I'm sorry, I'm, uh, bothering you with all these write-ups, I'll get out of your hair.
Oh, there is one other thing...
I really enjoyed "Murder by the Book" (1971), which I guess is technically the first episode of the first season. It has the same basic structure as the previous episode (Columbo showing up within 15 minutes instead of halfway through, Columbo seeming to know basically from the beginning who the killer is), and I'm still a little dubious about this structure, but I gotta admit this episode slaps, to use the parlance of our time.
1. Peter Falk really settles into the role. I didn't mention it but I actually found him a little grating and over-the-top in the last episode. Here, he's maximally charming. 2. There's a very delightful scene where Columbo takes the victim's wife home and cooks her an omelet. 3. The smarmy mystery writer is a fun villain. 4. The episode was filmed with a lot of panache: it's always doing something interesting with the camera. It opens with a great Hitchockian shot that swoops from the LA cityscape to a writer tapping away at a keyboard, for example.
Apparently the episode was directed by some guy named "Steven Spielberg". Wonder what else he's done
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I've seen this one! My dad and I were at the family cabin in the Ozarks a year or two ago and it came up on the rerun channel that's one of the like 3 channels we get out there. I really loved it. I specifically remember it because we both did a double-take when Spielberg's name popped up.
I've seen this one! My dad and I were at the family cabin in the Ozarks a year or two ago and it came up on the rerun channel that's one of the like 3 channels we get out there. I really loved it. I specifically remember it because we both did a double-take when Spielberg's name popped up.
The full episode is actually up on youtube, along with some others.
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I'd be down for a new live action Columbo series. There are so many new types of rich douches for Columbo to clown on. Techbro CEOs, transphobic british comedians, psuedo-intellectual alt-right nazis...
No doubt no one could fully fill Falk's shoes but no one says there shouldn't be more Winnie the Pooh, Sherlock Holmes, or Doctor Who just because the best Pooh (Sterling Holloway), Holmes (Jeremy Brett), and Doctor (Christopher Eccleston :bzz:) are no longer available...
[...] I dare you to look me square in the eye and tell me you would not watch Kathy Bates in a rumpled old trenchcoat trying to keep track of her notes among the young and beautiful and murderous. Or Giancarlo Esposito. Or Jake Johnson from New Girl in about fifteen years. Rhea Perlman. Sam Rockwell, that beautiful weirdo. JOHN C. REILLY. Danny Pudi, in about eight years. An unshaven Stanley Tucci. Danny Trejo. Richard Kind. Margo Martindale. John Cho. Each one would bring a different characteristic of Columbo’s to the forefront — his core kindness, his feigned absent-mindedness, his needling slyness, his love for animals, his whimsy, his native intelligence, his love for cigars.
Ways In Which Lt. Columbo's Perfection Resembles The Perfection Of God
[...] Columbo’s work is not merely to catch murderers, then, but to shine a light on even the littlest bit of niceness, or intelligence, or humor, or anything worthy of respect; as Abraham said to God before the destruction of Sodom, “Would You also destroy the righteous with the wicked?
[...] I dare you to look me square in the eye and tell me you would not watch Kathy Bates in a rumpled old trenchcoat trying to keep track of her notes among the young and beautiful and murderous. Or Giancarlo Esposito. Or Jake Johnson from New Girl in about fifteen years. Rhea Perlman. Sam Rockwell, that beautiful weirdo. JOHN C. REILLY. Danny Pudi, in about eight years. An unshaven Stanley Tucci. Danny Trejo. Richard Kind. Margo Martindale. John Cho. Each one would bring a different characteristic of Columbo’s to the forefront — his core kindness, his feigned absent-mindedness, his needling slyness, his love for animals, his whimsy, his native intelligence, his love for cigars.
yeah wrap it up, we're done, Natasha Lyonne Columbo is now what I need
Natasha Lyonne as Columbo 1, Mark Ruffalo as Columbo 2, one each episode, it's the same character and nobody ever mentions it.
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yeah wrap it up, we're done, Natasha Lyonne Columbo is now what I need
Natasha Lyonne as Columbo 1, Mark Ruffalo as Columbo 2, one each episode, it's the same character and nobody ever mentions it.
Columbo and Coluumbo
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Oh, and one more question...
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“No that’s not Colombo, that’s Slightly Bigger Colombo”
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TIL that my ipad thinks that Colombo is a word and Columbo isn't.
My computer too, apparently.
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Watching some episodes, I'm starting to think Columbo would have a lot more trouble solving cases if the murderers didn't insist on weaving a bunch of fantastical tales at every one of his little 'confused' questions. Seems nobody ever told these people to never talk to the cops.
that actually kind of adds to how much of an inversion of the usual cop show narrative columbo is, now that you mention it
in most police procedurals, the only people who EVER refuse to talk, ask to see a warrant, ask for a lawyer, or otherwise exercise their rights when dealing with the cops, are the culprits (and we all know why this is the case, of course)
I also was unaware of the exact wording of the poem
apart from the narrative necessity, I think there's a strong psychological factor tied to Columbo's shambling grandfather schtick. He's clearly a bumbling idiot, so it seems harmless to spin him a story. And being rude to such a genial duffer by refusing to talk to him would require a will of absolute steel.
Columbo would crack me like quail egg in five minutes and I probably wouldn't even notice.
Plus all the murderers are smug bastards who are probably getting off on fooling the police initially, and then they feel like they can't just turn it off once Columbo keeps digging lest they seem more suspicious
apart from the narrative necessity, I think there's a strong psychological factor tied to Columbo's shambling grandfather schtick. He's clearly a bumbling idiot, so it seems harmless to spin him a story. And being rude to such a genial duffer by refusing to talk to him would require a will of absolute steel.
