Columbo Solves the Bye-Bye Sky-High IQ Murder Case | Columbo
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Clip from Season 6, Episode 3 'The Bye-Bye Sky-High IQ Murder Case' - An accountant, embezzling to support his wife's lifestyle, murders his partner after the man discovers his crimes.
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You really have to admire Bikel’s performance here, especially his change of facial expressions from frustration to triumph to realization. People tend to forget that in Columbo episodes it’s the baddie who needs to do the heavy lifting for most of the story, and Bikel is one of the better ones.
Yes, great point the guy was perfect in this role, those facial expressions and gestures were hilarious😂
He's among the more sympathetic villains. He feels guilt and shame. It is hilarious that he really wants to know how brilliant the guy is who defeated him.
I like Bikel's facial expressions in this episode. Makes the episode more brilliant
@@nicholasschroeder3678 Especially when he finds Lt. Frank Columbo isn't the idiot he'd hoped Columbo made himself to be after all.
@@theodorehsu5023 Frank? Columbo more likely to carry a gun then allow someone to call him Frank
As always, the best Columbo traps are the ones where he uses the murderer's own arrogance/expertise against them.
Traps them with their own stupidity as presumably the guy confesses next. I hope so anyway as there's no way a conviction could come without it.
@@pablohanc He never actually confessed. And all of the evidence was illegally seized and if charges were brought the defense attorney would file a motion to suppress, due to fruit of the poisonous tree.
That’s pretty much every episode
The conclusion of "Suitable for Framing" is the supreme example of this.
Thing is…that’s life in general….give someone enough rope they’ll soon hang themselves through their own self importance….or to put it another way….if you know what makes a person tick…especially their own ego…it’s quite easy to manipulate them. Just look at any work environment and you’ll see there’s always one person who thinks their better than everyone else, or special so to speak…but pay close attention to others…there will always be one person who knows how to manipulate this individual….e.g. getting them to pitch ideas etc etc etc
In this episode Columbo tricks the killer into incriminating himself, like the murderer did in "Negative Reaction" by picking out the camera only he would have known about.
A killer so smart he kept the incriminating umbrella when he had a spare already.
And "Any Port in a Storm" when Donald Pleasence criticizes the wine for its oxidation. My favorite Columbo traps are the ones where he uses the murder's own expertise/arrogance against them.
Except he didn't incriminate himself. Nothing he did there would even stand up to the slightest scrutiny in a court. Probably couldn't even get an arrest for that if he kept his mouth shut.
This is one of those Columbos where the ending takes something out of it for me. First of all the murder plot is silly and convoluted, and second there's no way this guy should ever surrender based on that Columbo demonstration. Columbo knows everything that happened because he's Columbo, but he can't prove it. That's why he went for the ego-trap.
@@terracottapie I agree the plot was way too convoluted but that is how television portrayed people like that in the 1970s.
It was just silly.
What I took from it was Columbo broke him and he would have then confessed. At that point his embezzlement would have been discovered since the investigators would have a reason to start looking through his life. His entire reason for the convoluted plot was to have a solid alibi when the killing took place otherwise he believed he would be the prime suspect.
@@terracottapie But if the police did their job properly when they arrived the crime scene, it would have been sealed off and all the people there would have been questioned and searched. Then the police would have found the murder gun with the fingerprints of Oliver Brandt on it, and ballistics would be able to match the bullets in the victims body to his gun.
We truly have been blessed this day, with one of the finest gotchas in the whole show. Fantastic stuff!
He overcooked his own goose there.
Great stuff.....probably wouldn't have stood up in court though, like a lot of columbos cases.
"And then he put the marker pen on the record player etc......."
"No I didnt"
Or
"Yes I did, but the idea literally just came to me"
As columbo has admitted he got the umbrella burns evidence illegally, that would probably be inadmissible.
Still good fun though.
@@pablohanc yeah, defo wouldn't stand up in court but it's still good drama 🙃
@@chloetv1 oh absolutely. Probably the most entertaining detective drama ever.
This and the one with the air-pressure wine cork puller were favorites that have stayed with me since I watched them when they first aired.
The way the villain screams offended "vibrations???", amazing acting!
"That Danziger's a genius!" Those words from Lt. Columbo were enough to drive Brandt over the edge (just like that huge dictionary), triggering what Edgar Allen Poe (the inventor of the modern detective story) called "The Imp of the Perverse"--or the compulsion to confess.
Or what we on the Internet understand as the compulsion to prove someone wrong.
