Line #91 Funny/SherlockHolmes


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4	* ''A Study In Scarlet'': Watson meets Sherlock Holmes for the first time, in a college medical lab as the latter is squeeing over, apparently, inventing luminol.
5	** The list Watson makes entitled "Sherlock Holmes: His Limits".
6	** Watson finds out that Holmes doesn't know that the earth travels around the sun. Holmes proceeds to act patronizing and give him the memorable "brain attic" speech. The response is classic Watson:
7	---> ''[[OnlySaneMan "But the Solar System!” I protested.]]''
8	** Watson summarizing what the newspapers had to say about the murders: each and every one of them blames the government for it (the Daily Mail even recommends keeping a closer watch on foreigners, nothing has changed in over a hundred years).
9	** Coupled with HilariousInHindsight: When he's about to introduce Watson to Sherlock for the first time, Watson's college chum remarks flippantly that he can imagine Holmes giving a friend a mild dose of poison just to see the effects firsthand - "And, to do him justice, I think he would take the same dose himself." Many, many adventures later, in the Adventure of the Devil's Foot, he is proven correct on both counts.
10	* The constable who found the body is in bed and not especially keen to speak to Holmes.
11	--> "I made my report at the office," he said.
12	--> Holmes took a half-sovereign from his pocket and played with it pensively. "We thought that we should like to hear it all from your own lips," he said.
13	--> "I shall be most happy to tell you anything I can," the constable answered with his eyes upon the little golden disk.
14	* After hearing the constable's account, Holmes and Watson head home for lunch. Holmes, quite intensely discussing the case, switches abruptly to talking about music.
15	--> "There's the scarlet thread of murder running through the colourless skein of life, and our duty is to unravel it, and isolate it, and expose every inch of it. And now for lunch, and then for Norman Neruda. Her attack and her bowing are splendid. What's that little thing of Chopin's she plays so magnificently: Tra-la-la-lira-lira-lay."
16	--> Leaning back in the cab, this amateur bloodhound carolled away like a lark while I meditated upon the many-sidedness of the human mind.
17	* "The Adventure of Charles Augustus Milverton:" Lestrade comes and gives Holmes a description of one of the men seen fleeing Milverton's residence the night he was murdered. Holmes laughs at the vagueness of the description and declines to take the case. "[[SarcasticConfession Why, that might even be a description of Watson]]..."
18	* ''The Red-Headed League'' features an in-story example; a combination of Jabez Wilson's twist of luck where the League suddenly closes on him, his showing of the sign informing of said closure to Holmes and Watson, and his absolute dead-serious face when retelling the tale proves too much for both Holmes and Watson to bear, and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LiRrdP2GcNY they burst out laughing]].
19	** This is actually a particularly good example of Doyle's deftness with prose. Wilson's elaborately detailed and dramatic retelling of his mysterious experiences, which are punctured by a note saying nothing but the phrase "The Red-Headed League Is Dissolved." It also delves into the realm of InherentlyFunnyWords.
20	* Working for the Red-Headed League involved Mr Wilson copying out the A-section of the ''Encyclopædia Britannica'' for four pounds a day. After the League dissolves, Mr Wilson is quite miffed about not being paid anymore.
21	--> “As far as you are personally concerned,” remarked Holmes, “I do not see that you have any grievance against this extraordinary league. On the contrary, you are, as I understand, richer by some £30, to say nothing of the minute knowledge which you have gained on every subject which comes under the letter A.”
22	* This exchange from "A Scandal in Bohemia"--
23	-->'''Holmes:''' If this young person [Irene Adler] should produce her letters for blackmailing or other purposes, how is she to prove their authenticity?
24	-->'''Grand Duke of Cassel-Felstein:''' There is the writing.
25	-->'''Holmes:''' Pooh, pooh! Forgery.
26	-->'''Grand Duke:''' My private notepaper.
27	-->'''Holmes:''' Stolen.
28	-->'''Grand Duke:''' My own seal.
29	-->'''Holmes:''' Imitated.
30	-->'''Grand Duke:''' My photograph.
