The Three Investigators: Difference between revisions

* [[Photographic Memory]]: Jupiter.

* [[Polish the Turd]]: The sole rationale for the series initially being named ''[[Alfred Hitchcock]] and the Three Investigators'', and the frequent cameos of Hitchcock in the first thirty books or so, was Robert Arthur's insight that the books would sell better if they were ''somehow'' connected to somebody famous. He was right.

* [[Put on a Bus]]: Despite [[Heel Face Turn|seeming to reform]] after being used and abandoned by {{spoiler|Marechal}} in ''Shrinking House'', Skinny Norris appears at his nastiest and the closest he comes to true criminal activity in ''Headless Horse'' (aiding and abetting Cody in concealing who started the brush fire and framing Pico for it). When the truth comes out he is sent away by his father to military school and never seen again in the series.

* [[Real After All]]: Aside from the fact the monster of ''Monster Mountain'' turns out to be a genuine [[Bigfoot, Sasquatch, and Yeti|mountain man]], several of the entries involving the supernatural written after M. V. Carey took over the series turned out to be real, or at least implied to be. In a chillingly effective moment at the end of ''Haunted Mirror'', the villain sees ''something'' in the supposedly cursed glass that makes him flee right into the arms of the police; unable to explain it, the boys look very uneasily at the mirror and quickly leave. More obviously, when the villain of ''Magic Circle'' flees the scene only to crash in his car while the witch of the titular circle looks on with grim vindication, the boys have to wonder if she cursed him for what he had done to her; Jupiter scoffs at such notions of course, and a true Wiccan would not curse lest she run afoul of the Three-fold Rule, but...