I know Jordy's an idiot and it probably wouldn't have worked anyway, but why did he never consider attempting to shave the plants off of him?
I think the idea is that the plants aren't growing out of him like hair. His body is becoming plant matter, so "shaving off" the plants would require chopping off the infected body parts. He considers going to the doctor to deal with the problem but refuses out of fear that the doctor would do just that because it would hurt.
He's a lunkhead, plain and simple.
How did an Arctic expedition team manage to capture the ape monster and secure it in the crate?
No matter how dangerous the monster is it probably was no match for man made weapons. I think the bigger question was why did they kept it alive and how did it managed to survive as long as it did?
They probably wanted to study it, and thus fed it in its crate, but some kind of shipping mistake lead to the events of the film.
This troper always assumed that the expedition members subdued it somehow—shot it, beat it with clubs, whatever—and only thought it was dead (which explains why it was in a crate and not a stoutly built cage). Then once it got to Horlicks, the crate with Fluffy's "dead body" inside was stuck under the stairs and just forgotten (similar things have happened with amazing finds).
The most likely explanation is that the creature was found as a seeming corpse, in a profound state of anabiosis, hence why they crated it. Over the decades, it very slowly rehydrated but remained dormant until it got fresh air.
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In the episode "All Hallow's Eve", if the Golden Dragons rise once a year to get revenge, why didn't their killers just flee the country?
