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[DC] How did the Joker speak intelligibly during that storyline where he wore his own face as a mask?
reddit.com[Mister Ed] When Wilbur asks Ed how the latter can talk, Ed says, "Don't try. It's bigger than the both of us!" What explanation was Ed hiding?
reddit.com[ASOIAF] What animal was Syrio Forel describing when he mentioned "hairy mouse-pigs as big as cows"?
reddit.com[King of the Hill] Buck admitted to a law officer that he tried to frame Hank for murder. Even if Hank didn't press charges, how did Buck face no legal repercussions for this?
I'd love to know what argument Buck's lawyer had for this in court.
[Seinfeld] Why didn't Elaine just go to the Chinese restaurant in person and order the flounder as takeout?
She refuses to eat there in person because she views eating alone at a restaurant as something only a "loser" would do, so clearly she doesn't have a problem with actually traveling there. Why not order the food to go?
[Calvin and Hobbes] Why are Calvin's parents so unimpressed by the fact that their six-year-old son is a snow-sculpting prodigy?
Granted, his subject matter tends to be somewhat gruesome, but why reject it outright? Why not encourage him to broaden his horizons to more wholesome fare?
[Discworld] Would wizard celibacy end or become less common if an effective method of birth control was invented?
reddit.com[Marvel] How do high-church groups like the Vatican and Orthodox patriarchates view mutants?
Are they at least better than the Purifiers?
[Philadelphia Phillies] What is the evolutionary history of the Philly Phanatic's species?
His origin on the Galapagos just raises further questions.
[Veggie Tales] How would the characters feel about meat-based people like Jack the Salami and Ernie the Steak?
reddit.com[Smurfs] Where did Grandpa Smurf come from, and how did he create Papa Smurf?
reddit.com[Water for Elephants] Question about the ending
So, the elderly Jacob willingly takes off with a younger circus, leaving the nursing home he lived in behind, and the circus's manager Charlie O'Brien lying to police that Jacob is his father, who's suffered a stroke. What's Charlie going to do when Jacob eventually passes away? Have his body buried under an assumed name? Turn himself in as the abductor of a senior citizen (with only his word that it was voluntary) and ask that Jacob get a decent burial, and hope he faces minimal legal consequences for this?
[Jumanji] In the 1869 version of the game, Van Pelt was likely an Afrikaner
Assuming he existed in the game back then, I mean. The whole trope of the pith-helmeted "great white hunter" didn't emerge until the Scramble for Africa, which didn't begin until the 1880s. Therefore, in that version he was likely a heavily bearded man in a slouch hat and bandoliers rather than the khaki-wearing man we see in the film. It helps that "Van Pelt" is a Dutch surname.
[Futurama] What caused the extinction of cattle in this universe?
Tapirs and orangutans are doing just fine, but domesticated bovines aren't? What happened to cause the extinction of Bos taurus? Was Earth invaded by ETs who were like cowboys, like how Zoidberg's people caused the extinction of anchovies?
[The Simpsons] Did Cooder's plan to take over the Simpson home have any chance of long-term success?
He was an unemployed hick trying to live in a house where the utility bills were in Homer's name and it's not like he'd be able to buy much groceries. Did the whole plan with the hula hoop just shorten a scheme that probably wouldn't have lasted a month?
[The Mummy (1999)] Why was Beni so prepared for the event of meeting a supernatural foe that he'd have a bunch of religious symbols on him and prayers rehearsed?
Was Imhotep not the first ghoulish enemy he met?
[General] Are there any works of fiction where the US government is depicted as heroic for trying to capture and contain people with paranormal abilities?
reddit.com[Bill and Ted] Was "Esquire" a legit title in the Preston family?
On the surface, it seems like something Bill probably came up with to make himself seem grander, but during his scene in hell, he refers to his grandmother as "Granny S. Preston, Esquire". Was his family of upper-class British descent within the last century or two?