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* Why is Franny so very moved when her son tells her that his new friend Lewis is an orphan? Because she's married to one, and personally knows from his example that it's a rough way to start out in life.
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* Why is Franny so very moved when her son tells her that his new friend Lewis is an orphan? Because she's married to a former one, and personally knows from his example that it's a rough way to start out in life.
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* When Lewis is first explaining his project to the judges, Dr. Krunkelhorn says, "Wrap him up, I'll take two," as a joke. But it also hints that: 1. Lucille had already taken a shine to her future son before the invention worked, because Lewis's adoption was never about him being successful but about finding the right couple and getting out of his own way, and, 2. At the end of the movie, there ''are'' two Lewises.
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* When Lewis is first explaining his project to the judges, Dr. Krunkelhorn says, "Wrap him up, I'll take two," as a joke. But it also hints that: 1. Lucille had already taken a shine to her future son before the invention worked, because Lewis's adoption was never about him being successful but about finding the right couple and getting out of his own way, and, 2. At the end of the movie, there ''are'' ''are'', briefly, two Lewises.
Lewises -- the child and adult versions.
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* When Lewis is first explaining his project to the judges, Dr. Krunkelhorn says, "Wrap him up, I'll take two," as a joke. But it also hints that: 1. Lucille had already taken a shine to her future son before the invention worked, because Lewis's adoption was never about him being successful but about finding the right couple and getting out of his own way, and, 2. At the end of the movie, there ''are'' two Lewises.
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* Lewis' adoptive parents being scientists makes sense in terms of family matching, but it also helps preserve the twist. When we're introduced to Lewis' future adoptive mother, she's going by the name Dr. Krunkelhorn. Presumably, "Krunkelhorn" is her maiden name and "Robinson" is her married name. People who write academic papers often don't change their names when they get married to minimize confusion, so the fact that Bud and Lucille lean towards academic provides another way of hiding that they're Lewis' future parents.
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** Sort of a Fridge Heartwarming as well, but the frogs have miniature clothes, instruments, and their own tiny frog bar complete with a specially-designed fly vending machine. Cornelius created all sorts of amenities specifically to make Franny's frogs feel at home in the Robinson's house.
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** Sort of a Fridge Heartwarming as well, but the frogs have miniature clothes, instruments, and their own tiny frog bar complete with a specially-designed fly vending machine. Cornelius created all sorts of amenities specifically to make Franny's frogs feel at home in the Robinson's Robinsons' house.
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*** The short "Pet Project" ends with Bowler Hat Guy still around, in the first version, he's in an insane asylum and in the other version, he's telling the story to the Robinsons who decide to bring him into the family...and give him the duty of taking care of Tiny the T-Rex and his '''enormous''' litter box!
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* The fact that all that's left of the very first time machine is a single nut is kind of unnerving considering that this implies that the rest of the machine was either so damaged it wasn't safe to keep around or ''outright got vaporized into nothingness''.
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* The fact that all that's left of the very first time machine is a single nut is kind of unnerving considering that this implies that the rest of the machine was either so damaged it wasn't safe to keep around or ''outright got vaporized into nothingness''.nothingness''.
* There's a darker message underlying that last thing (?) that Goob[=/=]Bowler Hat Guy writes: he doesn't know what to do with his life, because he has ''nothing''. He has no loved ones to fall back on, no career prospects, and no chance to really start over because he's spent years fuming over petty revenge. If Lewis hadn't gone back in time, the poor guy's prospects would've been pretty bleak.
* There's a darker message underlying that last thing (?) that Goob[=/=]Bowler Hat Guy writes: he doesn't know what to do with his life, because he has ''nothing''. He has no loved ones to fall back on, no career prospects, and no chance to really start over because he's spent years fuming over petty revenge. If Lewis hadn't gone back in time, the poor guy's prospects would've been pretty bleak.
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* Franny tells Lewis that she is "always right", and Cornelius advises him to "go with it". Later, [[spoiler: when Lewis meets the younger Franny, he gains her affection by telling her that she's right about her hobby of teaching frogs music. The older Lewis/Cornelius and Franny probably remembered that moment.]]
