Fact Fiend - Remember When Fans Argued About Whether a Magic Detective Gremlin Had One Eye?

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[@michaelniemela6566]

gotta respect a company that understands you still got bills & used your time so even though they had to wait you could still grow & got piad for your time

[@PeacelordApropos]

Hey Kyle. This is the energy you need to bring all the time! Less formal more relaxed and you shine!

[@mekpriestchris8746]

When you haven’t watched a fact fiend in a while. So Karl is giving you a warning at the start that the video might look exactly the way you were expecting it too xD

[@Bradcliffe99]

I was so confused 🤣

[@georgegriffin6114]

I actually really liked the old look, so this was nice

[@floppiethethirth]

One of the reasons columbo is so good is because they made a lot less episodes a season compared to other shows, giving them a lot more time to work on each episode

[@Ser_Salty]

Which is, apparently, because Peter Falk didn't like the shooting schedule for 1 episode a week, so they did one a month instead. Honestly, so much of that show was owed to Peter Falk.

[@melenatorr]

@@Ser_Salty The series was on a rotating schedule with two others, one of which was "McCloud" and the other was "McMillan and Wife".

[@rudeboyjohn3483]

Columbo is still my favorite detective by far. The man was a genius, kind, and just goshdarn cool

[@lordofuzkulak8308]

13:57 - there’re also some examples where they avoided showing such ‘quirks’. The one I can think of off the top of my head is that James Doohan who played Scotty in Star Trek had one of his fingers shot off during the D-Day landings, and in the show they used camera angles and a prosthetic to hide the fact that he was missing a finger. Which is strange if you ask me, because there’s nothing odd about an engineer having lost a finger at some point so I’m not sure why they did it; I think I have heard somewhere that it was because Doohan was uncomfortable with people seeing/knowing his finger was missing, but I don’t know how true that is. As far as I’m aware there’s only one time in all his appearances in Trek when you get to see he’s missing a finger, and that’s in Star Trek V in one scene where Uhura hands him his lunch and he takes it from her and if you pay attention to his hands you can see one finger is missing.

[@JakeWildMusic]

Correct me if I'm wrong, as someone that hasn't really watched any Star Trek, but in a post-scarcity world in the far future they probably would have the technology to heal such a wound or create a life-like prosthesis. Or at least that's why I can imagine they avoided showing the missing finger.

[@lordofuzkulak8308]

@@JakeWildMusic they probably would, but just because they’d have it, doesn’t mean a person would opt to use it, especially if it didn’t interfere with their day to day lives. A missing finger isn’t a debilitating injury, so getting a bionic replacement wouldn’t necessarily be a high priority, and would come down to personal preference.

[@JakeWildMusic]

@@lordofuzkulak8308 fair point!

[@crystaldottir]

Columbo also had the coolest actors playing the villain of the week, famous faces of the 70s having a blast chewing scenery.

[@slaapliedje]

Including Leonard Nimoy, Leslie Neilson, etc.

[@mindlessmeat4055]

Columbo is similar to Willy Wonka from the 1970's, you can't trust a thing he says. It can either be completely true and sincere or complete lies. It is great.

[@poskeegget8043]

Columbo was also made in the 70's. Filmed from the 70's and up until the 80's. There was a pause, and then it came back in the 90's I believe. Generally, I think the first 7 seasons are considered the best ones. Or it might be the first 5 seasons. I forget which.

[@floraposteschild4184]

@@poskeegget8043 The earlier seasons are definitely better than the ones in the 1990s. They got away from the formula -- Columbo arrives at a crime scene; immediately starts harassing the killer -- which is understandable. But eh, I have no desire to see Columbo hanging around the office, etc. like in a conventional cop show.

[@PrincessOzaline]

With Scotty on Star Trek they also tried to hide he was missing a finger.

