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* Why did Lewis wait until the day of the science fair to test out his invention? If he was sure it would work, wouldn't it make more sense to test it on himself, find his mom, and either not worry about the fair or show up with an invention he know will work? Then, when it malfunctioned, he wouldn't have had such a meltdown thinking it was a failure.
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** They may not have planned to adopt until they met Lewis. They may have been perfectly fine with just the two of them, especially since they have such wacky personalities they would need just the right fit for a kid. Lucille in particular mentions near the beginning that she "doesn't get out of that lab much", so her job likely took up a lot of her attention. But Lewis made such a good impression on the two of them, and has a similar scientific mind to Lucille, so they decided to reconsider and start the adoption process. Heck, the fact that they know Mildred might have sped the process along more.
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*** Lewis himself knows that information, so it's likely what Mildred just made his birthday since she'd have no way of knowing what it really was. Presumably, Cornelius has talked about the first use of the Memory Scanner to his son, and about the first memory he saw with it. As long as Wilbur knows A) how old his dad is and B) his dad's birthday, he has all the information he needs.
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** Except we know it didn't, since we see the future she desired- she was simply able to slip time just like Goob did.
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** Adoption is also not an easy process. You don't just show up and just get a kid within days, there's a process. More on the "bad luck" idea, it's possible any parents who tried to adopt Lewis wound up with complications, like a job loss, job change/moving, failed background checks, a death in the family that made them cancel, divorce, no stable home, no home at all suddenly, parents wanted a girl, the process becoming too expensive, the woman falling pregnant... there could be dozens of reasons. My best bet is honestly on the last two being the frequent problems with the others sprinkled in. It's also possible that at the time, the 30th Street Orphanage wasn't seeing a lot of people looking to adopt/adopt a boy.
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* Why... didn't Bud and Lucille go to Mildred a long time ago? Lucille ''knows'' Mildred, she was one of her bridesmaids.
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* Why does Lewis refuse to change his own past by not preventing his mother abandoning him, but just minutes later he changes Goob’s past?
** Lewis and Goob have very different futures. Lewis saw his perfect future and he knows how to get there (repair the mind-scanner and get adopted by Lucille Krunklehorn). Changing twelve years of his past would jeopardize this future. Bowler Hat Guy, on the other hand, has spent most of his life hating Lewis and has not done anything with himself. When Lewis tries to give him a better future with the Robinsons, BHG refuses because he believes it’s too late for him. Thus changing his past is a better option.
** Lewis and Goob have very different futures. Lewis saw his perfect future and he knows how to get there (repair the mind-scanner and get adopted by Lucille Krunklehorn). Changing twelve years of his past would jeopardize this future. Bowler Hat Guy, on the other hand, has spent most of his life hating Lewis and has not done anything with himself. When Lewis tries to give him a better future with the Robinsons, BHG refuses because he believes it’s too late for him. Thus changing his past is a better option.
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* Out of all the failed adoption interviews Lewis has, why has Goob not had a go at the couples who don't want Lewis? Particularly the couple that asks Lewis what his favorite sport is since Goob is into baseball?
** He actually does have a go at that couple, but it's after he's become embittered by missing the catch, so it puts them off. Lewis might be prioritized in terms of scheduling if he's older, since as pointed out he's going to only have a harder time getting adopted with each passing year.
* "No hats at the dinner table"...except for Lazlo and Tallulah. And Billie. And Gaston. I know they needed Franny to almost discover Lewis' hair for plot reasons, but surely there was a better way for them to set it up?
** He actually does have a go at that couple, but it's after he's become embittered by missing the catch, so it puts them off. Lewis might be prioritized in terms of scheduling if he's older, since as pointed out he's going to only have a harder time getting adopted with each passing year.
* "No hats at the dinner table"...except for Lazlo and Tallulah. And Billie. And Gaston. I know they needed Franny to almost discover Lewis' hair for plot reasons, but surely there was a better way for them to set it up?
