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BIG FLUFFY DOG posted:The tv executive who murders her lover when he doesn't promote her alienates everyone and ends up getting fired too. Columbo has a real 70s view on women in business. That character has a fantastic breakdown scene. One of the best scenes of the entire series I think. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CdVFI2cZ4mI
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Jan 12, 2022 22:31
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Great little bit in Robert Culp's first episode where the attempted cover up of the crime is played in the lenses of his glasses https://i.imgur.com/rKwHNsx.mp4
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ultrabindu posted:Great little bit in Robert Culp's first episode where the attempted cover up of the crime is played in the lenses of his glasses Well to tell you the truth sir, I knew it was you from the first moment I first meet you. You see sir, you forgot to turn on the replay of the murder on your glasses. I just could'nt get it out of my head. And you know how these little things keep me up all night. Also just realised the evidence that catches Culp out at the end of that episode was a contact lens...
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Robert Culp's presence in any given episode of Columbo is a guarantee of quality. Plus they probably do some cool camera tricks.
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ultrabindu posted:Great little bit in Robert Culp's first episode where the attempted cover up of the crime is played in the lenses of his glasses I love any episode of Columbo that does a fun camera thing. Like how in the John Cassavetes episode, he goes to the scene of the crime to retrieve a corsage and they have it flash in his sunglasses.
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I Am Fowl posted:I love any episode of Columbo
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i watch the episode with the german guy with the bad hair. it wasn't one of my favorites but i am glad the german guy with the bad hair was defeated, because i really disliked his hair.
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FilthyImp posted:God I can't remember the drat episode but there's one where Columbo ends up going to talk to a database clerk and it's just delightfully awkward how put off he is by the whole thing this has one of the worst "gotchas" of a columbo episode (and theres quite a few) Life in prison because of the loops on a guys shoe lace.
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Reached 'Agenda for Murder', the third McGoohan episode. Have to admit, I did not see the gotcha coming the cheese. It's so much fun watching Falk and McGoohan repeatedly square off against each other. You can tell both actors are having a great time. The moment when Columbo thrusts the arrest warrant in Finch's face after he thinks he's delivered a perfect 'gently caress you' is pure deadpan comedy. The jump from McGoohan appearances in season 4 to 9 and Columbo now having to pay attention to things like forensics is pretty amusing too. As is the laboured explanation for the older audience of what the hell this new-fangled gadget the "fax machine" is, which has now gone the other way to be necessary for younger viewers. (Reminds me of when 1960s shows Mission: Impossible and Department S both had episodes revolving around wire recordings, which were dated then but now might as well be clay tablets.)
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Labored explanations of cutting-edge (extremely outdated) technology is one of my favorite parts of Columbo
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BIG FLUFFY DOG posted:Labored explanations of cutting-edge (extremely outdated) technology is one of my favorite parts of Columbo Shoelaces have come a long way.
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Payndz posted:Reached 'Agenda for Murder', the third McGoohan episode this is the latest one I've seen and I am extremely sad I only have 17 Columbos left.
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Watched through the original run and a few of the renewal episodes a few years ago. I was moving and had a PC but no internet so I sat around watching local media for a few days. My least favorite murderer is the dude with the wine vault who knocks out his brother(?), ties him up in the vault and leaves him to starve to death over a long weekend  And Colombo seems to actually like him, keeps asking him about wine pairings and poo poo.
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Takes No Damage posted:Watched through the original run and a few of the renewal episodes a few years ago. I was moving and had a PC but no internet so I sat around watching local media for a few days. Half brother, and it apparently turning off the air meant his half brother suffocated in there. It took me a few watches to get it.
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That was the Donald Pleasence episode! Yeah, I found it odd the way not only how Columbo came to like him, but lots of reviewers say he was a sympathetic villain. Maybe it's because Pleasence has a long history of playing villains (he was Blofeld, for chrissakes!), but he attacks his - admittedly kind of an rear end in a top hat - brother in a fit of rage which is clearly always not far beneath the surface ("Liquid FILTH!") and then immediately works out an elaborate and utterly cold-blooded way to kill him and dispose of the body that makes it look like an accident. Carsini might be a good boss, but he never comes across as a pleasant  person.
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Weird how if he'd just shot him or cut the brakes on his car or something it wouldn't seem so bad to me. Unrelated Gene Hackman Fan posted:the nbc sunday night mystery shitpost:
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Another neat little visual gag when Jack Cassidy gets a guy to murder Mickey Spillane https://i.imgur.com/zKapUKc.mp4
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Tanning bed accident.