* Wilbur claims his dad looks like Tom Selleck. [[spoiler: Maybe he's aware that [[ActorAllusion he sounds like him]], and that's what first came to his mind when Lewis asked.]] And why does Lewis ask what Wilbur's dad looks like in the first place? It wasn't just LeaningOnTheFourthWall; he's a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_thinking visual thinker.]]
* Wilbur doesn't look like a kid from the future and Lewis has some trouble believing him. When they go to the future, Wilbur puts a hat on Louis so no one will recognize him as a kid from the past. Why would his family think that he looks like a kid from the past if people in the past couldn't recognize a kid from the future? [[spoiler: They wouldn't recognize any kid from the past, only Cornelius because of his AnimeHair that he still has.]]
* Bowler Hat Guy's decision to use a dinosaur to grab Lewis makes more sense when you remember that [[spoiler: young Goob's baseball team was the ''Dinos''. If he had succeeded, it would have been poetic justice to take his revenge using a dinosaur]].
* Wilbur claims his dad looks like Tom Selleck. [[spoiler: Maybe he's aware that [[ActorAllusion he sounds like him]], and that's what first came to his mind when Lewis asked.]] And why does Lewis ask what Wilbur's dad looks like in the first place? It wasn't just LeaningOnTheFourthWall; he's a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_thinking visual thinker.]]
* Wilbur doesn't look like a kid from the future and Lewis has some trouble believing him. When they go to the future, Wilbur puts a hat on Louis so no one will recognize him as a kid from the past. Why would his family think that he looks like a kid from the past if people in the past couldn't recognize a kid from the future? [[spoiler: They wouldn't recognize any kid from the past, only Cornelius because of his AnimeHair that he still has.]]
* Bowler Hat Guy's decision to use a dinosaur to grab Lewis makes more sense when you remember that [[spoiler: young Goob's baseball team was the ''Dinos''. If he had succeeded, it would have been poetic justice to take his revenge using a dinosaur]].
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* Franny tells Lewis that she is "always right", and Cornelius advises him to "go with it". Later, [[spoiler: when Lewis meets the younger Franny, he gains her affection by telling her that she's right about her hobby of teaching frogs music. The older Lewis/Cornelius and Franny probably remembered that moment.]]
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* Wilbur claims his dad looks like Tom Selleck.[[spoiler: Maybe he's aware that [[ActorAllusion he sounds like him]], and that's what first came to his mind when Lewis asked.]] asked. And why does Lewis ask what Wilbur's dad looks like in the first place? It wasn't just LeaningOnTheFourthWall; he's a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_thinking visual thinker.]]
* Wilbur doesn't look like a kid from the future and Lewis has some trouble believing him. When they go to the future, Wilbur puts a hat on Louis so no one will recognize him as a kid from the past. Why would his family think that he looks like a kid from the past if people in the past couldn't recognize a kid from the future?[[spoiler: They wouldn't recognize any kid from the past, only Cornelius because of his AnimeHair that he still has.]]
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* Bowler Hat Guy's decision to use a dinosaur to grab Lewis makes more sense when you remember that[[spoiler: young Goob's baseball team was the ''Dinos''. If he had succeeded, it would have been poetic justice to take his revenge using a dinosaur]].
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* Wilbur claims his dad looks like Tom Selleck.
* Wilbur doesn't look like a kid from the future and Lewis has some trouble believing him. When they go to the future, Wilbur puts a hat on Louis so no one will recognize him as a kid from the past. Why would his family think that he looks like a kid from the past if people in the past couldn't recognize a kid from the future?
* Bowler Hat Guy's decision to use a dinosaur to grab Lewis makes more sense when you remember that
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* Apparently in the {{Bad Future}}, Doris did something to [[spoiler: Goob]] after taking over. After a little while, the brain machine POWERS OFF like static. Who knows if the brain was just attached to the machine after Doris [[spoiler: KILLED Goob]]?
