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- noun Plural form of
McGuffin .
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The plotting relies heavily on coincidence and on what Hitchcock used to call McGuffins: scraps of paper, photographs with telephone numbers written on the back.
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The plotting relies heavily on coincidence and on what Hitchcock used to call McGuffins: scraps of paper, photographs with telephone numbers written on the back.
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The plotting relies heavily on coincidence and on what Hitchcock used to call McGuffins: scraps of paper, photographs with telephone numbers written on the back.
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Wired says Warehouse 13 needs to focus on more science fiction instead of using it's devices only as episode-length McGuffins.
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Wired says Warehouse 13 needs to focus on more science fiction instead of using it's devices only as episode-length McGuffins.
July 2009 2009
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I do feel, though, that because of the excessive amount of McGuffins and because of the amount of padding characters, Lost will not be the new Prisoner or Twin Peaks, being rewatched by new generations across the years for further debate and interpretation.
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Edward Morris: Urban fantasy has quixotic, random McGuffins fantastical critters or improbable abilities.
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McGuffins are one easy way to name an episode in a series.
Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » How to Make Your Novel into a Media Franchise, part 2 2007
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But the quirky we-know-more-than-you-comedy of films like Repo Man and Pulp Fiction and their glowing McGuffins are the things cult movies are made of.
Able Danger: An Interview with Writer and Director Paul Krik 2008
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Stories are hinging on McGuffins that appeared in obscure old comics for at most half-a-dozen pages, but the new story about the McGuffin is so wildly out of context that it's simply unrecognizable if you actually know the old material.
Giffen on Continuity | Comics Should Be Good! @ Comic Book Resources 2008
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