formula.
* A [[CSI]] episode started with a room with walled covered in spattered blood. Later it was found that the blood had come from a man with a nosebleed, deliberately messing up the walls.
== [[Recorded and Stand Up Comedy]] ==
▲* One [[Peter Kay]] skit related his [[Crazy Prepared]] dad's trouble carrying a small plastic bag of Coffeemate, a milk substitute that comes in the form of a white powder, through foreign customs.
== [[Video Games]] ==
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