I initially thought there was no way a guy as smart as Brandt would reveal this to Columbo. However, Brandt had shown during the episode that although he was smart, he lacked common sense and judgement. For example, Bertie had been his friend for life and yet he kept tickling him which got him so angry that he was prepared to expose his stealing of funds from clients. Also, Brandt didn’t need to kill Bertie. If he had just stopped tickling him, explained the problems with his big spending wife and agreed to repay the money, I think Bertie would not have exposed him.
>I initially thought there was no way a guy as smart as Brandt would reveal this to Columbo
And now, a smart man's interview with Columbo! "Can I ask you a few questions sir?" "LAYWER." "I will just take a moment of your time.." "LAWYER." "It would be really easier if I talked to you and---" "LAWYER"
Any clever lawyer would still get him off. There's no witnesses other than Columbo and the criminal to that demo.
@@pablohanc Not to mention Columbo admitting himself he seized evidence illegally.
@@DeathnoteBB yep
This man may have high intelligence but he has very low wisdom
The man's ego just couldn't take it. It would have been so insulting for him to be accused of not thinking of everything and leaving something to chance.
Reminds me of Jake Peralta from Brooklyn 99 busting the dentist guy.
You're goddamn right
A man, when blinded by his own genius, becomes a fool in the face of his ineptitude to recognize that he, too, can be made to be so.
Yes
Sorry, what? This doesn't make sense.
@@dIancaster it means when he thinks of others as nothing more than fools and his ego is played against him he too can be made into a fool as well
@@ArkhamKnight-uj6ww Right, okay. That makes sense. An English teacher might have a stroke with the first comment though, lol.
@@dIancaster oh sorry
"THAT DANZINGER'S A GENIUS!" 😂😂 I stg Columbo is the biggest troll in any detective show.
In an earlier scene Danzinger gave some truly idiotic theories to the murder. Columbo knew giving him any credence would drive Oliver insane.
The sudden terror you feel when Colombo says "By the way I took the wrong umbrella"
You'd think he'd be more on guard after Columbo said his umbrella was tested in the lab.
When you hear Columbo say "I took the wrong umbrella..I took yours"...just confess already, he got you by the balls..you just didn;t know it.
The best part is Columbo was almost certainly bluffing about that. As he himself says, you can't acquire (or analyze) evidence of a crime that way, and Columbo tends to do things by the book.
Easily my favourite episode. It illuminates perfectly the doomed romance between a detective and a murderer, tied together with a beautiful murder. Columbo tricked his opponent by exploiting their mutual respect for the great mystery.
This is probably one of the the most unforgettable episodes for me, the man literally used the most trickiest device and *STILL* lost to Columbo!
Well, we don't know if he lost. He revealed to Columbo how it was done..... but there was no witnesses to that reveal.
4:50, I love how Columbo pronounces these lines, that faux-shock that Brandt completely misses as he's too far gone in his rant at that stage.
that's such an honest, joyful laugh at 5:29. Man I absolutely adore any actor that can concincingly do an honest laugh, and this man nails it perfectly, only to quickly turn it into complete silence and a horrified expression. You can physically feel his heart sinking at that very moment, when he realizes that he just lost.
Like holy moly, the show is solid, but some moments are absolutely golden. No dialogue, just a look or two, and fantastic performance by everyone involved.
"Yes, of course, you are right, sir! And then he ...."
Always agreeing, always adding another step, and inevitably the smartest man gives himself away. A great Gotcha moment....
Columbo always had a way to have the killers self incriminate themselves.
It's a tactic detectives use when interviewing suspects, to get them to reveal something they've found and only the perp would know.
The Lieutenant outsmarts the genius because he is a genius himself!!! 👍
You just described the plot of every episode
Unfortunately, the genius forgot to include any other witnesses to the pen trick,
4:35 -- Columbo admits that some of the members of the high IQ club helped him figure out how the alibi was constructed. (Reminds me of a game we had when we were kids called 'Mousetrap' where one event triggered another which triggered another.........). He outsmarted the killer by gambling on the possibility that the killer's ego would get the better of him if told that his elaborate construction was flawed.
@@david10101961and geniuses love to hear the sound of their own voice
Not many people mention the genius of having diegetic music that also matches the building intensity of the scene to help heighten that sense of catharsis. Really brilliantly done scene
Very true. Columbo doesn't rely on music often,but here,where Columbo and the murderer are debating and shouting,it fits
" The killer is a very intelligent man sir" Columbo says. Unfortunately, not as intelligent as Columbo though! A dramatic end to a great episode, Theodore got a little bit carried away demonstrating his ingenious method of achieving this murder! Not so clever! 🤔
Yes
The problem for the killer was his intellect was spread across a broad area of interests while Columbo was razor focused on one thing.
