The chef's expression as Columbo drinks the "poisoned" wine, such excellent evil menace. Louis Jourdan was a great actor which made for a very detestable murderer.
A similar thing happened in “Rest in Peace, Mrs. Columbo”. The female murderer, can’t remember her name, thinks she suckered Columbo into eating poisoned marmalade and he goes through the feint of dying while she reveals her evil plot but then he turns the table on her.
I just realized, when the killer says "i wish you had been a chef" it's a double entendre, he both means that columbo had cooked well, but also expressing his wish that columbo hadn't been a police officer (so he couldn't get caught)
I disagree. I believe that Columbo's cooking in this instance tastes horrible. The murderer's utterance therefore could mean that he would have won against Columbo as a chef by writing a scathing critique as a food critic. But I guess both interpretations are valid. 😉
Understandable. Found myself working with someone I absolutely hated for their personality... and yet he did good work that by itself kept the company from going under. I respected their ability, and for the sake of the work environment kept things civil. After all, neither of us were barbarians.
The characters respect each other for how good they are at what they do for a living, but can't stand anything about each other outside of that. Still, civility ruled in that final scene.
@@pauljackson1709 He tried to murder him with poisoned wine. We didn't see him try to stab him to death with a knife. As far as attempted murder goes, far more civil.
Columbo is a sly one, switching the wine glasses as soon as the restaurant critic walks away and bangs the bottle. He had seconds to manage that switch without noise! Bravo.
This episode was a foodie's delight!! The delicacies that some of Vittorio's friends kept offering Columbo in memory of the slain chef were simply astounding, to say the least!!!
What was his plan if Columbo did drink the poisoned wine? He thought he could get away with the same method of murder twice and they wouldn't go 'hey you had dinner with these two people and they both got poisoned the exact same way, you did it'?
Yep, that doesn't make much sense to me either. And trying to poison the officer investigating your case of all people. Do these killers think police staff dont talk to eachother? Sure as hell a bunch of people at the police station knows exactly what Columbo was doing and his prime suspect.
The pork-chops Columbo made are a salute to the years Peter Falk served as a third cook in the Navy and his speciality was, hey, pork-chops, which he cooked for three years.
@@garnetstewart3461 I've always heard that the navy fed their people better than any other service... particularly if you're on a submarine. I know in the army if we got pork chops then it was a very special occasion.
@@donarthiazi2443 Speaking as prior service myself and stationed on a joint-service base, I believe it. I can tell you the most ... let's say "robust" people were seamen. Yes, even more so than the Air Force.
This is my favorite Columbo episode, and favorite ending of all time. Just a classic impeccable dialogue btwn these 2 great actors. They don't make stuff like this anymore. Superb
"Leutinant...I wish you had been a chef." Can be taken three ways: 1. "Leutinant...this is delicious. I wish you had been a chef." 2. "Leutinant...you're too good of a detective. I wish you had been a chef, so I wouldn't have been caught." 3. Leutinant...this is delicious AND you're too good of a detective. I wish you had been a chef, so I could get away with murder, AND eat your delicious food afterwards." Columbo said, "I understand, sir." Meaning, he got those three different ways of taking what he said.
OR,,, it could mean it wasn't very good and he wishes he had been a chef since he was a restaurant critic and he could have done to Columbo, what Columbo was about to do to him, instead. I always took it as the "You were good enough to be a chef, and I wouldn't have been caught by anyone less than you as a detective". But that other interpretation could have been just as valid if they had simply delivered the exact same scene differently. For a little tongue in cheek humor.
@@WatchingTrainsGoBy-PassingTime To be fair I think that too, the Chef could have likely been saying "If you put as work into becoming a Chef as you do detective work, then this pork chop would NOT taste like garbage""
Colombo was just levels beyond any other crime series. So polished. I didn't appreciate it as a kid - but my mom always preferred Colombo. I fully understand why today, 50 years older
Apparently Peter Falk was a perfectionist so every episode took far longer to film than any episode of a comparable series. But it was all justified by the results.
