Unintentionally funny re-enactments/moments

[Gelatinous Goo]

Originally Posted by MayorofMedford

It's the combination of items shown that gets me.

Shotgun... ammo... ninja stars... Game Boy...

TV, propane tank...

The green panties take the cake. Here's this wanted murderer in these ridiculously effeminate underwears.

[Allierain]

Originally Posted by here_thar_be_yetis

OFFER YOUR SHOOOZ!!!!11

Ha! If you watch the bottom right of the barrel, you can see the shadow of the shoes hitting the ground, as obviously he didn’t throw them in the fire for real.

[MayorofMedford]

Originally Posted by Gelatinous Goo

TV, propane tank...

The green panties take the cake. Here's this wanted murderer in these ridiculously effeminate underwears.

The footage of him wading in the river is like the world's worst nature documentary.

[Gelatinous Goo]

I was half-watching one today that I am not terribly familiar with, so it had to be one of the suspicious military death segments, which I usually skip over. Maybe it was the O'Connell one. The guy's mother kept referring to her son's "artopsy". She said it over and over again.

I've been all over this continent and am attuned to so many regional dialects. Admittedly, I don't hear people say this particular word at all, but it felt to me like it wasn't a case of a regional pronunciation, such as the "bloody fayngerpraynt" in the Cheryl Holland case, or how some people say "warsh" for wash. I think this lady truly believes it's pronounced "artopsy"!

[MayorofMedford]

Originally Posted by Gelatinous Goo

I was half-watching one today that I am not terribly familiar with, so it had to be one of the suspicious military death segments, which I usually skip over. Maybe it was the O'Connell one. The guy's mother kept referring to her son's "artopsy". She said it over and over again.

I've been all over this continent and am attuned to so many regional dialects. Admittedly, I don't hear people say this particular word at all, but it felt to me like it wasn't a case of a regional pronunciation, such as the "bloody fayngerpraynt" in the Cheryl Holland case, or how some people say "warsh" for wash. I think this lady truly believes it's pronounced "artopsy"!

Up there with "tenny shoes".

Another that isn't really funny but caught my ear is from the James Vess segment, when his daughter Sharene mentions how she felt the Vess children were considered "taboo-oh" (as in, pronouncing both o's in 'taboo') in the wake of her father murdering her mother. The first couple times I watched that segment (on TV and without the benefit of rewatching since I wasn't recording), I thought something sounded unusual. I finally got to confirm it thanks to YT.

Also, that Vess family segment is, for me, one of the saddest, one of the most chillingly produced murder scenes and one of my favourite solved reunions.

[Composite Sketch]

Originally Posted by StackTime

I just noticed a small gem the other night. When Arthur Paul Beal is collapsing in the desert in the re-enactment, the stranger kind of helps him down. If you look closely enough, he doesn't run or jog away from the collapsed man. He walks casually!

I never noticed that until you pointed it out!

Reminds me of the very beginning of the Dr. Frank Olsen segment where you see some guy starting to walk (at half-speed) without a care in the world, as he's quickly overtaken by two others who join the crowd of people congregating around Olsen's body on the sidewalk.

Also reminded me of the security camera footage of the robbery shown at the beginning of the Jean-Marie Gagnon segment where a lady is seen in all the frames just sitting in the middle of the fray, totally expressionless, as an armed robbery is taking place around her, including Gagnon and Louis Bourgeois jumping over the counters.

[ghosthouse]

Originally Posted by Gelatinous Goo

I've been all over this continent and am attuned to so many regional dialects. Admittedly, I don't hear people say this particular word at all, but it felt to me like it wasn't a case of a regional pronunciation, such as the "bloody fayngerpraynt" in the Cheryl Holland case, or how some people say "warsh" for wash. I think this lady truly believes it's pronounced "artopsy"!

That scene always cracks me up - right before he says "bloody fayngerpraynt" he says yerrrnoggonnabuhleave whatsonnabottomma this paynt can..... LOL

[StarshineRose]

In the Linda Sherman segment, when Linda's sister and brother-in-law find the car, he asks "Is that her car?" and she snaps at him in annoyance "I know my sister's car!" Then he just mumbles "Yeah, I know..." A situation like that would have someone on edge, but it was such a weirdly aggressive response to a simple question.

I also am amused by the goofy reactions when the footlocker is opened in the Gabby's Bones segment. "Uh oh!" "My goodness, it's a skeleton." "It's human."

[WishfulDreamer]

In the cyberstalking segment, the cyberstalker is just sitting in a dark room pounding on two different keyboards not doing anything productive on the computer as the monitor flashes ominously.

[ChandlerMurielB1]

Murder 101 segment - "If I was gonna go get serious with somebody, I wouldnt take a beat-up old kitchen knife."