The Columbo Files – The Greenhouse Jungle Review

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we are going to continue the good old Colombo

mumbo jumbo as we put our detective hats on jump

back in time with Colombo these are the Colombo

files here inside this year 2009 and We are as

always starting from beginning going in order.

We're in season 2 Today is season 2 episode 2

it is a jungle in the greenhouse with the greenhouse

jungle a bungalow in the jungle If you will.

That's right. And... It is our first second appearance,

too. Yes. Ray Muland. Uh -huh. He was a bigger

star way back in the day. The Lost Weekend. Yep.

Which is a very famous movie. And he was also

in Frogs. And The Man with Two Heads or The Thing

with Two Heads. Nice. Which were... famous for

other reasons. But yeah, he was the husband of

a victim in season one. Yeah, yeah. So this is

why I remember him, is because of how he speaks.

Yes. He was Arthur Kennecutt in Deathlands of

Hand, season one. Hey, season one, episode two,

season two, episode two. He's in twos. It's a

thing. yeah it's a thing apparently uh you know

if he were still here he could become two -face

you know because two two two you took it too

far uh you took it too far i mean we had a batman

ironically we're talking about the penguin so

anyway it is funny because he does have a very

distinctive voice And one of the first things

that happens in this episode, which I thought

was hilarious, is he calls the wife of the guy

who's gonna be the victim. The whole thing is

the victim, Tony, and his character, his uncle

Jarvis, which you mentioned is a weird sort of

Iron Man theme in 1972, like they have a scheme

to help break Tony's trust. So he's gonna pretend

to be kidnapped. But like, Ramiland calls the

wife, And you're like, yeah, we got your husband

and you better watch out if you know what's good

for you. And then she calls him a minute later

and he's like, yeah, I'm Raymond Land. My distinctive

voice sounds completely different. It's just

like, dude, you have an incredibly distinctive

voice and you've talked to this woman twice in

the last 10 minutes. And I don't know, people

were stupider back then, I guess. You know what

I'm saying? That was me that was funny. She talks

to him twice and doesn't click in her head. This

guy with a vaguely Welsh accent is talking to

me. Yeah, I was like, at the beginning of the

episode. Yeah, it's the very beginning. Yeah,

it's the very beginning. I was like, wait a minute.

I know that voice. I'm like, wait a minute. And

then like, I don't know, five, 10, 15 minutes

later, whatever, when she sees him again or talks

to him again, I'm like. Oh, it's immediate. She

calls him immediately. Oh, OK. She calls Jarvis

immediately. That's right, that's right. Okay,

I wasn't sure. But yeah. It's weird because we

record these things back to back. So you hopefully

heard the episode yesterday. Yep. But there is,

again, this theme of different social mores,

things changing in this episode, so that Tony's

wife is... I don't have a gentle way to put it.

She is not the most faithful woman. No, she's

not. She's a cheater. It's weird because they

sort of make Tony seem very faithful to her,

but then it's sort of suggested maybe he... It

goes back and forth how faithful he is to her,

but he needs money to buy off her latest lover,

is how it plays out. He wants to break his trust,

and she spends all his money. He spends all his

money, so he's got a lot of money in a trust

fund. Jarvis? You never find out what Jarvis

does. Like, he grows orchids, but I don't think

it's for money. I don't think so either. I don't

want to know what he does. I don't want to know

what the butler does. He's not a butler. I know

he's not a butler. There's absolutely no butling

involved, sir. I guess he had enough vision for

that. His passion is to grow orchids, which is

a very expensive hobby, and be snotty about his

nephew and his nephew's wife. Yes. It seemed

to be his primary pursuits in life. Boy, I thought

I could go broke with a hobby like this. You

mean to tell me every one of these worth $1 ,200?

Which, as an actor, Ray pulls off very well.

The absolute contempt. You could put Jarvis and

Arthur Kennecutt in a room together. Like, you

could do some sort of weird Hollywood magic today

if they were, if Ray was... 86. Okay, well...