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** He actually does have a go at that couple, but it's after he's become embittered by missing the catch, so it puts them off. Lewis might be prioritized in terms of scheduling if he's older, since as pointed out he's going to only have a harder time getting adopted with each passing year.
* "No hats at the dinner table"...except for Lazlo and Tallulah. And Billie. And Gaston. I know they needed Franny to almost discover Lewis' hair for plot reasons, but surely there was a better way for them to set it up?
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* In the first ten minutes of the film, Goob can be heard saying that his little league team has "lost every game." Yet, missing ''one catch'' has somehow cost the Dinos the championship and turned Goob bitter. Seriously?
** Maybe the Dinos managed to start winning after that line of Goob's.
** Goob is a bit of an UnreliableNarrator. Granted the kids got mad at him for falling asleep during a game, but there's no reason to believe they genuinely hated him, especially after the following line, and his non-sequiturs when he grows up.
----> '''Kid One:''' Hi Goob, what up?
---->'''Kid Two:''' Hey Goob, you wanna hang out? Cool binder.
----> '''Older Goob:''' They all hated me.
** He actually says "we've been doing better recently" or something to that effect... thus, they'd improved enough to get into the cup...?
** Did anyone pay attention to the movie? In his first appearance Goob had bags under his eyes. Then there is the invention montage. Goob has most likely been kept up every single night since he was bunked with Lewis. He misses the baseball catch; but it's on the same day that Lewis patents an invention that makes him rich '''and gets adopted'''.
* How come the adults during Goob's baseball match didn't do anything to prevent the other kids beating up Goob for falling asleep?
** The adults can't be around 24/7; it likely took place in the changing room after the game (precisely because there'd be no adults around).
* How did Bowler Hat Guy get that huge dinosaur in his comparatively small time machine?
** Some feature on the machine that allows for expansion of the bubble the machine generates to travel the timestream?
* What's up with that one-eyed purple octo-butler?
** Quite possibly robotic, or maybe gene spliced.
** Animals just seemed to tame down quickly (and get AmplifiedAnimalAptitude) on the Robinson estate. Once Tiny the Tyrannosaur's mind-control hat was knocked off, for example, he fell into line almost immediately, rather then, well, continuing the sort of rampage you'd expect of a wild tyrannosaur. It would also nicely explain Franny's frogs.
** Maybe the Dinos managed to start winning after that line of Goob's.
** Goob is a bit of an UnreliableNarrator. Granted the kids got mad at him for falling asleep during a game, but there's no reason to believe they genuinely hated him, especially after the following line, and his non-sequiturs when he grows up.
----> '''Kid One:''' Hi Goob, what up?
---->'''Kid Two:''' Hey Goob, you wanna hang out? Cool binder.
----> '''Older Goob:''' They all hated me.
** He actually says "we've been doing better recently" or something to that effect... thus, they'd improved enough to get into the cup...?
** Did anyone pay attention to the movie? In his first appearance Goob had bags under his eyes. Then there is the invention montage. Goob has most likely been kept up every single night since he was bunked with Lewis. He misses the baseball catch; but it's on the same day that Lewis patents an invention that makes him rich '''and gets adopted'''.
* How come the adults during Goob's baseball match didn't do anything to prevent the other kids beating up Goob for falling asleep?
** The adults can't be around 24/7; it likely took place in the changing room after the game (precisely because there'd be no adults around).
* How did Bowler Hat Guy get that huge dinosaur in his comparatively small time machine?
** Some feature on the machine that allows for expansion of the bubble the machine generates to travel the timestream?
* What's up with that one-eyed purple octo-butler?
** Quite possibly robotic, or maybe gene spliced.
** Animals just seemed to tame down quickly (and get AmplifiedAnimalAptitude) on the Robinson estate. Once Tiny the Tyrannosaur's mind-control hat was knocked off, for example, he fell into line almost immediately, rather then, well, continuing the sort of rampage you'd expect of a wild tyrannosaur. It would also nicely explain Franny's frogs.
