Picking Nits
Pam is never a suspect; how many kids died before the camp closed; why she isn't Crazy Pam; Mama Voorhees' athleticism and the bad final fight; why Jason, a poor swimmer, was in the lake at night
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- The movie makes it seem like murders and fires kept happening at the campsite, yet the mom is never a suspect; where is Pam in the intervening years, going back to work at the CVS while nobody in town notices.
- How many kids had to get killed before there was no more camp, and whether anyone actually knows: two when she first gets them, given as 'Two and 59' (as transcribed), then an attempt to burn it down, then 80 when they try to reopen it.
- The hosts picture the Blairstown Diner with Crazy Ralph at one table and Pam slamming her plate down when she hears the camp is reopening, and ask why she wasn't Crazy Pam.
- The biggest nitpick is whether Mama Voorhees is athletic enough to pull off anything, since she is a terrible fighter; the fight with Alice is so bad that, per the research, there was no fight choreographer.
- The last nitpick: according to Pam, Jason wasn't a good swimmer, so why was he out in an open lake at night; it is her fault for not teaching the kid to swim.
- Earlier, during the villain ranking, her frail frame is flagged as one participant's biggest nitpick, to come later.