It's been a while. Yeah. You could, you know,

have them... Across from each other and have

those two care and it would literally be the

same character because holy crap He was but like

He was a nice guy, but the way that the character

of Arthur kenna cut is like it's that Because

it's that era. It's that specific like my wife

should be this my this should be that my it's

that kind of thing This guy though, oh boy, this

is a whole other bag of worms. He's not getting

an upgrade into a whatever red, yellow, and green

thing Vision is. Yes, folks, I'm going to make

Marvel puns throughout this whole episode. At

first, I was like, huh, I guess we should talk

about the sleeping arrangements because yikes,

she looks like she's sleeping in a twin bed and

his bed looks like it should be Okay Well, I

don't know like like When the scene where she's

sleeping and he's I get what you're saying like

they do they do sleep in different rooms and

you do see his bed and yeah, I Like it look if

you if you knew my bed, you'd know that I actually

am NOT good at judging the sizes of bed per se

Because my mattress is one size too large because

I screwed that up. But the point being his bed

looks fine. It's very large and her bed is large.

That's all I know. Her bed is well made because

he never ends up sleeping there because he gets

kidnapped. But the thing of it is that, I don't

know, when I saw her tossing and turning in her

bed as he's going through the thing to plant

the gun. Yeah, so that's what I'm talking about

that that scene there when I saw her in the bed

I'm like that doesn't and maybe it's the way

the camera is framed for that shot like because

it's focusing obviously on her and her But she

wakes up at she half wakes up at one point i'm

like, oh she's gonna see him and me He's trying

to tiptoe around that room so damn much and like

every tiptoe he does she's tossing and turning

and flipping and flopping it was like a dead

fish in that bed or something and uh And at one

point she literally half sits up. She doesn't

open her eyes, but she half sits up and i'm like,

oh If she doesn't fucking wake up Like damn Wish

I had that kind of sleep. I Mean it's ultimately

very even though she doesn't wake up. It's very

fitful. She's very fitful sleeper So In the aftermath

of all of this when Tony and Jarvis when we figure

out that it's a it's a scam between them and

whatever else and Tony says oh, what about the

fingerprints Jarvis is like, only your fingerprints

will be on there, but yet he grabbed the thing.

He was wearing gloves. No, he wasn't. Was he?

No. I'm gonna have to go back and look. I was

watching for that. I was gonna say, because I

forget what it is that he picks up. He had these

brown gloves with weird cuffs. Yep. Yep. That's

okay. That's what it is. See at first I thought

it was just his Again, I'm half blind folks.

So I you know, my eyesight isn't what it ever

could have been but literally that whole scene

where they're Talking about that I was like,

oh he's gonna get busted immediately because

his fingerprints are gonna be here we go with

the fingerprints, you know Colombo was wearing

gloves. Now this guy's wearing everybody wearing

gloves. You get a glove you get a glove you I

wanted to clock this because I was interested

to see. Now, in the previous episode, in yesterday's

episode, season two, episode one, Columbo comes

in, I want to say something like 30 minutes into

the show. This one, it's under 10 minutes. He's

there. Is it? Because they set up the whole kidnapping,

and then they... They set up his car being run

off the road. He's got a cool sports car. He

doesn't want to like sacrifice, but he does.

And importantly, they shoot a bullet into the

car and they push it off the road to establish

that he's been kidnapped and he's in danger.

And then, you know, there's a lot going on there.

It feels like a little more than 10 minutes,

but you might be right. I don't know. And then

they cut to the police to find the car and Colombo

drives up in his car. The beat cop is trying

to chase him off. He's like, don't park your

garbage here, sir. I'm a cop, it's cool. We also

get the introduction of Freddie Wilson, who will

be, in another episode at least, who is kind

of, my guess is he was supposed to be the Watson

to Colombo's Holmes. Yeah, exactly. And the way,

Like I'm glad that he was only ever in two episodes

the character not not the actor with the character

I Liked him. I thought he was interesting and

added a fun new thing for the second season because

again first two episodes were kind of Futsing

with the formula a little bit to see if there

was any change or whatever But they generally

would hopefully go back to what works And I mentioned

before that Peter Falk actually did not want

the dog. Right. Yeah. But he accepted it eventually

because he felt that there was too much, you

know, there's the raincoat, there's the cigar,

there's the car, there's, you know, like there

was that Colombo had too much stuff as it was.

