Sherlock Holmes solves crime using motor oil!

[jimbrewer]

Saw the Sherlock Holmes TV show last night. Sherlock is in the garage of the bad guy with the cops. Sherlock says very portentiously to the cop: "you see, (bad guy) has a Camry parked in this garage (accent on the first syllable). A very plebian car that. Yet, here he has several very expensive cans of synthetic oil suitable for a racing car." Then Sherlock dramatically turns to the cans of "Penntech" synthetic oil in its characteristic black and yellow can and twists off the top to find that the cans really hold wads of drug money. Crime solved. Roll the credits.

 

[oldhp]

I wish I could buy a case of that!!!

 

[eljefino]

CSI decided that an oil drop they found on the pavement of a crime scene had to be AGIP 10w40 which was "only used to service ferarris" or some similar stretch.

 

[Trav]

I like the show a lot. A little over the top for sure but the implication that a Toyota isn't worthy of synthetic oil made me laugh out loud.

 

[earlyre]

Originally Posted By: Trav
I like the show a lot. A little over the top for sure but the implication that a Toyota isn't worthy of synthetic oil made me laugh out loud.


not to mention, when is the last time you saw motor oil in a metal can like that?
not in recent memory anyway.

 

[wrcsixeight]

If you like 'Elementary', check out the BBC productions of 'Sherlock'. Orders of magnitude better, and I like 'elementary', a lot.

 

[jimbrewer]

Yeah, it is. Obviously the US version is a kind of a ripoff. U.S. Dr. Watson is a big improvement, though.

 

[Kruse]

The TV-viewing public believes it, of course.
Remember the CSI show several years ago that had an ant drinking up some motor oil on the street and the CSI agents picked up on that? It turns out the car that was leaking oil had G-Oil in it and they tracked it down to some shop that was using G-Oil. I wonder how much the parent company to G-Oil had to pay to be a sponsor like that?