Mug Shots

Mug Shots is a miscellaneous "true or false" game.

Mug Shots
"First game up: Mug Shots!" "Next game up: Mug Shots!"

Description

Detective Verity will present a group of four bad guys. Each crook gives a description as to where they were and what they were doing during the crime when they confessed. Only one of them is innocent, while the others are guilty.

Segments

Episode 1&17: (The Stankowski brothers) in episode 3 and episode 38 (First game only)

CRIME: Robbed a jewelry store

1. Muscles Stankowski said he was walking his dogs; a Husky and an Irish Setter (NOT GUILTY, a Husky and an Irish Setter are both types of dogs).
2. Knuckles Stankowski said he was picking Azaleas, Influenzas, and Chrysanthemums (GUILTY, Influenzas are viruses, not flowers).
3. Elbows Stankowski said he had just returned from Texas, where he saw Mount St. Helens (GUILTY, It's located in the state of Washington).
4. Stanley Deuces said he was at the bank changing his money to yen for a trip to China (GUILTY, The yen is Japanese money, not Chinese money).

Episode 2&13: (The Notorious Gang of Four) in episode 6 and episode 31 (After game systems overload)

CRIME: Committed a bank heist in Detroit

1. Sleepy Eyes McGee said he took his family to Utah to see the Grand Canyon (GUILTY, The Grand Canyon's in Arizona, not Utah).
2. Checkers Larue said he and his wife were at a concert listening to a tune by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Ba ba ba bum) (GUILTY, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart didn't write that tune, It's the fifth symphony by Ludwig van Beethoven).
3. Billy Crimp said he was watching a show about penguins in Antarctica (NOT GUILTY, Antarctica is a good place to find penguins).
4. Mickey “the Goat” O’Grady said he was having a cast removed from his arm since he broke his femur and tibia (GUILTY, The femur and tibia are bones you find in the leg, not the arm).

Episode 3: (Dentist’s Office Break-in) in episode 11 (First game only)

CRIME: Stole gold fillings from the office

1. Dr. Cleanpick said he was looking at the Mona Lisa by Michelangelo (GUILTY, Michelangelo was a famous artist, but he didn't paint the Mona Lisa. Leonardo Da Vinci was responsible for painting the Mona Lisa).
2. Chatty Cathy said she was working on her computer and defragged her hard drive and checked her e-mail (NOT GUILTY✓, Hard drive, internet, and email are all computer terms)
3. Stinky John said he ran a 2:00 mile while training for the Olympics (GUILTY, It is impossible to run a two-minute mile. The fastest mile ever recorded is closer to four minutes.).
4. Sam Spit said he got a new compass that points due West (GUILTY, A compass points due North, not West).

Episode 4&15: (Philadelphia Chamber Orchestra) in episode 16 and episode 36

CRIME: Committed a robbery

1. Viola Hardcase (viola player) said she was at a Steven Spielberg film festival watching E.T., Jurassic Park, and Independence Day (GUILTY, Steven Spielberg didn’t make Independence Day, it was Roland Emmerich).
2. Bass Henderson (bass player) said he was at the Panama Canal where boats pass between the Atlantic and Indian Oceans  (GUILTY, the Panama Canal connects the Atlantic with the Pacific Ocean, not the Indian Ocean).
3. Willow Reed (clarinet player) said she was in Africa bagging 2 tigers and a rhinoceros (GUILTY, Tigers live in Asia, not Africa).
4. Fingers Weinstock (piano player) said he was at his cousin’s wedding, where he ate a traditional Italian meal of linguini, fettuccini, and cannelloni (NOT GUILTY, Linguini, Fettuccini, and Cannelloni are all foods from Italy).

