Columbo. Neurotypical is debatable, a lot of his behavior is an act to make the suspect less guarded. But he drives a shitty car, is happily married, and isn’t “too old for this shit.”
Well … that 1959 Peugeot 403 was 30+ year old by the 90s (and 40+ in 2003) … so idk, but it def felt like a statement (& extra effort).
(Chars often have shitty old cars in the same sense as some have fancy “classic” old cars.)
And about his wife Captain Janeway who was 12 at the time she was mentioned as already being his wife:
Peter Falk expressed his disapproval of the spin-off, calling it a “bad idea” and “disgraceful”. Richard Levinson later joked that if they made another episode of Columbo they would have Columbo say “There’s a woman running around pretending to be my wife. She’s changing things. She’s a young girl. I wish my wife was like that. She’s an impostor.”
But the show started in the 60s, and it’s the same car. You could argue his trenchcoat and hat (de rigeur when the show started) were more affectation in later years, or accept that at some point those simply occupy the role of signifiers that “yes this is Columbo.”
Yeah, I can see that too (but the car did strike me as a deliberate non-typical choice from the beginning, like part of a character, like the trench coat, even when just under a decade old - but that does indeed not make it a classic car).
Columbo. Neurotypical is debatable, a lot of his behavior is an act to make the suspect less guarded. But he drives a shitty car, is happily married, and isn’t “too old for this shit.”
Well … that 1959 Peugeot 403 was 30+ year old by the 90s (and 40+ in 2003) … so idk, but it def felt like a statement (& extra effort).
(Chars often have shitty old cars in the same sense as some have fancy “classic” old cars.)
And about his wife Captain Janeway who was 12 at the time she was mentioned as already being his wife:
wiki/Mrs._Columbo
JANEWAY WAS MRS COLOMBO?? HOW DID I NOT KNOW THIS??
Its ironic that she ended up in a federal prison.
But the show started in the 60s, and it’s the same car. You could argue his trenchcoat and hat (de rigeur when the show started) were more affectation in later years, or accept that at some point those simply occupy the role of signifiers that “yes this is Columbo.”
Yeah, I can see that too (but the car did strike me as a deliberate non-typical choice from the beginning, like part of a character, like the trench coat, even when just under a decade old - but that does indeed not make it a classic car).