History Fridge / Fargo

* Marge's meeting in the city with her old classmate Mike. At first the scene seems extraneous, but when Marge learns the truth behind Mike's dialogue the next day, during a phone call from her friend in Brainerd, she has the most subtle EurekaMoment and is able to look at Jerry in a different way. Noted in [[http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20010405/REVIEWS08/104050301/1023 Ebert's Great Movies retrospective]] of the movie.

* [[Fridge/FargoSeasonTwo Season 2]]

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* In season two, Lou reads Molly a story that seems overly gruesome for a children's book. Lou begins to question its appropriateness, but Molly seems unperturbed. Molly will eventually go on to become a canny policewoman.
* In episode 7 of Season 2, Mike Milligan reminisces about how the word "revolution" [[FunWithHomophones has two meanings]]: either as an overthrow of another power, or a planet making a complete orbit around another celestial object. At first, it just seems like one of the usual nonsensical tangents Mike usually goes off on. However, come the final episode, the conversation is all-important to understanding Mike's final predicament. [[spoiler: The revolution he was doing against the Gerhardts was not the "overthrow" kind, but the "full-circle" kind. [[FullCircleRevolution His success against them just leave him back where he started: As an underappreciated employee for the Kansas City Mafia that's stuck doing a job he hates]].]]

* In season two, Lou reads Molly a story that seems overly gruesome for a children's book. Lou begins to question its appropriateness, but Molly seems unperturbed. Molly will eventually go on to become a canny policewoman.

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* Fridge Brilliance: Grimsrud seemed a lot easier to capture than you would expect a psychotic giant with several recent murders under his belt to be. But it's established in an earlier scene (when he's kidnapping Jeane Lundergaard,) that he's extremely sensitive to pain. After being very slightly wounded by Jeane, he drops everything he's doing and heads straight to the bathroom medicine cabinet to tend to his hand. Likewise, when wounded by Marge, he probably meekly went along with her to her police car so that he could get medical attention as quickly as possible. [[NoCountryForOldMen Anton Chigurh]] this guy AIN'T.

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* Charlie will get out in five years and undeniably attempt to dissuade himself from the family's legacy.

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* Though Simone escaped from Schmidt's clutches in the elevator, it was probably the best...for the latter.
* The second series begins with Judge Munt telling a truncated version of the Book of Job, the point being that her mind is as unchangeable as Job's was, no matter what the devil said. At the end of the series, the Gerhardts - standing in mutually for Job - were totally unconvinced by the Devilish Mike Milligan, and their one survivor, Hanzee, is fated to build a new empire just as God gave Job a new family. One could even see the UFO's final-act appearance as a stand-in for God, since their narrative importance is solely to remind the characters of how big the universe is around them.