31	-->'''Holmes:''' Bought.
32	-->'''Grand Duke:''' We were ''both'' in the photograph.
33	-->'''Holmes:''' Oh, dear! That is very bad!
34	** Holmes gets a lovely little [[StealthInsult 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 that she was not on my level?" "From what I have seen of the lady she seems indeed to be on a very different level to your Majesty."
35	** Holmes in disguise tailing Irene Adler being unexpectedly pulled from the street to be a witness at her wedding by her groom, who is a lawyer. It's so unexpected that he laughs about it later.
36	--->'''Godfrey Norton:''' (pulling Holmes into the church) Come on man, just three minutes, or it won't be legal!
37	* At the start of ''The Adventure of the Beryl Coronet'' the client is described as approaching 221b while waggling his hands in the air, leaping and running in great agitation. As soon as he arrives at the flat, having nearly torn the bell from the wall, and sits down he immediately jumps up again and starts banging his head against the wall. Holmes and Watson have to wrestle him into a chair, Holmes patting his hand and soothing him like an upset child.
38	** Watson's opening line when seeing him from the window: "Here is a madman coming along. It seems rather sad that his relatives should allow him to come out alone."
39	* Holmes' LastSecondWordSwap in ''The Adventure of the Norwood Builder''. "Arrest you! This really is most grati—most interesting. On what charge do 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 rein here).
40	** Holmes later forcing the old man out of hiding by making him think there was a fire in the house. Even funnier when he says that they could have just gone in and taken him - "but [[ItAmusedMe it amused me]] to make him reveal himself."
41	* Holmes' [[DeadpanSnarker snark]] is legendary for a reason. Case in point, in ''The Boscombe Valley Mystery'':
42	-->"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."
43	-->"You are right," said Holmes demurely; "you do find it very hard to tackle the facts."
44	* At one point Holmes and Watson are heading to a concert -- or "off to violin-land," as Holmes puts it.
45	* The opening paragraphs of "The Adventure of the Musgrave Ritual," where Watson describes how Holmes lives, saying that he himself is no neat freak, but:
46	-->when I find a man who keeps his cigars in the coal-scuttle, his tobacco in the toe end of a Persian slipper, and his unanswered correspondence transfixed by a jack-knife into the very centre of his wooden mantelpiece, then I begin to give myself virtuous airs. I have always held, too, that pistol practice should distinctly be an open-air pastime; and when Holmes in one of his queer humours would sit in an arm-chair with his hair-trigger and a hundred Boxer cartridges, and proceed to adorn the opposite wall with a patriotic V. R. done in bullet-pocks, I felt strongly that neither the atmosphere nor the appearance of our room was improved by it.
47	* ''The Hound of the Baskervilles'':
48	** Holmes asking Watson to make some deductions about a cane left by a potential client. Watson obliges, and Holmes warmly congratulates him and thanks him for his help. Watson is chuffed... until Holmes clarifies:
49	---> '''Holmes:''' I am afraid, dear Watson, that most of your conclusions were erroneous. When I said that you stimulated me I meant, to be frank, that in noting your fallacies I was occasionally guided towards the truth.
50	** Holmes apparently deducing the exact breed of a dog by its teeth marks, only to then reveal that he could see the dog itself outside the window.
51	** An eccentric client getting a bit over-excited about the shape of Holmes's skull, to the point where he wants to fondle it and take it home with him to the point of being really creepy.
52	--->'''Mortimer:''' Would you have any objection to my running a finger along your parietal fissure? A cast of your skull, sir, until the original is available, would be an ornament to any anthropological museum. It is not my intention to be fulsome, but I confess that I covet your skull.
53	** Watson finds Holmes and immediately notices that he's managed to "contrive" a PermaShave while hiding out on a moor.
