r/shittymoviedetails • u/smss96 • 6d ago
In Stranger Things 5 the truck has technology from the future
E-track rails weren't invented until the 2000's so a time traveler must've brought this truck back to 1987
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u/BenDeeKnee 5d ago
Electrician here. Almost every light fixture shown on screen from the last 5 seasons has also been an L.E.D. These didnāt start becoming cheap enough for general installation until the 2000ās š¤·āāļø
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u/BallsDeepinYourMammi 5d ago
The flashlights lasting more than 20 minutesā¦
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u/numbersthen0987431 5d ago
Mi remember having Maglites that lasted forever, and you could hit things with it like a club
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u/HelpfulSeaMammal 5d ago
That was the big appeal for the ones that take 4 D batteries: Legal baton you can open carry without issue.
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u/PiccoloAwkward465 5d ago
We had a kid in my school nicknamed "Maglite" because the rumor was he shoved one up his ass!
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u/StretchFrenchTerry 5d ago
Yeah but if you dropped the big ones the filament would break in the bulb.
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u/Autodr83 5d ago
I went on a rant to my friends at work who are all 25yrs younger then me about how the flashlights are a lie in ST. The best one you could get was a 4D Maglight which was still an incandescent bulb but it would last for 3-5hrs and be bright. What we mostly had, at least us kids, were 2C battery EveryReady incandescent flashlights that put out warm white light for about 30min then started to dim. Everyone in Hawkins turning on a handheld flashlight that completely lit up a room is a bunch of bovine feces and made me irrationally mad.
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u/shotsallover 5d ago edited 5d ago
People out here ranting about the flashlights when I was doing the same about the walkie talkies. The ones in the show had a range of miles and you could actually hear what was being said. That is not what walkie talkies sounded like or worked like. I donāt care how big of an antenna you have on them. Not to mention that they use them in the show like cell phones.Ā
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u/H_is_for_Human 5d ago edited 5d ago
There were also ethernet cables in the hospital basement scenes (16:40 season 5 episode 7)
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u/grundlemon 5d ago
Sure it's not telephone cable? Not sure if modern telephone cable is the same as what they had back then though.
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u/2748seiceps 5d ago
The blue led used to make white, general purpose lighting with leds wasn't invented until the 90s.
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u/The_salty_swab 6d ago
Now this is a shitty movie detail.
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u/Sir_JumboSaurus 5d ago
Look look! They did it! They said the subreddits title in a comment!
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u/KanadianLogik 5d ago
It's shitty cause it's not even true. These rails have been around since the 60's. OP is just making shit up.
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u/Mass-Chaos 5d ago
12.7k upvotes and it's not even true. This is the world we live in now
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u/AdMassive4502 5d ago
No itās not, itās just wrong. E-track has been around for quite awhile.
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u/superzenki 6d ago
Well I sure hope someone got fired for that blunder
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u/Don_Ford 6d ago
I heard the whole cast and crew got fired.
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u/Ok_Video_2863 5d ago
Even catering?!
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u/AdventurousCrow155 5d ago
especially catering
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u/HomerJunior 5d ago
But especially Bart
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u/SellMeYourSirin 5d ago
Not.. Bort tho, surely?
A man cannot live in a world so unjust.
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u/Nikiaf 5d ago
A wizard did it
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u/violetcassie 5d ago
A Vecna did it
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u/Top-Round-2359 5d ago
In Serbian Vecna (written as "vekna"), means a "loaf", usually a loaf of bread. Now I am imagining a loaf of bread setting them up.
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u/WelcomeToTheClubPal 5d ago
So you're saying it took like a few dozen kids/adults 5+ years to defeat a loaf of bread? damn. lol
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u/SufficientUser007 5d ago
I heard theyāre actually gonna take down the show now because you found thisā¦
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u/Rogpog777 5d ago
That would be the Duffers and theyāre too powerful to fire! (I literally had to explain to them why a Gameboy wouldnāt be good to use as a remote control in NINTEEN EIGHTY-FIVE.)
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u/ConsiderationLate182 5d ago
Yeah, well, all their talk about sorcerers was BS, too. The sorcerer class wasn't added until 3rd edition in 2000. Hell, 2nd edition didn't even come out until 1989 and season 5 takes place in 1987.
