Funniest Columbo moments?
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tupet — 9 years ago(May 25, 2016 01:24 AM)
Really so many I always laugh in The Bye-Bye Sky High I.Q. Murder Case when Columbo is in the bar and is very kind answering to the girl flirting on him, and he doesn't stop chasing the boy!
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McCartney42 — 9 years ago(May 28, 2016 02:40 PM)
I always laugh when Columbo goes to this mission in "Negative Reaction" to go question the whino (Vito Scotti) and the interaction between Columbo and the nun (Joyce Van Patten). Columbo: "I've had this coat for seven years". Nun: "Oh you poor man". Cracks me up every time!!
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Karl Aksel — 9 years ago(September 21, 2016 06:58 AM)
I always laugh when Columbo goes to this mission in "Negative Reaction" to go question the whino (Vito Scotti) and the interaction between Columbo and the nun (Joyce Van Patten). Columbo: "I've had this coat for seven years". Nun: "Oh you poor man". Cracks me up every time!!
That is one of my favourites, too. Especially how he then explains that he is a policeman, and she assumes he is working undercover. She praises his disguise, and he (self-consciously?) opts not to correct her. -
christopherpar — 9 years ago(June 17, 2016 06:21 AM)
There are so many hilarious moments throughout Columbo that it is hard to pick a favourite. One weird moment I did notice though was the fountain at the beginning of one episode. Looked so strange I had to rewind to make sure I wasn't imagining it. Fans of Columbo will know or work out which episode I mean. Is at the very start so will not take you too long. But when I think of Columbo I always remember the tennis ball (hot dog sausage) machine, the poison marmalade and those HUGE teeth on the lady shop owner near the lake house. If her brain was the same size she might have survived.
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MystMoonstruck — 9 years ago(July 03, 2016 06:15 PM)
One of my favorites is Columbo with the doughnut vs. the waitress (a very young Jamie Leigh Curtis). "Did you buy that here?!" ~ The Bye-Bye Sky High I.Q. Murder Case
Another is Columbo seeking a meeting with Mariette Hartley~while she's taking a belly dance class. ~ Try and Catch Me
I love seeing Ruth Gordon and Peter Falk competing for the camera in that same episode. She's one of the very few who could threaten to upstage him!
Actually, there are so many funny moments. I agree about the coat bit when he's mistaken for a homeless man. Columbo and Dog also give us some wonderful scenes, including when he's dangling from a branch with Dog barking at him in "Forgotten Lady".
(W)hat are we without our dreams?
Making sure our fantasies
Do not overpower our realities. ~ RC -
old_tv_guy — 9 years ago(September 16, 2016 07:37 PM)
Speaking of Dog in
Negative Reaction
, he asks the big, nationally-acclaimed photographer if he thinks Columbo's dog would like pin-up photos of another dog.
Another one, not LOL funny, but in
A Deadly State of Mind
, the murderer glances out a window and sees, across the parking lot, his car's tires being closely examined by the Lieutenant. Then Columbo stands up this little rain-coated figure way off in the distance and a single satisfied teensy-weensy puff of smoke comes off his cigar. -
MissMargoChanning — 3 years ago(September 09, 2022 02:47 PM)
there's an episode,c an't remember which one, where Columbo goes to a homeless shelter and a nun mistakes him for one of the homeless, offers him some soup or something.
Out of so many funny bits, that is the one that always comes to mind.
You asked a pretty question; I've given you the ugly answer.
Fasten Your Seatbelts….
It's Going To Be A Bumpy Night! -
habslover — 9 years ago(September 19, 2016 09:55 AM)
I think the funniest Columbo moment comes from Suitable in Framing when he is with the landlady. And she takes out her photo album and starts talking about her family pictures, just the look on Columbo's face is too much!
"Kaplan. Mr. George Kaplan?" -
shlbycindy — 9 years ago(January 31, 2017 10:34 AM)
In Double Shock I love how Colombo keeps messing things up and the housekeeper stays after him whenever he's in the house. It starts with him putting ashes in one of the ashtrays and just escalates from there. Jeanette Nolan plays the housekeeper and in one episode she chases Colombo down the stairs while yelling at him about something else he's done. It's not my favorite episode but Nolan was absolutely wonderful in the part of the housekeeper.