If Looks Could Kill/YMMV

Everything About Fiction You Never Wanted to Know.


Mrs. Grober: [meekly protesting their kidnapping] Look, this is all very fascinating, I'm sure, but, um, this is simply not on the schedule! You see, we were supposed to be in Dijonn this morning. You understand? Mustard land! And - and last night we were supposed to be in a eucastle in Straussberg...
Zigesfeld: [losing his temper finally] Shut up, you whining bitch!

  • Fridge Logic: How exactly could Michael have gone an entire school year without realizing he was failing French class? Why wouldn't the school inform him? Or his parents? Is it customary to just let students fail unknowingly just to spitefully inform them of their failure the day they graduate?
    • Also Steranko's evil plan makes no sense. Leaving aside the unlikelihood that he could take over Europe just by poisoning a few heads of state and expect to step into their collective shoes without any opposition, he's really counting his chickens before they hatch by stealing gold to mint coins for his own country that doesn't even exist yet.
    • 1) Yes. American public schools as a general rule don't do anything more than they absolutely have to. Michael might have gotten some note or slip at some point that warned him he was lacking credit but it would have been something very easy to ignore. Plus if they wait to inform him, they can still get him to buy a cap and gown (which high schools inflate the cost of roughly equivalent to how colleges inflate textbook costs). 2) Bond Villain Stupidity. It is an Affectionate Parody after all.