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* Apparently in the {{Bad Future}}, Doris did something to [[spoiler: Goob]] Goob after taking over. After a little while, the brain machine POWERS OFF like static. Who knows if the brain was just attached to the machine after Doris [[spoiler: KILLED Goob]]?Goob?
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* There was a deleted scene [[spoiler:in which Lewis takes Bowler Hat Guy back to the past with him to give him the chance to wake a younger Goob up in time to catch the ball, an offer he accepts with heartfelt thanks as he disappears from existence]]. Compare that to what actually happened in the movie, [[spoiler:in which a nervous Bowler Hat Guy disappears leaving his trademark list behind, the final item being a question mark. Lewis later goes back to the past alone, and wakes Goob up himself, thusly flinging Bowler Hat Guy headlong into nonexistence. [[BrokenAesop Keep Moving Forward!]] ]]
** Actually he's probably [[spoiler: happy somewhere, maybe playing baseball. He didn't erase him from existence unless Goob died between then and then.]]
*** [[spoiler: To explain, the Bowler Hat Guy was necessarily erased in that he no longer exists. Because Goob woke up, caught the ball, and won the game, chances are that his life is going to go into a different direction. The Bowler Hat Guy still exists, only he's not the Bowler Hat Guy, he's just an adult Goob who'll have probably had a better life.]]
** Actually he's probably [[spoiler: happy somewhere, maybe playing baseball. He didn't erase him from existence unless Goob died between then and then.]]
*** [[spoiler: To explain, the Bowler Hat Guy was necessarily erased in that he no longer exists. Because Goob woke up, caught the ball, and won the game, chances are that his life is going to go into a different direction. The Bowler Hat Guy still exists, only he's not the Bowler Hat Guy, he's just an adult Goob who'll have probably had a better life.]]
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* There was a deleted scene [[spoiler:in in which Lewis takes Bowler Hat Guy back to the past with him to give him the chance to wake a younger Goob up in time to catch the ball, an offer he accepts with heartfelt thanks as he disappears from existence]]. existence. Compare that to what actually happened in the movie, [[spoiler:in in which a nervous Bowler Hat Guy disappears leaving his trademark list behind, the final item being a question mark. Lewis later goes back to the past alone, and wakes Goob up himself, thusly flinging Bowler Hat Guy headlong into nonexistence. [[BrokenAesop Keep Moving Forward!]] ]]
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** Actually he's probably[[spoiler: happy somewhere, maybe playing baseball. He didn't erase him from existence unless Goob died between then and then.]]
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***[[spoiler: To explain, the Bowler Hat Guy was necessarily erased in that he no longer exists. Because Goob woke up, caught the ball, and won the game, chances are that his life is going to go into a different direction. The Bowler Hat Guy still exists, only he's not the Bowler Hat Guy, he's just an adult Goob who'll have probably had a better life.]]
** Actually he's probably
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* The fact that all that's left of the very first time machine is a single nut is kind of unnerving considering that this implies that the rest of the machine was either so damaged it wasn't safe to keep around or ''outright got vaporized into nothingness''.
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* Wilbur had a ''time machine''. What was stopping him from just going back in time to the moment that he left the garage door open and closing it?
** I'd like to think it was because Goob's future needed to be saved and fate made sure it was.
** Alternatively, Bowler Hat Guy isn't the only person who doesn't think things through.
** Could have been a paradox. If he went back in time to close the door, why would he need to go back in time in the new timeline?
** Or ripple immunity. Even if he closes the door now, Bowler Hat Guy has already traveled backward in time, so he still needs to undo any damage he does.
* When Wilbur is roped into helping young Franny into gathering her frogs up, he is obviously annoyed with her, even pulling a NotNowKiddo...[[LittleMissBadass or rather]] [[IKnowKungFu trying to]]. However when we see Wilbur next to the adult Franny, it becomes clear that [[GenerationXerox he looks]] [[DistaffCounterpart like a male version of her]]. Why did he not realize that the girl he was helping looked a lot like his mom?...to say nothing of her having a bunch of ''frogs'' and the fact that he was there in the first place to find the younger version of ''his dad''.
