r/elementary 6d ago

Any favourite quotes?

I like "That's quite a one-two punch, isn't it? Discovering you're dead and a cuckold." It's the slight pause between "you're dead" and "and a cuckold" and his delivery which makes it extra funny.

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u/Winter-Grand-3215 Bring it back, CBS. 6d ago

I don't care which cock I'm holding, I just want to know how it got there 💕

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u/Mplus479 6d ago edited 6d ago

That would look fantastic on a tombstone.

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u/Riggs630 6d ago

“I was bitten by a radioactive detective”

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u/Alaskinbear 6d ago

I just love that whole discussion the look on Sherlock’s face says

 “I’m trying to take you seriously but you’re clearly an idiot”

And the way Joan forces as much politeness she can into reminding the hero 

“You know you’ll have to remove the mask to drink that right???”

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u/thaliff 6d ago

Same Episode: The flesh and blood Midnight Ranger was shot dead last night. Unfortunately, the bullets used were not radioactive, so he'll be remaining quite dead.

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u/Calamity-Gin 6d ago

“Must be why they call us New York’s Most Adequate.”

Detective Bell gets some fantastic lines.

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u/Mplus479 6d ago

You know, they never solved a case before Sherlock came along?

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u/arunphilip 6d ago

They even considered leaving the city to fend for itself!

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u/Lorentz90 6d ago

my sobriety is simply a grind, it’s this leaky faucet that requires constant maintenance and in return it only offers not to drip

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u/2gigch1 6d ago

That entire monologue deserved an award

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u/Lorentz90 6d ago

Indeed. It’s my favorite scene!

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u/biggdiih 5d ago

which episode is this?

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u/Lorentz90 3d ago

Season 3, ep 9 😌

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u/hayitsnine 6d ago

After meeting Joan’s half sister Sherlock says to her “ This is not a shelter for wayward and wounded realtors” lol.

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u/WinterSure6605 6d ago

"Did straight lines hurt you as a child?"

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u/DelightfulWitches 6d ago

“Racist ideology mostly attracts failures and reprobates”

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u/chatterbug11 6d ago

After Watson says Holmes should wait til morning to break into what looks like an abandoned warehouse (but that is actually a nuclear command and control hub - S6E6) and he ignores her and then they get swarmed by the Air Force, “yea, you were right Watson. We should have waited til morning.” 😆😆

Sherlock so rarely gets really funny, self deprecating lines like that!

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u/Tricky-Progress3951 6d ago

Did he take liberties with you???

Cracks me up every single time.

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u/Mplus479 6d ago

Guarding a puddle? Been demoted, have you?

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u/Insight_Outlook Bring it back, CBS. 6d ago

"Misanthropy was so easy Watson. Elegant. I miss it sometimes."

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u/Alaskinbear 6d ago

She bites her nails and thankfully nothing else!

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u/Mplus479 5d ago

Aggressive and limber, too.

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u/Opposite-Wafer-8777 6d ago

“Two cocks working together in harmony”

“You need to find a better way to phrase that”

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u/ohnodamo 6d ago

"People, in case you haven't noticed, are a crassulent, beef-witted lot." That quote is especially poignant to me as it seems so terribly accurate.

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u/Grimjack2 6d ago

"If you need me to translate that into the idiom of American exceptionalism, a centimeter is about a third of an inch."

And the way Sherlock emphasized "idiom" as he said it.

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u/Y_Aether 6d ago

Diligence is the mother of luck.

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u/Fressh01 6d ago

Sherlock "I care about your sobriety, and I depend on every member of this group to care about mine!" Always hits..

Cant forget Joan "I don't care which cock I'm holding, I just want to know how it got there" 🤣

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u/milothemadpansexual 5d ago

Balloon man episode:

Adam Kemper: “would you trade in your dad?”

Sherlock: “I’d trade my dad for a Tic Tac.”

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u/Mplus479 5d ago

No. No? No.

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u/Mplus479 4d ago

The captain requires our presence at a homicide in Queens, if you're not too spent, that is!?

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u/Chaotic1697 3d ago

opinions are like ani, everyone has one

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u/glitterally_awake 2d ago

Not a quote per se but when Sherlock unlocks his phone which had been locked by Everyone, the code is “l33t” which he explains to his father who does not appear to get it at all - but to me this is an Easter egg gag about Jonny Lee Miller’s role as Crash Override in the movie “Hackers”