Thread by @garius

ME: it's 6am. I can get 2hrs more sleep.
MY BRAIN: Oh hai. You're awake. So in our hypothetical Columbo reboot with Donald Glover, we should do an episode where a famous speedrunner murders a fan who discovers he's cheating, but appears to be streaming when the murder happens...

ME: I just want sleep
MY BRAIN: Yeah. Cool. Anyway, I've worked out the basics. The fan blackmails the speedrunner who promises to help him become a famous streamer. The speedrunner convinces him they should fake an on-air robbery, just after the speedrunner raids him on Twitch.

ME: Go away
MY BRAIN: They film the fake robbery the day before. Then, on the MORNING of the planned fake vid the speedrunner actually murders the fan before he starts his stream, and sets the fan's computer up to play the fake video at the time of the raid. Bosh. Alibi.

ME: I need more sleep.
MY BRAIN: I can't work out how Columbo solves it though. The final gotcha.
ME:
MY BRAIN:
ME: The green screen. The fan got excited. Bought a new one to celebrate. Redid his setup. Columbo spots the vid is wrong for his chroma. Let's get coffee. I'll explain

MY BRAIN: How does the speedrunner hide it was a video, not live?
ME: Easy. Gets the kid to give him Parsec access. Sets up a new OBS scene collection. Resets the settings remotely. That's one of Columbo's minor gotcha moments. Why did the kid have that scene collection set up?

MY BRAIN: Nice. What are the others.
ME <sipping coffee>: speedrunner claims he didn't know the kid, but he donated a ton of bits a few streams back. Columbo points this out when he says he's been watching past streams "to learn about streaming"

ME: Then there's a scene where @SofiGaming tells Columbo other streamers suspected the speedrunner's "newbie raids" were paid for by the newbies to boost their profile
MY BRAIN: Nice. Best Columbos have a cameo
ME: Columbo discovers it's true, wants to know why this one was free

@SofiGaming MY BRAIN: So how does he catch him with the green screen?
ME: Columbo reveals the existence of the new green screen to the killer. Asks him to 'help' him check the chroma the next day. The killer panics, he KNOWS the chroma will be wrong. He stays cool and agrees.

@SofiGaming ME: The killer parsecs back in. Fixes the Chroma. Next day:

KILLER: Well there, Detective. As you can see his Chroma is right
COLUMBO: Yes it is, sir. And that's very curious
KILLER: Why
COLUMBO: Because he never set the screen UP sir. And the only person I told about it was you

MY BRAIN: Niiiice. You can go back to sleep now.
ME:
MY BRAIN: Or you can help me work out the next episode?
ME:
MY BRAIN:
ME:
MY BRAIN:
ME: We update the one with the murderous NFL owner.
MY BRAIN: Nice! Tell me more...

Yes.

There'll be a throwaway comment about how he drives his dad's old car.

https://mobile.twitter.com/illandancient/status/1455081108366897152

KILLER (FINN WOLFHARD): Lieutenant that's... wow.
COLUMBO (DONALD GLOVER): Sir?
KILLER: Your car.
COLUMBO: Oh! A beauty, isn't she sir?
KILLER: She's certainly something. I know a guy who could convert that to electric.
COLUMBO: Oh no I couldn't, sir. She was a gift from my dad.

That would be one of only TWO references to OG Columbo in the whole series.

The other would be in the episode 'Columbo goes on Holiday', which would be set in Budapest.

At one point, a scene would start with Glover staring thoughtfully at the statue of Peter Falk there.

Although, in the episode where Columbo deals with a Crypto bro (played by Danny Pudi) who murdered a journalist, Columbo does make a throwaway comment about how his mum once worked for a newspaper.