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(Slate)   There's just one more thing: Columbo has become a sex symbol   (slate.com) divider line
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Joe USer [recently expired TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-01-26 11:01:59 PM  
He always was, subby.

Okay maybe not quite a sex symbol, but still a pretty freaking great character.
 
IgG4 [TotalFark]
2023-01-26 11:18:07 PM  
Rockford was hotter, but Columbo was up there
 
Monty_Zoncolan [TotalFark]
2023-01-26 11:25:45 PM  
Queer icon, from Colombo... have y'all not seen The Cheap Detective or Murder By Death?

I'll tell you later... it's disgusting!
 
IgG4 [TotalFark]
2023-01-26 11:50:05 PM  
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Dasher McHappenstance [TotalFark]
2023-01-27 12:10:30 AM  
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eurotrader [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-01-27 12:32:22 AM  

IgG4: Rockford was hotter, but Columbo was up there


Still consider a Rockford files turn fun to do some times
 
MrBallou [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-01-27 1:11:33 AM  

eurotrader: IgG4: Rockford was hotter, but Columbo was up there

Still consider a Rockford files turn fun to do some times


Still arguably one of the best theme songs ever, or at least the earliest pop use of synthesizer.
 
Monty_Zoncolan [TotalFark]
2023-01-27 1:22:39 AM  

MrBallou: eurotrader: IgG4: Rockford was hotter, but Columbo was up there

Still consider a Rockford files turn fun to do some times

Still arguably one of the best theme songs ever, or at least the earliest pop use of synthesizer.


Pssh, Quincy Jones wrote Ironsides, how do you even...

no, yeah, yer right, good theme
 
Bob_Laublaw [TotalFark]
2023-01-27 1:45:04 AM  
It's like they say, once you go lazy eye, you never go back
 
Dasher McHappenstance [TotalFark]
2023-01-27 2:14:36 AM  
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Dasher McHappenstance [TotalFark]
2023-01-27 2:16:32 AM  
So what did you do last night Dash?

Aw nuthin', just posting some sexy pictures of Peter Falk on the internet.

Not a phrase I would have imagined myself saying.
 
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2023-01-27 2:43:54 AM  
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2023-01-27 3:58:40 AM  
Paging raerae1980 to the thread.
 
Badafuco [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-01-27 3:59:36 AM  

Monty_Zoncolan: Queer icon, from Colombo... have y'all not seen The Cheap Detective or Murder By Death?

I'll tell you later... it's disgusting!


Murder By Death is such a great movie.
 
Stud Gerbil
2023-01-27 4:05:05 AM  
There was Rockford, Columbo and Kojak.   Mannix had fans too, but he was not so much a detective as a beat the truth out of you guy.  No love for poor Cannon, I guess.
 
Alphax
2023-01-27 4:12:06 AM  
I was born in 1971, so my memories of Columbo and other shows of that era are vague.

I remember Starsky & Hutch, and when they talked about junkies, and there were marks on their arms, I actually thought it was a communicable disease, like chicken pox or measles.
 
RoyFokker'sGhost
2023-01-27 4:38:58 AM  

Bob_Laublaw: It's like they say, once you go lazy eye, you never go back


Glass eye. Peter Falk had cancer in that eye (retinoblastoma), and had a glass eye since he was three and that eye had to be removed.

Would you care to discuss Sylvester Stallone's slurred speech cased by nerve damage in his cheeck from the forceps used in his delivery, next?
 
phishrace
2023-01-27 4:55:57 AM  
I decided to dive back into Columbo and made a critical mistake. Wasn't going to start from the beginning. Too many seasons, too many episodes. So I picked one with a notable guest star. Can you guess which star may have been a mistake to watch?

That's right, William Tiberius Shatner. Dude was chewing up scene after scene and I couldn't take it any more. Had to bail out. Couldn't even finish the first episode. Don't make the same mistake I did. Save the Shatner episode for last. He's absolutely horrible.
 
Carter Pewterschmidt [TotalFark]
2023-01-27 4:58:07 AM  
Just once I'd have loved to see Columbo tie the murderer to a chair and beat the crap out of him until he confessed.

/And as others have said, The Cheap Detective and Murder By Death are must sees.
 
