# Silly, weird, perhaps unanswerable questions about movies and TV **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 31, 2013, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/silly-weird-perhaps-unanswerable-questions-about-movies-and-tv/654401 "2013-03-31T03:09:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 14
**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:** [August 6, 2017, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/silly-weird-perhaps-unanswerable-questions-about-movies-and-tv/654401/261 "2017-08-06T13:49:53Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > It should be noted that _ **Three’s Company** _ was the American version of a Britcom, _ **Man around the House** _. I’ve always wondered just how well the situational humor of the copy coincided with that of the original. > > I just realized there are episodes of this show on YouTube, so now I can find out! Also, it’s _ **about** _, not _ **around** _. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2017, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/silly-weird-perhaps-unanswerable-questions-about-movies-and-tv/654401/262 "2017-08-06T14:17:00Z")
> [@erysichthon](#): > > As a kid, I spent a lot of time trying to figure out the Batpole costume-change system on the _Batman_ TV series. That way madness lies. > > The most plausible fanwank I’ve heard is that there’s a changing room located halfway down the shaft. Bruce and Dick stop there, change into their costumes, then jump back on the poles (or maybe there’s a second set of poles). Unfortunately, the producers invalidated this theory by showing us an “Instant Costume Change Lever” in the 1966 feature film adaptation. :mad: Batman must have had one shitty memory. Weren’t there signs all over the Bat-cave? ---
**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:** [August 6, 2017, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/silly-weird-perhaps-unanswerable-questions-about-movies-and-tv/654401/263 "2017-08-06T14:45:26Z")
> [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](#): > > Batman must have had one shitty memory. Weren’t there signs all over the Bat-cave? They were there for Robin and Alfred if Batman were kidnapped. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2017, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/silly-weird-perhaps-unanswerable-questions-about-movies-and-tv/654401/264 "2017-08-06T14:49:57Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > They were there for Robin and Alfred if Batman were kidnapped. I stand corrected, Robin and Alfred had the shitty memories. ---
**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:** [August 6, 2017, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/silly-weird-perhaps-unanswerable-questions-about-movies-and-tv/654401/265 "2017-08-06T16:51:52Z")
> [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](#): > > I stand corrected, Robin and Alfred had the shitty memories. Yeah, well, Robin never was the sharpest tool in the Bat-box, if you ask me. ---
**Author:** ![Lamia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Lamia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamia)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2017, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/silly-weird-perhaps-unanswerable-questions-about-movies-and-tv/654401/266 "2017-08-06T16:52:11Z")
> [@Kamino\_Neko](#): > > If a TV show is still airing or a movie is still in the theater when the episode is intended to air, and it’s both on a different network, and from a different production company, it won’t be mentioned. It’s been known to happen. There was an episode of NBC’s _The Office_, “[Viewing Party](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viewing_Party)”, that didn’t merely _mention_ the FOX series _Glee_ but was about the characters gathering to watch the season premier. Some brief clips from _Glee_ are even seen. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2017, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/silly-weird-perhaps-unanswerable-questions-about-movies-and-tv/654401/267 "2017-08-06T17:06:02Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > Yeah, well, Robin never was the sharpest tool in the Bat-box, if you ask me. [Something is really wrong here:](https://www.google.com/search?q=batcave+road+sign&safe=active&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiSjfnZisPVAhUD5yYKHVZBC4YQ_AUICigB&biw=1400&bih=637#imgrc=_) ---
**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:** [August 6, 2017, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/silly-weird-perhaps-unanswerable-questions-about-movies-and-tv/654401/268 "2017-08-06T17:11:46Z")
> [@jtur88](#): > > In Star Wars and Startrek and all the rest, who does the laundry? From _ **The Making of Star Trek** _ (Whitfield and Roddenberry, 1968): _Ship’s laundry bears little resemblance to its 20th century ancestor. Primarily because garments are reconvertible. It is simply easier to put a garment into the processing machine, reduce it to its original chemical fibers, take out the dirt, and then recreate a “new” garment back into its original form. Aboard the_ Enterprise\*, since it is a self-contained unit, out of sheer practicality nothing is ever lost. \* (Maybe this explains why the uniforms were constantly being altered in the first two seasons. 😉 ) ---
**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:** [August 6, 2017, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/silly-weird-perhaps-unanswerable-questions-about-movies-and-tv/654401/269 "2017-08-06T17:13:44Z")
> [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](#): > > [Something is really wrong here:](https://www.google.com/search?q=batcave+road+sign&safe=active&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiSjfnZisPVAhUD5yYKHVZBC4YQ_AUICigB&biw=1400&bih=637#imgrc=_) Is Assberg where The Assman lives? :dubious: 😕 ---
**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:** [August 6, 2017, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/silly-weird-perhaps-unanswerable-questions-about-movies-and-tv/654401/270 "2017-08-06T20:47:56Z")
Has DC Comics ever addressed the fact that Superman would have thousands of groupies in Metropolis alone, women tossing him their panties every time he put in a public appearance? ---