@@nolanboles8492 Oh, those were the later Columbo episodes. I was only referring to the original series. I hardly ever watched the later series. Just not as good.
There was the lady who pointed a gun right at Columbo's face the moment he made it plain the gig was up. He said something like, "You have WAY too much class to do something like that", took her pistol, and even let her go to her room to get all dressed-for-arrest.
Love Columbo to this day. I watched all them back when they first came on tv and then bought the whole series of Columbo on dvd so I can still enjoy them whenever I want to!
The undertone behind the civility, and the guarded word play right at the end - it all makes for an absolute masterclass in acting, from two world-class performers.
Is it true that Columbo normally zeros in on his suspect right from the beginning? I've only seen a few full episodes, but it seems he always has his suspect pegged right from the beginning. It was great to hear his reason why he came to his conclusion so early in the investigation.
I've only seen a few full episodes myself, but I don't think he *always* knows exactly who it is from the beginning. More like he gets a shortlist of suspects, and tends to pick up some things at the beginning that others miss since they don't know exactly what they're looking for. After that initial pass he usually has a pretty good idea of who it might be and can start closing in on them.
Also, France Nuyen, famous with Star Trek fans as "Elaan of Troyius" and Larry D. Mann, who voiced Yukon Cornelius in "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer. Plus, Richard Dysart, who starred on "LA Law" for eight seasons. Quite a supporting cast.
The only thing I can’t figure out is why the killer didn’t actually drink his wine at 4:34. He was under the impression that Columbo was holding the poisoned glass.
One of the best scripted scenes of all time... jam packed and overflowing with subtleties , innuendo and hidden meanings.Pure DELICIOUS ,SPARKLING wit.
"When did you first suspect me?" Well, as it happens sir, about two minutes after I met you. "That can't be possible." Oh you made it very clear, sir, the very first night, when you decided to come to the restaurant directly after you were informed that Vittorio was poisoned. ... After eating dinner with a man that had been poisoned, you didn't go to a doctor. You came because the police instructed you. You didn't go to a hospital. You didn't even ask to have your stomach pumped. Mr. Gerard, that's the damnedest example of good citizenship I've ever seen."
Everything is perfect in this scene. From the clothes, to the acting , to the cooking, to the setting o the dinner and of course the food. Now am going to search what kind of food and appetisers are those.
They should be a lesson to us all, Not liking someone and not having respect for someone isn’t the same thing, Kind of like when you respect your manager or your boss for their talents but not liking them.
The constrained civility on display here belies the utter contempt these characters mutually shared with each other. Had they been at a remote dive washing down undercooked burgers with some warm Buds, they would have just as soon been hurling epithets at them and their mothers before going on to tear each other apart.
Unbelievable, I just realized that the murderer poisoned the wine with the bottle opener, but all you had to do was switch glasses to avoid poisoning....
@@johnklatt3522 Yep... The wine in the murderer's glass must have come from a second bottle, which is why the scene only shows the opening of one bottle with the poisoned bottle opener. The presence of the second bottle was too obvious to bother extending the scene.
A person intent on murder just simply gives up when his initial attempt is foiled? He's a chef and he's in a kitchen! There are weapons of opportunity aplenty in that kitchen!
Yes but he would not get away with it very easy.. Remember. Columbo is a cop. So he has probably a cop somewhere waiting around the corner to arrest him☺
This is a piece of fiction, not a documentary. This was filmed in the late 70s, a decidedly un-civil time when rates of violent crime in the US were sky-high compared to today.
Columbo was well before my time, and I only just discovered the show, but I'm so glad I did. It's a phenomenal show. (And this scene is really good ASMR too lol)
A couple of things don't make sense about this ending. 1. If the killer knew that Columbo had no proof of how he committed the murder, why did he try to poison Columbo - and expect to get away with it? 2. How does a glass of wine with fugu poison in it constitute proof of the original murder? It's only Columbo's word against the killer's. Maybe means, opportunity and motive would be good enough to convince a jury, but Columbo already had that.
