Epic lol

Thankyou for the English version Well appreciated Thanks agsin

That's a well-known myth. The "One more thing before I forget" and "Oh, listen, there's one more thing" were in the pilot script. Falk was too excited about that project to flub lines.

Arra now, is that a fact!? ;

@@thebrazilianatlantis165 Er, no. Both the writers and Peter Falk themselves are on record calling it an ad-lib ... and if that isn't Word of God, I don't know what is.

@@Tindometari The writers laughed at themselves that the way it arose _in_ the pilot script was sloppy writing, they realized they wanted him to ask one more thing so they typed that.

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with Colombo it is always cat-and-mouse. Only who is the cat, and who is the mouse.

There is no cat or mouse. There is only dog.

Columbo is intelligent and can analyze a room and a person in seconds,but he doesn't have much common sense or struggles with the everyday things and I think that adds to his character,like in one episode he held up traffic because he was trying to fit his police light on top of his car or when he could get the coffe machine in the police station to work.But when Iy comes to the killer he is always one step ahead but makes them think he is 2 steps behind

E101ification I have a slightly different take. I think he is genuinely sincere with all the confusion and bewilderment thrown in only that at some point in his adolescence or early adulthood he became self aware and learnt to use it to his advantage. I can imagine him with family and friends off duty being the same

Yes it's really how anyone could be so stupid to assume that Columbo is a character who most of the times has no clue. There is a scene in an episode where he approaches the murderer and asks for some information and the murderer asks if he should get his secretary or something like that. I do not recall exactly. Columbo's answer to it was "no I think I got the right person already". An excellent display of subtle communication. But I guess my generation needs everything served on a plate to understand a dialogue. Really a shame the scipts of Columbo were excellent.

I love that too. The suspect always thinks Columbo is stupid, or at least that he'll never figure out their crime. And he helps with that misconception, he pretends to believe their excuses & often acts impressed by them. It's brilliant.

One murderer who got caught asked him when did he know he did it. Columbo replied, about five seconds after he met him, when he said or did something to expose himself.glortw The smart killers "get it" after a couple meetings with Columbo, that, hey, this guy isn't quite so dumb after all! They try to step up their game when they find this out - try to intimidate him or throw him off, kill someone else who can reveal them, even on one occasion offer him a job. Sometimes it works, if only for a little while, until Columbo discovers that little something that they overlooked. And he never lost his cool, except that one time with Nimoy when he started laughing at him and Columbo wanted to hit him with a coffee pot or something. *****

Earl A. Birkett Wasn't that Mind over Matter, when Columbo suspected the professor after 10 minutes because he was the only possible cigar smoker in the room where the victim was murdered, and he'd found that a match had been burnt right to the end by the professor lighting the cigar revealing his fondness for cigars?

Nicholas Rice Sorry Mind over Mayhem

In the end, the criminal always get fooled by their own stupidity. Ex in Negative Reaction (S4E2) when Colombo makes a upscaled and inverted image of a picture of mrs Galesko, mr Galesko (Dick Van Dyke) respond to Colombo and says that the image is inverted and that the correct negative is in the camera. He then picks out the exact camera from the shelf that took the picture. As later pointed out by Columbo, mr Galesko knowed exactly wich camera that was used because the murder was no one else but mr Galesko.

Sadly, it will happen. Some mogul will decide that it badly needs an update and makeover. Columbo will morph into a svelte, young, kickarse lady, there'll be loads of special effects, masses of sleaze and gore, and it will be as boring as hell.

So what if they do a new Columbus we will always have the original the one we like ...and there's no way that they can Alterate it ... Is here forever...

Nicolas Olivera People always like to complain. "Wah, wah, wah, new stuff bad!"

BertilGyllenhake You are aware that Peter Falk isn't the first actor to portray Columbo? Bert Freed and Thomas Mitchell played version of the character YEARS before Falk did.

BertilGyllenhake Rob Morrow. Saw him in Last Dance and Quiz Show, and he was in Numb3rs. I'm convinced he could do a mean Columbo if the series was to be rebooted.

how u doin

My friend, whom I live with, got me into this show one nite. I own the entire collection on DVD now. I even have a Columbo t-shirt!! lol

Modern Perry Mason - formulaic and predictable Matlock - doesn't take itself too seriously, which made it work very well Diagnosis for Murder - nothing special, but nonetheless well worth watching (and enjoyed subsequent viewings of the episodes) Columbo - agreed, which I had started watching them earlier

Preditor movie

You dad has taste. 😊

Get outa my world! This bent over wipesuk is in the homes of multi-zillionaires and he's giving them endless "just one more thing, sir." I would throw that sackmouth out of my home in the first ten seconds. So would any other wealthy person do the same. They would stand there listening to this intruder run off at the mouth in a pig's eye! A week later he pops up in your toilet bowl and has a few more questions. No self-respecting multimillionaire perp would put up with this. He's got nothing to say to this B & E artist. Throw him out and have him call your lawyer.

truth seeker ... know a lot millionaires dude?

