Behold! One Of My Favourite Moments From Granada's Sherlock Holmes Series. Holmes' Little Dance To Show

Behold! One of my favourite moments from Granada's Sherlock Holmes series. Holmes' little dance to show Watson how the Dancing Men code works is always so precious to watch.

I can't decide if I want to squeeze him enthusiastically like a dog toy, or put him under a microscope for intense observation.

Ok you can get a little Watson. As a treat.

[ID: a digital drawing of Watson in his nightgown with a red smoking jacket on top. He's lighting his pipe. /End ID]

Does anyone else regularly get the intense urge to make a Jeeves & Wooster AU for Sherlock Holmes and John Watson, or is it just me? The only problem I have that's preventing me from writing it is constantly going back and forth as to whether Watson would be Wooster, or if Holmes would. Because, to be fair, I can see a little bit of Jeeves in both of them.

"But there can be no grave for Sherlock Holmes or Doctor Watson... Shall they not always live in Baker Street? Are they not there this moment, as one writes? Outside, the hansoms rattle through the rain, and Moriarty plans his latest devilry. Within, the sea-coal flames upon the hearth and Holmes and Watson take their well-won ease... So they still live for all that love them well; in a romantic chamber of the heart, in a nostalgic country of the mind, where it is always 1895."

-Vincent Starrett, The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes

Victorian slang should make a comeback. And btw, I got the morbs if you even care.

In The Adventure of Charles Augustus Milverton, Watson is described as "a middle-sized, strongly built man with a square jaw, thick neck, and moustache". And in His Last Bow, he's called "a heavily built, elderly man with a grey moustache". So, I would say that Watson is a bear.

This excludes BBC Sherlock's Watson, who we all know is a hedgehog.

ACD said that Holmes looks like a hawk but i need to know what kind of animal Watson looks like.