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Russian Jokes Series - Sherlock Holmes
By admin | May 30, 2007
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Picture: Famous Russian Sherlock Holmes - actor Vasiliy Livanov.
A number of jokes involve characters from the famous novels by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle about the private detective Sherlock Holmes and his friend Dr. Watson.
The jokes appeared and became popular soon after the screen versions of several of those stories came out on Soviet TV in late 1970s - mid-1980s. In all those movies the characters were brilliantly played by the same actors - Vasiliy Livanov (as Sherlock Holmes) and Vitaly Solomin (as Dr. Watson). Quotes from these films are usually included in the jokes (”Elementary, my dear Watson!”). The narrator of such a joke usually tries to mimic the unique voice of Vasily Livanov.
The standard plot of these jokes is a short dialog where Watson naïvely wonders about something and Holmes finds a “logical” explanation to the phenomenon in question. Occasionally the jokes also include other characters - Mrs. Hudson, the landlady of Holmes’s residence on Baker Street, or Sir Henry and his butler Barrymore from The Hound of the Baskervilles.
The plots of jokes are also about the following themes:
- the oatmeal porridge (one of the great moments of the film - enters Barrimore and in a solemn voice declares: “Oatmeal Porridge, Sir!” - “Ovsyanka, Sir!”, and Sir Henry groans, he hates this meal;
- Sir Henry and Dr. Watson go to the Greenpine bog drunken to catch fugitive runaway;
- bachelor life of Sherlock Holmes, meaning he was a gay fucking Dr. Watson,
- addiction to drugs by Sherlock Holmes;
etc., etc. I will comment whenever I will find necessary to quote psychological relevance of joke to this Soviet film.
For example.
Ms Barrimore drags a corpse of the Hound of Baskervilles. When she sees a startled face of Dr. Watson, she replies in a squeaky excusing voice:
- That is a gift for us!
My comment. There is an episode in the film where Ms Hudson accepts a gift from Sir Henry - his furcoat. When Watson looks at her, she does not want to look like a thief, so she explains in excusing voice:
- But that is a gift from Sir Henry!
Picture: Ms Barrimore is an expressive, emotional woman: “Thank you for a gift, Sir Henry!”
Topics: Sherlock Holmes And Doctor Watson |