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[li]Tom and B’lanna were the only ones to have a baby. [/li][/QUOTE]
And Ensign Wildman.
I took it there were other babies born, but not to significant characters.
One thing that’s always puzzled me about Rocky Horror Picture Show is the reference to a “mission.” Before Riff Raff kills Frank, he sings, “Frank N. Furter, it’s all over. Your mission is a failure; your lifestyle’s too extreme.”
So what, exactly, was Frank’s mission? Why did the Transylvanians come to Earth in the first place? Whenever I ask a RHPS fan about this, I get a blank look or a shrugging “Take over the world, I guess” answer (which doesn’t make sense, because they simply leave Earth after Frank is dead).
It’s a silly, dumb question, but I think about it every time I see the movie. BTW, the stage version doesn’t explain it either.
THANK YOU for posting this! I have seen that movie more times than I can count, and I NEVER noticed the spacesuit in the airlock before! I had always assumed that Dave went to the pod bay to get a helmet—which, as ftg pointed out, doesn’t make sense.
In the novel, Dave doesn’t attempt to rescue Frank, who is obviously dead. Instead, he realizes that HAL is nuts and asks for control of the hibernation capsules so he can wake up the crew. HAL resists at first, but finally complies. HAL then opens the pod bay doors, the ship starts decompressing, and Dave barely makes it to some kind of emergency chamber that has a spacesuit in it.
Has Popeye ever gotten super-strength from spinach in any manner other than eating it? Smoking it? Snorting it (as in snuff)? A spinach-juice transfusion? A pureed spinach enema?
BTW: is his actual Christian name really “Popeye”? His surname maybe?
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.
So how exactly does the world work after Inglourious Basterds? Honestly it seems like the world becomes so much more complicated.
So after Hitler is dead does the German military sue for peace with figures like Rommel leading the charge, or does Himmler take over and the war somehow becomes much worse? Do the Soviets take this as an opportunity to rush for Berlin much earlier knowing the German military is demoralized? Do the Germans on the Western Front all surrender en-masse to prevent the Soviets from getting to Germany first? With FDR and Henry Wallace still-in-charge of post-war 1944 Europe does that mean they allow even more Soviet concessions than it would have under 1945 Truman? Do the Soviets launch an invasion of Japan before the US does and split Japan into a North and South? Will the Basterds now have to kill Stalin to prevent the world from becoming even more Communist?
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.
This was done all the time on Remington Steele. The episode I remember best is the one where Brosnan cracked the case by realizing it was just like the plot of The Producers.
They did this a lot in the series produced by MTM back in the '80s. I first noticed it when a male stripper was hired for Lucy’s birthday on Hill Street Blues, and the same thing was done a few weeks later for someone else on St Elsewhere. The woman who hired the stripper there even said she got the idea from “some cop show.”
Okay, but couldn’t the woman also have just been left in the transporter buffer until Doc had finished with Kim? I don’t remember the exact circumstances, but I don’t think they were under attack at the moment, or anything like that.
I remember an episode of The West Wing where Leo was trying to convince some television producers to continue their primetime coverage of a political convention. The TV people complained that the viewers were bored by the convention and they planned on running their regular primetime entertainment schedule. In the midst of this, there came news that a new candidate had entered the race and the producers all began scrambling to cover the emerging event. Leo said, “Does this mean I won’t be watching Law and Order tonight?”
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[li]How did Cheers get so much business with only two fairly unattractive waitresses? - Face it…Rhea Pearlman and Shelley Long aren’t going pack them in unless they were located in a bar in a remote mining town.[/li][/quote]
Because it was a sports bar and Sam and (in the beginning) Coach still had loyal fans who remembered them.
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[li]Why didn’t more agents want to work on The X-Files? - Mulder had an apparently unlimited travel budget, his own large office where his boss rarely stopped by, extremely limited oversightand sanction to do do almost whatever he wanted to. Why wouldn’t agents want to be in a unit like that?[/li][/quote]
Because to perpetuate their coverup of the existence of extraterrestrials, the government deliberately kept the number of agents limited to a select few?
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[li]Why didn’t Uncle Charlie (or Bub for that matter) on My Three Sons have a girlfriend? - I mean even in the 1960s I would have to assume that older men still liked women. Why didn’t they show them having any female companionship? Were they closeted gay men? Or was it ED?[/li][/quote]
Because inserting a woman into an all-male household would have led to romantic complications the series was not equipped to deal with. It was essential that Bub and Charlie be asexual seniors. (Though it was a very different show, a similar situation was seen in Bachelor Father, where the housekeeper was a lovable asexual Asian.)
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[li]Where did all of Thomas Magnum’s money come from? - It’s clear that Robin Masters was paying for teh gas in his vehicles and he stayed on teh estate in exchange for his security services. Where did he get the money for the beer and the dates that he went on? And the kayaks. His cases never seemed to pay that much….[/li][/quote]
Because he presumably received a salary in addition to all his perks. Even if it was only a nominal sum, it seemed he always had lots of money because he didn’t have to spend it on anything else.
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.
Would Magnum have received any sort of pension from his years in the navy?
In the first episode with Lt DuBois, he asks LeBeau (in French) if the Germans at Stalag 13 know French. LeBeau snorts derisively and says (also in French) no, they only know German and English. So the POWS apparently would have had no problem communicating with the guards even if they didn’t know German.
Schultz is, of course, listening to the above conversation the whole time and doesn’t understand a word. Later, when Hogan is trying to give Klink a red herring, he says he heard it from LeBeau. When Klink asks how LeBeau would know, Hogan says DuBois told him. Schultz immediately chimes in with “It is true, Herr Kommandant! I heard them speaking French!”
Yes, he would. Even more money to spend!
And Hammelburg was just outside Dusseldorf and (IIRC) 60 miles from the North Sea.
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!
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:
I think anonline reviewer who I follow put it the best: “Voyager is where potential goes to die.”