History Film / TheAdventureOfSherlockHolmesSmarterBrother

''The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother'' is Creator/GeneWilder's 1975 directorial debut. Many fans will recall that Franchise/SherlockHolmes did in fact have an older brother, Mycroft, who was by all accounts indeed smarter than Sherlock, yet [[BrilliantButLazy too lazy]] to accomplish what Sherlock had. This film follows his ''younger'' brother Sigerson's DayInTheLimelight.

* YouHaveFailedMe: Moriarty feeds one of his {{Mook}}s to a tiger for failing to tail Holmes & Sacker (and because he needs to do something evil every 24 minutes).

** MelBrooks dubs the voice of the henchman who's fed to a tiger.

* FanService: After escaping Gambetti's DeathTrap, both GeneWilder and Marty Feldman are left bare-assed.

* [[HoYay/SherlockHolmes Ho Yay]]

* BreakingTheFourthWall. In TheCameo below, Albert Finney turns and talks to the audience, wondering of the opera was really "rotten, or just wonderfully brave".

** Mel Brooks dubs the voice of the henchman who's fed to a tiger.

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* FanDisservice: After escaping Gambetti's DeathTrap, both GeneWilder and Marty Feldman are left bare-assed.

GeneWilder's 1975 directorial debut. Many fans will recall that Franchise/SherlockHolmes did in fact have an older brother, Mycroft, who was by all accounts indeed smarter than Sherlock, yet [[BrilliantButLazy too lazy]] to accomplish what Sherlock had. This film follows his ''younger'' brother Sigerson's DayInTheLimelight.

* TheCameo: Albert Finney as an opera patron who criticizes Gambetti's performance.

* [[ChekhovsSkill Chekhov's Skill]]: Sigerson is practicing fencing when we first meet him.

* MadMathematician: Moriarty is supposedly a professor of mathematics... yet he doesn't seem to be able to perform long division with decimals.
** 2+2=4 is the only correct math problem on a board behind him in one scene. The rest are either incorrect or have a question mark under the answer.
* MsFanservice: A lot of characters spend a lot of time either groping Madeline Kahn's boobs, or talking about groping her boobs.
** Including Wilder writing and directing himself in the longest one of all.

* NonSequiturThud: After a GroinAttack with a [[ItMakesSenseInContext giant shoe]] -- "Oh taxi!" ''[thud]''
** Also counts as a VisualPun since he's quite literally given the boot.

* ShownTheirWork: The songs Jenny sings are actual music hall songs.

GeneWilder's 1975 directorial debut. Many fans will recall that Franchise/SherlockHolmes did in-fact have an older brother, Mycroft, who was by all accounts indeed smarter than Sherlock, yet [[BrilliantButLazy too lazy]] to accomplish what Sherlock had. This film follows his ''younger'' brother Sigerson's DayInTheLimelight.

* [[ChekhovsSkill]]: Sigerson is practicing fencing when we first meet him.

* TheCastShowoff[=/=]IronyAsSheIsCast: The former is Madeline Kahn, and the latter is Dom [=DeLuise=], both singing opera.
** One can argue Wilder is also a Cast Showoff as he was an accomplished college fencer.
* [[ChekhovsSkill Chekhov's Skill]]: Sigerson is practicing fencing when we first meet him.

** Mel Brooks dubs the voice of the henchmen who's fed to a tiger.

** Moriarty's being forced to do something evil every 24 minutes was a tribute to GilbertAndSullivan's ''Theatre/{{Ruddigore}}'', which had a man cursed to perform an evil act every day or die.

* BreakingTheFourthWall. In TheCameo below, Albert Finney turns and talks to the audience.

Jenny Hill (Madeline Kahn), an opera singer and bride-to-be of the new Minister of Defense, is blackmailed into stealing the [[MacGuffin "Redcliff Document"]], which details Great Britain's defense plans. The blackmailer (Dom [=DeLuise=]) intends to sell the document to Professor Moriarty (Leo [=McKern=]), who in-turn plans on selling the document to the highest bidder. Since Holmes & Watson are on holiday, Sgt. Orville Sacker (Marty Feldman) of Scotland Yard seeks out the services of Sherlock's younger brother, Sigerson, also a detective. Sigerson (Wilder) is insanely jealous of his older brother's success, and yearns for the day to prove his own self-proclaimed superior intellect.

* TheCastShowoff / IronyAsSheIsCast: The former is Madeline Kahn, and the latter is Dom [=DeLuise=], both singing opera.

** "Sigerson" is an alias Holmes uses when he's presumed dead.

->''Why don't we all drink some very sexy wine?''

GeneWilder's 1975 directorial debut. Many fans will recall that SherlockHolmes did in-fact have an older brother, Mycroft, who was by all accounts indeed smarter than Sherlock, yet [[BrilliantButLazy too lazy]] to accomplish what Sherlock had. This film follows his ''younger'' brother Sigerson's DayInTheLimelight.

Jenny Hill (Madeline Kahn), an opera singer and the daughter of the new Minister of Defense, is blackmailed into stealing the [[MacGuffin "Redcliff Document"]], which details Great Britain's defense plans. The blackmailer (Dom [=DeLuise=]) intends to sell the document to Professor Moriarty (Leo [=McKern=]), who in-turn plans on selling the document to the highest bidder. Since Holmes & Watson are on holiday, Sgt. Orville Sacker (Marty Feldman) of Scotland Yard seeks out the services of Sherlock's younger brother, Sigerson, also a detective. Sigerson (Wilder) is insanely jealous of his older brother's success, and yearns for the day to prove his own self-proclaimed superior intellect.

** Moriarty's being forced to do something evil every 24 minutes was a tribute to GilbertAndSullivan's ''{{Ruddigore}}'', which had a man cursed to perform an evil act every day or die.

* ShoutOut: Frank Stockton's "The Lady or the Tiger?" and GilbertAndSullivan's ''{{Ruddigore}}''.