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Did Columbo ever go to Columbia or Columbus
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May 12, 2016 18:17
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Ibogaine posted:In "Forgotten Lady" he figured it out, but in the end acts as if he wouldn't have done so yet. Does that count? Long suppressed feels emerge from within me ;_; Best episode is the one where the Prisoner runs an army academy. Show was classy as gently caress
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May 12, 2016 18:23
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I enjoyed hearing Columbo talk about his wife that we never saw
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May 12, 2016 18:28
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Theshby posted:Best episode is the one where the Prisoner runs an army academy. Show was classy as gently caress Also featuring a young Bruno Kirby and the star of The Incredible Melting Man! Pretty sure I'm a Columbo autist guys
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May 12, 2016 18:31
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MeatwadIsGod posted:I remember one episode where Columbo was sure that a big building contractor buried someone at a construction site that was about to be filled with cement. He had the building stopped to get crews in to excavate where he thought the body was, but it wasn't there. It's one of the few times I remember seeing him frustrated and not just having the flashes of righteous indignation sometimes. I might be hazy on those details though. You're forgetting the details. The guy was trying to trick Columbo into thinking he hid the body there, so that he would put all that effort and money into digging the site up, and embarrass himself completely in the public eye at great expense, so that Columbo would be forced by the city to stop pestering him. Then he was going to dispose of the body there and have the cement fill up the site again, knowing that there would be no way anyone would get permission to look there again. But Columbo knew that he was being tricked, and also knew that this was the only way the guy would bring the body out of it's hiding place, so he just pretended to fall for it and get frustrated. Don't worry, the episode still ends with Columbo getting to make a smug face at a rich murderer who thought he would get away with it.
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May 12, 2016 18:46
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kuddles posted:You're forgetting the details. Ah, that's right. drat, Columbo. You're more inscrutable than I thought!
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May 12, 2016 19:21
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May 12, 2016 19:50
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I think one of the weirder things about the show is that all of columbos wardrobe was actually Peter Faulks clothes from home. he just usually went around looking like a hobo detective
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May 12, 2016 20:42
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And yet Mrs. Columbo with Captain Janeway was no good.
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May 12, 2016 21:47
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djwetmouse posted:And yet Mrs. Columbo with Captain Laneway was no good. I never heard of this until this thread so I'll just pretend it doesn't exist.
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May 12, 2016 21:51
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djwetmouse posted:And yet Mrs. Columbo with Captain Janeway was no good. It was her favorite holodeck program
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May 12, 2016 22:24
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Snark posted:YESSSSSSS^^^^^ That was a great episode: Columbo comes out and accuses the doctor that he thinks something is up, and then....well, I won't ruin it, but it's one of the best endings of a Columbo episode ever. I caught the ending and the way it was handled was just fantastic. Not as great as 'Any Port in a Storm,' but fantastic nevertheless. Also, am I the only one who gets a kick out of the ending of that Roddy McDowall one where he's a oil company genius with a knack for explosives? The ending for that was quite good as well where Columbo was just smooth as hell. And honestly, I don't think Columbo was putting on an act as much as he was using his innate ability to annoy. The guy is brilliant but he's naturally a schlub: his old car, his outfit, his dog....he doesn't have to put on airs or prove anything. He's nothing but brutally honest. I never took him for making up bits and parts about his family, I just thought he worked it into the act. He's good at reading people and so he takes them off-guard by being his own self. And while he's happy at the end for getting the mystery solved, it's not a matter of ego for him, it's a chess match that he's happy he won. I think that's why he's really stayed in the public's mind for so long: if he was a jerk about it, nobody would care for him being smug. But he's not some mastermind putting on an act, he's just a schlubby guy who knows human nature very well. That's what makes him so interesting: the same guy who can figure out a complex murder is also the guy you would find at a diner trying to figure out if he ordered the chili or not.
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May 13, 2016 02:33
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Billy Connolly was in an episode of Columbo as an orchestra conductor that murdered someone or other. I haven't seen the full episode, I have only seen the end, and I was surprised to see Billy Connolly as I didn't think he was famous in America until he took over Head Of The Class.
