Tossup
In a film in this series, a character tells a gunman, “alright, shoot—I mean, uh, what’s on your mind?” In a film in this series, a man who lazily shoots Christmas tree balloons with an air rifle fails a trick shot and breaks his hotel window. In this series, a woman asks a waiter to “serve the nuts… I mean serve the guests nuts” during a dinner attended by every possible (*) murderer of the elderly inventor Clyde Wyndat. Jimmy Stewart played David Graham in the second film in this series, which was followed by entries introducing a child named Junior. In this series, “Skippy” plays Asta, a pet fox terrier who often covers his eyes. For 10 points, what detective series based on a Dashiell Hammett novel follows the alcoholic, bantering couple Nick and Nora Charles? ■END■
ANSWER: The Thin Man series [accept the Nick and Nora Charles series before “Nick”; accept The Thin Man, After the Thin Man, Another Thin Man, Shadow of the Thin Man, The Thin Man Goes Home, or Song of the Thin Man]
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