54	** The various things that Mr. Frankland accomplishes, including closing a forest from picnickers due to litter, opening a right of way in front of someone's front door, on their property, imprisoning someone for trespassing for shooting on their own land, and several others. One day, the villagers praise his name, the next they burn him in effigy. The best part is the quick bit of HypocriticalHumor where he accosts Watson to crow over his opening of the right of way, hailing it as a triumph of the rights of the common man over the tyrannical landowner, then without any sense of irony announces he's kicked the picnickers out of the woods in his next breath. He goes on to state his intention to sue the police for not doing more to stop the effigy-burnings.
55	* In "The Valley of Fear," after finding only one dumbbell in the victim’s home, Holmes is alarmed. "One dumb-bell, Watson! Consider an athlete with one dumb-bell! Picture to yourself the unilateral development, the imminent danger of a spinal curvature. Shocking, Watson, shocking!" The best part of this is that that one dumb-bell was actually the linchpin holding the entire case together and that was just his sarcastic way of hinting it to the local police.
56	* The end of The Dying Detective. After the villain confessed, thinking Holmes was dying anyway, he is arrested, but claims that it's his word again Holmes's. Unbeknownst to the villain, Watson has been hiding in the room the entire time.
57	--> '''Sherlock:''' Good heavens! I had totally forgotten him. My dear Watson, I owe you a thousand apologies. To think that I should have overlooked you!
58	* The entirety of "The Dying Detective" gets much funnier upon a second reading, once you know that Holmes is only pretending to be ill. In particular, the delirious Holmes trying to get Watson to fetch him a doctor [[ItMakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext before the oysters take over the world.]]
59	* "The Reigate Puzzle":
60	** Holmes needs to cause a distraction so he can slip out of a room unnoticed. He achieves this by knocking over a bowl of fruit and blaming Watson.
61	** In the same story, Holmes's declaration that Watson's suggestion of a countryside holiday is a rousing success-- because they've found themselves in the midst of a murder investigation.
62	** The local inspector reacting to Holmes's usual odd behavior when on a case by suggesting that he's not quite gotten over his illness.
63	-->"I don't think you need to alarm yourself," said I. "I have usually found that there was method in his madness.
64	--> "Some folk might say there was madness in his method," muttered the Inspector.
65	* The whole reason Holmes and Watson are in Surrey for "The Reigate Puzzle" is for the purposes of Holmes recovering his health after a particularly strenuous case. Holmes's attention is piqued when their host mentions a recent burglary, at which Watson sternly reminds him he is there for a rest. Then the butler brings the news that there's also been a murder, piquing Holmes' interest even further. "All right, Watson, I don’t intend to meddle." Then there's a knock at the door. It's the local inspector, having heard that Mr Holmes was in the neighbourhood and wanting to ask if he might help with the investigation.
66	--> '''Holmes:''' ''(laughing)'' The fates are against you, Watson!
67	* In ''The Adventure of the Illustrious Client'':
68	--> "Friday!" he [Holmes] cried. "Only three clear days. I believe the rascal wants to put himself out of danger's way. But he won't, Watson! By the Lord Harry, he won't! Now, Watson, I want you to do something for me."
69	--> "I am here to be used, Holmes."
70	--> "Well, then, spend the next twenty-four hours in an intensive study of Chinese pottery."
71	* ''The Sign of (the) Four'' gives us Watson's [[LoveMakesYouDumb love-induced]] {{Malaprop\|er}}isms: he relates the story of how, upon seeing the head of a rifle poke into his tent in Afghanistan, he proceeded to shoot it to death with a tiger cub, and also recommends to the hypochondriac client to take plenty of strychnine (essentially a poison) but to caution against excessive amounts of castor oil (which is mostly harmless). Extra hilarity points for being informed of his errors only after the entire story occurs, when "he" is writing it!
72	** Extra points too for stealth scatology: castor oil is a laxative.
73	** Also, Toby the dog, while leading Holmes and Watson on the trail of creosote (because the suspect they're following stepped in it), accidentally latches onto the trail of a creosote merchant and instead leads them to an entire stockpile of the stuff in a back alley. The incredibly proud look he gives them, complete with eagerly wagging tail, when he finds it sends both men into hysterical laughter.