Well, the killer was exactly as intelligent as Columbo thought, otherwise he would not have set this kind of trap...
The point is that Columbo counted on the great desire of the killer to show his intellectual supremacy... and in the end also on the fact that the killer was not so determined to get away with all this... He was bored of everything, as he admitted in the end.
@@GreenHoleSun smart people don't necessarily care about joining societies for smart people but arrogant smart people do. Just his being in that club meant this trick would probably work lol
@@hello-ox5rf yes, but I think he had a complex personality.
In a way he was arrogant and eager to show that he could make the "perfect murder", with the same attitude he would have approached an IQ test, on the other hand he perceived that all this stuff was futile, in the end.
Can we just take a moment to appreciate how this was shot as well?
The camera work is fantastic and does really well to work with the tone and frantic nature of the scene as Columbo tightens the noose on him and gets him to incriminate himself by playing with his ego.
This is my favourite ending to a Columbo episode.
Columbo is fantastic and could never be re-done.
Without Peter Faulk its nothing
Mine is the subliminal cuts for the beautiful irony and because the killer was so arrogant and mean. But this is a great one, especially because Bikel pulls it off so well.
I'd actually like to Mark Ruffalo in a reboot as his nephew.
My favourite is when Columbo takes his hands out of his pockets and shows that he's wearing gloves after the art critic accuses him of framing him.
Peter Faulk (sic) is not an actor in Columbo, however Peter Falk is.
@@ramonalejandrosuare If you’ve ever seen Russian Doll, I like the idea of Natasha Lyonne as the new Columbo. Love the idea of any new one being a niece or nephew, though.
I always liked how the most intelligent adversary Columbo ever came up against, a Mensa genius like Brandt, picked him out as a genius right off the bat when he gave him that "minimum information" problem after their first meeting. Brandt never once underestimated Columbo or took him for a bumbling fool.
This! He even tried to convince Columbo to join Mensa and do more with his intelligence.
Yet another priceless moment when you realize you've been tricked into incriminating yourself...
He always tricks them...they always underestime "the man"
One of the most complicated Columbo murder mysteries. The acting in this scene is one the finest in all of the Columbo series. The crescending ending is amazing.
Certainly one of the best endings ever. There are many really episodes, but this one is unique and extremely good. At 2:19 we can see almost the panic on his face, haha! And, of course, like all geniuses or really intelligent people, they can't resist showing how they did it because others are "stupid," of course. Unfortunately for him, he revealed how he operated his crime ... himself. HAHAHA!
It's like half of these comments don't understand Columbo is a mystery drama and not an accurate law procedural.
Although I grew up with my parents watching Columbo, I've driven my own kids crazy watching Columbo on repeat as much as possible since I rediscovered the show/movies as an adult in the 90s.
.. a little crazy is not necessarily a bad thing.
Quite an enjoyable episode which I recently watched again. Not only featuring Jamie Lee Curtis in one of her debut acting roles but also the return of Mrs Melville from Murder by the Book, if you're eagle eyed of course :)
0:56 the way he brutally walks through Bertie's outline.
Nice detail
I can't help thinking that without the inadmissible umbrella evidence and without witnesses to this display that a good lawyer would get him off. His admission of guilt is also without witnesses. Good catch though and a really enjoyable episode.
Columbo only has to catch the killer he don't have to convict them in court as well. If he did have to convict them in court as well, all the screenwriters would have needed to add is an extra scene where there are police witnesses in the background observing the display.
@@patrickjohnson5658 in some episodes this scene was included :) off the top of my head, some of the 'gotchas' that included an element of trickery witnessed by police officers include Negative Reaction, A Friend in Deed, Columbo Goes to College.
The best example of that is the one with George Hamilton in his first appearance. The gotcha with the " blind" witness. That gotcha is dramatic no doubt but any half decent lawyer could get beat that case.
This is a TV drama, not real life.
@@dchegu But the 'gotcha' with the blind witness at the end of that episode would not be the only evidence that would place him there the night of the murder. The fresh Tire tracks of his car the only European car there outside of Columbo's car would place him there. Not to mention in his hurry to get away from the scene he crashed into a gatepost, that would have left a dent on his car and forensic evidence from the gatepost behind.