Columbo would crack me like quail egg in five minutes and I probably wouldn't even notice.
you'd be the one handing over the pharaoh's staff then, you're saying
apart from the narrative necessity, I think there's a strong psychological factor tied to Columbo's shambling grandfather schtick. He's clearly a bumbling idiot, so it seems harmless to spin him a story. And being rude to such a genial duffer by refusing to talk to him would require a will of absolute steel.
Columbo would crack me like quail egg in five minutes and I probably wouldn't even notice.
you'd be the one handing over the pharaoh's staff then, you're saying
the fact I came out on the winning side of that game is a searing indictment of the detective skills of everyone else in the room.
apart from the narrative necessity, I think there's a strong psychological factor tied to Columbo's shambling grandfather schtick. He's clearly a bumbling idiot, so it seems harmless to spin him a story. And being rude to such a genial duffer by refusing to talk to him would require a will of absolute steel.
Columbo would crack me like quail egg in five minutes and I probably wouldn't even notice.
you'd be the one handing over the pharaoh's staff then, you're saying
the fact I came out on the winning side of that game is a searing indictment of the detective skills of everyone else in the room.
apart from the narrative necessity, I think there's a strong psychological factor tied to Columbo's shambling grandfather schtick. He's clearly a bumbling idiot, so it seems harmless to spin him a story. And being rude to such a genial duffer by refusing to talk to him would require a will of absolute steel.
Columbo would crack me like quail egg in five minutes and I probably wouldn't even notice.
you'd be the one handing over the pharaoh's staff then, you're saying
the fact I came out on the winning side of that game is a searing indictment of the detective skills of everyone else in the room.
they failed to ask one more question, clearly
In the case of the detective, this is actually literally true because if he'd asked one more question I would have had to show him my ultimate goal card instead of my decoy goal card.
But my decoy goal card cast me as a 19th century version of Michelle from 'Allo 'Allo and I was playing that to the hilt so I don't really blame him.
Also I've always wanted to hiss "Listen very carefully, I shall say this only once" in a french accent in a setting where it's both appropriate and relevant. So many bucket list moments were hit that evening.
Does erotic stuff really fit well with jigsaw puzzles? I am just going to imagine that it will be really hard to concentrate, not to mention all the mess during the process
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Oh, there is one other thing...
I really enjoyed "Murder by the Book" (1971), which I guess is technically the first episode of the first season. It has the same basic structure as the previous episode (Columbo showing up within 15 minutes instead of halfway through, Columbo seeming to know basically from the beginning who the killer is), and I'm still a little dubious about this structure, but I gotta admit this episode slaps, to use the parlance of our time.
1. Peter Falk really settles into the role. I didn't mention it but I actually found him a little grating and over-the-top in the last episode. Here, he's maximally charming. 2. There's a very delightful scene where Columbo takes the victim's wife home and cooks her an omelet. 3. The smarmy mystery writer is a fun villain. 4. The episode was filmed with a lot of panache: it's always doing something interesting with the camera. It opens with a great Hitchockian shot that swoops from the LA cityscape to a writer tapping away at a keyboard, for example.
Apparently the episode was directed by some guy named "Steven Spielberg". Wonder what else he's done
The full episode is actually up on youtube, along with some others.
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No doubt no one could fully fill Falk's shoes but no one says there shouldn't be more Winnie the Pooh, Sherlock Holmes, or Doctor Who just because the best Pooh (Sterling Holloway), Holmes (Jeremy Brett), and Doctor (Christopher Eccleston :bzz:) are no longer available...
Perhaps John Hamm?
I don't think he'd be the right fit though.
I'm thinking talent search for a relatively unknown working class actor with a glass eye
I wonder if he'd poke his eye out for a shot at Columbo
I could see Allison Tolman as a good female Columbo. She was great in season 1 of fargo
For a dude, Patrick Wilson.
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Aubrey Plaza. She's got the slouch, and Legion showed she can bounce from jovial and scattered to terrifyingly mean real quick.
oh yeah she'd kill that role
https://www.shatnerchatner.com/p/ways-in-which-lt-columbos-perfection
Well, probably not appropriate for Columbo then
fuck, danny absolutely killing it with these choices
Natasha Lyonne as Columbo 1, Mark Ruffalo as Columbo 2, one each episode, it's the same character and nobody ever mentions it.
Columbo and Coluumbo
My computer too, apparently.
in most police procedurals, the only people who EVER refuse to talk, ask to see a warrant, ask for a lawyer, or otherwise exercise their rights when dealing with the cops, are the culprits (and we all know why this is the case, of course)
Columbo would crack me like quail egg in five minutes and I probably wouldn't even notice.
you'd be the one handing over the pharaoh's staff then, you're saying
the fact I came out on the winning side of that game is a searing indictment of the detective skills of everyone else in the room.
they failed to ask one more question, clearly
In the case of the detective, this is actually literally true because if he'd asked one more question I would have had to show him my ultimate goal card instead of my decoy goal card.
But my decoy goal card cast me as a 19th century version of Michelle from 'Allo 'Allo and I was playing that to the hilt so I don't really blame him.
Also I've always wanted to hiss "Listen very carefully, I shall say this only once" in a french accent in a setting where it's both appropriate and relevant. So many bucket list moments were hit that evening.
From a distance, it looks like a normal store, but then you come closer and you realize that everything is made of matches and batteries.
They combine a strange layer of difficulty and a layer of discovery for everything
I like jigsaw puzzles too, but it's crazy
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