Meta Moments in 70s Television
Columbo. Season 2 Episode 1. “Etude in Black”
Society Lady: It seems you had questionable taste in friends.
Groovy Jazz musician: Well, some of them were busted for smoking grass.
So what? Two members of the board of trustees are on indictment for breaking antitrust laws.
Society Lady: I wouldn’t try to be funny, Mr. Rifkin.
Groovy Jazz musician: I smoke grass sometimes, just about like you drink gin.
Didn’t you ever have a drink of gin during Prohibition, when gin was illegal?
Society Lady:
Wow, great catch!
The films of Myrna Loy are ever present in my mind. And in the minds of the makers of Columbo.