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Sesame Squirrel

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75% watch parties, 25% cat pics😹 Staff to CeCeCat & AmeliaKatt🐱 Sweet Emmy Cat🌈 is my avatar🐾 Follower of the Golden Rule. No Alt-Text = No boost. Fedi/🦋 #WatchPartyCalendar 📅at http://bit.ly/LiveStreamMastodonCal 🐿️ Same name on Mastodon.

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Sesame Squirrel @sesamesquirrel.bsky.social · Nov 15

I wish I could pin more than one post to my profile, a la Mastodon. Behold my girls #AmeliaKatt the tuxy, and #CeCeCat the cow kitty

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Sesame Squirrel @sesamesquirrel.bsky.social · 5h

oooooooh -- tempting!

Maybe I can step in for two months -- must consult my calendar first

But in the meantime, see below (will add in SWAN SONG s3e7 details for 11/8)

*FINAL MONTHLY EVENT (for now)* [Bluesky] #ColumboTV: SWAN SONG...
Saturday, November 8 • 5:00 - 5:00pm
Every 4 weeks on Saturday

After tonight, the monthly #ColumboTV watch party, which occurs every 4th Saturday, is going on indefinite hiatus.
• 2pm PT
• 5pm ET
• 10pm UK

Contact host Matthew @rubberplant.bsky.social, who posts each month's movie poll and final case selection, if you would like to take over monthly_ hosting duties.

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NOV 2025, SAT

5pm
*FINAL MONTHLY EVENT (for now)* [Bluesky] #Colu
6
DEC 2025, SAT

• 5pm
*ON HIATUS* [Bluesky] #ColumboTV: (host wanted)
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JAN 2026, SAT

• 5pm
*ON HIATUS* [Bluesky] #ColumboTV: (host wanted)
31 JAN 2026, SAT

• 5pm
*ON HIATUS* [Bluesky] #ColumboTV: (host wanted)
28 FEB 2026, SAT

• 5pm
*ON HIATUS* [Bluesky] #ColumboTV: (host wanted)
28 MAR 2026, SAT
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5pm
*ON HIATUS* [Bluesky] #ColumboTV: (host wanted

Sesame Squirrel @sesamesquirrel.bsky.social · 5h

11/8 - will do ❤️‍🩹 will send you the text when I am done

Sesame Squirrel @sesamesquirrel.bsky.social · 5h

I once went down the technical rabbithole of why UK-US airings differed slightly in length and it had something to do with the film frame rates of speed varying on opposite sides of the Atlantic

so if your DVD set was burned from a UK master (aside from PAL vs. NTSC) that'd do it #ColumboTV

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Sesame Squirrel @sesamesquirrel.bsky.social · 5h

Thanks @rubberplant.bsky.social and #ColumboTV 🎩 #NowYouSeeHim gang! That was DELIGHTFUL and I may well watch it again 🥰

Matthew - I will put your SWAN SONG info into the #WatchPartyCalendar for your swan song -- is it the 8th or 15th?

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Sesame Squirrel @sesamesquirrel.bsky.social · 5h

somehow you are ahead -- Columbo is still explaining how Shaun Cassidy's dad screwed up #ColumboTV 🎩 #NowYouSeeHim

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Sesame Squirrel @sesamesquirrel.bsky.social · 5h

oh yeeeeeees 👍🏻👍🏻

Sesame Squirrel @sesamesquirrel.bsky.social · 5h

What a relief! I was afraid that coat would be around for a while #ColumboTV 🎩 #NowYouSeeHim

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Matthew @rubberplant.bsky.social · 5h

I can reveal that last month's #ColumboTV poll actually had a split vote - two episodes with equal votes... we're watching one now, and I figured it made sense to watch the other in four weeks, for our final Columbo watch party for the time being... appropriate enough for our 'Swan Song'...