** The same reason you have no idea where (insert item here) is until seeing it for the third time when looking, and change blindness. The former is because you forget certain things when you do them by muscle memory, and the latter is because if it's similar enough to what you remember, your brain ignores it. His brain was on "power-saver" and he was focused on the task "Find Dad".
** Either that, or he does know who she is but decides to ignore her since he was there to find Lewis/Cornelius.
** [[https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/disney/images/2/21/Crazy.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20190314034141 Young Franny]] looks much different from her adult self--no cowlick, for one, and her voice is obviously completely different. Both Wilbur and his mom have oval faces, but young Franny has a very round face (accentuated by her side pigtails). In short, there was nothing that could tip off Wilbur to the fact that the girl was his mom, especially while he was just meeting her in passing.
* If Doris had succeeded in her plan to sabotage Lewis's invention at the science fair, he might have given up being an inventor. Which means that he would have never invented her. She was inadvertently arranging her own non-existence.
* It's best to hold up the MST3KMantra high when trying to piece out the time travel logic in this movie.
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* Wilbur had a ''time machine''. What was stopping him from just going back in time to the moment that he left the garage door open and closing it?
** I'd like to think it was because Goob's future needed to be saved and fate made sure it was.
** Alternatively, Bowler Hat Guy isn't the only person who doesn't think things through.
** Could have been a paradox. If he went back in time to close the door, why would he need to go back in time in the new timeline?
** Or ripple immunity. Even if he closes the door now, Bowler Hat Guy has already traveled backward in time, so he still needs to undo any damage he does.
* When Wilbur is roped into helping young Franny into gathering her frogs up, he is obviously annoyed with her, even pulling a NotNowKiddo...[[LittleMissBadass or rather]] [[IKnowKungFu trying to]]. However when we see Wilbur next to the adult Franny, it becomes clear that [[GenerationXerox he looks]] [[DistaffCounterpart like a male version of her]]. Why did he not realize that the girl he was helping looked a lot like his mom?...to say nothing of her having a bunch of ''frogs'' and the fact that he was there in the first place to find the younger version of ''his dad''.
** The same reason you have no idea where (insert item here) is until seeing it for the third time when looking, and change blindness. The former is because you forget certain things when you do them by muscle memory, and the latter is because if it's similar enough to what you remember, your brain ignores it. His brain was on "power-saver" and he was focused on the task "Find Dad".
** Either that, or he does know who she is but decides to ignore her since he was there to find Lewis/Cornelius.
** [[https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/disney/images/2/21/Crazy.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20190314034141 Young Franny]] looks much different from her adult self--no cowlick, for one, and her voice is obviously completely different. Both Wilbur and his mom have oval faces, but young Franny has a very round face (accentuated by her side pigtails). In short, there was nothing that could tip off Wilbur to the fact that the girl was his mom, especially while he was just meeting her in passing.
* If Doris had succeeded in her plan to sabotage Lewis's invention at the science fair, he might have given up being an inventor. Which means that he would have never invented her. She was inadvertently arranging her own non-existence.
* It's best to hold up the MST3KMantra high when trying to piece out the time travel logic in this movie.
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* The fact that all that's left of the very first time machine is a single nut is kind of unnerving considering that this implies that the rest of the machine was either so damaged it wasn't safe to keep around or ''outright got vaporized into nothingness''.
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* Wilbur had a ''time machine''. What was stopping him from just going back in time to the moment that he left the garage door open and closing it?
** I'd like to think it was because Goob's future needed to be saved and fate made sure it was.
** Alternatively, Bowler Hat Guy isn't the only person who doesn't think things through.
** Could have been a paradox. If he went back in time to close the door, why would he need to go back in time in the new timeline?
** Or ripple immunity. Even if he closes the door now, Bowler Hat Guy has already traveled backward in time, so he still needs to undo any damage he does.
