Question: Did Mini really sleep with the game show contestant or not? He acts like she is making it up, but if she is, then why does she want Martin to watch the show and believe it?
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Question: As I understand, Beetlejuice would come back to life if he successfully married Lydia. So why don't more deceased people marry a living person and come back? The handbook says that most of the living won't see the dead, not all.
Answer: As you said, most living humans could not see or communicate with the dead. This appears to be a requirement for the deceased to return to the living world. Lydia had the rare ability to see and speak to the dead. Also, many departed souls may not want to return to the living world.
Question: Why are there a lot of recent internet jokes about Padmé being twice Anakin's age or them having a huge age difference? I thought she was only five or six years older. Of course, age 14-15 is a lot different than being 9-10, but they don't even see each other for another 10 years before they get married.
Answer: While their age difference was a minor consideration, fans had issues with other factors. Padmé was a sophisticated, high-born individual who served as queen and senator and was far more mature, educated, and worldly than Anakin, a former slave. Even ten years later, Anakin, barely beyond his teens, was emotionally immature, somewhat reckless, impulsive, self-centered, and often demonstrated poor judgement. He had little real-world experience, being constantly constrained by Obi-Wan. Plot-wise, Padmé's eventual attraction seemed forced, illogical, and unrealistic given their differences in age, temperament, maturity, and status.
Good points. Five or six years is not an age difference (if both people are legal adults), in my opinion, but Anakin could seem "younger," considering that Jedi don't have "normal" lives.
Question: Joker says he "drew" fire watch. Do they draw for it, and he was the unlucky one, or is it on a rota and "drew it" is just his way of wording that it was his turn?
Answer: He's saying it was his turn, and it happened to fall on the last night of boot camp.
Question: Joker says he drew fire watch. What is fire watch? I assume it's that someone has to be on guard in case they come under fire, but I don't think that would happen at boot camp (which I get is an ironic thing to say given what happens a few minutes later in that scene!).
Answer: Fire watch is just an informal term for sentry duty (to stand watch). I think it is derived from the fact that he will be the only one awake, so he is the only one to warn if there is indeed a fire, even though that's not the main duty. But that's just a guess.
Answer: Would add that the term "fire watch" has a long-time origin and several meanings. A fire watch is someone responsible for observing hot work activity to spot any fires during work operations. It applied to watching for and reporting forest fires during the summer. Also, "signal" fires were once a communication or warning system over long distances that assigned watchers continuously monitored. In the Army, a "fire watch" refers to a security duty assigned to soldiers, particularly during basic training, to monitor the barracks, especially at night. The colloquial phrase, "putting out fires," has come to mean dealing with problems as they occur.
Question: What is the reference from Joker regarding John Wayne at the start of the movie? Was it related to what Gny Hartman was saying?
Answer: It was directly related to Gny. Sgt. Hartman. Joker was imitating John Wayne to mock Hartman for his over-the-top behaviour when addressing the recruits. He's implying that Hartman was acting like he was Wayne, a famous movie star known for playing tough, "gung ho" military heroes.
Question: When Chucky and Andy are in the police station after Chucky kills his ex-partner Eddie, Andy tries to get Chucky to talk to the police. Then, Andy runs over to his mum and says, "He told me never to tell about him or he'd kill me!" When did Chucky say this?
Answer: In those private moments, when they were alone. At night, when Andy was talking to his "imaginary" friend.
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Question: About 5 minutes into this episode, Andy is sitting on the couch with a newspaper in his hand. It's folded and at the top banner of the paper, you can see "Airy." If the newspaper was fully in view, could the full banner reveal "Mt. Airy," as in Andy's real hometown of Mt. Airy, NC?
Question: We're Barnaby, Stannie Dum, and Ollie Dee based on actual nursery rhymes, or were they made up for the movie?
Answer: Stan and Ollie were based on Tweedle Dum and Tweedle Dee. I believe the character of Barnaby was created for the movie.
Question: Early in the movie, Jack Warden says he has tickets for the Yankees-Twins game. The Minnesota Twins didn't come into the league until the early '60s. Why the deliberate error?
Answer: He doesn't say Yankees-Twins; he says Yankee-Cleveland.
Question: Elisabeth is a rich and famous TV celebrity and former Oscar-winning actress. How come she has to live in an apartment with a such working-class-looking lowlife creep like Oliver? Why does she even have neighbours? She must be a millionaire at a minimum.