7:22 But he never ate diner with a man that had been poisoned. He left without having a meal or drink. Why would he worry about being poisoned? That was established at the start of the clip. 0:01 "You never intended to eat Victorio's diner."
The chef's expression as Columbo drinks the "poisoned" wine, such excellent evil menace. Louis Jourdan was a great actor which made for a very detestable murderer.
Brilliant Actor
Columbo got his eat on in this episode
he's not a chef, he's a critic
A similar thing happened in “Rest in Peace, Mrs. Columbo”. The female murderer, can’t remember her name, thinks she suckered Columbo into eating poisoned marmalade and he goes through the feint of dying while she reveals her evil plot but then he turns the table on her.
But he didn't drink it.
I just realized, when the killer says "i wish you had been a chef" it's a double entendre, he both means that columbo had cooked well, but also expressing his wish that columbo hadn't been a police officer (so he couldn't get caught)
This has been my opinion all along, I agree and I concur
I disagree. I believe that Columbo's cooking in this instance tastes horrible. The murderer's utterance therefore could mean that he would have won against Columbo as a chef by writing a scathing critique as a food critic.
But I guess both interpretations are valid. 😉
@@AlPaka there's the hybrid inturpritation where he didn't mean the food in any way shape or form, simply wishing columbo wasn't a police officer.
I think he meant it wasn't particularly good and he wished that Columbo had taken up cooking instead of being a detective.
Yes he was praising columbos cooking as well. You can tell by his honest look and being a chef myself that's a pretty legit look and response
The softness of their voices and the civil manners just makes this absolutely amazing
Yes!!
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Understandable. Found myself working with someone I absolutely hated for their personality... and yet he did good work that by itself kept the company from going under. I respected their ability, and for the sake of the work environment kept things civil. After all, neither of us were barbarians.
"... BUT HOW DID THE MURDERER GET THE FUGU POISON INTO THE BOTTLE?!? 🤌🤌🤌" - asked Dumbledore calmly
"But how did the murderer get the fugu poison into the bottle?" asked Dumbledore calmly.
"HARRY! DID YA PUT THE FUGU POISON INTO THE BOTTLE??"
"No, sir!"
"Do you know who i am?"
"No,sir!"
The characters respect each other for how good they are at what they do for a living, but can't stand anything about each other outside of that. Still, civility ruled in that final scene.
Profiles in diplomacy. Great scene, one of my favorites of the series.
"Still, civility ruled in that final scene."
Weeelll...I guess...if trying to murder your dinner guest with sang froid manners counts as "civility"...
@@pauljackson1709 He tried to murder him with poisoned wine. We didn't see him try to stab him to death with a knife. As far as attempted murder goes, far more civil.
3:24 The way Peter Falk says the word “needle” here just relaxes me. Just so soothing.
Columbo is a sly one, switching the wine glasses as soon as the restaurant critic walks away and bangs the bottle. He had seconds to manage that switch without noise! Bravo.
This episode was a foodie's delight!! The delicacies that some of Vittorio's friends kept offering Columbo in memory of the slain chef were simply astounding, to say the least!!!
Interesting how some foodies can be very fat and others quite slim.
@@markemerson8399 I guess it has to do if they enjoy more the experience of eating good food (so likely eat more) or savours small delicacies
What was his plan if Columbo did drink the poisoned wine? He thought he could get away with the same method of murder twice and they wouldn't go 'hey you had dinner with these two people and they both got poisoned the exact same way, you did it'?
Yep, that doesn't make much sense to me either. And trying to poison the officer investigating your case of all people. Do these killers think police staff dont talk to eachother? Sure as hell a bunch of people at the police station knows exactly what Columbo was doing and his prime suspect.
Some egos really are that big.
The pork-chops Columbo made are a salute to the years Peter Falk served as a third cook in the Navy and his speciality was, hey, pork-chops, which he cooked for three years.
Veal, I'm afraid, is made from young cow calfs. That makes them beef.
I remember eating a lot of pork chops in the Navy.
@@garnetstewart3461
I've always heard that the navy fed their people better than any other service... particularly if you're on a submarine. I know in the army if we got pork chops then it was a very special occasion.
