History Fridge / Elementary

* While Holmes is still socially incompetent at best, and is often described as having colleagues or associates rather than friends before Watson came into his life, Miller's version of Holmes is essentially more socially capable than most, such as making an effort to maintain good contacts with the Irregulars and colleagues such as Captain Gregson who have earned his respect. The reason for this is suggested by the existence of the Irregulars themselves; most versions of Sherlock Holmes rely on knowing basically ''everything'' they need to know in the event of it being useful for a future case, but with the Irregulars to provide more specialised knowledge in relatively obscure fields such as mathematics or meteorology, Holmes doesn't need to "specialise" and can focus more on personal interaction to a level that some versions can't manage.

* The "InspectorLestrade" character for the show is Thomas Gregson. In the original Holmes stories, Gregson was locked in bitter rivalry with InspectorLestrade ... just as ''Elementary'', being also an updating of the Holmes stories transplanting the characters to a contemporary setting, is a rival to ''Series/{{Sherlock}}''.

* There's often a lot of difference between a pilot episode and the rest of the series, and ''Series/{{Elementary}}'' is no exception. The biggest difference is that in the Pilot, Gregson's assistant was a guy named Abreu. Marcus Bell isn't introduced until the second episode where he replaces Abreu. The Pilot gained a lot of criticism because some of Holmes' "brilliant deductions" were things that the police would be normally expected to figure out for themselves, like Holmes finding a stray bit of glass in the corner of a room. The rest of the series has done a good job of avoiding this problem, making a good distinction between what the police could reasonably expected to figure out themselves and the sort of brilliant reasoning that only a genius like Sherlock Holmes can accomplish. Maybe Holmes finding that stray bit of glass in the Pilot was a sign that Abreu wasn't up to the job. Maybe after the Pilot, Gregson fired/transferred Abreu and replaced him with the much more competent Bell.

* Mycroft's restaurant is named Diogenes. Diogenes is the name of a Greek philosopher who had a reputation for being lazy and vulgar; Sherlock frequently accuses him of being a flake, and for a man to have sex with his brother's student while visiting said brother is a rather vulgar thing to do.
** This was the name of Mycroft's club in the original stories, presumably for the "laziness" allusion. This just takes it further.

- [[spoiler: Death of Irene broke Sherlock]]
- [[spoiler: Reveal of Irene being Moriarty. It's death of Irene persona]]

** It's also a MythologyGag, as several parts of the Device are also components of Ratigan's overblown death trap from ''Disney/TheGreatMouseDetective''.

* There's often a lot of difference between a pilot episode and the rest of the series, and ''Series/{{Elementary}}'' is no exception. The biggest difference is that in the Pilot, Gregson's assistant was a guy named Abreu. Marcus Bell isn't introduced until the second episode where he replaces Abreu. The Pilot gained a lot of criticism because some of Holmes' "brilliant deductions" were things that the police would be normally expected to figure out for themselves, like Holmes finding a stray bit of glass in the corner of a room. The rest of the series has done a good job of avoiding this problem, making a good distinction between what the police could reasonably expected to figure out themselves and the sort of brilliant reasoning that a genius like Sherlock Holmes can figure out. Maybe Holmes finding that stray bit of glass in the Pilot was a sign that Abreu wasn't up to the job. Maybe after the Pilot, Gregson fired/transferred Abreu and replaced him with the much more competent Bell.