Bikel isn't just one of my favourite Columbo villains, but one of my favourite actors period.
Columbo even makes geniuses look dumb, he played that dude so easy
This is my favorite _Columbo_ episode. All the classic Columbo ingredients are in this one. A highly intelligent murderer that's just vile enough to prove a tasty meal for Columbo's common sense intellect. When all else fails, appeal to the pompous man's narcissism and he'll catch himself. 👍🍷
I wouldn't call him vile. He married a woman who loved him only for what she could buy because of him. Intelligence is not the same as wisdom. While Brandt may have been highly smart, he was a poor judge of character. Today, we might say that he, and maybe the other members of the club, have autism spectrum disorders.
His ego was his downfall... and the Lieutenant was counting on that... Genius
Honestly, this doesnt amount to incrimination at all. The dude got agitated. He as good as recreated the crime, but so what? Theyre spitballing. The guy has a notorious ego. A good lawyer could make the case (before he went and confessed), that he was just excited to solve a case that even a veteran detective couldnt crack. He never said "THIS IS WHAT I DID!" he said "THIS IS WHAT THE KILLER DID!" he never identified himself as the murderer.
the whole point of the serie was not to convict the murderers but to solve the mysteries
The killer betrays himself if he has information that only the killer can know. This is the classic criminal case from The Cranes of the Ibicus. Colombo constructs an amateurish, simple solution (triggered by vibration). The genius considers Colombo's version to be inferior and presents his own correct, ingenious version. Only the murderer himself can know it because he has carried it out himself.
Awesome scene with the back and forth mind games and dialogue, they dont make them like this anymore nope.
He “Sideshow-Bob”ed him!
A work of Machiavellian art.
The ending of this is so real because people who think they're a genius cannot resist letting others know how smart they are. Even if it convicts them of murder.
I never noticed it before, but the book starts to move ever so slightly before the marker hits it.
Yes, they obviously had to do that for filming it for the program. The marker doesn't look heavy enough to be knocking the book over by itself, so they had to give it a little help.
VIBRATIONS!
THAT DANZINGER'S A GENIUS!
THE VIBRATIONS WORK
They always underestimate him. He's the greatest detective in modern times. He's so respectful to the killer and never ever shows his hand. Until the very end. So they walk around with an air of comfort and arrogance,like he has no idea its them.
05:36 - 05:44 The facial expression of Columbo “Priceless, but too easy to convict”
SherlockHolmes on a Case:
“Elementary My Dear Watson, Elementary.”
I always liked after this when the wife calls on the phone and he gives columbo a word puzzle.
"Bwahaha haaha ha ha a...Oh my" I'm watching this favorite scene again, thank you.
One of my favourite episodes. I must admit, I take great pleasure in watching the villain (mainly wealthy or privileged) totally underestimate Columbo, this episode exemplifies this. In this episode, when the villain is caught, Columbo talks about when he first joined the force, and what motivated him to become better, it's utterly brilliant!
I love the pace of this scene. It’s builds perfectly and the pay off is brilliant.
The entire gotcha portion of this episode goes on much longer. It’s one of the best in the entire show. It really goes back and forward in such a satisfying manner between the two.
The murderer's look of disbelief when they realise too late that they fell into Colombo's trap, pretending to being the idiot in order to catch them out and cleverly get them to incriminate themselves, pure genius.
"That Danzinger! He's a genius!" What an awesome trap!
Man was so sharp he cut himself
I said it once and I’ll say it again. NCIS, Law and Order, Criminal Minds and the like; none of these bastards have the intelligence of Columbo put together.
Красиво он его развёл.
The turntable featured in this _Columbo_ clip is an Accutrac 4000 model. Introduced in 1976, it features the ability to program the order of the tracks played on an LP-record, and allowed the user to skip over tracks they did not want to hear. Basically a very early version of "shuffle play" which became a popular feature on CD players a decade later. This model also came with a remote control - which turntables sold today do not even offer.
How you lure a genius out you play their ego against them
Him showing how the book was made to fall doesn’t prove he did it. It wouldn’t stand up in court. He could just very easily say he saw the solution to the problem.
But there was also other incriminating stuff like the umbrella.
The point is to discredit the killer's alibi, its not actually evidence that he was the killer. The actual evidence is the partygoers can all now testify that the killer and the victim left the party at the same time and only the killer returned.
Doesn't matter. He is ready to confess. And that would stand up. Plus the point of detectives is typically not winning the court case. It is about solving the mystery.
