If you’ve ever had the experience of casting a dream film or TV episode in your head—say, putting Benedict Cumberbatch and Johnny Lee Miller, both of whom play Sherlock Holmes on TV, in the same show together—that imaginary scenario comes from your headcanon. This is part of a complete episode.
Transcript of “Headcanons”
I’m so delighted when I come up with a new slang term from a community that I don’t belong to.
Because I feel alien.
It’s like going to, say, a country that you’ve never visited and seeing the capital for the first time.
It’s nice.
Yes.
There’s this word headcanon.
Headcanon.
Headcanon.
With one in in the middle.
C-A-N-O-N.
Headcanon.
Oh, headcanon.
Let me think.
Let me think.
It’s the head canon.
It’s the canon-like literature.
It is.
It is that.
Okay.
It’s the canon you have in your head where you want to get two famous people together or two famous characters from two different TV shows together in the same plot or the same scenario because in your mind they belong together.
So it’s the canon you have in your head.
For example, some people want to get Johnny Lee Miller from the show Elementary where he’s playing Sherlock Holmes together with Benedict Cumberbatch, who plays Sherlock Holmes, in the same show, where they can have all these kind of jokes about Sherlock Holmes together.
In their headcanon, these two actors who play Sherlock Holmes are together in a play or a television show or a movie.
So I would say in my headcanon.
In my headcanon, Johnny Lee Miller and Benedict Cumberbatch are starring together.
Yeah, yeah.
All right.
Okay, cool.
Cool, right?
Yeah.
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