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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?

Dangar

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."

Answer: Don't disagree with the other answer, but Chip, being a small child, could have lost a baby tooth, and that was the missing piece. So, not morbid at all. (I just checked some online photos of human Chip, and he is missing a front tooth.)

raywest

Question: Why exactly was Adam Stanheight tested?

Answer: From his tape: "Up until now, you simply sat in the shadows watching others live out their lives. But what do voyeurs see when they look into the mirror? Now, I see you as a strange mix of someone angry, but apathetic. But mostly just pathetic. So are you going to watch yourself die today, Adam, or do something about it?"

Ssiscool

Answer: He's wasting his life away being a seedy voyeur who doesn't really contribute anything to himself or society at large.

TedStixon

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 gun was used in the original Tremors. When Burt returned in the damaged truck, he said he was completely out of ammo.

Question: Why did Jason tell Marie to turn her head away during the car chase in Paris?

The Root of All Evil - S4-E22

Question: When Jack finds the expensive wine that Janet bought, he says that people can only afford that wine if they are "kings, millionaires, or auto mechanics." What is the joke about auto mechanics?

Answer: Because mechanics supposedly overcharge, they are thought to be rich.

Rob245

Show generally

Question: Is it ever explained where the kids' other parent is? I remember Carol saying she and Frank both came from failed marriages, which means they weren't widows.

Answer: I could be mistaken, but when the series debuted, its premise was something along the lines of "A divorced contractor and a widowed beautician impulsively marry." If that is true, then the Foster children's father is dead. As for Frank, it could be that his wife was an unfit mother and is therefore not in her children's lives. Perhaps the writers felt addressing these issues would lead to more questions, or at the least require characters to bring up the unseen parents more in conversation, so perhaps they felt it was just better to never talk about them at all and let any discussions about them remain off-screen.

Phaneron

Question: Could the reflection of Eamon, dressed as a mummy, appearing in the room actually be accomplished with a mirror?

Question: What's the story with Chris's accent? It certainly doesn't sound Irish.

Answer: My take was that he was a social climber and had minimised his natural Irish accent for a more British one to fit in with the upper classes he was mingling with.

raywest

Question: In the fight at Walker's apartment, wouldn't the shoes worn by the guy with the taser ground him, making him immune to the shock that killed him?

Answer: Shoes do not guarantee protection from electrocution. Very thick rubber soles might be somewhat effective in certain situations, but regular shoes combined with water on the floor and being zapped with 50,000 volts would likely be lethal.

raywest

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: Is time really taken from a racer who eats before his dogs do? If so, how does this affect the racer's time?

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?

Ashley Davis

Question: How was young Anastasia never aware of the secret door in her room? You would think her family would have told her about it since secret doors were often built into castles and palaces for the safety of royal families.

Ashley Davis

Answer: There may have been some concern that young Anastasia might try to leave the palace to go exploring, could carelessly reveal the secret to someone, or sneak someone into her room. There's any number of reasons. She probably would have been told about it when she was older and more trustworthy with information.

raywest

Question: As we go through the movie, it's said she comes alive every year on the anniversary of her death. How come nobody has ever seen her in the house on that day, or am I missing something?

illusions

Question: It has to be an opium dream because - how can a suitcase remain in a locker in Grand Central or Penn Station for 35 years?

Answer: It couldn't have been left there for that long. That's movie fiction. It would have been removed after a few days, maybe a week, then likely placed in "Lost and Found" for a period of time before being discarded or sold off.

raywest

Question: Am I crazy? I remember a missing scene on the train where Danny explains that he hoped they were going to Vermont, so he bought the long underwear. It isn't there in any of the DVD versions I've seen, so Bing says, "Vermont must be beautiful, all that underwear," and it sounds weird. But I have never been able to find that scene! Does anyone else know what I'm talking about?

Question: When talking with Hershey, Snake mentions bluebacks. What did he mean by that?

Question: When they are getting ready to shave Rambo, when he's in jail, he has a flashback. In the flashback, what does the Vietnamese soldier say to him before cutting his chest?

Question: Miles and Maizy are twins, so wouldn't it be Maizy's birthday too? Why didn't she get a party, clown, gifts, etc.?

Answer: Where are you getting the idea that they're twins? Miles is a little older than Maizy.

Brian Katcher

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