I thought he was in the Merchant Marines because of the glass eye?
@@donarthiazi2443 Speaking as prior service myself and stationed on a joint-service base, I believe it. I can tell you the most ... let's say "robust" people were seamen. Yes, even more so than the Air Force.
The Chef was excellent in this role. He played the perfect villain.
Louis Jourdan. He was fantastic!
@@preving They don't come much more Suave than Louis Jordian
"The Boys down at the Lab" said, "Never trust a skinny chef" 😅
This is my favorite Columbo episode, and favorite ending of all time. Just a classic impeccable dialogue btwn these 2 great actors. They don't make stuff like this anymore. Superb
"Murder Under Glass", one of my favorite episodes. It always makes me hungry! 😄
Same
The Lieutenant didn't go hungry in this episode!!! Peter Falk was actually a good chef in real life!!! 👍👍🙂
"Leutinant...I wish you had been a chef."
Can be taken three ways:
1. "Leutinant...this is delicious. I wish you had been a chef."
2. "Leutinant...you're too good of a detective. I wish you had been a chef, so I wouldn't have been caught."
3. Leutinant...this is delicious AND you're too good of a detective. I wish you had been a chef, so I could get away with murder, AND eat your delicious food afterwards."
Columbo said, "I understand, sir." Meaning, he got those three different ways of taking what he said.
In one ep. Columbo says: 'My handwriting is so bad I should have been a Doctor'
I’ve always taken it as your 2nd explanation.
OR,,, it could mean it wasn't very good and he wishes he had been a chef since he was a restaurant critic and he could have done to Columbo, what Columbo was about to do to him, instead.
I always took it as the "You were good enough to be a chef, and I wouldn't have been caught by anyone less than you as a detective". But that other interpretation could have been just as valid if they had simply delivered the exact same scene differently. For a little tongue in cheek humor.
@@WatchingTrainsGoBy-PassingTime LOL! I like that. That is funny.
@@WatchingTrainsGoBy-PassingTime To be fair I think that too, the Chef could have likely been saying "If you put as work into becoming a Chef as you do detective work, then this pork chop would NOT taste like garbage""
Colombo was just levels beyond any other crime series. So polished. I didn't appreciate it as a kid - but my mom always preferred Colombo. I fully understand why today, 50 years older
Apparently Peter Falk was a perfectionist so every episode took far longer to film than any episode of a comparable series. But it was all justified by the results.
Louis Jourdan played one of the most entertaining Bond villains in Octopussy.
“Mr. Bond you have a nasty habit of surviving.” - Kamal Khan
Haha, Columbo doesn't like criminals, but he always retains his cover of showing respect.
Cause he's trying to get under their skin I'd guess .
The only other time when the murderer directly tried to kill Columbo was the epidsode where the killer ordered his dogs to attack him.
And the episode in the second series with the widow seeking revenge for her husband's death. Oh, and the guillotine episode.
@@nolanboles8492 Oh, those were the later Columbo episodes. I was only referring to the original series. I hardly ever watched the later series. Just not as good.
When those dogs lunged at him but shockingly smothered him with licks and kisses. Oh, lol. That was so delish.
There was the lady who pointed a gun right at Columbo's face the moment he made it plain the gig was up. He said something like, "You have WAY too much class to do something like that", took her pistol, and even let her go to her room to get all dressed-for-arrest.
@@ChrisJones-ij3xp That was a threat. She didn't go through with it. The guy with the dogs and this food critic actually attempted to kill him.
That last line makes this the best episode!
Love Columbo to this day. I watched all them back when they first came on tv and then bought the whole series of Columbo on dvd so I can still enjoy them whenever I want to!
The undertone behind the civility, and the guarded word play right at the end - it all makes for an absolute masterclass in acting, from two world-class performers.
Is it true that Columbo normally zeros in on his suspect right from the beginning? I've only seen a few full episodes, but it seems he always has his suspect pegged right from the beginning. It was great to hear his reason why he came to his conclusion so early in the investigation.
Pretty much, yes.
