Was out of town that week and missed any writeoff activities.

I like the punnery in this. I did a similar thing once, where Pinkie and Sombra kept mangling the phrase "What were you thinking?" Pretty much the same idea as a feghoot, where you can tolerate significant breaches in characterization to support the punchline, but then this didn't deviate from their characters much anyway. Thanks for some puns that caused some nice groaning agony.

I grew up watching the Holmes mysteries on A&E, so I'm conditioned to picture Jeremy Brett in my head for Holmes. This isn't that far off.