murder she wrote - classic or dud?

Cabot Cove sacres the fuck out of me. There's like, what, 300 people in town and somebdoy gets whacked every week.

So in other words, CLASSIC when there were only four TV channels and no Internet, DUD-ISH now I can sit around downloading pr0n all day.

Cabot Cove sacres the fuck out of me. There's like, what, 300 people in town and somebdoy gets whacked every week.

Yeah, it's like Midsomer.

haha but jessica travels, too! so the murders aren't all in cabot cove

Mandy Moore's playing Jessica Fletcher in the M. Night Shyamalan movie.

never saw a single episode

haha but jessica travels, too! so the murders aren't all in cabot cove

I wonder why the police never notice that? "Lieutenant, there's been a murder here in usually crime free <insert location here>, but luckily crime writer and amateur detective Jessica Fletcher is here! She always just happens to turn up when there's been a murder. Hey wait a minute..."

Remember the episode with Harvey Feinstein? He played a cartoonist. His "friend" was the murderer.

I really really really wished they had ended this series by outing Angela Lansbury as a psycho serial killer who went around offing people and then framing innocents using her mystery-writin' skills.

alas.

haha but jessica travels, too! so the murders aren't all in cabot cove

I wonder why the police never notice that? "Lieutenant, there's been a murder here in usually crime free <insert location here>, but luckily crime writer and amateur detective Jessica Fletcher is here! She always just happens to turn up when there's been a murder. Hey wait a minute..."

-- snoball, Friday, 9 November 2007 17:05 (1 hour ago) Link

i know! they never ask for her help, she's just always there. "well, this could be a murder..."

It's sort of like the way Columbo spends an entire episode irritiating the person who just happens to turn out to be the murderer. Maybe he sees the pre-title sequence or something. Or if it's an episode with Robert Culp as guest star just arrest Robert Culp. I also like the way the theme music at the end of the show is simply called "Mystery Movie Theme"!

I always hated the "reveal" ending scenes where she would calmly explain to the killer exactly how s/he did it - killer either breaks down and confesses and she lends a sympathetic "aw, well time to go to jail" expression, or killer tries to take out Jessica only to be stopped by the local cop who she just happens to have brought along who's been hiding in the shadows listening to the killer implicate themselves.

awful.

aww it's not awful it's just the formula! i know, it's incredibly quaint and uneblievable

she was incredibly nice to C-list actors who needed dough.

GUYS SHE HAS A TYPEWRITER: CLASSIC.

Old lady sleuths: generally have some classic.

ya

"I used my k-tog knit/purl shills to prove the golden ratio was used by this killer and therefore the murder weapon must be placed in the first...first...second..third...fifth...EIGHTH empty tile in his wall."

there were a lotta typewriters around when MSW began. I had one!

so did Slap Maxwell

You'd think that a prospective murderer would plan ahead and murder Jessica Fletcher first, and then the person they actually intended to murder second?

Prospective Murderer: "I'm gonna kill that sonofabitch that ripped me off. But first I'd better kill Jessica Fletcher. And Columbo... And that Belgian guy with the twirly mustache... And the guy who wears the funny hat and smokes a pipe, what's his name? Oh yeah, John Holmes..."

DONT FUK WID MA HOMIES

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/7/72/MurderSheWrote_Cast.jpg/300px-MurderSheWrote_Cast.jpg

http://jesmaine.tripod.com/images/image.bookcover5.jpg

i was watching this the other night with a brit. he called her a bad actress which i was like, don't say that

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/ref=pe_63660_17692720_pe_07/?ASIN=B003ZJ0POO

contain your excitement people!

she lends a sympathetic "aw, well time to go to jail" expression

lol -- yes

there's a film of this set in ireland, with gardai and leprechauns etc. i woke up one day after a heavy e session in 2005 and it was on tv. almost wept with joy at its existence.

http://www.etsy.com/listing/160254072/angela-lansbury-actress-doll-miniature
http://i.imgur.com/B1lXjo0.jpg

Fans of this talented actress will love adding little Angela to their collection! I created her from a combination of wood, wire, clay, and paint I created her a costume of black slacks, mustard gold jacket, and silky white blouse, She has a detailed, hand painted face, real fiber hair, and tiny silver beaded earrings. For a fun touch, she holds a book replica based on one of popular performances on television.