Answer: There's a false belief that an Oscar winner automatically becomes a megastar, raking in millions and getting many movie offers. That's true for some, particularly established actors, but many find that their careers did not significantly improve and even diminished. Unfortunately, Oscar awards can be less about acting ability and more about Hollywood political wrangling, a popularity choice, a PC vote, personal bias, or a sympathy win. Some believe in an "Oscar Curse," where winning actually hurts an actor's career.
Answer: M.C. Hammer amassed a multi-million dollar fortune, but within ten years he lost it all. She believed in her own hype. She believed she was on top forever. By the end of the 1980s, the whole fitness craze went the way of the dinosaur.
Answer: In addition to the other answers, it should also be reaffirmed that the movie isn't meant to be 100% realistic. It's purposely written to be very hyperbolic, cartoonish and almost like a "dark fairy tale." And one of the themes is the predatory way women in the entertainment industry (and the world at large) are treated. Even someone as famous as she being forced to stay in an apartment with a creepy, leering neighbour contributes to that theme… she can't escape predation, even at home. (I think it should also be noted that her apartment is fairly large and luxurious, especially for an expensive city like LA. The rent in a place like that is probably about 5X what I'd pay to rent an entire house in my city. So it's not like she has no money.)
Question: In the episode "Demon", it was discovered that the silver blood was capable of mimicking biomatter. How is it in this episode that the silver blood was able to mimic Voyager and all the technology it had?
Answer: A 3D printer can make an exact copy of a working gun. But it can only be used temporarily as it would come apart. The same thing applies to Voyager. It was duplicated but was not structurally sound. That's why it came apart.
Except that Voyager wasn't made out of biomatter, so replicating it should be impossible.
Question: Am I wrong? Didn't Sara write her name and number on the $5 bill and buy mints with it at the newsstand? Then, when she was on the airplane and saw the $5 bill again, it had Johnathan's name on it?
Answer: Jonathan was the one who wrote his name and number on the $5 bill Sara used to buy the mints and then got back later on the plane. Sara actually wrote her name and number in the front of a book she had on her, which she then sold to a bookseller, and Jonathan's fiancée bought it as a wedding gift for him, not realising that it happened to be the same copy Sara had written her details in.
Question: In the Apollo vs Drago fight, is the arena set up so that the crowd only surrounds the ring on three sides? I've always gotten this impression, but it's hard to tell for certain when watching the movie. They never really give a good enough angle.
Answer: Yes, because the golden bull's head of which Apollo descended upon would have obstructed the view from people sitting behind it.
Question: What exactly does Richard die from? In a matter of seconds, he goes from running full-speed and screaming for help, only to suddenly fall over dead once he reaches Elliot. If it was from internal injuries, wouldn't it take longer for him to succumb to them, especially with how mobile he was shown to be?
Answer: Seconds after he drops dead, an ape comes from where he'd been running from and throws a human brain at the living humans. This is Richard's brain, torn from his head. In the context of the film and employing a (fair) bit of suspension of disbelief, he must have had enough brain stem (where reflexes are governed) left to run and scream a bit before dropping dead. In reality, of course, this is an extremely unlikely if not impossible scenario, invented by the screenwriter for the purposes of a gruesome death. Perhaps inspired by stories like Mike the Headless Chicken, an animal which survived for months after having most of its head/brain chopped off.
Question: What does the journalist say to the Native Americans to make them stand down? To them, it appeared half a dozen white men had desecrated graves, yet they backed off quickly after he said something to them. What was it?
Answer: I'm not 100% sure, but I think it was, "We come in peace! We are hunting the men that did this!"
Question: Why does the hospital administrator grill Claire about "unethically" bringing the 5 blood-drained patients into the hospital? Isn't it literally the job of healthcare workers to administer care to people in dire need of it? They later mention she didn't check in the patients, but that sounds more like a procedural issue and not an ethical one.
Question: How did Art the Clown, who is after the costume designer, show up on the roadside with the sign "Circus" when he is a mile away from the gas station? Did he run really that fast?
Answer: Human beings are known for being able to cover ground. In this case, a mile. With relative ease and in no time at all. Plus, Art wasn't human, so maybe it was some form of demon transport.
Answer: Maybe the marriage requirement is for Beetlejuice in particular, just like him being released when someone says his name three times.