# Point out logic/plausibility flaws in classic movies and TV shows **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 27, 2014, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/point-out-logic-plausibility-flaws-in-classic-movies-and-tv-shows/679855 "2014-01-27T16:44:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 12
**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2015, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/point-out-logic-plausibility-flaws-in-classic-movies-and-tv-shows/679855/221 "2015-02-26T14:00:20Z")
> [@Diceman](#): > > For that matter, how did they get Kong back to New York? He’s probably as big as the boat itself, and even with every surviving crew member helping, I don’t see how they could have moved Kong. And once they did get him onto the ship, how did they keep him docile on the weeks-long voyage back to New York? They had used up all their ether subduing Kong in the first place. > > I noticed that the recent Peter Jackson movie conveniently glossed over all of these glaring logistical problems. [I Shoveled Kong’s Shit](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=368647) ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2015, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/point-out-logic-plausibility-flaws-in-classic-movies-and-tv-shows/679855/222 "2015-02-26T14:04:07Z")
> [@BobLibDem](#): > > They slide down the poles in full street clothes, and by the time they reach bottom they have shed their street clothes and put on their uniforms, all presumably while maintaining their grip on the Batpoles. How is that possible? Why not simply have a locker room at the base of the pole? This is the only thing you wonder about when it comes to Batman? :dubious: One thing that always amazes me is how \*\*no one \*\*ever makes the connection between Bruce and Dick and Batman and Robin, not even Commissioner Gordon when they come into his office dressed differently five minutes apart, or when he talks to Alfred on the Batphone one minute and then on the regular line to Wayne Manor the next. Just how dumb is the GCPD, anyway?!? :eek: 😕 ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2015, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/point-out-logic-plausibility-flaws-in-classic-movies-and-tv-shows/679855/223 "2015-02-26T14:07:29Z")
> [@Fenris](#): > > What about Lovie Howell? You left her out! Mr Howell would never let you get away with it! ☹ What I always wondered was why they didn’t just kill Gilligan after the fifth or sixth botched rescue attempt? 😕 ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2015, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/point-out-logic-plausibility-flaws-in-classic-movies-and-tv-shows/679855/224 "2015-02-26T14:08:31Z")
> [@Lumpy](#): > > We never actually follow them all the way down the poles do we? Maybe the locker room is halfway down! 😛 That would be more logical, but instead there is the [Instant Costume Change Lever](https://www.google.com/search?q=batpole+costume+change+button&newwindow=1&biw=1280&bih=832&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=RSjvVOOgN-fLsATkl4DYDA&ved=0CAYQ_AUoAQ#imgdii=_&imgrc=HhbyPHEmfOfg6M%253A%3B17-htyMO4r22uM%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252F31.media.tumblr.com%252F42f6938611040b8bc7a3e81a2394b8c6%252Ftumblr_mu5i090Ivi1s2wio8o1_500.gif%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Fwww.tumblr.com%252Ftagged%252Fbat-pole%3B500%3B269), though if Bruce chooses he can [negate the change.](https://www.google.com/search?q=batpole&newwindow=1&biw=1280&bih=832&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=qijvVMSHGNLksAT1y4KwDA&ved=0CB0QsAQ#imgdii=_&imgrc=ZIHs4riMQXlwlM%253A%3BCPFuG-k5_Chy-M%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252F4.bp.blogspot.com%252F-0CBhvI8f8vE%252FTo1CLvlasvI%252FAAAAAAAAD4g%252Fd8mvOTy829s%252Fs1600%252Fscreen-capture-7.png%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Ftothebatpoles.blogspot.com%252F2011%252F10%252F35-36-shoot-crooked-arrowwalk-straight.html%3B625%3B463) ---
**Author:** ![DrFidelius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drfidelius/32/3447_2.png) [@DrFidelius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrFidelius)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2015, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/point-out-logic-plausibility-flaws-in-classic-movies-and-tv-shows/679855/225 "2015-02-26T14:39:53Z")
> [@Fenris](#): > > What about Lovie Howell? You left her out! You are a bounder and a cad to suggest such with a married woman. ---
**Author:** ![johnpost](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f17d59/32.png) [@johnpost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/johnpost)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2015, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/point-out-logic-plausibility-flaws-in-classic-movies-and-tv-shows/679855/226 "2015-02-26T15:24:37Z")
> [@BobLibDem](#): > > How about the Batman 1960s TV show? To get to the Batcave, they pull back the head of the bust, press the button, and the bookcase reveals two poles conveniently labled for Bruce and Dick. They slide down the poles in full street clothes, and by the time they reach bottom they have shed their street clothes and put on their uniforms, all presumably while maintaining their grip on the Batpoles. How is that possible? Why not simply have a locker room at the base of the pole? they needed the gravity assist to get into those tights. one time the Joker switched the signs with hilarious results. ---
**Author:** ![Fenris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fenris/32/498_2.png) [@Fenris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fenris)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2015, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/point-out-logic-plausibility-flaws-in-classic-movies-and-tv-shows/679855/227 "2015-02-26T15:39:00Z")
> [@DrFidelius](#): > > You are a bounder and a cad to suggest such with a married woman. Lovie is a free spirit and shan’t follow your Victorian hidebound morals. She is all things to all men. Mr. Howell is whom she stays with, but even he can’t/wouldn’t try to tie Lovie down. ---
**Author:** ![Drunky\_Smurf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drunky_smurf/32/449_2.png) [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2015, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/point-out-logic-plausibility-flaws-in-classic-movies-and-tv-shows/679855/228 "2015-02-26T18:06:18Z")
> [@Charlie\_Wayne](#): > > If you were stuck on an island with Ginger and Maryanne, would you have wanted to repair the boat and go back to civilization? I think I would have wanted to wait until I had an opportunity to conduct a detailed examination of one or both of those girls. I would have told them I was a doctor and examined my little heart out. > > I would have examined and examined until I could examine no more. Oh, it would have been fun. The best part was that you were bound to prefer one or both of them and you could have examined them for a long long time. So you would have been all up in their buttholes for all those years. You are a proctologist are you not? ---
