Funniest Columbo moments?
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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
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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….
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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.
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Hutch — 5 years ago(May 07, 2020 07:52 PM)
Pretty much anytime Vera Miles shows up in "Lovely, but Lethal". Miles is hilarious here. A hoot! I really had no idea she had it in her.
Ruth Gordon is also very funny in "Try and Catch Me", but she's always good.
One bit that comes to mind that makes me laugh is in "Old fashioned Murder", where Celeste Holm's character faints upon hearing the word "homicide". Joyce Van Patten's bright response"
See, I told you! She faints!
Another Joyce Van Patten scene that makes me laugh is in "Double Negative", when she plays a nun at a soup kitchen and mistakes Lt. Columbo for a bum. She shakes her head in dismay. "Oh, that coat. That poor old coat." Hilarious
I'm sure there are others. I like Susan Clark's personality transformation in "Lady in Waiting" when she shows up at the company board meeting in this most inappropriate outfit, decked out in a corduroy pantsuit, in shades of fuchsia and burgundy complete with a train conductor's cap and bill. She's not taking grief from anybody as she turns to her mother and says "in case you haven't noticed it,mother, you're getting old!" Damn! But very funny stuff! -
unex — 5 years ago(May 17, 2020 02:46 AM)
Another Joyce Van Patten scene that makes me laugh is in "Double Negative", when she plays a nun at a soup kitchen and mistakes Lt. Columbo for a bum. She shakes her head in dismay. "Oh, that coat. That poor old coat." Hilarious
I watched an episode the other day, the one with William Shatner playing a radio talk show host, that had Columbo walk onto the set of a soap opera to talk to a potential suspect. They were shooting a back alley scene with various bums so they assumed he was one of those extras because he blended in with his shabby coat and unkempt appearance. -
Woodyanders — 3 years ago(September 15, 2022 11:55 AM)
Thoroughly enjoyed Susan Clark's radical transformation from dowdy wallflower to chic clotheshorse in the Lady in Waiting episode.
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Woodyanders — 3 years ago(September 09, 2022 12:55 PM)
Columbo trying to get a vital piece of photographic evidence from a busybody landlady who won't stop talking about all the other pictures in her photo album in the season one episode Suitable for Framing. Mary Wickes was hilarious in that small, yet still memorable role.
You've seen Guy Standeven in something because the man was in everything.