Brian Katcher

8th Jul 2019

Stranger Things (2016)

3rd Jul 2019

Good Omens (2019)

Trivia: Throughout the series, Crowley has a drawing of the Mona Lisa hanging in his apartment. According to The Book, this was the original sketch for the painting, which he'd bought from da Vinci, who complained he was never able to replicate the smile.

Brian Katcher

16th Jun 2019

Good Omens (2019)

4th Jun 2019

Good Omens (2019)

4th Jun 2019

Good Omens (2019)

4th Jun 2019

Good Omens (2019)

4th Jun 2019

Good Omens (2019)

4th Jun 2019

Good Omens (2019)

4th Jun 2019

Good Omens (2019)

4th Apr 2019

Shrek 2 (2004)

Trivia: When Shrek and his friends flee the bar, knights are performing the 'close your eyes and touch your nose' sobriety test on the Headless Horseman.

Brian Katcher

14th Mar 2019

The Fugitive (1993)

Question: Kimble's wife suffered from severe head trauma. Wouldn't his defense attorney demand her 911 transcript be stricken, as her serious brain damage could have caused her to say anything?

Brian Katcher

Answer: His attorney could have done that, but I doubt such a strategy would have been successful, for two reasons. First, proving that she was just "saying anything" would be difficult at best, given that she wasn't just spouting random nonsense...she was speaking directly about what had happened. The prosecutor would have pointed out that she had been coherent (i.e., in control of her thoughts/speech) enough to a) dial 911, b) stay on topic, c) relay information, and d) name her killer (or so they believe). And second, given this high burden of proof, going with "this murder victim was just babbling as a result of the brain damage she suffered when she was brutally clubbed to death" probably wouldn't have gone over well with a jury.

Answer: I'd say this was a definite plot hole. Basing Kimble's guilt on a dying, brain-damaged woman's incoherent mumbling was unrealistic. His guilty verdict in real life would never have happened this way.

raywest

Trivia: Lewis' new friend, Rose Rita, is the main character in other books by John Bellairs, author of the original novel.

Brian Katcher

29th Dec 2018

Aquaman (2018)

Trivia: Arthur's father has a book by H.P. Lovecraft on his coffee table. Lovecraft often wrote about things that dwell in the depths of the sea.

Brian Katcher

Continuity mistake: When the grandfather is sleeping in the top of the bunk bed, there's a cheesecake poster on the ceiling. When Clark falls through the attic floor onto the bunk bed, it's not there.

Brian Katcher

15th Dec 2018

Dumplin' (2018)

Trivia: Julie Murphy, author of the the book "Dumplin'", makes a cameo as one of the cheering patrons at the drag bar in the last scene.

Brian Katcher

13th Nov 2018

General questions

I'm looking for a documentary on the U.S. Constitution that would have come out in the late 80s, when it had its bicentennial. It was comedic and aimed at a junior high/high school audience. I remember that Rhea Perlman and Whoopi Goldberg played waitresses at the Constitutional Convention, though their IMDB pages don't show anything. There was a clip from the 60s Batman TV show where The Penguin runs for office. There was also a sketch about fatigued soldiers in Vietnam staying awake by quizzing each other over the Constitution, and suddenly realizing that at the time, none of them were old enough to vote. Does this ring a bell for anyone?

Brian Katcher

Answer: I think this is "Funny, You Don't Look 200: A Constitutional Vaudeville." It used to be available on VHS, maybe it still is.

Super Grover

4th Jul 2018

The Truman Show (1998)

Question: Marlon mentions having been very sick and hospitalized for a long time when he was a boy. Is this supposed to be when they switched a child actor for someone who was willing to commit to the show indefinitely?

Brian Katcher

Answer: Yes and no. Yes because they could have found someone who looked remarkably similar to the child actor that played him and if he had been "sick" for a long time (depending on the illness he "had") it would have explained why he looked slightly different. No because of him being Truman's best friend. Unless the studio found an actor who did look almost identical to the child actor, Truman would have been able to figure out his best friend was a different person.

Answer: It's probably a way of giving characters a break from the show, a way of writing them off-screen for a short while.

2nd Jul 2018

Pitch Perfect 3 (2017)

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