Carter Pewterschmidt [TotalFark]
2023-01-27 4:59:44 AM  

phishrace: I decided to dive back into Columbo and made a critical mistake. Wasn't going to start from the beginning. Too many seasons, too many episodes. So I picked one with a notable guest star. Can you guess which star may have been a mistake to watch?

That's right, William Tiberius Shatner. Dude was chewing up scene after scene and I couldn't take it any more. Had to bail out. Couldn't even finish the first episode. Don't make the same mistake I did. Save the Shatner episode for last. He's absolutely horrible.


I know one he plays a TV detective, so his scenery chewing absolutely fits the character. I have no problem watching his episodes.
 
mindset zero
2023-01-27 5:20:13 AM  
It is weird how I kinda miss regular TV programming for the 90's. It was always much more fun on the weekends anyhow.

4 years 5 years back I was living out nowhere. Didn't want to pay for satellite so we just used over the air antenna. Is like going through a time war. Crafting shows reruns of Chips, Knight Rider, M*A*S*H, 80's action movies, 60's Batman, and the shocker daily airings MST3K
 
Optimus Primate [OhFark]
2023-01-27 5:20:25 AM  
Just did a re-watch on Peacock. It's fantastic.
The first few seasons are the best, there are some duds in the later seasons.

The first episode is directed by Steven Spielberg!
 
kling_klang_bed
2023-01-27 5:27:25 AM  
Right before he blows his load on someone's face, he pauses, scratches his head and says "oh, and one more thing......".
 
BafflerMeal
2023-01-27 5:37:28 AM  
Meanwhile, Columbo in Budapest is still trying to figure out what happened to the squirrel.

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kling_klang_bed
2023-01-27 5:39:44 AM  

phishrace: I decided to dive back into Columbo and made a critical mistake. Wasn't going to start from the beginning. Too many seasons, too many episodes. So I picked one with a notable guest star. Can you guess which star may have been a mistake to watch?

That's right, William Tiberius Shatner. Dude was chewing up scene after scene and I couldn't take it any more. Had to bail out. Couldn't even finish the first episode. Don't make the same mistake I did. Save the Shatner episode for last. He's absolutely horrible.


Ever seen the one with Johnny Cash?

When There's An Answer For Everything | Columbo
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MillionDollarMo
2023-01-27 5:49:08 AM  
Peter Falk yeah you would.
 
Truthman
2023-01-27 5:56:10 AM  

MillionDollarMo: Peter Falk yeah you would.


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Truthman
2023-01-27 5:58:11 AM  

Stud Gerbil: There was Rockford, Columbo and Kojak.   Mannix had fans too, but he was not so much a detective as a beat the truth out of you guy.  No love for poor Cannon, I guess.


Harry O with David Janssen fit in there somewhere, and McMillan
 
10.0.0.1 [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-01-27 6:14:37 AM  
I guess I'm mostly irritated that Slate screwed the pooch by calling him a "boomer cop".  He was waaaaaaaaay to old for that designation.

Awesome show, though.
 
Clash City Farker
2023-01-27 6:20:21 AM  
It was a glass eye not a lazy eye.
 
barefoot2008
2023-01-27 6:22:11 AM  
The movie 'Husbands' - Peter Falk, John Cassavettes and Ben Gazzara. Talk about a trifecta.
 
buster_v
2023-01-27 6:59:28 AM  
If you only know the great Peter Falk from Columbo -- you haven't seen anything yet.
 
Alphax
2023-01-27 7:03:17 AM  

buster_v: If you only know the great Peter Falk from Columbo -- you haven't seen anything yet.


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Feral Cat With Scissors [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-01-27 7:15:40 AM  
I don't know about today, but go back 20+ years and Columbo was the style icon for auditors, field inspectors, anyone whose job was to sift the truth out of stuff provided by someone motivated to disguise it. Plain, practical, rumpled.

To the point the business people were advised not to wear the best suit or the luxury watch when meeting with them, so as not to resemble a Columbo villain.
 
Archie Goodwin
2023-01-27 7:19:47 AM  
TV detectives? Pffft. As if.
 
