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Tobacco and Flowers

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Well, I thought I’d get some flowers for you.

(The Psychic)


Smoking is Bad for You, At Least for Your Skimpy Shorts
  • The guard’s tossed cigarette almost sets Hutch’s shorts on fire. Luckily Starsky is there to pat out the flame. (Starsky and Hutch on Voodoo Island)

Smoking is Good for You, At Least for Finding Lost Time on Film
  • The accelerated cigarette burn proves security tape was tampered with. (The Set-Up)

Waving Away Visual Cigarette Smoke
  • Hutch clears smoke from his face with his hand. (Pilot)
  • Marsha coughs and clears Hutch’s smoke from her face. (Tap Dancing Her Way Right Back Into Your Heart)
  • Starsky clears smoke from his face at Huggy Bears. (Kill Huggy Bear)
  • Starsky clears smoke from his face with his hand. (The Hostages)

Starsky and Hutch Smoke
  • Hutch smokes a cigar with Starsky. (Dandruff)
  • Hutch smokes while undercover. (Tap Dancing Her Way Right Back Into Your Heart, The Action)
  • Hutch tries to get a cigarette from Huggy. Huggy says, “Hey, you don’t smoke!” (Hutchinson for Murder One)

Huggy Smokes
  • The Committee
  • Kill Huggy Bear
  • Losing Streak
  • Pariah
  • Huggy Can’t Go Home
  • Pilot
  • The Psychic
  • Running
  • Blindfold
  • Ninety Pounds of Trouble

Flowers
  • Abby wakes Hutch by rubbing a flower on his face. (Vendetta)
  • Anna is given red roses after her performance. (A Body Worth Guarding)
  • Before the ransom run, Starsky tells Hutch he was thinking of buying him flowers. (The Psychic)
  • Charlie brings Marsha flowers three times, a pink corsage and two red roses. (Tap Dancing Her Way Right Back Into Your Heart)
  • Hutch admits to Marsha, “I just have this thing about flowers. I can’t help myself.” (Tap Dancing Her Way Right Back Into Your Heart)
  • Dobey brings flowers to Hutch. (The Plague)
  • Molly thinks they should have brought flowers to her father’s funeral. (Little Girl Lost)
  • Huggy and Dobey bring flowers to Starsky and Hutch. (Partners)
  • Hutch is going to use the poster tube in the backseat “for his rosebushes.” (Jojo)
  • Hutch tells Marsha there, “won’t be any roses this time,” when he arrests her. (Tap Dancing Her Way Right Back Into Your Heart)
  • Jack wears a red carnation. (The Collector)
  • Fellow S.L.O.B has a fake squirting flower. (Starsky and Hutch on Voodoo Island)
  • Hutch is sniffing roses on a casket when Starsky comes in with Avery Wheeler, Boyle, and Cardwell. (Hutchinson for Murder One)
  • Mickie Marra the Mime has a big red one. (Class in Crime)
  • Laura hits Harry with a vase of red roses. (Deckwatch)
  • Hutch has a red carnation behind his ear. (Partners)
  • Randolph the Great hopes music will “evoke some joy from the pouting rosebuds.” (Cover Girl)
  • Renaldo, in his photographic chatter to model, tells her “lilacs and roses, coming out of your nose.” (The Groupie)
  • Sears tells Melinda he doesn’t like “mixing with people that smell like they have been sleeping on lilacs.” (The Groupie)
  • Starsky gives Hutch flowers on the way into funeral home. (Bust Amboy)
  • Starsky and Hutch bring Ted flowers at the hospital. (The Action)
  • Starsky brings Terry Roberts flowers. (Starsky’s Lady)
  • The reference to wilting one’s carnation means that someone is nervous. (Iron Mike, The Set-Up)
  • There are red carnations on Danner’s desk. (The Bait)
  • There are red flowers at Chez Moi. (Ninety Pounds of Trouble)
  • There is a fresh bouquet at Marianne’s apartment. (Ballad for a Blue Lady)
  • There is a fresh red carnation bouquet in Artie Solkin’s place. (Vendetta)
  • There is a red boutonnière on Mr. Thistleman. (The Set-Up)
  • There is a red carnation on lobster lunch table. (The Bait)
  • Starsky twirls a flower and says he “lacks couth.” (Bust Amboy)
  • Starsky tells Artie Solkin, “We’re sorry we stepped on your rosebush.” Artie tells him to “can the birdseed.” (Vendetta)
  • There is a single red rose on Starsky’s desk. (Silence)
  • There is chaos at the flower shop. (The Trap)
  • Vic Humphries wears a white carnation. (Survival)