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Sesame Squirrel @sesamesquirrel.bsky.social · 5h

I am LOVING his turn as the villain. Sooooo suaaaaave #ColumboTV 🎩 #NowYouSeeHim

Sesame Squirrel @sesamesquirrel.bsky.social · 5h

And the Jack Cassidy-Shirley Jones gene combo was also lethal 😂 Yes, my adolescent crush extraordinaire

#ColumboTV 🪄🎩 #NowYouSeeHim

SHAUN CASSIDY - eponymous LP cover from 1976

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Sesame Squirrel @sesamesquirrel.bsky.social · 6h

It's the white hair (says the grey squirrel) which makes people think "OLDER"

although #JackCassidy (here in 1966 with then 2nd wife #ShirleyJones - mother of Shaun 🥰, Patrick, and Ryan Cassidy) was always silver-blond, I believe, and then simply silver-haired

#ColumboTV 🪄🎩 #NowYouSeeHim

Sesame Squirrel @sesamesquirrel.bsky.social · 6h

Columbo! DUDE! Chill! 🤣 #ColumboTV 🪄🎩 #NowYouSeeHim

a cartoon of homer simpson saying me ! me ! me ! in front of a crowd

Alt: a cartoon of homer simpson saying "me ! me ! me !" in a crowd

media.tenor.com

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Sesame Squirrel @sesamesquirrel.bsky.social · 6h

OMG! The French maid waitress outfit 🤣 #ColumboTV 🪄🎩 #NowYouSeeHim

Sesame Squirrel @sesamesquirrel.bsky.social · 6h

IKR?! WHAT is up with THAT?! Does the black mac disappear after this episode? Like a bunny in a hat? 🐇 #ColumboTV 🪄🎩 #NowYouSeeHim

Matthew @rubberplant.bsky.social · 6h

The black mac freaks me out! Looks so wrong!
#ColumboTV

Sesame Squirrel @sesamesquirrel.bsky.social · 6h

I thought he was NOT able to pick the lock? #ColumboTV 🪄🎩 #NowYouSeeHim

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Sesame Squirrel @sesamesquirrel.bsky.social · 6h

I think he had some substance issues 🥃

all this info courtesy of my youthful obsession with his son Shaun

Sesame Squirrel @sesamesquirrel.bsky.social · 6h

ACK! and now he just set something on fire -- creepy 😱 #ColumboTV 🪄🎩 #NowYouSeeHim

Sesame Squirrel @sesamesquirrel.bsky.social · 6h

I remember hearing of #JackCassidy's death. He was, as you note, quite young.

I believe it was from smoking in bed, resulting in a fire. #ColumboTV 🪄🎩 #NowYouSeeHim

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Sesame Squirrel @sesamesquirrel.bsky.social · 6h

I just looked up JONATHAN CREEK and that actor works my last nerve 😂 #ColumboTV 🪄🎩 #NowYouSeeHim

Sesame Squirrel @sesamesquirrel.bsky.social · 6h

when those Selectrics turned on, it sounded like a jet engine was warming up 😂 #ColumboTV 🪄🎩 #NowYouSeeHim

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Sesame Squirrel @sesamesquirrel.bsky.social · 7h

#ColumboTV 🪄🎩 #NowYouSeeHim is it wrong of me that I am rooting for #JackCassidy the former SS officer, over our upcoming victim?

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Sesame Squirrel @sesamesquirrel.bsky.social · 7h

I just know from his photos he was verrrrr suave 😉😂 #ColumboTV

Sesame Squirrel @sesamesquirrel.bsky.social · 7h

My way of avoiding Prime Video's infuriating ads here in the US during #ColumboTV 's season episode 5 airing of NOW YOU SEE HIM: download onto my ipad & watch with headphones

I don't think I've ever actually seen #JackCassidy act. I only know him as the father of Shaun (and David -- + 2 more boys)

screencap: 4:51PM Sat Oct 11

Columbo, Season 5
ep 5. Now You See Him
1h 29min 314.9 MB

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Sesame Squirrel @sesamesquirrel.bsky.social · 7h

FYI for you and @driveinmob.com -- @titus88titus.bsky.social is showing this #ShawBrothers spookfest (?) on #KungFuSat over on Mastodon, 10/18 at Noon ET -- link is in the #WatchPartyCalendar for a region-free, subtitled, and restored print of this zaniness (first viewing for both Maathew & myself)

screencap of Shaw Brothers film THE BRAIN STEALERS (1968) with a nefarious looking, goateed, scarred Chinese man leering at the viewer and wearing an eye patch over his right eye

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Sesame Squirrel @sesamesquirrel.bsky.social · 2d

#DriveInMob 🌺 #ItCameFromHell Clearly her experience with the plant zombie has traumatized Dr. Terry into kissing him!

Thanks for the 🎃Halloween🎃 inspiration @driveinmob.com & @culturalgutter.bsky.social !

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