Flappyhead
2023-01-27 7:30:13 AM  

buster_v: If you only know the great Peter Falk from Columbo -- you haven't seen anything yet.


The Brinx Job is fantastic.
 
kryptoknightmare
2023-01-27 7:41:03 AM  
Uh, no.  Now, MRS. Columbo....
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Alphax
2023-01-27 7:46:25 AM  

kryptoknightmare: Uh, no.  Now, MRS. Columbo....
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I remember when she was playing Captain Janeway, she'd state in interviews 'I am NOT a beautiful woman.'  But I also remember Voyager's writers seemed to look for excuses to get her as naked as broadcast TV would allow.
 
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2023-01-27 7:47:37 AM  
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OtherLittleGuy [BareFark]
2023-01-27 8:22:51 AM  

Carter Pewterschmidt: Just once I'd have loved to see Columbo tie the murderer to a chair and beat the crap out of him until he confessed.

/And as others have said, The Cheap Detective and Murder By Death are must sees.


That's the current CBS Police Procedurals.
 
AbortionsForAll [OhFark]
2023-01-27 8:29:26 AM  
He loved and respected his wife. That's super hot.
 
lilistonic [BareFark]
2023-01-27 8:35:50 AM  
By Boomer cop do they mean watched by Boomers? He was born nearly 100 years ago, my parents born in the 30s loved him, so I did, too. (Am also not a boomer.)

Anyway, this thread is old, but none of you posted this. :-(

Lt. Columbo (Peter Falk) Roasts Frank Sinatra (1978)
Youtube 3_UN2S8SasY
 
strangeguitar
2023-01-27 8:43:10 AM  

AbortionsForAll: He loved and respected his wife. That's super hot.


He never had a wife. He always used fake family members in conversations with his suspects to make him more relatable and catch them relaxed a bit.
 
lilistonic [BareFark]
2023-01-27 8:45:18 AM  

strangeguitar: AbortionsForAll: He loved and respected his wife. That's super hot.

He never had a wife. He always used fake family members in conversations with his suspects to make him more relatable and catch them relaxed a bit.


He did really have a wife.
 
Unoriginal_Username
2023-01-27 8:49:10 AM  

lilistonic: By Boomer cop do they mean watched by Boomers? He was born nearly 100 years ago, my parents born in the 30s loved him, so I did, too. (Am also not a boomer.)

Anyway, this thread is old, but none of you posted this. :-(

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Such a perfect example of just how good Peter was. I grew up watching Columbo re-runs and it was such a great show
 
dryknife
2023-01-27 8:56:23 AM  

Stud Gerbil: There was Rockford, Columbo and Kojak.   Mannix had fans too, but he was not so much a detective as a beat the truth out of you guy.  No love for poor Cannon, I guess.


Don't forget VEGA$; Dan Tanna solves a hooker's murder.
 
EnderWiggnz
2023-01-27 8:59:15 AM  

Dasher McHappenstance: So what did you do last night Dash?

Aw nuthin', just posting some sexy pictures of Peter Falk on the internet.

Not a phrase I would have imagined myself saying.


Same thing we do every night pinky
 
NeoCortex42 [TotalFark]
2023-01-27 9:02:52 AM  
Cozy TV has been doing a day of "Columbo & Friends" each weekend with Columbo, McCloud, McMillan & Wife, Bancek, and Quincy.

Yeah, Columbo is pretty great, but Banacek is downright awesome.  He doesn't need to appear bumbling to throw people off, he just goes in as a cocky motherfarker and gets shiat done.
 
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2023-01-27 9:05:24 AM  
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csi_yellowknife
2023-01-27 9:06:25 AM  

lilistonic: By Boomer cop do they mean watched by Boomers? He was born nearly 100 years ago, my parents born in the 30s loved him, so I did, too. (Am also not a boomer.)

Anyway, this thread is old, but none of you posted this. :-(

[YouTube video: Lt. Columbo (Peter Falk) Roasts Frank Sinatra (1978)]


Anyone over 25 = Boomers.

Anyone under 25 = people who mock Boomers while listening to Kate Bush, Rick Astley, or sampling Tom Tom Club or sounding like a-ha.

Now let them get back to watching Columbo or hearing Dua Lipa sing with Elton John.
 
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