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Where does the mailbox come from?

posted 8 years ago by ScaryMary123
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When Linus and Lucy are leaving their house for the pumpkin patch, their way is very clear. However, when they come back, it's apparently through the Twilight Zone. Now, there's a fence existing where there was no fence, and a sidewalk leading up to their door that wasn't there before.

But the weirdest thing happens later, when Linus mails his letter to the Great Pumpkin. Lucy follows him outside, and they go but a few feet away from the house, and there's a mailbox. That mailbox didn't exist before, when they went out for their pumpkin!

[–] doug65oh 8 years ago

Offhand I'd suppose air mail. After all, the World War I Flying Ace had to do something when he wasn't being shot down by the Red Baron or skulking through the fields of France in search of friendly farms and milk maidens.

[–] avortac4 (3751) 2 years ago

That kind of thing can even happen in actual, live-action movies. It just depends where the camera is placed.

Instead of worrying about slightly off-camera mailboxes and pavements, how about worrying about WHAT PLANET they are on, because there are TWO SUNS..?

What about Linus' secret superpowers of TELEPORTATION or INVISIBILITY? We never see him through the fence hole after he bumps into it with the giant pumpkin, and YET he emerges from the edge of the fence - how did he get there, if not teleportation or invisibility? The only logical explanation would be that he took a super long detour, going downhill so we can't see him because the ground is on the way, and then quickly runs back uphill right to the corner of the fence, and then walks out as we see him do.

Why would he do that?

They should at least drawn a bush or tree there so it could explain why we never see him until he has gone around the fence.

In any case, pavement can be explained by some quick morning rush pavement job, but TWO SUNS can't.