I was watching T.E.H the other day and I noticed that when Mr and Mrs Holmes are in 221B, discussing his father losing his lottery ticket and glasses, Mrs Holmes says this…
“I said, why don’t you get a chain and wear them round your neck. He says what, like Larry Grayson?”
This conversation gives the impression that Mr Holmes would find looking like Larry Grayson funny or a bad thing doesn’t it?
Oh well, just simple filler conversation right? Wrong! This is BBC Sherlock we’re talking about, and we all know EVERYTHING is planned. So…
I researched Larry Grayson, as I knew that name was familiar. He worked for the BBC, becoming most popular in the 70s. He was noted for being one of the first openly gay presenters in that field, and it was a shock for the BBC and their viewers. “But no one is openly gay in any field!” and “He’s just waiting for the right woman” were thrown around phrases with the ‘scandal’.
Now, it is a already a theory that perhaps the parents of Sherlock Holmes are not the best they could be… but ignoring that for the time being, is Mr Holmes making a homophobic joke? That he doesn’t to look like an openly gay man?
It is here that Sherlock goes from probably having his parents on mute…
… to slamming his hands down onto the arms of his chair and storming between them, putting their story to a sudden close with
“So did you find it eventually? Your lottery ticket?” looking and sounding definitely annoyed, understandably I presume.
Not only is this Moftiss addressing past sexuality scandals of the BBC, which we know by the BBC’s survey in order to include more LGBT content in its shows, which happened in 2009 (just before they did Sherlock), matters to them (and Mark is a member of the LGBT+ community anyway)… this also shows Sherlock getting pissed off with his parents because they have made a homophobic ‘slur’ (A.K.A a commonly thrown around homophobic joke, in this context – finding it a problem/funny to look like a gay man)
Obviously you don’t have to be a member to of the LGBT+ community to get annoyed at these jokes, but come on, this is telling of our little Sherlock, as this is the point he clocked back into the conversation, and that John arrives back into Baker Street minutes after this conversation, to which Sherlock makes sure his parents leave.
Seeing as Larry Grayson worked for the BBC, which owns Sherlock, I find this name detail very specific, and something the writers intended to further some aspect of the plot, especially as this moment with his parents does nothing to it otherwise (except that they are dressed like John and Sherlock… naww)
I’m just praying that Mr and Mrs Holmes making homophobic slurs isn’t going to be a recurring thing…
Just something I picked up on… Sorry if someone has done this little meta before!!!
There’s a meta going around that argues that Sherlock must have remembered the conversation about the lost glasses and (considerately) bought this glasses chain for Dad. Perhaps he did buy it (spitefully).
Ok so we all know that the answer to “Where did Captain America learn to
steal a car?” is “Nazi Germany” but I think the more pressing question
here is when the fuck did this complete maniac get a driver’s license
Because ok, Mighty Mouse 1.0 is too poor to own a car, too short to
reach the pedals, has vision problems, and is a goddamn New Yorker in the motherfucking 1930s, why on earth would he ever have learned to drive?
So this little bastard can’t even tell the gas from the brakes, he gets
all beefified, he goes on tour with the USO. Unless one of the showgirls
coached him through stalling out a car all over some Hollywood back
lot, he still can’t drive. He goes to Europe. At some point, some genius
looks at him and thinks “this strapping specimen of American hunkhood
obviously knows his way around a vehicle, let’s give him a motorcycle,”
and Steve “no parachute” Rogers is like “how hard could this be?” and
promptly wraps himself around approximately eight trees at the same time.
So then he’s kickin’ ass, fightin’ Hydra, and it’s just months of Bucky being like
“give me the goddamn keys, Steven,” and Dum Dum and Morita endlessly
encouraging his fucking insane Fury Road bullshit, like the Howling Commandos just use “grenade” as code for “Rogers” when they’re reporting
why yet another truck has been destroyed beyond recognition. Yes, sir, another grenade, I agree, sir, it’s very odd that we keep losing vehicles in the same way, that’s the third this month alone
So then he’s in the future and SHIELD is sorting his shit out, and
they’re not going to force Captain goddamn America to wait in line at
the DMV, they’re all in complete awe in him and they’ve seen the old
reels of him on his bike, so when they issue him his driver’s license without any type of road test
they go ahead and give him a motorcycle license too
and steve is like …neat.
Ok so then Bucky is back, shit is settled down, everyone’s heading
somewhere and Steve gets in the driver’s seat and Buck’s like WHOA WHOA
WHOA are you people out of your goddamn minds?! Why is Steve driving, is
this some kind of mission, are we heading into a combat zone, is the
plan for the vehicle to get blown up?? GIVE ME THE GODDAMN KEYS STEVEN
And Sam is all “what are you talking about, Steve’s a great driver, I saw him jump his bike over a car once”
And Buck is all “yes but have you seen him use a turn signal?”
And Steve’s like, “Listen, we never needed to ‘signal’ our ‘turns’ in Nazi Germany.”
And after that Bucky always drives.
Fin.
okay but
this is basically how just about everyone in the us army in ww2 learned to drive
most infantrymen didn’t receive any instruction in vehicle use, but during ww2 they shipped about half a million jeeps overseas. most of them got used by logistics units and a lot got shipped to russia, but there were still so dang many of them that they would hand them to just about anyone who could have an excuse to use one.
gotta run a message? here’s a jeep. running gear up the line? take a jeep. got a 24 hour pass? just bring this jeep back safe, will you? you’re a cartoonist? here’s your own jeep. they handed them out like candy to everyone.
it wasn’t unreasonable on the face of it because the us was a car culture basically from the minute the car was invented, so most rural kids knew how to drive already. but tons of them didn’t, and at some point they’d almost certainly end up behind the wheel of a jeep.
as a result, accidents were hilariously common.
they pretty much assumed everyone knew how to drive based on the exact same logic used in this post. it was only after the war that somebody sat down and was like, yo, maybe we should make sure these kids know what a car is before we let them drive them.
Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Sherlock (TV) Rating: Explicit Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson Characters: Sherlock Holmes, John Watson Additional Tags: Plot What Plot/Porn Without Plot, Top Sherlock, Bottom John, Topping from the Bottom, Oral Sex, Anal Sex, First Time, Couch Sex Summary:
John and Sherlock’s first time came on what seemed to be an ordinary night; well, ordinary for them.
