# 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:** 16
**Author:** ![nightshadea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7ba0ec/32.png) [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2017, 6:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/silly-weird-perhaps-unanswerable-questions-about-movies-and-tv/654401/301 "2017-08-10T06:52:46Z")
> [@digs](#): > > He got better. actually I think John Amos makes a reference about him getting killed near the end … ---
**Author:** ![Andy\_L](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c67d28/32.png) [@Andy\_L](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andy_L)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2017, 12:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/silly-weird-perhaps-unanswerable-questions-about-movies-and-tv/654401/302 "2017-08-10T12:57:30Z")
> [@Eddie The Horrible](#): > > I mean IRL. Or were there small little pieces of black foam (that looked like part of the doors) on either side of the doors’ edges, at nose height, thus sparing DA of that totally embarrassing angel-fish-nose setback? Don Adams was probably just acting - pretending that the door hit him. ---
**Author:** ![Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slow_moving_vehicle/32/291_2.png) [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slow_Moving_Vehicle)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2017, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/silly-weird-perhaps-unanswerable-questions-about-movies-and-tv/654401/303 "2017-08-11T17:37:54Z")
> [@installLSC](#): > > It was common, even in the South, for black entertainers to be hired as entertainment for all-white events. The Cotton Club (which refused to serve black patrons) is the most infamous case of this. In one extreme case, soul legend Soloman Burke even recalled playing a KKK function. > [@Murph1111](#): > > I went to high school in the deep south from 1956 to 1959. There were black students, and apparently it wasn’t such a big deal, since I can’t recall whether there were a few or a lot. Afterward, I went to college in California, and was surprised at how few black students there were. I had been working side-by-side with black folks in every part-time job I had during HS and afterward, so it surprised, and sometimes annoyed me that they were isolated from the rest (socially, if not legally). > > As for the band - yeah. WAOK played “race music” (e.g. Chuck Berry, etc.) and was on every Atlanta teenager’s car radio buttons. (Another button for when the parents were in the car was tuned to a station that played Sinatra or Patti Page.) > > So it wouldn’t be out of the question for a graduating class to hire a black band. Exactly. Segregation didn’t mean that blacks and whites would never interact; that would be difficult to impossible, especially in small Cotton Belt towns in the Deep South. Jim Crow laws just specified that blacks were always to be subordinate to whites - housekeepers, cooks, hired hands, entertainers. For a white high school to hire a black band wasn’t especially odd. They may not have allowed the band members to use the bathrooms or interact with the students, though. ---
**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:** [November 27, 2018, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/silly-weird-perhaps-unanswerable-questions-about-movies-and-tv/654401/304 "2018-11-27T19:51:11Z")
_ **Monsters vs. Aliens** _: Somehow Ginormica got put into the jumpsuit she woke up in at the military base. Any speculations on how that operation went? ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2018, 4:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/silly-weird-perhaps-unanswerable-questions-about-movies-and-tv/654401/305 "2018-11-29T04:44:58Z")
> [@Hottius\_Maximus](#): > > And of course: where did Chuck Cunningham disappear to after that first season of “Happy Days” ended? Well, there’s a [fund set up](https://www.gofundme.com/w85tn3dg) for his rehab… ---
**Author:** ![Marine\_One](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/marine_one/32/3461_2.png) [@Marine\_One](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marine_One)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2018, 1:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/silly-weird-perhaps-unanswerable-questions-about-movies-and-tv/654401/306 "2018-11-29T13:19:01Z")
In\*\* Night People \*\* (1954), why did the Russians kidnap the soldier to trade for the man and woman instead of just taking them? They were in plain sight in the nightclub where the woman was performing. ---
**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 9, 2020, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/silly-weird-perhaps-unanswerable-questions-about-movies-and-tv/654401/307 "2020-02-09T20:53:27Z")
Popeye comics and cartoons: why did Roughhouse of Roughhouse’s Diner even let infamous deadbeat Wimpy in the door? ---
**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 9, 2020, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/silly-weird-perhaps-unanswerable-questions-about-movies-and-tv/654401/308 "2020-02-09T21:05:43Z")
> [@Lumpy](#): > > Popeye comics and cartoons: why did Roughhouse of Roughhouse’s Diner even let infamous deadbeat Wimpy in the door? (missed edit window) It’s actually the Rough House Cafe; same question. ---
**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:** [July 22, 2022, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/silly-weird-perhaps-unanswerable-questions-about-movies-and-tv/654401/309 "2022-07-22T23:45:46Z")
Bumping old thread rather than start yet another on this subject. Anyway, latest question: In any version of the “Planet of the Apes” franchise, did _monkeys_ still exist? How about gibbons? ---
**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:** [July 23, 2022, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/silly-weird-perhaps-unanswerable-questions-about-movies-and-tv/654401/310 "2022-07-23T00:20:58Z")
Gorillas and chimpanzees (two different species) existed side-by-side, albeit at different levels of development. (Chimps were brainy, gorillas were brutes.) Lower species were presumably still around as well, though probably not as intelligent. Unless, of course the hominids ate or otherwise destroyed them. (Have you ever seen that video where a pack of chimps attacks and kills a band of monkeys just because they have nothing better to do? Talk about a rumble in the jungle!) ---
