#Columbo Cries Wolf

[columboscreens]

[spockvarietyhour]

Columbo "Columbo Cries Wolf"

[fern-spotting]

Columbo S9E2 “Columbo Cries Wolf” (1990)

Fern spotted at 0:31! Looks like another lady fern.

Later in the episode we get, not quite the ultimate combo, but still a delight: Columbo in hip waders amid a forest of Kimberly queen ferns.

Bonus plant: a corn plant receiving enough light.

[peterfalkfan]

I used to hate this character with his insufferable grin, but he’s grown on me.

[ganurath]

Columbo investigates the death of The Boy Who Cried Wolf. Is this anything?

[myonbl]

2024年11月8日（金）

我が家の同居猫・ココ、今年になってから腎機能が低下して元気がない。近頃は毎日少しずつ点滴をしているが、体重が減って足下も覚束ない。ご飯を食べた後、先日いただいた花を試しに置いてやると、すぐに反応して匂いを嗅ぎ、花びらを囓りだした。近頃では珍しい俊敏な動作、そう、薔薇の花が大好きなのだ。元気な頃はテーブルに花があると飛び乗っていたが、やはり18歳という年齢ではそうもいかない。私以上の高齢者、無理せずボチボチやっていこう。

3時起床。

日誌書く。

二度寝。

5時30分、シャワー。

朝食は中華そば。

洗濯物を干す。

珈琲をいれる。

可燃ゴミ、30L*2。

ツレアイは休み、次男だけがいつものデイサービスに出かける。

年末調整の用意をする。

下京区役所まで、使用済み乾電池を処分する、結構溜まっていた。

ポルタの無印良品で、パスタソースを購入して帰宅。

ランチ、久しぶりに出石そばをいただく。

軽く午睡。

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買物から帰宅した彼女の年末調整を手伝う。

夕飯用に関東煮とナスの煮浸しを仕込む。

普段は次男がご飯を炊いてくれるが、今日は私が担当してかやくご飯だ。

塩麹に漬けておいた豚ロース、やはりどうしても焦げてしまう。いつもの昆布締めに戻そう。

録画番組視聴、新日本風土記。

「そこに健さんがいた」

初回放送日：2018年11月23日 俳優・高倉健の思い出たどる北海道の旅。夕張、南富良野、網走、映画ロケ地に息づく健さんへの思い。炭鉱町の産業遺産、雄大な牧場、鉄道員、海の幸も（２０１８年放送） 俳優・高倉健の足跡たどる北海道の旅。夕張、南富良野、網走、別海、増毛、帯広。ロケ地の雄大な風景、そこに息づく健さんへの熱い思い。「幸福の黄色いハンカチ」の夕張には共同浴場。産業遺産ツアーやＴシャツで活気を取り戻す動きも。「鉄道員」の駅で出会うジャガイモ料理。「遙かなる山の呼び声」の牧場には、知られざる文学の歴史。「網走番外地」の刑務所で育つ作物とは。健さんが立った北海道、その今昔（２０１８年放送）

初回放送時にも観た記憶がある。

第51話「だまされたコロンボ」/ Columbo Cries Wolfシーズン 1, エピソード 51 男性誌のオーナーで、イメージシンボルも務めるショーン・ブラントリーは、広大な敷地内に建てられた屋敷で無数のモデル達と一緒に生活していた。ある日、ブラントリーは共同経営者のダイアンから、イギリスの大実業家に株を売却し、ブラントリーを追放すると宣言される。

片付け、入浴、体重は5日で950g増。

そこそこ動いたつもりだが、ムーブが届かず。

[inthretis]

Prescription: Murder is Columbo's Origin Story

A while back, I watched all of Columbo from start to finish, before going back and watching the two TV movies made before season 1. There are two of them, made in 1968 and 1971, before the show started with season 1 in 1971.

Prescription: Murder, produced and aired 3 years before the series, has a lot of TV show pilot quirks to it that make it feel like a prequel. This detective we see is not the Lieutenant Columbo we know by the show's start in season 1. Indeed Peter Falk looks too young for the role, not quite middle-aged. By 1971 though, he looks the part through the passage of time.

PM Columbo has a few differences from later Columbo: he’s not so bumbling, he doesn’t wear the raincoat all the time, he’s much less unkempt, and most importantly, he’s harsher.

He tries to browbeat, harass, yell, and get a confession from the accomplice, a young woman, to the point where she almost cries.

This is far from the Columbo of old. Early on in the story, the DA says that a case like this would be great for his career. This might be a version of Columbo newer to being a lieutenant, one not yet accustomed to duking it out with intelligent murderers.

