Elementary, Season 1

Watson:
I know you're going to blow this off, but I'm going to say it anyway: thank you. I've never been able to make my family understand what it is that I do.

Holmes:
Yes, well I meant very little of what I said.

Watson:
There's the blowing off part.

Holmes:
I know my audiences. I told them what they wanted to hear. They're nice people, your family, but they are at their core, conventional. You make an effort to appear conventional, but I know, Watson, that you share my love for all that is bizarre and outside the humdrum routine of ordinary life. Your family will never understand this, so I gave them something they would understand.