[@MadameCirce]

Okay, I havent seen Wishmaster since it came out on VHS in the 90s, but i swear I remember Robert Englund being more than just a cameo in that movie. And definitely not a janitor. Wasn't he like a rich artist or museum/gallery director or something like that and fairly important to the story? I have this memory of him violently vomiting a bunch of black paint, but I don't know if I'm mixing up movies and/or characters. I did remember the mannequin scene and I also remember some dude getting his jaw ripped off his face. I was so young when I saw it but for some reason that horror movie in particular scared the crap out of me and certain moments stuck with me.

[@chaos34d]

I havent watched this channel in years and im glad theyre still making great videos.❤

[@SunGawdRa]

I rediscovered Columbo, and I'm loving the episodes.

[@katieusbrownius]

Isn’t it mad how ITV sorta recreated Columbo with Vera (except she’s also got the Paddington Bear hat)

[@TheBrokenMadMan]

I love the Columbo x Frasier crossover where Frasier and Niles accidentally kill Marris. 😂

[@nosville22]

While I don't think actor not having an eye should automatically impact hos character, it does play nicwly into Columbo's distastain towards firearms

[@erickleefeld4883]

There was a Columbo episode that was the exact opposite of copaganda: The murderer was the police commissioner, who killed his wife and then had a plan to pin it on a burglar who’d been hitting the neighborhood. (The burglar did exist, and would’ve been a very convenient patsy once they caught him.) Columbo saw the holes in what the commissioner set up, even as everyone else in the department was just swallowing it and following orders in the commissioner’s preferred direction for the investigation. And once Columbo realizes what’s actually going on, he also realizes he has to be extra careful, he can’t do his usual tricks of annoying his suspect - his own boss this time - and can’t give away what he knows until he’s got the commissioner absolutely nailed.

[@canaan5337]

I think the Colombo character doesn’t have glass eye like the actor that plays him, he instead has an eye, that can see, but doesn’t move with the other one.

[@natashasilvers9904]

Has Karl ever watched Veronica Mars? Its akin to a police procedural but doesn't follow a cop, in fact it is constantly showing the police in its setting to be corrupt and/or useless

[@JoesExpressLLC]

That Wishmaster clip you showed was not a remake but actually it was a sequel. Wishmaster 4

[@Kitsune-Chaos]

Columbo: so amazing that he's technically canon to Final Fantasy. xD

[@PeacelordApropos]

Lol I wondered when that switch happened.glad I understand now Also Columbo is epic. Truely a masterpiece. Oh, but one more thing... Also I think he knows just needs proof. From the start. His demon eye...

[@trashmonkey2866]

The screaming skeleton in the corner sends me 😂😂

[@landonbarclay1204]

Damn this would have been great to release on the 31st

[@AsIf31197]

While I have 2 eyes my cousin only has 1 and has a glass eye after an accident, his eye doesn't move however his glass eye is more like a curved glass lens.

[@MrBmnbmn]

u guys gonna stream the new robo cop game?

[@gabemolina9449]

the very first columbo he actually played a tough guy like sam spaide

[@demc]

Hey up, someone who has a fake eye here. So it depends, if it's been eviscerated which is where the whole eye is gone the prosthetic fits into the eye socket as is but won't move. If it's been enucleated (like mine) they've basically chopped the front off, scooped out the back part so you still have the muscles and that attached, place a mesh implant to heal in place and then a prosthetic would sit on top. This way you've still got the muscles to give the eye some movement. Hope that helps.

[@brandyboriskin4737]

i never knew that, thank you for teaching me something new

[@ameier5570]

i think the best description of columbo is of one of the first culpris of the show: "Mister Columbo, everything you do is on purpous. Everyone who takes a casual look at you sees a silly guy in a silly coat digging useless holes in the backyard, but if he takes a closer look he figures out you are actually digging a minefield"

[@damientonkin]

Peter Falk used to ad-lib a lot of his lines to throw off his co-stars. Especially if they were playing the killer. Also the creator of the show came up with Columbo's catch phrase "just one more thing" because he needed to insert a line and couldn't be bothered to re-type the page, because typewriters. I feel like those two stories contributed to the vibe of the character.