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May 13, 2016 02:53
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Myrddin_Emrys posted:I enjoyed hearing Columbo talk about his wife that we never saw there was a pilot of Mrs columbo don't ya know https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eHPclZ0cNgA and holy gently caress it was janeway lol
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May 13, 2016 03:29
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gender illusionist posted:there was a pilot of Mrs columbo don't ya know VOYAGER has been lost in space for a long time, Captain Janeway can spend her time in the holodeck as she pleases.
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May 13, 2016 03:31
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Hector Beerlioz posted:VOYAGER has been lost in space for a long time, Captain Janeway can spend her time in the holodeck as she pleases. yeah, it's less weird than what the rest of them get up to in there. hell, i'd lke to be mrs columbo 
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May 13, 2016 03:35
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I just remembered the ep where the murderer is a super healthy guy who owns a chain of gyms. You get a big ol slice of the fitness trends of the 70s. Wheat germ, dudes lifting weights in thick gray sweatshirts, and everyone on treadmills secured to the machine by that awkward belt lest they fly off the backMad Doctor Cthulhu posted:I think that's why he's really stayed in the public's mind for so long: if he was a jerk about it, nobody would care for him being smug. Columbo ruled because he would slowly drive some condescending murdering prick into a frothy rage and then completely disarm them by apologizing. I GROW TIRED IF YOUR BUMBLING ANTICS COLUMBO *throws up arms* Yer absolutely right and I can see you're under a lot of stress. Ya know mrs Columbo tells me I can be annoying too so don't worry I'll show my self out
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May 13, 2016 04:13
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Snark posted:I just remembered the ep where the murderer is a super healthy guy who owns a chain of gyms. You get a big ol slice of the fitness trends of the 70s. Wheat germ, dudes lifting weights in thick gray sweatshirts, and everyone on treadmills secured to the machine by that awkward belt lest they fly off the back I love how each episode Columbo explains in such detail that a 2nd grader could understand it how the central piece of mcguffin technology works. Like, you get a lesson on electric typewrites or touch-tone phones. It's great!
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May 13, 2016 04:19
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Snark posted:I just remembered the ep where the murderer is a super healthy guy who owns a chain of gyms. You get a big ol slice of the fitness trends of the 70s. Wheat germ, dudes lifting weights in thick gray sweatshirts, and everyone on treadmills secured to the machine by that awkward belt lest they fly off the back just one more thing though sir if you don't mind, see I just can't stop thinking about it...
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May 13, 2016 04:35
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Snark posted:Columbo ruled because he would slowly drive some condescending murdering prick into a frothy rage and then completely disarm them by apologizing. It was also always a highlight when he would tell the murderer he knows they did it, he just needs to prove it before he arrests them. All pretence of niceness gone.
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May 13, 2016 07:35
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Columbo owns. My fave episode is probably the one set in the nerd club where he actually can't work out how the guy committed a certain part of the crime so he just irritates and annoys him enough to where the murderer actually just completely snaps and goes "NO THIS IS WHAT A GENIUS MURDERER WOULD'VE DONE" and then grins like an idiot before Columbo just arrests him. Also has anyone watched Furuhata Ninzaburo? Apparently it's like some Japanese version of Columbo, even down to the celebrity suspects (with Chairman Kaga being one of them).
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May 13, 2016 09:52
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Hector Beerlioz posted:I love how each episode Columbo explains in such detail that a 2nd grader could understand it how the central piece of mcguffin technology works. Like, you get a lesson on electric typewrites or touch-tone phones. It's great! There was even one where they explained how speed cameras worked when the perp had someone in a mask of his own face deliberately get caught speeding to provide an alibi. Columbo is a Sunday afternoon staple in our house.
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May 13, 2016 10:35
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I have the DVD box set. It's got like three episodes of Mrs. Columbo on it. They're bad. They never made a final episode but I read somewhere that it was gonna be about Columbo solving a murder on a reality show. So, yeah, that's weird.
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May 13, 2016 12:50
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I liked the episode with the IRA dude smuggling in guns. He'd notch a whisky bottle with his diamond ring and drink only that much of the bottle. "To here and no more".
