>lies about accidently destroying evidence
>tries to arrest someone based off of false evidence that he created
>the original "evidence" doesn't actually prove that the suspect was the killer anyway
>the suspect, who is supposed to be so smart that he done all sorts of elaborate bullshit to create the perfect murder somehow has no clue about his legal rights and falls for this and frames himself in the process
>this was considered peak writing by boomers
yeah but columbo is cool and youre just a whiny b***h
I wonder if James Duane likes Columbo.
The worst part gotcha moment from Columbo was when they got the perp inside an evidence room with dozens of cameras on the shelves and a single camera on a table in front of him. They go like *could you develop the film from the camera that the killer used to take pics of the victim* and the guy grabs the camera in front of him which is a big gotcha moment since he didn't try and grab any of the cameras on the shelf but went for the one that's clearly right there on the table.
In one episode he outright plants evidence and admits to doing it afterwards. This was in the British episode so I dunno if that counts or not
It's the image in the picture and you're remembering wrong, he picked one off a shelf
how did the third "witness" see anything from that angle?
I'm not sure if I'm misremembering it because its so moronic, but the worst one in my opinion was when a wine collector/taster hid a body in his wine cellar which accidentally ruined the wine by exposing it to too much heat, and then later on Colombo literally steals from the wine cellar (which the murderer bragged that even one bottle was worth hundreds if not thousands of dollars previously), and then Colombo asks for the murderer's opinion on the taste of the wine he "bought" for his wife to which the murderer tells him that it tastes like absolute shit because it was exposed to heat. Colombo then goes "GOTCHA that was actually your own wine you tasted which means that you must have opened your wine cellar recently!" This results in the murderer immediately confessing to hiding the body.
You have a terrible memory.
You know what, you're probably right which is why I'm to rewatch the episode right now to see what how terrible my memory is.
You get half of it right, and then mix it up with other things. You're like an old man.
Good call, that's the best Columbo episode. I think it's called "Any Port in a Storm". Donald Pleasance.
>"THE MORENO BROTHERS?! They don't make WIIIINEEEE! They don't even make good mouthwash!."
I love how much they respect each other at the end.
Also, I just realized this was before drinking and driving was illegal.
The murder victim and his wife in that episode ended up opening their own vineyard in California.
A big point of that 'gotcha' is to most everyone the wine tasted fine, only a connoisseur of his caliber could recognize it had been ruined, and by heat specifically.
>Detective columbo how old is your age gap wife?
Mine is 10.5 years younger than me which caused some initial friction with her family.
The bigger source of friction is her becoming Catholic.
>who is supposed to be so smart
He wasn't even smart enough to stage the motel room properly, him getting tunnel vision and incriminating himself to prove columbo wrong is completely in character for him.
By the way, van dyke is one of the best guest murderers on the show, right up there with cassidy and mcgoohan.
I like the episode with the police chief and Columbo tricks him to searching his own home and he goes "These are MY socks, this is MY underwear" It's so fricking surreal especially because he lives in a hovel
In that episode he says that he rented it for the month, but yes, it's still a hovel and completely within character for the disheveled detective.
>36
>started watching Poirot and Columbo recently
If I told anyone I know they'd think I'm a boomer weirdo, but it's still miles better than watching most modern trash.
>most
all
>If I told anyone I know they'd think I'm a boomer weirdo
No they wouldn't dude, stop being so self conscious
Poirot is so incredibly good up until the end of season 6.
But then season 7 hits and you can see the downfall in realtime with terrible moronic & patronizing dialogue writing and newfound minority actors screaming in Poirot's face and by season 10 it's completely ruined without even a shred of quality left in it.
Just bait out the evil voice bro.
Dick Van Dyke was a turbo moron going into that police station without a lawyer present- I mean he knew Columbo was onto him for fricks sake. But he didn't lawyer up because "Oh, that would make me look guilty!". Columbo already knows you're guilty, frickface- get a lawyer. IMO he deserved to go to the gas chamber.
LIGHT AND SHADOWS.. CHAOS AND LAW AND DARKNESS LIKE MY KINOS, COLUMBO.
nice digits.
And yeah almost all the columbo plots are over people who dont know how the legal system works, they construct these elaborate plots so that they will never even get investigated let alone have to defend themselves in court, and Columbo following them around for a week straight usually rattles them so badly that they get caught in their own stupid lies.
But if i remember right Dick's character had already basically been cornered by Columbo earlier, even gloating at Columbo that even though he knew he'd done it he could never prove it or get a confession out of him. He was taunting Columbo at that point so it's extra suspicious that he couldnt hold it together just a little while longer while he argued in court that he'd suffered entrapment or that the camera business was coincidence. I guess the message of the show was mostly that trying to keep it together after committing murder was too exhausting for anyone to maintain for long.
>trying to keep it together after committing murder was too exhausting for anyone to maintain for long.
Yeah the Johnny Cash episode is a perfect example of that.
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Hey it’s Donald plesence
I know I could get Nemoy off, totally free.
Columbo produces the blood soaked suture in a room with no witnesses. Thus he could have planted it. Leonard gets off unharmed.
>Nemoy
Headcanon time:
Nimoy and Shatner ended up in the same cell block at San Quentin and plotted their revenge until they got out after 30 years. Then the murdered someone and framed another man with evidence Columbo would fall for but he figures it out anyway and sends them both back to prison.
Police actually use these moron traps all the time. You can just lie to people with zero consequences.
you are now aware that Columbo was married to Janeway
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>Mrs. Columbo (1979–1980), later called Kate Columbo, Kate the Detective, and Kate Loves a Mystery, is an American crime drama television series, initially based on the wife of Lieutenant Columbo, the title character from the television series Columbo.
Not canon. Quick cash-grab from the channel that was created despite the original creator's disapproval. Falk hated it too. Needless to say neither of them worked a second on it.
>Falk hated it too.
he was just jealous he wasn't getting more paycheques
The legal system is bad and shouldn't be considered in the creation of kino
I still don't get if we're supposed to realize that these people are comically overacting in this episode or if we're supposed to believe they are great actors.
He also fabricates evidence in this one though.
Yeah there's always an episode where he just sets up the guy to catch him destroying evidence and just because the guy gets caught snooping around a car park or something, he confesses on the spot to murder
Why have zooms latched onto Columbo lately?