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2 | [[caption-width-right:350:Name: Shropshire Slasher Occupation: Shropshire Slasher]] |
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4 | "Deduce, You Say!" is a 1956 ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' short directed by Creator/ChuckJones. WesternAnimation/DaffyDuck is Dorlock Holmes, with WesternAnimation/PorkyPig as sidekick Watkins, as they attempt to track down the notorious Shropshire Slasher. |
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7 | !!"Deduce, You Say!" provides examples of: |
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9 | * AlmostDeadGuy: Subverted. The case is touched off when a man collapses on their front stoop. However, when Dorlock begins to [[SherlockScan analyze]] the "corpse," he gets up. Turns out, he just tripped over the step. |
10 | -->'''Man:''' You'd best have that step fixed, guv'ner!\ |
11 | '''Holmes''': Just for that, you get no gratuity. |
12 | * AsideGlance: As Dorlock boasts of his superior physical skill while completely failing to restrain him, Slasher briefly looks at us in confusion. |
13 | * BreakingTheFourthWall: Aside from narrating, Watkins addresses the audience directly a few times. |
14 | * ButtMonkey: Daffy, of course. |
15 | * CorruptedCharacterCopy: Dorlock Holmes is clearly a SherlockHomage -- he's a British detective; his name matches Holmes' almost exactly, and he has a politer sidekick called Watkins (whose name is a few letters from Watson). He's as clueless as Holmes is super-competent, as well as being flighty and quick-tempered where Holmes is controlled. Finally, though Holmes is a jerk, he legitimately wants to stop evil and protect the innocent. Dorlock threatens a little old lady with arrest for "hawking dandelions without a license." |
16 | * DavidVersusGoliath: Dorlock [[LampshadeHanging lampshades this]] as he starts to take on the Slasher. |
17 | -->"You may be big, but I'm small!" |
18 | * DeadpanSnarker: Watkins. |
19 | * DisproportionateRetribution: When an old woman arrives to the bar selling flowers, Holmes instantly jumps all over her and threatens to have her arrested for peddling without a license. Unfortunately for Holmes, ''she's the Slasher's mother''. |
20 | * EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas: When Dorlock begins to harass a flower woman, the Slasher recognizes her and [[BerserkButton beats him up]]. They then leave together. |
21 | -->'''Slasher:''' I promised the nice gentleman I'd give meself up now, Mother.\ |
22 | '''Slasher's Mother:''' You always was a good boy, Slasher. |
23 | * GreatDetective: Dorlock thinks he's an awesome detective. Unfortunately, he's rather [[CluelessDetective clueless.]] |
24 | * HisNameReallyIsBarkeep: |
25 | ** The Shropshire Slasher confirms to Watkins that his apparent title is actually his name. |
26 | --->'''Watkins''': N-n-name? S-speak up, now, speak up!\ |
27 | '''Slasher''': Shropshire Slasher.\ |
28 | '''Watkins''': O-o-occupation?\ |
29 | '''Slasher''': Shropshire Slasher. |
30 | ** At the end, the crook's mother actually calls him "Slasher." |
31 | * HypercompetentSidekick: Watkins, who is Dorlock's sidekick and the most competent person in the short. (Not that he has a lot of competition.) It's ultimately him and not Dorlock who ends the Slasher's reign. |
32 | * LargeHam: Daffy gets ridiculously giddy and theatrical whenever he finds a "clue." |
33 | * NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: Dorlock fails miserably against Slasher every time, but it's threatening to arrest the man's mother that really gets him pummeled. |
34 | * NonSequiturThud: At the end, after Holmes has been put through so much abuse by the Slasher: |
35 | -->'''Watkins''': Tell me, Holmes, at what school did you learn to become a detective?\ |
36 | '''Holmes''': ''(dazed)'' Elementary, my dear Watkins. Elementary. |
37 | * OhCrap: When Dorlock attempts to arrest a little old lady for "hawking dandelions without a licence", the Slasher recognizes her as his own mother. Given that he's failed miserably every time he's fought the Slasher, this quickly tells Dorlock that he's in trouble: |
38 | -->'''Shropshire Slasher:''' Muvver!\ |
39 | '''Dorlock:''' Mother? Mother...(''in a terrified squeak'') ''[-really?-]'' |
40 | -->''(NoHoldsBarredBeatdown ensues)'' |
41 | * {{Parody}}: Of Franchise/SherlockHolmes. |
42 | * PolitenessJudo: The Shropshire Slasher gives himself up just because Watkins politely asked him to. |
43 | * PunBasedTitle: The title puns on "The deuce[[note]]devil[[/note]] you say!" |
44 | * PunnyName: "Dorlock Holmes" |
45 | * RudeHeroNiceSidekick: Exaggerated. Daffy as Dorlock Holmes rudely interrogates innocent civilians; Porky's Dr. Watkins gets the villain to give himself up just by asking him politely. |
46 | * SherlockHomage: Daffy as "Dorlock Holmes". Unfortunately for Daffy, he's every bit as ''in''competent as Holmes is ''super''competent. |
47 | * StiffUpperLip: Watkins is a spoof of this. |
48 | * SubvertedCatchphrase: What kind of detective school did Holmes go to? Elementary! |
49 | * TalkingTheMonsterToDeath: After all of Holmes' fighting skills fail to subdue the Slasher, Watkins gets him to give up willingly just by asking him nicely. |
50 | * WeakButSkilled: Conversed; Holmes boasts that he can't see how the Slasher can hope to withstand Holmes' superior skill, but the Slasher demonstrates exactly how immediately: by flexing his arm to reveal a bicep almost as big as Holmes himself. |
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