Talk:Jessica Fletcher

Republican
In a old episode, she was in a committee like a temporary senator. I saw "rep. Jessica Fletcher". she is republican? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.208.49.21 (talk) 12:10, August 29, 2007 (UTC)

it probably stood for "Representative Fletcher" 69.81.178.253 23:36, 20 October 2007 (UTC)
 * Agreed. If you look at photos of the desks United States senate, or at the on-screen text showing a senator's name when one is speaking on TV, it says "Sen. John Doe" -- the same is done for members of the House of Representatives ("Rep. John Doe"). Or look at it conversely: have you ever seen "Dem. John Doe"? No. If/when their party and/or state affiliation is shown, it is in this format: "Rep. John Doe - (D) NC" (if John Doe were a Democratic-party representative from the state of North Carolina). It would be interesting to see whether Jessica's political party affiliation was ever mentioned in any episode. Would make a great addition to this article. Piercetheorganist 02:42, 21 October 2007 (UTC)

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Jessica's Typewriter
The statement that Jessica uses an old Underwood typewriter might be incorrect. Based only on my own observation, the typewriter shown in the introduction (if this is indeed the machine she uses throughout the series) is almost certainly a 1930's Royal KMM. Clues are the location of the tab-set/clear buttons, the shape of the cut-out in the cover and the chrome trim around the bottom of the cover and, most tellingly, the SQUARE shift and shift-lock keys, which can clearly, though only briefly, be seen on the keyboard. The Royal is probably the only machine that ever used these. Round keytops, as opposed to tomb-stone shaped keytops, for the remaining keys indicate a KMM, not the later KHM model. Finally, an Underwood used a pretty distinctive margin scale, and the margin scale seen on Jessica's more closely resembles other types of machines, thus tending to rule out an Underwood. Here's a link, hope this helps

I'm completely new to Wikipedia so I hope that I am going about this properly. --Mrcajun (talk) 18:03, 22 September 2009 (UTC)

not being silly, but this is the most brilliant comment on any topic i've ever read. i love these talk pages ... invaluable snippets of information! 212.76.241.88 (talk) 23:28, 10 November 2010 (UTC)

Style
Does anyone else find this article tongue-in cheek? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 137.229.73.54 (talk) 10:47, 7 December 2010 (UTC)

Nationality
Angela Langsbury is British, but the article doesn't mention her character's nationality. I think it would be useful to state if she if British or American. Zarcadia (talk) 20:38, 26 December 2010 (UTC)
 * Fletcher is one of those posh east-cost Yanks who don’t sound overly American. — Chameleon 12:00, 11 February 2011 (UTC)

Birth Date
As noted in the text, the episode which aired on Sunday 15 March 1992 included Jessica's birthday celebration in which a Tuesday Special was ordered, suggesting that the date was Tuesday 17 March 1992. However, as noted, no St Patrick's Day celebrations were included in the episode. I'd like to suggest that Jessica's birthday is in fact the previous Tuesday, 10 March. This explains the absence of such celebrations in an Irish pub and ties in with the air-date of the following Sunday.

SabreWolfy (talk) 15:31, 10 December 2011 (UTC)

I don't suppose the Irish pub was actually in Ireland/not in the US? If so, no St Patrick's Day celebrations of the kind Americans would recognise would take place, the whole thing is a much smaller deal and actually a holy day. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 77.99.66.84 (talk) 14:43, 2 December 2013 (UTC)

Somehow the Russian wikipedia lists a birth date of november, 30 1930, but no source information is given on that info. Does anybody know of a valid source? 93.35.190.129 (talk) 10:35, 17 August 2017 (UTC)

Two Sisters?
"She has two brothers and two sisters." Is it Sisters or Sisters-in-Law? There are no sisters' names in the section FAMILY. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2003:86:2B4E:6620:9C84:9D73:77C0:7831 (talk) 08:44, 26 December 2018 (UTC)

Spoken languages
Jessica obviously speaks English, but in the first season she's briefly shown communicating to a couple of Asian (Chinese?) nuns, conversing in their own language. While I cannot judge on her pronunciation or on what she was saying even, it's interesting that she speaks Mandarin, or whatever language that was. In a later episode she's shown speaking a phrase in Russian, even though she herself admits that she doesn't speak it at all, and just learned the phrase to provoke the killer (as a native Russian-speaker, I have to say that neither A.Lansbury, nor the other actors spoke Russian very well in that episode, but then, it's not surprising). Still, I feel it's something to add to the bio or trivia sections. 92.114.148.91 (talk) 21:54, 3 April 2024 (UTC)