Probably Unanswerable Questions
Hoffman’s basketball; origin of shart; bathroom scenes and reviews; Crocodile Tears
In the discussion (4)
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- The nature of Crocodile Tears remains uncertain: a family comedy, childhood tragedy or Bad News Bears-style film is debated, and the bagpipe scene's content is unknown.
- Hoffman's actual basketball ability is an unanswerable question, with coordination here and a Love Liza scene suggesting competence rather than proving it.
- Whether Hamburg coined shart is unresolved; the panel's view is that the act and probably the term predated the film, but the film popularized it.
- Hamburg's theory that bathroom scenes harm reviews is debated against the acclaimed There's Something About Mary; actual feces is proposed as the critical dividing line.