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  • B.Z's nail teddy bears. How did he get the nails, broken glass and sawdust inside the toys? Even with automation you still need to bring a significant number of workers, designers and managers in on this. Did none of them decide that this man was loopy enough that it was worth risking their job to preemptively call the police? Did no one realize that the obvious criminal charges that would be filed the moment someone found out (to say nothing of the civil suits)? For that matter, why did he do it? Did he not realize that this would financially ruin his company and drag its name so far into the mud that it would never see daylight?
    • Like everything he does, For the Evulz.
    • The nails and glass were deliberate, but not just For the Evulz. The bears are clearly supposed to make a bell-like noise when you shake them. B.Z.'s just so amoral that he decided the tinkly noise may as well be made out of nails and glass since they were cheaper than bells.
    • Sawdust used to actually be very common as stuffing for soft toys (it's what the Velveteen Rabbit was stuffed with). It was no longer used by the 80's but it shows just how cheap B.Z. is.
    • B.Z. is basically a psychopath, so he honestly thinks he is being very clever by making these dangerously cheap products and making money off of them and really does think he can get away with it because he is just that arrogant and self-centred.
  • What was the point of the Super Dooper Looper at the climax?
    • The Patchmobile was behind Santa's Sleigh in the climax (Santa overtook them) right before the candy canes exploded. There was no way to turn around to catch Patch and Joe and they had to clear the explosion so they couldn't slow down, plus they had to get UNDERNEATH them to catch them. By doing a loop they cleared the explosion, and were in position to catch Patch and Joe as they fell.
  • Why exactly did the police arrest B.Z., Grizzard, and Towzer? Yes, Cornelia told the police... but by the time they arrived at the factory, Patch and Joe had already left. There was absolutely no evidence the kidnapping even took place.
    • Might be a bit of Fridge Horror- perhaps some of the candy canes had already exploded and killed some people, and the police pretty quickly traced this back to the owner.
      • Or when Cornelia told the police, someone tossed one of the candy canes in a fire in a barrel and retreated to see if she was telling the truth. Boom, she was, off they go.
  • How is B.Z. able to breathe and talk while in space?
    • Rule of Funny? They had to show his eventual fate, and screaming and pinwheeling in space is more child-appropriate than (realistically) lying limp and dead.
    • Patch's candy is magic, and B.Z. had eaten a lot of it. Its powers may, at such a large dose, include keeping someone alive in space - at least for a while.
  • If Patch has teleportation powers as shown in B.Z.'s office, why couldn't he transport himself from the flying car to Santa's sleigh or any other safe place?
    • He could, but not without abandoning Joe in the car - Joe didn't know how to fly it, so leaving him there without what control Patch still had over it would have meant his certain death. Whatever his faults, Patch would rather die trying (however vainly) to save Joe than abandon him to save himself.

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