The Poison in the Margarita Didn’t Kill Him | Columbo

[@coffeebot3000]

When I was younger, I thought Columbo was a dull detective show for old folks. Now I wish I had watched it. These clips are great.

[@bbolich1]

You can if you have Amazon 😊

[@jujube8067]

Same here.

[@zatozatoichi7920]

You can literally watch it anytime.

[@HumphreyHorsehead]

You weren't wrong. For any normal kid Columbo is a dull show for old folks. The show didn't change, you did. You're now older and duller, being able to properly appreciate Columbo is a silver lining.

[@welme23]

I thought the same about some books and shows. Kids need different kind of entertainment most of the time. Luckily we live in a time where we can find old stuff again and discover anew. One more thing: don't be too hard on your younger self, it was a first step to becoming you and that takes a while.

[@rosario508]

I love it when he shoots down the killer’s supposed theories and explanations with tremendous ease and precision.

[@jamesfeldman4234]

I agree, but Columbo only makes it look easy. One of the brilliant facets of the Columbo series is that the audience does not actually see all of the work and planning that Columbo is necessarily doing. We only see it in bits and pieces. We don't see all of the phone calls, leg work, verifications, testing, some inevitable cul de sacs, and other extensive and thorough behind the scenes investigative work. Those things only become fully apparent in scenes such as this one, where Columbo would not be able to shoot down the killer's "theories and explanations with tremendous ease and precision" if he had not already done a lot of hard work and thinking that we weren't directly shown in the episodes.

[@markrutter2486]

Class still watching every sun britain over over again infact his on now short fuse 5 usa free view

[@rosario508]

@@jamesfeldman4234 Yeah I kinda knew that already but thanks for playing.

[@areyouavinalaff]

@@jamesfeldman4234 that's a very long winded assessment. fact is, the "tremendous ease and precision" is simply in the script.

[@dontgetmadgetwise4271]

The scripts are extremely shallow. But I always enjoy it when the good guy wins.

[@benjaminoechsli1941]

One of my favorite perps. Smart enough to suggest getting his lawyer (because he's smart enough to see through Colombo's song and dance and get down to brass tacks), but cocky enough to gloat a little that Colombo can't prove anything. A delightful performance by James Read.

[@ronaldlymm7248]

I like the way they both have a little laugh together because he knows he done it but doesn’t know how.

[@cuthwulf]

Did anybody else catch Columbo who is supposedly in a “new environment” with the rich people down at the track calling the batender “Red”, and then the bartender saying he did have red hair years ago? Not only has Columbo been here years ago, his perfect memory remembered the guy’s hair. He is a savage. He’s so far beyond his suspect that he diesnt even make the connection that he’s being played.

[@roguishpaladin]

If you didn't know, then you might think it odd but chalk it up to referring to the red vest that the bartender wears.

[@isabellavalencia8026]

The other guy calls him red too

[@jaha777jaha6]

Good pickup

[@ingridboettcher6469]

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[@ingridboettcher6469]

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[@patrickjohnson5658]

This was one of my favourite episodes of the Columbo rebooted episodes. I liked the ending scene where Columbo produces his nephews chemistry set and says he was playing around with it when he made a discovery no other chemist in history apparently thought of.

[@rosiefay7283]

Rather, he pretends to do some chemical test. But it's all a bluff. I don't recall the bit where anyone claims that no other chemist in history had apparently thought of it before.

[@FFKonoko]

Yeah, it wasn't some unthought of discovery. It was a lie that was plausible to someone that knew nothing of chemistry could believe, and one that the scientists in the room immediately knew was ridiculous, involving porcelain reacting to digitalis and turning blue when warm and moist. But actually he just adding some blue.

[@Eleventhearlofmars]

@@FFKonoko would a top notch dentist really know that little about chemistry though? Surely you’d have to have some decent chemistry knowledge?!

[@snorpenbass4196]

@@Eleventhearlofmars Different fields of chemistry, I imagine. Most dentists don't set their patients teeth on fire after all. ...most.

