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That's the default answer for some questions on the [[Headscratchers/HomePage Headscratchers]] section. Question such as:

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That's the default answer for some questions on the [[Headscratchers/HomePage Headscratchers]] section. Question Questions such as:
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* [[WhyDontYaJustShootHim Why didn't the villain just shoot the hero with a gun]]?

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* [[WhyDontYaJustShootHim [[WhyDontYouJustShootHim Why didn't the villain just shoot the hero with a gun]]?



Except if you're in JustBugsMe/RealLife. Then the answer may be:


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Except if you're in JustBugsMe/RealLife.RealLife. Then the answer may be:

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That's the default answer for some questions on the {{Headscratchers}} section. Question such as:

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That's the default answer for some questions on the {{Headscratchers}} [[Headscratchers/HomePage Headscratchers]] section. Question such as:
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See Also: IdiotBall. Yeah, now you know. AndKnowingIsHalfTheBattle.

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See Also: also: IdiotBall. Yeah, now you know. AndKnowingIsHalfTheBattle.
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* [[ViewersAreMorons People are stupid.]]

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* [[ViewersAreMorons People are stupid.]]
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See also the AnthropicPrinciple and the TheoryOfNarrativeCausality, and always bear in mind the MST3KMantra.
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"PlotInducedStupidity".

That's the default answer for some questions on ItJustBugsMe section. Question such as:

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"PlotInducedStupidity".

"Because the plot needed it so".

That's the default answer for some questions on ItJustBugsMe the {{Headscratchers}} section. Question such as:



And if you want to go Smarrty Pants on us, the more cynical version of the answer is: the writers decided to put it there (and as far as fiction goes, they are gods).

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And if you want to go Smarrty Smarty Pants on us, the more cynical version of the answer is: the writers decided to put it there (and as far as fiction goes, they are gods).
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"PlotInducedStupidity".

That's the default answer for some questions on ItJustBugsMe section. Question such as:

* Why didn't Anderson do Y instead of X, that gave chance to Ben to foil his plans?
* Why didn't Alice just tell Bob that "Y" meant "You", not "Year" right at the start?
* [[WhyDontYaJustShootHim Why didn't the villain just shoot the hero with a gun]]?

And if you want to go Smarrty Pants on us, the more cynical version of the answer is: the writers decided to put it there (and as far as fiction goes, they are gods).
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Except if you're in JustBugsMe/RealLife. Then the answer may be:

* RealityIsUnrealistic.
* Nature just doesn't work that way.
* "People are tricky" -- Aimee Mann
* Because you touch yourself at night. "When I think of you, I touch myself." - Divinyls
* [[ViewersAreMorons People are stupid.]]
* "Donald, when someone asks 'Why do they?' or 'Why don't they?', [[MoneyDearBoy the answer is almost always, 'Money']]." - Maureen Johnson, in Creator/RobertAHeinlein's ''Literature/ToSailBeyondTheSunset''

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See Also: IdiotBall. Yeah, now you know. AndKnowingIsHalfTheBattle.
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