History Fridge / Pleasantville

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*** Jennifer states that she intends to stay for a while not forever and David said he would check up on her from time to time since the repair man never reclaimed the magic remote there is nothing to stop David from going back to visit or retrieve Jennifer at the end of the series.

** The changes weren't all kicked off by Jennifer. David tells Bill that it's ok for him to start cooking fries without him and encourages Bill to do the cooking himself, which changes Bill's character significantly. The changes by David are just a lot subtler than the ones done by Jennifer.

[[AC:FridgeLogic]]
* At the end, Jennifer decides to stay for a while and study, and David goes back, promising to visit. But all that time in Pleasantville only lasted a half-hour. So really, Jennifer could stay for weeks in Pleasantville - maybe months - and come back just a couple of hours later at the end of the series. Her degrees wouldn't count in the real world, but she would learn how to study, and probably learn other things. So she would be able to come back.

*** Jennifer states that she intends to stay for a while not forever and David said he would check up on her from time to time since the repair man never reclaimed the magic remote there is nothing to stop David from going back to visit or retrieve Jennifer at a later time.
*** Also, the events of the movie transpire over the course of an hour in the real world and at least a few days in Pleasantville. Jennifer/Mary Sue could finish college by the end of the marathon and never be missed.

*** Jennifer states that she intends to stay for a while not forever and David said he would check up on her form time to time since the repair man never reclaimed the magic remote there is nothing to stop David from going back to visit or retrieve Jennifer at a later time.

* FridgeHorror: The TV repairman doesn't seem surprised at ''all'' that David and Jennifer ended up in Pleasantville, does he? And he never acts to try and get them out either, despite offering to consider it once or twice if they asked nicely. Toward the end, the repairman wants Bud to leave so he can "make everybody happy again". How many other kids have ended up in Pleasantville and been the subject or cause of incomplete revolutions? Where are they now? Did the town do a hard reset each time?

[[AC:FridgeLogic]]

* Wow the mom is in color now! Great huh? Until you realise gaining colour is usually associated with sex, [[ADateWithRosiePalms her husband was still black and white]]
** Gaining colour was associated with CharacterDevelopment. The husband gained colour when he felt real love for the first time. With regards to sex, the mom said her husband "would never do that kind of thing" for her, meaning he is oblivious of sex as much as she was. Hence the bathtub scene and [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotSymbolic the tree bursting into flames]].
** The above is correct. Though it's quite clear what she's doing in the bathtub but not everybody who had sex was in colour and not everybody who was in colour ended that way because of sex. Bud's change occur when Bud he defends his TV mom from the bullies and Mary-Sue's when she decides to study instead of having sex.
* A rare in-universe example, all over the place with the show. Highlighted once they enter the show's world where the things never addressed in the show simply don't exist. There are [[NobodyPoops no toilets]], there's literally nothing outside of Pleasantville, and the residents [[NoHuggingNoKissing don't even know what sex is]]. And of course, the entire world is actually monochromatic.
** Out of universe: If there's nothing outside Pleasantville, where did the opposing basketball team come from? At the very least, without any roads leading out, how did they get in?
*** [[EpilepticTrees They're cross-town rivals.]]
*** Another explanation: they get in off-screen. The citizens know about the USA, they just don't need to go there.

* On ''{{Pleasantville}}'', the two protagonists are TrappedInTVLand and teach the citizens of TV Land to be more real, implying that everyone in the eponymous town was a real person who just needed to be "fleshed out", so to speak. But to do so, they take the place of Bud and Mary Sue, the children from the TV Show. Mary Sue is literally PutOnABus to a college that showed up when the world became, well, realized. But this doesn't solve the problem with Bud, since David went back to the real world... and even worse, it creates a new Fridge Horror: ''Jennifer/Mary Sue never returned to the real world.'' Surely ''someone'' would have noticed at some point?

** Gaining colour was associated with CharacterDevelopment. The husband gained colour when he felt real love for the first time. With regards to sex, the mom said her husband "would never do that kind of thing" for her, meaning he is oblivious of sex as much as she was. Hence the bathtub scene and [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotSymbolic the tree bursting into flames]].

** Gaining colour was associated with CharacterDevelopment. The husband gained colour when he felt real love for the first time. With regards to sex, the mom said her husband [[IfYouKnowWhatIMean "would never do that kind of thing]]" for her, meaning he is oblivious of sex as much as she was. Hence the bathtub scene and [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotSymbolic the tree bursting into flames]].

* Wow the mom is in color now! Great huh? Until you realise gaining colour is usually associated with sex, [[ADateWithRosiePalms her husband was still black and white]]

** I just assumed that the real Bud and Mary Sue were in the real world, and learnt the same lessons from the other end.