🧵watching #Columbo on #PlutoTV as part of my #SurgeryRecovery…
…(did so three days after the precipitating event) can honestly say …
#OriginalColumbo is greater than #RebootColumbo
P.S. i don’t use the symbols since i can’t tell the difference
P.P.S. #CordeliaCupp of #TheResidence is not only a potential descendent (narratively) of #Columbo, but she had the same long-term series potential
🧵who the hell thought casting Tyne Daly and Greg Evigan as love interests in this, in 1992, made sense…
…and WTF is with Tyne Daly’s “southern” accent
🧵 i miss the days of when #Columbo had a junior detectives to work with who wasn’t an asshole…
…for example…
🧵and now this episode is adding a subplot of Kramer stole Mona from
Susan?
🧵 who knew Rosario got her start as a housekeeper on this episode of #Columbo (uncredited)
🧵oooohhh this #Columbo has the trifecta of Larry Dallas AND Caroline (Miles Weber’s retconned daughter) AND Captain James Tiberius Kirk…
…AND Kirk is paying a right wing radio host asshat
🧵and because i was drafting this i missed the murder
🧵ok, the #pornstache #WilliamShatner is sporting in this episode is unsettling
🧵 #EpisodeSoOld there was a cell phones cause cancer moment
🧵 #EpisodeSoOld they’re casually throwing around the word “lovers” for gay relationships
🧵 #Columbo just dropped a “My point,” as he often does, in this 1994 episode and two years later this comes out…
🧵it’s now after 1am and the #Columbo recovery tour continues…
…i am hyper awake and it’s not only
irritating the youngest kitty, but i’m making a cup of Throat Coat…
…and the 80’s cameos continue with “Nooorrrrmmmm.”
🧵this cameo is being turned up to 11 with Mrs. Kravitz (the second one), Joe Maxwell (Beauty and the Beast), and Bill, Blanche’s army reservist and local pharmacist
Strange Bedfellows: When Graham McVeigh kills his brother and frames a mob bookie for the crime, and then kills the bookie and claims self-defense, he finds himself facing trouble from both Columbo and the bookie's superior in the mob.
🧵and we’re back to #OriginalColumbo for day 2 of #SurgeryRecovery and it’s the first episode 1 of season 1
🧵the first baddie goes on to play 2 more in season 3 and 5…
…i remember him best as The Great Santini
🧵sad fact, victim 2 of this episode was murdered a few years after this appearance
🧵 season 1 episode 2 continues with a repeat baddie coming back in the first 3 seasons consecutively
🧵day 3 of #SurgeryRecovery and picking up my #OriginalColumbo with season 3 episode 5 with our season 1 episode 1 actor baddie returning for his 2nd time
🧵my cameo watch for this episode finds Dr. Carolyn Fields, Dr. David Banner’s second wife
🧵get your cameo freak out on with this one:
the brat from Star Trek The Original Series;
the Padre from M*A*S*H; and
the top half of Robby the Robot
🧵 #Columbo’s pre-channeling #WillTrent in this episode (tape recorder and dog) and not very effectively
🧵it’s now the infamous episode with The Man in Black
🧵 OMG — The Man in Black just went all D.B. Cooper up in this episode
🧵on cameo watch we see the funeral director is none other than the man who Dorothy Zbornak peeded on as a baby
Sean C.
