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== Anime & Manga ==
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* ''[[Boardwalk Empire]]'': Parlor maid/servant Louanne is the one poisoning the Commodore.
* Happens in ''Lewis'' and its predecessor ''Inspector Morse'' occasionally, most recently in Wild Justice. Never trust a college servant.
* ''[[The Hardy Boys Nancy Drew Mysteries]]'' episode "Dangerous Waters" plays with this: the kidnap victim doesn't recognize her mother's butler when he greets the Hardys at the door. Naturally, he turns out to be part of the plot, and the non-recognition turns into a vital clue for Joe & Frank to crack the case.
* Butler, Valet, Gardener... [[Deep Space Nine|Garak]] has held many [[Blatant Lies|perfectly legitimate jobs where his employer happened to suffer a tragic end.]]
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▲=== Parodies, subversions, [[Lampshade Hanging|Lampshade Hangings]], etc: ===
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== Live Action Television ==
* An episode of ''[[Police Squad!]]!'' has "The Butler Did It" as the episode title displayed on-screen (while the [[Narrator
* In a televised version of one of the ''Hercule Poirot'' mysteries, Poirot and Hastings attend a murder-mystery play. The two agree to a game: Poirot will try to figure out which character is the murderer, and write it on a slip of paper which Hastings will read during the third act. Poirot's paper reads: "The butler did it." {{spoiler|The play's butler turns out ''not'' to be the culprit, much to Poirot's annoyance, and the Belgian detective spends several minutes complaining to Hastings about bad scripting.}}
* In an episode of ''[[Doctor Who (TV)|Doctor Who]]'' that featured Dame Agatha as a character and was itself a murder mystery, Donna Noble at one point quips that "Well, at least we know the butler didn't do it."
* In an episode of ''[[Saved By the Bell]],'' the show's characters go to a hotel in which a murder mystery is staged for the guests to try to solve. In the end, after exhausting several red herrings, it turns out that, indeed, The Butler Did It -- and the episode ends with a character [[I Always Wanted to Say That|saying those exact words]].
* In a sketch on ''[[The Muppet Show]]'', with Rowlf as [[Sherlock Holmes]], the butler did it. However, because the butler is a Muppet monster, he then eats all the evidence, including the body and the only witness. Holmes therefore concludes that, in the absence of evidence, there was no crime at all (having briefly "deduced" that, in the absence of evidence pointing towards the butler, Watson did it).
* [[Veronica Mars]], solving the case in
{{quote| '''Veronica:''' "But no. It was the butler's ''son''."}}
* ''[[The Avengers (TV)|The Avengers]]'' episode "What the Butler Saw" involved an entire school for butlers, which turned out to be a criminal enterprise. At the end, there's an exchange along the following lines:
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