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Holmes has long been the subject of pastiches and parodies and post-Conan Doyle excursions on the page and on the screen — hundreds of them, I’d wager, not that I’m going to count.

“It’s not pastiche anymore; it’s its own thing,” he notes, “ which is really thrilling.”

Comic pastiche gives way to tender romantic ballads only to explode in musical psychodrama.

“A Working Man” opens with a batty pastiche of bullets and buzz saws, parachutes and cranes.

Max has dropped the original Warner Bros. cartoons from its lineup, which our TV critic says leaves us with the pastiche and is similar to removing books from a library.