Yeah. He backed up on that. Yeah. And that's

a good thing to mention here in this with the

with the new partner here that he's got Sergeant

Wilson. Sergeant Wilson. After his run -in with

the patrol officer, they go down the hill. Yes.

There's a clip on YouTube that's just this scene.

See, I don't even need the clip. I've got the

screenshot. That's all I need. Look, folks, I

love Colombo, but I sometimes so far love Colombo

in things that I did not. And I used to live,

when I was living in Massachusetts way back in

the 80s when I was a kid, I know steep hills

like that. We used to live by a whole forest

and to get into that forest you had to climb

up a very, very steep hill and climb down a very,

very steep hill to get back to the house. So

that whole scene I'm like, oh my God. Colombo

is me, because I've done that fall. The fall

that he did, the speeding up of... Just to set

it up for the audience, he's trying to go down

a steep hill, because it's the quickest way down,

and he quickly loses control. Most of it he's

running down the hill, and then very end he loses

control and tumbles into an old ditch. Yes, and

I've done that as a kid. I used to do that as

a kid all the time. I'm like, oh my God, that's

hilarious, that's fun. But yeah. So one little

detail that I like about the Wilson Colombo banter

is well, so to explain Wilson is a very he's

like probably in his 30s, but he's a younger

guy. He comes across as a younger guy. He's very

eager to please. He's very new, new methods,

new approaches to police work. 1972. But he's

got like a very early, ugly 70s suit. Yes. And

I love how he keeps saying, no, I don't have

to tell you. And Colombo is always like, no,

no, go ahead and tell me. Yeah. I don't have

to explain to you. No, please, please, please.

Go ahead and explain it to me. I love that little

detail. I do that two or three times in the episode.

I don't have to tell you. It's like, yes. Yeah,

go ahead and tell me. Yeah, it's okay. And I

like how Colombo is very, I said in the last

episode that Colombo seemed almost kind of mean

in that episode. In this one, he's very indulgent

of Sergeant Wilson, and actually very complimentary.

Even though Wilson is kind of a doofus, Colombo

only says nice things about him. Colombo sees

the best in, I want to say almost everybody,

but I mean, even some of the, I don't remember

what season it is, but there is a moment where

he gives a speech about how he likes some of

the people that he's up against, because they're

not all bad people. In this case, they are, but

sometimes they're otherwise good people who are

pushed. So yeah, like I like that interaction.

And again, it's the sense of Colombo. He doesn't

seem like someone who's in control of the situation,

and yet he is. And I think one of the things

that the deal with Wilson highlights is just

how in control Colombo really is. Because Wilson

ends up kind of getting played along by Jarvis.

Yeah. Because later in the episode. So basically,

spoiler alert, Jarvis betrays Tony and kills

him, takes all the money for himself. And Colombo

immediately, you know is on the trail is kind

of trying to piece together what happened and

Eventually, it turns out there Jarvis is gone

The Tony bought two guns, right? He gave one

to his wife and he gave one to Jarvis and Jarvis

finds out that his wife that the wife has a gun

because I guess he didn't know that because there's

a third character who was the secretary She worked

for Tony and she's a young blonde and she's a

little I don't want to say ditzy per se but she's

a little kind of goofy like that's one of the

weirdest moments of that episode is she calls

Jarvis and She gives the most tortured. Is this

mr. Jarvis to whom I am speaking and it's like

yeah human beings don't talk like that sweetheart

She mentions that the wife has a gun and then

he gets the brilliant idea to swap guns and frame

the wife which leads to the scene that you were

talking about in the bedroom where he's kind

of poking around in the bedroom and she's tossing

and turning in the bed and he's trying to like

stash the gun and swap guns. The problem is that

early on in the episode, I'm getting to like

the twist, the spoiler, the police know he has

this gun because at one point he shot at a burglar

and missed him and quote, hit a pot of dirt.

And there's this whole thing about like, I guess

attitudes, even in California in the seventies

were different because Colombo's like, yeah,

if I busted everybody who's got an illegal gun,

I'd never see the end of it. And it's like, wow.