He immediately suspects the murderer, but can’t find any clues. For the longest time, it really does seem like the murderer has the upper hand, and based on what we know later on, the murderer did have the upper hand, unlike later episodes where Columbo pretends to be defeated to lull his suspects into a sense of false security. The murderer, a psychologist, psychoanalyzes Columbo, giving us the viewer a complete rundown and summary of who Columbo is as a character.

Columbo decides that the only way was to attack the weak link, the accomplice. This doesn’t work out. He is only able to get a confession out of her after he proves to her that the man she loves doesn’t love her, and was planning to have her murdered. So Columbo here must realize that it is much better and easier to convince people to confess, rather than force and attack them into doing so.

ACAB, including Columbo, until after his first case where he got character development. (Although he still shows signs of this bastardry, though he reserves it for the murderers).

This also explains why in the second TV movie, Ransom for a Dead Man, the very second Falk Columbo appearance, has him being a police liaison for kidnapping, three years after the first movie with seemingly no cases in between. Columbo really did burn through his political capital, and being early on, he doesn’t have the sheer amount of goodwill he had with his police department like we see in Blueprint for Murder and Columbo Cries Wolf, so after the Prescription Murder case, he was reassigned to kidnapping, likely due to influence from the DA who was friends with the murderer in PM.

Then he solves another murder in Ransom For a Dead Man, proving it wasn’t a fluke, the rest of the series goes on from there. By the end of the first season, he’s able to spend millions in taxpayer dollars to dig up a concrete foundation just to catch a criminal.

While yes, Columbo is from New York, and then became a cop in LA, it was this specific case that turned Columbo from a normal police lieutenant into the legendary detective he is.

[samurailogic]

Mikhael's top 10 Columbo episodes

1. Short Fuse (my no 1 forever)

2. Forgotten Lady

3. The Bye Bye Sky High IQ Murder Case (this stupid ass title..) / The Most Dangerous Match (the two are tied for this spot)

4. The Greenhouse Jungle

5. Murder Under Glass

6. The Conspirators

7. Columbo Cries Wolf

8. Columbo Goes to College

9. Murder, Smoke, and Shadows

10. Now You See Him

[heyyoushouldexperiencethese]

GIANT REC LIST

LAST UPDATED 12/30/2024

Columbo

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Id: Invaded

Useless Ponko

Yu-Gi-Oh (manga)

"My son is he man or beast" from action comics 400

Kagurabachi

Spy x Family

Chainsaw Man

Yotsuba

Frieren

N52 Superboy #26-34

Digimon (Especially Adventure, 02, Tamers, Savers, Appmon, & Ghost Game; for the movies, all of them aside from Tri)

Digimon Story Cyber Sleuth

Marx Brothers

Get Smart (1965)

Superman vs Meshi

Detective Comics #500 "To Kill a Legend"

Christmas with the Super-Heroes #2 "Should Auld Acquaintance Be Forgot"

Captain Atom (1987)

Bronze Age Firestorm

Legion of Superheroes

Amethyst Princess of Gemworld

Ookami Shounen wa Kyou mo Uso o Kasaneru/The boy who cried wolf tells another lie today

Hundreds of Beavers

3:10 to Yuma (1957)

The Maltese Falcon

Cast a deadly spell

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Beetlejuice 2

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famicom detective club (both games)

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Ghost Trick

Marvelous: Another Treasure Island

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Dark Matter trilogy

Celeste

Batman: The Audio Adventures

Powerless (2016)

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batman ego

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Hourman

tear along the dotted line

this world can't tear me down

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Everything Everywhere All at Once

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All of Alan Brennert's comics

Villainous

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Don't Blush, Sekime-san!

No gyarus in this class

the Philadelphia story

Yuri is Taboo to a Yuri Otaku

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A Bomberman Journey 2023 Followup

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Goodbye Eri

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Please Go Home, Akutsu-San!

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Tomo Chan is a girl

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Lovely Complex TWO

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The usual suspects

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kiss him not me

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charade

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your name

the afterparty

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singing in the rain

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Don't hug me I'm scared

ultimate exorcist kiyoshi

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lego city undercover

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hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy

batman no man's land novelization

Ultraman Rising

“When I woke up I had become a girl” Disease

My New Wife Is Forcing Herself to Smile

She gets girls everyday

Detentionaire

Hero-san and Former General-san

the dangers in my heart

Heathers (film)

Scarface (1932)

you and i are polar opposites

the guy she was interested in wasn't a guy at all

Kaguya Sama love is war

We want to talk about kaguya

Arakure Ojousama wa Monmon Shiteiru

A Story About a Man and a Woman and When They Sleep Together, Money Appears Out of Nowhere

