watching Columbo with the movie night group
he shows up in a scene carrying his basset hound
me: I guess it's time to take Dog for a schlep
The one I saw he shows up with hard boiled eggs and keeps asking for ashtrays to put the shells in…
Was this the start of the quirky detective trope?
It did seem in the episode I saw that he kind of does it on purpose, while everyone dismisses him as a fool he is secretly getting all the clues out of them that he needs to crack the case.