* When Wilbur is roped into helping young Franny into gathering her frogs up, he is obviously annoyed with her, even pulling a NotNowKiddo...[[LittleMissBadass or rather]] [[IKnowKungFu trying to]]. However when we see Wilbur next to the adult Franny, it becomes clear that [[GenerationXerox he looks]] [[DistaffCounterpart like a male version of her]]. Why did he not realize that the girl he was helping looked a lot like his mom?...to say nothing of her having a bunch of ''frogs'' and the fact that he was there in the first place to find the younger version of ''his dad''.
** The same reason you have no idea where (insert item here) is until seeing it for the third time when looking, and change blindness. The former is because you forget certain things when you do them by muscle memory, and the latter is because if it's similar enough to what you remember, your brain ignores it. His brain was on "power-saver" and he was focused on the task "Find Dad".
** Either that, or he does know who she is but decides to ignore her since he was there to find Lewis/Cornelius.
** [[https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/disney/images/2/21/Crazy.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20190314034141 Young Franny]] looks much different from her adult self--no cowlick, for one, and her voice is obviously completely different. Both Wilbur and his mom have oval faces, but young Franny has a very round face (accentuated by her side pigtails). In short, there was nothing that could tip off Wilbur to the fact that the girl was his mom, especially while he was just meeting her in passing.
* If Doris had succeeded in her plan to sabotage Lewis's invention at the science fair, he might have given up being an inventor. Which means that he would have never invented her. She was inadvertently arranging her own non-existence.
* It's best to hold up the MST3KMantra high when trying to piece out the time travel logic in this movie.nothingness''.
[[AC: FridgeLogic]]
* Wilbur had a ''time machine''. What was stopping him from just going back in time to the moment that he left the garage door open and closing it?
** I'd like to think it was because Goob's future needed to be saved and fate made sure it was.
** Alternatively, Bowler Hat Guy isn't the only person who doesn't think things through.
** Could have been a paradox. If he went back in time to close the door, why would he need to go back in time in the new timeline?
** Or ripple immunity. Even if he closes the door now, Bowler Hat Guy has already traveled backward in time, so he still needs to undo any damage he does.
* When Wilbur is roped into helping young Franny into gathering her frogs up, he is obviously annoyed with her, even pulling a NotNowKiddo...[[LittleMissBadass or rather]] [[IKnowKungFu trying to]]. However when we see Wilbur next to the adult Franny, it becomes clear that [[GenerationXerox he looks]] [[DistaffCounterpart like a male version of her]]. Why did he not realize that the girl he was helping looked a lot like his mom?...to say nothing of her having a bunch of ''frogs'' and the fact that he was there in the first place to find the younger version of ''his dad''.
** The same reason you have no idea where (insert item here) is until seeing it for the third time when looking, and change blindness. The former is because you forget certain things when you do them by muscle memory, and the latter is because if it's similar enough to what you remember, your brain ignores it. His brain was on "power-saver" and he was focused on the task "Find Dad".
** Either that, or he does know who she is but decides to ignore her since he was there to find Lewis/Cornelius.
** [[https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/disney/images/2/21/Crazy.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20190314034141 Young Franny]] looks much different from her adult self--no cowlick, for one, and her voice is obviously completely different. Both Wilbur and his mom have oval faces, but young Franny has a very round face (accentuated by her side pigtails). In short, there was nothing that could tip off Wilbur to the fact that the girl was his mom, especially while he was just meeting her in passing.
* If Doris had succeeded in her plan to sabotage Lewis's invention at the science fair, he might have given up being an inventor. Which means that he would have never invented her. She was inadvertently arranging her own non-existence.
* It's best to hold up the MST3KMantra high when trying to piece out the time travel logic in this movie.
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* Bowler Hat Guy's decision to use a dinosaur to grab Lewis makes more sense when you remember that [[spoiler: young Goob's baseball team was the ''Dinos''. If he had succeeded, it would have been poetic justice to take his revenge using a dinosaur]].
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* [[spoiler:The Bowler Hat Guy's identity is revealed when he tells Goob to hold on to his grudges. Anyone who's familiar with time travel cliches knows he's trying to make sure he still exists in the timeline!]]
** [[spoiler:Not to mention him tearing up while hearing Goob talk about getting beaten up by his teammates. It’s him feeling sorry for himself, not just some kid who had a bad day.]]
