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Night at the Museum/Fridge

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  • Fridge Logic: When does Larry sleep? He's never shown having just woken up or groggy or anything.
    • Well, the older guards in the first museum did say that the tablet gave them new vibrancy and energy. Maybe, since Larry's younger, it's just giving him health and energy to avoid the problems of sleep deprivation or whatever.
  • Fridge Brilliance: One might get annoyed at how the real-life historical figures are Flanderized to their most (in)famous trait, but that's often how real-life museums portray them. The wax mannequins represent the museums' view of history.
    • A few of them actually complain about this.
    • Also, the first movie implies that the exhibits absorb knowledge and information from around where they are, such as how the mummy can speak English because of his time in Cambridge.
      • In the italian adaptation of the second movie is implied that the exibits are somehow fully aware of critical pieces of information about modern times: Napoleon is able to keep tabs on one of his potential modern descendants and relate about him to Larry even if he simply couldn't have had no way to know about their relationship.
    • Amelia Earhart claims to have always been aware of her fictional nature, and the bust-Roosevelt shows no surprise about the existance of a wax-Roosevelt with arms, and legs and an horse. Thus, it can be supposed that the same magic keeping them alive gives them awareness of their nature and roles.
  • Fridge Horror: In the sequel all paintings and presumably pictures are brought to life as well as the exhibits. Fine and dandy if you're kissing a girl or sailing in stormy seas, but what about the Holocaust exhibits?
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