Sheerluck Holmes and the Golden Ruler

Sheerluck Holmes and the Golden Ruler
Directed by	Mike Nawrocki
Produced by	David Pitts
Written by	Robert G. Lee
Music by	Kurt Heinecke
Released	March 11, 2006
Runtime	52 minutes

Sheerluck Holmes and the Golden Ruler is the 28th episode of VeggieTales.

The first story is a retelling of " Don Quixote de la Mancha", while the main feature is parody of the Sherlock Holmes series.

Plot

At the counter top, hosted by Bob and Larry who receive a message from a child from Minot, North Dakota asking how to get friends. But Larry just tells mean jokes about South Dakota losing to North Dakota. When Larry thinks that he's "On a Roll" on his jokes, Bob angrily starts the stories.

Asparagus of La Mancha

Knight Don Quixote facing three Peas in a surrealist world made of cooking utensils and foods. Then he wakes up. It was a dream. He and his best friend Poncho work in a Spanish restaurant of Cafe LaMancha. However, Jean Claude comes in to inform the duo of a new restaurant opening across the street called 'The Food Factory', the most successful, and biggest, restaurant in the world. With their customers abandoning them, Don is sure they will go out of businesses.

After losing another game of Spanish checkers to Poncho, Don goes back to sleep. He assumes his latest dream has informed him to try different themes to win back their customers. This fails, and shortly after, the Food Factory manager offers Poncho a job at the Food Factory. Poncho refuses.

Don's next dream convinces him to attack the Food Factory. Poncho tries to tell him out of it by giving him his idea; A Touchdown Turkey but Don refuses Poncho's idea and attacks the Food Factory only to get incarcerated. While visiting Don in prison, Poncho learns that Don's addiction to his super-spicy salsa is causing the bad dreams. He weans Don off the salsa, much to Don's disappointment. The next morning, Don claims he slept well. Sheriff Bob claims he'll let Don go if he quits the salsa. Poncho has an idea to open their restaurant for "la breakfast", as the Food Factory doesn't open until lunchtime.

Sheerluck Holmes and the Golden Ruler

It opens up to Sheerluck and Watson entering Doylie's ice cream parlor, claiming they have "The Howling Dogs of Baker Street" case wrapped up. Sheerluck takes all the credit and praise, upsetting Watson. After leaving, Scooter informs the duo of a plot to steal the Golden Ruler, the kingdom's most valuable treasure.

At the palace, they meet up with the Prime Minister, and find a few clues including footprints and a secret passageway, but police group, Fish and Chips, want to solve the case themselves.

Back at Doylie's, when Sheerluck takes the credit again for the clues Watson finally cracks and leaves, saying to Sheerluck, "When you want to start treating me like a friend, come talk to me."

The very next morning, at Sheerluck's apartment, Scooter informs him that the Golden Ruler has been stolen. He arrives at Watson's apartment, only to be battered by Watson's maids.

Back at the palace, Sheerluck is clueless without Watson. He finally realizes the Golden Rule after which Watson appears; he has been disguised as one of the palace guards. In a CSI-type method, he explains the clues and finds that the thief is a palace guard who is a French spy imposter. The Prime Minister interrogates them politely, but they cannot match any of them to the crime. However Sheerluck trips and falls onto the guards causing them to fall onto each other like dominoes and revealing the culprit to be a guard. The guard is arrested, and Sheerluck and Watson celebrate at Doylie's.

Back at the countertop, Larry apologizes for insulting South Dakota and receives a musical message from South Dakota which shows their/its acceptance for his apology. Following this, Bob and Larry finish up and the show ends with the credits rolled. Bob is then confused about the next show and wonders why he's not part of it...

Fun Facts

Explanations

• "Hurts like the Dickens" is a old way of saying "Ow, that hurts!" The term "dickens" means devil. People assume it means Charles Dickens, but the term was first invented during Shakespeare's era.

Trivia

• Originally, "La Mancha" was going to be on Bob and Larry and the theme was outer space. This was changed after Disney's "Treasure Planet" was released.
• This is the last episode of VeggieTales to be released on VHS. This is also the first episode the current Big Idea closing bumper is used.
• This is the first episode to not have the What Have We Learned, but instead have a different song as it was stolen by the Sporks in the previous episode.
• On the Smile of a Child broadcast, this is the last episode to be in the 4:3 screen format.
• The list of characters Don sees himself in the mirror in his second dream were:
  • Scooter
  • Mr. Nezzer
  • Jimmy
  • Larry
  • Bob
  • Dali (See Real World References)

Remarks

• If you look closely at the letter, it is in the wrong way. Mike Nawrocki acknowledges that and states that the child just wrote that way.

Goofs

• In some scenes in "Sheerluck", Jimmy and Jerry sometimes switch voices. Mike Nawrocki acknowledges this in the commentary.

Inside References

• The way Bob apologizes to South Dakota for Larry's actions is similar in King George. On the same note, they get a letter from North Dakota.
• Fried eggs were portrayed as clouds in Don's dream world.
• Mirrors were used in Don's second dream.
• Sheerluck and Watson like eating cake and ice cream with a glass with milk.

Real World References

• Salvador Dali was a Spanish surrealist painting, known for his curly mustache (See also Trivia.

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