I live in a trailer down by the river. Can't find any millionaires there.

truth seeker you sound like typical new money

Jeff, if I sound like new money to you then all I can say is you come to conclusions way too early.

Especially when the killer claims to be busy, yet when Columbo throws out some bait, they suddenly urge him to keep talking because they need to know how much he has figured out. Then Columbo will point out that the killer said he was busy, which the killer will strenuously deny.

I wondered if Rip had eaten a bad oyster in this scene. Everytime Columbo "left" he was looking a bit queezy.

Exactly. Brilliantly put.

You got that right! In many ways Falk built his own character, William Link even admitted this in his emmytvlegend interview. Much like Michael Richards with Kramer from Seinfeld, most of Columbo's cadences, signature lines, wardrobe and little adlibs were Falk.

Oh, certainly. All of that plus of course Peter Falk is what made Columbo such a masterpiece that airs everywhere around the world even today. It was so original to television with the inverted mystery and bringing him in late which shouldn't work but it does, with most shows you could NEVER pull that off. The Columbo formula is perfection! I just started watching Columbo since late January and I'm hooked. I tape every episode on METV and even a few from the Hallmark mystery channel

Friedel Pferdefleisch Oh i intend to. its addictive lol That's amazing that Columbo is popular all over the world. they have a statue of him in Hungary. you're clearly a Columbophile. How'd you discover it?

Wow, that's an amazing story and It's always fun to hear about how super passionate fans fell in love with their addiction lol. Boy, Link, Levinsons and Falk had no clue what they would go on to create. It's got quite a legacy and I hope it's never rebooted, remade etc. I really can't see anyone else in that role, I don't care how talented an actor they are. do you have a top five favorite Columbo list?

Yes, thank God Peter lived to be 83 and share his talent with the entire world. You're right I don't have to watch it. I'm perfectly satisfied with what he have and if they ever do decide to reboot it good luck to them because they'd need it even attempting to do something like that lol and I have to say I always heard of the name Columbo even as a kid because his name would come up on tv shows all the time or best series\character lists but never thought to watch it until I discovered METV at the end of December and found that they aired it. I decided just last month to give it a shot and my first episode was Columbo Cries Wolf, and I was hooked from there. I've only been able to collect seasons 9 and I'm halfway through 10 so far and hoping to see earlier seasons soon once the cycle reverts back but I did get to see Prescription: Murder just this past Tuesday and thoroughly enjoyed it. It was interesting to see how slightly different Columbo was and how much he evolved over the years as a character and all the little quirks and traits of his evolved. My top 5 for now until I see more are easily 1) Columbo Cries Wolf 2) Prescription: Murder 3)Columbo Goes to College 4) Uneasy Lies The Crown 5) Agenda For Murder. I'm definitely excited to see Murder by the book show because I read it was on tv guide's 100 greatest episodes of all time list back in '97 and Steven Speilberg directed it.

The killers put so much effort into explaining these problems to evade detection. "Sorry, I have no idea" is rather feeble.

RIP Rip Torn

I hope you're not offended by this, but you may have just given me an idea for a comedy sketch.

Keith Evers Seeing as how I intended the comment to be amusing when I wrote it, any "ideas" you gleaned were already fully fleshed. You must be a fan of Dane Cook, since that guy watches Louis CK's act and thinks to himself, "Hmmm...he may have just given me an idea for a bit!"

johnnytastetest (snapping of fingers) Dag nab it!

+johnnytastetest That pretty much happened in several episodes.

johnnytastetest This gives new meaning to the phrase "coerced confession".

"Just one more thing, sir before I leave". They shoulda chiseled that on his gravestone.

the maieutic method

@@halflanding1900 Or even the Socratic Irony.

Anglo-austrailian? Give it a rest.

Too bad Peter Falk is dead.

You could try Murder by Death with Peter Falk, where a group of parodies of famous detectives are brought together in a secluded mansion. Sadly Falk's character's isn't Colombo - he plays a Sam Spade caricature - but it's still fun.

@@markchambers3833 Nice ill check it out

Yep. Nothing new under the sun.