**Author:** ![racepug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f1d935/32.png) [@racepug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racepug)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2015, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/point-out-logic-plausibility-flaws-in-classic-movies-and-tv-shows/679855/229 "2015-02-26T18:10:49Z")
In the series finale of ST:TNG (an episode that I love, by the way), when “Q” demonstrates to Captain Picard that in the “pool of goo” nothing is happening to form the proteins that are supposed to be the “building blocks of what you call ‘life’” shouldn’t Captain Picard (and, indeed, all other human beings in existence at that time) have simply vanished? Unless that’s all explained in the show’s final scene about the whole episode being an alternate timeline that never really occurred… ---
**Author:** ![Jim\_s\_Son](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e19adc/32.png) [@Jim\_s\_Son](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jim_s_Son)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2015, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/point-out-logic-plausibility-flaws-in-classic-movies-and-tv-shows/679855/230 "2015-02-26T20:02:47Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > This is the only thing you wonder about when it comes to Batman? :dubious: > > One thing that always amazes me is how \*\*no one \*\*ever makes the connection between Bruce and Dick and Batman and Robin, not even Commissioner Gordon when they come into his office dressed differently five minutes apart, or when he talks to Alfred on the Batphone one minute and then on the regular line to Wayne Manor the next. > > Just how dumb is the GCPD, anyway?!? :eek: 😕 Plenty dumb. There is a one episode where Gordon is talking to Bruce Wayne while Alfred the Butler is standing some distance away (supposedly to prevent other people from catching his cold). Alfred speaks into a device to make his voice sound like Batman. There is another episode where Wayne is in the commissioner’s office when a disguised-as-Batman-henchman visits them. I don’t think the real Batman ever informs Gordon that he was actually there. ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_MB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steve_mb/32/5339_2.png) [@Steve\_MB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_MB)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2015, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/point-out-logic-plausibility-flaws-in-classic-movies-and-tv-shows/679855/231 "2015-02-26T21:42:31Z")
> [@BobLibDem](#): > > They slide down the poles in full street clothes, and by the time they reach bottom they have shed their street clothes and put on their uniforms, all presumably while maintaining their grip on the Batpoles. How is that possible? Why not simply have a locker room at the base of the pole? [An alternate hypothesis.](http://www.queenofwands.net/d/20051016.html) > [@Lumpy](#): > > We never actually follow them all the way down the poles do we? Maybe the locker room is halfway down! 😛 What happens in their locker room stays in their locker room. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2015, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/point-out-logic-plausibility-flaws-in-classic-movies-and-tv-shows/679855/232 "2015-02-27T02:11:01Z")
> [@Jim\_s\_Son](#): > > There is another episode where Wayne is in the commissioner’s office when a disguised-as-Batman-henchman visits them. I don’t think the real Batman ever informs Gordon that he was actually there. That was another Riddler episode; the henchman was one of the River Rats. Later on, Gordon did ask Batman if he had been in his office earlier that afternoon and said “No, I didn’t think so” when the BM told him he hadn’t. So Jim apparently wasn’t taken in 100%. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2015, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/point-out-logic-plausibility-flaws-in-classic-movies-and-tv-shows/679855/233 "2015-02-27T02:15:41Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > Later on, Gordon did ask Batman if he had been in his office earlier that afternoon and said “No, I didn’t think so” when the BM told him he hadn’t. Holy untruth, Batman! ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2015, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/point-out-logic-plausibility-flaws-in-classic-movies-and-tv-shows/679855/234 "2015-02-27T02:16:31Z")
> [@Steve\_MB](#): > > What happens in their locker room stays in their locker room. 😛 Aunt Harriet would never have allowed such things … if she hadn’t been entirely clueless as well! ---
**Author:** ![Aquadementia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aquadementia/32/555_2.png) [@Aquadementia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aquadementia)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2015, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/point-out-logic-plausibility-flaws-in-classic-movies-and-tv-shows/679855/235 "2015-02-28T15:04:49Z")
I’ve seen a few episodes of _The Big Bang Theory_ and I wonder why two physicists with decent jobs need to be roommates but the apartment across the hall can be afforded (although barely) by a waitress. Are they that far in debt from student loans? Or are they so stupid with their money that they are broke from spending it on comic book garbage? Or on the other side, is she making that much more in tips? Although, from what I’ve seen of the show Leonard was the one that needed a roommate for financial reasons. I don’t know for sure if that was Sheldon’s reason. He could have just wanted a pet. ---
**Author:** ![MentalGuy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/439d5e/32.png) [@MentalGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MentalGuy)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2015, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/point-out-logic-plausibility-flaws-in-classic-movies-and-tv-shows/679855/236 "2015-02-28T16:45:54Z")
In _The Shawshank Redemption_, how does the poster get back over the hole? ---
**Author:** ![fachverwirrt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/94ad74/32.png) [@fachverwirrt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fachverwirrt)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2015, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/point-out-logic-plausibility-flaws-in-classic-movies-and-tv-shows/679855/237 "2015-02-28T17:09:39Z")
> [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](#): > > Didn’t he eventually go to prison, between the next-to-last and last seasons? A year late, but I didn’t see anyone address this. He went to prison for parking his car in Cuddy’s living room. Not for the massive repeated violations of medical ethics, patient rights, HIPAA, and whatever else he could think to violate on a weekly basis. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/point-out-logic-plausibility-flaws-in-classic-movies-and-tv-shows/679855.md?page=11)