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Why doesn't the restaurant on the BBT resemble an actual Cheesecake Factory?
Since the early days of the Big Bang Theory, Penny's character (and later Bernadette for a time) has worked at The Cheesecake Factory. Clearly, this chain of restaurants has some sort of advertising ...
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Where does Skyfall take place in the Bond timeline?
The first two movies were at the start of Bond's career (when he was likely in his late twenties / thirties), but when does Skyfall take place in relation to other things going on with Bond?
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In Fellowship of the Ring, why did Frodo need to go it alone, leaving Aragorn and Legolas behind?
Why does he have to fly solo without these two guys? They both seem like incredible assassins / bodyguards and basically immune to the draw of the ring.
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In Fellowship of the Ring, who is the Lady of the Wood, and what's her relationship to the rest of the elves?
Legolas didn't look like he knew anyone when they encountered the Lady's henchmen in the wood, so I'm confused.
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The Simpsons - Episode Identification
What was that episode where we hear Bart's thoughts as a man about Hommer in voice over while the camera starts taking a close up of Bart as a kid, just before the voice is interrupted by Hommer, ...
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Identify: Who is this actor?
I struggled to identify the following (and the movie in which is starring), but I didn't find any answer so far
I seems to me that it resembles Mark Wahlberg, Peter Dinklage and also Robert Redford ...
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Why didn't Michael Scott appear in the Q&A panel in the Finale episode of The Office?
In the Finale episode of The Office, the Scranton Cultural Center hosts a public Q&A panel of the employees of Dunder Mifflin. Most of the regular characters return for this after several months, ...
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What does the “keleven” digit look like?
In the Finale episode of The Office, we learn that one reason Kevin was fired, was for using his made-up number "kelevin" to correct accounting errors. His replacement is seen asking Oscar about this ...
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Recent precog apocalypse movie
Trying to remember the name of a recent sci-fi/disaster movie, probably from the last 5-6 years (watched it on DVD).
If featured an apocalypse where someone who knew it was coming had written down a ...
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Which song has a music video with a man running to and from work & ends with the house burning down?
The overlong question title pretty much sums it up.
The song had a Gotye-ish feel to it but I don't think that was the artist. It was pretty recent release, maybe in the last couple of years. It ...
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Was the Silence Prophecy fulfilled in The Name of the Doctor?
On the fields of Trenzalore, at the fall of the Eleventh, when no
living creature may speak falsely or fail to give answer, a question
will be asked. A question that must never, ever be ...
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What is the history of Aragorn?
In The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring why was Aragorn an exile at the beginning? Did a certain event cause him to become an exile?
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How much did Tolkien write about the worshippers of Sauron? The Easterlings, the Harad, the Khand [closed]
Watching The Lord of the Rings movies I was really captivated by the elephant riders and the men in brazen scale armor who aided the orcs against the forces of Gondor and Rohan. From what I know they ...
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Why doesn't Sam use his ability to move things to open the door?
In "Ghost," we see that Sam has learned how to manipulate objects in the physical world. But near the end, when Oda Mae comes to Molly's apartment to run from Carl, we see her begging Molly to unlock ...
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Mecha movie with robots synced to their pilots' movements
It's a movie that I watched with my dad when I was really young. I know it does not really help but I can't remember the year I watched it in. I'm 17 so I guess I watched it around 2001.
In my memory ...
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Sergio Leone's Spaghetti Westerns: English or Italian?
When I've watched DVDs of Sergio Leone's "Spaghetti Westerns", such as A Fistful of Dollars and The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly, I've had the option to choose soundtracks in either English or Italian. ...
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Was Cobb really stuck in the dream world at the end? [duplicate]
In the movie Inception, at the end, the spinning top is shown to be spinning at the end just before the screen goes blank. But another person told me that the top wasnt even Cobb's totem, it is his ...
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Did McGee and Abby ever get into a relationship?
In season two of NCIS, there seems to be a "thing" between Abby and McGee although this is never specifically stated.
In the season two episode "Twilight", Abby says that "McGee didn't just sleep in ...
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Who is the woman in the silver Mercedes?
Early on in the first season of NCIS, many episodes end with Agent Gibbs being picked up by a red haired woman in a silver Mercedes;
It is mentioned frequently that Gibbs is into red haired ...
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Why would Q attach the computer of a known cyberterrorist to the MI6 computer network?
In the movie Skyfall Shouldn't Q like connect Silva's computer to a secure line or something, considering that he was a known cyberterrorist? Isn't there any sort of internal protocols for the ...
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What is the role of Winston Wolfe?
In the movie Pulp Fiction Winston Wolfe says about himself: "I'm Winston Wolfe. I solve problems.". But what does he mean with that and what really was his role?
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Interpretation of the ending of Being There
What is the meaning of the final scene of Being There, where Chance walks on the pond's surface?
The film's Wikipedia page says something about a metaphor of Chance being seen as a messiah, but I ...
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Horror story writer moves with his family into a house where the previous family was murderered
I watched a movie a few months back. The movie starts with four people hanging on a tree. The hero is a writer of horror stories. He comes to a house along with his family. He finds a projector with ...
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Why is Adam D'Angelo's character not in the movie?
Adam D'Angelo met Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg while the two were still teenagers attending "uber" preppy prep school, Phillips Exeter Academy. Initially, D'Angelo worked on the first "app" for ...
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Were “Baadshah” and “Phir Bhi Dil Hai Hindustani” well received upon release?
Were the movies "Baadshah" and "Phir Bhi Dil Hai Hindustani" well received upon release? I have heard that both of these movies were flops, however many people love both of these movies.
