This Dressing Gown Robe is worn on Hugh Laurie as Bertie Wooster in Jeeves and Wooster: The Silver Jug (or Jeeves Saves the Cow Creamer) 1991 and later worn on David Suchet as Hercule Poirot in Poirot: The Mystery of the Blue Train (2005)
After studying three of the greats — Holmes, Poirot, Columbo — I have determined that in order to be a popular fictional detective you MUST be autistic you MUST be a nosy bitch and you MUST have a boybestfriend to bounce your theories off of.
‘But op, what about Columbo? Columbo doesn’t have a boybestfriend!’ You fools. His boybestfriend is the murderer.
I love that when one starts watching the Poirot series, there's no explanation who the hell Hastings is.
The first few minutes you get to figure out that Poirot is a detective and that Miss Lemon works for him. But who is Hastings? Why does he follow Poirot everywhere and just reads newspapers in Poirot's rooms? Does he not work? Why does Poirot cook for him? There's no explanation and the viewer just has to go along with it.