History Headscratchers / SexAndTheCity

* Charlotte's bout of Montezuma's revenge in the first movie. ...Just...Why? Was that supposed to be funny? It was nothing but crass ToiletHumor, and the [[SarcasmMode witty]] commentary Carrie provides on the subject makes it worse. Which brings up the earlier headscratcher, is that going to be in her newspaper column? Really Carrie? You're going to write in a national column about how your friend "pooped her pants"? [[SarcasmMode Nice...]]

** The closet is a TARDIS, maybe? I don't even watch DoctorWho and that seems to be the default answer to any space-related question. Or maybe trick mirrors to make it seem bigger than it is? After that, I got nuthin'.

** RuleOfFunny.

** They must have talked about it and OK'd her doing it, because they do all know Carrie is a writer and can pick up her magazine just as easily as anyone else. They even celebrate her being used on a bus billboard. However, I'm betting she uses fake names for them, and we the viewers hearing their real names is just an affectation to avoid confusing new viewers. On the boyfriend
front, she may just "forget" to mention exactly what kind of articles she writes, or flat out ask them between scenes if they're OK with it. What she may do to avoid contaminating the relationship is "archive" the articles from ongoing relationships either for when they die or until she gets an OK. Still, I've only watched a handful of episodes when my sister had control of the
remote.

* In the episode The Cold War, Charlotte obviously realizes her dog is in heat during the dog show. Anyone who knows anything about what happens when a dog is in heat knows it is NOT a good idea to have her anywhere near male dogs, let alone let her off the leash in the middle of a dog park. Also Elizabeth Taylor is a small dog, and so is the Jack Russell Terrier who first
tries to mount her. Why didn't Charlotte just walk over to her and scoop her up instead of standing uselessly to the side waving her arms?
** She might have not expected a situation like that to happen, and assumed it wouldn't be out of her control. But I assume once your tiny dog is being gangbanged by all the strays in new york, you might not want to go shoving your hands in
the middle of that... unpleasantness.

* In TheMovie, the one thing Carrie doesn't like
about the new apartment is the size of the wardrobe. Big decides to build her a new one. BUT WHERE IS IT? It's clearly much larger than
there was space for, so where's the other side? Jutting out into the dining room? Stuck in a
parallel dimension a la Skeeve's house in ''The Myth Adventures of Aahz and Skeeve''? How on earth is there room for this wardrobe in their apartment?

** Maybe they took out a section of wall and made
it a walk-in closet.
* Does Carrie publish these articles WHILE SHE'S DATING THESE GUYS? Surely her boyfriends read her column, and she writes not so nice
things, not to mention admits to infidelity more than once. And her girlfriends are all a-OK with their sex lives being broadcast all over NYC? How does this never cause an issue?

*** Hey boyfriends are fully aware of her column, and it was an issue when she dated a local politician who eventually became worried that dating a sex columnist would ruin his image. So, not using his real name, published her next column about his wanting of a golden shower,
which she decided not to give him. Plus, the narration in the episode isn't supposed to be the entirety of the column, so no, she wouldn't have written about her affair.
** FWIW, The actual column/book the show is based on shuffles the names of the characters from the TV versions (Book Samantha = TV Charlotte, Book Miranda = TV Samantha) so it's
possible TV Carrie did something similar too. As for Carrie's boyfriends, most of the people she hangs out with are used to appearing on [[http://www.nypost.com/p/pagesix/page_six_gAz3qFWPEMKJp6bwh6W79M Page Six]] and probably don't care as much.
** I always thought that she just used different names for them such as "the russian" or "Big". It never really bothered me much because I also was pretty sure she didn't ramble on in her
columns about her friends daily lives, affairs, and random bouts of montezuma's revenge in mexico.
** As someone said, Carrie uses vague nicknames while she writes her columns. So the only people who would know who's she talking about is her friends and ones involved. And she does uses her friend's sex lives as a subject for her columns
although she would withhold if her friends asked her to.

