So Kirk is still alive then. Praise Kalis.
That’s my wife’s theory, too. 
It also helps explain a longish run of turkey movies.
Which means everything in TNG universe from that point forward was equivalent
to the “lost” season of Dallas, then.
…In that they all take place in Picard’s feverish Nexus-addled brain, I mean.
thwartme, according to the program from when I attended the London performance (almost 30 years ago now!), theatergoers in London had noticed the plot hole, and asked Aunt Agatha herself about it. She was perfectly aware of it, but said that most people didn’t notice it in the flow of the narrative, and it wasn’t easily correctable, and not worth the trouble.
And when Dorothy wakes up and finds “it’s all a dream”, does that also mean the neighbor and sheriff are still after Toto?
True dat! Dorothy has the same problem she had before she got konked on the head.
Please leave Gandalf out of this. Believe it or not, Smaug was not his primary concern, the Necromancer was. Gandalf helped the little party on its way. He managed to rescue them several times and provided them with Bilbo who rescued them a few more times. Bilbo leaned much from his unexpected adventure. Alas Thorin learn too little too late.
The Necromancer was the most important objective for Gandalf. He saw them through long enough to set them on their path. He had a good feeling that somehow the dwarves and Bilbo would accomplish the end of Smaug. He got the bonus of restoring Dale, destroying the local Goblin King and renewing positive relations between the Elves and Dwarves.
How much was accident and how much was Mithrandir playing with possible outcomes based on his faded knowledge of the song of creation or The Ainulindalë is not known to us.
Jim
Prison Break. (Ok, so it isn’t exactly the Wizard of Oz or Saving Private Ryan.)
Over the last few episodes, one former corrections officer, Bellick, was double-crossed and robbed of $5 million by another former corrections officer, Roy. This was done by Roy hitting Bellick on the head, knocking him out. Roy then went to a hotel to live the high life. Bellick ended up in the hospital, where the cops promptly started interviewing him about why he got hit on the head. Meanwhile, an escaped convict manages to catch up with Roy in his fancy hotel room, whereupon Roy is murdered and the money taken.
As Bellick leaves the hospital, he sees Roy coming in on a gurney, dead. Police proceed to pin Roy’s murder on Bellick. He pleads guilty to avoid facing the death penalty.
Plot hole: WTF didn’t Bellick just give his alibi, that is, he was in the hospital being watched by the police when Roy was being murdered?
(I really hope I’m missing something, because this is just the biggest, stupidest plot hole I’ve seen in a loooooong time.)
As was pointed out in Wicked, Dorothy never killed the Wicked Witch of the East. She was in a house that fell. It’s not like she piloted the thing down.
In The Producers, Max and Leo find the perfect play, Springtime for Hitler. Without contacting anyone, they head off to see Franz to get rights to it. Then they head directly over to see Roger. They don’t even have time to take off their swastikas. When they arrive, they ask Roger if he had time to read the play. He did. How did he get a copy so fast?
I’d also like to point out that Roger calls Carmen “Wicked Witch of the West.”
Well, 1) Biff was never the smartest human being, so his line of thinking was probably “I’ll just go back to when I left, so Doc and Marty don’t notice I stole the machine, and I’ll be rich from giving myself the book.” Granted, he didn’t realize it would make a parallel 2015 with essentially a different older Bif, and that by making a parallel 2015, it wouldn’t matter if Doc and Marty never got back the DeLorean, but as said, he was an idiot.
and 2) Doc mentioned that the ripple effect takes time to work. The future doesn’t change instantly, that’s why in the first one, the picture of Marty and his siblings slowly fades away (with the older siblings first, since the time change is going forward from 1955.)
The actual plot hole in BttF II, as I see it, is how older Biff met and talked to younger Biff. Doc said earlier that the two Jennifers, by meeting rach other, could create a space-time rift that destroys the whole universe (or maybe just confined to their galaxy,) or that they would simply pas out from the shock of seeing each other. Well, luckily for the universe it was option 2, so…why didn’t that happen to young Biff?
See your own point #1. Biff was too stupid to be shocked at meeting himself. 
Wow, I’ve probably seen that movie a dozen times and that problem never occurred to me. I suppose you could argue that young Biff doesn’t know/realize who he’s talking to, so the shock effect doesn’t happen to him… but old Biff certainly does know.
I always fanwanked it as he didn’t recognize himself, and that’s what made everything okay.
Interesting. The only London program I’ve seen is from the original production (with Richard Attenborough as Sgt. Trotter), and it didn’t have any cool notes like that in it.
We used to joke about it quite a bit in the T.O. cast. But no one in the audience ever asked me about it. Funny.
I’m going to get villified for it, but someone has to say it:
In Casablanca, the whole plot revolves around these Letters of Transit, letters stolen from two German couriers ("They got a lucky break. Yesterday they were just two German clerks. Today they’re the ‘Honored Dead’. ") which give the holders unquestionable authority to travel out of French Morocco. Only, it’s clear that Major Strasser will not permit Victor Lazlo to escape, letters or no, even if the nominal governing authority (Captain Renault) were to grant permission. So the whole Letters of Transit McGuffin isn’t just a transparent plot device but a pointless one as well.
Stranger
Kindergarten Cop: where’d the ferret come from? It couldn’t have belonged to the cop, they were (and mostly still are) illegal where he’s from. Unless he picked it up somewhere and lied about it being his, it couldn’t have been in the school to save the day.
A subplot in which older Biff did go on a spree through Time and Space, or at least 1985 Hill Valley, and returning the DeLorean to 2015 after seeing how his younger self did to the town was supposedly written but never filmed.
Er, after seeing what his younger self did to the town…
Sports movies are a class by themselves here, but one of my favorite obvious plot holes was in Sudden Death. It’s Game 7 of the Stanley Cup finals, and they’ve planted bombs everywhere to blow up the Vice President and everyone else unless they get a ransom. You would have to assume that this took lots of time and effort to plan out to get everything in place - henchmen, weapons, guns, planting the bombs themselves, etc.
Good thing it went 7 games.
Another great one was that Brendan Fraser movie where he was a rookie pitcher. He faced Ozzie Smith as the last batter of his perfect game. They mention that Ozzie has 5 HRs already in the NLCS. Assuming that Ozzie Smith was really that kind of hitter (he wasn’t even close), would they really be batting him ninth?
In Borat, during the dinner party scene Borat needs to be shown how to use a toilet, although we had already learned that one of his hobbies back in Kazakhstan was taking photos of women using the toilet.