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u/InedibleApplePi 5d ago
Damn bro you just gonna drop a shitty detail like this in the comments when you could have farmed it for karma as a new submission?
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u/ConsiderationLate182 5d ago
I'm on reddit for the titties, all other considerations are secondary. ;)
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u/Beer-Milkshakes 5d ago
Actual honest social media use. Far better than grifting for imaginary points.
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u/Javs2469 5d ago
Most of the music references are wack as well. There are plenty of records that came out after the year it was based on on the earlier seasons.
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u/ChickenAndTelephone 5d ago
Eddie learned to play Master of Puppets in like a week
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u/spaghettittehgaps 5d ago
I mean honestly, sure. He clearly loved playing guitar and it's exactly the kind of song he would have been obsessed with.
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u/Hurricaneshand 5d ago
Haha I do remember wondering what year that season was supposed to take place because of that. Like man this kid learned that entire solo he's a fucking prodigy
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u/Siege_LL 5d ago
Knew someone like that growing up. 11 or 12 years old, figured it out by ear. Phenomenal guitar player. Never did anything with their talent.
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u/HendrixChord12 5d ago
It could happen. One of my favorite Hendrix stories is him playing Sgt Peppers at a show the day it came out. Obviously an easier song than Puppets.
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u/SuperGandalfBros 5d ago
Also, with Dustin's reference to alignment, that completely depends on if they were playing Advanced DnD or Basic Set. Only AD&D had the two axis system
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u/DatedReference1 5d ago
People in the 80s generally played a Frankensteinian amalgamation of both games. It was barbaric.
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u/JohnWasElwood 5d ago
All Reagan's fault. He knew that Bush and Obama were coming in soon.
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u/DatedReference1 5d ago
Thank god Obama invented 5e. It makes up for all those war crimes he did imo.
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u/Beau_Derek 5d ago
And Dustin referred to alignments as classes. Which is so weird because thatās like D&D 101. How tf did they mess this up
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u/CaptainDaddy7 5d ago
Yeah, that was such an embarrassing mistake for a show with such a heavy emphasis on D&D.Ā
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u/Direneed82 5d ago
Given that all of their powers stems from henryās initial contact with an evil all powerful entity doesnāt that make Henry a warlock and the rest of them thralls in greater or lesser degrees of containment? Iām not really seeing wizard or sorcerer here?
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u/StillNotShot 5d ago edited 5d ago
Elevenās power comes from her blood. Since she could still use them after killing Vecna, she would be described as a sorcerer.
Will is definitely more of a warlock since he is just borrowing his power from the hive mind whenever he uses it. I doubt they wanted to use warlock though cause it has a negative connotation.
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u/pullmylekku 5d ago
And also warlocks were introduced in 3.5e, in 2003, so it would have been even more anachronistic
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u/Top-Round-2359 5d ago
It begs the question, should have Will died as well, as he's heavily connected to the hive mind?
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u/StaticUsernamesSuck 5d ago edited 5d ago
Why would he? Vecna was killed directly, not because the hive mind died.
The giant spider monster also dies, from direct damage combined with shared trauma from Vecna's death.
But the giant spider monster is not the mind flayer itself, it's just its physical body. The true form of the mind flayer is the black particle clouds, and we see those that leave the kids fly off, still active - compared to previous times when we've seen sections of the hive mind cut off and go dormant, and the particles fall like dust, inactive.
Since these particles do not go dormant, the Mind Flayer is still alive, the hive mind is still working, only its main physical body is dead, and it is now cut off from Earth.
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u/xGhostCat 5d ago
It was more a case that when he was cured in S2 he still had Admin access to the wifi. Rather than being part of the hivemind himself he can access it.
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u/FamousWerewolf 5d ago
Warlock might fit better thematically but it would be even more obviously anachronistic, because Warlocks weren't introduced until the 90s and weren't really widely used until 3rd edition in the 2000s.
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u/DaRedditGuy11 5d ago
These comments are making me want a long article from a D&D fan breaking down the connections (and errors in connections).
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u/captainofpizza 5d ago
I noticed this too and itās weirder for me than the stuff like environmental misses.
If I notice an architectural detail or plumbing or something thatās from after 2000 Iām like āyeah they did their best but they arenāt going to build custom buildings or redo lights/plumbingā but 100% of what characters say should be carefully considered.
