Silly, weird, perhaps unanswerable questions about movies and TV

Here’s a thread on that subject.

That was the Friedman brothers. Here’s a screen shot of one of the pages.

You forgot the Croix de Guerre. You know, just to round out all the Allied powers.

IIRC, Major Riceman even says something like, “Let’s hope D-Day isn’t a complete failure!”

So, I figure they probably hid somewhere near the Normandy beachhead and waited until the Allies overran the area.

Frasier. I can’t believe a guy with a radio call-in show that isn’t syndicated could pull in serious money.

Everybody Lover Raymond. I can’t believe a guy with a sports column that isn’t syndicated could pull in serious money.

And speaking of Everybody Loves Raymond: Was Robert an NYPD cop, or a Lynbrook cop? They show him both ways. And he was perpetually poor, even when he was a lieutenant, which had to be a notch above minimum wage. If he had a drug or gambling problem it would have been good plot fuel, but he was portrayed as having no life at all.

Here are a couple of more:

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[li]Where did all of the Partridge Family’s money go? - They are apparently successful enough to travel to concerts around the US and for Shirley not have a job. But they are so poverty-stricken that they drive to concerts in a school bus and live in a normal suburban home? Where did the money go? Was Reuben ( their manager) embezzling from them?[/li][li]The Brady Bunch - If Mike and Carol got married, why did the kids act as if they had never seen or met one another during teh first episode? Did Mike and Carol elope and then surprise the kids with the marriage? Did they wake up hungover and married in Las Vegas?[/li][li]**Was Schneider trying to rape Ms. Romano in One Day At A Time? **- He constantly kept entering their apartment without knocking and he was always making crude and suggestive comments around her. Was he trying to catch her alone so that he could assault her?[/li][li]The Love Boat - Didn’t the Princess Cruise line have some sort of regulations forbidding the crew from fraternizing with the guests? In almost every episode, Doc was banging a female passenger, and even Gopher and Julie got in on some of that action later in the series.[/li][li]Columbo - Doesn’t the fact that Columbo was assigned to a case mean that the police department thinks that it was a murder and not an accident? Even cases where it would seemed to have been an accidental death, they assign Columbo and he uncovers the “truth.” Were they stating that they didn’t believe that the person met their death from a mishap but from foul play?[/li][li]If one Cosby parent was an attorney and the other was a OB/GYN in New York City, why didn’t they have more money? - Seriously…Cliff Huxtable practiced out of his basement and had no staff. he should have been rolling in the dough. Claire was an attorney (and later partner) with a prestigious firm. And yet they complained about buying Theo a $70 shirt and they bought their daughter a used beater car for her birthday. WTF?[/li][li]Why couldn’t Henry Spencer (Shawn’s dad on Psych) get laid? - I can’t judge men but I have a hard time believing that a man who looks like Corbin Bernson and who is a ex-cop would have any trouble finding female companionship. Yet throughout the series he has a grand total of three “dates” and one was with his ex-wife who left him and his son. WTF?[/li][li]Why was Fred G. Sanford poor? - Recycling (e.g. junk collecting) has always been a lucrative business. Since either him or Lamont drove around LA all day looking for scrap, why were they barely able to make ends meet? [/li][/ol]

As I understand it, the tips of his gloved fingers and possibly hands, and his feet are made of especially thin cloth so that his clinging power can work more effectively. Thankfully it’s a power he has control over, otherwise his life would be much more difficult…

This one is easy - they had money, but didn’t buy their kids everything they wanted. Teaching them the value of a buck, not spoiling them, etc. Hell, with the shirt episode, Cliff spent way more on ‘cheap’ shirt than just getting it for Theo in the first place (and had actually purchased it because he knew that Lisa likely wouldn’t be able to pull it off).

You’re confusing the real-life group that called themselves “The Partridge Family” who were quite successful with the fictional Partridge Family depicted on television, who eked out a living on the bar-band level.

No, he was just a horndog Casanova who apparently did quite well in the booty department, who apparently considered Ms. Romano a challenge.

And you don’t think those regulations get flouted?

Apparently Columbo had the seniority (and the successful track record) to declare a death “suspicious” and investigate it on his own authority.

He was more interested in taking it easy than making money.

Sure, but with all those cameras around? :wink:

Nelson likely held a security clearance which he didn’t want to jeopardize. Healey, not being a target of psychiatrist Dr. Bellows, did use Jeannie for his own purposes for on occasion.

Presumably one of the other Rogues for a ride to Coney.

The premise seems to be that Mike and Carol somehow met and dated a bunch without introducing each other to their kids. Until they up and decided to get married. Did they then not have the kids at the wedding?

Don’t all homicides (i.e. deaths) get some sort of investigation? Besides, Columbo was a lieutenant, so that means he was high enough in the food chain to pick his own cases.

Just because they could afford a $70 shirt, that doesn’t mean they should buy it. That’s a lot of money for a shirt, even more so 30 years ago.

Who says he couldn’t get laid? He was shown to be a smooth talker when he wanted. He was emotionally hung up on his ex-wife and not interested in lots of relationships.

Is it a lucrative business? How lucrative?

On Hogan’s Heroes.

It would have been nice to have a final episode where allied troops come to free the camp and so Hogan finally reveals his secret. The German army later on tries to court-martial Klink and accuse him of collaboration and Hogan has to step in and testify that Klink never knew a thing what was going on. Later Klink and Hogan work together using Hogans old tricks to aid resistance forces under the Soviets.

Now that’s a question: was the presumptive location of Stalag 13 in the west or in the Soviet occupation zone? If the latter the US might want to keep the secret going.

The pilot episode of The Brady Bunch showed the wedding which took place in the back yard with the kids.

Every week, scrappers drive around neighborhoods the evening before garbage day, looking for anything metal that’s been set out as trash. So, apparently there is money to be made in that business.

It was supposed to be more or less in central Germany. Hammelburg, I believe. Midway on a line between Berlin and Paris.

I wanted the finale to show that Klink was no idiot-that he was always secretly aiding the Allies. But not officially, but because he hated Nazism. (He can still be a coward though.) He might have even been the deep cover “Nimrod” mentioned in one episode. Hogan’s superiors never knew Klink was on their side.

I also fanwank that everyone in Hogan’s crew spoke perfect German. We just never “heard” it because the show translated for us.

In The Cosby Show’s pilot, Bill asks his wife “why did we have four children?”

Claire: “Because we did not want five.”

… they do have five.

So when Mr. Incredible was recruited, Mirage told him that they had something in common: according to the govt, neither of them existed. So she was apparently a super. What were her powers?