Headscratchers / Putt-Putt

• After writing about the nails, I'm starting to wonder — where the heck did those nails come from? Who just leaves a bunch of dangerous nails in the middle of the road? It's creepier when you realize that if you take out the nails and come back, the nails return! Who's causing this? Should we call the police?
  • Another thing about nails (though this time in Putt Putt Enters the Race): why do the nails at the construction site bend so easily - sometimes on their own?!? What kind of poor quality nails are they using at this construction site?!? Also, why do they sometimes come loose out of the board while you’re hammering a different nail?!? There will be a nail 3/4 of the way nailed down (at the start of the round) and you will be hammering a different nail and the 3/4 will suddenly be 1/2 hammered down, by itself. Nails do not come loose on their own, especially when they’re being hammered into something from above with nothing underneath pushing against them to prevent them from getting fully nailed down! They also do not bend randomly on their own! Nails are not sentient! This is in the desktop version of the game and the mobile version and it doesn’t make sense. Also, how are you supposed to know how many rounds of nail hammering you need to do to get the racing helmet for Pep?
• Another thing that bugs me regards the birds on one of the other roads. Shouldn't they instinctively just fly away? Also, why do they give you the free bird seed when you can just honk at them?
  • Actually, if you honk the horn, they will fly away in the same animation of them seeing the bird seed.
• 99% of the time, there are no humans in the Putt Putt universe. That by itself is fine, but Rover was left behind on the moon by human astronauts. What?
  • I'm more confused about A. How they missed all that crap literally yards away from where they landed, and B. Why they abandoned a fully sapient vehicle on a planet that, as far as they knew, was completely barren.
• In Putt-Putt: Pep's Birthday Surprise, why don't the Caristas come to the party? You'd think at least Chuck Wagon would come, since he and Putt-Putt were shown to be pretty good friends in Putt-Putt Saves the Zoo.
• Why are Putt-Putt's belongings considered "ancient" by the future museum? Sure, they were made hundreds of years before the museum that took them in, but because of time travel, they're only a few months old at most.
  • It's probably just because they were from hundreds of years in the past. It would be like going back in time and bringing the Statue of Zeus at Olympia to the present just after it was built. Just because it's still "new" doesn't mean we wouldn't care about it or want to preserve it.
• In Goes to the Moon, the Man on the Moon has a crescent moon with a face for a head. The actual moon, which he lives on, (mostly) resembles the real deal. But the photo of the moon that Putt-Putt gives the MITM depicts a crescent moon with a face, like the MITM's head, floating in space! What? Is the MITM actually the moon?

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