History Main / SherlockCanRead

* ''Anime/SteinsGate'': when Kurisu tracks down "Future Gadgets Tech Labs", Okabe demands to know how she possibly did that, immediately assuming she's a spy from "The Organization". Kurisu points out the name is written on their mailbox just outside the door.

* ''ComicBook/{{Robin}}'' Annual #6 is a NewOldWest story guest-starring modern versions of DC western heroes Nighthawk and Pow-Wow Smith as they track the fugitive Trigger Twins. Smith was in the middle of looking at their trail in the desert when Nighthawk walked up, and tells him the Triggers first went offroad a few miles north, in a stolen '78 Cadillac El Dorado with OK plates. Nighthawk is astonished that Smith can [[ScarilyCompetentTracker tell all that from looking at some tire tracks]], but Smith clarifies that was all from the Texas Rangers' report on their escape.

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* ''Film/TheReturnOfSherlockHolmes'': When Holmes buys the last Napoleon bust off Mr. Sandeford, Sandeford asks him how he deduced that he possessed the bust and his address. Holmes replies that after the sculptor provided the names of the purchasers, he glanced at the sculptor's records and copied Sandeford's address down.

* Inverted, ''then'' played straight in ''Manga/RanmaOneHalf'', after Ranma pulls an AccidentalProposal on Shampoo (in accordance with the laws of her village), and she pulls out an old book to confirm the [[JustForPun rules of engagement]]. Soun reads the text and becomes shocked at what he sees, only to reveal a moment later that [[BaitAndSwitch he can't read any of it]] because it's written in Chinese. Nabiki then gives it a once-over and confirms what Shampoo is saying is true. Ranma accuses her of not knowing Chinese either, to which Nabiki responds she doesn't ''have'' to know the language: there was a Japanese translation ''right next'' to the Chinese.

* In Granada TV's ''Series/SherlockHolmes'' adaptation of "The Devil's Foot", Holmes meets a country pastor and does his usual observation and deduction of the man which is of course amazingly accurate, including the subject of his last sermon. When the impressed pastor asks how he could possibly have known, Holmes explains what he observed. As for the sermon, he playfully revealed that he had read a copy of the local church's last Sunday service program beforehand.

* ''Film/NightAtTheMuseum'': Sacajawea is asked to track down the thief of Akmenrah's tablet from the tracks in the snow. She immediately deduces that he tried driving away, but his car slipped on the ice and crashed. Larry is amazed at her tracking skill until she points at the crashed car just a few yards away.

** After introducing himself to Cicily Sellis on the street, Lope de Vega is astonished — and instantly thinks she may be a witch — when she recognizes him as a friend of William Shakespeare. She instead points out that she lives in the same building as Shakespeare does, and he has frequently mentioned de Vega when talking about his work.

* ''ComicBook/{{Robin}}'' Annual #6 is a NewOldWest story guest-starring modern versions of DC western heroes Nighthawk and Pow-Wow Smith as they track the fugitive Trigger Twins. Smith was in the middle of looking at their trail when Nighthawk walked up, and tells him the Trigers went offroad a few miles north, in a stolen '78 Cadillac El Dorado with OK plates. Nighthawk is astonished that Smith can [[ScarilyCompetentTracker tell all that from looking at some tire tracks]], but Smith clarifies that was all from the Texas Rangers' report on their escape.