* Wilbur claims his dad looks like Tom Selleck. [[spoiler: Maybe he's aware that [[ActorAllusion he sounds like him]], and that's what first came to his mind when Lewis asked.]]
** And why does Lewis ask what Wilbur's dad looks like in the first place? It wasn't just LeaningOnTheFourthWall; he's a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_thinking visual thinker.]]
* Something that when it first appears it seems to be a headscratcher, but watching it the second time explains it. Wilbur doesn't look like a kid from the future and Lewis has some trouble believing him. When they go to the future, Wilbur puts a hat on Louis so no one will recognize him as a kid from the past. Why would his family think that he looks like a kid from the past if people in the past couldn't recognize a kid from the future? [[spoiler: They wouldn't recognize any kid from the past, only Cornelius because of his AnimeHair that he still has.]]
** [[spoiler:Not to mention him tearing up while hearing Goob talk about getting beaten up by his teammates. It’s him feeling sorry for himself, not just some kid who had a bad day.]]
* Wilbur claims his dad looks like Tom Selleck. [[spoiler: Maybe he's aware that [[ActorAllusion he sounds like him]], and that's what first came to his mind when Lewis asked.]]
** And why does Lewis ask what Wilbur's dad looks like in the first place? It wasn't just LeaningOnTheFourthWall; he's a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_thinking visual thinker.]]
* Something that when it first appears it seems to be a headscratcher, but watching it the second time explains it. Wilbur doesn't look like a kid from the future and Lewis has some trouble believing him. When they go to the future, Wilbur puts a hat on Louis so no one will recognize him as a kid from the past. Why would his family think that he looks like a kid from the past if people in the past couldn't recognize a kid from the future? [[spoiler: They wouldn't recognize any kid from the past, only Cornelius because of his AnimeHair that he still has.]]
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The Harringtons were among the ones interviewing to adopt Goob when his life was awful, but the people who adopt him at the end look nothing like the Harringtons
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* The fact that all that's left of the very first time machine is a single nut is kind of unnerving considering that this implies that the rest of the machine was either so damaged it wasn't safe to keep around or ''outright got vaporized into nothingness''.
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* In the Bad Future, Lewis is attacked by the Robinson family, now mind-controlled by Doris. Wilbur, who had been sucked into nothingness, isn't there...but neither is Cornelius. Doylist explanation: they didn't want to spoil the twist. But the In-Universe reason may be much, much darker, given Doris' hatred for her creator...
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** Sort of a Fridge Heartwarming as well, but the frogs have miniature clothes, instruments, and their own tiny frog bar complete with a specially-designed fly vending machine. Cornelius created all sorts of amenities specifically to make Franny's frogs feel at home in the Robinson's house.
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** Tallulah says it "hasn't been called Canada in years". Given Lewis is 12 and Wilbur is 13 at the time of the movie, the Robinsons' future could be as little as twenty years ahead of Lewis' childhood. The Northern Montana territory was probably a recent merge by the US and Canada--it's entirely possible the schools haven't got around to teaching about the merge in history quite yet, hence the gentle correction.
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* Petunia is a puppet on Fritz's arm. Despite this, she's verbally abrasive, and even ''physically'' abusive at one point. Two points immediately become horrifying in hindsight.
** The family just kind of...takes this in stride. Despite everyone else's general wackiness, Fritz' tendency to harm himself should raise at least an eyebrow or two.
** Fritz and Petunia have two kids. There is a very real chance that the Petunia puppet is based on Fritz's deceased wife, and he's completely unable to move past her death...even though she seems like a terrible person towards him.
** Either the puppet is a remnant of Fritz's dead wife, or the kids are adopted and Fritz has some sort of harmful multiple personality disorder that makes him abuse himself with words and mild violence. Neither option is...pleasant to consider.
** The family just kind of...takes this in stride. Despite everyone else's general wackiness, Fritz' tendency to harm himself should raise at least an eyebrow or two.
