Jim G.
7/26/2013 5:13:00 PM
Rhino sent the following on Fri, 26 Jul 2013 12:43:42 -0400:
> On 2013-07-26 1:25 AM, David Johnston wrote:
> > They replaced the old junkie played by the guy from Republic of Doyle
> > with a different guy and wedged him into the storyline by revealing he
> > speaks German courtesy of having spend 5 years in German P.O.W. camps.
> > So apparently there's a reason for him to be messed up.
> >
> > You know, I don't think I've ever seen a bird watcher on a cop show who
> > wasn't a criminal.
>
> I can't imagine why a bird watcher would be more or less inclined to
> criminality than anyone else.
>
> I don't think I've ever seen a bird watcher on a cop show.
>
> In fact, the only bird-related observations I have is that Robert Blake
> had a parrot (or was it a cockatoo?) in Baretta which he seemed fond of.
> (I think I only ever saw the pilot of that show; I was not a regular
> watcher so I don't know if the bird lasted beyond the pilot.)
>
> In NYPD Blue, Jimmy Smits' character Bobby Simone had a friend named
> Pete who kept pigeons on the roof of his apartment. That figured into an
> episode or two. But I make a distinction between bird owners and bird
> watchers. Naturally, a bird owner will observe his own birds but a real
> bird watcher may travel hundreds or thousands of miles to look at birds.
> My dentist is such a person and he's travelled to various places around
> the world, like the Aleutian Islands and Siberia, to look at birds. I
> don't think he's ever done a criminal thing in his life. (Of course, he
> is not a character on a TV show either.)
IIRC, M*A*S*H's Fr. Mulcahy guested on MURDER, SHE WROTE. He ended up
being the killer and he was ... a bird watcher.
That's the only one that comes to mind for me, though.
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Jim G. | A fan of the good and the bad, but not the mediocre
"Dang it. That was my best Dirty Harry. He might just be an idiot." -- Jason Stackhouse, TRUE BLOOD