Columbo versus Quincy

[Santino]

Comparing Columbo to Quincy is like comparing Beethoven to... I don't know, some woman from Belgium you've never heard of who can't even play the piano.

Quincy is amiable enough telly but Columbo bestrides the world of fictional detectives like a deceptively naive colossus with a planet-sized brain. Columbo was a programme that actually re-wrote what you could do with a TV detective, and comparisons to Hitchcock are more than valid.

 

[selamlar]

Columbo, from that choice.







Oh, just one other thing, Petrocelli FTW.

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Columbo, from that choice.







Oh, just one other thing, Petrocelli FTW.

Oh yes, good old Petrocelli - even if he was a shite brickie

 

[Dillinger4]

Columbo every single time.

Quincy doesn't even come close.

Peter Falk is an artist now. He paints pictures of himself.

 

[Vintage Paw]

Oh, just one other thing, Petrocelli FTW.

Damn you, that was going to be my post

(ps, Columbo ftw)

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Damn you, that was going to be my post

(ps, Columbo ftw)

what about McMillan and Wife?

























*scarpers*

 

[maya]

Columbo wins, no contest.

But don't listen to me, I was in love with Poirot in playschool.

 

[Yuwipi Woman]

Baretta or Cagney and Lacey?

I say Baretta because if you can't do the time, don't do the crime.

 

[skyscraper101]

It has to be Quincy, for the Quincy vs the Punk Rockers episode if nothing else!

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=MmZczHrGjho

 

[DotCommunist]

It has to be Quincy, for the Quincy vs the Punk Rockers episode if nothing else!

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=MmZczHrGjho

mental! look at em all trying to act like there on cheap speed

 

[rollinder]

is that the slamdancing is bad mmkay one?

 

[krtek a houby]

Dexter. He seems an intelligent, well-balanced chap.

 

[DotCommunist]

Dexter. He seems an intelligent, well-balanced chap.

he's inspired me to study blodd-spatter analysis.

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Baretta or Cagney and Lacey?

I say Baretta because if you can't do the time, don't do the crime.

Ooooh, I was a mad Cagney and Lacey fan.

I have no idea who/what Baretta is

 

[krtek a houby]

he's inspired me to study blodd-spatter analysis.

And not vigilante serial killing, one hopes

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

whos the best?


Personaly, legend as Falk is, he still can't beat the irascible womanising Quince

Quincy was fun to watch because Quincy was a buffoon, and it was fun watching him be a buffoon.

 

[krtek a houby]

Quincy was fun to watch because Quincy was a buffoon, and it was fun watching him be a buffoon.

I enjoy watching buffoons.

 

[DotCommunist]

true. Theres that classic intro segment when you see him and Sam using an expensive and massive machine to analyse stuff. The punchline comes when Quince says 'I knew Monoghan was buying cheap coffee and mixing it in with the good stuff'


oh quince. The unemployed hours spent watching you and waiting for Loose Women are halcyon hours

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

Peter Falk is way more cool and Columbo had better guest stars.

With Columbo, you have a rumpled Everyman who seems like an idiot, getting the better of the rich and powerful, who always underestimate him, until he draws them tighter and tighter into his trap.

Quincy is always sweating and yelling, and is usually pretty hilarious. You notice on the shows how Quincy can't get no respect from his superiors etc, but when Columbo shows up on a crime scene in his rusty old convertible, all the cops on scene immediately ask 'how high?', when Columbo says jump.

 

[Superdupastupor]

I've never seen quincey.

Peter Falk is great, but I always thought Colombo was a bit naff because you find out who did it right at the beginning. What's the point of that?

I say it is more fun working out how old Columbo is going to solve it.
1st act: Murder
2nd: Columbo is all bumbling and appears the fool. asks some question
3rd: Columbo doesn't go away keeps asking q's and asking more. makes the suspect contradict their story thus showing that he knew the score the whole time.

plus you see the murderer coping (or failing to cope) with their guilt

In other other Detective shows where the perpetrator is unknown it is always the 3rd most likely .Boring.

so Columbo FTW

though Falk does give me the urge to smoke cigars which is naughty

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

With Columbo, you have a rumpled Everyman who seems like an idiot, getting the better of the rich and powerful, who always underestimate him, until he draws them tighter and tighter into his trap.

Quincy is always sweating and yelling, and is usually pretty hilarious. You notice on the shows how Quincy can't get no respect from his superiors etc, but when Columbo shows up on a crime scene in his rusty old convertible, all the cops on scene immediately ask 'how high?', when Columbo says jump.

yeah but Quincy still gets his own way even if he has to rant and rave in every episode

 

[DotCommunist]

I say it is more fun working out how old Columbo is going to solve it.
1st act: Murder
2nd: Columbo is all bumbling and appears the fool. asks some question
3rd: Columbo doesn't go away keeps asking q's and asking more. makes the suspect contradict their story thus showing that he knew the score the whole time.

plus you see the murderer coping (or failing to cope) with their guilt

In other other Detective shows where the perpetrator is unknown it is always the 3rd most likely .Boring.

so Columbo FTW

though Falk does give me the urge to smoke cigars which is naughty

you forget the classic bit 'when the murderer noes Columbo is onto him'


after a particularly grueling bout of seemingly-amiable questions, Columbo leaves the scene. The camera will linger on the murderers face, as it slips from affability into a mixture of fear and anger

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

Baretta or Cagney and Lacey?

I say Baretta because if you can't do the time, don't do the crime.

Weird pairing: I'd say Cagney's competition was Hill Street.

I'd put Baretta up against that Angie Dickinson show.

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

you forget the classic bit 'when the murderer noes Columbo is onto him'


after a particularly grueling bout of seemingly-amiable questions, Columbo leaves the scene. The camera will linger on the murderers face, as it slips from affability into a mixture of fear and anger

yeah, so predictable

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Weird pairing: I'd say Cagney's competition was Hill Street.

I'd put Baretta up against that Angie Dickinson show.

Wasn't that Police Woman or somethig?

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

yeah but Quincy still gets his own way even if he has to rant and rave in every episode

That's true, but it's all about style. Columbo had it, Quincy didn't.

Also, for us here, Quincy was watched with the memory of the image of Jack Klugman in The Odd Couple, which preceded Quincy. Klugman would always be tainted by the role of the buffoonish Oscar.

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

Wasn't that Police Woman or somethig?

It was.

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

That's true, but it's all about style. Columbo had it, Quincy didn't.

Also, for us here, Quincy was watched with the memory of the image of Jack Klugman in The Odd Couple, which preceded Quincy. Klugman would always be tainted by the role of the buffoonish Oscar.

I've seen the Odd Couple, but obviously preferred the film.

Anyway, I've always thought that Columbo looked like a bit of a perv with that mac

 

[Superdupastupor]

you forget the classic bit 'when the murderer noes Columbo is onto him'


after a particularly grueling bout of seemingly-amiable questions, Columbo leaves the scene. The camera will linger on the murderers face, as it slips from affability into a mixture of fear and anger

of course of course it coming back now

The final seemingly unimportant question that Columbo returns to the suspect specifically to asks.

The suspects always bungle that one


*waves finger in air and turns on heel to suspect*
"Just one more thing"

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

Anyway, I've always thought that Columbo looked like a bit of a perv with that mac

It's always about sex with you, isn't it?