One of my favorite TV shows right now is “Leverage.” And one of my favorite running gags on “Leverage” is a joke I don’t think it’s touched on in a while. Eliot Spencer (Christian Kane, also of “Angel” and a bunch of stuff I’ve never watched) will describe something that’s going on. He’ll spot a specific detail — the kind of gun being used, the backgrounds of the hired bodyguards. One of the others in the “Leverage” version of the Scooby Gang will say, “How do you know X is Y?” Eliot’s answer: “It’s a really distinctive [whatever it is].” The gun had a very distinctive “crack” when it fired. The bodyguards had very distinctive haircuts. You get the idea.

I went to YouTube to see whether some ingenious person had put together a montage of all of Eliot’s “very distinctive” whatevers. No luck. Nor has anybody made a video of every time he tells somebody, “You have a tell.”

There are plenty of other “all-of-the-times-X-happens” videos, though. So I thought I’d share. I’d start with a few from “The Wire,” but they’re all NSFW, so here are some substitutes instead.