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Old 11-28-04 | 08:52 PM
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Shows that made no sense

I know TV is fantasy and not in anyway realistic, but there are some shows that didn't even make sense even when you take into account that 'its just a tv show'.

For example:
Benson. The guy starts out as a butler and in a few years, rises to be Lt. Governer of California? Completely implausable. (ummm... wait a sec, maybe that wasn't the best example).

The Nanny. She would've been fired after a week. What exactly did she do?

Dukes of Hazzard. What was stopping Roscoe from just go to the farm and arrest Bo and Luke after they had escaped and forced him into a bale of hay? It's not like he didn't know where they lived.

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Old 11-28-04 | 09:15 PM
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Re: Shows that made no sense

Originally posted by Derrich


Dukes of Hazzard. What was stopping Roscoe from just go to the farm and arrest Bo and Luke after they had escaped and forced him into a bale of hay? It's not like he didn't know where they lived.



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thats because they were just good ol' boys, never meanin no harm
Old 11-28-04 | 09:37 PM
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Dukes of Hazzard. What was stopping Roscoe from just go to the farm and arrest Bo and Luke after they had escaped and forced him into a bale of hay? It's not like he didn't know where they lived.
Maybe Bo and Luke were holding WMDs in their farm, and if Roscoe ever tried to start shit, Bo and Luke would blow that town to bits.
Old 11-28-04 | 09:57 PM
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Originally posted by Matthew Chmiel
Maybe Bo and Luke were holding WMDs in their farm, and if Roscoe ever tried to start shit, Bo and Luke would blow that town to bits.
Well, they DID strap sticks o' dynamite onto arrows and shoot them at outhouses and such. Darwin award contenders no doubt.
(We gotta see what dumbass behavior Johnny Knoxville brings to the table, eh?)
Old 11-28-04 | 11:17 PM
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Old 11-28-04 | 11:19 PM
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Old 11-28-04 | 11:26 PM
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Three's Company

Come on, Jack would be banging at least one of those chicks.

And was it really needed to lie about being gay to live with two women? In the '70's? In Southern California?
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Gilligan's Island: Why is it when a boat or plane is on their island, they always look for the person who owns it. If I were them, and I see a boat or plane, forget who owns it, steal it and get help!
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another gilligan's island thing
they show the boat in the opening credits and it has a hole in the side. so why not build a small square of bamboo to cover it, add some of the natural rubber that was on the island to seal it and take off in their own boat
Old 11-29-04 | 06:49 AM
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More Gilligan's Island, as if the show is supposed to make sense:

The Skipper and Gilligan actually lived on the Minnow, but were the only two that had no change of clothes.
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The Harlem Globbetrotters episode on Gilligan's Island......

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Old 11-29-04 | 07:59 AM
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Originally posted by Charlie Goose
More Gilligan's Island, as if the show is supposed to make sense:

The Skipper and Gilligan actually lived on the Minnow, but were the only two that had no change of clothes.
Did the Professor ever change clothes?
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Originally posted by mikehunt
another gilligan's island thing
they show the boat in the opening credits and it has a hole in the side. so why not build a small square of bamboo to cover it, add some of the natural rubber that was on the island to seal it and take off in their own boat
About the boat... It's been a while since I've seen it, but in one of the very first episodes, the Professor tried to fix the hole in the boat, but Gilligan messed up and the boat literally disintegrated. So after the first or second episode, there was no more boat.

As for Three's Company, wasn't it established early on that Mr. Roper was pretty conservative and would have never allowed a heterosexual male to live with 2 women in his building, hence Jack's "gay" cover story?
Old 11-29-04 | 08:49 AM
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Originally posted by sherm42
Three's Company

Come on, Jack would be banging at least one of those chicks.

And was it really needed to lie about being gay to live with two women? In the '70's? In Southern California?
Maybe is wasn't a lie like we were lead to believe......
Old 11-29-04 | 09:23 AM
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On "Friends", Rachel went from a coffee house waitress with no work experience to an executive at Ralph Lauren within five years.
Chandler went from having no advertising experience, to being an intern, to being an advertising executive in a manner of months.
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Originally posted by redskull47
As for Three's Company, wasn't it established early on that Mr. Roper was pretty conservative and would have never allowed a heterosexual male to live with 2 women in his building, hence Jack's "gay" cover story?
Wait a minute, he was so conservative he would rather have a gay man living in one of his apartments with two women?
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Plus on Three's Company...was Janet actually supposed to have been hot?!
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Although a pretty good show...I've said this before in a thread about Without A Trace.
Someone disappears for an hour and with no kidnapping or ransom demand, and not even really any signs of foul play, you get a complete team of FBI agents investigating the case on virtually a 'round the clock basis?!

Uh...I don't think so.
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ah, so there was an explanation

Originally posted by redskull47
About the boat... It's been a while since I've seen it, but in one of the very first episodes, the Professor tried to fix the hole in the boat, but Gilligan messed up and the boat literally disintegrated. So after the first or second episode, there was no more boat.

As for Three's Company, wasn't it established early on that Mr. Roper was pretty conservative and would have never allowed a heterosexual male to live with 2 women in his building, hence Jack's "gay" cover story?


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