😄Columbo is emphasizing the word VIBRATIONS, which immediately triggers the murder.
The book was falling before the marker hit it! That Danzinger is a genius with the vibration theory
Typical Columbo's villain stats:
INT: 18
WIS: 4
Fantastic episode! 👍
The only murderer I ever felt sorry for, the faces he makes as columbo figures out how he did it,,,, next time my genius friend lol
That face fall is one of the classic moments of TV of all time!
I always love Columbo's perfect "Gotcha" look.
The other dude, when he sees Colombo is on to him, but fucked up the rules of evidence, hey this game is fun… playing Columbo’s game. Your prize, shiny bracelets! Behind your back
This episode is one of my favorites...and I always laugh at the sly look that Columbo gives Oliver after encouraging him to incriminate himself...
a pure masterpiece
playing the music was a genius move.
an auditory warning that you only have a few more seconds to think
the scene plays out in tune with the music, getting faster and more frantic (emotionally) as time winds down.
the man is on the clock, he's scared, he's insulted.
Rest in powerful peace Peter Falk 🙏
16 September 1927 ~
23 June 2011⚘
GOOD 👍 SO GOOD MUSIC, ACTING.
Genius does not pay.
And to think Samantha Eggar is waiting at home, just dying to give him some... some...
I like his lowly explanation at the park on why he had an umbrella during sunny weather! Looked so guilty there.
This one for me was one of the most disappointing episodes ever.
Especially considering the murderer was supposed to be a genius (as they claim).
The entire plan was stupid and super easy to solve.
A lot of clues left behind, a weak alibi and a lot of witnesses downstairs (they also SUPPOSED to be among the smarter people around).
He just got lucky the "Pitagora switch" he made to create a fake alibi worked, because everything could easily be gone wrong.
a pity that focusing on details you are missing the big picture, the way the actors play is genius
One of my favourite scenes overall!
This guys Arrogance did him in like most
It's funny how ridiculously well the scene itself is made, yet how weak the "gotcha" here. Though to be fair, now that I rewatch it all, there's lots of weak cases in Columbo. I doubt that any judge would take "gotcha" as an evidence.
Still one of the best detective shows, ofcourse.
This is the best type of Columbo moment. There is Columbo setting everything in motion, the killer playing their hand too hard, and the "well f**k me then," moment where the killer realizes Columbo has them. Brilliant
5:45 the best "oh f&ck..." moment in history
The umbrella would never be admitted in court. I am a great fan of Columbo but most of his cases would of lost in court.
Of course, ya'll noticed the book started to fall before the marker hit it, right?
I don't get it. Brandt didn't admit he did the killing; he only showed he knew a clever way to make it work. What did I miss?
I love the final reveal, such a fun episode
But he gets a confession and it's not colombos job to convict in a trial his job is to find the killer
If you look closely, you can clearly see the fact that the book moved long before being hit by that red object. Yes to vibrations. No to those helping the book to fall down :)))
Even the one who is known as a genius, could make very severe and damaging mistake. Just like the one in this video.
Great performance from Zach Galifinakis here
If you look carefully at 5:25 the dictionary starts falling before the red object falls on it.
Of course! It's the vibration!! Just after he yelled "THIS!!" ....you know....
@@chalcedonv6997 🤣
@@chalcedonv6997 are you a member of the Sigma Society too? ;)
Congratulations, you played yourself.
This is one of my favourite episodes.
"That Denzinger is a genius!!!....he made it sound so simple...the vibrations!!!"
In the end, he admitted to Columbo he’s satisfied that it took someone like him to catch him.
Jake Peralta uses the same "You did it this dumb way" strat in that one brooklyn 99 interrogation episode
This is my favorite scene of the entire series! Thanks for posting 😊
Oh, my! Please, the complete episode!!!
My favorite Columbo.
Oh' well back to the butcher shop Mr Klemmer.
Such a clever man who proved he wasn't so clever in the end.
their performances are amazing.
My favorite part, the banter between the two was great acting and directing
The way that Columbo uses the killer's conceitedness to trick him into revealing incriminating details about the way the murder was committed, which only the killer would know, is brilliant. Columbo probably surmised the details about the use of the marker pen in this setup before this reenactment, but deliberately gave the killer a sub par version of the theory attributed to his rival Danzinger, knowing that the killer's vanity would goad him into foolishly giving himself away by revealing incriminating details whilst trying to prove that he was cleverer than the president of the club.
We have far too many hyper intelligent fools these days. This makes a lot of sense.