George Wendt will always be remembered as Norm but I think we should also remember him as the murderer in a latter-day "Columbo" which featured the detective colluding with a mob moss to threaten and intimidate the suspect into a confession. People ask me if ACAB includes Columbo. Yes, it does. - ThreadSky

craigcalcaterra.bsky.social • 1 day ago

George Wendt will always be remembered as Norm but I think we should also remember him as the murderer in a latter-day "Columbo" which featured the detective colluding with a mob moss to threaten and intimidate the suspect into a confession. People ask me if ACAB includes Columbo. Yes, it does.

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craigcalcaterra.bsky.social•1 day ago

"Strange Bedfellows" is the episode. 1995. There have been a lot of them where Columbo did shady/entrapment kind of shit, but this one is just nuts. He lets a mob boss rough up and threaten the suspect and has undercover cops pretending to be enforcers trying to run the guy off the road!

zachlev.bsky.social•1 day ago

Interesting - I’ve always read him less a cop and more like the Holmesian outsider typical of early detective fiction. Singularly focused on case (his car, lack of gun or caring about other crimes). Some family member knowing some odd fact similar to the weird repertoire of knowledge of that genre

elizfoxwell.bsky.social•9 hours ago

Columbo is based on Dostoevsky's Porfiry Petrovich.

zachlev.bsky.social•7 hours ago

Interesting - I draw most of how I think on Columbo from how Valverde analyzes Holmes and Poirot as pushing the genre after it emerges from Poe so this makes sense. Thanks!

rahulastrohl.bsky.social•1 day ago

He’s also a marine who gets a pool ball stuck in his mouth in an episode of M*A*S*H. The idea of him as a marine is really something only M*A*S*H could pull off.

elidelajandro.bsky.social•1 day ago

My mind goes here for non-Norm related matters as an adult.

elidelajandro.bsky.social•1 day ago

And as a child.

shawnlavelle.bsky.social•1 day ago

In Columbo Goes to College he ducks a criminology class question about making up evidence and flat-out tells them about searching an office without a warrant (Agenda for Murder) and that "there's very little" that he wouldn't do to crack a case.

mikebatestwibh.bsky.social•1 day ago

Never had an episode where a guy got off because Columbo violated his civil rights, and goes on to kill again, did we?

craigcalcaterra.bsky.social•1 day ago

Great idea for a reboot.

milbo11.bsky.social•1 day ago

I like to refer to this episode as the one even George Wendt couldn’t save.

allanroyx.bsky.social•1 day ago

More important. Remember watching "Cheers"and "Columbo" episodes on first viewing when you then went to bed happy and unaware that your peaceful world could be shattered.

thefeenmachine.bsky.social•1 day ago

Ok, they gotta reboot columbo now:

A gritty family drama tracing the trauma brought onto the spouses of the Columbo family members working in the private eye family business.

Title: “All columbos are bastards”