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The girl I like forgot her glasses

Tokimeki Academy ❤ Class of Princes

Please love the useless me

please love the useless me R

berry dynamite

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undead unluck

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kaiju no. 08

The Story Between a Dumb Prefect and a High School Girl with an Inappropriate Skirt Length

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jitsu wa watashi wa/my monster secret

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Happy Kanako's Killer Life

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bigtop burger

pseudo harem

gravity falls

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My friend Irma

A story about smoking behind the back of a supermarket

Casino

shikimori is not just cute

no miyahira not you

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Asahina Wakaba to Marumaru na kareshi

Super Secret

mob psycho 100

reigen

sublo & tangy mustard

they might be giants

weird al yankovic

saint motel

cab Calloway

St. Arnaud

[marxistdoll]

COLUMBO CRIES WOLF WAS AMAZING WHAAAT

[columboscreens]

[crane-among-celandines]

Columbo is Nemesis incarnate, and has instant awareness of the murderer in any case he is part of -- you can even see this working precognitively in Columbo Cries Wolf where he correctly identifies the murderer before he has even actually done the killing. The second he was assigned to the case, he would Know with unerring certitude that the killer was Light Yagami of Tokyo, Japan.

His primary tactic is to make people construct elaborate narratives to explain the circumstances he presents them with; he excels at getting suspects to lie to him about minor details of their routine surrounding a murder, and then trapping them in a fork where they can't explain what really happened without divulging some detail which puts them at the scene of the crime, or invalidates their putative alibi.

The murderers who elude Columbo for longest are the ones who refuse to play, and who are willing to come back with answers like "Gee Lieutenant, you're right, that sure is weird! I guess you'll figure it out though, 'cause you're so smart!"

Light Yagami is just about the most hubristic motherfucker on Earth, and he would instantly spin a massive web of cunning yet subtle lies to explain how he couldn't possibly have done it, only to be caught out by Columbo saying "See, I thought it was odd that such a fit, healthy young man would be eatin' potato chips, so I asked your folks. They said you never ate the things! And that got me wonderin' why you were snacking on them when you were doin' your homework, and y'know, I realised that one of them big bags is just about big enough to hide a little television in! You can get anything here in Japan, I tell ya! So anyway, I checked around the local stores, and whadda ya know, Takahashi-san over at Radio-Land remembered you buyin' one! So y'know, that alibi you have, where you couldn'ta seen the news to know about the victims? Falls right apart... Oh, prove that you did do that thing with the TV? Yeah, I thought that'd be kinda tricky too, at first. But then I realised, you had ta get rid of the TV. So I checked with the garbage disposal guys, and y'know, turns out they knew exactly where they dumped the load from your street on that day, and whaddaya know, I found the remains of that little TV... and it's still got your fingerprints on it, Mister Yagami. Oh, my name? That's Lieutenant Columbo."

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[spockvarietyhour]

the giant vase makes it look like Ian Buchanan could fit in my pocket.

[schwarzeneggr]

sorry i cant hangnout i have to watch the "columbo cries wolf" columbo episod of season 9 episod 2 again and look whenever Ian Buchanan smiles with his unsettlingly big mouth and the creases on his cheeks and dream about getting a kiss sorrye

[ask-the-attorneys]

Celeste: “alright, anyways mister bell, what’s this murder about? We know the victim is a woman named Dian hunter and that she was shot but we don’t know the details.”

[this murder is basically just Columbo cries wolf but with Eleanor and Celeste so you can either just read the tv tropes page of it or watch the episode in order to get the idea of it.]

[Bell]

It seems like she was, obviously, shot... From what we can tell he got on a plane and didn't return. But here's the thing...

We can't find her body anywhere.

[handsometabbyc]

hi @handsometabbyc , i need to know - in the Ramona Flowers watched Columbo post - are these columbo tapes you’re referring to official releases? or something you / your mom would have home recorded?

i ask because i would probably explode from excitement if i ever found a columbo tape (official or not) at the thrift store/fleamarket/etc so i need to know what to look out for :)

they were recorded from tv on blank tapes! our grandparents would make them for us because our family didn't have cable/had bad reception

Funnily enough we didn't know the names of a number of them for years because they were mislabeled and/or the recording started a few minutes in. For instance Undercover was known as 'Puzzle Pieces', Strange Bedfellows was 'Racetrack', and No Time to Die was 'The Wedding Episode' (I think the only titles we knew were 'Columbo goes to college' and 'Columbo Cries Wolf')