Picture Day/Pat No Pay/Blackjack - S5-E13
Question: The ending of 'Blackjack' is a little confusing. Was Blackjack always tiny?
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Question: Why didn't the Mariners' boat sink? At the start of the film, he tells the drifter that the hull is busted and the hole's so big there's room to breathe. Later on, after the atoll, he states to Helen that his boat is tore up and it's taking on water. Not once do we see him pumping water out of the boat, nor do we see any water inside the boat until after the smokers burn it.
Question: At the end, Willie searches for Mickey. Did he want to make amends with Mickey, or get revenge?
Question: Elmer Fudd is arrested for destroying government property. But why were Bugs Bunny and the grizzly bear arrested and put in the same cell as him?
Question: Who is the guy with the glowing eyes? What does he have to do with the plot of the film?
Answer: This is from a flashback Toulon has to events seen in "Puppet Master II." He's the person who taught Toulon the secret to bringing life to his puppets. This scene is being used to give the audience a little reminder of what happened. (And pad the runtime a few minutes.)
Question: If Derek values his career to Susan, then why did he ask her to marry him in the first place?
Answer: Image. A good-looking man. A beautiful woman at his side. It would look good in the news.
Question: When Sidney's mother was murdered, Sidney testified about seeing Cotton leave the house in a bloody coat. Gale believed that someone else wore the coat and put it in Cotton's car, framing him. Billy and Stu were the real killers, so what did Cotton actually do that night? Drive away without noticing a blood-covered coat in the car?
Answer: I've always thought that Billy and/or Stu planted the bloody coat after Cotton had exited his car. So that is why he never noticed his bloody coat before it was found by the police.
I agree, except I think the coat never actually belonged to Cotton in the first place. It was Billy's or Stu's. Sidney saw one of them leaving the house in it (mistaking them for Cotton) and they planted it in his car later. When the police found it, he probably couldn't prove that it was not his.
Question: Bridget Fonda says to Bill Pullman that if he calls her ma'am one more time, she'll sue him and that she can do it. What laws would he have been breaking?
Answer: When I saw this, I thought that it was just a subtle Ally McBeal reference. The guy, David E. Kelley, was the one responsible for giving us the aforementioned telly show.
Question: Why do the Warners fear Baloney?
Answer: According to the Animaniacs Wikia: "Baloney is one of the few people capable of truly terrifying Yakko, Wakko and Dot, largely due to being impervious to their violently physical brand of humour and his inability to understand how much they despise him."
Question: If it was just a tumour that made him think more, how did he get telekinesis?
Answer: Yes, that's a form of ESP. When your brain cells are heightened, so is your intuition.
Answer: Certain parts of the brain, emotions, personality traits and learning abilities can be amplified with specific stimulation. It's believed that this can happen with psychic abilities: premonition, telekinesis and pyrokinesis. Ever get a "feeling" you're being followed or "know" that someone is lying to you?
You're describing intuition, not psychic abilities.
Question: Why is William Sanderson, who plays the gas station attendant in the first story, uncredited?
Answer: While I didn't find a specific reason why Sanderson was uncredited, it's not unusual for actors to do this. It can be as a favour to the director, who may be a friend. The actor may just want to be part of the project and volunteers. It can be to help keep budget costs down, as an uncredited role is paid less and avoids SAG contract issues. If it's a non-speaking role, the actor typically does not get credited. Occasionally, an actor may request to have their name removed from the credits because they think the film is bad and will hurt their reputation.
Question: What was the song playing in the scene where Kelly and her friend were washing Lombardo's Jeep?
Answer: It's "I Want What I Want" by Lauren Christy.
Question: How were the media waiting so calmly for Valentina at the end? We know Val told Mel to have the media ready to see Bob defeat the Thunderbolts, and we can accept that Val would pivot to making the Thunderbolts the heroes. But the media are calmly waiting for a press conference seconds after a supervillain covered Manhattan in darkness and sent thousands of people into a nightmare zone before returning them. There should be questions, panic and chaos, not quiet attentiveness.
Question: Is this the first movie to show a dedication to someone at the beginning instead of at the end?
Answer: Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home features a dedication to the astronauts killed in the Challenger Space Shuttle disaster, which is displayed prior to the opening credits.
Question: What exactly does Tom Bishop do in the prison in Suzhou, China in the first act of Spy Game? I mean, what are each of his and his partner's steps? So what was their plan step by step? Why is the chewing gum important?
Answer: Bishop's plan to rescue Hadley was to enter the prison posing as doctors inoculating the prisoners and guards for a cholera outbreak, faking his death by electrocution (taking a capsule to stop his heart), which also disabled the cameras, then being revived by an injection. The wrapper of the chewing gum was a map of the cells. Once he located and freed Hadley, she was placed under the gurney where his "dead" body was supposed to be, which would leave in the ambulance they arrived in. Unfortunately, the gum he gave the prisoner tipped off the warden and they were captured.
Question: During the dream sequence after the angel's wings are broken, what is the meaning behind Sam waking up in bed again, but this time with Molly? When he gets out of bed, does he keep looking back and forth between Molly and the heavenly light?
Answer: The guy has just been brutally murdered. Right in front of his fiancé. He's torn between going to heaven and staying on earth to be with, albeit dead, his beloved woman, or a near-death experience.
Question: After Ernest's funeral, why do Helen and Madeline mock the eulogy?
Answer: They still consider him a pathetic loser. They believe the only thing that counts is youth and beauty. He helped people, opened clinics, got married, had children, and grandchildren. They considered that a wasted life, especially when the priest said he achieved immortality by being remembered. They laughed at that. They believe true immortality is living forever.
Question: SPOILER: How did Oliver manage to actually end up in Saltburn? The family wouldn't have left it to him, and they did have cousins and other family who wouldn't exactly let Oliver get away with, say, faking the will.
Answer: Elspeth or Elsbeth, the character played by Rosamund Pike, left the house to him. This is the way I've read it. She signed over all of the deeds to Oliver because she was blissfully unaware that Oliver was the reason why she was dying. She had become so infatuated by him that she couldn't see him for who he really was.
Answer: 1. He's lying to the drifter so he doesn't have to explain how he was down there so long. 2. He certainly had time to fix it between the escape from the atoll and the Smoker attack.
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To fix his boat after escaping from the Atoll attack, Mariner said he needed resin.