74	** When Watson and Holmes discover the murder, the reaction of the police inspector summoned to the scene is to arrest everyone else in the household, on the mere assumption that ''someone'' had to be in on it. Reading about this in the paper the next day, Watson snarks that it's a wonder the two of them weren't arrested too, and Holmes tells him not to rule it out. Then there's a ring at the door and Watson has a brief OhCrap.
75	* In "The Veiled Lodger," Watson writes a decidedly miffed statement to his readers regarding attempts to steal unpublished case notes, and blackmails some unnamed individual by threatening to reveal [[NoodleIncident "the story of the politician, the lighthouse, and the trained cormorant,"]] if the theft attempts continue, sternly warning, basically, "you know who you are!"
76	* In the beginning of "The Adventure of the Dancing Men," Holmes, after some long hours wrapped up in a chemical experiment, suddenly notes that Watson does not intend to invest in South African securities. When Watson reacts with shock, Holmes wheels on him and demands that he admit to being entirely taken aback and goes so far as to say he ought to make Watson put it in writing, as once Holmes explains himself, Watson will declare the matter as absurdly simple. Watson insists that he'll do no such thing, and so Holmes leads him through the inferences that led him to the revelation. Watson's response?
77	-->"How absurdly simple!"
78	** Even better, Watson described Holmes's response to this as being "a little nettled" [[DontExplainTheJoke (meaning that Holmes was annoyed he was right and didn't have it in writing from Watson)]].
79	* In "The Adventure of the Empty House" Holmes struggles to say something complimentary about Lestrade's performance while he's been gone:
80	-->'''Holmes''': [Y]ou handled the Molesey Mystery with less than your usual—that's to say, you handled it fairly well.
81	* The note that brings Holmes into "The Adventure of the Sussex Vampire" might be, as Holmes says, a perfect blend of "the modern and the medieval [and] the practical and of the wildly fanciful", but it's also possibly the most bemused Victorian middle-class English way of saying "we think this guy's batpoop crazy so we're foisting him off on you" ever put in writing:
82	-->Sir:\
83	Our client, Mr. Robert Ferguson, of Ferguson and Muirhead, tea brokers, of Mincing Lane, has made one inquiry from us in a communication of even date concerning vampires. As our firm specialises entirely upon the assessment of machinery the matter hardly comes within our purview, and we have therefore recommended Mr. Ferguson to call upon you and lay the matter before you.
84	* In "The Noble Bachelor", Lord St. Simon rather pompously asserts that no doubt Holmes has never had a client of his particular station in life before. Holmes genially agrees, and remarks that he’s descending — his last client was the King of Scandinavia.
85	** To which further HypocriticalHumor is added; Lord St. Simon, having made a big deal about how he guards his privacy very jealousy, does not trust placing his secrets in the hands of a mere hired detective, and will not look favourably on any hint of scandal arising from his dealings with Holmes, immediately becomes very interested in exactly what the nature of Holmes's work for the King of Sweden actually was. Holmes chidingly points out that Lord St. Simon can hardly expect him to betray the confidentiality of one of his clients.
86	* The entire premise of the Sherlock Holmes Christmas special "The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle" revolving around geese.
87	** Holmes's response when the astonished neighbour rushes into the apartment saying, "The goose, sir! The goose!" "Eh? What of it, then? Has it returned to life and flapped off through the kitchen window?"
88	** When Holmes asks a man for his name.
89	---> The man hesitated for an instant. “My name is John Robinson,” he answered with a sidelong glance.
90	---> “No, no; the real name,” said Holmes sweetly. “It is always awkward doing business with an alias.”
91	*** [[HypocriticalHumor More amusing]] if you consider that perhaps half the people Holmes knows, given his penchant for disguises, only know ''him'' by one of his aliases!
92	* In "The Hound of the Baskervilles" Watson and Holmes find the body of someone killed by the hound. Naturally, both are horrified. Then Holmes looks at bit closer and starts dancing about and laughing about the man having a beard. Turns out it's the body of Mrs. Barrymore's criminal brother - much to Holmes and Watson's relief, who had assumed Sir Henry was the one who had been killed.
