History Headscratchers / TheNostalgiaChick

* Yet another baffling "Did we watch the same movie?" moment for me. In her review of ''The Worst Witch'', she talks about how she doesn't like "Chosen One" movies (with the exception of Harry Potter) and cites ''WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda'' as an example. Again, did we watch the same movie? Kung Fu Panda's message was pretty much that being the "chosen one" didn't automatically make you "super special awesome". That you actually have to work hard and use your own unique skills to achieve your goals.

* While I did find her skit about rules every MadScientist should follow to be pretty entertaining, I couldn't help but be [[{{Pun}} bugged]] by the fact that she utterly ''missed'' the Most Triumphant Example of "Don't put your dick in it". Four words, people-[[Film/TheRockyHorrorPictureShow Rocky. Horror. Picture. Show.]] I mean, the whole conflict of the movie was due to the fact that Frank (disguised as Brad) screwed Janet, Frank (now disguised as Janet) screwed Brad, Janet sees Brad and Frank together on a monitor, Janet feels betrayed and has sex with Rocky out of spite...Frank finds out and gets insanely jealous, and, well, you see where this is going. Plus, it doesn't help that Rocky was pretty much created for no other purpose other than for someone for Frank to fuck to his heart's content and that Rocky has no self-control of his libido...So why would Lindsay NOT include this as an example of "Don't put your dick in it"?
** Probably because Rocky Horror is more of a comedy than straight sci-fi. Also, she had plenty of other examples to choose from.
** And there's also the fact that the characters in ''Rocky Horror'' are all human, or at least humanoid, and therefore acceptable to stick you dick in it. It's far less acceptable to stick your dick in, say, the pseudo-homunculus from ''Film/{{Splice}}'', or a dish-doing robot slave.
* I'm just sorta curious if anyone else noticed this - I don't watch her reviews too often, only I saw a few of them recently and noticed something. Does anyone else think she kind of imitates [[WebVideo/RedLetterMedia Mr. Plinkett]] at times? Her question to Hades - 'Why do you have that? Hey I asked you a question - why do you have that?' And a few others instances I can't remember too well - interestingly enough, it almost sounds like she's been watching Plinkett, did anyone else happen to think so? (I assume as a part of the reviewer community, she's familiar with RLM.)
** I noticed this too. Her 2nd Roland Emmerich review ended in a way VERY reminiscent of Plinkett's Baby's Day Out review.
** When WebVideo/{{Kickassia}} first aired, Linkara posted on Spoony's forum in response to the ''Hercules'' review. The answer is yes; the whole crew was cracking Plinkett jokes in Reno.
* It's starting to bug me that she constantly plays music in the background nowadays. Every now and then it can work for comedic effect, but when it's all the friggin' time it's just distracting. Like what was the point of playing "''Dancing Queen''" in the background during part of her review for "''the Man in the Iron Mask''"? If it was just for a gag then play it for five seconds and be done with it.
** Because she thought just the sound of her voice would be monotonous and boring maybe? It's not like the music was really that noticeable in that video anyways..
*** I found the music seriously distracting.

* [[MST3KMantra Trivial but curious]]... The Chick notes that [[RealLifeWritesThePlot three months have passed]] between her ''Film/TheTransformersTheMovie'' and ''Film/Armageddon1998'' reviews. Meanwhile, the Critic wakes up from her chloroforming him. Was he slumped on his desk for three months?