Plain old human nature does them in every time.
@@kathrynj.hernandez8425 It's true. A crim can never cover all the contingencies, and an aware detective will immediately notice the inconsistencies.
Yup🤣
I've only seen a few full episodes myself, but I don't think he *always* knows exactly who it is from the beginning. More like he gets a shortlist of suspects, and tends to pick up some things at the beginning that others miss since they don't know exactly what they're looking for. After that initial pass he usually has a pretty good idea of who it might be and can start closing in on them.
Always loved Louis Jordan. Always epitomized high class in all his roles
This is such a fantastic episode. All of the character actors are amazing, as always.
- Angry? - That's not an expression! - Not you, the wine!
Rest in powerful peace Peter Falk 🙏
16 September 1927 ~
23 June 2011⚘
This writing and acting is off the scale.
One of the best finale for sure
I feel like this is one of the few episodes where Columbo has genuine contempt for his suspect. This one and the fitness instructor.
This great episode was the best of season 7, imo.
What a tour de force scene. Great script and acting by both men. They played off each other brilliantly.
Great episode.
I have grown to love this interchange between these two characters.
One of my favorite scenes in the series.
This episode has Mako in it. It's a small but important role.
Also, France Nuyen, famous with Star Trek fans as "Elaan of Troyius" and Larry D. Mann, who voiced Yukon Cornelius in "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer. Plus, Richard Dysart, who starred on "LA Law" for eight seasons. Quite a supporting cast.
Thanks Shera for The Peter Falk's Law.
" - No, Mr Columbo, I expect you to dine ! "
Clever.
Choose your next witticism with care...
@@fredbloggs5902 Because it might be my last one ?
The only thing I can’t figure out is why the killer didn’t actually drink his wine at 4:34. He was under the impression that Columbo was holding the poisoned glass.
Loved this episode, but not the only time a killer tried to kill Columbo with poison :)
Love Columbus chefs hat 🥰
There is so much intellectual humour here, it's overwhelming by modern standards.
👨🍳 it’s the hat for me bro 😂
Mystery (albeit _open_ ) + Wine + Food + (future) Bond villain ➡ 😊👍
One of the best scripted scenes of all time... jam packed and overflowing with subtleties , innuendo and hidden meanings.Pure DELICIOUS ,SPARKLING wit.
"When did you first suspect me?"
Well, as it happens sir, about two minutes after I met you.
"That can't be possible."
Oh you made it very clear, sir, the very first night, when you decided to come to the restaurant directly after you were informed that Vittorio was poisoned. ... After eating dinner with a man that had been poisoned, you didn't go to a doctor. You came because the police instructed you. You didn't go to a hospital. You didn't even ask to have your stomach pumped. Mr. Gerard, that's the damnedest example of good citizenship I've ever seen."
I love that you can see on his face the realisation of how big a mistake he made
Everything is perfect in this scene. From the clothes, to the acting , to the cooking, to the setting o the dinner and of course the food. Now am going to search what kind of food and appetisers are those.
Never mess with Columbo. Exquisite. 👍💥😎
Fact it would take around 3 and a half days to watch every episode of Columbo
They should be a lesson to us all, Not liking someone and not having respect for someone isn’t the same thing, Kind of like when you respect your manager or your boss for their talents but not liking them.
This is my favorite Columbo episode🙂
I really hope whoever directed this episode went on to win an Oscar in the 90s.
IMO best ending to an episode
Respectfully bussin' sir.
No cap, fuckin fire sir.
That's cold, "I respect your talent, but I don't like anything about you."
inconceivable!
Colombo shares more than a few casting choices with James Bond. I wonder if they shared an agent or casting director.
It's tough to choose Columbo or Rockford, Different styles, cars ,women etc. etc. Columbo very close 2nd place, both on NBC too.
I would have loved to try the dressing and veal. Looks delicious 😋
Great ending!
It's just like a love story, except the goal is not to love, but to destroy.
Louis Jourdan and Peter Falk were greatest actors.
Ooh is this the poisonous fish episode? My mom watched this all the time 😅
I’d like to know the recipe to try it myself, even though i don’t really know how to cook!
