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Fridge Brilliance
- Addaperle refuses to take Dorothy home because it involves "transporting a minor across state lines." At first this sounds like a quip, but in the books, Oz is NOT in a far distant magical dimension. It really is a magically protected region within the "real world" that is blocked off from the rest of the world by a magic desert that kills anything that tries to cross it. The Wiz actually recalls flying his balloon over this desert in the play, and if Addaperle witnessed this, then she had a perfectly good reason to expect the Wiz to help Dorothy across.
- In the 2015 version, it would seem all the witches are dressed according to their corresponding point of the map and its element:
- Addaperle (North) corresponds to winter and water, and so wears blue and white.
- Glinda (South) corresponds to the summer and fire, and so wears a yellow dress that resembles the sun.
- Evillene (West) corresponds to metal and fall and wears a dress that seems to look almost metallic with wires attached to her shoulders and crown. Appropriate given she runs a factory in both the film and live version.
- Evamean (East): While we never see her, one can only guess that Evamean would have been dressed in something that resemble spring and wood.
- The Munchkins (who reside in the East) all have floral look to their clothing, with all of them dressed like flower petals and thus fulfill this concept in lieu of seeing Evamean.
Fridge Logic
- In the movie, Dorothy repeatedly Fails a Taxi, who don't take black passengers. But if everyone in Oz is black, then who do the taxis drive around?
Fridge Horror
- In the original stage productions, when Dorothy returns home, Toto runs onstage and the show ends as she picks him up. Yet Aunt Em and Uncle Henry do not appear at all, with their last scene being the two of them running away from the twister. What if after the show's curtain falls, Dorothy looks for them only to find that they didn't survive?
- Evillene, in the 2015 version, is hinted to be both a cannibal and a child-killer. She threatens to eat Dorothy right before she's melted and earlier, she mentions that handling Dorothy "isn't her first time running a nursery", implying some poor child(ren) have faced her evil before.