93	* [[https://www.arthur-conan-doyle.com/index.php/How_Watson_Learned_the_Trick "How Watson Learned the Trick"]] isn't included in most collections, which is a shame, as it was written by Doyle and serves as a hilarious moment between Holmes and Watson.
94	** "I have no doubt that I could find other points, Holmes, but I only give you these few, in order to show you that there are other people in the world who can be as clever as you."
95	** "And some not so clever," said Holmes. "I admit that they are few, but I am afraid, my dear Watson, that I must count you among them."
96	* "The Blanched Soldier" is penned by Holmes because Watson had apparently "worried [Holmes] to write an experience of [his] own", since Holmes had "rather invited this persecution" by his frequent criticism of Watson's "superficial" accounts that "[pander] to popular taste". A highly irritated Watson had apparently retorted, "Try it yourself, Holmes!" and even the Great Detective is forced to admit that he ''must'' interest the reader rather than "[confine] himself rigidly to facts and figures" when he finally sat down to write it.
97	* "The Adventure of Black Peter" begins with Watson sitting at breakfast one morning when in comes Holmes carrying a ''harpoon'' under his arm like an umbrella. Who then reassures Watson that he wasn't walking around town with it, he drove to the butcher's shop.
98	-->If you could have looked into Allardyce’s back shop, you would have seen a dead pig swung from a hook in the ceiling, and a gentleman in his shirt sleeves furiously stabbing at it with this weapon. I was that energetic person, and I have satisfied myself that by no exertion of my strength can I transfix the pig with a single blow. Perhaps you would care to try?
99	* In "The Man with the Twisted Lip" the client asks Holmes if he thinks her missing husband is alive. He admits that he believes her husband has been murdered - only for her to reveal that she’s just received a letter from him, causing Holmes to jump out of his chair. Watson's narration implies that the lady found his reaction quite amusing.
100	* This absolute gem from ''A Case of Identity'':
101	--> '''Watson (picking up the morning paper)''': Here is the first heading upon which I come. 'A Husband’s Cruelty To His Wife'. There is half a column of print, but I know without reading it that it is all perfectly familiar to me. There is, of course, the other woman, the drink, the push, the blow, the bruise, the sympathetic sister or landlady. The crudest of writers could invent nothing more crude.
102	-->'''Holmes (scanning the paper)''': Indeed, your example is an unfortunate one for your argument. This is the Dundas separation case, and, as it happens, I was engaged in clearing up some small points in connection with it. The husband was [[TheTeetotaler a teetotaler]], there was no other woman, and the conduct complained of was that he had drifted into the habit of winding up every meal by taking out his false teeth and hurling them at his wife, which, you will allow, [[RealityIsUnrealistic is not an action likely to occur to the imagination of the average storyteller]]. Take a pinch of snuff, Doctor, and acknowledge that I have scored over you in your example.
103	** Shortly afterwards, Holmes watches an approaching client outside his window, and deduces two things from her swaying, very hesitant manner on the curb: one, she’s probably come to him to ask some delicate advice regarding an illicit affair of some kind, and two, she’s more perplexed or sad at whoever wronged her than angry because when clients like her ''are'' angry, they tend to come storming up to the door so furiously that they break his doorbell. His attitude heavily hints this has happened more than once.
104	* Holmes' amused response to the German spy Von Bork's indignation in ''His Last Bow''.
105	-->"I suppose you realize, Mr. Sherlock Holmes," said he, "that if your government bears you out in this treatment it becomes an act of war."
106	-->"What about your government and all this treatment?" said Holmes, tapping the valise.
107	-->"You are a private individual. You have no warrant for my arrest. The whole proceeding is absolutely illegal and outrageous."
108	-->"Absolutely," said Holmes.
109	-->"Kidnapping a German subject."
110	-->"And stealing his private papers."
