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:

 

 

~ by lolarusa on April 3, 2018.