- Carter Wilson: I'm changing the great characters of literature to redheads. I just finished David Copperfield, and now I'm working on Moby Dick.
- [changes the color of the Great White Whale to red]
- Carter Wilson: Too much?
- Sherlock Holmes: [chuckles] I suggest you stick with the herrings.
- Sherlock Holmes: I suppose I will have fish and chips in Peking.
- Cook: That's Beijing, pal!
- Sherlock Holmes: Really? For how long?
- Cook: Two hundred years!
- Sherlock Holmes: Come Watson, we might just make the National Art Gallery before it closes. I haven't been there in years...