Elementary, My Dears

George and Alison are joined by comedic actor and host of the podcast, Library Hours, Reed Brice to discuss Elementary's 15th episode.

Episode logline:

Holmes' former drug supplier comes to him for help to find his kidnapped daughter. He agrees to help him despite Watson's protests. When Holmes appears stymied, the former dealer encourages Holmes to go back on drugs, hoping it will help him solve the case.

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Reed on Twitter and Instagram

Show Notes:

Join Reed in supporting Solidarity and Snacks

That Guy Fieri comedy bit is by Shane Torres. (RIP Bourdain.)

The Adventure of the Crooked Man

The Taino people

Banshee

Michael Irby

Drug use and creativity

Ethiopian wat recipe

Alison and George are joined by comic and screenwriter Aaron Smith to discuss Elementary's 14th episode.

Episode logline:

A convicted killer who is supposed to donate a kidney to his sister ends up killing the surgical staff before escaping. Holmes is forced to work with a profiler (whom he can't stand) because she supposedly can predict what he will do next.

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Elementary My Dears on Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook

Aaron on Twitter and Instagram @atraveshamockery

Check out Aaron's very odd website

Show Notes:

Party anthem, "Bom Bom" by Sam and the Womp

Axel F

Singlestick

Backsword

CombatCon Singlestick Finals

Terry Kinney

Fakirs of Bangladesh

How to lower (not stop) your heart rate with yoga

Is criminal profiling pseudoscience?

Jessica Hecht

You can find Aaron's video of the background actor with the camera on our Instagram.

George's scarf video

The "fuck" scene from The Wire.

George and Alison are joined by comedian, drag artist, and TikTok sensation, Christopher Ryan Stamey, to discuss Elementary's 13th episode.

Episode logline:

Holmes discovers a man running an internet conspiracy site is dead. As he follows the chain of clues, he becomes aware of the "Red Team" and the trail leads him further down the rabbit hole than he ever imagined.

Social Media:

Elementary My Dears on Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook

Ryan on TikTok and Instagram 

Show Notes:

Read up on the Illuminati and try not to buy into the conspiracies

George and Alison are joined by producer, fanfic novelist, and Elementary super fan, Michelle Wheeler, to discuss Elementary's 12th episode.

Episode logline:

Sherlock is called in on a case and immediately recognizes the work of an old foe from Britain. Sherlock sees it as a chance at redemption in catching the man, but first he needs to control his own emotions about the murderer.

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Michelle and her production work on Instagram

Join Cooper's Troopers in fighting juvenile type 1 diabetes

Michelle's 1D fanfic novel, Ready to Run

Show Notes:

Vinnie Jones

Shout out to Robert Lee Harvey

Invincible on Amazon Prime

Cabinet of Curiosities podcast

Definition of a serial killer

Arsenal fans

SMOLDER 

Make your very own book safe

Bobb'e J. Thompson

The Irregulars on Netflix

Meatier?

The Adventure of the Empty House

The Sign of Four

Joan's Fashion Show and Joan Watson's Closet

Gil Scott Heron

Harry Hole

George and Alison are joined by Kat and Jason of the You Should Check Out podcast, to discuss Elementary's 11th episode.

Episode logline:

The manager of a high-end hotel that caters to diplomatic VIPs is found dead in the hotel's laundry. After first suspecting a connection to a prostitution ring, Holmes believes the answer lies in her treacherous past.

Social Media:

You Should Check out on Instagram 

Katherine on Instagram

Jason on Instagram

[email protected]

Elementary My Dears on Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook

Show Notes:

Clint Howard

Handsome red-headed man from Grey's Anatomy and Rome

JLM on Eli Stone

Happy on Netflix

Why do so many women like SVU?

What is the CBS demographic?

Baby Clint Howard in Star Trek

The King of the Rocket Men

Melissa Farman

What color is your parachute?

Jake Weber is shitty Tim Roth

SecretCompartmentFurniture.com

Steganography

The Canadian spy story that inspired The Americans

The red-headed Russian spy is Maria Butina

Another red-headed Russian spy who loves Trump

American spy imprisoned in Russia

Strongbad, in case you weren't born yet.

Music by  Jim Bogg*S*

George and Alison are joined by Lisa Laureta: stand up comic, actor, and handler of tube sock outrage machine, Sock Karen.

Episode logline:

Micah Erlich hires Holmes to solve urgently the robbery of diamonds in David Batonvert's Manhattan exchange from his world-reputed security firm's top-range vault model, the 'impregnable' Leviathan, before the news wrecks the manufacturer. Both men remember it was actually cracked once four years ago by a brilliant team of four, who were tried and jailed, but draw different conclusions concerning a connection, which Holmes has to revise while his investigation progresses with the help of his own consultants. Meanwhile he helps Watson deal with her unexpectedly ...

