# 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:** 2
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2013, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/silly-weird-perhaps-unanswerable-questions-about-movies-and-tv/654401/21 "2013-05-17T03:53:34Z")
2 oz. gin, 1/6 oz. dry vermouth, shakes over ice, strain, garnish with a cocktail onion. ---
**Author:** ![Toucanna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3bc359/32.png) [@Toucanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Toucanna)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2013, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/silly-weird-perhaps-unanswerable-questions-about-movies-and-tv/654401/22 "2013-05-17T18:06:12Z")
[QUOTE=Don Draper] {snip} what was the medication Gladys Kravitz was taking? {snip} [/QUOTE] [Mother’s Little Helper](http://www.med.umich.edu/psych/faculty/metzl/07_Metzl.pdf). Note: pdf It’s NBD, but I find it ironc and sad that a “Don Draper” hasn’t a clue as to what Gladys is taking. ---
**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:** [May 17, 2013, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/silly-weird-perhaps-unanswerable-questions-about-movies-and-tv/654401/23 "2013-05-17T18:52:41Z")
In the remake of Rear Window starring Christopher Reeve as Jason Kemp, he states he has an edetic memory, but doesn’t remember the bad guy was hired to do the scultures because the trama of his accident made him forget that whole week in his life. Why the hell didn’t he go over that week’s work while he was recovering? That’s a plot hole big enough to drive a Greyhound bus through. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2013, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/silly-weird-perhaps-unanswerable-questions-about-movies-and-tv/654401/24 "2013-05-19T04:17:37Z")
> [@Lumpy](#): > > … > What happened on _Hogan’s Heroes_ at the end of WW2? > … Newkirk becomes a used car salesman. LeBeau becomes an insult comic. Kinch invents the coffee pot TV set and retires with millions. Carter becomes a homeless schizophrenic. Schultz and Burkhalter pool their money to buy a brothel. Klink becomes the Prime Minister of Germany. Hogan makes his fortune in pornography. His first starlet is Fraulein Helga. ---
**Author:** ![Wallaby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/dc4da7/32.png) [@Wallaby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wallaby)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2013, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/silly-weird-perhaps-unanswerable-questions-about-movies-and-tv/654401/25 "2013-05-20T00:42:57Z")
I see the obvious end for Hogan’s Heroes as the Russians are close to over-running the camp. There is no transport left - so Hogan and the boys help Klink, Schultz and co escape via the secret tunnels. Don’t spoil it by pointing out that Stalag 13 was in West Germany! ---
**Author:** ![E-DUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/e-dub/32/403_2.png) [@E-DUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-DUB)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2013, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/silly-weird-perhaps-unanswerable-questions-about-movies-and-tv/654401/26 "2013-05-20T14:27:03Z")
Robot Arm had it pretty close. The genius behind it all wasn’t Klink, but Schultz. ---
**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:** [May 23, 2013, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/silly-weird-perhaps-unanswerable-questions-about-movies-and-tv/654401/27 "2013-05-23T21:52:54Z")
Who put Michigan J. Frog in the cornerstone originally? Where did he come from? ---
**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:** [May 23, 2013, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/silly-weird-perhaps-unanswerable-questions-about-movies-and-tv/654401/28 "2013-05-23T23:47:19Z")
Michigan, obviously. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2013, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/silly-weird-perhaps-unanswerable-questions-about-movies-and-tv/654401/29 "2013-05-24T00:31:34Z")
Is there any episode of _Firefly_ where some member of the crew doesn’t get cut up or shot? ---
**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:** [May 24, 2013, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/silly-weird-perhaps-unanswerable-questions-about-movies-and-tv/654401/30 "2013-05-24T01:01:13Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > Newkirk becomes a used car salesman. Used-Car Salesman? Used-Car Salesman. Answers on the board; survey says? Sorry, the correct answer was “Game Show Host”. _Game … Show … Host._ Kimble family, I’m afraid you’re going home, but we do have some lovely parting gifts for you. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2013, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/silly-weird-perhaps-unanswerable-questions-about-movies-and-tv/654401/31 "2013-05-24T01:28:56Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > Is there any episode of _Firefly_ where some member of the crew doesn’t get cut up or shot? _Heart of Gold The Message_ ---
**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:** [May 24, 2013, 6:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/silly-weird-perhaps-unanswerable-questions-about-movies-and-tv/654401/32 "2013-05-24T06:13:08Z")
What happened to the GIs (and the Tiger crew, for that matter) at the end of _ **Kelly’s Heroes** _, since they’re all guilty of misappropriation of government property, dereliction of duty, desertion, and Lord knows what else? Were they actually allowed across the Swiss border with all their gear, vehicles, and loot? If they were forced to abandon their vehicles, how did they get the gold across the border? Would the Swiss have actually accepted tons of obviously hot gold from private belligerent combatants? Did they fake their own deaths to avoid military and civilian criminal prosecution? If they were interned in Switzerland, would they have been allowed to stay after the end of the war? If they were allowed to stay, would the Swiss have given them new identities? Would they not have been considered criminals by the Swiss as well? A very good movie, but the ending is completely implausible! ☹ ---
