Sherlock Holmes

Sherlock Holmes
Species	Human
Gender	Male
Affiliation	Doctor John Watson Mrs. Hudson
Occupation	Consulting detective
First appearance	SD&SD: "The Night Ghoul of Wonderworld" (1979)
Played by	Michael York (2010) Ian James Corlett (2019)
Scooby-Doo and Guess Who?

Sherlock Holmes is a famous literary detective character who has appeared in several Hanna-Barbera and Warner Bros. Animation-produced cartoons. In all these appearances, he has been treated as a real person, instead of a character from a book.

Appearances

TV series

• Goober and the Ghost Chasers
  • 1.13 "Is Sherlock Holme?" (mentioned)
• Laff-A-Lympics
  • 1.15 "Arizona and Holland" (mentioned)
• Scooby-Doo and Scrappy-Doo
  • 1.2 "The Night Ghoul of Wonderworld"
• The Fonz and the Happy Days Gang
  • 2.11 "Give Me a Hand-Something's a Foot"
• The Scooby-Doo Mysteries
  • 1.11 "Sherlock Doo"
• Popeye and Son
  • 1.10B "The Case of the Burger Burglar" (mentioned)
• What's New, Scooby-Doo?
  • 3.14 "E-Scream" (no lines)
• Mike Tyson Mysteries
  • 1.7 "Kidnapped!" (mentioned)
  • 4.5 "Pits and Peaks" (mentioned)
• The Powerpuff Girls
  • 2.4 "Splitsville" (no lines)
  • 2.41 "Never Been Blissed" (mentioned)
• Scooby-Doo and Guess Who?
  • 1.4 "Elementary, My Dear Shaggy!"
• The Tom and Jerry Show
  • 4.13A "Never Say Never Again" (mentioned)
• Velma
  • 2.10 "Til Death" (mentioned)

Movies

• Tom and Jerry Meet Sherlock Holmes

Comics

• Cartoon Network Presents
  • Issue #24A: "Puppy Power!" (poster)

Books

• Daphne and Velma
  • #1 The Vanishing Girl (mentioned)

Biography

Monday, Tuesday, Happy Days

Mr. Cool dresses like Sherlock in his search for Richie and Ralph, and Luna.

Scooby-Doo

At the beginning of each filmstrip segment of The Great Grammar Hunt, Velma, Shaggy, and Scooby wear deerstalker hats like Sherlock.

During Mystery Incorporated investigating an alleged haunting with Kristen Schaal, who says, "The mystery is afoot," which is a paraphrase of Sherlock saying, "The game's afoot."

Behind the scenes

• In The Mumbly Cartoon Show episode "Sherlock's Badder Brudder," there is an evil doppelganger called Hemlock.
• Scooby-Doo is dressed like Sherlock on the covers of the Scooby-Doo's Greatest Mysteries VHS and DVD.
• In the Futurama episode "Law and Oracle," Fry excels in police law enforcement, with his bust ups making it possible for him to become a detective soon, which makes him happy because then he'll get to be Sherlock Holmes or Speed Buggy.
• In the film Top Cat Begins, Top Cat's line, "Elementary, my dear Dibble" is a paraphrase from Sherlock Holmes saying, "Elementary, my dear Watson." Although technically speaking, Sherlock never uttered that specific line in Sir Arthur Doyle's canon.