Question: What did Danny DeVito eat instead of a raw fish during the scene where Shreck pushes the Penguin to run for mayor?
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Question: Did Crispin Glover audition for the role of Marty before being cast as George?
Answer: According to online sources, he did not. Glover was only considered for the role of George McFly. Michael J. Fox was always the first choice, but other actors did audition. Eric Stoltz was cast as Marty when Fox was unavailable due to his TV show commitment. Stoltz was later fired, and Fox was able to take over the role.
Question: Do they ever say what Francis did to get sent to military school?
Question: Although it's not officially stated or mentioned, the movie definitely takes place in Hollywood, Los Angeles. During the time-lapse sequence of Elizabeth's Walk of Fame star, there's a wintery part with snow covering the walkway. Is it realistic to depict snow in Southwest California, especially in LA?
Question: Why does Jane Kaczmarek's name come first in the credits instead of Frankie Muniz, who plays the title character?
Question: Why don't Anne and her parents stay at the Gullah camp with the rest of Martin's family? Yes, Tavington and the British don't know that she has married into his family, but wouldn't staying there be the best bet for their safety?
Answer: Presumably, Mr Howard has a business or plantation to run. As well, it would be suspicious for all of them to disappear like that. It could also leave their house open to looting.
Question: When the church is being burned, Tavington tells Wilkins that "the honour is found in the end, not the means." What did he mean by this?
Answer: Crucially, he also immediately follows this by saying, "This will be forgotten." You could read it as a sort of variation of the phrase "The ends justify the means," which basically means that bad actions can be excused if the result is a net positive. Tavington is basically just trying to defend and excuse his abhorrent war crimes under the pretext that winning the war will be worth it.
Question: Why would the New Year's Eve special at the end of the movie allow naked women to be viewed by the audience and on public television without censorship? Also, why would a mother allow her young daughter in the audience (the little girl in the blue dress) to see these naked women on stage?
Answer: The film is depicted in a very fantastical and even "cartoonish" way. It doesn't really take place in "our world" so much as a sort of twisted "fairy-tale" version of it. If you notice, everything is very heightened and extreme. The film explores themes like the impact of aging, beauty standards, and the way women are mistreated and exploited by the industry. So you shouldn't be asking why these things are literally happening, but rather why they're thematically happening. The New Year's Eve special broadcasting nude women builds off the themes; it's more exploitation the film has been analysing. In this "world," it's just accepted. As for the little girl? I took that as a satirical statement on how normalized the mistreatment and exploitation of women in the industry is. It's so normalized that a little girl is idolising it, and her mother is allowing her to see it.
Question: Why does Smokey have a grudge against house cats?
Answer: Why? Because he's so annoyed with them and hates Stuart Little.
It's a general question. Smokey hated house cats even before Stuart entered the picture.
Question: What's the story with Chris's accent? It certainly doesn't sound Irish.
Question: How come Justine never tells Phil, apparently, about Bubba blackmailing her to have sex with him? Phil found out that she had an affair anyway, so Bubba can no longer threaten her.
Answer: I think she wanted to put the whole situation behind her. When Phil asked if she cheated with the security guard from work, she let him believe it. She was able to convince him that the baby was definitely his, not the guard's. Telling him about Bubba would only make the situation worse. Also, Bubba had seen her with Holden, so he could try and convince Phil that she was lying about the security guard. It would create a bigger mess. She decided to accept her life as it was.
Question: In many episodes, why does Colonel Klink claim that nobody has ever escaped from Stalag 13, considering that many people actually have? Even in the pilot episode, a soldier managed to escape from Stalag 13.
Answer: Not from any of the prisoners. Only the ones Hogan smuggled in and out of the camp. Under Klink's nose.
What about when Hogan or one of his team is caught outside of Stalag 13? There were many episodes where Burkhalter, Klink, or even Hochstetter were surprised to see Hogan or one of his friends out in public instead of the Stalag.
They are always back in camp by the end of the episode, so it doesn't count as a successful escape.