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* Why would Lewis change his name so easily?
** It's the start of Lewis' new life, that's a perfectly good reason to change your name - it's very symbolic.
** Not everyone likes or feels particularly attached to their birth name. There are plenty of kids (and adults) who would change theirs to something completely different given the chance.
** Also, Lewis knows that "Cornelius" is his name in the future, and he connects it to his positive memories of his future family. That would likely smooth over the transition.
** It's the start of Lewis' new life, that's a perfectly good reason to change your name - it's very symbolic.
** Not everyone likes or feels particularly attached to their birth name. There are plenty of kids (and adults) who would change theirs to something completely different given the chance.
** Also, Lewis knows that "Cornelius" is his name in the future, and he connects it to his positive memories of his future family. That would likely smooth over the transition.
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* If Doris could control people's minds, why didn't she just take over Goob and do everything herself?
** Animals and people act like zombies under Doris' control which would have raised suspicions. And what if the executives had requested Bowler Hat Guy take his hat off, a common courtesy?
** Animals and people act like zombies under Doris' control which would have raised suspicions. And what if the executives had requested Bowler Hat Guy take his hat off, a common courtesy?
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* Why did Lewis join Bowler Hat Guy anyway? He had the same story as Wilbur (I'll take you to your mom), and uh, I don't know, he's an obvious DastardlyWhiplash! He fell into the same trap twice! Nice going, Future Albert Einstein...
** At that time, he's very angry, upset, and not thinking clearly. He's only...what, 12? They're notorious for making bad decisions when they're that angry. Consider this: He spent the whole movie believing that Wilbur would take him to see his mother, only to have Wilbur casually shoot the promise dead on the spot. No doubt Lewis is feeling betrayed and used. Not to mention that the family, mere seconds after accepting him into the family, tell him to go.
* During the "Another Believer" sequence, we keep seeing Lewis take home wagonloads of invention parts from that shop. Where does a ward of the state get the pocket money to buy all that stuff?
** Kids can do errands for money. He might have done kid work (like cleaning and organizing) at the school for spare cash. If he had a habit of saving up, he could have a nice little stash for when he needed spare parts. And the parts could have been cheap or discounted.
** At that time, he's very angry, upset, and not thinking clearly. He's only...what, 12? They're notorious for making bad decisions when they're that angry. Consider this: He spent the whole movie believing that Wilbur would take him to see his mother, only to have Wilbur casually shoot the promise dead on the spot. No doubt Lewis is feeling betrayed and used. Not to mention that the family, mere seconds after accepting him into the family, tell him to go.
* During the "Another Believer" sequence, we keep seeing Lewis take home wagonloads of invention parts from that shop. Where does a ward of the state get the pocket money to buy all that stuff?
** Kids can do errands for money. He might have done kid work (like cleaning and organizing) at the school for spare cash. If he had a habit of saving up, he could have a nice little stash for when he needed spare parts. And the parts could have been cheap or discounted.
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* Aunt Petunia is a hand puppet. Uncle Fritz is human. How the heck could they have children?!
** Fritz marries a woman called Petunia, who has children with him. But, a few years later, she dies. Fritz, unable to deal with the death of his wife, begins to project his understanding of her personality into a hand puppet. The others probably just play along because, hey, he's hurting no-one.
** Fritz marries a woman called Petunia, who has children with him. But, a few years later, she dies. Fritz, unable to deal with the death of his wife, begins to project his understanding of her personality into a hand puppet. The others probably just play along because, hey, he's hurting no-one.
* So Bowler Hat Guy goes off into Lewis's dorm to capture him, only to find Goob, AKA his past self. As we know, Bowler Hat Guy is a Goob who didn't learn to let things go. However, when meeting up with his past self, past Goob ''is'' learning to let things go. When Bowler Hat Guy rambles on telling him otherwise, Goob puts on a FlatWhat. With this Goob clearly willing to move on, but Bowler Hat Guy being the version of him who hadn't, how would this timeline work?
