Jump to content

Sherlock/Trivia: Difference between revisions

Sherlock/Trivia (view source)

Revision as of 18:31, 18 June 2016

34 bytes added ,  7 years ago
no edit summary
VisualWikitext
No edit summary
No edit summary
Line 6:
** John also spends an early scene is the second season finale wearing a bathrobe with a towel slung over one shoulder.
** [http://www.johnwatsonblog.co.uk/blog/01may In John's blog] he explains that one of the reasons he didn't post in the time between the first and second seasons was because he was "[[The Hobbit (film)|visiting a mate in New Zealand.]]"
** During the "memory palace" scene in "The Hounds of Baskerville,", one of the words displayed is Ingolstadt, a German city that features prominently in ''[[Frankenstein]]''. Benedict Cumberbatch alternated the two lead roles in Danny Boyle's stage adaptation of the novel.
** Also in ''"The Hounds of Baskerville''", [[Being Human (UK)|Russell Tovey]] plays a character who is extremely preoccupied with a fearsome wolf-dog-beast-thing. Not that he'd have any experience with that.
* [[Casting Gag]]:
** Sherlock's parents are played by Benedict Cumberbatch's real parents.
Line 29:
** John's "Asperger's?" remark in "Hounds" seems to be this.
** While cuffed together, Sherlock and John have to run while holding hands. John quips, "Now people will ''really'' talk."
** Pretty much everything in '"The Empty Hearse'", especially Anderson's club devoted to theories about how Sherlock may have faked his death. We also get nods to just about everything the fandom has been known to ship.
* [[Fan Nickname]]: {{spoiler|"Mocklock" has been used in a few comment threads for those that believe that the ambassador's children were kidnapped by someone disguised as Sherlock Holmes, which caused the little girl to freak out when she saw the real Sherlock. Also used to refer to the theory that the dead Sherlock at the end of the episode was a body double, possibly the same body that kidnapped the children.}}.
** Since the two producers work so closely together on this, their names have slowly condensed from "Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss" to "Moffat and Gatiss" to "Moffat-Gatiss" to finally colliding into "Mofftiss.".
* [[Hey, It's That Guy!]]:
** Tim from ''[[The Office]]'' is Doctor Watson. Others may note that the good doctor [[The Hitchhiker's Guide to The Galaxy (film)|still hasn't learned to remember his towel]]. But he has managed to [[Love Actually|keep his clothes on]]. Pity. Though he [[It's Not Porn, It's Art|knows a bit more about Rembrandt than the average man.]] And that he's not here to [[Black Books|treat anyone for Dave's symdrome]].
** Mrs. Hudson is [[Worzel Gummidge|Aunt Sally]].
** One of the detectives was in ''[[Waterloo Road]]'' as a fairly pathetic teacher.
** From the second episode: Hey, it's [[Torchwood|Eugene Jones]], [[The Thick of It|Emma Messinger and Marianne Swift]].
*** [[The Thick of It|Emma]]'s actress was, in real life, Benedict Cumberbatch's long-time romantic partner. Puts an interesting spin on Sherlock interrogating Amanda (the murder victim's mistress in episodeEpisode 2) about her relationship.
** ...and Connie Prince is [[The Thick of It|The Piss Woman]]!
** Sharp-eyed ''[[Doctor Who]]'' fans may recognize Sally Donovan as [[Doctor Who/Recap/S29/E07 42|that doctor who got immolated five minutes into an episode]] and Soo Lin ([[Gemma Chan]]) as Mia Bennett from "[[Doctor Who/Recap/S30/E16 The Waters of Mars|The Waters of Mars]]".
** The police officer Sherlock lectures via laptop is Danny Webb, aka Mister Jefferson from "The Impossible Planet "/ "The Satan Pit".
** Also from ''[[Doctor Who]]'': Claudie Bruhl is Sydney Wade, aka the little girl in the spacesuit. Which is worse, being kidnapped by the Silence or Moriarty?
** Rupert Graves, the actor who plays Lestrade, was on ''[[Spooks]]'' as a fascist British politician. Faintly unsettling.
*** And one of the shady government agents in ''[[V for Vendetta]]'' as well.
Line 49:
