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* If Flint's spray-on shoes never came off, how come his feet haven't become all gangrenous and rotten from being unable to breathe all those years?

** He probably created some way to freshen the feet in case that happened. Either way, it's a cartoon- don't take everything too seriously.

 

* Where did Flint get a pet monkey, anyway?

** Monkeys are a fairly common research animal due to their biological similarities between humans, and because they're pretty intelligent. It's really not that unusual for him to have a lab monkey of sorts. Likewise, while the ethics of keeping a monkey as a pet are debated, the concept is not unheard of even today. Not to mention that there are monkeys that are specifically trained to help people with performing certain tasks (Though, it's usually people with disabilities who have these specially trained monkeys, not scientists). Most likely he got said monkey from either an exotic animal salesperson ([[Internet Backdraft|Let's not get into the legal issues regarding this, ok?]]) or from another laboratory that was willing to donate one of their test animals.

 

** One door is a rusty sliding door that has a lightup game that just blinked to look like a keypad, the other is a sheet with a pattern dyed/stitched onto it. he typed codes because it made him feel cooler not because they did anything.

** Chalk this one up to [[Rule of Funny]]. Flint even lampshades it by asking this question himself.

* Why doesn't Flint ''ever'' test his inventions? The montage near the beginning implies that all those inventions were applied for the very first time in the presentations! What kind of pathetic scientist is he?

** Part of Flint's character arc is that he doesn't tend to think through his actions, and he has to learn to do this in order to save the day.

 

* When the {{spoiler|satellite communication link with the FLDSMDFR}} is destroyed, why does Flint build {{spoiler|Flying Car 2}}, and, not, say, another {{spoiler|satellite communication linking device}}? It'd probably take about the same amount of time, and he doesn't need to draw up any new blueprints or designs for the latter.

*** It was very likely he didn't have one when he started work on it in the first place, remember it was not meant to work that way.

 

** I actually thought Neil ''was'' Flint, and was internally squeeing because it seemed like a ''Dr. Horrible'' [[Alternate Universe|AU]] with a happy ending, and then...yeah. [[Fanon Discontinuity|In my head he IS Flint.]]

 

* How did the mayor order all of the food? Earlier on in the movie it showed Flint actually having to code the food into the computer. I highly doubt the mayor knows how to code...

**** Not necessarily. Many cultures in the world have the attitude "Don't try/pretend to be better than your elders" aka "If it was good enough for me, and my father, and his father, it's good enough for you".

 

** [[Blood Nightmaster|This troper]] is aware of ''several'' friends who need their glasses (to Sam's effect, even) but never wear them, and never opt for contacts. It baffles her IRL just as much as it does here, but it's a pretty common thing.

** Some of us glasses wearers are also aware that we don't keep our glasses clean. As in, with glasses, it's an minor annoyance. With contacts it's possible that it'd blind you.

*** After some serious thought, Flint completing Sam's makeover by dragging her to a store to buy new glasses would have been hilarious, but badly paced.

** Maybe Sam just didnt wear her glasses in public. (sure, there was that scene when Flint was on the phone, but she was probably just getting ready for a weather report.) She probably DID get her glasses upgraded. I know that if i didnt wear glasses, i would at least wear them at home to do things like watch TV or read a book.

* Another Nobel Prize missed. Nobody even seems to realize that Flint's invention could effectively solve world hunger. Kids don't need to worry about things like that during a movie, but still....

** And thus, through simple economics, devaluing every piece of gold avialable!

 

*** So many reasons why that fails biology forever.

**** This is the troper who posted the original JBM, and if you're talking about the decay-causing microbes dying of gluttony, [[Rule of Funny|I wholeheartedly approve of that explanation]]!

 

* How on earth can the FLDSMDFR "rearrange molecules" into food when there's no carbon (which all food has, BTW) to be reconfigured?

** He was probably hoping that it would solve the rat population problem by making them fly away to another place. Thinking things through is not really Flint's strongest suit.

** [[Truth in Television]]. Scientists today genetically engineer animals that serve no apparent purpose [[For Science!]], such as glow-in-the-dark mice. Maybe Flint thought they'd make neat pets?

 

* Why did Flint give up on marketing his Monkey thought translator? The only thing that went wrong in the presentation was Steve flipping out, nothing related to the machine. And judging how it also works on his dad at the end, it's probably a universal device that can translate anything's thoughts. The machine worked perfectly fine and would be a giant breakthrough for animal/human relations.

**** I wouldn't say a complete success. It's not permanent, since we see his dad is later bald again.

**** It's called shaving. The dude above you mentioned it.

*** [[Wild Mass Guessing|So that's where Wheately came from...]]

 

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