**Author:** ![erysichthon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d07c76/32.png) [@erysichthon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/erysichthon)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2017, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/silly-weird-perhaps-unanswerable-questions-about-movies-and-tv/654401/271 "2017-08-06T20:48:06Z")
> [@Lamia](#): > > I’ve never thought much about it, but Frank is a scientist and was presumably supposed to be researching or making something (weapons?) that would benefit Transylvania. Maybe his superiors thought his experiments were going to lead to, say, a race of super soldiers. Hey, that’s a pretty good theory! Maybe the original plan was for Frank to use human DNA to create an unstoppable clone army, but he got sidetracked making Rocky for his personal use and blew through the entire project budget. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Sherrerd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sherrerd/32/8_2.png) [@Sherrerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sherrerd)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2017, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/silly-weird-perhaps-unanswerable-questions-about-movies-and-tv/654401/272 "2017-08-06T20:56:49Z")
> [@erysichthon](#): > > Hey, that’s a pretty good theory! Maybe the original plan was for Frank to use human DNA to create an unstoppable clone army, but he got sidetracked making Rocky for his personal use and blew through the entire project budget. 😃 The gold-plated briefs and high-tops alone would have cost a bundle. ---
**Author:** ![erysichthon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d07c76/32.png) [@erysichthon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/erysichthon)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2017, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/silly-weird-perhaps-unanswerable-questions-about-movies-and-tv/654401/273 "2017-08-06T20:57:24Z")
> [@Lumpy](#): > > Has DC Comics ever addressed the fact that Superman would have thousands of groupies in Metropolis alone, women tossing him their panties every time he put in a public appearance? There was a 1960s story where Clark Kent was presumed to have been killed in an explosion, and Superman decided that he was tired of the whole “secret identity” thing and would just be Superman from then on. A daily commute from the Fortress of Solitude was too much of a hassle, so he moved in with Jimmy Olsen. This worked out about as well as you’d expect; he was hounded nonstop by adoring fans and the media, and never got a moment’s peace. Supes finally got fed up with that shit and came up with a pretext for resurrecting Clark. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2017, 1:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/silly-weird-perhaps-unanswerable-questions-about-movies-and-tv/654401/274 "2017-08-07T13:22:30Z")
If Laura Holt is such a hot shot detective, why can’t she figure out who Remington Steele really is? Fingerprints, DNA, something? Like I’m going to hire her to do detective work. ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2017, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/silly-weird-perhaps-unanswerable-questions-about-movies-and-tv/654401/275 "2017-08-07T14:09:07Z")
She’s respecting his privacy. And I don’t think they had DNA identification when the show was on air. ---
**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:** [August 7, 2017, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/silly-weird-perhaps-unanswerable-questions-about-movies-and-tv/654401/276 "2017-08-07T14:30:33Z")
> [@Peter\_Morris](#): > > She’s respecting his privacy. And I don’t think they had DNA identification when the show was on air. She was ahead of her time- she did collect quite a bit of saliva samples from him over the course of the show. Stupid question: Why didn’t Bluto eat spinach and beat the hell out of Popeye? ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2017, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/silly-weird-perhaps-unanswerable-questions-about-movies-and-tv/654401/277 "2017-08-07T14:35:58Z")
> [@BobLibDem](#): > > Stupid question: Why didn’t Bluto eat spinach and beat the hell out of Popeye? Same reason I can’t become an MMA champion by eating spinach. Popeye was a super being, a genetic anomaly, (or an alien) whose body was uniquely able to process spinach into super powers. He thought he was a normal human, but that’s only because there was no testing at the time that could have found out the truth. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2017, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/silly-weird-perhaps-unanswerable-questions-about-movies-and-tv/654401/278 "2017-08-07T14:49:26Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > In at least one episode of _ **The Green Hornet** _, the bad guys were watching _ **Batman** _ on TV. The two series came from the same production company. In the _Doctor Who_ episode “Remembrance of the Daleks,” set on the day the show originally premiered, the TV shows an announcement: " “This is BBC television, the time is quarter past five and Saturday viewing continues with an adventure in the new science fiction series Doc—” It cuts off mid-word, but it’s clear what the show is. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2017, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/silly-weird-perhaps-unanswerable-questions-about-movies-and-tv/654401/279 "2017-08-07T15:06:52Z")
> [@](#): > > Quoth **Lumpy** : > > Has DC Comics ever addressed the fact that Superman would have thousands of groupies in Metropolis alone, women tossing him their panties every time he put in a public appearance? Larry Niven exists and is writing in the DC universe, too. The first time a bunch of groupies tossed Superman their panties, he tossed them back full of holes. They got the hint pretty quickly. ---
**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:** [August 7, 2017, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/silly-weird-perhaps-unanswerable-questions-about-movies-and-tv/654401/280 "2017-08-07T15:12:41Z")
> [@RealityChuck](#): > > In the _Doctor Who_ episode “Remembrance of the Daleks,” set on the day the show originally premiered, the TV shows an announcement: " “This is BBC television, the time is quarter past five and Saturday viewing continues with an adventure in the new science fiction series Doc—” It cuts off mid-word, but it’s clear what the show is. I thought the premier was interrupted by the announcement of Kennedy’s assassination (on a Friday). Or was it postponed until the next day? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/silly-weird-perhaps-unanswerable-questions-about-movies-and-tv/654401.md?page=13) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/silly-weird-perhaps-unanswerable-questions-about-movies-and-tv/654401.md?page=15)