Honey, I Shrunk the Kids/Headscratchers: Difference between revisions

** And thinking in reverse, who would want to eat the turkey that has been increased in size? It would be less meat per bite!

** Well, they should still be able to move because their strength wouldn't change any more than their mass. The real problem is the pressure applied to the ground due to the decreased surface area of their feet. 150 pounds applied to, for example, a nail, might well be enough to drive it through the floorboards. The kids' feet aren't any wider than the tip of a nail.

* In that same scene, Wayne says, "When Einstein invented the atomic bomb, did they ask him to ''prove'' that it worked?" Instead of saying, "You, Mr. Szalinski, are hardly Einstein," the guy should have said, [[Did Not Do the Research|"No, because Oppenheimer invented the atomic bomb, numbnuts."]]

** And oddly enough, Einstein only proved that the concept could work, but didn't invent it. He's got it all flipped.

** On a similar subject, where in the ''hell'' was Szalinski's patent attorney when he signed on the dotted line with Sterling Labs? What kind of raw deal did he get himself into that allowed them to throw him off his own project?

* The kids' sizes are portrayed inconsistently. At one point Nick calculates that they're 1/4 inch tall. However, they can all fit comfortably on the back of an ant. That must be a HUGE ant (even though Nick calls it a baby... which also doesn't make sense because baby ants are larvae). Especially since it can fight a scorpion. Later on, Nick is apparently small enough to use a Cheerio as a flotation device.

** Or, you know, Nick was wrong. Just because a character says something doesn't mean it's the exact truth.

 

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