Picking Nits
Picking up a hitchhiker by a slaughterhouse; surviving a meat hook; leaving the van's lights on; continuing the trip after the hitchhiker; the road-trip itinerary; Pam reading the Zodiac book; the chainsaw's power source; sudden traffic on the dirt road; Leatherface never running straight
In the discussion (6)
Approx. transcript time · 01:22:10Read transcript
- Passing a slaughterhouse, nobody should pick up that hitchhiker; would someone lifted onto a metal hook die right away or slide down, depending on where it hits, and the actress could only hang there in a harness for a couple of minutes.
- They leave the van's lights on to run down the battery, have no gas, and keep going after the hitchhiker cuts himself and Franklin, takes their picture, lights it on fire and smears blood on the van; the trip should be over.
- The itinerary makes no sense: visit their father's old place and make sure grandpa wasn't grave robbed, down a desolate highway in 100-degree heat, bringing Franklin; one host answers Craig that 70s road trips with three channels and no phones were like this.
- The biggest nitpick: right after all this, Pam starts reading the Zodiac book instead of talking about the hitchhiker.
- How the chainsaw runs with no extension cord, battery or gas, and whether Leatherface would remember to charge or refuel it.
- At the end there is suddenly traffic on a dirt road in the middle of nowhere, a giant truck and then a pickup, so she got very lucky; Leatherface never runs in a straight line, so Sally could have put more evasive moves on him.