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* [[spoiler:When Lord Coward is trying to find Holmes in the smoke, talking about Blackwood's plans, and it turns out that Holmes has been sitting in a chair behind him, casually smoking his pipe.]]

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* [[spoiler:When Lord Coward is trying to find Holmes in the smoke, talking about Blackwood's plans, and it turns out that Holmes has been sitting in a chair behind him, casually smoking his pipe.]]
* At the end, when Watson and Mary climb up the stairs and into Holmes' room to discover [[spoiler: him hanging from the ceiling from a noose. Mary has the decency to look shocked, but Watson simply drones "Don't worry, suicide's not in his repertoire, he's far too fond of hiimself for that," then proceeds to poke him, whereupon it is revealed that Holmes got comfy enough to fall asleep.
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--> '''Watson''': Get what's in your hand out of my face.

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--> '''Watson''': Get what's in your hand out of my face.face.
* [[spoiler:When Lord Coward is trying to find Holmes in the smoke, talking about Blackwood's plans, and it turns out that Holmes has been sitting in a chair behind him, casually smoking his pipe.]]
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--> '''Or when you experiment on my dog!'''

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--> '''Or '''Watson''':Or when you experiment on my dog!'''dog!
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--> '''Or when you experiment on my dog!'''
-->'''Holmes''': ''Our'' dog.

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* ''The Blue Carbuncle.'' A police officer rushes in after making a startling discovery in a Christmas goose.
--->"The goose, Mr. Holmes! The goose, sir!" he gasped.
--->"Eh? What of it, then? Has it returned to life and flapped off through the kitchen window?"
--->(In the Granada series, Jeremy Brett illustrates by flapping his arms theatrically.)

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* ''The Blue Carbuncle.'' A police officer rushes in after making a startling discovery in a Christmas goose.
--->"The goose, Mr. Holmes! The goose, sir!" he gasped.
--->"Eh? What of it, then? Has it returned to life and flapped off through the kitchen window?"
--->(In the Granada series, Jeremy Brett illustrates by flapping his arms theatrically.)
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--->In the Granada series, Jeremy Brett illustrates by flapping his arms theatrically.

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\n--->In --->(In the Granada series, Jeremy Brett illustrates by flapping his arms theatrically.
theatrically.)
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"The goose, Mr. Holmes! The goose, sir!" he gasped.

"Eh? What of it, then? Has it returned to life and flapped off through the kitchen window?"

In the Granada series, Jeremy Brett illustrates by flapping his arms theatrically.

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"The --->"The goose, Mr. Holmes! The goose, sir!" he gasped.

"Eh? --->"Eh? What of it, then? Has it returned to life and flapped off through the kitchen window?"

In --->In the Granada series, Jeremy Brett illustrates by flapping his arms theatrically.
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* ''Shoscombe Old Place'' gives us this glorious character description: "a boxer, an athlete, a plunger on the turf, a lover of fair ladies, and, by all account, so far down Queer Street that he may never find his way back again." Ah, were we ever *that* innocent?

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* ''Shoscombe Old Place'' gives us this glorious character description: memorable line: "a boxer, an athlete, a plunger on the turf, a lover of fair ladies, and, by all account, so far down Queer Street that he may never find his way back again." " Ah, were we ever *that* innocent?

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*''The Blue Carbuncle.'' A police officer rushes in after making a startling discovery in a Christmas goose.

"The goose, Mr. Holmes! The goose, sir!" he gasped.

"Eh? What of it, then? Has it returned to life and flapped off through the kitchen window?"

In the Granada series, Jeremy Brett illustrates by flapping his arms theatrically.

*''Shoscombe Old Place'' gives us this glorious character description: "a boxer, an athlete, a plunger on the turf, a lover of fair ladies, and, by all account, so far down Queer Street that he may never find his way back again." Ah, were we ever *that* innocent?
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**Gets funnier via Fridge Logic...there's only one meal served, indicating that Holmes expected that the encounter would end with him pissing off Watson and/or Mary causing them to walk out.
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-> '''Watson''': Get that out of my face.
-> '''Holmes''': It's not in your face; it's in my hand.
-> '''Watson''': Get what's in your hand out of my face.