[@poskeegget8043]

Mostly by asking them if they had a pen, if I recall correctly.

[@poskeegget8043]

I think the thing that people generally likes with Columbo, is that he isn't really being a dick. He is generally very polite and kind to people, the killer included. He may also be the first cop in a cop show that doesn't carry a firearm and doesn't like them. Basically, he acts like we want police to act today.

[@Durmomo0]

Once a lady pulled a gun on him and he told her she was far too classy a lady to do that. I think only one time did he *really* hate the person he was up against, maybe a couple but at least once.

[@KristopherBel]

The Andy Griffith Show was about a police officer who did not regularly carry a gun. He in fact only wore a gun belt in three episodes and they were all in the first season. He does sometimes need to use a gun in his duties as a peace officer but he does not carry one in his day to day, he would go to get one from the station or from somewhere else. It was an extremely popular show and one of only three shows to end while in the number one spot in the ratings along with I Love Lucy and Seinfeld.

[@zer0nix]

@@KristopherBel the one time he put handcuffs on Otis the drunk, he said he would take his business elsewhere and it was the last time we ever saw the guy XD

[@poskeegget8043]

@@Durmomo0 There vere a few times when the villain was so evil that Columbo really did seem to hate them. But the majority of the time, he was the as gentle as he could possibly be. He even went out of his way once to talk to a maid that was taking her grief out on him with verbal abuse. And while telling her straight out how her actions and words were hurtful, he also made sure that he also was empathic to her plight and that he realized that he was there to do an unpleasant thing (investigate a death).

[@Durmomo0]

I forgot about that one! @@KristopherBel

[@Durmomo0]

Hell yeah, Columbo! "Being chased by Columbo is like being nibbled to death by a duck." - Peter Faulk I also always liked he always had a story/information relevant to aspects of the case that his wife 'just so happened' to have been looking into or mentioned or discussed with a friend something recently. My dad used to watch him when I was a kid and I started a year or so ago.

[@poskeegget8043]

His wife is real too (another conspiracy). She was spotted by other people on a vacation at sea.

[@Durmomo0]

@@poskeegget8043 I think there was a spin off show as well with his wife they tried but I dont know if that really counts. I had never seen it but I just looked it up and It was the actress who played Janeway in Voyager.

[@erickleefeld4883]

@@Durmomo0 Peter Falk and Columbo’s creators utterly disavowed that show. It is not canonical to the series. There’s a modern twist that some fans like, which is way more respectful to the original show: The fan theory is that Natasha Lyonne’s character on “Poker Face” is Columbo’s granddaughter.

[@johnrhines6626]

I heard the Colombo style was how-catch-them rather than who-done-it

[@SunGawdRa]

Yeah, and it was amazing(ly fun).

[@shinetilly]

Columbo is the ONLY cop show I watch. The other cops on the show are the ones bumbling. Columbo has control in every situation. He refuses to carry a gun and won’t even take the test. He doesn’t get physical, he lets the murderers talk themselves into a corner or reveal the evidence. It’s a beautiful How Catch ‘Em!!

[@wisecrack3461]

Another reason Columbo's blown up is that the internet has decided to treat him as a supernatural force of justice. "We wanted to keep him almost mythological. He comes from nowhere and goes back into nowhere.” -Peter Falk

[@salad72057]

"I'm sending you to the Columbo Dimension"

[@Durmomo0]

There is a great short youtube video where he is in Death Note

[@4aw50fGold]

Absolutely love Columbo. My Favorite was an episode where correct me if I’m wrong, a pair of Actors who were about to get away with a Murder in a Wax Museum. The only way he was able to catch them was placing a Pearl at the scene with a very cleaver flick. He was stumped… but had just one opportunity, and it worked.

