Question: Has there been any explanation (in-show or by show creators) about the inconsistency of what attracts Walkers? They've shown that people who cover themselves in Walker guts aren't detected or attacked. When it rained, the rain washed off the guts and then the Walkers do try to attack. But if people hide under cars or don't make noises, the Walkers don't detect them. But it's also been shown that people under a pile of "dead" walkers are still attacked. So what causes a Walker to attack?
Bishop73
17th Feb 2022
The Walking Dead (2010)
Answer: Walkers use sight and sound to find their prey, with sound being their first choice. When the characters cover themselves in guts, they aren't attacking because they can't "see" them and they're not making any noise. The same goes for when they're hiding under cars - walkers can't hear or see them. They'll go for anything that makes a noise, regardless of what it is. It's also very likely that walkers don't have the ability to smell, since they can't find people hiding under cars. Nor can they smell the Whispers who walk amongst them.
17th Feb 2022
The Neighbors (2012)
Mo Purses Mo Money Mo Problems - S1-E21
Continuity mistake: When Marty grabs the puzzles from Jackie Joyner-Kersee, he has the newspaper tucked under his arm. It's still under his arm when he says maybe doing puzzles with Max is their thing, but in the next shot, the paper is in his hand. It's back under his arm in the next shot.
17th Feb 2022
The Neighbors (2012)
Continuity mistake: When Larry Bird hands Marty the pie, Marty takes it with one hand and then grabs it with his other hand. In the next shot, the pie is no longer in his hands and he's seen grabbing it with both hands at once.
17th Feb 2022
Family Guy (1999)
Mister Act - S20-E11
Trivia: When Peter first breaks out into a solo, the song he's parodying is "Tragedy" by the Bee Gees. Barry Gibbs was notorious for singing in a high voice (falsetto). At the end, during the tribute to rarely used exercise equipment, an instrumental version of "Tragedy" is played.
17th Feb 2022
Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987)
Trivia: Starting in season 4, the number "47" appears in the dialog of several episodes (from station numbers to codes to percentages). This comes from one of the executive story editor and writer, Joe Manosky (who joined TNG in season 4). Manosky was in a club during college called "The 47 Society" and the number was written in as an inside joke. It carried its way through Voyager, DS9, and films. Writer and producer, Rick Berman, once joked "47 is 42 corrected for inflation."
7th Feb 2022
The Walking Dead (2010)
Continuity mistake: When Carl gets shot, and we see him in the ground, not only does the blood spot on his short change in the next shot of him on the ground, but he's in a completely different shirt. It's still a cameo shirt, but the cameo pattern is different.
3rd Feb 2022
General questions
I feel like this might be an Eddie Murphy movie, but an adult (Murphy?) for some reason is trying to bribe a kid (maybe to be quiet about something) with a coupon for a scone. The kid's reply is something like "a scone? What do I look like, the queen of England?" When I search for the quote, all I get is pictures of the queen and scone recipes.
Answer: The movie you're looking for is "Imagine That", which has got Eddie Murphy in it. The quote in question is present in the trailer for the movie https://youtu.be/s2kYKjwsmS8.
Thank you for that.
31st Jan 2022
Ozark (2017)
Continuity mistake: When Mason throws the money at Marty's car, some bills are on the roof. Later there're no bills on the roof, but then in the next shot of the roof, there's a bill back on it.
30th Jan 2022
Ozark (2017)
Ruling Days - S1-E5
Question: Jacob says "as long as we distribute (the heroin) on the water, the cops can't touch us." What does he mean by this? Is he saying they have an agreement with the Sheriff or cops they won't interfere with him on the water? Or is just saying there's not enough cops patrolling the water to catch them? If it's the latter it seems like a poor choice of words since the cops could "touch" them.
18th Jan 2022
General questions
Is there a reason a weekly TV series wouldn't name their episodes? I can understand a soap opera that's on 5+ days a week for decades not wanting to name thousands of episodes, but some shows just list the episode number or use a #1.1 pattern. For example, I'm rewatching "Dark Matter" and each episode in season 1 is just the episode number while season 2 and 3 the episodes have names.
Answer: As for "Dark Matter," it was probably just a creative decision that they decided to change along the way. A majority of shows do have titles for episodes (whether or not the episode titles are ever onscreen... sometimes they are, sometimes they aren't), but I have seen a few that nebulously just have titles like "Chapter One/Two/Three/Etc." or similar things. Perhaps it's an attempt to keep storylines hidden, especially now when people over-analyze and over-scrutinize everything online? Maybe the creators simply feel it's more ominous to not have descriptive titles? Maybe if the show tells a singular concise storyline, simply listing the episode number is more appropriate since it's all one story? Etc. It really could be any number of things. It's just one of the many creative decisions that goes into making a show.
