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[Funny Trope] a plot hole is addressed.
[Hotel Transylvania]
When Drac first meets Johnny, he's desperate to get rid of him so none of the guests or Mavis see him. While in a closet and Johnny is talking about something unrelated, he says to himself. "I can't kill him. It would set monsters back hundreds of years."
[Boss Baby]
When Tim is shown baby corp by Ted(yes, his name is technically boss baby but after hes back with the family at the end, his name is Ted), Ted reveals to Tim that Babies are all made at baby corp. Tim tellsTed what his parents told him about where babies come from,aka, the birds and the bees. Ted is grossed out.
Very technically there is wind too, since there are free floating particles in space and if you move through it you will make the effect of "wind" of course the amount of particles is so low it'd be imperceptible. But this is how we can get "solar winds" and some such
John A. Davis said in an interview that all the science in Jimmy Neutron is made-up nonsense because it freed them up to do any crazy thing they wanted.
Fair enough, I guess, but as a '90s kid who grew up on The Magic School Bus and Bill Nye the Science Guy, I feel like a show full of fake science would've bugged the shit out of me 😅
There was also an episode where they had to do a bunch of stuff underwater and Jimmy's fix was "chew this gum I made to breathe" and then you never even see them chewing it. They just walk around the bottom of the ocean while speaking to each other with no other gear or anything.
Like when Kronk wakes Yzma after realizing Pacha is the guy who took unconscious Kuzko in the beginning. Yzma in Latinamerican Spanish says, "WHAT?! I was dreaming with Ricky!" Aka Ricky Martin lol
There was going to be a scene added in the 100 years Disney special (where they featured characters from every movie in Disney's history) where Izma flirted with Hercules, who was voiced in the LATAM dub had the voice of Ricky Martin, who she was most likely referring to in that scene
I remember in the Polish dub of Shrek they changed the Muffin Man exchange between Gingy and Farquaad to "Żwirek kręci z Muchomorkiem" (which roughly means there's something sus in the relationship between Żwirek & Muchomorek; those two were from a Czech cartoon, originally named Křemílek and Vochomůrka).
It's a pretty iconic joke in Poland, even if it ruins the Muffin Man callback in Shrek 2. The transition back from that joke to the Muffin Man made no goddamn sense in Polish. Implying that Żwirek left Muchomorek for "some miller."
Yeah, that bit in Shrek 2 makes no sense in Polish. Why would looking at Gingy make Shrek think of Żwirek & Muchomorek? He wasn't even there during the torture scene in Shrek 1. And how do those two random buggers relate to the plan of making a giant Gingerbread Man? :P
Oh well. The translators had no way of predicting the plot of Shrek 2 back in 2001. Sometimes the most random things have unexpected consequences down the road.
Part of the reason for this was the drastic rewriting of the movie and crunch that followed. When they shifted from serious to goofy they had created this plot hole and rather than spend time to figure out how to fix it, they just added this gag to explain it away
During the production of Emperors New Groove they chopped and changed the script so much that there wasn't a complete version of the script until AFTER the movie was released (the need to file a final copy away for legal purposes).
I'm speculating here, but I believe this joke was made because they worked on two acts of the movie separately and couldn't find a coherent way to make them meet.
Not legal, but bureaucratic purposes. The guys at Disney wanted the script for the archives after release so the makers cobbled something that could be called a script.
Not that it matters but Yzma’s secret lab is at the bottom of the palace. Before you enter though, there is the “wrong level” trap door that may possibly be connected to the outside river around the palace (hence why they keep getting bit by crocodiles). Yzma and Kronk fell down the canyon into said river and probably swam to the passage which brings you back to the two levels. They were closer to the lab whilst Kusco and Pacha were still climbing to the main entrance and working their way down.
The Eds wanted to watch a movie marathon in Ed's house but gets kicked out by Sarah and Jimmy. Double D suggests watching the marathon in one of their own houses and Eddy replies with this
That's cool but less interesting than the one I heard about folk tales of Storks finding kids lost in marshland and returning them to humans, yours sounds more likely though
and also people who want very specific kids, considering you could ask for kids with non-natural hair colours, like blue, and to have pre-installed talents lile karate.
This is (in some stories) explained by Scrooge simply knowing "the technique" to do it. In one story, the Beagle Boys attempt the same after seizing Scrooge's fortune, and simply knock themselves out trying to dive in.
In the reboot, the Louie also tries and gets stopped by Scrooge, who asks if he wants to crack his head open. He then explains that it requires specific technique and developed muscles to do.