* In her review of Roland Emmerich's Disaster movies while she is discussing the cliched characters that appear in the films she refers to Harry Connick, Jr. as Will Smith's [[EthnicScrappy "scrappy black friend"]], twice. [[FlatWhat ...Umm, What]]

* Did Lindsay watch ''All Dogs Go to Heaven'' before the Ferngully review? The original BigLippedAlligatorMoment ISN'T a BigLippedAlligatorMoment! The Alligator carries the main characters home, if that doesn't advance the plot, I don't know what does...
** Does he carry them home? Yes. Does that explain the presence of the Esther Williams tribute? No.
** But the only reason they needed to be carried home was because they were brought to the big lipped alligator's place to begin with. If that scene never happened, they wouldn't had been brought to a place they needed a ride home from.
*** Here's how this troper sees it: it's like the below-mentioned death of Screweyes thing. It's not a BLAM that King Gator is introduced, it's the fact that he launches into a full-blown water-ballet number for absolutely no reason. It's also worth mentioning that the Chick said that a BLAM has ''little'' to no relation to the plot, not "none at all". Splitting hairs yes, but still...
** The Alligator shows up again and rescues Charlie at the end. He's apparently also responsible for the antagonist Carface being in the afterlife at the very end, since he's last seen licking his lips and chasing after him...I'd say that he's pretty integral to the plot resolution myself. The point of the musical number, as far as I could see, was to set up his reason for feeling so protective of Charlie in the first place...he enjoyed "making music" with him. Slightly rickety plotting if you ask me, but hardly a BLAM (and certainly no more so than any other song and dance number in any other animated musical). Oh well, it's too late now - the name's stuck.
*** If you dropped the music number, the alligator becomes little more than a Disney Death to resolve the problem of the villain needing to be punished. At that point he becomes completely replaceable and might as well be a shark or a falling object. The finale offers too little reason to justify having the alligator in the movie, making both appearances entirely pointless.
** Also, in ''We're Back'', how is Professor Screweyes dying a BigLippedAlligatorMoment? The main antagonist of the movie is killed! How does that not advance the plot?
*** The fact that he dies isn't a BigLippedAlligatorMoment, the fact that he's ''devoured by crows'' is. The crows come out of nowhere with no explanation, their presence makes no sense, and the crows are never referenced again.
*** Except that the crows have been around Screweyes the entire movie, and prior to his death scene they were implied to be his pets or something. The fact that they were just waiting for a chance to eat him was a minor plot twist.
*** Okay, since when do crows eat people, and what caused him to attract the crows to him like that?
*** IIRC, there is a deleted scene that can be found in which Screweyes explains his history with crows and how not only did they eat his original eye, but he keeps them around to keep himself in a constant state of fear, going on his whole fear circus routine.
** The trope "is named after the random musical dance number". It's the dance number people that constitutes the BLAM, not the alligator. Also, the crows just land on Screweyes in a bird-shape, sit there and then he's gone. They don't eat him, he's just gone. THAT's the BLAM.
*** Yes, but the purpose of the musical number in question was to set up the alligator's reason for a) not eating Charlie and b) later returning and saving Charlie from drowning (and killing his enemy) - he thought Charlie had a beautiful voice and enjoyed making music with him. I agree that Bluth could have found a less contrived way of freeing Charlie from the anchor and getting rid of Carface in the end, but what can you do? Oh, and my guess is that the crows from "We're Back" were supposed to be symbolic. Screweyes was consumed by his own fears.
*** You know, for kids!
*** They established that King Gator was enamored of Charlie's voice in the bit in which Charlie howls and King Gater spits him out ''right before the music number''. And then the scene ''morphs into a completely different location'' with a giant freaking clam, ''for no reason whatsoever, never mentioned again or commented on''. So no, King Gator's presence and his liking of Charlie's voice isn't a Big Lipped Alligator Moment, the actual water ballet number is. It's established right before the number starts that King Gator likes Charlie's voice. You could take the entire number out and still get Gator happily saying "How can you expect me to eat a voice a sumptuous as this?" which would pretty clearly indicate that he likes the sound of Charlie's voice.
*** Here's the thing though, and this is truly where the BLAM falls apart, King Gator DOES refer to the musical number. When he returns for the climax, he sings the "Togetherrrr" part of the song. Rumor even has it that Doug & Lindsay found out they were wrong about King Gator's song being a BLAM and apologized on the TGWTG Forums, but by then, it was far too late (but not too late for them to stop using the gag, which they both seemingly have).
*** Rumour? And besides, the last time Doug used it was a bored variant in his ''Flubber'' review, which was only a month or so ago.