** Perhaps in the original timeline (without any time travel) what tipped Goob over the edge was that Lewis got adopted on the same day he lost the game, which was where got the idea that if he'd only caught the ball it would've been him that got adopted instead of Lewis. But with Wilbur interfering Lewis was never there so Goob didn't experience anger that Lewis 'robbed' his adoption.
** Perhaps in the original timeline (without any time travel) what tipped Goob over the edge was that Lewis got adopted on the same day he lost the game, which was where got the idea that if he'd only caught the ball it would've been him that got adopted instead of Lewis. But with Wilbur interfering Lewis was never there so Goob didn't experience anger that Lewis 'robbed' his adoption.
* So what happened to the second working time machine at the end, since we don't see it anymore? Is it just forever stuck in the present time?
** Cornelius could have taken the first time machine back to get it.
* How does Wilbur know when Lewis was abandoned by his Birth Mom?
** He is Lewis' son and it's possible that the orphanage recorded the date he was found and the family knew that info.
* When Wilbur is roped into helping young Franny into gathering her frogs up, he is obviously annoyed with her, even pulling a NotNowKiddo...[[LittleMissBadass or rather]] [[IKnowKungFu trying to]]. However when we see Wilbur next to the adult Franny, it becomes clear that [[GenerationXerox he looks]] [[DistaffCounterpart like a male version of her]]. Why did he not realize that the girl he was helping looked a lot like his mom?...to say nothing of her having a bunch of ''frogs'' and the fact that he was there in the first place to find the younger version of ''his dad''.
** The same reason you have no idea where (insert item here) is until seeing it for the third time when looking, and change blindness. The former is because you forget certain things when you do them by muscle memory, and the latter is because if it's similar enough to what you remember, your brain ignores it. His brain was on "power-saver" and he was focused on the task "Find Dad".
** Either that, or he does know who she is but decides to ignore her since he was there to find Lewis/Cornelius.
** [[https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/disney/images/2/21/Crazy.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20190314034141 Young Franny]] looks much different from her adult self--no cowlick, for one, and her voice is obviously completely different. Both Wilbur and his mom have oval faces, but young Franny has a very round face (accentuated by her side pigtails). In short, there was nothing that could tip off Wilbur to the fact that the girl was his mom, especially while he was just meeting her in passing.
* If Doris had succeeded in her plan to sabotage Lewis's invention at the science fair, he might have given up being an inventor. Which means that he would have never invented her. She was inadvertently arranging her own non-existence.
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[[folder: The Robinsons]]
** Cornelius could have taken the first time machine back to get it.
* How does Wilbur know when Lewis was abandoned by his Birth Mom?
** He is Lewis' son and it's possible that the orphanage recorded the date he was found and the family knew that info.
* When Wilbur is roped into helping young Franny into gathering her frogs up, he is obviously annoyed with her, even pulling a NotNowKiddo...[[LittleMissBadass or rather]] [[IKnowKungFu trying to]]. However when we see Wilbur next to the adult Franny, it becomes clear that [[GenerationXerox he looks]] [[DistaffCounterpart like a male version of her]]. Why did he not realize that the girl he was helping looked a lot like his mom?...to say nothing of her having a bunch of ''frogs'' and the fact that he was there in the first place to find the younger version of ''his dad''.
** The same reason you have no idea where (insert item here) is until seeing it for the third time when looking, and change blindness. The former is because you forget certain things when you do them by muscle memory, and the latter is because if it's similar enough to what you remember, your brain ignores it. His brain was on "power-saver" and he was focused on the task "Find Dad".