You guys were chill about that back then. Not

now. I don't think they've let unregistered guns

slide nowadays. No But so that's the what happens

is he swaps the guns and then he frames the wife

and of course he manipulates Wilson into going

after the wife and searching the house and they

find the other gun and in the end He walks in

it's like three in the morning. He says he walks

it he walks in his house and Columbus in the

greenhouse, hence the name of the episode. And

it's one of those classic Columbus where he's

not answering the questions. He's just sort of

enamoring on about blah, blah, blah. And Wilson

shows up with the wife and some more cops, including

Grover. And every time they said Grover, I was

like, hello, I'm Grover. I can't believe. Yeah,

that's Grover used to be a real name before that

muppet ruined it for everybody. But hey, you

leave that muppet alone. Nah, he knows what he

did. Anyway, the point being that Colombo then

starts complimenting Sergeant Wilson with his

modern ideas and his modern concepts and his

modern take on things, and he pulls out a metal

detector. So they have three bullets, not two.

There's a bullet in the car, there's a bullet

they pull out of Tony, and those two bullets

match each other. And then he found this third

bullet in a pot of dirt in Jarvis's greenhouse,

and it matches the other two bullets. In theory,

it shouldn't because it's supposed to be a different

gun. That's how he gets them is the three bullets

are all from the same gun. That's how they get

Jarvis. Good old Jarvis and Tony. Yeah, Tony

should have had a suit of armor, you might say.

I'm sorry folks. It's just the names. It's only

because if they were named anything else I would

not be making all the marble references there

Yeah, I know if it was if it was Bruce and Alfred

you absolutely would not be making any references.

Oh, well, yeah, I would But you know, I was being

was saying if it was Tom Dicker Harry, I wouldn't

be making any references No, they were Tom Dick

and Harry Uh -huh. Tom Winkin, Dick Blinkin,

and Harry Nod. Oh, this is true. Blinkin and

Nod. Oh my god. This is true. Larry Howe deliberately

made goofy names. So he actually said this was

his approach. He would make the names of the

characters goofy so that the purchasing agents

would laugh. And if they laughed, they would

remember it and they would buy your product.

Yep. How's that working out for you, Cobra Commander?

What 40 years later? Yeah. Okay, maybe it's not

40 plus for GI Joe cuz wasn't Joe 82. Yeah, Joe

was 82. Yeah 42. Oh geez 42 years. Holy crap

I don't know why but I liked the the malicious

gossip That was no why I wrote that down But

okay, I don't know I I'm trying to remember malicious

gossip because nothing was untrue. She was actually

having an affair with a big jerk. The best part

is, they're going sailing and Columbo goes on

the boat with them and he mentions, yeah, your

husband needed the money because he said some

guy was sniffing around and coming onto you and

that he was going to buy them off and the guy

was willing to dump you for $50 ,000 and the

guy is standing right there. Which I'm really

surprised he went on the boat with them because

of He was not leaving dock. I'll tell you come

on. He was he was he wasn't gonna leave the dock

He was getting on the boat for a second. Yeah

But like you don't see that guy again, so no,

you don't see that guy again What else with this

one did you like or that you want to point out?

Like it You know, it didn't really seem like

there was a like even though the actual plot

itself was fairly calm Plex, you know, and they

even made a not not a joke, but they made a point

of like, this is stage one and this is stage

two. Now it's time to reveal phase three. But

like not a lot really happens. Like, you know,

it doesn't seem like it was crammed full of particularly

memorable moments. It was it was OK. It was serviceable.

I mean, the twist at the end with the bullets

was was clever. I mean, the irony is if he hadn't

done well. If he hadn't done that, he might not

have gotten caught. One thing I do want to bring

up is did Colombo have a warrant to search that

greenhouse? Is it this episode or was it the

last episode where one of the wives says, oh,

you don't need a warrant. You just have to ask

us to come in. Now that's a house, that's not

the greenhouse. I think that was the wife, well

that was the wife and that was her house. Okay.

But yeah, like... Yeah, he doesn't have... But

that's irrelevant because that means warrants

were a thing back then. Because you know, again,

this is an old show and stuff like the Morenda

warning didn't exist before a certain point in

our time. Will you tell me what you're doing

here? It's very serious, sir. Hey everyone, editor

TFJU and Mike here breaking into this episode

of Studio 2009 because we are talking about Miranda

rights and all of that in their origin. The concept

of Miranda rights was enshrined in US law following

the 1966 Miranda v Arizona Supreme Court decision,

which found that the Fifth and Sixth Amendment

rights of Ernesto Arturo Miranda had been violated

during his arrest and trial for armed robbery,

kidnapping and rape of a young woman. So that's

when they started. So by the time we get to this

case on fictional television in the 1970s on

Colombo, I'm pretty sure Miranda was a regular

thing by then. Now back to the show. Amazing.

