# Dumbest way a TV detective has solved a crime \[open spoilers\] **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** tv-shows-scripted\ **Created:** [January 27, 2025, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumbest-way-a-tv-detective-has-solved-a-crime-open-spoilers/1013482 "2025-01-27T17:14:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 3
**Author:** ![solost](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/solost/32/11776_2.png) [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2025, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumbest-way-a-tv-detective-has-solved-a-crime-open-spoilers/1013482/3 "2025-01-27T18:04:53Z")
Going back to Columbo (not to beat up on the show, because I do love it), I did a ‘Columbo rewatch’ thread a few years ago in which I posted what I thought was one of the weakest Columbo ‘gotcha’ moments (though not as outright dumb as the ‘guillotine’ gotcha), involving whether a potential witness was blind or not (if you click on the ‘replies’ at the bottom of that post you can also see a clip of the scene posted): > [@I'm rewatching every episode of Columbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-rewatching-every-episode-of-columbo/953309/104): > > I think the most feeble ‘gotcha’ Columbo ever used, which makes the knot-tying gotcha seem like DNA evidence in comparison, is one where the murderer leaving the scene of the murder passed a blind man, the only ‘eyewitness’. At the big gotcha reveal, Columbo tells the murderer they’ve found an eyewitness, and brings in a man wearing dark glasses, who appears to be the blind man. The murderer says, preposterous! You obviously coached him to be able to walk to the couch and sit down on his own, t… --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumbest-way-a-tv-detective-has-solved-a-crime-open-spoilers/1013482)._