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Takes No Damage posted:Unrelated Gianni is loving hilarious and were I an eccentric billionaire, I'd almost commission an animated Columbo just to have him voice it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=16CKjELxHhg Gene Hackman Fan fucked around with this message at 17:46 on Jan 20, 2022 |
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Wait a minute do we know Columbos first name?
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I Love Loosies posted:Wait a minute do we know Columbos first name? Depends on how trustworthy you think his ID was in Dead Weight (s01e03) Like, canonically nobody knows his first name. Gene Hackman Fan fucked around with this message at 01:42 on Jan 21, 2022 |
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I Love Loosies posted:Wait a minute do we know Columbos first name? I liked the bit in the McGoohan-as-murderous-lawyer ep where Columbo asks for the politician's autograph for his wife and the guy asks who he should sign it to. "Mrs Columbo."
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Payndz posted:"Lieutenant." Falk did one of those Dean Martin Roasts in character as Columbo, and revealed that her first name is "Rose".
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I don't know why but I always thought his name was Frank.
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it feels very wrong to me for columbo to have any first name that isn't extremely italian
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BiggerBoat posted:I don't know why but I always thought his name was Frank. Nope, must be one of those false memories. Mandela Effect type of thing, I guess. Definitely never happened. They said his name was Frank in one episode but retconned it soon after.
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BiggerBoat posted:I don't know why but I always thought his name was Frank. Columbo's first name is never actually said (apart from possibly in No Time To Die, which has a nephew who calls him "uncle cosmo") but his police badge is shown a couple of times and it does seem to show his name as Frank:  Anytime someone asks though he just says it's "Lieutenant" or that he has a name but only his wife calls him that.
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BIG FLUFFY DOG posted:it feels very wrong to me for columbo to have any first name that isn't extremely italian "Frank" could be the short, Anglicized form of "Francesco."
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From https://columbophile.com/2018/03/18/was-lieutenant-columbos-first-name-really-frank/ According to props, his first name is Frank. According to a trivia encyclopedia and Trivial Pursuit, his first name is Philip. According to the show's creators, he's intentionally not given a first name.
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CaptainCaveman posted:From https://columbophile.com/2018/03/18/was-lieutenant-columbos-first-name-really-frank/ If you read that article, the Phillip thing is actually pretty great. The guy who wrote the trivia encyclopedia put that "fact" in his encyclopedia because he thought Trivial Pursuit was ripping him off, and it turned out he was right and he was able to use it in a lawsuit (although it was dismissed). I think Columbo would appreciate that move.
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Frank Columbo fits better.
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His name is Frank, god dammit. It's right there on his badge and I know I didn't imagine it.
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Gonna make like iris dement and let the mystery be. Hell, I'm content with naming him like a hurricane or a storm -- if Columbo is walking towards you, you're probably already hosed. (Saw Iris play the Bijou theatre in Knoxville years ago. Forgot the words to that very damned song in the middle of playing it. Funny watching the scene unfold as a few people in the first couple of rows yelled the lyrics to her)
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Reached the last McGoohan episode. drat, Eric Prince (lol at that name in hindsight) was the most dickish of his four killers. The actual murder was an understandable crime of necessity, but he just had to be a prick to Columbo about it, which made his inevitable downfall all the more satisfying. Really, they could probably have done the entire show as a two-handed play with McGoohan playing a different murderer every week and Falk grinding him into defeat each time. But I'm glad they didn't because, since I misread the Wikipedia episode guide and watched 'Murder With Too Many Notes' (which McGoohan directed) first, I would have been denied Billy Connolly as the most frustrated Glaswegian murderer not to be caught by Taggart. The scenes where he's following Columbo home were a thing of beauty as he gets more and more pissed off until Columbo is literally in his car winding him up. Actually, the scene in 'Ashes To Ashes' where Falk is quizzing McGoohan and Sally Kellerman on exactly what his "grief counselling" entailed was also great - full-on "master of my domain" 90s euphemisms all the way. I never appreciated just how funny the show was when I was younger. I guess now I've done all the McGoohans, I'll have to go back to disc 1 with this promising young tyro director. Wonder what will become of him?
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Payndz posted:I guess now I've done all the McGoohans, I'll have to go back to disc 1 with this promising young tyro director. Wonder what will become of him? Last time I saw that kid he was working with Robbie the Robot.
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I have returned from a recent meme expedition to bring relevant content:   
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