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Fridge Brilliance

  • Daphne's ignorance about fun-houses. A fun-house varies between an escorting agency or a brothel, but Daphne has more-likely looked at the name and assumed that it's something juvenile. Of course the men would know what a fun-house was — All Men Are Perverts, after all. They've probably been to one, for goodness' sake.
    • On top of this, this movie has unintentionally referenced the Get Thee to a Nunnery trope. Relating to the juvenile point above, "fun house" is a euphemism that is probably as wide-known as it is implied in the movie (not just men only, as it claims), but it wouldn't be surprising that only a handful of people knew what "fun house" meant in this context, much like how language has developed long enough for many to not know that "nunnery" used to be a nickname for brothels too.

Fridge Horror

  • The final moment in the movie. Simpkins sets a detonator to self-destruct the STENCH headquarters, but once he (and the team) realise that STENCH is underneath MI6, it's too late, and the Chief of Police's room goes up in smoke. Does this mean that Simpkins single-handedly killed everyone (his team, the top agents, and the villains) before anyone could make arrests?
    • Not to mention, how much of the headquarters were connected to each other? Was the self-destruct button connected to the entirety of the building? Did Simpkins' conceitedness lead to the deaths of several British secret agents? Simpkins probably took everyone in STENCH and MI6 (including top agents like Carstairs, Mission Control, and the Chief of Police) to their graves.
      • With no British Intelligence, who would be helping the government protect the UK from other organisations like STENCH? Even though there's still SNOG, their speciality is in micro-organisms, so unless there's an unexplained epidemic, they're not going to be helpful.
  • By the end of the movie, the successful and handsome secret agent Carstairs is terrified of Simpkins and his students through their ignorance and stupidity.

Fridge Logic

  • If the characters only discovered that STENCH's secret base was underneath the MI6 building by climbing out of the wardrobe, how did Simpkins appear in the wardrobe at the beginning with no explanation? Was he in there for the entirety of the Chief's conversation with his secretary/agent?

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