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-> --> '''Watson''': Get that out of my face.
-> --> '''Holmes''': It's not in your face; it's in my hand.
-> --> '''Watson''': Get what's in your hand out of my face.
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** In fact, pretty much any time Watson and Holmes have a LikeAnOldMarriedCouple moment probably goes here.

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** In fact, pretty much any time Watson and Holmes have a LikeAnOldMarriedCouple moment probably goes here.here.
**Like this?
-> '''Watson''': Get that out of my face.
-> '''Holmes''': It's not in your face; it's in my hand.
-> '''Watson''': Get what's in your hand out of my face.

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* Holmes' [[DeadpanSnarker snark]] is legendary for a reason. Case in point, in ''The Boscombe Valley Mystery'':
--->"We have got to the deductions and the inferences," said Lestrade, winking at me. "I find it hard enough to tackle facts, Holmes, without flying away after theories and fancies."
--->"You are right," said Holmes demurely; "you do find it very hard to tackle the facts."

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--->'''Holmes:''' Photoshop.

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--->'''Holmes:''' Photoshop.
*** They better put this in the second season of the [[{{Sherlock}} BBC miniseries]].
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* Holmes' LastSecondWordSwap in ''The Adventure of the Norwood Builder''. "Arrest you! This really is most grati—most interesting. On what charge to you expect to be arrested?" Even funnier when you try to picture the look on his face (it isn't described so you've got free reign here)...
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** "Now we have a firm grasp... of the obvious."
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* "Wear a jacket." "You wear a jacket!"
* Right after Holmes owns his opponent in the CurbStompBattle boxing match, one man indignantly shouts: "Where did ''that'' come from?!"

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* "Wear a jacket." "You "''[[LameComeback You]]'' [[LameComeback wear a jacket!"
jacket]]!"
* Right after Holmes owns his opponent in the CurbStompBattle boxing match, the StunnedSilence is broken only when one man indignantly shouts: "Where did ''that'' come from?!"



-->There is only one case which intrigues me at present... the curious case of Mrs. Hudson, the absentee landlady... I've been studying her comings and goings... they appear most... ''sinister''
-->Tea, Mr. Holmes?
-->Is it poisoned? Nanny?!
-->There's enough of that in you already.
-->Don't touch! Everything is in it's proper place, as per usual... ''Nnnnnanny''...

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-->There -->'''Holmes''': There is only one case which intrigues me at present... the curious case of Mrs. Hudson, the absentee landlady... landlady. I've been studying her comings and goings... goings, and they appear most... ''sinister''
-->Tea,
''sinister''...
-->'''Mrs. Hudson''': ''[long-suffering]'' Tea,
Mr. Holmes?
-->Is -->'''Holmes''': Is it poisoned? Nanny?!
-->There's -->'''Mrs. Hudson''': There's enough of that in you already.
-->Don't -->'''Holmes''': Don't touch! Everything is in it's proper place, as per usual... ''Nnnnnanny''...
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--> '''Holmes''': Urm, we have a ''[[InsistentTerminology barter system]]''...

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--> '''Holmes''': Urm, we have a ''[[InsistentTerminology barter system]]''...system]]''...
** In fact, pretty much any time Watson and Holmes have a LikeAnOldMarriedCouple moment probably goes here.
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--> '''Holmes''': I see. At what stage of the process? Contemplative?

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--> '''Holmes''': I see. At what stage of the process? Contemplative?Contemplative?
* The scene in the jail where Watson and Holmes are held, in which the two end up bickering LikeAnOldMarriedCouple.
--> '''Watson''': When do I complain about you practicing the violin until three in the morning, or the fact that you steal my clothes?!
--> '''Holmes''': Urm, we have a ''[[InsistentTerminology barter system]]''...
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* Holmes fighting the giant mook with an electrode.

