Day: July 5, 2025

Memes from Columbo episodes

Episode title interstitial showing as background closeups of red wine glasses where the wine shines in red stars and the crystal in white stars

I recently treated myself to a few seasons of Columbo “photoplays”, as they were called in the early 70s. Look at the quality glimmers!

Here are the “memes” I collected along the way.

Lieutenant Columbo sitting on gym equipment next to a man, telling him “you know, before coffee, I’m up, I’m walking around, but I’m not awake.”

Aren’t we all?…

Lieutenant Columbo, harnessed to a treadmill, is sweating while in conversation with a character played by Robert Conrad. The caption reads “It’s a whole different attitude.”

”It’s a whole different attitude.”

A smiling young woman with eyeglasses looking happy. She said “[it’s the first time someone told me] they liked me for my body instead of my mind.”

Awkward feminism: “[It’s the first time someone told me] they liked me for my body instead of my mind.”

Lieutenant Columbo in boxer shorts, his green cigar at his mouth, seats on a massage table in front of a bald and very muscular man in white telling him “I want you to relax.”

Just relax, m’kay?

Lieutenant Columbo between the open door of his car and his dog, a basset hound spread flat on his side in the grass, talks to a tall young woman (who in the episode trains dogs), telling her “Thos dog could be a lethal weapon.”

This basset hound could be a lethal weapon.

In a library, Lieutenant Columbo is holding an open book sideways and at arm’s length, looking perplexed. The book is “New History of Erotic Art”

”Ooh yeah …”