Of course you can, who is going to stop me, the life lesson police? In fact this is funnily enough a (meta?) lesson of Columbo. You can extract something out of

Of course you can, who is going to stop me, the life lesson police? In fact this is funnily enough a (meta?) lesson of Columbo. You can extract something out of anything. Whether it's true, a lie, fiction, non-fiction, if something is made with intent there's something to learn. Columbo's acuity lies in his perception and his mind much more so than in the often mundane things he looks at. It's his lack of prejudice and child like curiosity that stands out and that is as true in the world of Columbo as it is in the real one. And also maybe as a side note, most foundational texts concerning the big questions of life and underpinning most of human civilization are to large extent scripted and deliberately composed works of fiction, from the Vedas and Talmud to Shakespeare.