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This never made Sense Spoiler

posted 12 years ago by powersroc
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Betty Haynes is furious at Bob Wallace when she mistakenly thinks that he is out to publicly portray General Waverly on a televised TV show as a poor,pathetic soul in order to garner publicity for He & Phil's Broadway show.She abruptly leaves Bob,Phil,& her sister in Pinetree,VT & takes a job at a nightclub in NYC.Bob meets with her in order to resolve the situation but the misunderstanding just continues & she remains upset.Later on we see her sitting,along with the nightclub managers where she works,watching the Ed Harris show.Bob appears on it & asks that as many men as can that served under General Waverly come to the Columbia Inn on Christmas to surprise & honor him.Betty now realizes that Bob never planned to exploit the general's situation or capitalize upon it to his advantage.But I always found it strange that she would even watch the Ed Harris TV show in the first place.She knew that Bob was going on it & was disgusted with what she thought were his reasons for doing so.Why would she have sat down to see Bob do this awful act,even though she had him wrong?

[–] jenna198402 12 years ago

The same reason people stalk their exes facebook or twitter or whatever is popular this week...just because she was mad at him doesn't mean that she wouldn't be curious about what he is doing. Plus I gathered it was the thing to do, you watched the Ed Harris show when it was on.

[–] powersroc 12 years ago

Good points.

[–] jenna198402 12 years ago

Thank you :)

[–] vpilutis 12 years ago

Bottom line if she understood Bob was mucking with the general why did she say something?

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[–] Can_a_bitch_get_a_donut 12 years ago

Yes, why wouldn't a woman communicate just once to give a man a chance to explain and clear up a misunderstanding in 30 seconds?

lol woman logic

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[–] bron-tay 12 years ago

This point also bothered Rosemary Clooney. She mentioned it in the commentary. I don't know about "woman logic" so much as "Hollywood logic," a poorly contrived conflict to keep the story going.

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[–] Can_a_bitch_get_a_donut 12 years ago

Touché.

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[–] ceebeegee 10 years ago

It's a plot point. Calm down. Don't be creepy and start going off about "women logic" and other garbage. It's just a silly plot point designed to arbitrarily obstruct the two lovers until they can reunite at the end.

[–] DocCasualty 12 years ago

Plus I gathered it was the thing to do, you watched the Ed Harris show when it was on.

I think this was the reason, just as jenna stated. The Ed Harris Show was a take on "The Ed Sullivan Show" and back then everybody watched it. Most people had at most three or four television channels to watch in those days and certain shows like that overwhelmingly dominated their time slots.

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[–] annmason24 10 years ago

kiss did not want to make the general seem like a pitiful so, why did he sing the song about generals are being forgotten and unemployed? I think he was belittling him with the song itself!

[–] treeline1 10 years ago

Annamason24, I agree with you! I thought he was portraying the general as a sad man who needed cheering up - no different from Betty's original idea, which was deplorable to her.

And how does she have time to go shopping for a knight on a white horse - and to wrap it?

And when she gives Bing the knight, all is forgiven? That fast?

Still, I watch it every year!