Episode 5&16: (The Lemon Sisters) in episode 19 and episode 37

CRIME: Broke into the public library and re-shelved all the books

1. Honey Lemon said she was at the orthopedist to get teeth braces (GUILTY, You go to the orthopedist if you break bones on surgeons, If you want braces on your teeth, you go to an orthodontist).
2. Candy Lemon said she was at the planetarium and saw the red planet, Venus. (GUILTY, The red planet is Mars, not Venus).
3. Sugar Lemon said she was in Austria and saw kangaroos and scuba dived in the Great Barrier Reef (GUILTY, Kangaroos and the Great Barrier Reef are in Australia, not Austria).
4. Puddin’ Lemon was at the art gallery looking at Still Life with Sunflowers by Vincent Van Gogh (NOT GUILTY, Vincent Van Gogh did paint Still Life with Sunflowers).

Episode 6&11: (The Felonious Four) in episode 20 and episode 28

CRIME: Robbed a toll booth

1. “Lug Nut” Muldoon said he was taking singing lessons on the Star Spangled Banner, written by Betsy Ross (GUILTY, Betsy Ross didn't write the Star Spangled Banner, Francis Scott Key wrote it).
2. Sammy Bixby (aka Sammy “Six Toes”) said he was in Alaska snapping pictures of Mt. Rushmore (GUILTY, Mt. Rushmore is located in South Dakota, not Alaska).
3. Scooter Hayes said he was in a dance contest with his girlfriend Sheila, where they did the Rhumba, the Twist, and the Lambada (NOT GUILTY, The Rhumba, the Twist, and the Lambada are all real dance moves).
4. Larry Coolridge “the Lump” said he had some food stuck in his asparagus, the food pipe (GUILTY, An asparagus is a vegetable for a healthy food, while the technical name for food pipe is really esophagus).

Episode 7&12: (The Robber Barons) in episode 21 and episode 29 (Before game systems overload in episode 21)

CRIME: Robbed a liquor store

1. Lois Carnegie said she was at a costume party wearing a 10 gallon hat that could hold 10 gallons of water (GUILTY, a 10 gallon hat couldn‘t even hold 1 gallon of water, it can hold only three-quarters of a gallon).
2. Morgan Pike “Applesauce” said he started a business selling old coins and bills and offers Verity a $2 bill (NOT GUILTY, the $2 bill is an actual form of currency. However, it is hard for people to find).
3. Mitch Vanderbilt said he was bird watching with his nephew, and they saw gulls, geese, and guppies (GUILTY, Guppies are fish, not birds).
4. Mellon Ball Jones said he is from France where they drive on the other side of the road (GUILTY, in France, they drive on the right side of the road as people do in most countries).

Episode 8&14: (The Four Horsemen Gang) in episode 23 and episode 34 (First game only)

CRIME: Stole a penguin from the zoo

1. Dean De Luca said he was in Philadelphia replicating Paul Revere’s midnight ride (GUILTY, Paul Revere was in Boston, not Philadelphia).
2. Gilbert Sullivan said he was in the reptile house teaching otters to swim (GUILTY, Otters are mammals).
3. Louis Clark said he finished an around the world trip that involved all 7 continents and all 5 oceans (NOT GUILTY, there really are 7 continents and 5 oceans).
4. Roger Hammerstein said he was at the science museum and they had an exhibit on Thomas Edison, the inventor of the fax machine (GUILTY, Thomas Edison invented a lot of things, but not the fax machine, Alexander Bain was the one who invented the fax machine).

Episode 9&10: (The Hatchet Gang) in episode 25 and episode 27 (Before game systems overload in episode 25)

CRIME: Chopped down trees in a wildlife reserve

1. Baby Face MacGuire said he was feeding his birds; a budgie, a parakeet, and a python (GUILTY, A budgie and A parakeet are both birds, but a python is a type of snake).
2. Leo “the Lion” Lawrence said he was in his garden planting vegetables; tomatoes, cucumbers, and peppers (GUILTY×, Tomatoes, Cucumbers, and Peppers are really all fruits).
3. Danger Jones was in Chicago at the tallest building in the United States, the Sears Tower (NOT GUILTY, the Sears Tower really was the tallest building in the United States, at least at the time). (The episode aired before the Sears Tower changed its name to Willis Tower and was also surpassed by the One World Trade Center in New York City).
4. Slippery Fingers Ferguson said he was practicing piano and played all the notes A through H (GUILTY, musical notes go from A through G, not H).