You know, it is. Yeah, it is this. Well, no,

it's the last. Is it? I'm getting confused now

because one of these episodes I specifically

remember. the criminal saying, okay, take me

away, and they start to read the rights. He's

like, yeah, we can just skip that. That's this

one, because Wilson is the one who starts to

do the rights. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, he gives

him a look. Jarvis gives him a look, and he just

lets it go, which also, by the way, is not how

that works. No, not at all. Hell no. Even in

LA, that's not how that works. Not at all. But

more importantly, like, everything rests on that

bullet. Yeah. And I hate to be all, you know,

but, like, if that bullet was obtained through

an illegal search, that whole case gets thrown

out. Exactly. Which is, I believe I said early

on in our episodes that I always kind of wondered

about, like, what happened down the road. Yeah.

Because this one feels like it might have been

thrown out. It could have been thrown out. This

feels like a kind of easy one to beat. Yeah,

pretty much. And we know, folks, it's fiction.

We get it, it doesn't. Yeah, it's TV. I get it.

But it's just one of those things where we're

trying to figure this stuff out. And I noticed

that, literally, that was one of the things I

noticed. I was like, wait, he's starting to read

him the Miranda rights. And he just looks at

it like, all right, I'll stop. He didn't specifically

say, I waive my Miranda rights. He just gave

him a look. No, he just gave him a look. Yeah.

And that's not how that works. That's not how

that works. You have to specifically say, I am

waiving my rights. Yeah, but like I'm not sure

if that applies to anything he says or if that

applies to the arrest itself I'm not 100 % sure

on the Miranda thing. What I'm saying is it's

not good. You have the right to remain silent.

Anything you say can or will be used against

you. Right. Anything you say can or will be used

against you in a court of law. So anything you

say after you've been given the rights. One of

the rights is you have a right to an attorney.

And that's kind of a big one to know. But I mean,

it's weird because it's one of those things,

particularly now in 2025, and I think even by

the 70s, it's so famous in pop culture that you

would have to be an absolutely isolated dolt,

both stupid and isolated, to have no idea what

your Miranda, you know what I mean? Yeah, like

you and I were just mouthing it off from memory

Watching tv shows and like like but I think 90

95 99 of americans know what their miranda rights

are but the police still have to say this Yeah,

they still have to say them because that's that's

part of the procedure That's part of the arrest

because they didn't tell miranda because there

was an actual guy named I mean at least for legal

purposes named miranda. Yep Absolutely. All right.

I other than the metal detector being the the

end all be all culprit of him getting caught.

I have no other notes for this. OK, I mean, I.

Wilson was fun. He was an interesting addition.

I think I read somewhere that he's only in two

episodes, which is weird as they would introduce

a character and then just drop him. But yeah,

they did. Yeah, if I remember correctly, when

I saw, where is that character, Sergeant Frederick

Wilson, he is only in, like you said, the two

episodes, Greenhouse Jungle, and he was in another

one. Where'd it go? I don't know. Interesting.

But yeah, he was only in one other episode after

this. Again, I think they were trying something.

I think they were... Oh yeah, absolutely. ...trying

to not mess with the formula, but... I think

they were messing with the formula a little bit.

Yeah. I want to look at Mr. Dishy's filmography

here and see... Come on, Bob, episode... Maybe

somebody else played him in my Now you see him

from 76 So he does appear in two episodes, but

so from 72 to 76 four years they tried something

Like why wouldn't you like even if you're not

gonna use the actor you could still use the carrot

like oh He's been reassigned over here. He's

this or he's doing that like you could do something.

