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** 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.
* How in the ''hell'' did the mayor get into Flint's lab?! The tube/tunnel thing was obviously not made for people who have been gorging themselves 24/7. His own dad barely made it in there without getting stuck. Plus, if it's password protected, the mayor shouldn't have been able to get in, skinny or not.
** 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.
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* Meta one, here: [[Neil Patrick Harris]]. In a show about a [[Mad Scientist]]. [[Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog|Neil freakin' Patrick Harris]]. And he plays a ''monkey''.
** 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.]]
** Hey, there's [[
** I loved him as the monkey. He would have been great as Flint, but the monkey was perfect. It would have been perfect ''and'' great if they'd used him for Flint and Steve (and possibly {{spoiler|Flint's Dad's translated voice}}), with a nice helping of "oh, that's so cool" because the translator voice should have been expected to have been based on recordings or synthesized imitations of Flint's phonemes, but oh well. Although I'd really enjoy if [[Riff Trax]] happened to do this movie with NPH as the guest, and as a side thing dubbed his voice for the scientist into a bonus track.
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**** 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".
* If Sam didn't want to wear glasses, and is [[Blind Without'Em]], then why didn't she get contacts? Granted [[Meganekko|she looks a lot better with them on]], but still. And they're obviously made in this world, as Mr. T puts one on an eye in his introduction scene.
** [[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.
** [[Truth in Television]]. Some people just don't like to poke themselves in the eye.
** 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.
** Forget that. Answer me this: according to my memory, Sam stopped wearing glasses when she was little. Now she's an early adult. Yet the glasses still work. If you're confused, let me tell you that a person's eyes change constantly, requiring people who wear glasses to get new prescriptions every one or two years, mainly as a teen. But Sam's old glasses still do the trick, despite having the prescription that she had as a little kid. Clearly, the writers [[Did Not Do the Research|don't wear glasses or know anybody who does.]]
*** 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.
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*** 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]]!
**** Oddly enough,
* How on earth can the FLDSMDFR "rearrange molecules" into food when there's no carbon (which all food has, BTW) to be reconfigured?
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** 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?
*** Glow in the dark mice do serve a purpose, the glow gene was linked to the gene of interest meaning you can see which mice carry the gene and which don't. [[Science Marches On|These days system wide changes aren't as useful]], but we can and do make mice whose individual cells types glow different colours, to see in vivo cellular interactions.
* 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.
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