History Fridge / TheWizardOfOz

* Meta example - Watch Dorothy/Garland during the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_jqOpDCXY0 Munchkin Welcome to Oz]] scene. Twice, she glances towards the mayor for no apparent reason. {{Blooper}}? Actually, if you know just how poorly Garland was treated and even groped... ''YIKES''.

** For heavens sake! Glinda isn't a VillainWithGoodPublicity! She should be in the FridgeBrilliance section because she is the Obi-Wan Kenobi/Master Yoda of the Land Of Oz! She never did anything malicious or sinister! Also, the quest she sent Dorothy and her friends was ''not'' pointless. Dorothy needed to undertake it in order to unlock the power of the Ruby Slippers. Glinda was just Dorothy's ''teacher''. She's just very ''very'' subtle about it, that's all.

* Meta example - Watch Dorothy/Garland during the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_jqOpDCXY0 Munchkin Welcome to Oz]] scene. Twice, she glances towards the mayor for no apparent reason. {{Blooper}}? Actually, if you know just how poorly Garland was treated and even groped... ''YIKES''.

* Likewise, assume the movie didn't actually happen. Oz was a coma-dream for Dorothy as a result of her head trauma and being trapped in the house during the cyclone. From the way that the adults describe it after Dorothy revives, they found her knocked out and were worried when she wouldn't wake up. They all hosted an UnbrokenVigil with the doctor tending to her, with Auntie Em and the others speaking to her.

* Scarecrow's "brainy" statement when he gets his diploma: "the sum of the square roots of any two sides of an isosceles triangle is equal to the square root of the remaining side." This is incorrect mathematically (should say a right triangle, should be "square" rather than "square root", and "any two sides" isn't correct as the remaining side has to be the one opposite the right angle) and I always assumed it was writer error. However, it is made clear that the Scarecrow was already intelligent and the diploma did not change anything other than his confidence. And his intelligence does not come from book-learning or schooling of any kind, so he wouldn't know the correct formula. He just said it to FEEL smart. The other explanation is that the whole story is Dorothy's dream, and she's the one who got the math wrong, being a kid and all.

*** He also knows that no matter how much he want to help her, there's no way he can do so (at least wi th out breaking TheMasquerade).

** Also consider that for a tree, the inability to move is perfectly normal. It seems frightening for a human, because we've grown up with the ability to walk, but a tree would have never known anything else.

* If we're assuming that in the real world the tornado never picked up Dorothy's house (it never got close enough; if it had she probably would have died). After it passes can you just imagine how [[AdultFear frantic Auntie Em, Uncle Henry, Hunk, Hickory, and Zeke]] looking for Dorothy? Plus being worried sick trying to revive her.
* Likewise, assume the movie didn't actually happen. Oz was a coma-dream for Dorothy as a result of her head trauma and being trapped in the house during the cyclone. From the way that the adults describe it after Dorothy revives, they found her knocked out and were worried when she wouldn't wake up. They all hosted an UnbrokenVigil with the doctor tending to her, with Auntie Em and the others speaking to her. It's AdultFear incarnate.

* Even if the WMG is wrong and Glinda ''isn't'' a VillainWithGoodPublicity, she's certainly no angel. First, she swipes the Wicked Witch of the East's shoes and pawns them off on Dorothy - thus depriving the [=WWotE's=] ''only remaining relative'' (the Wicked Witch of the West) of her sister's last remaining possession, which is pretty repugnant. And Glinda's just warming up, too. She then taunts the Witch of the West and makes sure her rage is focused on Dorothy - who, let's remember, might've committed manslaughter but certainly didn't ''ask'' to be brought to Oz via tornado and didn't exactly aim for anything when her house landed. She then sends Dorothy on a fairly pointless quest to the Wizard of Oz; yes, it's important to the story and yes, Dorothy learns a lot about herself and gains several new friends. But Glinda's excuse for not telling Dorothy, ''right off the bat'', that she was now the owner of a pair of slippers that could ''teleport their wearer''? "You wouldn't have believed me." As if that excuses not mentioning it anyways. Yep, you wouldn't have believed her, Dorothy - never mind that you just splatted one Witch with your house, witnessed a pair of spectacular entrances by both the Witch of the West ''and'' Glinda, got threatened by the [=WWotW=], and were lauded for your house-fu skills by ''Munchkins''. Nope, no reason to believe that your ruby slippers might teleport you anywhere. It's due to Glinda, in fact, that Dorothy is placed in ''life-threatening danger'' several times throughout the movie - the Witch of the West would have gone away quietly if she'd been given her sister's slippers, after all, and it's Glinda who sends Dorothy on a quest outside of Munchkinland...which is also a zone of protection that the Witch of the West can't harm Dorothy within. This also combines with AdultFear when you consider the fact that most parents probably worry about their kids falling into the hands of some pleasant-faced stranger who'll happily sell them down the river.

** One explanation that might make things worse? If the 2013 film is canon with this one, Glinda might have intended Dorothy to ''save'' Theodora. Most likely believing that Dorothy's AllLovingHero nature as a means of restoring Theodora to original good self through the magic of the Ruby Slippers, and her kindness. And the fact that she doesn't show this regret towards Dorothy when they meet again? [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone She didn't want Dorothy to feel guilty about it.]] That woman has NervesOfSteel.

** Ms Gulch isnt exactly the kindliest soul in Kansas. Not to mention she hated Dorothy and Toto. Its entirely possible shes just fine, and didnt deign to check in on Dorothy after the twister.

** This was actually explicitly stated in the book the film was based off of.

** And if the storm didn't get her, who knows what sort of fiend she would meet elsewhere? Young kids are not safe on their own.

* Everything Wrong With brought this up, the Tin man spent most of his time chopping down trees, fair enough but not even two minutes before we saw that the trees of Oz are alive and completely self aware. Imagine how scared the trees must have been to see Dorothy essentially bring their version of a serial killer back to life.

** The apple itself is more like a womb than the actual "baby". And a tree kind of wants its seeds carted off, so that its offspring isn't either shaded by its parent, or competing for nutrients with that parent.

* In the Emerald City, the city's doorman, the guard to the Wizard's sanctum, and the cab driver with the "horse of a different color" are all played by the same actor: Frank Morgan, the guy who played the Wizard himself. This seems like just getting extra-mileage out of an actor, until you realize that it's all probably part of the Wizard's con. Since no one can be allowed to see how ordinary the Great Oz really is, in order to govern the Emerald City he puts on a disguise, pretends to be one of his own subordinates, and "relays" orders from the Wizard to the rest of Oz.