History Headscratchers / BanjoKazooie

** Based on the wild mass guessing, I'm gonna say, just because ItAmusedMe, that Grunty's Industries manufactures radioactive underpants for... [[ILoveNuclearPower experimental medical purposes]]. All the toxic waste is just a by-product, and everything else in the joint is just due to Grunty's... business myopia.

* Glitter Gulch Mine has two similar variants on its level theme. Dark n Dingy Interiors, which plays in the caverns snd has a more subdued, melancholy feel to it, and Dark Rooms, a chilling, ominous tune with psycho strings playing in the background that plays only in the darkest and creepiest areas in the game. So for some reason, they have Dark Rooms play in the waterfall cavern, a fairly decently lit area with glistening crystals and a roaring waterfall, while Dark n Dingy Interiors plays in the flooded caverns, an extremely dark and claustrophobic area that is almost pitch black in the area you collect the jiggy. What's up with that?

* How come Tooty didn't just run into Banjo's house upon seeing Gruntilda coming for her?

** This is actually accurate to the original Grimm version of ''Literature/SnowWhiteAndTheSevenDwarfs'', in which the titular character was only 7.

*** To add on to that, the "Tooty Fruity" shop in Nuts and Bolts, I personally think is actually run by her. She got kidnapped, her mother got scared and she lived with them (with Banjo visiting often in between adventures), then in the future Nuts and Bolts happens and Tooty runs a candy shop.

*** Well, there's a market. "Now, maybe you don't have any tumors. Well, don't worry. If you're wearing these underpants, we took care of that too."

* One of Brendila's "Facts" about Grunty is that she subscribes to "Fat Hag Monthly". If she wants to steal Tooty's youth and beauty so much, why does she subscribe to a magazine with a self-derogatory name and subject matter? And how could such a magazine exist in the first place?

** Errrr.... ummmm... well, it is the opinion of the pot... not that that makes it any better. Or maybe he just didn't like Tooty and thought that if he said that she was prettier Grunty would "dispose" of her.
** Look at it this way; how many female characters WERE there in the original Banjo Kazooie? As far as I can remember, there was Tootie, Kazooie, Gruntilda, Gruntilda's sister, and an unnamed pink squirrel that can be found sleeping in Nabnut's house in Click Clock Woods during winter. There's a very small pool of potential candidates for 'fairest,' assuming it's female exclusive, which Tootie just happens to be at the top of.
*** The next question is "how is Gruntilda in second place?" Bootlicking isn't an answer; if it was, he wouldn't have mentioned Tootie at all.
*** Presumably 'the land' meant Spiral Mountain. Kazooie's just that big a bitch.
** Maybe he meant her potential for prettiness (e.g. by the time Tooty had grown to be as old as Grunty, she'd look as {{Fanservice}}-y as the game over screen can show us)?
** And what about the totally hot girl in the red bikini from the ending sequence? Why didn't Dingpot pick her?
** Okay, I know the whole "fairest" thing is a reference to Cinderella, but perhaps "fairest" doesn't refer to physical looks.
** Except if you watch the Game Over scene, it totally does.
** The "fairest of all" comment was most likely to be taken as a harmless comment on her looks and not as anything sexual, like how some people can innocently comment on each other's appearance without implying anything sex related.
** Guys, isn't it obvious? It was all a BatmanGambit by Dingpot. He hated working for Grunty, so he deliberately chose Tooty as the fairest of the land in order to prompt Grunty to kidnap her. He did that so that Banjo and Kazooie would defeat the witch, and with her out of the way, Dingpot can go on with the rest of his life.
*** That would explain why he helpfully gives Banjo a boost up to the rooftop for the final battle in the first game, instead of, say, cooking him.
*** Except his gambit didn't work out as well as he would've hoped, considering his role in the second game.

** Banjo always has his pack while transformed, maybe she stays inside the whole time (possibly transformed into something small enough to fit into it.)
*** But in the transformations, it looks like the backpack is empty.
** [[LetsPlay Rooreeloo]] hypothesises that they share one mind. Or something. He squicks himself out trying to come up with an answer.
** The same place Pokémon go when they go back into their pokeballs: A parallel universe where [[AndIMustScream time is non-existent; where there is no air, only vacuum; no light, only constant pain and darkness]]. I'd say she's a very good sport about all of it, really
*** I thought they had a waterbed and a jacuzzi in there.
*** A [[Series/NewsRadio root beer jacuzzi]].
*** I always imagined it being a mini house, kind of like a nice hotel room. At least, that's how I imagined the Pokéballs, so Kazooie's place is probably the same.
** The point of the transformations, aside from getting new abilities, is to disguise Banjo. He becomes a Ticker (termite) to infiltrate the termite mound, a walrus to enter Wozza's cave, a bee so as not to arouse the Zubbas' suspicion, etc... Kazooie stays in the backpack because she knows that if Grunty's minions recognize her, then their cover is blown.
** That didn't stop Kazooie from talking to one of the dinosaurs in Terrdactyland when Banjo learned how to roar from one as the Baby T-Rex, despite the fact that they were clearly enemies that kept trying to attack them and still do damage to them if they touch them even after the Baby T-rex transformation, not to mention Banjo referred to him and Kazooie as two people in the transformed state, saying "I don't think we do" when the dinosaur told them they didn't know how to roar properly, not to mention Kazooie further made herself known she was there and said "Let's go roar at someone" again, showing they weren't a one person talking after the two had been transformed.
** I always thought Kazooie was transformed in a smaller form of whatever Banjo is transformed into. Don't ask me why I thought that.
** I always assumed Kazooie stayed with Mubo at least in the first game anyway until Banjo was done with the task that needed him transformed.

** Because they're friends, maybe something more. Why? Er, NoAccountingForTaste, I suppose.
** Maybe Kazooie's a {{Tsundere}}. She likes most things well enough, but acerbically hides her feelings lest people assume her weak and easy pickings. Also, she was ''far'' less bitter in the original game than in the sequels, so maybe all the hassle with Grunty the first time 'round made her more cynical.
** To be fair, Kazooie doesn't hate King Jingaling in Banjo-Tooie. She even thinks that his "strange pet thing" is cool.
** Maybe Banjo is Kazooie's {{Morality Pet}}, or maybe he's just the only one with the tolerance to put up with her.
** Well, there is the idle animation for the first two games where Kazooie bugs Banjo by pecking him on the head for fun and the second time she does it Banjo grabs her by the neck and tugs her really hard: that's some stuff in the game where the two weren't exactly getting along. Then there's the Breegull Bash move in Tooie and in the first game's manual she does call Banjo fur face in the story section of the booklet.
*** Is your argument that they're more VitriolicBestBuds, or in a SlapSlapKiss relationship? I always felt the latter, myself.

*** Right, the Magazine/NintendoPower Player's Guide. The manual for the game states, and I quote, "Nobody knows what Grunty's monstrous factory produces." Probably whatever [[VideoGame/DonkeyKongCountry Kremcroc Industries, Inc.]] does.

*** A [[NewsRadio root beer jacuzzi]].