from floating island to chocolate mousse

Music is a never-ending learning process.

~  Liberace

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     In Manhattan Murder Mystery, after Carol Lipton tells her husband she left her reading glasses in their neighbor's apartment (when she sneaked in while he was away and "tossed" the place, looking for clues), there's a CUT to 

INT.  Mr. House's doorway

He's letting the two Liptons in; they're bringing him chocolate mousse.  
     
     (Sort of like they're getting into a tradition -- 'we bring you a dessert every now and then, you let us in and serve coffee and we all share the dessert and make small talk' -- only this time of course it's -- 'we bring you a dessert and you go in the kitchen to make tea and we hope we can find the pair of reading glasses Carol lost here, before you come back out.')

     In this scene, Paul asks them, "Coffee or tea?" and the answer is "Tea" -- probably because they think maybe that will take him longer, so they can have more time to search.

     While he's in the kitchen, Carol and Larry are wildly searching (if it's possible to search wildly -- it is...) for her glasses.  Hurrying fast, trying to look everyplace the glasses could be, making crazy hand gestures, shooshing each other -- come on!  Hurry!  Keep it down!...  Larry calls toward the kitchen, solicitously, "You all right?  Y'need any help in there?"  Trying to keep all the balls in the air... keep the bases covered....


INT.  Paul's living room - Night

Carol and Larry, stopping their search and looking up as Mr. House enters, gingerly holding the reading glasses in his hand.

PAUL
You know, I found your glasses.

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