** Fritz and Petunia have two kids. There is a very real chance that the Petunia puppet is based on Fritz's deceased wife, and he's completely unable to move past her death...even though she seems like a terrible person towards him.
** Either the puppet is a remnant of Fritz's dead wife, or the kids are adopted and Fritz has some sort of harmful multiple personality disorder that makes him abuse himself with words and mild violence. Neither option is...pleasant to consider.
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** [[https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/disney/images/2/21/Crazy.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20190314034141 Young Franny]] looks much different from her adult self--no cowlick, for one, and her voice is obviously completely different. Both Wilbur and his mom have oval faces, but young Franny has a very round face (accentuated by her side pigtails). In short, there was nothing that could tip off Wilbur to the fact that the girl was his mom, especially while he was just meeting her in passing.
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** Either that, or he does know who she is but decides to ignore her since he was there to find Lewis/Cornelius.
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** Unlikely; they wouldn't have said "Nobody calls it Canada anymore" if Lewis had already shown preference to calling it 'Canada'. Far more likely it was a peaceful union and both names were in common use for a while until "North Montana" took over as the dominant one.
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* Wilber Robinson's appearance resembles Franny more than Cornelius because if he looked like ''Lewis'' and went back into the past to prevent the Bowler Hat Guy from ruining his dad's future, the fact that he resembles Lewis would have been a dead giveaway to Lewis that something odd is going on!
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* Wilber Wilbur Robinson's appearance resembles Franny more than Cornelius because if he looked like ''Lewis'' and went back into the past to prevent the Bowler Hat Guy from ruining his dad's future, the fact that he resembles Lewis would have been a dead giveaway to Lewis that something odd is going on!
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** And why does Lewis ask what Wilbur's dad looks like in the first place? It wasn't just LeaningOnTheFourthWall; he's a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_thinking visual thinker.]]
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* Something that when it first appears it seems to be a headscratcher, but watching it the second time explains it. Wilbur doesn't look like a kid from the future and Lewis has some trouble believing him. When they go to the future, Wilbur puts a hat on Louis so no one will recognize him as a kid from the past. Why would his family think that he looks like a kid from the past if people in the past couldn't recognize a kid from the future? [[spoiler: They wouldn't recognize any kid from the past, only Cornelius because of his AnimeHair that he still has.]]
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* If Doris had succeeded in her plan to sabotage Lewis's invention at the science fair, he might have given up being an inventor. Which means that he would have never invented her. She was inadvertently arranging her own non-existence.
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** Or ripple immunity. Even if he closes the door now, Bowler Hat Guy has already traveled backward in time, so he still needs to undo any damage he does.
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* The ending is [[EarnYourHappyEnding far happier]] for [[spoiler: Goob/Bowler hat guy than you might think. Not only does he get adopted ''and'' have his future changed for the better, he's adopted by the Harringtons. Mr. Harrington earlier showed an interest in baseball, very much like his new adopted son Mike. What's more, now "Goob" doesn't have his embarrassing nickname anymore. As of this point, he is no longer Mike "Yagoobian", but rather Mike ''Harrington''.]]
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* Why does Tiny the Tyrannosaur fall into line quickly after the mini-Doris is knocked off him, and why does the Robinson estate have an octopus butler and a dog that wears glasses? Apparently, animals on the grounds tame down quickly and get AmplifiedAnimalAptitude. And why would Lewis invent that? To give Franny her dream of singing frogs.
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* Why does Tiny the Tyrannosaur ''Tyrannosaurus'' fall into line quickly after the mini-Doris is knocked off him, and why does the Robinson estate have an octopus butler and a dog that wears glasses? Apparently, animals on the grounds tame down quickly and get AmplifiedAnimalAptitude. And why would Lewis invent that? To give Franny her dream of singing frogs.
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* Why does Tiny the Tyrannosaur fall into line quickly after the mini-Doris is knocked off him, and why does the Robinson estate have an octopus butler? butler and a dog that wears glasses? Apparently, animals on the grounds tame down quickly and get AmplifiedAnimalAptitude. And why would Lewis invent that? To give Franny her dream of singing frogs.
