History Fridge / TheHardyBoysNancyDrewMysteries

* In 2nd Season episode "Acapulco Spies", Fenton Hardy has escaped TheVillain (a wanted traitor accused of selling military secrets) and is on the run from TheVillain's Mook. Frantic, he stumbles to a phone booth outside of a brightly-lit bar and calls home, telling his sons to bring him a specific file and lockbox and gives them a code-phrase to identify his agent...just as the mook catches Fenton and the line goes dead. Then you realize that Fenton has just escaped the villain & is on the run from that closely-pursuing mook. Fenton hasn't had any time to set up any such code with his people, let alone inform them that his sons are coming down, and is wasting his precious escape time to call his sons -- who don't know anything about the situation -- and tell them to bring him files.

* In 1st season episode "Mystery of the Flickering Torch", Frank & Joe go to a sound-engineering/design company to follow up a lead on a missing sound engineer. One of the bad guys comes in, Frank & Joe hide in a nearby supply closet (using keys to unlock it), and end up locked-in and trapped when the bad guy attempts to burn the building down.

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** Frank & Joe simply open the closet door and run out of the building.

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** The closet door somehow proves to be locked, despite the villain not knowing anyone was in there & the brothers not hearing anyone use a key in the lock. With the "key" part of the lock on the other side, that means the "latch" part would be on the Hardys' side of the door. But rather than simply turn the latch to unlock it (or kicking down the flimsy interior door), the brothers waste time kicking in the drywall and patching in power-tools to the electrical system to ''cut the door open''. Why an office would have a jigsaw & power drill in its supply closet is not addressed.

* In 2nd Season episode "Acapulco Spies", Fenton Hardy has escaped TheVillain (a wanted traitor accused of selling military secrets) and is on the run from TheVillain's Mook.

--->'''''You'd Expect:'''''
** Fenton would run to the police or the nearest public place to get help, or would call his contacts at the US Embassy.

--->'''''What Happens:'''''
** Fenton calls his sons -- who are home in Bayport -- and asks them to fly down to Acapulco to bring him top-secret sensitive files on TheVillain...''the very files that TheVillain is after.'' You might then expect that he'd at least warn his sons about who TheVillain is so they could avoid him, but instead, Fenton only tells them to wait for a mysterious contact using a code phrase -- which he's had no time to set up, as he's only just escaped. Naturally, the brothers bring the files & nearly fall right into TheVillain's hands.

* In 1st season episode ''Mystery of the Flickering Torch'', Frank & Joe go to a sound-engineering/design company to follow up a lead on a missing sound engineer. One of the bad guys comes in, Frank & Joe hide in a nearby supply closet (using keys to unlock it), and end up locked-in and trapped when the bad guy attempts to burn the building down.

* In 2nd Season episode ''Alcapulco Spies'', Fenton Hardy has escaped the BigBad (a wanted traitor accused of selling military secrets) and is on the run from the BigBad's Mook.

** Fenton calls his sons -- who are home in Bayport -- and asks them to fly down to Acapulco to bring him top-secret sensitive files on the BigBad...''the very files that the BigBad is after.'' You might then expect that he'd at least warn his sons about who the BigBad is so they could avoid him, but instead, Fenton only tells them to wait for a mysterious contact using a code phrase -- which he's had no time to set up, as he's only just escaped. Naturally, the brothers bring the files & nearly fall right into the BigBad's hands.

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* In the episode "Mystery of the Flickering Torch", Frank & Joe go to a sound-engineering/design company to follow up a lead on a missing sound engineer. One of the bad guys comes in, Frank & Joe hide in a nearby supply closet (using keys to unlock it), and end up locked-in and trapped when the bad guy attempts to burn the building down.
--->'''You'd Expect:'''

--->'''What Happens:'''
** The closet door somehow proves to be locked, despite the villain not knowing anyone was in there & the brothers not hearing anyone use a key in the lock. With the "key" part of the lock on the other side, that means the "latch" part would be on the Hardys' side of the door. But rather than simply turn the latch to unlock it (or kicking down the flimsy interior door), the brothers waste time kicking in the drywall and patching in power-tools to the electrical system to ''cut the door open''. Why an office would have a jigsaw & power drill in its supply closet is not addressed.