**Author:** ![mbh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@mbh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mbh)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2013, 9:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/silly-weird-perhaps-unanswerable-questions-about-movies-and-tv/654401/33 "2013-05-24T09:09:56Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > What happened to the GIs (and the Tiger crew, for that matter) at the end of _ **Kelly’s Heroes** _, since they’re all guilty of misappropriation of government property, dereliction of duty, desertion, and Lord knows what else? > > Were they actually allowed across the Swiss border with all their gear, vehicles, and loot? If they were forced to abandon their vehicles, how did they get the gold across the border? Would the Swiss have actually accepted tons of obviously hot gold from private belligerent combatants? Did they fake their own deaths to avoid military and civilian criminal prosecution? If they were interned in Switzerland, would they have been allowed to stay after the end of the war? If they were allowed to stay, would the Swiss have given them new identities? Would they not have been considered criminals by the Swiss as well? > > A very good movie, but the ending is completely implausible! ☹ They just need to find one border guard who can be bribed. And in the world of that movie, everybody was corrupt. ---
**Author:** ![TBG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@TBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBG)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2013, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/silly-weird-perhaps-unanswerable-questions-about-movies-and-tv/654401/34 "2013-05-24T21:44:55Z")
> [@FriarTed](#): > > Was Grandpa Munster a Dracula or The Dracula? The show does answer that Herman was one of at least two Frankenstein monsters. The Dracula. He’s specifically referred to as Count Dracula at least twice. **From wiki:** [INDENT]_For example, in the episode “The Musician”, Mr. Gateman refers to him as “Count Dracula” when he comes to dinner. In “The Fregosi Emerald”, Grandpa refers to himself as Count Dracula to an operator in Transylvania._[/INDENT] ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2013, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/silly-weird-perhaps-unanswerable-questions-about-movies-and-tv/654401/35 "2013-05-24T22:19:48Z")
When Superman changes in a phone booth, what does he do with his clothes? ---
**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:** [May 24, 2013, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/silly-weird-perhaps-unanswerable-questions-about-movies-and-tv/654401/36 "2013-05-24T22:24:05Z")
> [@Ethilrist](#): > > When Superman changes in a phone booth, what does he do with his clothes? Three or four reboots ago, canon was that his civie clothes were a special fabric that could be compressed into a small wafer and that and his glasses went into a pocket in his cape. It’s been a long time since he changed in a phone booth anyway. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2013, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/silly-weird-perhaps-unanswerable-questions-about-movies-and-tv/654401/37 "2013-05-24T23:26:40Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > _Heart of Gold > The Message_ Those were two of the three I hadn’t seen. Just watched _The Message_, and Wash does get a flesh wound from a ricochet. ---
**Author:** ![YogSothoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/8edcca/32.png) [@YogSothoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YogSothoth)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2013, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/silly-weird-perhaps-unanswerable-questions-about-movies-and-tv/654401/38 "2013-05-24T23:33:18Z")
Jerry’s girlfriend, why…: -…didn’t she try the apple pie? -…did she wear the same clothes all the time? -did her friends tell him he was so great for taking her out, and what did George and Kramer see in her that Jerry didn’t? -what did she say to Jerry that was so dirty? -didn’t she want to give him a massage? -couldn’t she spare a square? -did Newman dump her? -didn’t she ever laugh? -did she eat her peas one at a time, but scooped the corn? -did she have man hands? ---
**Author:** ![Lamia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Lamia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamia)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2013, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/silly-weird-perhaps-unanswerable-questions-about-movies-and-tv/654401/39 "2013-05-25T03:35:24Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > What happened to the GIs (and the Tiger crew, for that matter) at the end of _ **Kelly’s Heroes** _, since they’re all guilty of misappropriation of government property, dereliction of duty, desertion, and Lord knows what else? I happened to see this on cable tonight, and they had a retired military officer and author of several books on WWII military history talking about the movie. At the end, he basically said that realistically everyone but the German tank commander probably would have been killed shortly after the final scene. They were a bunch of Americans in German vehicles, so even if they succeeded in evading the Germans for their return trip they would have been shot or blown up by the Americans as soon as they saw them coming. The German tank commander just had to make it safely out of town and come up with a selectively edited version of events for his superiors and he presumably would have been fine. But, as **mbh** said, no one in this movie ever said no to gold. Clint Eastwood could probably just whip out a bar of gold whenever they ran into trouble and make it into Switzerland with most of the loot. The Carroll O’Connor character was ready to give them all medals for bravely pushing through enemy lines and liberating Clermont, so they were presumably in the clear with regard to dereliction of duty, etc. ---
**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:** [May 25, 2013, 10:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/silly-weird-perhaps-unanswerable-questions-about-movies-and-tv/654401/40 "2013-05-25T10:35:34Z")
The Dirty Dozen attacked a château deep in occupied France. There were three survivors of the mission, all were injured. At the end they are in an American hospital, being visited by the General. How the hell did they get back there? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/silly-weird-perhaps-unanswerable-questions-about-movies-and-tv/654401.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/silly-weird-perhaps-unanswerable-questions-about-movies-and-tv/654401.md?page=3)