Quincy's latest lady friend moves into a new apartment and accidentally discovers two mummified bodies.Quincy's latest lady friend moves into a new apartment and accidentally discovers two mummified bodies.Quincy's latest lady friend moves into a new apartment and accidentally discovers two mummified bodies.
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- TriviaThe creepy old mansion is actually the Allison home on Colonial St on the Universal backlot. It's located next door to the home used as The Munsters (1964) house.
- GoofsWhen the cop finds the victim's driver's license (who had been dead for over 20 years), It was the type contemporary for the time of the show but not for a driver's license from the late 1950's.
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Quirky but highly flawed.
"No Way to Treat a Body" is an interesting episode of "Quincy" but it's also very highly flawed--with a plot that often makes no sense and too strong a desire to be quirky and goofy. I really think the show could have been much better had they cleaned up the script a bit.
The show begins with Quincy's girlfriend (one of about 42974 during the course of the series) moving into a weird old house filled with eccentrics. She loves the place--Quincy just thinks they're all a bunch of weirdos. Soon, the girlfriend makes a discovery--a couple bodies in the attic. But they're not just bodies--they are perfectly mummified bodies. It seems that the warm and dry attic was perfect for preserving the corpses. Soon, two more are discovered. Quincy's autopsies of the first three bodies show they died of natural causes. But, the fourth was murdered--and now a 20 year old murder case is opened. But who did it and why?
The biggest problem I had with the episode was the way the lady who owned this rooming house was written and how everyone reacted to her. She apparently stuck the bodies there to commit fraud and continue collecting on an annuity that only paid if four women were alive--and when three of them died, the fourth (the land lady) hid them and kept taking payments. When confronted, she says the annuity conmpany had cheated her and she was only getting what was rightfully hers. No one questioned this and everyone immediately agreed with her and saw no problem with this fraud or the three non-murdered corpses hidden in the attic. This made absolutely no sense and would undoubtedly result in the lady going to prison and the property confiscated. Yet, inexplicably, everyone loves this woman. In fact, the devotion of Quincy (who barely knows her) defied common sense--as is Monahan's sudden change of tune. The second biggest problem is that the film really tried way too hard to be quirky--so much so that it seemed a bit ridiculous. It also seemed like a reworking of the old film "You Can't Take It With You".
I think a lot of folks will enjoy this one--but I just felt it took a neat idea and tried way too much to be a funny episode. Logic be darned (IMDB won't let me use the other word)!
The show begins with Quincy's girlfriend (one of about 42974 during the course of the series) moving into a weird old house filled with eccentrics. She loves the place--Quincy just thinks they're all a bunch of weirdos. Soon, the girlfriend makes a discovery--a couple bodies in the attic. But they're not just bodies--they are perfectly mummified bodies. It seems that the warm and dry attic was perfect for preserving the corpses. Soon, two more are discovered. Quincy's autopsies of the first three bodies show they died of natural causes. But, the fourth was murdered--and now a 20 year old murder case is opened. But who did it and why?
The biggest problem I had with the episode was the way the lady who owned this rooming house was written and how everyone reacted to her. She apparently stuck the bodies there to commit fraud and continue collecting on an annuity that only paid if four women were alive--and when three of them died, the fourth (the land lady) hid them and kept taking payments. When confronted, she says the annuity conmpany had cheated her and she was only getting what was rightfully hers. No one questioned this and everyone immediately agreed with her and saw no problem with this fraud or the three non-murdered corpses hidden in the attic. This made absolutely no sense and would undoubtedly result in the lady going to prison and the property confiscated. Yet, inexplicably, everyone loves this woman. In fact, the devotion of Quincy (who barely knows her) defied common sense--as is Monahan's sudden change of tune. The second biggest problem is that the film really tried way too hard to be quirky--so much so that it seemed a bit ridiculous. It also seemed like a reworking of the old film "You Can't Take It With You".
I think a lot of folks will enjoy this one--but I just felt it took a neat idea and tried way too much to be a funny episode. Logic be darned (IMDB won't let me use the other word)!
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- planktonrules
- Apr 20, 2013
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