# "Just one more thing, sir...": The Columbo Thread **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 16, 2005, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-one-more-thing-sir-the-columbo-thread/308615 "2005-06-16T22:36:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![want2know](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/50afbb/32.png) [@want2know](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/want2know)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2005, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-one-more-thing-sir-the-columbo-thread/308615/41 "2005-06-18T19:54:33Z")
> [@SpazCat](#): > > I love the one with the college students. I spend the entire episode yelling “You smug asshole bastards! I want to smack those sh!t-eating grins off your lying murderer faces!” only to be wholly 🙂 REDEEMED 🙂 at the end when Their Young Lives Are Ruined. > > I love Dog, too. Dog and my father are the reason why I love Basset Hounds so much. They’re the best dogs. So what size flea collar does your father wear? 😛 ---
**Author:** ![xenophon41](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xenophon41/32/253_2.png) [@xenophon41](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xenophon41)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2005, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-one-more-thing-sir-the-columbo-thread/308615/42 "2005-06-18T23:27:08Z")
> [@Baldwin](#): > > I love that character! Always rumpled, seemingly disorganized, maybe even comes across as a crackpot, but he spots the clues, plugs along fearlessly and protects the public. Remember the one with the werewolf on the cruise ship, and the episode about the swamp monster? > > Anybody? Columbo (the Night Stalker) **C:** _Aah, sorry sir, just one more thing… I wonder if you’d mind signing this crucifix. It’s just that my wife-- she loves vampires, sir; always has…"_ **V:** [Shrinks away in fear] _Hsssssss!!_ ---
**Author:** ![E-Sabbath](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e19adc/32.png) [@E-Sabbath](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-Sabbath)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2005, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-one-more-thing-sir-the-columbo-thread/308615/43 "2005-06-18T23:30:11Z")
> [@aruvqan](#): > > ?? Peter Falk is from NY, Cab Calloway is from Rochester NY… opposite ends of the state… Huh. But Sojurner Truth _did_ spend a lot of time near my town. You know, I always _heard_ Cab was from my home, but I never checked it till now. Wonder if he lived here for a while or something. ---
**Author:** ![aruvqan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aruvqan/32/2891_2.png) [@aruvqan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2005, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-one-more-thing-sir-the-columbo-thread/308615/44 "2005-06-19T00:34:35Z")
> [@E-Sabbath](#): > > Huh. But Sojurner Truth _did_ spend a lot of time near my town. You know, I always _heard_ Cab was from my home, but I never checked it till now. Wonder if he lived here for a while or something. Very possible, musicians did sort of roam around=) I just remember hearing him say he was from Rochester in an interview done sometime back in the late 70s. Did you know he said he once did an album of Minnie the Moocher covers in different styles of music, including a disco version\ I would love to track it down, but it isnt listed in any discography=( though he did have a wicked sense of humor and he could have been jacking the interviewer around… He is eternally in my album rotation! I also bought a DVD of Betty Boop cartoons just for the ones he is in [king of the mountain and st james infirmary specifically=)] ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2005, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-one-more-thing-sir-the-columbo-thread/308615/45 "2005-06-19T01:06:18Z")
I hated **Colombo**. If the villians would have shut up and asked for a lawyer, they would all walk. Colombo’s “evidence” wouldn’t hold up at trial. Give me Jim Rockford any day. ---
**Author:** ![want2know](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/50afbb/32.png) [@want2know](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/want2know)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2005, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-one-more-thing-sir-the-columbo-thread/308615/46 "2005-06-20T16:09:57Z")
> [@spooje](#): > > I hated **Colombo**. If the villians would have shut up and asked for a lawyer, they would all walk. Colombo’s “evidence” wouldn’t hold up at trial. > > Give me Jim Rockford any day. For the most part, the murderer was too cocky and egotistical; he/she always felt they had committed the perfect crime and they were so much smarter than this little putz in a raincoat. Requesting a lawyer would have (in their mind) cast suspicion on them. And anyway, it’s not real life, it’s a freakin’ TV show! Lighten up! :smack: Moving right along… [ul] [li]Another unusual one I just remembered: The episode where there was no murder (at least not right away). The alleged victim (Deidre Hall) was actually on a trip to Europe. She was eventually murdered, leading to another favorite “gotcha”–she wore a beeper on her wrist, and Columbo called the number and it beeped–from behind a wall where the murderer had stashed her body.[/li][/ul] [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-one-more-thing-sir-the-columbo-thread/308615.md?page=2)