[@rudeboyjohn3483]

He practiced flicking that pearl right in that umbrella. Man, I love Columbo

[@Durmomo0]

I think that episode he was on vacation in London as well.

[@Ser_Salty]

In that very same episode it actually looks like he's using the viewfinder of his camera with his glass eye

[@notenoughmonkeys]

Hate to be that guy but, and I'm sure you've mentioned this in the past but for those who don't know know... his first name was Lieutenant. Frank was just a prop mistake where someone *gave* him a first name for a Police ID prop that he flashes for a split second in a couple of the earlier episodes, and it's never referenced directly. Falk himself even stated Lieutenant was his first name.

[@SaviorGabriel]

I love that Columbo was basically L before L became a thing.

[@peterbonucci9661]

There was an actual person whose first name Colonel. His full name had 4 names, so you couldn't tell it wasn't a title. He was an engineer born in the American south. He specialized in transformers and wrote a book about them..

[@charliepotatoes001]

I always liked the parts in Columbo that dropped clues about his wife. The car he drove was a silver Peugeot convertible that at that time would have been a very unusual European made vehicle. It was a wedding gift from her parents when they first got married. This hints that Columbo's wife was from a very rich and affluent European family and she was the smart one with good taste and an ivy league education. However Columbo was her complete opposite and always presented himself as very slovenly and uneducated. It became a trope that every murderer seemed to underestimate Columbo as he played this persona as a bumbling detective for their benefit yet the clues to his true persona where always there.

[@stephaniecolan]

This may be a fever dream I remembered from my youth, but I remember of an episode with Peter Faulk in it of him staring at a goose and a little kid walks up to him and tells him "the goose has a glass eye that's why it's so angry" Peter then says "I know how he feels" I thought it was an episode of Colombo, but I guess not

[@liamdurr]

In the show Luicifer, there's an episode where he is trying to stay awake, so he marathons Bones. This comes up multiple times in later seasons.

[@Mythilt]

Don't know if anyone else mentioned the Peter Falk story from when he was playing baseball in elementary school, an umpire called a strike on him, and he turned around and handed the ump his glass eye telling the ump he needed it more than Peter did.

[@PreventerMkII]

When you brought up Bones and absurd ways to find a body, I legit said to myself, "please let it be the candy bar." Thank you so much for not disappointing 😂

[@ninjabluefyre3815]

Which was directly referenced by Murder by Death casting Peter Falk as Sam Diamond.

[@stephaniec9539]

Columbo was such a neat show! People always under estimated him

[@iplayvidya7949]

I haven't watched a whole lot of Columbo and didn't know his actor had only one eye, but I have seen an episode where he pays another cop to take his shooting exam for him. Maybe him being a terrible shot was in reference to that fact?

[@Durmomo0]

He also says he doesnt carry a gun because he doesnt like them for what its worth.

[@poskeegget8043]

I love that episode. . . even though it is unbelievably sad.

[@blakedefriend4075]

I found Columbo couple years back. I didnt know about the missing eye. Just thought he was horribly cross eyed.

[@cosplay_couturier4833]

I need a fillmore reboot. He started his career very young, imagine where he'd be now as a private detective

[@lordofuzkulak8308]

13:13 - I don’t have one eye, but a couple of months ago I had an operation on my eyes to correct a squint which involved removing part of the muscles in my eyes that are responsible for moving them around, and from the fact that the stitches I had were on the eyeball itself I can only surmise they had to cut the eyeballs open to get at the muscles inside the eye. As such I expect if someone with a glass eye still has the ability to move it, it’d be more limited than someone with an organic eye.

[@zer0nix]

In the us they do two episodes of Columbo on Saturday nights on one of those retro channels, and the same channel also runs an episode at 9:30 in the morning and at 1:30 in the afternoon on the same day. I'm guessing a homebody started watching recently and got hooked. It is a fairly good format, watching to see how the criminal screws up or how Columbo puts it together.

