9. "Don't Talk Out Loud, You Lower The IQ Of The Whole Street."
Episode: A Study In Pink Directed At: Anderson This list could well be entirely made up of Sherlock's digs at Anderson the smart but comparatively slightly dimwitted police officer who often accompanies Lestrade on investigations. But for the sake of variety we'll limit it to the very best, and also one of the first. Sherlock makes no secret of his low regard for Anderson's intelligence, and Moffat was keen to mark out this intellectual animosity from the very start as one of the detective's most insulting retorts to the PC's well-meaning comments appears in the very first episode. Earlier in A Study In Pink, Sherlock loudly, savagely pokes fun at Anderson's affair with Sgt. Donovan 'going by the state of her knees' and sarcastically rebukes his theory that 'Rache' is (as in the original novel) the deceased woman's attempt at writing the German word for revenge. But this one takes the cake it boggles the mind that Anderson went on to found Sherlock's fan club.
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