Fridge Brilliance
- Why is David more accepting that his time has come and not follow the Baltic gnome couple's example? It's because David knows that he won't be able to do his doctor duties anymore or not as effectively. He loved his job and he knows that it's better to pass on.
- Why does David use a raven to get into the city instead of Swift in the episode "Friends in Trouble?" A fox would draw too much attention in the city plus the bird catcher had a gun and would have more easily shot a fox than a raven.
Fridge Horror
- In "Young Dr. Gnome" the fawn was really lucky when the bullet hit only in its shoulder; had it been even an inch backwards it would have gone directly trough the heart which is the spot that the hunter was clearly aiming.
- It's established that a gnome couple only has children once in their lifetime, and it's a set of twins. Simple math indicates that their numbers will never grow, and every gnome who dies before having their own pair of children, forever reduces the Gnome population by one. To say nothing of hypothetical gnomes who don't or just don't want to get married or have children. One possible case of the latter is Casper from the Grand Finale: he lives alone aside from his pet mouse and asks David and Lisa to take him with them so he doesn't have to make the trip by himself. There's no mention of him having a wife or children.
- David and Lisa's granddaughter, Susan, appears in a number of episodes but her twin is nowhere to be seen. Who's to say the twin didn't die young?
- The original Wil Huygen book at least leaves a little hope for population management: It's explicitly stated that gnome birth rates are due to magical intervention rather than inherent biology. It's possible, therefor, that dire circumstances might allow for reversing it.