5:50 why not just knock over “the proof”. Ooooops 🤷🏻♀️
No winedrinker hold the glass like that, everybody knows that😂
One question about the finale for this Columbo episode has been on my mind:
Was the meal prepared jn real time?
That Mr. Gerard is so... artistic, maybe a bit too much "(^ . ^)"
I’m adding the veal to the pan sir
legendary Lt. Frank Columbo
When did he switch the glasses?
I'm honestly surprised it didn't happen more often honestly there we're tons of times Columbo put himself in a dangerous situation.
The constrained civility on display here belies the utter contempt these characters mutually shared with each other. Had they been at a remote dive washing down undercooked burgers with some warm Buds, they would have just as soon been hurling epithets at them and their mothers before going on to tear each other apart.
Note, Peter Falk was a cook in the U.S. Merchant Marine.
God that's brilliant. I have a feeling he wishes Columbo was his consultant before he committed the murder also. Just one little faux pas.
Unbelievable, I just realized that the murderer poisoned the wine with the bottle opener, but all you had to do was switch glasses to avoid poisoning....
@@johnklatt3522 Yep...
The wine in the murderer's glass must have come from a second bottle, which is why the scene only shows the opening of one bottle with the poisoned bottle opener. The presence of the second bottle was too obvious to bother extending the scene.
The food in this is so 1980ies.
Certainly is.
What the hell !! He tried to poison him ... !! =O lmao
Merveilleux...
He's not the only one. I feel like doing the same to Colombo too.
The lieutenant was on the case & the food in this case 👍that's for this...
A person intent on murder just simply gives up when his initial attempt is foiled? He's a chef and he's in a kitchen! There are weapons of opportunity aplenty in that kitchen!
Yes but he would not get away with it very easy..
Remember. Columbo is a cop.
So he has probably a cop somewhere waiting around the corner to arrest him☺
Also he wants to do it smart so they think Columbo just got sick and died.
He wants to get away with it
6:07 such sivility we had in the 20th century... wtf happened?
civility.
This is a piece of fiction, not a documentary. This was filmed in the late 70s, a decidedly un-civil time when rates of violent crime in the US were sky-high compared to today.
Liberals.
Princess bride...
Columbo should have held the glass by the stem, not the bowl, to preserve the fingerprints. Otherwise, brilliantly deduced!
Yeah i understand Sir, but this is just about the content of the glass...poison in the wine☺
Columbo was well before my time, and I only just discovered the show, but I'm so glad I did. It's a phenomenal show.
(And this scene is really good ASMR too lol)
Tetrodotoxin is the name of the poison.
For people who watch TomSka:
*JUICE THAT MAKES YOUR HEAD EXPLODE!*
wasnt the murderer on a James Bond film?
Yes, Jourdan was the villain in Octopussy.
Great the way he takes the plate from Columbo, done with real dislike 😄
A couple of things don't make sense about this ending.
1. If the killer knew that Columbo had no proof of how he committed the murder, why did he try to poison Columbo - and expect to get away with it?
2. How does a glass of wine with fugu poison in it constitute proof of the original murder? It's only Columbo's word against the killer's. Maybe means, opportunity and motive would be good enough to convince a jury, but Columbo already had that.
The method of poison is a bottle opener, so it would poison the entire bottle. Switching cups wouldn't matter. A classic Princess Bride conundrum.
I would love to try that meal they are enjoying.
But how did murderer get the Fugu poison into the bottle?!!😁😁
Maybe you should try actually watching this video?
@@fredbloggs5902 No you should do that...1:07
Jeez. Get a room you two. Enough with the flirting!
"My wife sir, she says we can have an open relationship".
Lyew-tenant...
7:22 But he never ate diner with a man that had been poisoned. He left without having a meal or drink. Why would he worry about being poisoned? That was established at the start of the clip.
0:01 "You never intended to eat Victorio's diner."
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Caution: This episode may only be viewed in a well fed status! Not suitable for dieters!
Columbo a cold ninGa