History Film / HolmesAndWatson

* HurricaneOfEuphemisms: During Moriarty's trial, Watson and Holmes go through a long string of unusual euphemisms while attempting to explain to the court that the man in the dock is a masturbator. Eventually realization dawns and someone in the gallery says "Oh, he's a wanker!"

* LiteralMetaphor: Klinger has an HisNameIs moment were he is about to tell Holmes the details of the conspiracy, but instead announces that he has a knife in his back. Holmes thinks this is metaphorical, i.e. he his partners have betrayed him or 'stabbed him in the back'. But then Klinger keels over with a literal knife [[InTheBack in his back]].

* PitGirls: A ring girl--dressed in Victorian lingerie--appears out of nowhere during the fight in the Hexagon. {{Lampshaded}} by Holmes:

* TheUnfought: Moriarty [[spoiler:is only unambiguously in the film in one scene.]]

* LiteralMetaphor: Klinger has an HisNameIs moment were he is about to tell Holmes the details of the conspiracy, but instead announces that he has a knife in his back. Holmes thinks this is metaphorical, i.e. he his partners have betrayed him or 'stabbed him in the back'. But then Klinger keels over with a literal knife in his back.

* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: After Holmes reads Watson's journal and discovers how much Watson adored him, he regrets [[spoiler:accusing Watson as being the killer.]]

''Holmes & Watson'' is a 2018 American mystery comedy film written and directed by Etan Cohen. The film stars Creator/WillFerrell and Creator/JohnCReilly as the eponymous characters, Franchise/SherlockHolmes and Dr. Watson, with Creator/RebeccaHall, Creator/RobBrydon, Creator/SteveCoogan, and Creator/RalphFiennes also starring.

** At one point, Dr. Heart says that in America, no citizen can be found guilty until after their case has been heard by a jury of white, property-owning men.

** And then you have the jokes about selfies. Complete with "lips like a duck-billed platypus".
* AnachronisticAnimal: Sherlock has a hive of killer bees. This is impossible, since killer bees (more properly known as Africanized bees) are not a naturally occurring animal, but a hybrid honeybee subspecies that didn't exist until the 1950s, having been created at that time as a result of an ill-advised attempt by some Brazilian scientists to make a "superior" domestic honeybee.

* AsHimself: Creator/BillyZane

** The film also has a few anachronistic UsefulNotes/DonaldTrump jokes, e.g. a "Make England Great Again" hat worn by Holmes in the beginning of the movie.

* RealLife: There is a derogatory reference to UsefulNotes/DonaldTrump when Holmes and Hart discuss the differences between the UK and the USA.

* TheUnfought: Moriarty [[spoiler:is only unambiguously in the film in one scene.]].

* ADateWithRosiePalms: When the imposter Moriarty is tried for the real Moriarty's crimes, Holmes deduces that he couldn't have done it because he suffers from hand tremors due to excessive masturbation. This habit, and the (quasi-historically-accurate) pity and horror it inspires, are a running gag.

* ADateWithRosiePalms: When the imposter Moriarty is tried for the real Moriarty's crimes, Holmes deduces that he couldn't have done it because he suffers from hand tremors due to excessive masturbation.

* AwesomenessByAnalysis: Holmes attempts this at several points throughout the movie, and fails every time. The scene in the ring is a parody of the boxing scene in 2009's ''Film/{{Sherlock Holmes|2009}}'', which fails because Brawn completely ignores the initial distraction. The others fail due to miscalculation (the beehive), being drunk (pissing in the alley) or his mind not being focused on the task at hand (the bomb on the ''Titanic'').