kkslider,
I too like your humorous take and damn, at least they make sense when the episodes aren't. Frankly, I never understood how cash cow franchises can waste time and money on original stories as Naruto goes fishing or hiring writers who never read the DC manga or watched a manga-based episode. Some episodes are so bad, not only have they never heard of the source material, they also don't understand how deductive logic works. It's not even easy for me to make up a worst top 10, unless I do a yearly chart. I don't even care to remember which two-parter it was, where Conan got kidnapped again, and I know, I know, I can't write Japanese, but dear writers, take the extra hour and watch the episodes where Bourbon and the others chase the culprit, because...
Anime original Conan, who got yourself captured with no plan whatsoever and then allowed to be thrown out of a moving vehicle, meet manga-based Conan: he's so wary around suspects, that when he doesn't hear the cap popping, he doesn't drink. He pretends to be knocked out to loosen the ropes and strings the culprit along to bide time. It has been months I've seen it and years since I've read it and a special bonus I don't even get paid to remember it. Everybody stood more to gain if the anime original episodes are repackaged and sold as Gintama fanfiction, as the disjointedness from the source material is hilarious.
I know... I could just skip it... but AOs used to be good too, with actual, talented and honored writers. Heck, I recall there being an early episode where Aoyama fangirled out over writing in a TV personality, and if I recall correctly he voiced himself as the culprit. I don't expect a plethora of writers to be as lexical as Aoyama, but I do expect to hit a certain level. Some deductions are so bad (in that they're not conclusive in relation to the culprit) that, yes, I do expect sometimes that Megure just confesses.