Well, I mean TV was Weird back the long -form

storytelling attitude. I is a is a Very recent

thing. Yeah, usually it was it was you know Even

though there was some attempt at continuity Like

it was very loosey goosey. Every everything was

self -contained everything Begins and ends and

resets, you know sitcoms are infamous for it

Everything goes back to the way it was at the

beginning of the episode I think I've mentioned

before that like there was the old I think cracked

magazine parody of Magnum PI The the running

joke was that his girlfriend always dies the

like in the very end of that story like something

falls off a plane or something and like crushes

her because you know, you can never have a permanent

girlfriend because it's always got to reset for

the next episode because of Just audiences didn't

they believed audiences didn't have the attention

span and syndication because it would air out

of order There were a lot of headwinds against

Sequential storytelling and that sort of changed.

I don't know exactly when that changed I know

that deep space 9 in the 90s. Yeah, I think so

So you were saying sir sorry how old TV shows

didn't really have a big approach to continuity

If a character died, they would stay dead, but

usually you didn't kill off the main cast unless

it was between seasons. You know what I'm saying?

Wilson was an experiment. Apparently, they just

didn't like it or it didn't click. I mean, he's

cute. I think he works fine. But I think the

idea is that Columbo works best by himself. Yeah,

he works best by himself, but he still has other

people around him. But the other people are like

Grover. They're basic generic cop guy. They got

that, that, you know, central casting craggy

dude in his, I mean, they're probably, you know,

not to do a Monty Python thing, but they're probably

35, but like in 2025 eyes, they look like 50,

you know, the 1970s thirties, but like they,

they look like 50 or 60 years old to us. Sure.

What, what, did you think Grover was young Anjanu?

No, not at all. But I mean, again, you know,

you have like you have all the patrol people

that are there that surround him. And I always

think it's interesting in this show so far to

see how many different patrol people we see,

because I like seeing the various. I'm not saying

that it isn't. I'm saying that I like it because

And that means that Columbo as a character gets

to deal with many officers and give his expertise

to like the one in this episode was like, sir,

you got to move your car. Yeah. And then somebody

else immediately, another officer, something

comes up says, I know the dude. Yeah, Wilson

comes up and says, yeah, here you go, Lieutenant.

Come on, let's go. And the patrolman's like,

oh, again, goes to your point. LA is a big city.

The patrolman didn't know who the hell Lieutenant

Colombo was. So, you know, it's interesting.

I like it. I like it a lot. It's very fun. Let's

see here. Anything else for the plot or the cast?

None of the other names popped out. I've looked

at several of them, but I'm like, I don't recognize

again. I know this is an old show. I get that.

But like you get somebody like Jarvis, like Raymond

Land, or you get somebody like who we're going

to get back in the next episode. I'll talk about

after the after when we close the show, you get

somebody like that or you're like, oh, it's that

guy. I mean, the last episode we had like Tanner.

Yep, apparently we technically had going to the

paltrow. Um, we had, you know, we had some pretty

big names in that episode where this one, it's,

you know, Ray Beland. Yeah. And then the rest

were like the, the guy who plays Tony kind of

seems familiar. The guy who plays the, the boyfriend

hunk kind of seems familiar. I'm sure they were

on a bunch of TV shows back in the day, you know,

but yeah, can't hit a home run every time. No.

You can't have a pre -born Gwyneth Paltrow in

every episode. Hey! It's a shame she was in the

episode early, because then we could have had

a perfect Iron Man trilogy. Oh. Let me drive

her some pepper. That's right. Yeah, absolutely.

All right, folks. We are gonna go to a quick

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Did you ever see one of these before, Lieutenant?

Uh... No, I'm not sure I have. It looks kind

of familiar, though. It's a camera -mounted starlight

scope. They use them quite a bit at Berkeley

for night work. You mean that takes pictures

in the dark? Yeah. I bought this one myself.

You use your own money? I want you to have the

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everything up in this episode as far as how the

closing is supposed to go. The show holding up,

did this episode keep your interest throughout?

Yes. Yep, same for me. There wasn't even like

sometimes you know a certain show and it was

funny because I was like okay I know that the

first episode which we didn't really talk about

like I was like oh like this one was an hour

and 12 minutes I think the other one was a little

bit longer. As I said earlier, it did feel weirdly

truncated. Yeah. Are we itching to watch the

next episode now? I am. Yeah. I don't even know

what comes next, so I'm like, ooh. What comes

next is not that. Wow. God, I'm so horrible.

