Probably Unanswerable Questions
Apartment; electronic comics; Susan’s aftermath; secret and money; drugs; charges; Zoltar wishes; reintegration
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- The apartment aftermath question imagines Josh and Billy returning to play until the locks are changed.
- The electronic Choose Your Own Adventure comic's proposed seven-dollar cost and $18.95 retail price seem incompatible with advanced technology, raising business-model doubts.
- Susan's next five years are imagined as traumatic secrecy, therapy and possible self-destruction; friends and coworkers would ask about the vanished boyfriend. These are dark hypothetical consequences, not established onscreen outcomes.
- Josh's reintegration raises questions about Billy keeping him grounded, children keeping the secret and the unexplained money left from his brief executive salary; estimates of his pay are disputed.
- A darker version imagines Josh encountering cocaine and other drugs at eighties business parties, compared with Less Than Zero and Succession; this is explicitly a hypothetical divergence.
- The panel debates possible charges against Susan and her lack-of-knowledge defense; a recalled age-of-consent claim is podcast commentary, not independently verified legal information.
- Zoltar's broader powers raise the question of other fulfilled wishes and a possible anthology series following a new wish each episode.
- Josh inventing video highlights or YouTube is joked about; a more optimistic forecast says his extraordinary experience might help him succeed, though returning to thirteen-year-old life remains difficult and his actual adult habits were limited.