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May 13, 2016 13:01
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Coldumbo is ok i guess
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May 13, 2016 13:11
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Who would win in a fight between Columbo and Quincy M.E. is what i want to know
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May 13, 2016 13:42
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FlimFlam Imam posted:I liked the episode with the IRA dude smuggling in guns. He'd notch a whisky bottle with his diamond ring and drink only that much of the bottle. "To here and no more". That was the last episode of 70's Columbo, the best Columbo. OK, some of the 80's / 90's episodes were OK. Some. There used to be a youtube comparing William Shatner's faked 911 call from the 90's Columbo episode he was in to his real 911 call when he found his wife drowned in the pool. Gone now it seems. On the Port in the Storm episode, the wine that Columbo picks that was exposed to high heat is a port. Port is a sweet wine fortified with brandy, which means it's pretty much already oxidized. In other words, it's really tough to wreck a bottle of port by exposing it to heat like you would with regular wine (which develops a flat and unpleasant "stewed" kind of taste). When Donald Pleasence says something along the lines of "I'm about only one in three people in the world who could have told you that wine was spoiled" he wasn't kidding. The other thing about the Port in the Storm episode is it was filmed before the Judgement of Paris, which means at the time it aired people knew about California wine, but not widely, and the wine world didn't consider it to be on the same level as French wine. (In other words, no one in their right mind in the early 70's would spend something like $100 on a bottle of California wine, whereas nowadays there are tons of so called "cult" California wines, such as Screaming Eagle that today usually sells for over $3,000 a bottle and takes the average person well over a decade just to get on their offering list to buy direct from the winery.) Maldoror fucked around with this message at 14:05 on May 13, 2016 |
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May 13, 2016 13:55
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Doug Sisk posted:I want to know why the Blu Ray version of columbo was released in Japan but nowhere else. I would guess because it would cost them too much to make an English edition and they don't think enough people will buy it. Disc sales have been decreasing in recent years in favor of streaming. The Japan Blu-Rays are new HD transfers and they are the source material for Netflix, other streaming, and HD airings. Columbo is really popular in Japan, I'm guessing because he is very much in line with their bureaucracy... "Don't worry about us, we are no threat, we are your friends! This is just a formality, nothing to worry about!" That was pretty much Japanese policy in WWII. You even see that sort of thing in Yakuza movies like Outrage / Outrage 2.
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May 13, 2016 14:04
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Columbo is poo poo. First, you know who the murderer is, which defeats the point of a loving cop show. Second, he's a cop, hes meant to do cop poo poo. And tards think he's amazing just because he asked cop questions like 'where were you...'. Third, it's not a loving super power to remember poo poo what other people said the day before.
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May 13, 2016 14:23
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Oberleutnant posted:Who would win in a fight between Columbo and Quincy M.E. is what i want to know Quincy would kick one eye's rear end every time, and still have time to 'Cosby' a woman 1/3rd of his age on his lovely boat afterwards.
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May 13, 2016 14:25
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Snark posted:Columbo ruled because he would slowly drive some condescending murdering prick into a frothy rage and then completely disarm them by apologizing. Of course, that also means in real life half of Columbo's cases would get thrown out of court. "Well judge, I don't have any real evidence, but I did trick him into confessing after I planted fake evidence."
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May 13, 2016 14:29
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happyhippy posted:Columbo is poo poo. I think showing the murder is what makes it so good, as in it's a cat and mouse game instead of a whodunit
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May 13, 2016 14:52
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Minimalist Program posted:Columbo is my favourite TV show and I'm not lying or being ironic.
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May 13, 2016 14:55
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I had some long flights recently and they had Columbo on the inflight entertainment... I watched it for hours until I passed out.
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May 13, 2016 14:57
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kuddles posted:Of course, that also means in real life half of Columbo's cases would get thrown out of court. "Well judge, I don't have any real evidence, but I did trick him into confessing after I planted fake evidence."
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May 13, 2016 14:59
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happyhippy posted:Columbo is poo poo. I've never wanted anybody drowned in port so badly in my life
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May 13, 2016 15:00
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I haven't seen Columbo but I've watched The Cheap Detective a million times, y'all should see that (late 70's Neil Simon parody of Casablanca/Maltese Falcon with Peter Falk, Eileen Brennan, Madeline Kahn and a bunch of other famous people.) Anyway that's all I've got.
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T J Hooker was better.
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