[@r0bw00d]

_Columbo_ doesn't have a reboot.

[@tntamusements]

This sequence was just spectacular...They even left in the part where he laughs a little over Columbo talking rather than refilm. And I love the pat on Columbo's thigh!

[@zovalentine7305]

Rest in powerful peace Peter Falk 🙏 16 September 1927 ~ 23 June 2011⚘

[@mmclaurin8035]

I have a massive collection of matchbooks I inherited from my Grandfather. matchbooks from before WW2 up to the late 90s. Not one of the matchbooks had ever been used, because neither my Grandpa or Grandma smoked. My grandpa roamed the Earth, collecting matchbooks from Britain, France, Belgium, Germany, Las Vegas, New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, and everywhere in between. Going through them is crazy. The places and things he saw, kind of hinted at by the time and region he got the matches from.

[@aisha2370]

Right! People used to collect matchbooks and purposely not use them.

[@HiddenInTheTruth]

Like the little twist where Corman, not Colombo, utters the 'one thing that bugs me' line here. Nice bit of playing with the formula. Great series.

[@miaouew]

5:40 I love how he delivers this line so much lol..."Because he would have been dead after the first one!"

[@rivergold4835]

One of the better Columbo episodes from the 90s.

[@asteroidstrike8880]

The Columbo episodes of the 90s were mostly sh*t. This episode is certainly worth a watch.

[@harddriven1344]

@@asteroidstrike8880 Some of those 90s episodes seem to be written as if Columbo was showing early signs of dementia. In real life sadly Peter Falk did develop that.

[@travismcdonald6576]

Agreed. The scene with all the celebrities at the poker game was corny, but still a good one.

[@SiwakSerg]

If I were the killer, I would have called a taxi to the airport right after this conversation.

[@colleenmarin8907]

Columbo always send officers to the airport when he suspects a flight risk

[@daneriksson8947]

The hand Wesley Corman holding the milk glass changed very quickly from left to right @ 09:49

[@lnsflare1]

A wizard did it.

[@mtsflorida]

It wasn't the margarita it was the mint in the car.

[@jamesfeldman4234]

Excellent catch of a continuity error. It happens all of the time, though much less in big budget movies.

[@RabbiHerschel]

@@lnsflare1 Boy, I really hope somebody got fired for that blunder.

[@darrenjohns8694]

Not a continuity error, he picked the glass up by the rim in his left hand, then held it for a moment in his right so he could shift his grip with his left hand down the glass so he could drink from it. Easy to see in slow motion.

[@leannbridwell1853]

Great writing! And of course, falk’s performance flawless. Every episode. Such talent!

[@rksworld4405]

actualy. when he said it could have been taken on any ocasion for me that implyed it was found on a coat so i went "oh he doesnt know it was not in the coat which the person who put it in the shirt obviously would know".

[@delasoul2875]

@@rksworld4405 Ackchyually

[@TheStevenWhiting]

One of the best episodes and the episode where Columbo taught me what all the different coloured beaded pills mean.

[@deadturret4049]

You know columbo has it figured out when he shows up with a big paper bag

[@abbynormal4740]

That, and whenever a variation of This Old Man starts playing 🎶😄

[@antonioszytulskyj8165]

The tooth, the whole tooth and nothing but the... truth!

[@DeathnoteBB]

Two yoots?

[@bunberrier]

7:20 Columbo calls someones house and hangs right up on them LOL

[@rosiefay7283]

Columbo takes a phone handset out of a bag, takes the receiver, presses a button, and it sends a Touchtone signal and connects LOL

[@coffeebot3000]

@@rosiefay7283 That's literally how phones worked.

[@Rhiawhyn]

@@rosiefay7283Back in the ye olden days of not 2020, people had and still have land lines. Often, those old phones would get power over the same line they got the phone signal from. Meaning all you had to do was plug them in, like he did, and they'd work fully. It wasn't until people started using ultra fancy phones with computers in them that they needed more than the small bit of power you got on the lines. That model there? That could run off the voltage in the phone line, and did.