** Carrie never fully commits to relationships. It's her main character flaw. And she's the kind of
New York rich that can keep an Manhattan condo in her back pocket on the off-chance that the same relationship that already collapsed several times collapses again.
* In the episode The Cold War, Charlotte obviously realizes her dog is in heat during the dog show. Anyone who knows anything about what happens when a dog is in heat knows it is NOT a good idea to have her anywhere near male
dogs, let alone let her off the leash in the middle of a dog park. Also Elizabeth Taylor is a small
dog, and so is the Jack Russell Terrier who first

** She might have not expected a situation like
that to happen, and assumed it wouldn't be out of her control. But I assume once your tiny dog is being gangbanged by all the strays in new york, you might not want to go shoving your hands in

* In the episode where Samantha tries to return a back massager from some shaper image type store becuase it doesn't function as a vibrator, (which hello gross, I don't think the store would be
able to resell that item) why didn't she just go to a sex toy shop and buy a real vibrator? It's not like New York City wouldn't have dozens of those! In
fact they had an episode in the first season where Charlotte gets addicted to a vibrator.

* In TheMovie, the one thing Carrie doesn't like about the new apartment is the size of the wardrobe. Big decides to build her a new one. BUT WHERE IS IT? It's clearly much larger than there was space for, so where's the other side? Jutting out into the dining room? Stuck in a parallel dimension a la Skeeve's house in ''The Myth Adventures of Aahz and Skeeve''? How on earth is there room for this wardrobe in their apartment?

** Maybe they took out a section of wall and made it a walk-in closet.
* Does Carrie publish these articles WHILE SHE'S DATING THESE GUYS? Surely her boyfriends read her column, and she writes not so nice things, not to mention admits to infidelity more than once. And her girlfriends are all a-OK with their sex lives being broadcast all over NYC? How does this never cause an issue?
** They must have talked about it and OK'd her doing it, because they do all know Carrie is a writer and can pick up her magazine just as easily as anyone else. They even celebrate her being used on a bus billboard. However, I'm betting she uses fake names for them, and we the viewers hearing their real names is just an affectation to avoid confusing new viewers. On the boyfriend front, she may just "forget" to mention exactly what kind of articles she writes, or flat out ask them between scenes if they're OK with it. What she may do to avoid contaminating the relationship is "archive" the articles from ongoing relationships either for when they die or until she gets an OK. Still, I've only watched a handful of episodes when my sister had control of the remote.
*** Hey boyfriends are fully aware of her column, and it was an issue when she dated a local politician who eventually became worried that dating a sex columnist would ruin his image. So, not using his real name, published her next column about his wanting of a golden shower, which she decided not to give him. Plus, the narration in the episode isn't supposed to be the entirety of the column, so no, she wouldn't have written about her affair.
** FWIW, The actual column/book the show is based on shuffles the names of the characters from the TV versions (Book Samantha = TV Charlotte, Book Miranda = TV Samantha) so it's possible TV Carrie did something similar too. As for Carrie's boyfriends, most of the people she hangs out with are used to appearing on [[http://www.nypost.com/p/pagesix/page_six_gAz3qFWPEMKJp6bwh6W79M Page Six]] and probably don't care as much.
** I always thought that she just used different names for them such as "the russian" or "Big". It never really bothered me much because I also was pretty sure she didn't ramble on in her columns about her friends daily lives, affairs, and random bouts of montezuma's revenge in mexico.
** As someone said, Carrie uses vague nicknames while she writes her columns. So the only people who would know who's she talking about is her friends and ones involved. And she does uses her friend's sex lives as a subject for her columns although she would withhold if her friends asked her to.

** Carrie never fully commits to relationships. It's her main character flaw. And she's the kind of New York rich that can keep an Manhattan condo in her back pocket on the off-chance that the same relationship that already collapsed several times collapses again.
* In the episode The Cold War, Charlotte obviously realizes her dog is in heat during the dog show. Anyone who knows anything about what happens when a dog is in heat knows it is NOT a good idea to have her anywhere near male dogs, let alone let her off the leash in the middle of a dog park. Also Elizabeth Taylor is a small dog, and so is the Jack Russell Terrier who first tries to mount her. Why didn't Charlotte just walk over to her and scoop her up instead of standing uselessly to the side waving her arms?
** She might have not expected a situation like that to happen, and assumed it wouldn't be out of her control. But I assume once your tiny dog is being gangbanged by all the strays in new york, you might not want to go shoving your hands in the middle of that... unpleasantness.
* In the episode where Samantha tries to return a back massager from some shaper image type store becuase it doesn't function as a vibrator, (which hello gross, I don't think the store would be able to resell that item) why didn't she just go to a sex toy shop and buy a real vibrator? It's not like New York City wouldn't have dozens of those! In fact they had an episode in the first season where Charlotte gets addicted to a vibrator.

