History YMMV / SherlockS01E03TheGreatGame

-->''"'Dear Jim, please will you fix it for me to get rid of my lover's nasty sister?', 'Dear Jim, please will you fix it for me to disappear to South America?'
--->--'''Sherlock Holmes'''

* HarsherInHindsight: Sherlock's sarcastic "Dear Jim" jibe to Moriarty is horrifying to watch these days. He's quoting ''Jim'll Fix It'', an immensely popular BBC show that ran between the 70s and the 90s, where eccentric host [[Creator/JimmySavile Jimmy Savile]] would make the wishes of children who wrote in come true. The letters took the format, "Dear Jim, please will you fix it ...". It wasn't until well after the episode was broadcast that it was revealed that Savile had spent his life committing rape and sexual abuse on an unprecedented scale. He abused several of the children who wrote in and appeared on the show on BBC premises during filming.

* HilariousInHindsight: At one point in this episode, Sherlock Holmes says that "Heroes don't exist, and if they did, I wouldn't be one of them". Fast forward to 2016, where Creator/BenedictCumberbatch has been cast in ''Film/DoctorStrange2016'' as the titular superhero.
* MoralEventHorizon: Moriarty strapping one of his bombs onto a ''little boy'' and forcing him to count down to his own demise. Everything he did was horrifying, but that moment reveals just how sick a bastard our heroes are dealing with.

* HarsherInHindsight: Sherlock's sarcastic "Dear Jim" jibe to Moriarty is horrifying to watch these days. He's quoting ''Jim'll Fix It'', an immensely popular BBC show that ran between the 70s and the 90s, where eccentric host [[Creator/JimmySavile Jimmy Savile]] would make the wishes of children who wrote in come true. The letters took the format, "Dear Jim, please will you fix it ...". It wasn't until well after ''[[SherlockS01E03TheGreatGame The Great Game]]'' was broadcast that it was revealed that Savile had spent his life committing rape and sexual abuse on an unprecedented scale. He abused several of the children who wrote in and appeared on the show on BBC premises during filming.

* MoralEventHorizon: [spoiler:Moriarty strapping one of his bombs onto a ''little boy'' and forcing him to count down to his own demise.]] Everything he did was horrifying, but that moment reveals just how sick a bastard our heroes are dealing with.

* HilariousInHindsight: At one point in this episode, Sherlock Holmes says that "Heroes don't exist, and if they did, I wouldn't be one of them". Fast forward to 2016, where Creator/BenedictCumberbatch has been cast in Film/DoctorStrange2016 as the titular superhero.

* CompleteMonster: Taking center stage, Jim Moriarty sells out his clients and challenges Sherlock to solve their crimes within a certain time limit or else Moriarty will detonate bombs he strapped to innocent people, [[WouldHurtAChild including a child]], considering it a fun little "game". When one of his victims, a blind old woman, begins to describe the sound of Moriarty's voice, Moriarty detonates her bomb, killing her and eleven others.

* CompleteMonster: Moriarty decides to play a little "game" with Sherlock, selling out his clients and challenging Sherlock to solve the crimes they committed such as a young boy Moriarty drowned in his youth, a woman killed by poisoning her floor, and two people being smothered by a brutal PsychoForHire called the Golem. For incentive, he kidnaps people, [[WouldHurtAChild including one young child]], and straps bombs to them that will detonate if Sherlock doesn't solve the crimes in the allotted time. When one of his victims, a blind, traumatized, old woman only begins to describe the sound of Moriarty's voice after Sherlock solves the case, Moriarty detonates the bomb, killing her and eleven others.

* HilariousInHindsight: At one point in this episode, Sherlock Holmes says that "Heroes don't exist, and if they did, I wouldn't be one of them". Fast forward to 2016, where Cumberbatch has been cast in Film/DoctorStrange2016 as the titular superhero.

* HilariousInHindsight: At one point Sherlock Holmes says that "Heroes don't exist, and if they did, I wouldn't be one of them". Fast forward to 2016, where Cumberbatch has been cast in Film/DoctorStrange2016 as the titular superhero.

--->--'''Sherlock Holmes'''

* CompleteMonster: Moriarty decides to play a little "game" with Sherlock, selling out his clients and challenging Sherlock to solve the crimes they committed such as a young boy Moriarty drowned in his youth, a woman killed by poisoning her floor, and a two people being smothered by a brutal PsychoForHire called the Golem. For incentive, he kidnaps people, [[WouldHurtAChild including one young child]], and straps bombs to them that will detonate if Sherlock doesn't solve the crimes in the allotted time. When one of his victims, a blind, traumatized, old woman only begins to describe the sound of Moriarty's voice after Sherlock solves the case, Moriarty detonates the bomb, killing her and eleven others.