[@FamosoMarcoso]

I'm currently in school to be an optometrist. I've previously assisted with an enucleation surgery while working for an ophthalmology clinic. I can help with some eyeball questions if interested :)

[@GorbWasHere]

Do you literally just pop a new glass eye in the socket? Or do you have to tie it down somehow?

[@FamosoMarcoso]

So, the original eye is removed. Then we place a "spacer" so the hole that the eye used to occupy will maintain its shape. It is basically a 20mm-diameter white rubbery orb. In more modern surgeries, we reattach 4 of the 6 eye muscles to that orb. These 4 recti muscles normally help with moving the eye up, down, left and right. Then we enclose the spacer behind the conjunctiva. The eye will still be able to open and close the eyelids, but the orbit behind that is not open or empty. I've seen ocular prosthetics that fit between the conjunctivitis and the eyelids. They are shaped like an American football 🏈 cut length wise. This part is usually made of a glass-like resin. The manufacturer can paint the iris onto the glass to match the other eye. Or do some crazy personalized stuff. These prosthetics need to be removed and cleaned every now and then.

[@nextgencowboy]

Andrew Divoff plays the Djinn in Wishmaster, he's been a ton of other villains and antagonists in shows and movies that a lot of people would recognize. He was also Kravchenko in CoD Black Ops. Insanely charismatic actor in the villain role.

[@aidanshea5942]

I personally like the theory that Columbo is not any mere mortal but instead Oberon the Fairy King, look it up

[@StephyM.C.]

Dirk Gently is my favorite quirky detective, Stephen Mangan's Dirk though.

[@Martysama11]

Hey, I loved Columbo...one of my favorite detectives on the Tv by far.

[@GorillaLancaster]

Andrew Divoff is the Wishmaster. Side note: the guard in that clip is Kane Hodder the greatest Jason of them all!

[@timdavidson8191]

Al hail algorithmsimo, God of adcents. Blessed are the fiends of fact

[@UpbeatHadez]

I like Columbo but for me my tv detective is Jessica fletcher. A vid on her at some point would be cool. Not telling you to do it, just a suggestion

[@Daelyah]

Grew up with my grandmother watching a LOT of Murder, She Wrote, as well as The Mentalist. We loved our Nancy Drew books, though my Gram is still obsessed with Janet Evanovich's Stephanie Plum series.

[@MrGregory777]

Columbo is one of my favorite series.

[@SpeedwagonZaidan]

Seems on brand for Karl to love the Djinn from Wishmaster and know a bunch about his actor and then say "I think Robert Englund is the janitor or something." When he's agruably the main human antagonist responsible for the plot happening.

[@RJay207]

"ACTING!!!" I can only hear Jon Lovitz on SNL during his "Master Thespian" sketches. I have been known to loudly proclaim "Acting!" for various reasons... and I usually just get stared at a lot. XD

[@alexdevries1411]

You guys are just the best, keep it up, love your stuff!

[@ZahZah253]

dawg you guys are possibly the best team on the platform the honesty you guys bring is wild to see .

[@naonna1]

The mentalist ended at season 5, fight me- (or don't-)

[@andiel7043]

I think Frank Columbo does have one eye and e has managed to hid that fact. He doesn't carry a gun (and dislikes them) he also avoided doing his gun ranged training (being 10years overdue) and eventually convinced another detective to take it in his place. With only one eye his depth perception would be non-existent. The other question did he really have a wife?

[@Reddsoldier]

Pretty sure she shows up in an episode. I'm convinced it's the one constant in his character is that he's a wife guy. Everything else, he appears with or without to perfectly torment and arrest the murderer in that specific case. My favourite has to be when he confronts a French chef and cooks him dinner and as he's swapped the poisoned wine with the chef's own and then reveals this to him and uses it to further prove the chef killed the guy in the same way, the meal he cooked also turns out to be world class to just further put the hurt into this chef who looked down and underestimated Colombo. It's just perfection.