Really? No, I didn't do it right. But yeah, no,

what comes next is... the most crucial game.

And in that episode, it has a returning guest

member, because we get... We had one in the first

episode. Well, we had one in this one. Ray Milan

was a returning guest. Uh -huh. Yeah. Well, next

time, we get Mr. Brimmer back. We get Robert

Culp back in the next episode as Paul Hanlon.

Okay. I think I know this one. This is the one

with Dean Stockwell. Yeah, it is the one with

Dean Stockwell. Oh, I didn't know that. That's

awesome. I love the old man. Oh, wow, Valerie

Harper. Nice. Yeah, he's the victim. This is

the first returning murderer. It's not the first

returning guest star, but it's the first returning

murder. Yeah. No, I'm just saying. Murderer.

Murder it was a murder my own headcanon. They

just changed their names and identities and then

get in trouble. Yep. Yep. I Doesn't surprise

me. You're going there. Yeah, I think cope cope

is I think a three -timer Culp is a four -timer.

He's got season. Okay. Well the ABC ones it's

not that they don't count but they're a different

thing like Okay, they might be a different thing.

And that's fine that they can be a different

thing. But he's in season 10, episode one, Colombo

goes to college. He's also in season three, episode

four, double exposure from 73 as Dr. Bart Keppel.

Yeah, that's what I meant is he's three classic

ones. What's the guy? The guy who was the prisoner

is in three classic ones. And I think he's in

a modern one too. Modern. Meaning the futuristic

1980s slash 90s. Oh God, I'm old. My perceptive

time is falling apart. That's old. Alright, folks.

Uh, yes. Yes, for each and every one. Like, honestly,

I would binge these at this point. We recommend

the show to people. What would we rate this specific

episode? The death of the greenhouse jungle.

The greenhouse jungle? I think I'm still gonna

go with 3 .5. It was fine. It was good, it was

enjoyable, but again, it's nothing like, wow,

that's amazing! The interaction between Frederick

and Columbo was nice. It was fine, but there

was nothing that really stood out. Maybe the

scene where he kind of outs the boyfriend himbo

guy and makes him look like a jackass. It was

a good moment, but like... Don't know it's 3

.5. It's a good look again. I can't think of

any really bad episodes of Colombo, but like

It wasn't anything like you know, and then even

the even the twist at the end was You know, it's

a Chekhov's gun Ironically a bullet kind of thing

were like, you know, hey a bullet was fired in

this greenhouse a while back Gee, I wonder if

that will come back to be relevant. You know,

it was very telegraphed Yeah Yeah, I don't know

was there I'm trying to think was there anything

in this that there was nothing bad it's just

there was nothing to like Really write home about

and go wow that was amazing. Yeah, I mean Now

I feel like I'm starting to turn into mr. Lumbergo

that yeah, yeah, yeah, Jesus Christ office space

I am actually going to give it a 3 out of 5,

which is average. Meh, it's not bad, but it's

not amazing either. Nothing really stands out.

Again, I think we need to update some of these

things, but it says it's forgettable. I don't

think this is forgettable, but at the same time,

this is not an episode out of all the ones we've

watched to this point. This one is on the list

of probably I would never watch it again. It's

not one that I would seek out per se so if you

want to go that route like I wouldn't go Oh,

I really want to watch that one again, but I

I remember I did remember this episode like I

remember, you know, I remember the the Secretary

lady with her really weird. Is this mr. Blah

blah blah to whom I am speak like that weird

like there's just stuff I remember this episode

I remember it better as much as I yammered about

etude in black. I remembered it better than the

tune in black So yeah, like 3 is fine. I'm going

with 3 .5. I think it's a fine episode. Yep,

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I know it's about okay. It's about it's about

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So Colombo has drifted into the realm of fantasy.

Yes Yes, and and sports ball. Oh, and the next

one after that is Dagger of the Mind. Yep. Oh,

that's a good one. Yeah That's one where it goes

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you take Mr. Goodland downtown, please? Mr. Jarvis

Goodland, it is my duty to inform you that anything

you might This way sir. Will you allow me to

drive you home? Thank you, Lieutenant. Oh, one

moment. If I forget this, my wife will kill me.