**Author:** ![De\_La\_Rue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d07c76/32.png) [@De\_La\_Rue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/De_La_Rue)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2022, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/silly-weird-perhaps-unanswerable-questions-about-movies-and-tv/654401/311 "2022-07-23T01:59:40Z")
How does transportation to the Mirror Universe work, since Kirk arrives in his counterpart’s uniform? Is it just consciousness that’s being transferred? ---
**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:** [July 23, 2022, 4:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/silly-weird-perhaps-unanswerable-questions-about-movies-and-tv/654401/312 "2022-07-23T04:33:04Z")
Fanwank: There is no “mirror universe”. The transporter interacted with the storm to alter the quantum\* probability of the entire universe, What we see IS the “universe”, but with a few changes. Now you have to ignore the scenes with the Evil Kirk on the Good Enterprise. But, you’re already wondering about the uniforms, so it’s pick your level of suspension of disbelief. You also have to ignore the other Mirror Universe episodes, but then I already do. The idea of having one MU that’s always at the right level of development so that characters can interchange is just silly anyway. \*do you just put quantum in front of everything? ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2022, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/silly-weird-perhaps-unanswerable-questions-about-movies-and-tv/654401/313 "2022-07-23T14:35:22Z")
> [@De\_La\_Rue](#): > > Is it just consciousness that’s being transferred? That’s actually the only kind of time travel that makes sense to me. Otherwise you’re sending yourself back in time annnnd… (if it’s only a decade) … almost 6 billion miles to intercept the earth’s position in space. As an aside, I’d love to see an “away team” go back in time and Picard appears two feet off the ground (“Ooof! Dammit!”), and a crew member two feet into a big rock (“Sorry, red shirt.”). But sending your consciousness into your great-great-grandfather’s body? That’s got fewer problems, and maintains the Conservation of Mass, too. ---
**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:** [July 23, 2022, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/silly-weird-perhaps-unanswerable-questions-about-movies-and-tv/654401/314 "2022-07-23T15:45:24Z")
> [@digs](#): > > But sending your consciousness into your great-great-grandfather’s body? That’s got fewer problems, and maintains the Conservation of Mass, too. “Consciousness” (or the soul as it were) must have mass. It interacts with our bodies. Even if it is “pure energy” (Thanks, Spock) energy has mass. ---
**Author:** ![Jay\_Z](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Jay\_Z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jay_Z)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2022, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/silly-weird-perhaps-unanswerable-questions-about-movies-and-tv/654401/315 "2022-07-23T16:38:39Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > Is there a transitive property of movie bad guys? For example, Malcolm McDowell and David Warner both usually played villains. But when they were cast in a movie together (_Time After Time_ (1979)) McDowell played H.G. Wells and Warner was Jack the Ripper. But does their relative bad-guy-ness stay consistent, and are there enough such pairings to establish the ultimate bad-guy actor? There was an episode of Cannon where Jason Evers, who usually played bad guys, was a cop under suspension. He was cleared and wound up being a good guy. But that’s only because another bad guy of the time, Anthony Zerbe, was the real bad guy. They even joked about it at the end, like Jason Evers’ character expected Cannon to have him under suspicion because he was Jason Evers. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2022, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/silly-weird-perhaps-unanswerable-questions-about-movies-and-tv/654401/316 "2022-07-23T17:32:59Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > Schultz and Burkhalter pool their money to buy a brothel. I know this is a belated response. It was established in the show that Schultz was a successful businessman in his civilian life before the war. There was an episode where Hogan had faked that the war had ended as part of some scheme. Hogan, Klink, and Schultz are all sitting in Klink’s office discussing what they will do now. Schultz mentions he will be going back to the Dusseldorf Company (I don’t remember the name they used in the show). Klink: “Oh, yes, I know that company. One of the biggest companies in Germany. You worked for it, Schultz?” Schultz: “No, I own it.” ---
**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:** [July 23, 2022, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/silly-weird-perhaps-unanswerable-questions-about-movies-and-tv/654401/317 "2022-07-23T17:49:32Z")
The Schatzi (“Sweetheart”) Toy Company. ---
**Author:** ![solost](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/solost/32/11776_2.png) [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2022, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/silly-weird-perhaps-unanswerable-questions-about-movies-and-tv/654401/318 "2022-07-23T19:35:38Z")
> [@YogSothoth](#): > > Jerry’s girlfriend, why…: What was the name of the girl Jerry was dating, whose name he couldn’t remember, but knew it rhymed with a word for female genitalia? He finally took a shot in the dark guess with “Mulva”, which got him in trouble. It would have to be Regina, right? ---
**Author:** ![Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/q.q.switcheroo/32/5713_2.png) [@Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.Q.Switcheroo)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2022, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/silly-weird-perhaps-unanswerable-questions-about-movies-and-tv/654401/319 "2022-07-23T19:46:41Z")
Dolores. ---
**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:** [July 23, 2022, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/silly-weird-perhaps-unanswerable-questions-about-movies-and-tv/654401/320 "2022-07-23T19:51:47Z")
_Samurai Jack_ (or really, **any** super unbeatable badass): Didn’t anyone ever try just shooting him in the back of the head from 500 meters away? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/silly-weird-perhaps-unanswerable-questions-about-movies-and-tv/654401.md?page=15) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/silly-weird-perhaps-unanswerable-questions-about-movies-and-tv/654401.md?page=17)