[@jerrimyhealy5063]

I asked my mom if she had seen the show because I just discovered it and love it and feels like the kind of show we would watch before school I was surprised when she said she has seen Columbo

[@wthteevo]

"a who-done-it where you know" I think you mean a YOU-done-it

[@Sp00kyBedHair]

Did you know Columbo's wife was the Captain of a Starfleet ship?

[@slaapliedje]

I went looking to see if it ever shows his wife, discovered there was a spinoff series that had Kate Mulgrew as his wife. I personally had started to assume he wasn't actually married and used his wife stories to throw off the criminals.

[@Sp00kyBedHair]

@@slaapliedje 🙂👍

[@woodch]

8:25 - I say "Skelemon" or "Skeleman" (Or "Skelemons", "Skelemans" in the plural) just to mess with people sometimes... and it IS a fun word to play with.

[@Wendy_O._Koopa]

I think if he literally says "Three eyes are better than two." then that pretty definitively settles it. Anyone still arguing is only proving Brandolini's law further. Unlike Batman or Sherlock Holmes, this was not an adaptation of a preexisting character, this was a character that was created for him, by him (sort of, it's a joint effort between him and the writers etc.).

[@davidpowers746]

Why the hell would they try to reboot MacGuyver when Burn Notice already did it, and did it so much better, back in the mid 2000s? Edit: Also, Captain Montgomery Scott had canonically has all of his fingers, while James Doohan does not. And finally, you get a pass on not knowing the legendary Andrew Divoff offhand. He's one of those journeyman actors who have popped up in everything, including, to bring it all back, a great episode of Burn Notice. Also Lost, and well basically every TV show and TV movie made in the 90s.

[@bryansnaylor]

Bless the algorithm. I have just recently been watching Columbo and love the slow buildup to the Lieutenant piecing clues together to put the killer in his sights.

[@crowfather9171]

So I've had surgery to fix the muscles in my eye, think of your eye like a grape, they cut the skin to get to the muscle underneath. feels weird when they reattach the muscle.

[@tyrannicpuppy]

Hmmm, if they're responsible, I kinda hate the sponsor. I actually loved the look of just standing in front of a green screen. But the new look is nice too. As we get old, we tend to dislike change. Hope you occasionally do a throw back episode where you pop out the old style. Kind of how Pitch Meeting uses old beige box computers in the background when they do older movies.

[@melenatorr]

Oh no! You definitely need to treat yourselves to Columbo: good scripts, great guest stars, and Peter Falk, truly a compact bundle of charm, mischief and hidden depths. And yes, while Columbo himself may or may not have a false eye, Falk did, as a result of a childhood illness.

[@TheRealMonkeyrogue]

A feature of the show, if you watch it all through, is the characters change around him. There are many characters who show up from time to time, changed by their previous interactions. There's one at least I recall where Columbo got a new jacket. But the cop on scene specifically told Columbo he's learned alot and whatever he says, goes. It was a nice touch. Falk was brilliant. "Just one more thing."

[@hopewells631]

I just want to make sure that we are all in agreement that deaf people can gave trusted testimony in court and serve as police officers. Please know that deaf are capable of functioning in society just as well as hearing people can. My sister, who is profoundly deaf, is always the first to spot something usual in my family and draw attention to it. Because she is deaf, she is much more aware of she surroundings and alert. She has impeccable memory and brings valuable insight in discussions. Her disability doesn’t narrow her perception of the world but expands it.

[@gremlinbd]

Also, that scene you showed from Wishmaster, the guard is played by Kane Hodder the best Jason from Friday the 13th

[@Totally_not_a_lizard_person]

Columbo always seems like he figures out things instantly, and is playing a goof while digging out bits of actual evidence. Like he is extremely good at reading people but knows him just knowing isnt good enough. You can see when he locks onto them and when catches a hint of a clue... Then trolls them...