** Either that, or he does know who she is but decides to ignore her since he was there to find Lewis/Cornelius.
** [[https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/disney/images/2/21/Crazy.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20190314034141 Young Franny]] looks much different from her adult self--no cowlick, for one, and her voice is obviously completely different. Both Wilbur and his mom have oval faces, but young Franny has a very round face (accentuated by her side pigtails). In short, there was nothing that could tip off Wilbur to the fact that the girl was his mom, especially while he was just meeting her in passing.
* If Doris had succeeded in her plan to sabotage Lewis's invention at the science fair, he might have given up being an inventor. Which means that he would have never invented her. She was inadvertently arranging her own non-existence.
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[[folder: The Robinsons]]
* Why would Lewis change his name so easily?
** It's the start of Lewis' new life, that's a perfectly good reason to change your name - it's very symbolic.
** Not everyone likes or feels particularly attached to their birth name. There are plenty of kids (and adults) who would change theirs to something completely different given the chance.
** Also, Lewis knows that "Cornelius" is his name in the future, and he connects it to his positive memories of his future family. That would likely smooth over the transition.
* "No hats at the dinner table"...except for Lazlo and Tallulah. And Billie. And Gaston. I know they needed Franny to almost discover Lewis' hair for plot reasons, but surely there was a better way for them to set it up?
* Aunt Petunia is a hand puppet. Uncle Fritz is human. How the heck could they have children?!
** Fritz marries a woman called Petunia, who has children with him. But, a few years later, she dies. Fritz, unable to deal with the death of his wife, begins to project his understanding of her personality into a hand puppet. The others probably just play along because, hey, he's hurting no-one.
* What's up with that one-eyed purple octo-butler?
** Quite possibly robotic, or maybe gene spliced.
** Animals just seemed to tame down quickly (and get AmplifiedAnimalAptitude) on the Robinson estate. Once Tiny the Tyrannosaur's mind-control hat was knocked off, for example, he fell into line almost immediately, rather then, well, continuing the sort of rampage you'd expect of a wild tyrannosaur. It would also nicely explain Franny's frogs.
* If Bud, Joe, and Fritz are brothers, why do Joe and Fritz look middle aged when Bud is an old man?
** Maybe he was born almost a decade before they were. It's rare, but it does happen.
* How did Lewis find out Bud, Fritz and Joe are brothers, Gaston and Art are Franny's brothers and Billie is Joe's wife?
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[[folder: Other]]
* Out of all the failed adoption interviews Lewis has, why has Goob not had a go at the couples who don't want Lewis? Particularly the couple that asks Lewis what his favorite sport is since Goob is into baseball?
** He actually does have a go at that couple, but it's after he's become embittered by missing the catch, so it puts them off. Lewis might be prioritized in terms of scheduling if he's older, since as pointed out he's going to only have a harder time getting adopted with each passing year.
* In the first ten minutes of the film, Goob can be heard saying that his little league team has "lost every game." Yet, missing ''one catch'' has somehow cost the Dinos the championship and turned Goob bitter. Seriously?
** Maybe the Dinos managed to start winning after that line of Goob's.
** Goob is a bit of an UnreliableNarrator. Granted the kids got mad at him for falling asleep during a game, but there's no reason to believe they genuinely hated him, especially after the following line, and his non-sequiturs when he grows up.
----> '''Kid One:''' Hi Goob, what up?
---->'''Kid Two:''' Hey Goob, you wanna hang out? Cool binder.
----> '''Older Goob:''' They all hated me.
** He actually says "we've been doing better recently" or something to that effect... thus, they'd improved enough to get into the cup...?
** Did anyone pay attention to the movie? In his first appearance Goob had bags under his eyes. Then there is the invention montage. Goob has most likely been kept up every single night since he was bunked with Lewis. He misses the baseball catch; but it's on the same day that Lewis patents an invention that makes him rich '''and gets adopted'''.
* How come the adults during Goob's baseball match didn't do anything to prevent the other kids beating up Goob for falling asleep?
** The adults can't be around 24/7; it likely took place in the changing room after the game (precisely because there'd be no adults around).
