"I'll tell ya, Mrs. Ferris, I'm the worst cook in the world," the titular Lieutenant Columbo opines in the first non-pilot episode of the 1971 series. "But there's one thing I do terrific — and that's an omelet. Even my wife admits it."
With his rumpled trench and perpetually mussed hair, Columbo (Peter Falk) looks a little sloppy. This is both part of his appeal — as "Saturday Night Live" cast member Sarah Sherman put it in a recent episode, "Hachi machi! An old guy with a loose eyeball and resting cigar face?!" — and his investigative method.
