Picking Nits
Living with an undone alternate life; New York geography; unemployed Matt; unrealistic magazine business; Jenna not looking things up; Six Chicks dressed for 1985; anachronistic video camera; Matt too accepting; littering; unchanged basement; junk food without consequence; kept Sparkle letters; overnight bus ads; the dollhouse; the home wedding
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- The biggest nit is how she lives knowing she undid an alternate life.
- New York details: 61 Fifth Avenue is at 11th Street but they show 12th, she asks what the Village is while living there, and travel is too quick.
- Matt seems unemployed and always available; he needed hobbies like fantasy football or the Knicks and is probably a pothead, which suits Ruffalo not wanting to be there.
- The magazine business is unrealistic: relaunches are normal, not a death sentence.
- She would have had more questions and could have looked things up on a You've Got Mail-style computer.
- The Six Chicks are dressed like 1985, not 1987, lacking big hair, per a participant in high school then.
- Jenna's dad's small video camera didn't exist in 1987, when cameras were bulky.
- Matt should have been far more alarmed by how crazy Jenna was.
- Adult Jenna litters, throwing shrimp over her shoulder; one participant admits to littering as a kid, and an off-mic participant is said to hate littering.
- The parents would have remodeled the basement in 17 years.
- Jenna eats junk the whole movie with no jeans-don't-fit payoff.
- Evil Jenna keeps the Sparkle letters in her desk drawer.
- The class-of-2004 ad is on buses within 12 hours, though bus ads are booked far in advance.
- A participant's wife's biggest nit: engaged Matt keeps a dollhouse of Jenna, with a bathtub picture, for 17 years; any partner would smash it.
- The dollhouse is at his parents' house, which is still weird and suggests they want him back with her; she threw it at him, yet it is unbroken.
- Weddings at a parent's house are a movie trope; home weddings in the Hamptons are very expensive, and someone who can afford San Ysidro could afford a hotel.