*** He's also one third of the population of [[The League of Gentlemen|Royston Vasey]]
** Anderson briefly appears in ''[[Merlin (TV series)|Merlin]]'' as the apparent leader of Merlin's home village. And in ''[[Hornblower]]'' fandom he's known as the Rhumb Line Guy.
** Enthusiastic BBC followers may also recognise the master-criminal Jones from ''[[My Life in Film]]''.
** A blink-and-you'll-miss-it one, but ''[[Band of Brothers (TV series)|Band of Brothers]]'' fangirls might recognize {{spoiler|Jim Moriarty}} as Pvt. "Cowboy" from the second episode, who eventually snaps at Guarnere to "shut [his] [[Olive Garden|fuckin' guinea trap]]."
** [[Robin Hood (TV series)|Isabella of Gisborne]] (or alternatively, [[True Blood|Claudine Crane]]) has been cast as Irene Adler. Don't worry fandom, [http://www.imdb.com/media/rm128091392/nm3091498 this is a very, very good thing].
** [[Absolute Power (radio)|Alison]] is back as Watson's badass love interest.
** [[Being Human (UK)|George]] is ironically being chased by a giant hound, at night. [[Doctor Who|Allons-y Alonso!]]
** ''"The Hounds of Baskerville''" contained not one, but ''two'' [[Robin Hood|Little Johns]]. [[Robin Hood (TV series)|One]] is the gay owner of a B'n'B, and [[Robin of Sherwood|the other]] is an {{spoiler|evil}} scientist.
** The news presenter in the story about Baskerville has pulled double ''Doctor'' duty as the insect scientist Chantho in "Utopia" and the fortune teller in "Turn Left.".
** [[The IT Crowd|Jen]] shows up as another supposedly ditzy redhead as Kitty Reilly.
** Benedict Cumberbatch previously appeared in ''[[Fortysomething]]'' playing the son of another [[Hugh Laurie|actor]] known for his [[House|Sherlock Holmes]] [[Expy]].
* [[Hey, It's That Voice!]]: [[Peter Davison]] as the planetarium announcer in "The Great Game".
* [[Lying Creator]]: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_c2v39J1aX0 Oh yes]. Par for the course for [[Steven Moffat]]. He even admits he's throwing things out just to feed fan speculation for seriesSeries 3.
* [[Newbie Boom]]: More curious people have been watching ''Sherlock'' after its near-instant popularity explosion, and many have become part of the fanbase as a result.
* [[Oh Crap, There Are Fanfics of Us]]: Inverted. Back in July 2011, it was made clear to the Sherlock fandom--especially to the fans on [[Tumblr]]--that [http://theworldsonlyconsultingpenis.tumblr.com/post/8180678381 some of, if not the entire, cast knew about the porn that was being made by said fans]. (Needless to say, this caused a panic.)
* [[Production Posse]]: There's a good chance that if someone has worked on ''Sherlock'', they've also done ''[[Doctor Who]]''. This also goes for actors, too.
* [[Real Life Relative]]: The producers have joined in on the good-natured ribbing about how much they keep it in the family when making the show.
** Amanda Abbington, [[Martin Freeman]]'s partner, has officially been cast as Mary Morstan (John's partner) for seriesSeries 3.
** Wanda Ventham and Timothy Carlton, [[Benedict Cumberbatch]]'s real parents, appear to serve the same role as Sherlock's parents.
** Steven Moffat's son, Louis Moffat, plays young Sherlock.
Retrieved from "https://allthetropes.org/wiki/Special:MobileDiff/1410859"
Cookies help us deliver our services. By using our services, you agree to our use of cookies.
More information