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Halloween 2025, Episode 2: TGI Vampire

14 Oct

October 14, 2025

Last week, Mr. Blog presented the terrifying It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia Spook-A-Rama!
OK, it was just Dennis in a Luigi costume. We get it, not scary at all. (Unless, like me, you had an encounter with a hairy plumber in green overalls fiddling with his pipe. Hey, it was college, who didn’t experiment a little?)

But I digress.

I promised you, my Dear Readers, those of you who are actually willing to wait six months between posts, I mean seriously, six months? Ok, I get it, no matter how good Columbo the Retirement Years was, and it really was good, let’s face it, nothing on this blog is worth waiting six months for.

No, no, do not go back and reread that. I lost the point right from the jump. I do that sometimes. Low IQ and all that. Anyway, what I meant to type was:

I promised you, my Dear Readers, a vampire, and I have delivered the most evil, the most menacing, the most accident-prone of all!

Mr. Blog’s Tepid Ride presents! The vile Count Urkel!

Do not say I did not warn you. Which I did not. Just don’t say it.

“Did I bite that?”

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Columbo: The Retirement Years

26 Apr

April 26, 2025

It has always been a source of disappointment to me that ABC denied us Columbo’s Last Case, Peter Falk’s proposed final farewell to Columbo.

OK, maybe it isn’t as disappointing as the 2006 NLCS, but I was there, I saw the series end on Carlos Beltrán taking strike three, thank you very much, so yes, maybe I take that one a little personally.

SWING YOU BASTARD!

But I digress. The Columbo series may not have been at the top of it’s game, but the final movie, Columbo Likes the Nightlife (2003) showed that there was still “just one more thing” left in the series. Falk had an idea of a final episode to retire Lt. Columbo, but the brass at ABC thought, among other things, that Peter Falk was too old and his health wasn’t good enough and did not think they could insure him. (They may have had a point, but I’m not going to go into that here.) Paramount tried the same thing with DeForest Kelley at one point.

So what would retirement look like for Lt. Columbo? He and his wife may or may not have had children (some fans aren’t convinced he had a wife) but he did have nieces and nephews, and he did take pride in his family, so I think his later years would look something like this:

Yup. that’s about right.

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