111	-->"Well, you realize your position, you and your accomplice here. If I were to shout for help as we pass through the village– –"
112	-->"My dear sir, if you did anything so foolish you would probably enlarge the two limited titles of our village inns by giving us 'The Dangling Prussian' as a signpost. The Englishman is a patient creature, but at present his temper is a little inflamed, and it would be as well not to try him too far. No, Mr. Von Bork, you will go with us in a quiet, sensible fashion to Scotland Yard, whence you can send for your friend, Baron Von Herling, and see if even now you may not fill that place which he has reserved for you in the ambassadorial suite."
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117	* The opening credits. A group of young boys are at a shop window pulling faces at a salesman in the middle of serving a customer. The one at the front gets so involved in it that he doesn't notice a policeman march up behind them until it's too late, and receives a clip around the ear for his troubles.
118	* After Holmes [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown punches the hell out of Woodley]] in "The Solitary Cyclist", the tavern patrons treated to the display of pugilistic perfection respond by applauding.
119	* At the end of "The Copper Beeches", this conversation that follows Watson reading aloud his canonical journal entry:
120	-->'''Watson''': There, Holmes. Your verdict?\
121	'''Holmes''': An admirable account, Watson.\
122	'''Watson''': Oh, you don't think I've put too much color and life into it?\
123	'''Holmes''': ''(Turns around in his seat to face Watson.)'' Oh, my dear friend, I humbly defer such considerations to your excellent literary judgment. ''(Turns back to the camera so that Watson cannot see his face.)''\
124	'''Watson''': ''(Proudly smiles.)'' Good!\
125	'''Holmes''': ''(Gives a sarcastic, FascinatingEyebrow look to the camera.)''
126	** "You are always in a disputatious mood when you choose that pipe!"
127	* Jeremy Brett's depictions of Holmes as a hyperactive misfit in general (i.e. jumping over the sofa to call Watson back into the room during "The Red-Headed League"). Portraying Holmes as quirky is nothing new, but Brett's are incredibly well done.
128	** At the end of another episode Holmes is so hyped up at having solved a case neatly that he actually ''jumps for joy'' shouting "Wha-hey!"
129	* In "The Resident Patient", Holmes tears his office up and flings papers all around trying to find some information. Watson comes in and with aplomb goes to a file box and picks out the paper Holmes was looking for.
130	** Even more funny is the implication that he might have trashed his office on ''purpose''. As he and Watson are heading out to return to the crime scene, Mrs. Hudson stops them to praise Watson's craftsmanship (he's in the process of building a model ship), and Holmes conspicuously doesn't look at her as he departs. It's not out of the question to believe that he was still miffed about being chased out of his apartment by her housecleaning, and so deliberately undid all her hard work [[ComedicSociopathy out of]] ''[[ComedicSociopathy spite]]''.
131	** Mrs. Hudson puts up with so much from her lodgers. Her reaction when she sees the blizzard of paper Holmes unleashed upon 221B is hilarious, as is Holmes opening the door when she was ''just'' on the other side, nearly causing her to stumble into the room in an earlier scene.
132	* In "The Greek Interpreter", when Holmes, Watson, and Mycroft are rushing to catch the train the murderers are on, the following exchange occurs:
133	-->'''Sherlock:''' ''Mycroft!''\
134	'''Mycroft:''' I'm not built for running, Sherlock!
135	** A moment later when they're in the compartment, Sherlock is calmly smoking a cigarette... right next to the sign that says "Smoking is Strictly Prohibited in this Compartment."
136	** After getting the case from Mycroft, Holmes and Watson run a few errands before going back to Baker Street. Before they enter the living room, Holmes stops Watson because he sees a shadow moving under the door. There's a tense moment before Holmes throws open the door...only to see Mycroft waiting for them with a new lead. Holmes's resulting amused smirk says it all.
137	* At the beginning of "A Scandal in Bohemia" Watson offers his hand to the king-in-disguise and is ignored. At the end of the episode, the King offers his hand to Holmes, who turns away -- and Watson steps in, gives a sharp shake and a ''very'' polite nod, and waves the man out.
138	* In "The Norwood Builder," the "Arrest you!" scene is re-created... but without any attempt at a LastSecondWordSwap. Holmes leaves it at [[SkewedPriorities "most gratifying."]]