Episode 18: (The Over the Hill Gang) in episode 41

CRIME: Assaulted some weight lifters at Muscle Beach

1. Mildred Postley said she was in Hawaii, the 50th State (NOT GUILTY, Hawaii is the 50th and final state of the United States).
2. Irv Goldberg said he was at his son’s Jewelry business sorting sapphires, amethysts, and quagmires (GUILTY, Quagmires aren't gems, they're names for swamp land).
3. Rupert Brindle said he was at a motorcycling competition in Brazil where everyone spoke Spanish (GUILTY, People who live in Brazil speak Portuguese, not Spanish).
4. Sergio Corleone said he was at the aquarium with his daughter, where they saw a baby dolphin hatch out of its shell (GUILTY, Dolphins don't hatch from eggs because they're mammals). (But there are some mammals that hatch from eggs in Australia, they are the duck-bill platypus and echidna, also called the spiny anteater, which together make up the monotremes).

Episode 19: (Ding-a-Ling Brothers Circus) in episode 42 (First game only, and non-rewind)

CRIME: Robbed an armored car

1. Buttons Ha-Ha (circus clown) said he was rehearsing to be a one man band and played a kazoo, a bassoon, and a caboose (GUILTY, A caboose isn’t an instrument, it’s the last car on a train).
2. “Pecs” Armstrong (circus strongman) said he was bending metal bars with his pinkies, and that he used titanium, terrarium, and aluminum (GUILTY, Terrarium isn’t a metal, it’s a tank made of glass where plants and small animals are kept inside).
3. Ivana Flipova (circus trapeze artist) said she flew back from Russia, the largest country in the world (NOT GUILTY, Russia is the largest country in the world).
4. Gilberto Whiplash (circus lion tamer) said he was knitting a cashmere sweater for his mother out of sheep’s wool (GUILTY, Cashmere comes from a special kind of goat, not sheep).

Episode 20: (The Baker Street Gang) in episode 44 (Non-rewind)

CRIME: Sold fake watches to some tourists

1. Stu Rumplitz “The Peeper” said he was whale watching, where he saw a mother and her babies, called pups (GUILTY, Baby whales are called calves, not pups).
2. Jimmy “The Geek” Hudsucker said he was working on a toothpick model of Monticello, Thomas Jefferson’s home (NOT GUILTY, Monticello really was Thomas Jefferson's home).
3. Jean Pierre Le Saux “Frenchy” said he was taking a cruise on the Amazon River which is the longest river (GUILTY, The Amazon isn't the longest river in the world, the Nile is).
4. Hossenpfeffer Floog said she was studying the seven ancient wonders of the world, none of which are still standing (GUILTY, According to Verity, the Ancient Pyramids of Egypt are still around).

Episode 21: (Hollywood actors) in episode 46 (Non-rewind)

CRIME: Stole finished scenes and destroyed them

1. Montgomery Cleft (wannabe leading man) said he was at an exclusive beach with sands imported from the best deserts; the Gobi, the Everglades, and the Sahara (GUILTY, The Everglades is a swamp, not a desert).
2. B.B. McGraw (singing cowboy actor) said he was working at two birthday parties, where he did his famous act of throwing a $10 bill in the air and shooting Thomas Jefferson right between the eyes (GUILTY, Thomas Jefferson isn't on the $10 bill, Alexander Hamilton is).
3. Lollipop Greene (child actress) said she was giving a book report about the Wright Brothers, who were the first people to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean (GUILTY, Although the Wright Brothers were the first to successfully fly an airplane, they only crossed North Carolina, not the Atlantic Ocean).
4. Sir Percival St. John (British method actor) said he has performed on some of the world’s greatest stages, including Greenland, which is the biggest island in the world (NOT GUILTY, Greenland is the largest island in the world).