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* Holmes fighting the giant mook with an electrode.electrode.
* At Blackwood's tomb, Holmes is informed that the police are in the process of exhuming Blackwood's coffin. Said police constables are currently standing back as far from the tomb as they can, each one looking very, very nervous.
--> '''Holmes''': I see. At what stage of the process? Contemplative?
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** Holmes gets a lovely little bit of snark in against the King of Bohemia later in the story, after the King declares (of Irene Adler), "Is it not a pity she is not on my level?" "Indeed, from what I have seen she is on a ''very'' different level from your Majesty."
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* This exchange from "A Scandal in Bohemia" is funny enough, but I found it absolutely hilarious upon reading the story after seeing the Guy Ritchie film because it sounds exactly like the kind of thing the Robert Downey, jr. version of Holmes would say:

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* This exchange from "A Scandal in Bohemia" is funny enough, but I found it absolutely hilarious upon reading the story after seeing the Guy Ritchie film because it sounds exactly like the kind of thing the Robert Downey, jr.Jr. version of Holmes would say:
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Even funnier if you take it in a modern context. Since modern readers will expect Holmes will reply to the last one with this;
-->'''Grand Duke:''' We were ''both'' in the photograph.
-->'''Holmes:''' Photoshop.

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Even **Even funnier if you take it taken in a modern context. Since context, since modern readers will expect Holmes will to reply to the last one with this;
-->'''Grand
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--->'''Grand
Duke:''' We were ''both'' in the photograph.
-->'''Holmes:''' --->'''Holmes:''' Photoshop.

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Even funnier if you take it in a modern context. Since modern readers will expect Holmes will reply to the last one with this;
-->'''Grand Duke:''' We were ''both'' in the photograph.
-->'''Holmes:''' Photoshop.
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* "Madam, I need you to stay calm, and [[TrustMeImAnX trust me, I am a professional]]. Underneath this pillow lies the key to my release." Said while handcuffed to a bedpost, entirely naked, and the pillow is the only thing covering his shame.

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* "Madam, I need you to stay calm, and [[TrustMeImAnX trust me, I am a professional]]. Underneath this pillow lies the key to my release." Said while handcuffed to a bedpost, entirely naked, and the pillow is the only thing covering his shame.privates.

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* This exchange from "A Scandal in Bohemia" is funny enough, but I found it absolutely hilarious upon reading the story after seeing the Guy Ritchie film because it sounds exactly like the kind of thing the Robert Downey, jr. version of Holmes would say:
-->'''Holmes:''' If this young person [Irene Adler] should produce her letters for blackmailing or other purposes, how is she to prove their authenticity?
-->'''Grand Duke of Cassel-Felstein:''' There is the writing.
-->'''Holmes:''' Pooh, pooh! Forgery.
-->'''Grand Duke:''' My private notepaper.
-->'''Holmes:''' Stolen.
-->'''Grand Duke:''' My own seal.
-->'''Holmes:''' Imitated.
-->'''Grand Duke:''' My photograph.
-->'''Holmes:''' Bought.
-->'''Grand Duke:''' We were ''both'' in the photograph.
-->'''Holmes:''' Oh, dear! That is very bad!
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* The scene where Holmes disguises himself when he follows after Irene becomes one of this when you realise that Robert Downey Jr is [[TropicThunder the dude playing a dude disguised as another dude]].

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* The scene where Holmes disguises himself when he follows after Irene becomes one of this when you realise that Robert Downey Jr is [[TropicThunder the dude playing a dude disguised as another dude]].dude]].
* Holmes fighting the giant mook with an electrode.
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Different kind of shame.


**[[YourMileageMayVary I wouldn't call it 'shame']].
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* "Madam, I need you to stay calm, I am a professional. Underneath this pillow lies the key to my release." Said while handcuffed to a bedpost, entirely naked, and the pillow is the only thing covering his shame.

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* "Madam, I need you to stay calm, and [[TrustMeImAnX trust me, I am a professional.professional]]. Underneath this pillow lies the key to my release." Said while handcuffed to a bedpost, entirely naked, and the pillow is the only thing covering his shame.

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