History Fridge / SpaceJam

* I never thought anything of Marvin the Martian being the referee in the movie ''Space Jam''. Until later when I realized, the game was between Looney Toons and ALIENS. Marvin is, so far as I know, the only being who's both, which made him the perfect impartial judge. -- Tropers/MystyGlyttyr
* UsefulNotes/MichaelJordan makes a bet with the Monstars in that if he loses, he'll become their slave. On one hand, it sounds like a noble move. Alternatively, you can interpret it as Jordan being so full of himself, that he knows he can beat [[Main/MyFriendsAndZoidberg four All-Stars (and Shawn Bradley)]] in a basketball game. And is willing to risk everything he has to satisfy his competitive urge. Now, in real life, who do we know is an arrogant, winning-obsessed gambling addict that plays basketball?
** But what did he demand from the Monstars as their ante? The stolen talent. He was willing to risk everything for a shot at getting the All-Stars' talent back for them.
** Also, the Monstars have talent but not practice. Talent alone does not win games against good opponents. The Monstars have the talent of All-Stars, but they are brute forcing their way through the game rather than playing strategically, and Jordan is convinced he can beat them when they're playing like that.
* Why didn't Marvin the Martian call any fouls for the whole game, despite (as the main page said) the loads and loads of UnnecessaryRoughness? Simple: he didn't call against the Monstars because he didn't want to be pounded into Martian Jelly, and he didn't call against the Tune Squad to make it fair(er) for them.
** As the HomeFieldAdvantage trope points out, the Ultimate Game is played in the cartoon universe. In Looney Tune Land, it seems there are only two enforceable rules: must have five players on the court, and the game ends when the timer reaches zero, regardless of what it's been doing in the meantime. Things like firearms, explosives, renegade livestock and squishing opponents like bugs are perfectly lawful methods in the Toon World.

* All the other affected players were both popular and had great statistics. The lone exception being Shawn Bradley. So why is he in the movie? The Nerdluck who stole his talent had the least going on upstairs, so naturally he would go for one of the tallest out of his league players rather than, say, Shaq or David Robinson.
** This is also satirized in an [[http://www.wired.com/playbook/2011/03/space-jam-box-scores/ article]] where a sports writer compiled all of the box scores from the game. He points out that the blue Nerdluck did nothing of worth, and said that it was [[TakeThat the most realistic aspect of the movie.]]
* It seems kind of weird that they didn't play the national anthem prior to the game, but the game doesn't take place in the same universe as us. They might not even have a national anthem for Looney Tune Land.

** Besides the above-mentioned reasons, Jordan (like many NBA wing superstars after him) was vilified during his time for being unselfish and refusing to pass up the last shot despite having open teammates (this was largely fallacious, but he's the consensus most clutch offensive player of all time as well, so he was often very aggressive with final shots). Plus, Jordan was known as arrogant with a huge chip on his shoulder as an athlete-- considering he's the one that made the challenge in the first place, it's only natural that he'd want to stick the nail in the Monstars' coffin.

* UsefulNotes/MichaelJordan makes a bet with the Monstars in that if he loses, he'll become their slave. On one hand, it sounds like a noble move. Alternatively, you can interpret it as Jordan being so full of himself, that he knows he can beat four All-Stars (and Shawn Bradley) in a basketball game. And is willing to risk everything he has to satisfy his competitive urge. Now, in real life, who do we know is an arrogant, winning-obsessed gambling addict that plays basketball?

* Jordan makes a bet with the Monstars in that if he loses, he'll become their slave. On one hand, it sounds like a noble move. Alternatively, you can interpret it as Jordan being so full of himself, that he knows he can beat four All-Stars (and Shawn Bradley) in a basketball game. And is willing to risk everything he has to satisfy his competitive urge. Now, in real life, who do we know is an arrogant, winning-obsessed gambling addict that plays basketball?

!FridgeHorror:

* Is anyone disturbed by Jordan's willingness to risk being stuck on Moron Mountain, despite having a family to live for?

!FridgeLogic:
* The Looney Tunes live under the Earth and the alien invaders are from outer space. Wait, so where is Marvin the Martian from? Is he an alien traitor?
* Better example: the climactic dunk, with Jordan under all five villains. Which ... means that he has FOUR open teammates. I'm sure Jordan's heard of this thing called the 'assist' ...
** The real issue with this dunk is that at the end of the game, the Toons are only credited with two points. Jordan's feet are both behind the three point line, thusly the shot should count for one more point.
** There were only seconds on the clock. If he passed the ball to Lola, the clock would expire before she could finish the fast-break, and he could trust any of them to sink a jump-shot buzzer-beater.
** There were only two Monstars holding Jordan back. He had just launched himself off of the orange one, but that still left two in coverage. Also, he was the closest one on his team to the basket, with only seconds to go.
* Early in the movie, the Monstars grab Jordan, ball him up, and show off their new talents, including throwing Jordan so fast that he burns a hole in Yosemite Sam's hat. During this, he ends up with no broken bones, no burns, and no physical sign that this happened. So how did he NOT know that cartoon physics applied to him while he was in Toon-land?!

** This is why he is the referee.
** Or if you avoid the portal, you'll go into the Looney Tunes equivalent of space.

** He did. He just didn't realize he could use it to his advantage up until the climactic dunk.
*** WrongGenreSavvy? Jordan thought he was the PluckyComicRelief, not TheHero?
** [[HowDoIShotWeb Perhaps he just didn't know how to use it?]]
*** Jordan didn't know how to ''actively manipulate 'toon physics to his advantage'' until literally the last minute of the game. They applied the second he entered Toon-Land, but he'd spent all his life with "3D-Land" physics. He knew Toons can do things he can't - ''but he thought the old rules still applied to him''. It's somewhat like Superman not noticing that he never got injured, merely taking it for granted, but not knowing he could fly until someone told him "you know you can do this, right?"

** This isn't Fridge Brilliance so much as either WMG or ruining a perfectly good movie.

*** In a world where disintegrating into a pile of dust isn't lethal and there isn't even such a thing as a permanent injury, personal fouls almost become superfluous.

** Then why did she literally run circles around Bugs on the court?
*** Bugs was so distracted by the hot lady bunny at their first meeting he could've been beat by Granny.

*** WrongGenreSavvy? Jordan thought he was the ComicRelief, not TheHero?

* I never thought anything of Marvin the Martian being the referee in the movie ''Space Jam''. Until later when I realized, the game was between Looney Toons and ALIENS. Marvin is, so far as I know, the only being who's both, which made him the perfect impartial judge. -- MystyGlyttyr

** This isn't Fridge Brilliance so much as either WMG or ruining a perfectly good movie.

* Jordan makes a bet with the Monstars in that if he loses, he'll become their slave. On one hand, it sounds like a noble move. Alternatively, you can interpret it as Jordan being so full of himself, that he knows he can beat four All-Stars (and Shawn Bradley) in a basketball game. And is willing to risk everything he has to satisfy his competitive urge. Now, in real life, who do we know is an arrogant, winning-obsessed gambling addict that plays basketball?

* I never thought anything of Marvin the Martian being the referee in the movie ''Space Jam''. Until later when I realized, the game was between Looney Toons and ALIENS. Marvin is, so far as I know, the only being who's both, which made him the perfect impartial judge. -- MystyGlyttyr