Good Luck Charlie/Headscratchers

Everything About Fiction You Never Wanted to Know.


  • In the episode Baby Come Back, the kids drive around town trying to find the girl who kidnapped their baby sister (or something like that). PJ calls out the name of the kidnapper. Teddy calls out for Charlie... why? Does she expect the toddler to hear her call and come crawling to their van?
    • Well the girl who took her probably knew her name, so hearing someone calling for the kid might make her look to see who it is. Maybe.
  • How is it that Teddy was 15 when Charlie was 9 months, but didn't turn 16 until after Charlie's 2nd birthday?
    • Is it ever SAID that she was 15 when Charlie was 9 months? Maybe it took place at a different time.
  • So it's shown in two episodes that Teddy absolutely sucks at dancing, but in the Shake It Up crossover she's good enough to be equal with famous dancers (no one said she wasn't as good as the people she was pretending to be)? There's no way she got that good with so little time to train (if any at all, I didn't see the full episode).
    • Nobody actually saw her dance. They were mistaken for the Duncan sisters, but noone actually saw them dance until after Flynn pointed out that they look nothing like the Duncan sisters, at which point Rocky stated outright that they have no talent and Cece claimed people would feel sorry for them because of their dancing.
      • She still manages to learn a routine & perform it flawlessly on television within a few hours, though.
  • In the episode where the power goes out Ivy is supposed to video chat with a guy but can't because the power's out. But most laptops (including Teddy's, we've seen her use it plenty of times with out a cord) have a battery built in that charges so you can use it with out electricity. Why can't she just use the lap top?
    • Because the router for wireless internet doesn't work without power from the wall. You need an internet connection to video chat.
  • PJ and Gabe share a room. They must have shared a room before Charlie was born, based on context. Yet somehow there was room for Teddy to move into another room. Why did the boys have to share?
    • The room in the basement was used for storage, and was something the Duncans intended to clear out, but never had the time - when Amy found out she was pregnant with Charlie, they had to empty the room so that Teddy could move in there & the baby would have a nursery. Gabe & PJ started sharing a room because they couldn't move any of the kids into the basement at that time, and they didn't take Teddy's old (larger) room when she moved into the basement because the Duncans already had to redecorate Teddy's old room for the baby & the room in the basement for Teddy - If the boys took Teddy's room, that would mean they'd need to redecorate a third room, which would be an uneccesary expense when they had a baby on the way.
    • That being said, I'm sure PJ and Gabe could bug their dad into helping them clear out the basement so one of them could move into a separate room. One weekend of moving boxes is a fair deal for a single bedroom
  • Setting aside the fact that amusement parks are horrible places to work, but generally pay considerably better than minimum wage, why does Spencer need a minimum wage job at an amusement park? Aren't his parents rich?
    • He also worked at a juice bar and a sport store, so he obviously wants to be independent from his parents by making his own money.
  • Wouldn't PJ have needed his birth certificate to get his driver's license? Even if his parents took care of all the paperwork, wouldn't he have noticed the error as soon as he had the card in his hand?
  • Gabe said in the first episode that his birthday is November 23rd, yet in the episode "Gabe's 12 1/2 birthday" which took place in May there's a blizzard in Denver, Colorado.
    • It's because his birthday was delayed because he was bad, then it was too close to Christmas, then he was bad again, so he never had his party until May.
    • The headscratcher is if it's even possible to have a blizzard in May in Denver.
    • The Hand Wave it by calling it a freak spring blizzard.
    • As someone who lived in Denver for a few years, this troper can confirm you can get some freaky weather like that even in May around Denver.
  • In "Snow Show", Bob stated that he and Amy were not married in the eyes of the State of Colorado. Since Colorado is a Common Law Marriage state, he was quite incorrect.
  • Gabe, for some reason, is the only member of the family with black hair whereas both Amy and Bob are blond. Unless it was by some bizarre mutation in his DNA, he should have the same recessive genes as both of his parents, meaning he should be as blond as the rest of the family.
    • This was lampshaped in "Return to Super Adventure Land."

Gabe: (talking about his replacement mother to Amy) She looks more like my mom than you do.