** What I'm more confused about is the Critic having evidently ''watched'' the Dark Nella saga (in his Franchise/XMen review) when he died at her hand in the actual storyline.

* While I did find her skit about rules every MadScientist should follow to be pretty entertaining, I couldn't help but be [[IncrediblyLamePun bugged]] by the fact that she utterly ''missed'' the Most Triumphant Example of "Don't put your dick in it". Four words, people-[[Film/TheRockyHorrorPictureShow Rocky. Horror. Picture. Show.]] I mean, the whole conflict of the movie was due to the fact that Frank (disguised as Brad) screwed Janet, Frank (now disguised as Janet) screwed Brad, Janet sees Brad and Frank together on a monitor, Janet feels betrayed and has sex with Rocky out of spite...Frank finds out and gets insanely jealous, and, well, you see where this is going. Plus, it doesn't help that Rocky was pretty much created for no other purpose other than for someone for Frank to fuck to his heart's content and that Rocky has no self-control of his libido...So why would Lindsay NOT include this as an example of "Don't put your dick in it"?

* [[MST3KMantra Trivial but curious]]... The Chick notes that [[RealLifeWritesThePlot three months have passed]] between her ''Film/{{Transformers}}'' and ''Film/Armageddon1998'' reviews. Meanwhile, the Critic wakes up from her chloroforming him. Was he slumped on his desk for three months?
** yes.

* [[MST3KMantra Trivial but curious]]... The Chick notes that [[RealLifeWritesThePlot three months have passed]] between her ''{{Transformers}}'' and ''Film/{{Armageddon}}'' reviews. Meanwhile, the Critic wakes up from her chloroforming him. Was he slumped on his desk for three months?

** She gushed on ''Disney/TheLionKing'' in that Disney retrospective and did a tribute to ''{{WesternAnimation/Daria}}''. But remember it's not her character to be all fangirly; Critic's still a child with his heart on his sleeve, she complains about how human emotions suck.

* I know it was briefly mentioned in the Worst of 2013 video, but was there a reason why Lindsay never made that Worst of 2012 video? Was it just because ''Disney/WreckItRalph'' was on it?

* I remember finding this ''{{Jem}}'' joke funny, but FridgeLogic: wouldn't "engage in a little desegregation" mean the exact '' opposite'' of a TokenMinorityCouple?

* What about all the destruction caused by Dark Nella? She destroyed numerous major (and minor) cities worldwide, and left Linkara, Spoony, and the Critic dead--all of which was played fairly straight. Yet, this was never resolved during the Dark Nella Saga, and it hasn't been so much as ''mentioned'' in any of their respective videos. We even didn't get so much as a HandWave (which is surprising, given that Lindsay uses them so often). Was this a case of TheyJustDidntCare?

* While I did find her skit about rules every MadScientist should follow to be pretty entertaining, I couldn't help but be [[IncrediblyLamePun bugged]] by the fact that she utterly ''missed'' the Most Triumphant Example of "Don't put your dick in it". Four words, people-[[RockyHorrorPictureShow Rocky. Horror. Picture. Show.]] I mean, the whole conflict of the movie was due to the fact that Frank (disguised as Brad) screwed Janet, Frank (now disguised as Janet) screwed Brad, Janet sees Brad and Frank together on a monitor, Janet feels betrayed and has sex with Rocky out of spite...Frank finds out and gets insanely jealous, and, well, you see where this is going. Plus, it doesn't help that Rocky was pretty much created for no other purpose other than for someone for Frank to fuck to his heart's content and that Rocky has no self-control of his libido...So why would Lindsay NOT include this as an example of "Don't put your dick in it"?