[@aisha2370]

@@rosiefay7283 At 7:00 Columbo unplugs the cord from the house phone and plugs it into the phone he brought. So he's then using the house phone line.

[@Isolder74]

He’d planned to do this so he’d more than likely let them know they were going to be getting such a call.

[@markemerson8399]

I've met people like that dentist before. Not the type of people one needs as a friend.

[@kerchydaproductions6384]

There are people like this dentist in real life who are this cocky towards police officers but they usually stop being so cocky once they realize they'll go to prison and no one will bail them out

[@kerchydaproductions6384]

That is if someone keeps them in a cage

[@PhazonOmega]

"If he was anything like me, he changed his shirt everyday." This is so passive aggressive, it may just be passive without aggressive.

[@paulwalker1793]

I always wondered if columbo had two eyes or one. I know Peter falk had one eye and one glass eye .then in a episode of columbo. He asked someone to help him search for something and he said. Help me out because three eyes are better than two .so columbo had one eye ,still the best detective around

[@The_Not_So_Great_Cornholio]

It was well-known that Peter Falk had a glass eye. He wasn't exactly new to Hollywood, and was famous before Columbo. So it was kind of an inside joke. But I never thought about it confirming the character Columbo had a glass eye. It pretty much had to be since so many people knew Falk had a glass eye. Anyways...

[@BKPrice]

Wouldn't that be three eyes are better than one?

[@dennisanderson3895]

Could anyone but Peter Falk pull off actually tellig the killer you know it's them and how but admit NOT being to prove it? Is it any wonder we loved Columbo for SO long?

[@michaelgould3433]

He told the murderer he did not know HOW he murdered the victim, never mind being able to prove it.

[@sethsassy]

That's not what happened in the clip.

[@marijooneill8015]

Peter Falk was absolutely the best, I have watched since the beginning and I can't imagine anyone else would have been better. He nails the role, every time.

[@bobjohnson1587]

@@marijooneill8015 Bing Crosby would have been great in the role, too! Lol

[@BlackangelKatakuri]

@@bobjohnson1587 Idk about that.

[@gerlindbibisidis9992]

Es wird niemals einen Besseren als Columbo geben. Wir sind hier eine große Fangemeinde.🤗

[@edithdiangelo]

Liebe Gerlind, das sind wir, Fangemeinde. Liebe Grüße 💖🥰😍🍀💗🌷

[@TheKingOfRuckus]

"Uh huh....I see what you mean." Translation: This guy is gonna be a problem. 😂😂😂

[@poetcomic1]

They put the writers through hell to come up with fresh twists and turns - murder method in this one is a classic - I won't give it away.

[@contrarian8870]

Honestly, Columbo doesn't look like he changes his shirt every day

[@NiceTryLaoChe]

Well, he has two shirts. He alternates.

[@michaelpjeffries1521]

Shirts always laundered its the jacket.

[@ralphadamo1857]

That's not nice. Mrs. Columbo worked hard to keep those shirts clean and pressed. Say what you will about Columbo's wardrobe. But his shirts were clean and crisp.

[@Isolder74]

@@ralphadamo1857Not this episode. Columbo did his own laundry and did something wrong with the laundry bluing so got blue stains all over his shirts. When you see the blue blotches this episode each time they are different.

[@viktorkoalamos]

When I was a kid and we would watch this, I would always wonder how the suspects could keep talking to Columbo, especially if he made multiple visits. They must have really believed he was stumped and they were outsmarting him. Once he started asking all those questions like “how do think that could have happened?” Or presenting me with details or evidence that only I knew about, I would politely excuse myself to the restroom and become missing. He’d have to prove his case without me.😏

[@Bersztipflag]

Columbo. To stand doing this work again and again he really must have a little or much of the sadistic joy of the cat jumping mices.

