Sherlock vs Sherlock Holmes- A Scandal in Belgravia

If you've been reading my blog lately, my last few posts have been a project that I've been working on. I'm comparing the TV show 'Sherlock' to the original Sherlock Holmes stories, trying to pick out as many references as possible. (See how this project got started here).

If you have not seen this show, I would not recommend reading on, as there will be spoilers.

SHERLOCK- EPISODE 4- A SCANDAL IN BELGRAVIA: written by Steven Moffat

(Read more about Moffat in 'A Study in Pink')

• This episode is based on one of SACD's most famous short stories, 'A Scandal in Bohemia'.
• John writes down his and Sherlock's cases on a blog for the public to read. This is where Sherlock's clients come from. The original stories ARE Watson's journals, that supposedly were published for the public and attracted clients.
• Some of Watson's blog titles are referencing actual original stories. "Greek Interpreter" vs. "The Greek Interpreter" and "The Speckled Blonde" vs. "The Speckled Band"
• In attempt to cover his face from press, Sherlock puts on a deerstalker cap. Although this is not a reference to the original stories, the deerstalker cap is completely canon in most movie/TV adaptions of Sherlock Holmes.
• Mrs. Hudson finds a bag of thumbs in Sherlock and John's refrigerator. (I mentioned this in 'The Great Game', but) In the original stories, Holmes would occasionally have random body parts lying around on which he would be performing experiments on.
• Sherlock doesn't feel the need to leave the flat to go to the crime scene. This is referencing two things in the originals. 1) Holmes doesn't actually need to leave the flat to solve the mystery a lot of the time, he just needs to hear the story and he'll have it figured out. 2) In 'A Study in Scarlet', he tells Watson that he sometimes doesn't feel like going to investigate a crime if it seems boring.
• The person who hires Sherlock about Irene Adler wants to remain anonymous.
• One of Irene Adler's professional names is "The Woman". This is referencing the original story, Holmes would never call her anything else except "The Woman" after the case.
• Irene Adler has some compromising pictures concerning the royal family.
• Sherlock dresses up as a vicar and then has John punch him in the face (and John goes a bit further than just one punch XD) in order to get into Irene Adler's home. In the original story, Holmes disguises himself as a vicar and fakes being attacked (although he's not actually hurt) in front of Irene Adler.
• John sets off the smoke alarm, making Irene look towards her hiding spot for the photos. In the original story, Watson throws a smoke bomb into her home and shouts "fire!", making her run to the hiding spot.
• "Upon hearing a smoke alarm, a mother would look towards her child. Amazing how fire can expose our priorities." vs. the original, "When a woman thinks her house is fire, her instinct is to rush to the thing which she values most... A married woman grabs her baby--an unmarried woman reaches for her jewel box."
• After Irene beats Sherlock (physically and mentally) she says, "This is how I want you to remember me, the woman who beat you." This is in reference to the original story, where Irene Adler was the only woman to ever outwit Holmes.
• Sherlock asks Mycroft if he thinks there's something wrong with the two of them because they don't care as much as other people. This is referencing the original stories, where the Holmes brothers often tend to lack normal human emotion.
• When everyone finds out that Irene is supposedly dead, Mycroft believes it might be a "danger night" for Sherlock, and John and Mrs. Hudson take precautions to make sure Sherlock is "clean". This is referencing Holmes's cocaine habit in the original books.
• Sherlock plays the violin when he's thinking. This is the same in the original stories.
• John says that Sherlock barely talks since he's depressed. This is referencing something Holmes said in 'A Study in Scarlet' when he was listing off his short comings. He said he would sometimes get down in the dumps and not talk for days.
• Mycroft invents a story to tell Sherlock about Irene, that she changed her name and is in America. In the original story, Irene got married, therefore changing her name, and moved to America with her new husband.
• John says that Sherlock won't even call Irene by her name, just "The Woman". This is the same in the original story.
• Sherlock asks to keep Irene's camera phone. In the original story, Holmes asks to keep a photo of Irene.