History Headscratchers / GhostWhisperer

** It would hard to take her seriously, even with gossip, considering how she's dressed and how crazy she acts.

* This is kind of nitpicky but...In “Dead Air”, the significance of the repeating song (In My Place by Coldplay) is revealed, as is the cause of death for the Ghost of The Day. The viewer learns that this song was playing in the background, as Bruce (the decedent) accidentally drove his car into a river and became trapped inside as it sunk. Here lies the problem. Melinda had a vision of said accident and told Delia that despite the fact that the car was “completely submerged” underwater, and rapidly filling up that the song continued to blast from the radio. How is it possible that the radio was even still functioning at this point if the vehicle was fully submerged, as she said? Wouldn't all that water have shorted out the electronics in the vehicle fairly quickly? And another thing: unless Bruce was actually playing Coldplay's CD, how was he even still able to get such a clear radio signal from underwater? Am I overthinking all this? Sure, but inquiring minds still wish to know.

** They explain this in S4 E19. Sam had an architecture degree that included math and science courses that Jim needed. This might make sense if he studied Architectural Engineering, for example. Since he officially had a Bachelors degree, Jim could apply directly to med school. Since Jim had some basic medical knowledge already, he felt he could study on his own to catch up for med school.

** I think it was a symptom with CBS in general at the time (they seem to have gotten vaguely better in recent years), but basically all their shows from the 90s and 00s were generally bad about long stretching story arcs.

** They explain this in S4 E19. Sam had an architecture degree that included math and science courses that Jim needed. Since he officially had a Bachelors degree, Jim could apply directly to med school. Since Jim had some basic medical knowledge already, he felt he could study on his own to catch up for med school.

** They explain this in S4 E19. Sam had an architecture degree that included math and science courses that Jim needed. Since he officially had a B.A., Jim could apply directly to med school. Since Jim had some basic medical knowledge already, he felt he could study on his own to catch up for med school.

*** It happened in other countries (i.e southeast Asian countries like Vietnam and I think Cambodia still have a landmine problem, along with some areas in Africa) and after the Civil War

* This is kind of nitpicky but...In “Dead Air”, the significance of the repeating song (In My Place by Coldplay) is revealed, as is the cause of death for the Ghost of The Day. The viewer learns that this song was playing in the background, as Bruce (the decedent) accidentally drove his car into a river and became trapped inside as it sunk. Here lies the problem. Melinda had a vision of said accident and told Delia that despite the fact that the car was “completely submerged” underwater, and rapidly filling up that the song continued to blast from the radio. How is it possible that the radio was even still functioning at this point if the vehicle was fully submerged, as she said? Wouldn't all that water have shorted out the electronics in the vehicle fairly quickly?
And another thing: unless Bruce was actually playing Coldplay's CD, how was he even still able to get such a clear radio signal from underwater? Am I overthinking all this? Sure, but inquiring minds still wish to know.

* This kind of nitpicky but...In “Dead Air”, the significance of the repeating song (In My Place by Coldplay) is revealed, as is the cause of death for the Ghost of The Day. The viewer learns that this song was playing in the background, as Bruce (the decedent) accidentally drove his car into a river and became trapped inside as it sunk. Here lies the problem. Melinda had a vision of said accident and told Delia that despite the fact that the car was “completely submerged” underwater, and rapidly filling up that the song continued to blast from the radio. How is it possible that the radio was even still functioning at this point if the vehicle was fully submerged, as she said? Wouldn't all that water have shorted out the electronics in the vehicle fairly quickly? The viewer learns that the Bruce was on his cellphone with an acquaintance (the wife of the man he assumed his fiance to be running off with), who heard the entire accident happen, before his phone went dead (presumably from water damage). One last issue: unless Bruce was actually playing Coldplay's CD, how was he even still able to get such a clear radio signal from underwater? Am I overthinking all this? Sure, but inquiring minds still wish to know.

** It is shown that Melinda is married, so that could contribute to her income, likewise, just because we don't see customers in her shop, it doesn't mean her business isn't profitable, granted antiques are kind of niche market. It's also possible she does set aside money for those things.

** Likewise, they probably get customers off-screen and, supposing the show is staged in 2005 or afterwards, it's possible that the store does have a website and or a deliver number.

** It is shown that Melinda is married, so that could contribute to her income, likewise, just because we don't see customers in her shop, it doesn't mean her business isn't profitable, granted antiques are kind of niche market. It's also possible sh does set aside money for those things.

** Likewise, they probably get customers off-screen and, supposing the show is staged in 2005 or afterwarss, it's possible that the store does have a website and or a deliver number.

*** It happened in other countries (i.e southeast Asian countries like Vietnam and I think Cambodia still have a landmine problem, along with some areas in Africa) and after the Civil War

** It is shown that Melinda is married, so that could contribute to her income, likewise, just because we don't see customers in her shop, it doesn't mean her business isn't profitable, granted antiques are kind of niche market. It's also possible sh does set aside money for those things.

* How does a woman that owns an antique shop that apparently doesn't sell many antiques afford multiple outfits that cost thousands of dollars each and always have flawless hair and makeup?

** This is actually not completely unheard of, occasionally, militaries will simply abandon decomissioned posts and not bother completely removing everything from the location.

* Why does this show drop all of their story arcs or poorly explain them? Just when we're getting somewhere with season one's hat guy, that suddenly ends without another word. The half-brother seemed like it was made up on the spot, Grandview's underground never gets revisited after that one encounter with the red-eyed man, and we have one episode to introduce a possible new arc with that ghost-who-wasn't and then it's ignored for the rest of the season. This just bugs me.

** Well, she has a reputation as a kook who claims to talk to ghosts and who walks around showing off her cleavage. Presumably nothing would surprise people anymore.