[@dennisanderson3895]

The thing is that Columbo understands that *every* crime is a cat and mouse game. Columbo is committed to being the Cat, victorious.

[@blixer8384]

There are two ways to watch Columbo: • You assume that Columbo is cunning detective whose figuring it the case as you’re watching the episode • You assume Columbo witnessed the entire murder from behind a bush and is fucking with the killer the entire time

[@sergiuterteci9241]

Excellent work of Columbo!

[@TheNameOfJesus]

By the time this clip was over, I had completely forgotten I was watching a KZbin clip. I was expecting to see the whole show. It was very modern in terms of dialog and acting, and could pass for an episode of Law and Order or something like that. It was slower-paced than most modern shows, but it felt intense all the way through. As Quentin Tarantino shows, slow and simple dialog can be very intense. I think Quentin would approve of the 10 minutes of dialog in this clip.

[@master-kq3nw]

Columbo knows for minute who is killer and he talk with them joking like friend haha

[@BedsitBob]

9:50 Continuity error. Watch the glass leap from his left hand to his right hand.

[@TheBatugan77]

Thank you, Cecil B. DeMoron.

[@thekenyonsquad5672]

he's just nervous because columbo is on to him

[@jamesfeldman4234]

Although "Uneasy Lies the Crown" isn't one of the best Columbo teleplays written by the late, great Steve Bochco, this episode has more than enough entertainment value to satisfy Columbo fans. And the choice of James Read to play Dr. Wesley Corman was an outstanding one that holds the whole thing together. He's certainly one of the most "charming" murderers ever to play opposite Peter Falk in the series.

[@bryanpartington3260]

I disagree its one of the best of the later Columbo.

[@jamesfeldman4234]

@@bryanpartington3260 I didn't say "Uneasy Lies the Crown" wasn't one of the best later period Columbo episodes, because I do think it qualifies in that category. It just isn't one of Steve Bochco's best teleplays. Much better Bochco teleplays for Columbo were "Double Shock," "Étude in Black," "Blueprint for Murder," "Lady in Waiting," and one of the all-time best in any category, "Murder by the Book."

[@FrankBlissett]

"That's great news! ... you sure?" ... Re: the "matchbook" conversation, I'm thinking "come on Columbo, he could have..." then remember it's Columbo. He's leading the suspect along.

[@DeathnoteBB]

Seriously, don’t talk to cops kids! Especially if it’s a homicide detective asking you how a murder could have happened!

[@cariboubearmalachy1174]

What's with all the murder suspects talking to a murder detective? Never talk to cops!

[@TheBatugan77]

You do as you're TOLD.

[@NiceTryLaoChe]

That's core to the whole Columbo thing. The murderer is always someone rich, smart, high-status. The bumbling Lt wanders into frame, agrees with everything they say, and just generally appears to be so easy to run rings around that they figure they might as well make their perfect crime all the more perfect by setting this dim-witted detective off on the wrong scent.

[@akmi1931]

Yep. It’s ego. Same story. The more the think they can’t possibly be caught, the more cocky and arrogant they become.

[@barbarastrzykalski7070]

They always think they are smarter than the detectives!!😊

[@wrAIth-AI]

4:50 "Believe it or not, I used to have red hair." HE DID IT, COLUMBO! But seriously... what?

[@trulaearthgarden]

That moment at 6:02...he realized Columbo wasn't the bumbling idiot he thought he was. He realized that Columbo KNEW and he had underestimated him tremendously

[@foureyedchick]

Uneasy Lies the Crown is one of Columbo's best episodes !

[@MarkQuick-h4z]

"I'll see you later Lieutenant", yes you will!

[@miketthomas3995]

He plays like he doesn't know, but he does😂

[@briankenney9528]

In the doctors defense i have picked up a book of matches without using a single one

[@worrywart1311]

I used to collect them and would be horrified if the matches were not all in pristine condition.