And what’s even better is that throughout the course of the series Louie gradually becomes better at coin swimming, to the point where it becomes an important skill he has.
I dunno, Scrooge is jacked. We're talking about a guy who can rend steel, if the steamboat destruction feat is anything off of which to go. His bone density has to be absurd. That said, you'd expect it to work on non-money materials, but apparently at least coal is a no-go. It's also odd that he needs to surface rather than breathe in the gold pile, like it briefly becomes liquid while he's in there? Starting to think this guy doesn't make total sense.
Actually, it first appeared in Scrooge’s first comic of his own: “Only a Poor Old Man” by Carl Barks.
There were some stories that came before that like “Christmas on Bear Mountain”, but “Only a Poor Old Man” was the first TRUE Scrooge story, and established his ability to swim in coins from the very beginning of his true branching out on his own.
It’s not a thing they decided to explain later, it’s part of his DNA, and the resolution you are speaking of actually happens in “Only a Poor Old Man.”
He wasn’t really the Scrooge we know before that. That comic introduced a good portion of his idiosyncrasies.
It also represents one of my favorite things I learned about after the OceanGate disaster- tension and compression forces require entirely different materials to survive. The submersible was made out of carbon fiber, which is amazing for tension forces, but crap at handling compression like what is experienced by deep submergence vessels. The Planet Express ship was probably made out of a material closer to carbon fiber and would've imploded pretty quickly. Not that that's a gripe, I love Futurama and they lampshaded it perfectly.
The day it happened, I knew immediately they were dead the second I heard they used carbon fiber. Pretty much anyone with too much interest in the ocean did.
The search and rescue was theater for the public. That material stretches and compresses enough that microfractures are inevitable. It would have happened no matter what, and the second they lost contact, they were gone.
And then we found out he got it at discount and sanded it down.
That man never should have been allowed to bring anyone else into that "vessel." It was always doomed.
Delves into time travel with Austin wondering how the whole thing works with events he knows about having already happened but being impossible to happen because time travel made it so oh no I've gone crosseyed.
Basil Exposition, his boss, simply tells him (and YOU, the viewer) not to worry about it.
Yeah me and my dad wracked our brains to what his name could be a play on from Bond or Flint but we eventually figured out they weren't trying that hard and his name is literally what he does lol
Also, going off of the first point, another moment in Hotel Transylvania is when vampiric hypnotism is also ruled out as an option. It’s because Johnny wears contacts which block the hypnotic power.
Honestly its my favorite scene, because it sorta grounds the world despite there being literal magic and monsters around, its just like our world in that way.
Like, yeah, its true but in the most boring fucking waypossible.
Fun fact, the heart is the only internal organ NOT removed during mummification. It was seen as integral to the being and the seat of one of the forms of the soul, so it would remain in the body (still dehydrated, of course), so that - for example- the gods could weigh it against the Feather of Truth.
Embalmers could get into trouble if they damaged it in the process.
So Murray’s heart is still rattling around in there!
It always bothers me when people say “well actually a stake to the heart would kill anyone!” because no shit. But a guy who can get hit by a bus or shot point blank and survive having that one thing be able to kill him just like anyone else is pretty noteworthy and exceptional.
Another one is apparently humans have a very unique smell but because Johnny hasn’t washed his clothes (and presumably himself) since he started backpacking across Europe, only Quasimodo and Esmeralda the Rat can tell he’s human.
Also going off the first point, when Drac says the monsters would kill Johnny if they find out he’s human, he points out how “that’s kinda racist” and Drac says he’ll explain later… which he does
The plotholes regarding the mogwai and gremlins in the first movie are made fun of by a bunch of office workers in Gremlins 2: The New Batch
E.g. Mogwai will change into gremlins if fed after midnight, but what if the mogwai is on a plane entering a new timezone and what if it swallows a piece of food that has been stuck in its teeth
Apparently it's a simplification, the actually rule was don't feed them during the hours when the moon is at it's highest point in the sky. So it is relative to where you are. Around 4ish should be fine.
Interesting from Zuko’s perspective too. He met jet on the ship and helped him steal food for the refugees. Jet asked him to join the gang but Zuko said no. Later, jet becomes obsessed with proving that Zuko and Iroh are secretly firebenders. He attacks them in the tea shop and is dragged away by the Dai Li. Zuko never sees him again.
Fast forward a few months, Zuko joined the gaang. Jet is mentioned in the episode when Katara wants revenge on her mother’s killer (“it’s not the same! Jet attacked the innocent!”) Zuko is like “these guys knew Jet too? What does that mean, he attacked me but I was actually a firebender, not really innocent.”
