At the end of the episode Robert Culp, the murderer, gets caught when he searches for the victim's contact lens. (It wasn't really lost. Columbo played a typical trick.) In Beverly Hills Cop Axel Foley disabled the car watching him with a banana in the tail pipe. Columbo apparently used a potato to disable the murderer's car in the same way, to trap him in the repair shop.
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Reply by wonder2wonder
on October 11, 2022 at 2:26 AM
Here are the scenes:
• Columbo Sets Up a Trap for Brimmer | Columbo
• Beverly Hills Cop - Banana in the Tailpipe (1984)
But, is it believable? Perhaps, if you know how to do it like Columbo and Axel.
• Potato in exhaust pipe
• Banana in the Tailpipe
Of course we all know what the expression "Don't fall for the banana in the tailpipe" means.
Reply by simonize_our_watches
on October 11, 2022 at 10:21 PM
Those experiments suggest that neither way works. But the Beverly Hills episode certainly could have used the same kind of idea as Columbo.