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* Practically perfect in every way? Where does the 'practically' part come into it?
** No [[Canon]]/[[Word of God]] answers in either the movie or book, but some popular WMGs include...
### That Mary Poppins can't preemptively help people from unhappiness.
### That she can't help everyone.
### The [[Fanon|so-called "fact"]] that she probably has never really been "romantic" with anyone- save Bert, and even that is dependant upon her being needed in London.
### That she can't get her parrot to back-talk her.
### That eventually, people don't need her anymore, echoed in ''[[Nanny McPhee]]''.
** She does have a bit of a temper, doesn't she? That mars any claim of 100% perfection. Besides, she lied outright about a few of the adventures, under the guise of being an ordinary nanny. Dishonesty isn't quite perfect behavior, is it?
** I always thought it was a joke about humility. She actually is perfect but part of that perfection is humility which means she can never claim to actually be perfect. It's a simple Catch-22.