Next episode is the play and that’s when he finds out the rest of what happened to Jet.
One of the reasons the Ember Island Players episode is one of the best in the series. They really had a lot of fun poking fun at the characters in-world and the series/story in a meta sense.
Jimmy Neutron. In an episode, Sheen asks Jimmy how they manage to travel to space when it takes astronauts years of training or how they don't need oxigen. Jimmy explains it but we the viewer don't hear the explanation, only Carl singing
Well you see Sheen, we're made by a small animation company with a limited budget in the early 2000s and making models of us wearing the proper equipment would be time consuming and cost a lot of money
Forget the whole time travel thing, the main premise of Looper is that the mafia sends guys back in time because it's so hard to get away with murder in the future. Okay, sure, surveillance state, whatever.
But then our villain's main motivation is that the mafia shot and killed his wife while abducting him to send him back in time?
And then later said, "Fuck it, we're completely changing Klingons again, because god forbid anything make sense. And we're changing how everything else looks, too. Because we want to do another prequel series set even closer to TOS, but don't want to have to look like TOS..."
Kinda cheating since there technically was an explanation for it in the original movie, but a big part of Rogue One is that it reveals why there was a small thermal exhaust port which oh so conveniently lead to the Death Star’s main reactor.
It was kind of never really a plot hole to begin with.
Of course they need an exhaust port, the exhaust has to go somewhere. And its buried within a trench, thats also highly defended. It required proton torpedos to hit, and that wouldnt have even succeeded without the Force, Red Leader's prior attempt detonated before it hit the Reactor.
The Rebels needed the plans to know it was a feasible strategy to begin with. And even then it was a last ditch Hail Mary. Its a 2m wide hole on a moon sized battlestation.
Its a huge allegory for the Empire, this huge, seemingly unstoppable force of destruction that failed due to one seemingly unimportant oversight. I love Rogue One but its wholy unnecessary to the story.
Do you think this one is stupid? I don't. It's a great way to build a story.
The movie isn't even about the exhaust port, that's discovered by having the blueprints. The movie is about a saboteur and his disdain for the empire with excellent motivation.
They even mention in the briefing “that’s a near impossible shot” just for some farm kid to go “I use to make shots like that all the time” as if it was a comparable thing. And in the end Luke needed the force to make that shot. The only thing you can argue as a plot hole was “why didn’t it have a vent cover” or something but still it’s a one in a million shot that in the end was one in a million.
Friends who have been fighting in and losing comrades for years. Then some backwater sand-hillbilly comes in and goes, "Skill issue". Then proceeds to 360 no-scope the Death Star.
“Why didn’t it have a vent cover” this was a fucking space station capable of producing enough power to blow up an entire planet in seconds, god knows how much thermal energy was being produced and forced through the exhaust port, put a cap on the end and the temperature would probably melt the cap into slag the second the reactor ramped up for a firing sequence
From what i got from Rogue one, it seemed Galen's trap was less the reactor port and more the instability of the main reactor that led to the destruction of the entire station when hit, hence why they had to steal and analyze the plans to find the exhaust port
That's not really what Rogue One covered. Galen set it up so any damage to the main reactor would cause the entire thing to explode, but even he seemed unaware of the exhaust port specifically. Rather he trusted the Rebels would figure out a way to damage it.
Deltarune Chapter 2. The basic plot is the town's computer lab has become a portal to another dimension. The main characters stumble across this when trying to do a school assignment. They have to close the portal if they are to do the assignment.
Except, not really. The game gives you a dialogue option saying that you have a computer at home, so technically there's no need to fix the computer lab. The second main character ignores this, because that would be boring.
Bruce Banner in Avengers: Endgame explaing that the past can't be changed trough time travle because it has already happened (or something), so going back in time and killing Thanos before the events of Infinity War is not an option, so they have to do the time heist thing that takes like 60% of the movie runtime.
That was a neat little "time loop" sort of explanation for it, which I liked. Then they ruined it with Cap saying behind anyway do I don't know why they bothered.
Funnily enough, both fire and water can exist underwater. Fire happens when it's supported by something like gas (or, in this case, oil-soaked wood), while "water" happens when there is vastly different salt concentration, which makes it look like thecwater is layered. Abd as a marine biologist, Hillenberg would absolutely know this.
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When Sheen asks Jimmy how they’re able to breathe in space without helmets and oxygen tanks.