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the lieutenant’s patience wears thin…
Which do you prefer - the "Columbo Goes International (or at least as international as we can take him)" episodes or the "Columbo Has A Personal Issue That Plagues Him Throughout (hangry, sleepy, sick, etc)" episodes? Mine is definitely the latter!
ugh. this is a hard one because i love both.
i really enjoy it when the series pushes the fish out of water theme and columbo goes “international”–mexico, england, a pacific cruise. dealing with an IRA operative and a middle-eastern diplomat. he’s out of his element, out of his jurisdiction, and it’s fun to watch him contrive a way to nail his perp despite these conditions. believe it or not, producer everett chambers almost got us an episode of columbo set in japan, but unfortunately the episode idea died with him when he left the series in season 6.
we get close enough in murder under glass, though. itadakimasu keiji koronbo-chan i guess
but i think i prefer status-affected columbo (poison, sleep, paralysis, etc.) because there’s something special about seeing him overcome something intrinsic to do his job. it’s one thing to put on his detective hat while on vacation–any self-respecting fictional detective would–it’s another to ignore his own basal needs, pushing past being malnourished, ill, and/or dead tired, to do what he needs to do. it kinda makes you just want to make him some tea and tuck him into bed.
anyway, here’s a fancam i made of columbo taking poison damage
(extended cut here)
I am always in search of Columbo fics and apparently you wrote one???
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sure did! it’s a slice of life type of thing if that’s up your alley. enjoy!
please send your little columbo my regards
You should write a fanfic about mrs c, her mom, and columbo getting into some skateboard shenanigans.
Snort-laughed at your tag for the vegas post saying “vegans baby!”