* How did Bowler Hat Guy get that huge dinosaur in his comparatively small time machine?
** Some feature on the machine that allows for expansion of the bubble the machine generates to travel the timestream?
* If Doris could control people's minds, why didn't she just take over Goob and do everything herself?
** Animals and people act like zombies under Doris' control which would have raised suspicions. And what if the executives had requested Bowler Hat Guy take his hat off, a common courtesy?
* Why did Lewis join Bowler Hat Guy anyway? He had the same story as Wilbur (I'll take you to your mom), and uh, I don't know, he's an obvious DastardlyWhiplash! He fell into the same trap twice! Nice going, Future Albert Einstein...
** At that time, he's very angry, upset, and not thinking clearly. He's only...what, 12? They're notorious for making bad decisions when they're that angry. Consider this: He spent the whole movie believing that Wilbur would take him to see his mother, only to have Wilbur casually shoot the promise dead on the spot. No doubt Lewis is feeling betrayed and used. Not to mention that the family, mere seconds after accepting him into the family, tell him to go.
* During the "Another Believer" sequence, we keep seeing Lewis take home wagonloads of invention parts from that shop. Where does a ward of the state get the pocket money to buy all that stuff?
** Kids can do errands for money. He might have done kid work (like cleaning and organizing) at the school for spare cash. If he had a habit of saving up, he could have a nice little stash for when he needed spare parts. And the parts could have been cheap or discounted.
** It's the start of Lewis' new life, that's a perfectly good reason to change your name - it's very symbolic.
** Not everyone likes or feels particularly attached to their birth name. There are plenty of kids (and adults) who would change theirs to something completely different given the chance.
** Also, Lewis knows that "Cornelius" is his name in the future, and he connects it to his positive memories of his future family. That would likely smooth over the transition.
* "No hats at the dinner table"...except for Lazlo and Tallulah. And Billie. And Gaston. I know they needed Franny to almost discover Lewis' hair for plot reasons, but surely there was a better way for them to set it up?
* Aunt Petunia is a hand puppet. Uncle Fritz is human. How the heck could they have children?!
** Fritz marries a woman called Petunia, who has children with him. But, a few years later, she dies. Fritz, unable to deal with the death of his wife, begins to project his understanding of her personality into a hand puppet. The others probably just play along because, hey, he's hurting no-one.
* What's up with that one-eyed purple octo-butler?
** Quite possibly robotic, or maybe gene spliced.
** Animals just seemed to tame down quickly (and get AmplifiedAnimalAptitude) on the Robinson estate. Once Tiny the Tyrannosaur's mind-control hat was knocked off, for example, he fell into line almost immediately, rather then, well, continuing the sort of rampage you'd expect of a wild tyrannosaur. It would also nicely explain Franny's frogs.
* If Bud, Joe, and Fritz are brothers, why do Joe and Fritz look middle aged when Bud is an old man?
** Maybe he was born almost a decade before they were. It's rare, but it does happen.
* How did Lewis find out Bud, Fritz and Joe are brothers, Gaston and Art are Franny's brothers and Billie is Joe's wife?
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[[folder: Other]]
* Out of all the failed adoption interviews Lewis has, why has Goob not had a go at the couples who don't want Lewis? Particularly the couple that asks Lewis what his favorite sport is since Goob is into baseball?
** He actually does have a go at that couple, but it's after he's become embittered by missing the catch, so it puts them off. Lewis might be prioritized in terms of scheduling if he's older, since as pointed out he's going to only have a harder time getting adopted with each passing year.
* In the first ten minutes of the film, Goob can be heard saying that his little league team has "lost every game." Yet, missing ''one catch'' has somehow cost the Dinos the championship and turned Goob bitter. Seriously?
** Maybe the Dinos managed to start winning after that line of Goob's.
** Goob is a bit of an UnreliableNarrator. Granted the kids got mad at him for falling asleep during a game, but there's no reason to believe they genuinely hated him, especially after the following line, and his non-sequiturs when he grows up.
