My personal favorites among those that come to mind are the "special recipe" chili exchange in "Swan Song" and the scene with Larry Storch in "Negative Reaction."
shareWhen he kept breaking that lady's tv every time he came in the house. The episode with the twins who killed.
shareOh also the one where he's trying to find Louis Lacy and he has to wait for the computer printout from the lady lol.
share"Now you see him" is on MeTV and it's the one where his wife got him a new coat and he keeps leaving it behind and the other detective keeps bringing it to him.
shareThere 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.
shareOne 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
If Ruth Gordon could upstage Clint Eastwood, Peter Falk had no chance!
shareSpeaking 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.
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.
shareI 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!
A bird in the hand episode. When Columbo makes Delores watch the car explode on the video, then asks her if she noticed anything unusual. Then her response.
shareIn 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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