Klink's boast was, invariably, "There has never been a successful escape from Stalag 13," meaning prisoners who escaped but were recaptured and returned to the stalag do not count as escapees.
What about the prisoner who escaped in the pilot episode? Doesn't that count as a successful escape?
Question: When Sully is in the phone booth, he fires his gun once as Matrix comes up to the phone booth. When Matrix starts to grab the booth, why wouldn't Sully keep shooting at him?
Answer: He grabbed the phone booth and started to shake it. Sully stumbled and fumbled, losing his balance, especially after Arnold threw it over his shoulders.
Question: A bit morbid one, but there's a broken off - therefore missing - piece of Chip's teacup "body." Shouldn't he miss that part from his human body as well when the curse is gone?
Answer: Not necessarily. There's no indication in the film that every part, feature, or molecule of their furniture bodies is equivalent to one on their human bodies. When they're changed back to their human form, they don't need to "match."
Question: Military personnel at NEADS twice describe American Airlines Flight 11 as a Boeing 757, despite the fact that it was actually a 767. Is this a mistake made by the film or was this miscommunication that occurred in real life? (00:23:09 - 00:24:58)
Answer: Real life.
Question: How can the stout Prof Pyg place all those bodies without being noticed, and why does he do this? Why not just throw them into the nearby ocean?
Answer: He might have used his disguised dollotrons to place the bodies or simply disguised himself when sneaking out. As Gotham is in a criminal turmoil and most of the streets are dark and empty, it wouldn't be that hard to move around in the shady alleys unnoticed. And why did he do this? Simply because he's insane. An obsessed, maniac psycho-and sociopath, also schizophrenic beyond saving. Placing the bodies on display like that is part of his "artwork," presumably showing the world how imperfect those ones were in his eyes.
Question: Whilst atop the oil towers, Grady asks Burt if he's sure he doesn't have any more bullets. When they blow the Shrieker off the top of the blue Volvo, it's evident they have quite a few bullets left for the elephant guns. I get that they're slow at reloading and they'd be dinner if they tried to take them all on at once. But why not have someone sneak into the office, grab the guns, and go back to the oil towers, then pick them off one by one?
Answer: The elephant guns weren't in the office; they were in the back of Burt's truck, where they placed them right before they lifted the captured monster. Given that the truck was in the garage and the garage was the location from where the majority of the monsters came, it was unlikely they'd have been able to get to the guns.
Answer: The elephant gun was used in the original Tremors. When Burt returned in the damaged truck, he said he was completely out of ammo.
Question: When Gondorf produces four Jacks as the winning poker hand, how does he know four Jacks will be good enough to win? The most likely way he can produce the four Jacks is that he has that hand hidden somewhere and can get to it anytime he needs it. Wouldn't it have been smarter to have four Kings or four Aces or a straight flush available?
Answer: He knows (from intelligence gathered by JJ) that Lonnegan's go-to cheat is to stack a deck to give himself (Lonnegan) four nines and his opponent four threes. Therefore, he knows that giving himself four jacks will beat it.
Question: Why didn't Yogurt just tell Lone Starr the meaning of his medallion earlier?
Answer: He tells Lone Starr he can only know what it means at the "proper time." Which, of course, ends up being right before the ending, conveniently at just the right moment for him to be able to marry the princess. It's a borderline meta-joke; he finally is told what it means, but only when it's super convenient for the plot. It's kind of poking fun at the idea of tropes and clichés like this, where a last-minute revelation saves the day.
Answer: He was actually eating raw fish.
Do you have a source for that? It seems unlikely.
Danny DeVito has stated in interviews that he ate fresh real bluefish (think of it like bluefish sashimi minus the soy sauce, wasabi, and ponzu).
Super Grover ★
Why would you think it seems unlikely? Lots of people eat raw fish. As long as it's treated properly to kill off bacteria (usually by flash-freezing it), it's perfectly safe. Heck, I even eat raw fish all the time. You just have to make sure it's sashimi-grade. Getting some raw bluefish seems cheaper and faster than going through a whole hullabaloo making a fake prop and concoction for the scene.
TedStixon