----> '''Kid One:''' Hi Goob, what up?
---->'''Kid Two:''' Hey Goob, you wanna hang out? Cool binder.
----> '''Older Goob:''' They all hated me.
** He actually says "we've been doing better recently" or something to that effect... thus, they'd improved enough to get into the cup...?
** Did anyone pay attention to the movie? In his first appearance Goob had bags under his eyes. Then there is the invention montage. Goob has most likely been kept up every single night since he was bunked with Lewis. He misses the baseball catch; but it's on the same day that Lewis patents an invention that makes him rich '''and gets adopted'''.
* How come the adults during Goob's baseball match didn't do anything to prevent the other kids beating up Goob for falling asleep?
** The adults can't be around 24/7; it likely took place in the changing room after the game (precisely because there'd be no adults around).
* How did Bowler Hat Guy get that huge dinosaur in his comparatively small time machine?
** Some feature on the machine that allows for expansion of the bubble the machine generates to travel the timestream?
* If Doris could control people's minds, why didn't she just take over Goob and do everything herself?
** Animals and people act like zombies under Doris' control which would have raised suspicions. And what if the executives had requested Bowler Hat Guy take his hat off, a common courtesy?
* Why did Lewis join Bowler Hat Guy anyway? He had the same story as Wilbur (I'll take you to your mom), and uh, I don't know, he's an obvious DastardlyWhiplash! He fell into the same trap twice! Nice going, Future Albert Einstein...
** At that time, he's very angry, upset, and not thinking clearly. He's only...what, 12? They're notorious for making bad decisions when they're that angry. Consider this: He spent the whole movie believing that Wilbur would take him to see his mother, only to have Wilbur casually shoot the promise dead on the spot. No doubt Lewis is feeling betrayed and used. Not to mention that the family, mere seconds after accepting him into the family, tell him to go.
* During the "Another Believer" sequence, we keep seeing Lewis take home wagonloads of invention parts from that shop. Where does a ward of the state get the pocket money to buy all that stuff?
** Kids can do errands for money. He might have done kid work (like cleaning and organizing) at the school for spare cash. If he had a habit of saving up, he could have a nice little stash for when he needed spare parts. And the parts could have been cheap or discounted.
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* So Bowler Hat Guy goes off into Lewis's dorm to capture him, only to find Goob, AKA his past self. As we know, Bowler Hat Guy is a Goob who didn't learn to let things go. However, when meeting up with his past self, past Goob ''is'' learning to let things go. When Bowler Hat Guy rambles on telling him otherwise, Goob puts on a FlatWhat. With this Goob clearly willing to move on, but Bowler Hat Guy being the version of him who hadn't, how would this timeline work?
** Perhaps in the original timeline (without any time travel) what tipped Goob over the edge was that Lewis got adopted on the same day he lost the game, which was where got the idea that if he'd only caught the ball it would've been him that got adopted instead of Lewis. But with Wilbur interfering Lewis was never there so Goob didn't experience anger that Lewis 'robbed' his adoption.
** Perhaps in the original timeline (without any time travel) what tipped Goob over the edge was that Lewis got adopted on the same day he lost the game, which was where got the idea that if he'd only caught the ball it would've been him that got adopted instead of Lewis. But with Wilbur interfering Lewis was never there so Goob didn't experience anger that Lewis 'robbed' his adoption.
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* So what happened to the second working time machine at the end, since we don't see it anymore? Is it just forever stuck in the present time?
** Cornelius could have taken the first time machine back to get it.
* When Wilbur is roped into helping young Franny into gathering her frogs up, he is obviously annoyed with her, even pulling a NotNowKiddo...[[LittleMissBadass or rather]] [[IKnowKungFu trying to]]. However when we see Wilbur next to the adult Franny, it becomes clear that [[GenerationXerox he looks]] [[DistaffCounterpart like a male version of her]]. Why did he not realize that the girl he was helping looked a lot like his mom?...to say nothing of her having a bunch of ''frogs'' and the fact that he was there in the first place to find the younger version of ''his dad''.
