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Why does the talking zebra always address Candace as Kevin?
In Phineas and Ferb, we meet the talking zebra a lot and it's a character of Candace's imagination. But, why did it call Candace "Kevin"? That's a male name and has no relation to Candace. Is this some reference to any other show, etc.?
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Did Keanu Reeves actually know martial arts when he acted for the movie "The Matrix"?
Did Keanu Reeves actually know martial arts when he acted for the movie "The Matrix"?
If no, how did he act in the movie?
Does he actually know any kind of Martial Arts?
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Why did Jared's self-driving car kidnap him?
In Silicon Valley S01E06, "Third Party Insourcing", Jared's self-driving car get overridden and Jared goes to some oil-drilling facility for some days.
Why did the car get re-routed? I half expected to see Gavin Belson or Peter Gregory somehow being…
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How are sliding shots of stills during an action sequence filmed?
I've seen several shots where an action sequence is halted and then the camera seemingly moves around while the action is frozen in place. An example of what I'm talking about can be seen in this YouTube clip.
I've also seen this used in sports…
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Is Christopher Nolan's Dunkirk historically inaccurate in portraying absence of the Indian army?
Christopher Nolan's Dunkirk has been accused of ignoring Indian soldiers' presence in Dunkirk. But is there any proof that there were Indian soldiers stuck there too in the first place? The British Indian Army had a prominent role in the British…
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Why do anime "spell everything out" for the audience?
Even for anime that target adult audiences (and thus may have higher level thinking/awareness than perhaps younger audiences), whenever there's a significant plot development, the anime characters spend 3-5 minutes explaining how they discovered the…
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Who snuck the books on board the Millennium Falcon?
In the closing scenes of Star Wars: The Last Jedi on board the Falcon, we see Finn spotting the Jedi Order books in a drawer while making Rose comfortable.
Until then we'd been left to believe that Yoda had destroyed them when Luke decided to make a…
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Can Thanos change his color?
Thanos appeared three times in post credit scenes of MCU films and lastly in Infinity War trailer. Each time MCU used different colors for Thanos. Why is that? I am not a comic book reader, Can he change his color?
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Is there any connection between Stranger Things and IT movie?
Are Stranger Things and IT in the same universe?
In season 2 episode 3 of Stranger Things while Bob drives Will to school, Bob tells Will about a terrifying experience he had as a kid where a clown tried to give him a balloon by saying something…
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Looking for a movie about a man in cryostasis trying to escape
I'm looking for a movie about a man who is dead and put in cryostasis (I think we only know that at the end when he "wakes up" thanks to new technology)
During the movie, he always relives the same time of his life, which restarts every time he dies…
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What is the significance of bees in Blade Runner 2049?
I watched Blade Runner 2049 and while it was gorgeous there were a few things that left me scratching my head:
In one scene, K (Ryan Gosling) is walking through Las Vegas and find a dozen apiaries full of bees. The scene is beautiful, but never…
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Why couldn't Ocean's team show Benedict the live feed? Why was the recording needed?
In Ocean's Eleven, during the vault robbery, Terry Benedict is shown a recording of a copy of his vault with the robbery in progress. The way I understand the time line, when this was happening Ocean, Yen and Linus were in fact in the vault. They…
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Do the kids from Stranger Things have any analogues to the Dungeons & Dragons game characters?
Netflix's web television series Stranger Things seems to have many analogues to the role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons, especially as they call the monster "Demogorgon", which ended up being in many fan theories suggesting Eleven is the second…
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How did the Wights get the chain for doing this?
In Game of Thrones Season 7 Episode 6, after
the dragon was killed/injured by Night King and fell into water,
the wights lifted it out using chains.
From where did they get the chains?
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Why didn't Jon Snow use this?
In season 7 of Game of Thrones, Jon Snow spends a considerable amount of time in Dragonstone mining dragonglass.
Dragonglass is known to kill wights and white walkers.
Towards the end of "Eastwatch" (Game of Thrones, S07E05), Jon assembles a team…
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