18th Jan 2022
Eternals (2021)
Trivia: When Kingo doesn't want to leave because he's making a trilogy, he says they just got BTS to do a cameo. This is a reference to the South Korean boy band, BTS. Their song "Friends" is also featured in the next scene. The line made have been added in because there was a scene cut in Marvel's series "The Falcon and the Winter Soldier" where actor Danny Ramirez ad libbed the line "I wish we were all more like the boy band BTS." Fans reacted by asking Marvel to release the BTS cut scene.
13th Jan 2022
Home Alone (1990)
Trivia: In the IO Interactive video game "Hitman", there's a side bonus mission called "Holiday Hoarders" where your mission is to take out two thieves named Harry and Marv. In the intel, both men are from Chicago and after several break-ins that went wrong, the two flee to Paris. Harry is said to have a history of breaking into mansions with security equipment way beyond his capabilities to overcome.
13th Jan 2022
Workaholics (2011)
Hungry Like the Wolf Dog - S3-E18
Revealing mistake: When Jillian throws the keg, you can see a rope attached to the keg pulling it after she spins.
13th Jan 2022
The Matrix Reloaded (2003)
Question: Minor question, when Trinity and the Keymaker steal the bike, there's a shot of the driver and in the back of his cab is a picture of what looks like a model. Who is she? It seems someone from the art department or set decorator put thought into putting up the picture in the first place, so it seems there might be some significance or inside reference. But it's also seen so briefly I could believe it's just random too.
Answer: Personally I think it's not meant to be significant in any way. A lot of truck drivers have pictures of models in their cabin I'd expect, just added for the stereotype. I don't know who the model is though. BTW, this is a scene from Matrix Reloaded.
13th Jan 2022
Idiotsitter (2014)
Trivia: In the show, Jennifer Cox plays "Tanzy", the wife of Ken Russell. Tanzy is also the name of Jillian Bell's (the show's co-creator) mother in real life.
13th Jan 2022
Brickleberry (2012)
Trivia: The scene showing Connie training to be a Navy Seal and being caught with a Thanksgiving dinner by Kirk comes from the scene in "Full Metal Jacket" where the drill sergeant finds a jelly donut in Pvt. Pyle's footlocker, including the line about eating it because they paid for it.
12th Jan 2022
Iron Man 2 (2010)
Trivia: Not sure if it was done on purpose, but when Tony and Happy are sparring and "Natalie" (Natasha) walks in, the song playing is "Magnificent Seven" by The Clash. It just so happens the Avengers (or the Avengers Initiative) are made up of Iron Man, Black Widow, Hulk, Thor, Captain America,, Hawkeye, and Black Panther.
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Suggested correction: I don't really think this constitutes trivia. I don't see the connection. Is there some significance to the lyrics I'm not realizing? Or are you suggesting that there are only seven Avengers in the MCU? Because if so, that's not really true at all. (It's not even true in the Avengers comics, which frequently shifts characters around.) Especially as when this film came out, Black Panther wouldn't be introduced for another six years. Plus that completely ignores characters like Ant-Man, Wasp, Doctor Strange, the Guardians of the Galaxy, Scarlet Witch, War Machine, Falcon, Vision, Captain Marvel and Spider-Man, who join the team at various points during the franchise. I think this trivia is stretching at best, and trying to create significance where there is none.
Which is why I wasn't sure if it was done one purpose, or if it seems significant. However, when Fury and Tony are talking at the end and you see markers on the map, there's one in Africa where Wakanda is, suggesting Black Panther was part of the Avengers Initiative, whereas the others weren't.
12th Jan 2022
Iron Man 2 (2010)
Continuity mistake: After Tony puts the shield under the tube and takes the level off, there's nothing on the ring around the tube. But in the next shot facing Tony, there's an object that looks like ball bearing sitting on it.
12th Jan 2022
Iron Man 2 (2010)
Continuity mistake: When Tony is at the party and shooting things, he shoots the watermelon from his chest RT. We see the watermelon explode and the beam dissipate. The next shot is the watermelon raining down. Then the next shot is of Tony and the beam still coming out of his chest, but he never fired twice.
10th Jan 2022
Doctor Strange (2016)
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Answer: Walkers are attracted to noise, they can tell who's dead and who isn't dead, in S1 when Rick and Glenn cover themselves in walkers' guts they're able to get far by walking through the herd of walkers because they smell like they're dead, but as soon as the guts get washed off by the rain the walkers immediately attack them, if you draw attention to yourself they will attack you which we've seen that many times throughout the series that it's not always successful. Whether you're covered in guts hiding under dead corpses or under a car.