Social Media:

Elementary My Dears on Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook

Find Lisa Laureta on Twitter, Instagram, and her website.

Follow Sock Karen on Twitter, Instagram, or TikTok

Show Notes:

Forgive us, Corinne Brinkerhoff—we mean no offense.

Casterly Rock

Dry drunk syndrome

How to pronounce Van Gogh (spoiler: we're both wrong!)

The Sign of Four

Handsome woman, Freda Foh Shen

Van Gogh's Pieta

On stealing diamonds from diamond mines

Pooh Goes Apeshit

Malboge programming language

Colonel Sanders, stealth programmer and soap star

Concertina wire is named after a musical instrument

You can call me Al...

George and Alison are joined by Lewis Wright, lead singer of Attic Theory (a band named from Elementary episode two!) to discuss Elementary's ninth episode.

Episode logline:

An under-the-weather Sherlock investigates the murder of a college professor whose body was found with gunshot wounds through both of his eyes. Using his trademark deductive reasoning, Sherlock retraces the victim's path back to an illicit gambling parlor in Chinatown where he was shot. Gregson is able to bring in the gunman thanks to video surveillance footage, but when the killer claims that he was hired to take out the professor, Sherlock realises that his work has only just begun. Meanwhile, Watson gets a call from an addict and former lover who is in prison and needs her help. (From Baker Street Wiki)

Social Media:

Elementary My Dears on Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook

Attic Theory on Twitter and Instagram

Show Notes:

Planet Rock UK

Poirot, Quincy, and of course, Colombo

Sherlock Holmes 22nd Century is bananas.

Why do British singers sound American?

Radiohead's "You Do it to Yourself"

Sex Bob-bomb's "Threshold"

More than you ever wanted to know about a pig's orgasm.

Cameron Scoggins

Pai Gow

Randall Duk Kim

Get you very own vocal steamer

Lord Jamar of Brand Nubian

Kafkaesque via New York Times Machine

The Horatio Alger nerd burn

Kristy Wu

Batman Forever soundtrack

Batman and Robin soundtrack

Bat Minute podcast

Atlantic article about abolishing ICE

Vox explains abolishing ICE

The Long Haul by Black English

Alison and George are joined by Key Whiskey, host and creator of Hollyword, a podcast that explores the lives of history’s greatest storytellers.

Episode Logline:

While Watson struggles with Holmes over finding a new sponsor, they work a case of a bombing of an Internet company. The bomb was planted four years ago but it's inconceivable that anyone would plan a bombing so far into the future.

Social Media:

Elementary My Dears on Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook

Hollyword podcast on Instagram

Show Notes:

That Philip K. Dick AI biography is called How to Build an Android

When Kathy Acker met the Spice Girls

The Invisible Man

The mind is like a muscle

Building muscle also builds your brain.

Richard Jewell

MF Lisa Edelstein

Earth Liberation Front (Not an endorsement.)

Speaking of, here's an article about the Green Scare.

White supremacist groups carried out more acts of terror than any other group in 2020.

Ato Essandoh

See Ato Essandoh in the sadly defunct Altered Carbon

Method of loci AKA your mind palace!

American character actor John Pankow

What the heck is a divan?

The War of Art

"Calm the storm" by Graffiti6

That episode of Frasier with Lisa Edelstein

Alison and George are joined by Chris Gervais; filmmaker, screenwriter, voice actor, and all around good time.

Episode Logline:

Sherlock assists with a double homicide that has the same M.O. as a series of murders that took place 13 years ago.

Social Media:

Elementary My Dears on Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook

Chris's production company, Strawhouse Pictures, on Instagram

Show Notes:

How much do Jimmy Choo shoes cost? About a grand.

Sing Sing Prison

History of ballistic forensics

That Aidan Quinn smolder

Steven McKinley Henderson

There actually are several film adaptations of Crime and Punishment. The only one in English is the 1935 version, starring Peter Lorre.

Animaniacs Prince joke

Illiteracy and crime are inextricably linked

Callie Thorne

Wrongful convictions are, unsurprisingly, a real problem. (LA Times) (WaPo)

Debunking warrior gene myths

Kelly MacDonald

"Feather on the Clyde" by Passenger

Cyrillic script

Alison and George are joined by Carrie Cranford, production manager at Actor's Theater of Charlotte. 

Episode Logline:

After a small jet crashes killing four people, Holmes battles both the police and the NTSB when he believes one of them was murdered before the crash occurred. Meanwhile, Watson confronts Holmes over a past friend, someone named Irene.

Social Media:

Elementary My Dears on Instagram and Twitter

Actor's Theater of Charlotte on Instagram

AT Charlotte website