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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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