Criminal Mind Games: Difference between revisions

** Chief Wiggum was the "Mutton-Chop Murderer", who wanted to create a crime even Lisa Simpson couldn't solve. Played as a parody, natch.

** Subversion; Bart hides Lisa's report and challenges her with a series of riddles:

'''Bart:''' Doh! }}

* Spoofed in the ''[[South Park]]'' episode "Chickenlover": the titular animal molester always left a message at the scene of the crime. The clues turn out to be really, really obvious... ''but Officer Barbrady is illiterate,'' and thus, he can't read the messages. After forcing himself to painstakingly learn to read through children's books, he eventually manages to find and arrest the culprit... who turns out to be a bookmobile driver who was trying to encourage Officer Barbrady to confront his illiteracy, even though there was no way he could have known about it before he molested the first chicken.

** Barbrady then celebrates his new found literacy by beginning to read books...starting with ''[[Atlas Shrugged]]'', which he regarded as such utter garbage that he decided he would never read again, making the bookmobile drivers whole plan null and void.

* ''[[Bromwell High]]'': One of the girls hides some illegal sweets people are looking for and composes a rhyme telling where they are.

* The animated version of ''Where On Earth Is [[Carmen Sandiego]]'' has this in every episode as a [[Shout-Out]] to [[Alphabet Soup Cans]].

* Subverted on ''[[Monkey Dust]]'' when a serial killer becomes entangled in a furious game of cat and mouse with a police detective. The thrill of the chase is blown when the serial killer accidentally falls asleep in his car at the crime scene after killing a man: blood stained and with weapon in hand. Disappointed that it ended with such an anticlimax, the police detective decides to let the killer go. Only to be then killed by him.

* Lampshaded in ''[[The Replacements]]''

'''Todd''': Actually, you would have gotten away with it if you hadn't left us all those clues. }}