[@itsPenguinBoy]

Columbo's jacket is a coat that Peter Falk had before the role... There's enough cross-over between the character and the actor that I can confidently side with 1 eye columbo theory!

[@AzelRavenWood]

I freaking Love the Wishmaster! I got it on VHS!!!! Underrated!!!

[@TheSpookiestSkeleton]

I say skeleton, but skellington is ADORABLE AND I LOVE IT

[@darkturnwabler]

I wonder if they have seen the graph of which detectives could/couldn't solve the Kira murders as well as could/couldn't figure out how the death note works

[@BazTardSword]

One of my favourite instances of the "bumbling genius detective with a quirk" is Ellery Queen (specifically the Jim Hutton version from the tv show). He is a brilliant mystery writer and detective, but he is extremely absent-minded and catastrophically forgetful. However, he never overlooks a detail in a crime. Also, the show is in a solve-it-yourself format, so at the end of each episode he speaks to the audience and helps them solve the mystery before the culprit is revealed.

[@matthewhippie]

I did know a guy with one eye and they don't really move. His was ceramic and he would occasionally pop it and show everyone. If we were drinking, he would move it to look cross eyed or clean it by putting it in his mouth and then put it back in.

[@SuperAntz85]

One fun example of acting is that of Silver Skull in 'Ashens and the quest for the Game Child'

[@DerBlaueRabe42]

Columbo was aired in Soviet Poland. One of the few western series, because the Murder was always someone rich.

[@Xxsnipedawg72xX]

Hold on. That's the mystical beer bong of the lake in the background. I wonder if he's the only put it there

[@iddan1205]

Resident Evil the move had an extra that could dislocate his ankle. The shot was of his ankle dislocated. And in the middle earth movies, one of the characters broke his foot, and kept going.

[@zombielizard218]

Huh I've seen a few episodes of Columbo, and a lot of the memes, and also Peter Falk in several of his movie appearances. I never noticed he had a glass eye, that is a damn fine ocular prosthesis

[@jonasholm-mw5bn]

I really like Lucifer. It’s especially funny when he ask someone they think is the suspect or some bad guy and then it’s some really tame or awkward answer. I think there’s even one where they say they really want to get with him

[@schrodingerscat3741]

I can believe lawyers and shit would do this, but the idea that being blind or deaf would effect someone's judgement, of all things, is so ablest.

[@Michaeljefferson9000]

He very likely only has the left eye. In multiple episodes he looks through lenses with his left eye, and in one of the 90's episodes he verbally implies he only has one eye when asking the killer to "help" with the investigation, because "three eyes are better than one."

[@richardorta8960]

Columbo's expertise is acting and psycology?

[@WolffangLightwood]

Well Gil Grissom isn't an officer, he's a crime scene investigator which are completely separate things

[@Naedlus]

I think it wasn't until after I watched "The Cheap Detective" that I found out he lost an eye.

[@The_Azure_]

My family has watched a ton of detective shows over the years and we still agree that Columbo is far and away the best we've seen.

[@am53n8]

I'm very glad I can just watch most of those detective shows as entertainment without thinking about realism or the crimes committed etc. One of the few ones I couldn't do that with was csi:cyber, any knowledge of computers just made that show unwatchable for me

[@MimicRogue]

I'm an eye doctor. I'd be happy to answer your questions about eye movement

[@roguecthulhu6002]

Adjust that new lighting, mate. You look really washed out in the intro.

[@redsoxfox]

I just realized thats the guy from Princess Bride

[@nortteppup]

oh, hey, it's that scene in Wishmaster where Jason Vorhees gets killed.

[@Valkyrie369]

My dad has a prosthetic eye and his moves in sync with the other eye. The muscles in the eye socket move the prosthetic.