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** When Sara informs the JSA that Gideon is a talking computer, Rex asks "What's a computer?" He'd be more likely to ask "What's so special about a talking computer?" Computer was a job title in the 40s: someone who does computations. Same for a calculator, another job title: someone who does calculations. Mechanical calculators existed and were great at addition, slow at subtraction, good at multiplication, and kept breaking down when they attempted long division. AcceptableBreaksFromReality time: turning the joke around by basing it on the real situation in the forties would have required too much set-up.

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** When Sara informs the JSA that Gideon is a talking computer, Rex asks "What's a computer?" He'd be more likely to ask "What's so special about a talking computer?" Computer was a job title in the 40s: TheForties: someone who does computations. Same for a calculator, another job title: someone who does calculations. Mechanical calculators existed and were great at addition, slow at subtraction, good at multiplication, and kept breaking down when they attempted long division. AcceptableBreaksFromReality time: turning the joke around by basing it on the real situation in the forties would have required too much set-up.
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** Stein gives the exact same advice to his backing musician as in ''Film/BackToTheFuture'', also about a song from some years in the future.

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** Stein gives the exact same advice to his backing musician as in ''Film/BackToTheFuture'', ''Film/BackToTheFuture1'', also about a song from some years in the future.

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