** The same reason you have no idea where (insert item here) is until seeing it for the third time when looking, and change blindness. The former is because you forget certain things when you do them by muscle memory, and the latter is because if it's similar enough to what you remember, your brain ignores it. His brain was on "power-saver" and he was focused on the task "Find Dad".
** Either that, or he does know who she is but decides to ignore her since he was there to find Lewis/Cornelius.
** [[https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/disney/images/2/21/Crazy.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20190314034141 Young Franny]] looks much different from her adult self--no cowlick, for one, and her voice is obviously completely different. Both Wilbur and his mom have oval faces, but young Franny has a very round face (accentuated by her side pigtails). In short, there was nothing that could tip off Wilbur to the fact that the girl was his mom, especially while he was just meeting her in passing.
* If Doris had succeeded in her plan to sabotage Lewis's invention at the science fair, he might have given up being an inventor. Which means that he would have never invented her. She was inadvertently arranging her own non-existence.
* How does Wilbur know when Lewis was abandoned by his Birth Mom?
** He is Lewis' son and it's possible that the orphanage recorded the date he was found and the family knew that info.
* If Bud, Joe, and Fritz are brothers, why do Joe and Fritz look middle aged when Bud is an old man?
** Maybe he was born almost a decade before they were. It's rare, but it does happen.
* How did Lewis find out Bud, Fritz and Joe are brothers, Gaston and Art are Franny's brothers and Billie is Joe's wife?
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** It's very suspicious and unnatural looking. What's Doris to do if the executives requested Bowler Hat Guy take his hat off, a common courtesy?
* How does Lewis's/Cornelius's ''own wife'' not recognize him just because he's 12?
** Well, his face is considerably different when he's older. But even if they thought he reminded them of Cornelius, it would probably never occur to them their 12-year-old son had traveled to the future. It's too implausible. Note also that Wilbur was literally wrist-locked and stared down by his mother when she was a child, and he didn't notice.
* How does Lewis's/Cornelius's ''own wife'' not recognize him just because he's 12?
** Well, his face is considerably different when he's older. But even if they thought he reminded them of Cornelius, it would probably never occur to them their 12-year-old son had traveled to the future. It's too implausible. Note also that Wilbur was literally wrist-locked and stared down by his mother when she was a child, and he didn't notice.
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** It's very suspicious Animals and unnatural looking. What's Doris to do people act like zombies under Doris' control which would have raised suspicions. And what if the executives had requested Bowler Hat Guy take his hat off, a common courtesy?
* How does Lewis's/Cornelius's ''own wife'' not recognize him just because he's12?
** Well, his face is considerably different when he's older. But12, even though she knew him at that age?
** Even ifthey she thought he reminded them her of Cornelius, it would probably never occur to them their her that her 12-year-old son had traveled to the future. It's too implausible. Note also that Wilbur was literally wrist-locked and stared down by his mother when she was a child, and he didn't notice.
* How does Lewis's/Cornelius's ''own wife'' not recognize him just because he's
** Well, his face is considerably different when he's older. But
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** He probably turned into the new future's Goob and, as a result, was pulled into the future. The only reason he went to the present was to get revenge, something the new future Goob wouldn't need.
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* Why did Lewis join Bowler Hat Guy anyway? He had the same story as Wilbur (I'll take you to your mom), and uh, I' don't know, he's an obvious DastardlyWhiplash! He fell into the same trap twice! Nice going, Future Albert Einstein...
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* Why did Lewis join Bowler Hat Guy anyway? He had the same story as Wilbur (I'll take you to your mom), and uh, I' I don't know, he's an obvious DastardlyWhiplash! He fell into the same trap twice! Nice going, Future Albert Einstein...
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