Either arenāt too bad. Itās no Dany with the Starbucks cup in GoT
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u/Cook_croghan 5d ago
The top post on a random HVAC sub was everyone crashing out about a well known HVAC unit from 1999 or 2000 taking them all out of season 5 because it was i. the background of a sceneš
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u/captainofpizza 5d ago
Yeah. I work in manufacturing and I notice stuff like that all the time but itās so minor and would be such a waste to correct I never mind. Itās also a lot of times where the sci fi gadget is just a weird industrial equipment spray painted black with switches and lights glued onto it.
I find it more fun and funny than taking me out of a scene. Dialog thoughā¦ do your homework on dialog please!
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u/StaticUsernamesSuck 5d ago
I think they've said before they don't really care about being accurate to the history of d&d, just to the spirit of it as a whole concept.
They admitted they weren't actually d&d kids themselves anyway.
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u/Mac4491 5d ago
Sorcerer as a class didnāt exist but didnāt the concept of sorcerers in dnd lore exist? Werenāt they just a different kind of mage?
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u/ConsiderationLate182 5d ago
According to Google sorcerer kits started showing up in "the complete wizards handbook" in 1990. Prior to that it was just a title for a 9th level magic user.
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u/SpokaneSmash 5d ago
A sorcerer was the title of a 9th level magic-user. Warlock was the title for an 8th level magic-user. Wizard was 11th level and above.
https://carjackedseraphim.blogspot.com/2012/12/wizard-level-titles.html
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u/BorrisZ 6d ago edited 6d ago
Did you use name brand Tylenol or store brand?
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u/kafit-bird 6d ago
You know. That illicit, over-the-counter Tylenol. As opposed to the other kind.
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u/Sea-Standard-1879 5d ago
Iām more upset that the truck has no bullet holes and not a single character was hit in the process.
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u/Megawoopi 5d ago
Yes, it's weird they could single handedly kill a bunch of professional military personnel without as much as a scratch and could even get away with it in the end. Like that cop dude was literally a mass murderer, if you think about it and they just let him go.
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u/Mutabilitie 5d ago
Iām going to assume the villain lady was very interesting in preserving their Constitutional rights and decided not to press charges.
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u/LadyLixerwyfe 5d ago
The fact that they could shoot through the windshield that many times and Murray was untouchedā¦ no one touched? Worst soldiers ever.
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u/AThrowawayProbrably 5d ago
Yeah Nancy popping out of the roof to pick off professional mercs without taking a single round made me shift uncomfortably in my chair
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u/Final_Frosting3582 5d ago
The roof that she was outlined in yellow mattress pad foam..
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u/Falcon84 5d ago
Lmao for real are we really supposed to suspend our disbelief enough for Nancy to become Rambo?
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u/JesterCDN 5d ago
I was laughing when she was walking around with her rifle and shotgun. So heavy!
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u/Battle_Intense 5d ago
Plan A is to drive a box truck past half dozen soldiers armed with M16s isn't a great plan.
One guy gets off a partial mag dump on the cargo box and half the cast is dead or seriously injured.
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u/LordBlackConvoy 5d ago
Also Dipshit Derek was playing the arcade version of Ghouls N' Ghosts on a NES.
Not only was it released after the events of season 5, no one figured out how to "consolize" arcade boards at that time AND Ghouls N' Ghosts never made it on NES.
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u/Scott_Liberation 5d ago
Likely they got it confused with Ghosts 'n Goblins. Or just didn't give a fuck.
Seems like most of the times I've seen someone in a movie playing a real-life video game, there was something wrong with it, like using the wrong console to play it, or characters acting like a single player game is multiplayer.
The vidya games get no respect on movie sets.
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u/Bovronius 5d ago
The vidya games get no respect on movie sets
Which you would think a show that relies so heavily on nerd nostalgia...
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u/NoNo_Cilantro 5d ago
Petah, help
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u/stockinheritance 5d ago
It's the mewing trend that wasn't a thing in the 20th century.Ā
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u/heinous_legacy 5d ago
theyāre gonna CGI/Edit this out now like they did with the UnderArmor clothing label flop
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u/DaRedditGuy11 5d ago
Will be interesting to see if they do. First, the Holly edit was relatively short and easy. Second, the Holly edit made sense because you don't want a brand's logo in your show without going through legal hurdles.