** ...and it's deliberate. The shoddy, inaccurate representation is actually a tip-off: [[spoiler: Joe hasn't been in a coma at all & the doctors aren't doctors. The whole thing is a mind-screw to make Joe think he's been in a coma so that the Communist agents can convince him to spill his guts about the defection.]] ''The show is using its own cheesy '70s production values to mess with our heads.''

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* In the episode "Sole Survivor", we're presented with opening scenes that -- even by '70s TV production standards -- are very inaccurate, shoddy representations of emergency & hospital procedures: doctors riding in the ambulance right from the scene of the accident, laughably fake EKG pads & setup, doctors squirting liquids out of needles and using weird hand angles to apparently stick them in Joe's neck, no scrubs, not even an attempt at sanitary procedure or masks, ambulance staff being the ones to assist in the surgery room, rushing Joe into surgery & an operation without any attempt to determine what's wrong with him, etc. When Joe wakes up & is told that he's been in a coma for over a year, again, even by '70s TV production, Joe not only wakes to full, coherent consciousness, but looks nothing like anyone who's been in a coma at all, with not a hair out of place...

* In the episode "Sole Survivor", we're presented with opening scenes that -- even by '70s TV production standards -- are very inaccurate, shoddy representations of emergency & hospital procedures: doctors riding in the ambulance right from the scene of the accident, laughably fake EKG pads (and only two connectors, at that), doctors squirting liquids out of needles and using weird hand angles to apparently stick them in Joe's neck, no scrubs, not even an attempt at sanitary procedure or masks, ambulance staff being the ones to assist in the surgery room, rushing Joe into surgery & an operation without any attempt to determine what's wrong with him, etc. When Joe wakes up & is told that he's been in a coma for over a year, again, even by '70s TV production, Joe not only wakes to full, coherent consciousness, but looks nothing like anyone who's been in a coma at all, with not a hair out of place...

* In the episode "Sole Survivor", we're presented with opening scenes that -- even by '70s TV production standards -- are very inaccurate, shoddy representations of emergency & hospital procedures: doctors riding in the ambulance right from the scene of the accident, laughably fake EKG pads (and only two connectors, at that), doctors squirting liquids out of needles and using weird hand angles to apparent stick them in Joe's neck, no scrubs, not even an attempt at sanitary procedure or masks, ambulance staff being the ones to assist in the surgery room, rushing Joe into surgery & an operation without any attempt to determine what's wrong with him, etc. When Joe wakes up & is told that he's been in a coma for over a year, again, even by '70s TV production, Joe not only wakes to full, coherent consciousness, but looks nothing like anyone who's been in a coma at all, with not a hair out of place...

* In the episode "Sole Survivor", we're presented with opening scenes that -- even by '70s TV production standards -- are very inaccurate, shoddy representations of emergency & hospital procedures: doctors riding in the ambulance, laughably fake EKG pads (and only two connectors, at that), doctors squirting liquids out of needles and using weird hand angles to apparent stick them in Joe's neck, no scrubs, not even an attempt at sanitary procedure or masks, ambulance staff being the ones to assist in the surgery room, rushing Joe into surgery & an operation without any attempt to determine what's wrong with him, etc. When Joe wakes up & is told that he's been in a coma for over a year, again, even by '70s TV production, Joe not only wakes to full, coherent consciousness, but looks nothing like anyone who's been in a coma at all, with not a hair out of place...

* In the episode "Sole Survivor", we're presented with opening scenes that -- even by '70s TV production standards -- are very inaccurate, shoddy representation of emergency & hospital procedures: doctors riding in the ambulance, laughably fake EKG pads (and only two connectors, at that), doctors squirting liquids out of needles and using weird hand angles to apparent stick them in Joe's neck, no scrubs, not even an attempt at sanitary procedure or masks, ambulance staff being the ones to assist in the surgery room, etc. When Joe wakes up & is told that he's been in a coma for over a year, again, even by '70s TV production, Joe looks nothing like anyone who's been in a coma at all...