Under out very noses
Mary kills her husband with a frozen lamb leg and then makes a plan to get away with murder. She makes an alibi for herself and calls the police being a devastated and inconsolable wife. In the meantime, she put the lamb leg in the oven. She urges the policemen to eat it because her husband would want her to show politeness. They wonder where the murder weapon could be hiding. They comment how it might be right under their noses without them noticing. Mary begins to giggle in the other room.
Irony of "Galloping Foxley"
Perkins thinks it's curious how after so many years he finds himself sitting across the man who once made him contemplate suicide. The images of his youth and abuse he suffered immediately come back to him, and he thinks how he should approach the man and embarrass him in front of the entire train. He eventually does approach him, and the man he thought was certainly Bruce Foxley isn't him, it's a complete stranger.
Ignorance is bliss
Klausner is excited to create a sound machine that will enable humans to hear the sounds they couldn't before. While making it, he is overcome with fear if the machine might not work, but also what will happen if it actually does. Klausner will soon find out that sometimes ignorance is bliss, and that he might have been better not knowing the sounds plants produce when cut.
Hard work
Adolph Knipe designs a plan to create a machine that writes perfect literary works. He joins forces with his despicable boss Mr Bohlen and soon they start getting tremendously rich with the machine. They both make themselves into famous writers and after deciding to write a novel and picking the structure of it for the machine to write, Bohlen ironically comments how it was a hard work to write his own first novel.
