# Unanswered Questions from TV

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unanswered-questions-from-tv/42328>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [November 22, 2000, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unanswered-questions-from-tv/42328 "2000-11-22T18:10:05Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**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:** [September 11, 2001, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unanswered-questions-from-tv/42328/121 "2001-09-11T01:13:44Z")

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What was Vincent’s (_Beauty and tbe Beast_) origin?

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**Author:** ![xizor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xizor/32/102_2.png) [@xizor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xizor)\
**Post date:** [September 11, 2001, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unanswered-questions-from-tv/42328/122 "2001-09-11T20:57:48Z")

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> > > > > 5. Where did King Arthur get the cocoanuts? \*\*
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> > > In Mercia? The coconut’s _tropical._ Mercia’s a _temperate_ zone! \*\*
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> > The swallow may fly south with the sun or the house martin or the plover may seek warmer climes in winter, yet these are not strangers to our land? \*\*
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> Are you suggesting that cokey-nuts migrate? \*\*

Not at all, they could be carried.

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**Author:** ![dougie\_monty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@dougie\_monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougie_monty)\
**Post date:** [February 16, 2014, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unanswered-questions-from-tv/42328/123 "2014-02-16T17:52:31Z")

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> [@gadgetgirl](#):
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> Do you know ONE person who lives in New York who doesn’t lock his door except for Jerry Seinfeld? (yes, I do remember the one episode the he locked Kramer out)
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> Why didn’t Tootie get in trouble for rollerskating in the house? (Lord knows I did!)
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> What the hell were they thinking when they created Mamma’s Family?

Forgive me for replying to an ancient thread, but I misread “Tootie” as “Tootsie”! :eek::o  
I could just see Dustin Hoffman in drag rollerskating in a house… 😃

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**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\
**Post date:** [February 16, 2014, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unanswered-questions-from-tv/42328/124 "2014-02-16T18:47:35Z")

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> [@Max\_the\_Immortal](#):
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> What kind of a name is “Gilligan”, anyway?

Since this zombie has been brought back from the undead, Gilligan is an actual surname. Producer Sherwood Schwartz said he picked it at random from the L.A. phone book. He also stated that Gilligan’s first name was Willy, although he was never called that on the show.

Bob Denver had a different take on it. He thought the character’s name was Gil Egan, and reasoned that since everybody was always yelling at Gilligan, they ran the two names together so they sounded like one.

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**Author:** ![Idle\_Thoughts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/838e76/32.png) [@Idle\_Thoughts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idle_Thoughts)\
**Post date:** [February 16, 2014, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unanswered-questions-from-tv/42328/125 "2014-02-16T19:10:36Z")

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Since this topic is from 2001, I’m going to close it.

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