# Once Upon A Time - Oct 21, 2012 - The Crocodile **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 22, 2012, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/once-upon-a-time-oct-21-2012-the-crocodile/638480 "2012-10-22T02:14:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Misnomer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/misnomer/32/14897_2.png) [@Misnomer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Misnomer)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2012, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/once-upon-a-time-oct-21-2012-the-crocodile/638480/41 "2012-10-26T15:55:51Z")
> [@ISiddiqui](#): > > Btw, love that Belle’s father was running a gardening shop called “Game of Thorns”. LOL! > [@Rhiannon8404](#): > > I caught that, too. Made me chuckle. Me, three…in fact, I rewound the recording and watched it again to make sure I’d seen it correctly. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Gangster\_Octopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a8b319/32.png) [@Gangster\_Octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gangster_Octopus)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2012, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/once-upon-a-time-oct-21-2012-the-crocodile/638480/42 "2012-10-26T16:40:59Z")
Gotta love a library that has all its books still shelved despite being closed down. ---
**Author:** ![running\_piglet\_cheese](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/22d042/32.png) [@running\_piglet\_cheese](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_piglet_cheese)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2012, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/once-upon-a-time-oct-21-2012-the-crocodile/638480/43 "2012-10-27T03:47:20Z")
I remember Pinocchio now, sorry. Will the magic be able to bring him back? Is Gipetto still around too? I swear, my mind is like an Etch a Sketch, I bend over and my whole memory gets wiped. LOL ---
**Author:** ![Tangent](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tangent/32/3098_2.png) [@Tangent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tangent)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2012, 4:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/once-upon-a-time-oct-21-2012-the-crocodile/638480/44 "2012-10-27T04:32:25Z")
They showed Gipetto in Storybrooke, trying to find Pinocchio. Henry whispered something to him, and he went to the room where August/Pinocchio had been staying, but he wasn’t there. ---
**Author:** ![Waenara](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/50afbb/32.png) [@Waenara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Waenara)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2012, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/once-upon-a-time-oct-21-2012-the-crocodile/638480/45 "2012-10-27T16:19:23Z")
> [@The\_Devil\_s\_Grandmother](#): > > Bael could have ended up behind any of the doors Jefferson/Mad Hatter showed us in the portal room. But I’d be willing to bet a “land without magic” means that he ended up somewhere in modern day America/Storeybrook. IIRC, at the beginning of one of the episodes this season, it opened with some guy in an apartment in a seemingly large city, and a bird lands in his open window/fire escape. Then the bird flies off and we see that it dropped off a postcard for the town of Storybrooke. I’m guessing that the guy was Baelfire, all grown up. It looked to me like the actor was in his mid-thirties, which would be about the right age for Bae (I think). And the postcard was inviting him to go to Storybrooke, since the curse was now broken and magic is in town. ---
**Author:** ![chrisk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6de8d8/32.png) [@chrisk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chrisk)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2012, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/once-upon-a-time-oct-21-2012-the-crocodile/638480/46 "2012-10-27T16:48:26Z")
> [@Waenara](#): > > And the postcard was inviting him to go to Storybrooke, since the curse was now broken and magic is in town. Oh! Okay, maybe I’m slow, but I just got that. Curse #1 is broken, but the barrier effect is still up - Storybrookians can’t leave town without leaving their true identities, but Bael could come to town… yeah, that’s good. Off-topic, but - do outsiders know anything about Storybrooke? Do they have mail delivery in and out of town? Before the curse was broken, there wouldn’t have been much suspicious, but now it’d be hard to keep the secret. ---
**Author:** ![simster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/simster/32/1047_2.png) [@simster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/simster)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2012, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/once-upon-a-time-oct-21-2012-the-crocodile/638480/47 "2012-10-27T16:51:14Z")
> [@Waenara](#): > > IIRC, at the beginning of one of the episodes this season, it opened with some guy in an apartment in a seemingly large city, and a bird lands in his open window/fire escape. Then the bird flies off and we see that it dropped off a postcard for the town of Storybrooke. > > I’m guessing that the guy was Baelfire, all grown up. It looked to me like the actor was in his mid-thirties, which would be about the right age for Bae (I think). And the postcard was inviting him to go to Storybrooke, since the curse was now broken and magic is in town. yeah - but why would Baelfire care about the curse being broken? It didn’t prevent visitors (although no one seemed to visit until Emma and Pinnochio) - it only prevented people leaving and from remembering their true selves. ---
**Author:** ![Chanteuse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9de053/32.png) [@Chanteuse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chanteuse)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2012, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/once-upon-a-time-oct-21-2012-the-crocodile/638480/48 "2012-10-27T18:24:38Z")
> [@simster](#): > > yeah - but why would Baelfire care about the curse being broken? It didn’t prevent visitors (although no one seemed to visit until Emma and Pinnochio) - it only prevented people leaving and from remembering their true selves. Maybe because he didn’t know his father remembered anything and thought he wouldn’t know him. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/once-upon-a-time-oct-21-2012-the-crocodile/638480.md?page=2)