139	** The client gives his name, assuming that Holmes has already heard it regarding the case he is involved with. Holmes assures the client he knows nothing about him whatsoever while in the same sentence correctly identifying him as a bachelor, a solicitor, a free mason and asthmatic. Cue a totally stunned look from the client.
140	* In "The Six Napoleons", Lestrade is waiting in the sitting room for Holmes and Watson to return, looking bored out of his mind -- until he catches sight of the papers on the table beside Holmes' chair and so nonchalantly starts to finger through them. While this is going on, Holmes watches him through the half-closed doorway and waves Watson over so that he can see. Then, the duo quickly duck back down the hall and "enter" loudly, giving Lestrade the chance to stop snooping and act all innocent when they come in.
141	* Holmes giggling when he hears Shinwell Johnson's nickname "Porky" for the first time in "The Illustrious Client".
142	* The bit during "The Red Headed League" when Holmes and Watson both crack up laughing at the client for his seemingly ridiculous story. Bonus points for Holmes's attempts to shush Watson and keep his own poker face, both of which fail miserably, and that he's the one who has to pacify the client while Watson just keeps laughing.
143	-->'''Holmes''': I wouldn't miss this case ''for the world!''
144	* From ''The Master Blackmailer''. Poor Mrs. Hudson has so much to put up with--
145	-->'''Holmes''': Mrs. Hudson, ''why'' did you tidy up for me? Where the ''hell'' are my shoes?!?
146	* The end of "Shoscombe Old Place", which concerns some dodgy dealings surrounding a racehorse. Watson's reading about the horse's victory in the paper and tut-tutting about how disgraceful the situation is... before Holmes 'innocently' inquires about [[HypocriticalHumor how much money Watson made betting on said horse (with what was implied to be a certain amount of insider knowledge about what was going on thanks to following Holmes on the case)]]. Much to Holmes' amusement, Watson is forced to sheepishly admit that it was a pretty tidy sum, actually.
147	* Holmes accidentally setting some newspapers on fire after tossing a lit match aside after lighting his pipe in "The Second Stain".
148	* At the beginning of "The Boscombe Valley Mystery", Watson is enjoying a few days away from Baker Street and indulging in some fishing when Holmes shows up to drag him along to the case of the week. While Holmes is explaining the details, Watson spies a nice big fish nearby and tries to lure it in. Holmes invites him along. Watson, of course, genially agrees. Holmes then casually remarks that they'd better hurry, since the train leaves in thirty-five minutes... thus bringing Watson's holiday to a rather more abrupt end than he was anticipating.
149	* In "The Solitary Cyclist" Watson is sent by Holmes to do some investigating. However, he doesn't do as well as Holmes wanted and after a harsh critique of Watson's sleuthing skills this exchange happens:
150	--> '''Watson:''' ''(Looking like a hurt child)'' "Holmes... did I really do that badly?"
151	--> '''Holmes:''' ''(Looking like a disappointed parent)'' ({{Beat}}) "[[BluntYes Yes]]."
152	** At the start of that episode, Holmes is about to perform a chemical test that will apparently resolve a key question of an unrelated case when the client of the episode comes in, causing him to set his chemistry set aside. At the end of the episode, with the case resolved, Holmes once again attempts the test. In the next scene, [=221B=] is filling with smoke, Holmes and Watson have shoved their heads out the window to get fresh air, and someone on the street has summoned a fire engine. This was apparently what Holmes was expecting to happen.
153	* In "The Blue Carbuncle," Holmes contrives to get the information he needs from an uncooperative goose-seller by playing to the man's fondness for gambling, first making up a fictitious bet with Watson about the origins of the geese and then further betting the seller a sovereign on the same matter. The whole exchange is golden, as Watson almost immediately begins pestering Holmes to concede and pay up while Holmes refuses to take the seller's word until he shows the records which prove him (and Holmes' suspicion) right. Holmes thus flips him the coin, but as he and Watson turn to go, the seller isn't satisfied:
154	-->'''Seller:''' What about this gentleman's fiver?!\
155	''[Watson looks smug as hell and thrusts out his hand for the note as Holmes, taken aback, has to fish out his wallet. Though Watson hands the money back as soon as they're out of sight.]''
