That would be the Arcturians, I imagine. The whole race looks like that. Hence, “It don’t matter if it’s Arcturian, baby.”
Brady Bunch. Nine people. One bathroom.
Stepford Wives: Nobody notices the wives have been replaced with robots? Mothers, fathers, siblings, children?
Rosemary’s Baby: A woman nine month’s pregnant with the devil’s child is walking around NYC. What if she goes into labor and is rushed to the hospital? Sheesh. The doctor/cult member would have put her on bed rest at home from month seven till she delivered.
The classic flaw, that’s been debated for over 60 years, is "What did Ozzie Nelson do for a living?"
When the radio show “The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet” moved to TV, Ozzie was still in his 40s, too young to be retired. Ozzie basically spent his time meddling in people’s lives for 14 years. When I watched the show in the early 60s, as a kid, it didn’t really bother me. But when I watched the reruns in the mid-80s (on Nick, I, think) Ozzie’s lack of employment really bothered me. Why didn’t they even come up with something even semi-plausible; full mental disability, inherited wealth, welfare cheat, living off of investments. But not a mention how he put two kids through USC and through law school. I know, in real life, he was a retired band leader, so why not use that as part of his background on the show?
Surprised nobody has mentioned House. How did that man and his team stay out of prison?
More like six people, one bathroom. We never see Alice using the kids’ bathroom, and more than once we see Carol or Mike coming out of a bathroom attached to the master bedroom.
Anyway, I came from a big family,a nd we had one full bath and one half bath attached to the master bedroom. It was doable.
Didn’t he eventually go to prison, between the next-to-last and last seasons?
IIRC, he was asked the same question once on The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson.
His reply? “I don’t know; they never told me!”
I grew up in a family of nine. One bathroom.
Superman: The Movie - The infamous time reversal scene. While emotional and epic in scope, this ending has never made any sense. From Superman letting the missile go off a second time (evidenced by Jimmy), to the crevice not opening under Lois’s car like before. Plus, wouldn’t reversing time mean that California had to be saved all over again? It’s all implausible.
The Dark Knight - The Joker blows up an entire police station, yet he and Lao were the only ones unharmed. Worse yet, The Joker was within the bomb’s immediate blast radius. At the very least, he’d be knocked down by the shock wave.
Speaking of Superman…I believe the bomb was a 100 (!!!) megaton bomb. The largest nuclear weapon ever exploded was only 58 MT.
A 100 MT bomb would (and did I suppose since Supes didn’t stop it) have catastrophic effects on all the beachfront Nevada property Lex bought.
From the Bronx. Coney Island is in Brooklyn.
My favorite part was near the beginning, where they showed each Warrior en route to the powwow dutifully pay his subway fare before boarding the system. I was a young teen when the movie came out, and I remember hearing (false, I assume) rumors of stabbings and such occurring in theatres where the movie played. I was surprised when I finally saw it and how silly it all was.
I let a lot of these implausibilities slide because the movie never takes itself too seriously anyway, but that is a ridiculously high megaton count.
Actually, the gang meeting was in Central Park in Manhattan.
If there’s no governmental body and they DO know that Ripley isn’t lying about the events aboard The Nostromo, why bother having a board meeting? Pay her off (or dispose of her) and then get back to the business of getting a Xenamorph for the “bio-weapons division.”
If there’s no concern that any entity outside of the (e.g. a governmental body) is in existence, then why bother with the niceties? And why use “Colonial Marines” instead of mercenaries or private military contractors unless there IS some form of functioning government?
Finally, there obviously IS a functioning government in the Aliens universe as Hicks plans on “nuking the site from orbit” after Ripley reminds him that he is now in command and that this was a military mission. If Burke was there in anything other than an advisory capacity, then he would have nixed that move ASAP.
I beg to differ. Both in the book and the movie the conclave was in the Bronx. It’s spelled out fairly explicitly a couple of different times in the movie, from Rembrandt tracing the subway map all the way up, to Swan saying, “We ain’t even been to the Bronx before.”
Although, if I remember correctly, the scene was shot in Manhattan, but in Riverside Park (I could be wrong about that one).
Regardless of what W-Y thought of HUMAN life, it is clear that sentient life exists elsewhere in the galaxy. By not bothering to ascertain that it doesn’t exist on a moon which you are terraforming, you risk the race destroying your (according to the film) 42 million dollar facility at best; and starting an interstellar conflict at worst.
Also, there’s the pesky fact that another space-faring race might have a claim upon the moon and have placed something to signify that fact. Without performing a survey of the entire body (which also points out the fact that colonists didn’t have a satellite or satellites and that in the Alien universe communications must be able to travel at speeds greater than light) then your terraforming could be for naught as the race with the claim would be a tad peeved to discover that you are trespassing on THIER moon.
Finally, without a survey of the entire body how would the company know that the terraforming would “take?” While W-Y doesn’t seem to be the brightest company in film universe (after all, wouldn’t simply sending a robotic ship have provided them with the life form which they were seeking without leaving any potential witnesses in the first film?) they do seem to be interested in maximizing their returns. Attempting to terraform a moon which may have issues elsewhere upon its surface which might interfere with your end goal seems to be a recipe for plenty of wasted capital.
Again, a football stadium-sized ship full alien life would have been detected during the survey that would have to be performed prior to any terraforming efforts. And since the film forget to show that the colonists had spaceships or even aircraft available (if they did then they could have flow away from the eventual facility blast), the ship also had to be in relatively close proximity to the terraforming station.
yep…plot hole.
I stand corrected.
It was in Van Cortlandt Park in the Bronx
Lau and The Joker were both in the secure wing, away from the bomb.
The first part of your sentence is true. The second is where the problem emerges, as in both rooms (one with Lao, one with The Joker) all other people inside were either killed or knocked out. So they had to be within a close proximity to the bomb.