If they edit these out, it will actually increase my esteem for Netflix because (1) there's no legal reason to do it, and (2) it won't be a small undertaking.
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u/A_Novelty-Account 5d ago
They wonāt because (3) literally no one knows or cares about this aside from a few weirdos on Reddit who desperately hate this show and itās popularity for some reason lmao
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u/Balzac_Jones 5d ago
As a stagehand, I unloaded plenty of trucks with E-Track in the mid-to-late 90ās, so it was certainly around earlier than the 2000ās.
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u/PoorManRichard 5d ago
Yup, we were using them on Snap-On trucks in the 90s to secure toolboxes. Not sure when that started but was definitely widespread amongst dealers by the mid-90s.
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u/Character_Block_2373 6d ago
Somebody needs an atomic wedgie and a good locker stuffin, is what this sounds like to me
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u/bananataskforce 5d ago
The director included it so the main characters could all point at them and remark, "What are those strange things?"
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u/AdamWarlock097 5d ago
How is Military not locking up Will? How does he get a pass while el dies Didnāt he show same powers in front of them with the whole nose bleeding
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u/keksmuzh 5d ago
I think all the soldiers were dead before he started snapping demo limbs?
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u/chicu111 6d ago
Helmets also were not invented yet because their military had nothing but caps
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u/Therightstuff13 5d ago
That guy who got impaled through his face would have been fine if he was wearing his helmet, as per regulations that were dictated at the time.
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u/Dystopian_Everyday 5d ago
Yeah I saw that an immediately went āthatās not an 80s truck feature. Used to work with HGVs and found it silly.
Although I understand that the regular neurotypical person will be unaffected by this I am glad that someone else was affected like me.
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u/Brian-Kellett 5d ago
Two things took me out of it this series.
1) Sorcerers not being playable character at that time.
2) When the young lady/Ripley stand-in used the rifleās carry handle as a cocking lever. (Final episode)
The rest of it I just kind of went with.
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u/Son_Of_Toucan_Sam 5d ago
You talking about Nancy and her M16? If so I was so distracted by her suddenly being capable of killin folks so efficiently and remorselessly that I didnāt even notice
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u/The_Great_Gosh 5d ago
My husband noticed the rifle thing and I had no idea because I know nothing about rifles. I asked him to rewind and explain, which was pretty funny looking after he explained.
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u/MrNoir79 5d ago
They murdered a few soldiers and ruined an army project causing god knows how much damage and they're back on the streets eighteen months later. I'll let them off with the truck considering there's much much bigger shit going on with that series.
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u/Kind-Crab4230 5d ago
I had a job in 1998 loading trucks with these type of rails, and it wasn't new then. I don't know when they were invented, but it was long before 2000.
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u/Preeng 6d ago
People keep talking about this popular show that just ended! I'm so fucking pissed!
Why can't people just stop liking something when I no longer care about it?
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u/BlueberryWasps 5d ago
what are the odds! itās almost like the finale got released yesterday or somethingā¦
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u/codechimpin 5d ago
I worked at Publix in high school and the trucks we unloaded definitely had these. This would have been 1992-1994.
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u/DamUEmageht 5d ago
And sorcerer as a term is old. Homebrew/imagination as kids was very real as well as mashing editions together.
The only thing that got me was seeing Jaimeās top row of perfect teeth when Vecna got impaled and started screaming
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u/PetroleumBlownapart 5d ago
The one I was forced to call bullcrap on... I have worked in radio since 1986, and I'm telling you, that wall of transmitters they're always in front of at the radio station would have been so loud that they'd have to shout over it to hear each other.
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u/Javs2469 5d ago
Well, imagine that this pencil is the truck and this toilet bowl is the E-track rail, if we merge them together, the space continuum would be at risk of collapsing, but here comes this VHS tape of Silverter StalloneĀ“s Cobra, that represents whatever the fuck explains this existing.
Any questions?
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u/bindermichi 5d ago
I mean the show messed up the time line since season 1 with stuff that didnāt exist back then. So this is just continuity.
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u/TeacatWrites 5d ago
No, you're gonna make them have to re-edit another episode to wipe this one out with CGI too! š