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Here's a moment that should be absolutely heartbreaking, and yet if you pay remotely close attention it becomes completely impossible to take seriously.

In the seventh episode of Bates Motel's first season, Norman (Freddie Highmore) befriends a stray dog, Juno, and after calling out to it across the road, the dog is struck and killed by a truck as it attempts to cross the road.

Horrible and devastating, right? Except if you keep an eye on poor Juno at the moment of impact, it's very clearly a cheap dog doll, given that its body simple tumbles stiffly underneath the truck rather than, well, squishing like you'd expect from a flesh-and-blood animal.

It shouldn't be funny, but the obviousness of the prop, even when out of focus as it's hit, totally obliterates the emotional intent of the scene.

And in a feat of accidental irony, Norman then has the dead dog stuffed, so the late canine now has all the rigidity of the fake dog used to achieve her demise on screen. Classic.