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Submitted by Nitpicker : Beasthunter
Movie : Return to Oz - 1985
Nitpick Category : Scientific Fact
Nitpick Number : 40117
Approximate time of Nitpick : 10-15 minutes to the end
Summary : Terrified chicken laying egg (Refuted)
Detail : When the Stone King is about to eat the scarecrow and the chicken is in scarecrow's head, it suddenly lays egg in panic. Now, everybody knows that stressed chickens, not to speak of terrified ones do not lay eggs.


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Silly nitpick

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by 29002   Tuesday, January 22, 2008 12:29 PM

This nitpick is silly. First, it is not the scarecrow's head from which the egg falls. It is Jack or as The GNOME KING (not Stone King, although he is made of stone)likes to call Jack, Pumpkin Head. Second, have you ever lived on a farm? Who says stressed chickens don't lay eggs?

 

Your both wrong

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by Michael Edwards   Tuesday, January 22, 2008 12:29 PM

Your both wrong. It isn’t the Stone King and it isn’t the Gnome King it is NOME KING!!!! Read the book. They spell Gnome like NOME!!! Even check the credits of the movie. It says Dr. Worley/The Nome King. I wish everyone would just get it correct NOME N-O-M-E NOME!!!!

 

Chickens don't talk, either

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by 45004   Tuesday, January 22, 2008 12:29 PM

Besides getting the names wrong (it's Nome King and Jack, as was already pointed out), the nitpick is ridiculous. We're talking about a talking chicken, inside a talking pumpkin-headed being, about to be eaten alive by a talking mountain, in a world where eggs are poisonous to "Nomes." This entire land of Oz is complete fantasy, and arguably only exists in Dorothy's head.

 

Egg symbolic, and the entire thing is a dream!

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by 45004   Tuesday, January 22, 2008 12:29 PM

This is a fantasy in Dorothy's head. The NOME KING (not "Stone King"), representing patriarchy, is poisoned by eggs (representing life and birth). It's all a delusion of Dorothy's. The chicken quite obviously isn't real: It speaks in English, incessently! The nitpick is invalid.