* Seriously, the second movie has got the economic situation totally wrong. During the middle of a financial meltdown, Carrie is somehow able to hang on to TWO apartments with giant walk-in closets full of fabulous clothes. Come on, what the fuck?? Oh, and then she and everyone else goes to Abu Dhabi, where they can afford to stay in hotel suites larger than most peoples' living rooms. What kind of economic situation does the movie think we're in right now?
** This isn't the first time it's happened. The 4th season was filmed in the year preceding 9/11 and aired from July 2001 onward (overlapping said event), and as a result of the unavoidable contextual lapse the show's episodes featured some especially crass materialism which aired just as the United States was entering a recession (notably, Carrie had a BrokeEpisode that was decidedly opulent by a regular person's life, and [[AesopAmnesia didn't appear to have curbed her spending by the very next episode]]). TheMovie unintentionally did this again, simultaneously holding up narcissism and shallowness as abhorrent ideals and [[BrokenAesop breaking its own Aesop]] by glamorizing the same consumerism (not to mention {{product placement}}) we're supposed to reject. This troper can only presume that in the second movie, the writers just thought, "Fuck it, we're gonna get it wrong either way. Let's make it a RefugeInAudacity and make a ton of money from the commercial tie-ins that involves. Manhattan townhouses don't buy themselves!".
** Actually, they got in the hotel for free via Samantha getting invited by the owners in order to promote the hotel. Everything, sans maybe some clothes, were paid for by the owners. As for Carrie's housing situation, she already brought the apartment and chances are that Big is paying most, if not all, the rent of their shared apartment. Eh, the movie was supposed to be a getaway from the economic downturn, which is very YMMV though.
*** Yes, the hotel and flight are paid for by the hotel's owners and the government of Abu Dhabi, and there's a token reference to the recession shoehorned into the dialogue as justification for the four girls to go along, but the butler tells Carrie that he is so poor he can only afford to see his wife once every three months. Carrie's all, [[UnsympatheticComedyProtagonist "I guess that's just like me and Big"]], still deep in thought about how her husband wants to buy a third apartment in Manhattan to use two days out of every seven.

* More of a complaint about people complaining about the show, but why do so many un-fans of the show cite that Carrie is supposed to be a sex-icon in the show? She's... not. Sure she dates guys and is sexually active, but they don't have men gasp at her beauty and her friends never gush about how much they wish they were pretty like her. She's not supposed to be a super sexy model, she's an average girl with an abundant fountain of shoes is all.
** Put it down to InformedAbility. She's largely a ''self-proclaimed'' fashion expert (indignantly telling Candace Bergman's character so when called on it, even though a ''Vogue'' editor who is likely to be a better judge of what fashion advice flies at a fashion magazine than Carrie), although when Pat Fields' WTHCostumingDepartment kicks in we see that "fashion expert" translates to "wears vaguely vintage outfits with underwear inexplicably on the outside, scarves as bracelets, corsages everywhere, and cameo pins".
*** Being a fashion expert doesn't necessarily equal being physically beautiful looking. Even if one thinks her outfits are silly, it's the ''fashion models'' that need to be pretty, not the people typing up the news columns about them.
**** Personally, I think it comes more from the way some guys carried on about her (of course, most of them were DATING her, like that guy who kept going on about how hot she looked while reading), but it also holds that she's gotta have it going on if she's dating Big (the "hot Donald Trump"), Aiden and all those other handsome men over the course of the show. By contrast, Miranda dated many more homely-looking guys (amidst the usual handsome ones), Charlotte married Harry, etc. They don't portray her as a sex goddess, but to be frank, most men don't find Sarah Jessica Parker attractive. Certainly nobody I know does. At all. ''FamilyGuy'' and ''SouthPark'' can be a little mean and over-the-top in their insults towards actreses' appearances, but this is one case that the general "male opinion" is on their side, at least as far as the people I know, and almost every comment I've ever read online, goes.
**** As a ''celebrity'', she may not be BritneySpears as far as appearance, but she isn't supposed to be a big movie star celebrity ''in the show'', she's a middle aged New Yorker dating other middle aged New Yorkers. As far as women her age go ''in reality'', she is seriously ''not that bad''.
* Even though this troper disagrees with the way women are treated in countries under strict Sharia law, Samantha's behaviour in the second film was unforgivably rude and disrespectful to local customs and the law. Her public canoodling with the Danish guy would likely warrant a caution in the West (it's still considered rude, outside of ''Sex and the City''-land, anyway), but everyone knows it's illegal in the Emirates, and Miranda's persistent recounting of local law throughout the trip should have warned her already. Are we really supposed to feel sympathetic for Samantha, given how pretty much every action since arriving in the country seems to be an attempt to intentionally piss off the locals?
** I don't particularly care for the series, but I just wanted to second that. From what you said, that sounds like the equivalent of going to North Korea, mooning the huge statue of Kim Jong-Il that's in Pyongyang and wondering why you're thrown in prison afterwards...
* Umm...why would anybody see Sarah Jessica's Parker character as a "hot babe"...even if a "NYC high fashion way?" She smokes...she's shallow...her voice is irritating...and she's annoyingly materialistic. And we are supposed to believe a billionaire like "Mr.Big" even be interested in her? Did NYC run out of attractive younger women that can spend his money?
** Well, Big smokes, is shallow, materialistic, and prone to cheating on his wife.... Plus, just a few paragraphs above you will see that Carrie ''isn't'' considered a "hot babe", she's considered a relatively good find as far as middle-aged Manhattan women go. Also she ended up quitting smoking around the time she started dating Aiden the first time.
*** This. Carrie's appeal in the way she carries (no pun intended) herself, not all in her looks (which aren't bad at all). Plus, she's the main character and it's pretty much a given that she will have a lot of dates (although Samantha probably had more guys [and girls] than Carrie during the show and movies).

