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Author: marcoasalazarm

Jan 31st 2013 at 7:01:42 AM

'Home Alone' and the many, *many* rip-offs of it are a good example. Sure, the bad guys may be deserving of some pain, but FridgeLogic can make you think that those traps are pretty damn lethal, and if not PlayedForLaughs, the kid would probably get a counter-sue as high as attempted murder.

Seriously, a court of law in real life may not react very well if you tell them that you 'self-defensed' yourself by dropping an active lawnmower on someone, no matter how much of a crook the other guy is.

Another example: TheSimpsons, the episode with George Bush (senior) as a guest character. The first act of the episode has Bart floating around the former president as a wanna-be Dennis The Menace, simply raising havoc and Mr. Bush being unable to do more than fume while his wife is oblivious about Bart's antics and thinking he's a nice kid.

So when Bart shreds Mr. Bush's auto-biography, the former president has had enough and spanks Bart's bottom *once* before sending him home to 'think about what he had done'.

Bart's response: go to Homer and tell him that Mr. Bush had hit him, making both guys (who had been chums during the first act) go on the (increasingly serious) warpath. At least *once* during the next two acts, Mr. Bush tells Homer that Bart deserved it because of destroying his auto-biography and other havoc and wants an apology, but Bart doesn't wants to give it and Homer doesn't cares about it-Bush hit his kid, and Homer wants payback (hypocritical because, you know, the throttlings).