Were these ...
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Where did flatlining come from?
A standard sign of death on TV and film seems to be someone's heart rate machine flatlining with a long, drawn out BEEEEEEEEEEP.
However, this is not what actually happens - apparently this noise ...
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In The Prestige, did Angier know that Borden was backstage at his final magic show?
I recently rewatched The Prestige and find this question to be central to understanding the plot. In the final narration Cutter seems to be challenging the audience to discover a further, hidden ...
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How did the Stark family capture the Lannister family's children?
In the season 3 of "game of throne",
I didn't understand that how stark family got Lannister family's two little children as prisoner?
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What is the 216 digit number in Pi?
In the movie Pi, there is a 216-digit number that the protagonist, Max Cohen, is searching for, which in Kabbalah numerology corresponds to the name of God. What is the actual number used in the film ...
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Game of Thrones Season 3 Trailer Music [closed]
What is the name of this trailer music?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQTNi74GdmM
Thanks in advance
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What are the 'quadrants' in TV testing?
When talking of the upcoming S.H.I.E.L.D. TV series, ABC Entertainment Group President Paul Lee said:
“We don’t normally talk about testing, but [Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.] tested so well in ...
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How did Tony fix himself by the end of Iron Man 3?
Tony had a shrapnel in him which the electro-magnet in his chest(powered by the miniature arc reactor) kept from reaching his heart. Tony never took any attempts to remove that shrapnel in Iron Man 1 ...
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Did the Ludovico technique work on Alex or was he just faking all the time?
While watching another Stanley Kubrick movie, this question about A Clockwork Orange popped up and has puzzled me since then:
Is it possible that after Alex was released (or even during the ...
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Why does Dr. Lamar go along with Vincent's deception
At the end of Gattaca, the dialog is pretty clear that Dr. Lamar, who does all the urine-based genetic verification, has a son who admires Vincent's persona as Jerome and that clearly is the reason he ...
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Why do the evil Decepticons get the best weapons?
I've seen all parts of Transformers. But every time the Decepticons get the best weapons and more advanced technologies than the Autobots.
E.g. in the first part Megatron and Starscream can ...
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If Liber8 can hack Keira, why doesn't Keira or Alec hack them back?
Of the people who were sent to the past, three to date have been shown as having CMR implants. These three are;
Keira Cameron, the CPS agent protagonist,
Elena, the CPS agent that was sent back to ...
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Where was the Hulk during the events of Iron Man 3?
After the Avengers, Tony Stark drives off with the Hulk, hinting at them working together. There were references in between the movie where Stark offers Bruce Banner a chance to work with him. Also ...
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How did they create the hole in Robert Downey Jr.'s chest for the Iron Man movie?
Don't know if this is the right place to ask this, but I'm wondering how they created the hole in Robert Downey Jr.'s chest so they can put the reactor there? Here is the video "Iron Man: Behind the ...
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Why didn't Peter pick up Syler's ability earlier?
Later in the series, Peter visits Syler to learn his ability, but Peter comes into contact with Syler on multiple occassions in the first season, but never picked up his ability. Is there something ...
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A tv series without girls [duplicate]
This may be an unusual question but can you suggest me some good tv series with least amount of beautiful girls and least amount of nudity or sexuality?
Like Breaking Bad, Dexter, Prison Break
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Why does James Bond use his real name?
In the James Bond universe most characters go by a code name M, Q, the various 00s, In Skyfall Silva is a made up name. Others such as Tanner, Robinson and Moneypenny, Trevelyan we're not so sure but ...
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Was the margin really paid by Barings? But Why?
I have only limited knowledge of Stock Trading, and I have recently watched Rogue Trader. It's the story of Nick Leeson, an investment trader who single-handedly bankrupted Barings Bank in the 90s.
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When are the confessional interviews on MasterChef held during production?
The emotion, verb tense, and wardrobe of the interviewees suggest that the "confession room" interviews are held simultaneously to the events in the competition. This would seem disruptive to the ...
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Significance of 1958 and its cultural backdrop as the year for the Alien's landing?
This year seems to have a significant meaning in Super 8, as this is the year the humans made contact with the alien in the experiments. During the flashback sequence in the lab, the file folder ...
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1980s or 1990s sci fi video game tv show (live action)
This is really bugging me: I remember a TV show about a teenager who warps into video games and has to defeat the boss of that level or something to that effect. It might not have been a video game ...
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help me Identify the song from the movie [closed]
I have been going through a random list of movies at IMDb. Here I saw a movie which I had seen in past sometime, somewhere.
The movie is Turn Left at the End of the World
I realized that there is a ...
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Identify this thriller/horror movie
The scene depicts a father, who I believe has a shotgun slung around his back, searching for his son in what I believe is a house. He hears his son calling for him, shouting for help in a ghostly ...
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Who is this actor? (and from what movie is he?)
Maybe someone can help me identify the actor and the corresponding movie this image is from:
Initially I thought it's Marcello Mastroianni, but now I think it's just a (slight) resemblance between ...
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Why did Marcellus Wallace throw Tony Rocky Horror out of a window?
In Pulp Fiction, Jules and Vincent discuss the rumour that Marcellus Wallace has thrown Tony Rocky Horror out of a window (causing Tony to develop a speech impediment). It's rumoured that Marcellus ...
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In Star Trek Into Darkness who was the saboteur?
When the Enterprise is on it's way to Qo'nos it drops out of warp because of some unknown leak in the core. At first it's implied that it's the torpedoes (which it wasn't because they were not even ...