156	** Earlier Holmes and Watson are at the Alpha Inn. Holmes buys a couple of beers as a prelude to inquiring about the geese. Holmes leaves as soon as he has the information, [[TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodSandwich to Watson's disappointment]].
157	** Before that, Mrs. Hudson tries to wake up Holmes because the commissionaire, Peterson, wants to inquire about the hat and the goose which is related to the episode's case. Holmes, who is NotAMorningPerson, groans telling Mrs. Hudson to "go away" like a kid telling his mom that he's trying to sleep.
158	** Another in "The Blue Carbuncle" when Watson asks Holmes how he's managed to deduce just from a hat that its owner is an intellectual.
159	--> '''Holmes:''' "It is a matter of cubic capacity." ''(Puts the hat on.)'' "A man with so large a head must have ''something'' in it."
160	** Even funnier is that the hat is so big that it swamps Holmes's head and even hides the tips of his ears.
161	* In "The Cardboard Box", Mrs. Hudson takes the aspidistra plant after cleaning up, causing Holmes to yell, "MRS HUDSON! How dare you take my aspidistra!", to which Mrs. Hudson retorts, "I do dare!"
162	** When Holmes arrived home after buying Watson's Christmas present, he spots a small Christmas tree and asks Watson what is it as if the tree is some suspicious object. While Watson and the client, Miss Cushing are discussing the case, Holmes puts Christmas decorations on his chemistry set. Once he's done, he smiles and says, "Charming".
163	** As Watson, Sherlock, and Inspector Hawkins who is carrying the cardboard box with the ears are about to enter Susan Cushing’s parlour room, Susan shouts that she does not want the ears near her. Inspector Hawkins stops and dejectedly sets the box down on a table in the hallway.
164	* In "The Golden Pince-Nez", the Holmes brothers are looking into the keyhole of the victim's desk. Mycroft pulls out a small magnifying glass to look at the keyhole. Then, Sherlock recognizes that it's their father's magnifying glass, finding it ironic that he gave to his lazy older brother.
165	-->'''Sherlock:''' That's father's magnifying glass.
166	-->'''Mycroft:''' Yes.
167	-->'''Sherlock:''' He gave to you?
168	-->'''Mycroft:''' Hmm.
169	-->'''Sherlock:''' ''(Sigh)'' How ironic...
170	* In ''The Musgrave Ritual'', Holmes decides to have a little...chemical...help before dinner. He proceeds to find everything funny, laughing hard.
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174	* Watson's initial suspicion of Holmes being a criminal mastermind, which definitely qualifies as EntertaininglyWrong.
175	* The famous long underwear boxing scene, and how Holmes goes about Watson's suspicions.
176	* When making an observation exercise, Holmes surprises Watson with his ability to undercover a passersby's whole life, only to reveal later that he knows him that well because it's his brother, Mycroft.
177	* In the Milverton episode, how Watson gets offended because Holmes flirted with a service woman to find out how to break into the house of the titular blackmailer, and locks himself in his room. Holmes continues the conversation calmly, and Watson opens the door occasionally to respond, only to close it again.
178	* In the same episode, how bad a thief Watson turns out to be. He leaves his handkerchief and one shoe behind, not to speak of the mud prints that he noticed just before Milverton entered, and that he then procedes to clean frantically, so desperate at the end that he uses his own saliva. Right after Holmes had called him a born thief, too.
179	* Any time they laugh together could qualify as this, mainly because of the explosive laughter of Livanov.
180	* Probably toes into Narm territory, but the speech of the owner of the Sweden inn just after Holmes "dies" has an unnatural and exaggerated tone to it that, despite the overall seriousness of the moment, one can't help but laugh.
181	* Watson being EntertaininglyWrong again in the finale, when he overhears Holmes talk with a German spy and actually believes his friend is about to commit treason and start a war. Apparently he hasn't learned by now.
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