Angela is a fun and collectible 4 1/2 inches tall, (11.4 cm)

MSW rules. Lansbury rules. That doll... um. Yeah.

did you check out the other dolls? lol

I think the Lansbury doll is pretty good! Some of the others are a bit more hit and miss, sure.

i was praying there'd be a Columbo doll...and there is! i may be losing my shit in my dotage but i'd love to have a bunch of these

http://img1.etsystatic.com/017/0/5267222/il_570xN.497309153_6iez.jpg

i quite like this one tho

http://img0.etsystatic.com/022/0/5267222/il_570xN.501374522_kg70.jpg

at least its recognisable

http://img1.etsystatic.com/023/0/5267222/il_570xN.474698541_2l76.jpg

Ellen Corby aka Grandma Walton

a full list with category menu on the left
http://www.etsy.com/shop/UneekDollDesigns?ref=listing-shop-header-item-count

!!!!

http://img1.etsystatic.com/017/0/5267222/il_570xN.496600641_kznw.jpg

The Andy Warhol doll looks uncannily like this stoner dude I knew at university

ok i want this one
http://img0.etsystatic.com/010/0/5267222/il_570xN.461908610_h4yx.jpg

But if I had the money I would totally be clearing a space on my mantlepiece for my Fyodor Dostoevsky, Muriel Spark and Barbara Pym dolls right now

http://img0.etsystatic.com/000/0/5267222/il_570xN.268465302.jpg
Bob Marley

http://img1.etsystatic.com/000/0/5267222/il_570xN.267056513.jpg
Jimi Hendrix

http://img1.etsystatic.com/000/0/5267222/il_570xN.259545659.jpg

hahahahahahahaha
http://img0.etsystatic.com/009/0/5267222/il_570xN.428775616_bqvb.jpg

http://img0.etsystatic.com/003/0/5267222/il_570xN.405630522_a6ry.jpg

not sure Anne Sexton's neck was the same length as her torso, but ok

http://img1.etsystatic.com/017/0/5267222/il_570xN.490601873_dvut.jpg

http://img1.etsystatic.com/007/0/5267222/il_570xN.372554733_ffzc.jpg

I do like these dolls though... they look like they should be featuring in a 1970s kids TV show, I think it gives them a nostalgic appeal

like some kind of stop motion thing

OMG she does custom designs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GaYHGFTP9JA

not as sophisticated as stop motion but definitely in this ballpark

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tu0vUwsufP0

better clip, sorry

she could sell this local hero round here
http://www.etsy.com/listing/127261573/david-livingstone-historical-art-doll?ref=shop_home_active

been laughing at this all morning:

JESSICA:
Looking for this? (She holds up an earring)

SOMEONE’S WIFE, YOU FORGET WHOSE:
Jessica! No, I was just… I thought I heard a dog, in the bin.

JESSICA:
I’m afraid it’s over, Someone’s Wife. You killed Desperate for basically the same mundane, practical reason as one of the male suspects, but you didn’t get much screen time so it still seems like a surprise. I found your earring at the crime scene, and when I give it to the police I’m sure they’ll prove it was yours.

SOMEONE’S WIFE, YOU FORGET WHOSE:
Not if I happen to have a gun on me and draw it now, honestly planning to kill an old lady over some fairly flimsy evidence but for some reason wanting to warn her first!

POLICE IDIOT:
(Emerging from the shadows) Drop it, Someone’s Wife!

SOMEONE’S WIFE, YOU FORGET WHOSE:
Oh for God’s sake. Why do you let her do these things as a weird piece of theatre?

POLICE IDIOT:
Her chain of evidence is always hopelessly weak, so we just have to hope you’ll either kill her or confess.

JESSICA:
It’s true. I have no reason to mention this beyond simple smarm now, but I never found any earring.

haha irl lol

who wrote it?