**** Personally, I think it comes more from the way some guys carried on about her (of course, most of them were 'dating' her, like that guy who kept going on about how hot she looked while reading), but it also holds that she's gotta have it going on if she's dating Big (the "hot Donald Trump"), Aiden and all those other handsome men over the course of the show. By contrast, Miranda dated many more homely-looking guys (amidst the usual handsome ones), Charlotte married Harry, etc. They don't portray her as a sex goddess, but to be frank, most men don't find Sarah Jessica Parker attractive. Certainly nobody I know does. At all. ''FamilyGuy'' and ''SouthPark'' can be a little mean and over-the-top in their insults towards actreses' appearances, but this is one case that the general "male opinion" is on their side, at least as far as the people I know, and almost every comment I've ever read online, goes.

* I had the show on in the background while I was doing something else and it was an episode where Carrie is struggling to make ends meet after breaking up with an ex and losing a good chunk of her money and laments about having to *gasp* ''ride a bus'' that just so happens to have an ad for her column on it. (Something you rarely ever see an ad for.) This is all while she apparently has enough money to live in her own apartment on her own in a upper class neighborhood ''in New York City''... and she has an extensive collection of shoes that cost $300 a pair. Please. Cry me a fucking river.

** They must have talked about it and OK'd her doing it, because they do all know Carrie is a writer and can pick up her magazine just as easily as anyone else. They even celebrate her being used on a bus billboard. However, I'm betting she uses fake names for them, and we the viewers hearing their real names is just an affectation to avoid confusing new viewers. On the boyfriend front, she may just "forget" to mention exactly what kind of articles she writes, or flat out ask them between scenes if they're OK with it. What she may do to avoid contaminating the relationship is "archive" the articles from ongoing relationships either for when they die or until she gets an OK. Still, I've only watched a handful of episodes when my sister had control of the remote, [[OrSoIHear so... yeah.]]

** Well, Big smokes, is shallow, materialistic, and prone to cheating on his wife.... SoYeah. Plus, just a few paragraphs above you will see that Carrie ''isn't'' considered a "hot babe", she's considered a relatively good find as far as middle-aged Manhattan women go. Also she ended up quitting smoking around the time she started dating Aiden the first time.

** Well, Big smokes, is shallow, materialistic, and prone to cheating on his wife.... SoYeah. Plus, just a few paragraphs above you will see that Carrie ''isn't'' considered a "hot babe", she's considered a relatively good find as far as middle-aged Manhattan women go.

*** Hey boyfriends are fully aware of her column, and it was an issue when she dated a local politician who eventually became worried that dating a sex columnist would ruin his image. So, not using his real name, published her next column about his wanting of a golden shower, which she decided not to give him. SoYeah. Plus, the narration in the episode isn't supposed to be the entirety of the column, so no, she wouldn't have written about her affair.

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