Sherlock Holmes (novel)/Funny

""But the Solar System!” I protested."
 * 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.
 * The list Watson makes entitled "Sherlock Holmes: His Limits".
 * 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:

"Holmes: If this young person [Irene Adler] should produce her letters for blackmailing or other purposes, how is she to prove their authenticity? Grand Duke of Cassel-Felstein: There is the writing. Holmes: Pooh, pooh! Forgery. Grand Duke: My private notepaper. Holmes: Stolen. Grand Duke: My own seal. Holmes: Imitated. Grand Duke: My photograph. Holmes: Bought. Grand Duke: We were both in the photograph. Holmes: Oh, dear! That is very bad!"
 * "The Case 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. "Why, that might even be a description of Watson..."
 * The Case of 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 to bear, and cause Holmes and Watson proceed to break out in rapturous laughter.
 * This exchange from "A Scandal in Bohemia" is funny enough, but I found it absolutely hilarious upon reading the story after seeing the Guy Ritchie film because it sounds exactly like the kind of thing the Robert Downey, Jr. version of Holmes would say:

"Grand Duke: We were both in the photograph. Holmes: Photoshop."
 * Even funnier if taken in modern context, since modern readers will expect Holmes to reply to the last one with this:

""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." "You are right," said Holmes demurely; "you do find it very hard to tackle the facts.""
 * They better put this in the second season of the BBC miniseries.
 * Update:
 * But this exchange was used in an abridged version of the story! A Scandal in Bohemia Abridged.
 * Holmes gets a lovely little 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 she is not on my level?" "Indeed, from what I have seen she is on a very different level from your Majesty."
 * Holmes' Last-Second Word Swap in The Adventure of the Norwood Builder. "Arrest you! This really is most grati—most interesting. On what charge to 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 reign here)...
 * Holmes' snark is legendary for a reason. Case in point, in The Boscombe Valley Mystery:

"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."
 * Shoscombe Old Place gives us this memorable line: "a boxer, an athlete, a plunger on the turf, a lover of fair ladies, and, by all account, so far down Queer Street that he may never find his way back again." Ah, were we ever *that* innocent?
 * It should be noted that being "down Queer Street" was a euphemism for being deeply in debt, and was unrelated to either the original meaning (strange, peculiar, etc.) or the modern meaning (homosexual) of the word Queer.
 * At the end of "The Copper Beeches" Watson writes a throwaway line in which he expresses his disappointment at Holmes losing interest in Miss Violet Hunter "...once she had ceased to be the centre of one of his problems". Ladies, gentlemen, I give you Watson the Matchmaker!
 * This troper couldn't help but bust out laughing at reading Watson saying, "...and I shot its brains out" when talking about shooting a dog (don't worry, the dog was attacking a human).
 * At one point Holmes and Watson are heading to a concert -- or "off to violin-land," as Holmes puts it.
 * 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

"“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 bit in The Hound of the Baskervilles where Watson finds Holmes and immediately notices that he's managed to "contrive" a Perma-Shave while hiding out on a moor.
 * How about the realization that Holmes was essentially ? This troper had to close her book, she was laughing so hard.
 * In The Valley of Fear, after finding only one dumbbell in the victim’s home, Holmes is "alarmed."

"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!"
 * 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.


 * A lovely Spoonerism in The Sign of Four: Mary Morstan claims that during a tense wait, Watson told her a thrilling tale of how a double-barreled shotgun peered into his tent in the dead of night and he fired a tiger cub at it.