[@davetindell4110]

Just fathom the large amount of things Columbo had to learn and skills. The expertise he's developed is amazing. Truly a master of all trades.

[@blacktimhoward4322]

"So your wife's in the clear! That's good news, right?" He out here toying with them 😂

[@carolleenkelmann4751]

This logic of the matches only works if you are not a collector of match-boxes.

[@dennisanderson3895]

But: Why were they in his *shirt* pocket? (Hmmm...)

[@DeathnoteBB]

@@dennisanderson3895 Because he put them there. If I put some unused matches in my shirt pocket and die, does that mean I was murdered?

[@manjackson2772]

@@DeathnoteBB Depends. Do you have a full lighter on you as well?

[@DeathnoteBB]

@@manjackson2772 If I just bought one, yes. That’s how a new lighter works. (Not everyone smokes, but a lighter is great to have in emergencies)

[@virnamisra1657]

Tangent with the script. First few lines. Beyond Par

[@StuMas]

9:48 Guy has a drink problem: Drinks with his left hand, lowers with his right.

[@fedos]

The pellet with the poison's in the flagon with the dragon.

[@thequietestengine]

funny watching this; i do pick up matchbooks like i pick up business cards, sometimes i like them, and i dont use them despite being a smoker myself. And i do go sometimes 2 days wearing the same shirt because i spend a lot of time in the office, i wash and spray deodorant so I'm presentable, but its funny how if you tried to point that out to Columbo, you'd be overthinking it, and that would make you suspicious.

[@dennisanderson3895]

DECADES ago, I go into to collecting matchbooks for quite a while. I had cardboard backings with string from side to side and the matchbooks would hang om the strings. But as a "collector," I *never* carrried the new addition in my shirt pocket for a few days!

[@DeathnoteBB]

Columbo underestimates the weirdness of humanity!

[@georgeatlas2243]

The Logo ! The matches matched his mustang !

[@HistoricDefense]

I like how in this series it doesn't matter wether actually saw the episode or not, the writing is on the murderer's forehead all the time.

[@TomServo1969]

Wow. Of all the great things about this show, it's 2024 and all I can think is, "When was the last time I saw a matchbook?"

[@lindanoles6664]

I have just watched this episode last night on Cozi Tv.

[@donaldholderdoc2910]

Do you believe in coincidence? I'm sitting here watching Columbo on TV when this scene from the same episode pops up on my YT recommended vids.

[@hillaryclinton2415]

The lesson in every episode.. never talk to cops. No matter how quirky...

[@DmnkBrn]

"I think I'll stay here."

[@alexandradane3672]

Ive just realised that if he had put the gear lever of the car into “drive” after aiming it over the precipice - he might never have been caught . That I find absolutely terrifying .

[@fredbloggs5902]

Doh! Now I’ve got to dig out that episode and find out how Columbo proves it’s him! 🤣

[@abbynormal4740]

Columbo uses a toy chemistry set to scare the murderer into submission when confronted by his FIL. Ring any bells now? 😁

[@threeparots1]

So hard to dial 911. Got to program it..

[@simplyjuannie5128]

I love how the criminals try to cover up their crimes, only to be caught.

[@craigfuller1532]

Man that's good writing.

[@virnamisra1657]

Someone changed the chemical configuration of the water in the beaker. For the 911 guy

[@barnabusdoyle4930]

To be fair to Columbo at the beginning of this scene, I don’t smoke or use matches for very much, but when I see a pack of matches somewhere for the taking, I always grab them.

[@ProudPapaJD]

So good!

[@militaryandemergencyservic3286]

at 4:43 he asks the bartender to fill the jug up to a mark. It is unlikely in the EXTREME that the bartender would not want to make sure he had understood exactly which mark Columbo had said. (Before haters tell me he said 'about' that mark' - I reply that nevertheless it is UNLIKely in the Extreme that the bartender would have not asked for further verification as to whether he had filled it up correctly or not).