Episode 22: (The Peoria Petunias baseball team) in episode 47 (Non-rewind)

CRIME: Stole change from the bag boy

1. “Bean Ball” Ballou (team catcher) said she was reading a book about the first Russians to land on the Moon (GUILTY, No Russians have been to the moon, but Americans have starting in 1969).
2. “Spitter” Sykes (team pitcher) said he was serving Great Lakes salt water taffy to some friends (GUILTY, The Great Lakes are filled with fresh water, not salt water).
3. “Lumber” Jack Lang (team third baseman) said he was visiting his grandmother in Tallahassee, Florida the state capital (NOT GUILTY, Tallahassee is the capital of Florida).
4. Edgardo Polonia (team manager) said he was using the telephone invented by Thomas Edison. (GUILTY, Thomas Edison didn't invent the telephone, Alexander Graham Bell was responsible for the invention).

Episode 23: (Mudville Drag Racing Team) in episode 49 (First game only, and non-rewind)

CRIME: Led the cops on a high speed chase

1. Dusty Rhodes (team driver) said she was picking out fruits; lemons, tomatoes, and avocados (NOT GUILTY, those really are fruits).
2. Indy Pitts (team mechanic) said his twin brother has the same fingerprints (GUILTY, No two people, not even twins, have the same fingerprints).
3. Axel Schmidt (team tire desginer) said he was at an antique store buying 18th century contact lenses (GUILTY, Contact lenses weren’t invented until the 20th century).
4. Tranh Long (team owner) said he was in the hospital because he broke his baby toe, the smallest bone in the body (GUILTY, The smallest bone is called the stirrup, which is in your ear). 

Episode 24: (Elderly Women) in episode 50 (First game only)

CRIME: Fixing the Tuesday night bingo games

1. Gertrude Simsbury said she was in Miami, Florida which was one of the original 13 colonies (GUILTY, Florida wasn't one of the original 13 colonies, it was the 27th state admitted to the Union in 1845).
2. Elaine Kieserman said she was in Washington DC reading the Declaration of Independence that started with We the People (GUILTY, The Declaration of independence doesn't begin with "We the people", the US Constitution does).
3. Mathilda Hudson-Billingsley said she was watching a show about George Washington who slept in the White House (GUILTY, the White House wasn't built until after George Washington's death).
4. Constance Appleby said she was taking a class on American history and claimed America was named after Amerigo Vespucci (NOT GUILTY, America really was named after Amerigo Vespucci, the Italian explorer).

Episode 25: (The Plug Uglies) in episode 51 (First game only)

CRIME: Harassing and scaring checkout ladies at the mini-market

1. Noseless Calhoun said a mule is a cross between a horse and a donkey (NOT GUILTY, mules are a cross between a horse and a donkey).
2. “Three Eyes” Oppenheimer said he was watching a show about India, which has more people than any other country in the World (GUILTY, India doesn't have the most people, China does).
3. Harry “The Hairy” Huang said he was making a 3 grain bread made of barley, oats, and fleece (GUILTY, Fleece isn't a grain, it’s the wool you get from sheep).
4. “Big Noggin” Simms said he got a rare photograph of George Washington (GUILTY, George Washington died in 1799, while the first photograph wasn't taken until 1837).

Quotes

• My name’s Verity. I bust bad guys. You wanna help? Come on in. We got four suspects pinned down, three of them are guilty. Listen to their stories and spot the mistakes, the ones that lie did the crime.
• Remember: only one of these mugs is telling truth. The other three are lying.
• Well, just like I figured. Each criminal all but confessed. Did you spot the mistakes?