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You know what's fucked up? I've been watching the Columbo series recently (reminds me of a better time), and that show is so fucking jewed out it's crazy. Given all the jewish deviancy you see today I'd have never suspected because the show really doesn't inject any of that shit like shows today. I think it was the episode directed or written by Spielberg that tipped me off, then I looked into Peter Falk, and noticed other jewish writers popping up.

The electric jew has been around forever.

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Columbo's whole shtick is to pretty much pilpul people into confessing, while being smarmy and faking modesty the whole time.

One of the episodes of it that I remember most was when "Best Jew" Bill Shatner plays a TV detective who goes toe-to-toe with Columbo. Sadly, Columbo won, and Shatner's character gets arrested for being a legitimate victim and committing a public service.

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You're kind of right, but attention to detail is what makes a good detective, so idk if pilpul is really the right expression. Haven't seen the Shatner episode, but I look forward to it.

Also I remember at least 1-2 episodes that ended where Columbo couldn't prove it... "Publish or Perish", S03E05. Essentially it ends with Columbo speculating how the murder went down, but there's no confession, no convicting evidence. It just kind of ends... I'll have to rewatch it now, but I seem to remember thinking "that doesn't really prove he killed anyone" when the credits rolled.

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From what I recall, Columbo's shtick is to nag everyone, all while blatantly pretending to be a sort of nebbish, culminating in his famous "just one more thing" catchphrase.

Pilpul might not be the right word for what for what Columbo does, but what he does comes off as a Jewish technique to me and, well, pilpul is the only word I know for Jewish tricks in the form of wordplay. I appreciate that Columbo's nebbishness is done in a way where we the viewer know that his suspects know he's not the wimpy rube that he chooses to present himself as, but still his presentation as being the opposite of the normal hard-boiled, assertive detective seems to me like a bit of a Jewish subversion of the genre.

Have you seen the "Spock" episode?

Also I remember at least 1-2 episodes that ended where Columbo couldn't prove it

I've noticed that come up in the crime shows over the decades as well. I don't know if it is just the writers dropping the ball, the show thinking an unsolved crime would be edgier, or if the editors cut out too much when they pared the show down.

Maybe it's my bias, but it seems to me that leaving loose ends really rankles the audience of detective shows lol

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Also pilpul to me implies sort of a torturing of the language. Like "the Holocaust was real in my mind therefore it was real." Like yes, your mind exists in reality, so therefore your thoughts are real to some extent, but to equate your thoughts with physical, objective reality is an exercise in pilpul. It is a common lawyer tactic.