[@miketthomas3995]

I would have given up 😂😂😂

[@Noybiee]

Me an INTJ personality type watching an objective INTP Detective and an objective ENTP Suspect/Murderer having a neat Ti-Ne conversation about murder while theorizing and laughing together is just wholesome and hilarious at the same time😂 (Sorry, mbti freak here, lmao) These two (actors) must've had a blast working together❤

[@RewskOnTV]

She’s having a beer an old amber brown glass embossed Eagle Columbo is having wine, very classy

[@lauriesicardaskey]

I don't see the point in showing these type of clips. I prefer to see the actual time when he proves the murderer did it.

[@magicmanscott40k]

Great scene

[@markseslstorytellerchannel3418]

They must have liked the bartender "red" because they gave him a speaking part...which means he had to get paid more.

[@virnamisra1657]

Every Case a high hint of difference

[@gabrielpowers766]

Yeah it's actually Season 9 episode 5 on peacock. They never tell you the correct season and episode on these clips. Pretty lame and annoying.

[@DeathnoteBB]

It’s in the description but idk if they added it before or after your comment

[@virnamisra1657]

Some luck in taking a chance at a seance centre for Pembrooke Inn

[@virnamisra1657]

🐦🌲🐦☁️

[@jasonlett2180]

Ain’t no chance Columbo changes his shirt everyday 😂

[@virnamisra1657]

Was it John s shirt which was put on the that EVANS

[@robertgift]

Funny: Always _"Just one more thing."_

[@johnfinnegan8474]

According to this episode the different coloured pills are supposed to be related to time release delay of their active ingredients. However I cannot find anything online to back that up.

[@rabbiswhy]

🎶Give me one margarita...😅

[@virnamisra1657]

Didn't show the glass slip through his fingers did they..so

[@saleem956ify]

RIP Peter Falk

[@ptertaintv]

This man is obviously innocent.😇 There is no evidence of him killing anyone. But Colombo keeps harassing him.

[@gemsoup]

the perp kind of reminded me of jordan belfort and how he was talking to the fbi aboard his yacht

[@allyourpie4323]

1:26 ...and never his jacket :)

[@jeffanon1772]

00:04....is that Marge Gunderson?????

[@raymondcanessa7208]

Why would anyone talk to columbo without a lawyer?????????????

[@lawrencetaylor4101]

It's a little strange that they woiuld have a left handed dentist.

[@shanet5604]

Eh why ?? Didn’t you watch earlier Columbo when it was a clue…

[@lawrencetaylor4101]

@@shanet5604 Dentists' equipment is made for right handed dentists, and many dental assistants are recruited as being left handed. Just playing the laws of probability.

[@IoEstasCedonta]

What about reprogramming the phone incriminates Corman?

[@GorTesK]

Incredible! Unbelievable! Amazing! Simply outstanding. I really can't believe it!. He had red hair???

[@virnamisra1657]

How does Colombo know he drank 2 ❤️❤️❤️❤️ Margaritas...how did he get to that number with out a recording. Camera recording ie

[@virnamisra1657]

Very little is revealed about the Fifth street Evans except for he being a celebrity. Big or little it sure is a dismiss found missing. Meaning past

[@NFL1976]

I thought the actual ending of this episode was lame and toothless, where the actual murderer was all of a sudden afraid and naive. If he handled the situation, he would've gotten away with it. Also, he did not confess.

[@Bren39]

Never seen this episode.. Is this somewhere?

[@johnking5174]

If you live in the US it should be on Amazon Prime

[@worldline7147]

Right... because nobody ever left anything in a shirt pocket.

[@MrUdayNarainPandeySharadNPande]

Why isn't there many a slip. Nocturna

[@steveconn1375]

Did he catch him out ? 😮

[@David-p9y9c]

Not rooting for the killers but if they just told him “I don’t know.” and “Talk to my lawyer.” or “I’m not talking without my attorney present.”

[@jpenn727]

I don’t remember that episode.

[@virnamisra1657]

Did the light fall off your pocket doc? Ok Pun