cute quizlet laura...oh and by the way HI!
i have 2 half answers. the last one about the birds is etude...when audrey mentions jenifer welles cockatoo. and i wanted to say suitable for framing because the landlady has that parakeet walter, but i don't know if the word 'parakeet' is ever mentioned.
and the dutch uncle one...again only a half answer...it is said in bye-bye-sky etc...when brandt give columbo that iq test.
Cassa, you get out of my head right now! I too, just after reading the post above yours, heard Patrick O'Neal utter the words "corpus delecti" in his soft, hoarse sorta tone. Eerie, how we remember it in such detail.
Great thought provoker...... Dutch Uncle was used in Suitable for Framing by Ross Martin when talking to Don Ameche. He wanted him to talk to Kim Hunter, you know, like a Dutch uncle, to get her to consent to having her house searched the police "to clear her".
One of the "throws off sparks" episodes was "Blueprint For Murder." It was said by the only Columbo character whose last name is the same as my own (Sherman).
the other bird reference occurs in season seven, and i was hoping someone could explain it to me. :) i guess i'm not a "clever girl."
the other reference to "throwing off sparks" occurs in the same other steven bochco episode. i just thought it was interesting that those phrases, "throwing off sparks" and "corpus delicti" both showed up in both episodes...definitely evidence of his particular writing style, i think.
The reference is the nightingale in "Try and Catch Me."
I think Abigail was just testing to see if Veronica could hear the tape recorder through the safe, to make sure that nobody would be able to hear Edmund's screams.