Headscratchers / Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers

• "Risky Beesness". Apparently, Queenie, an insect, and the (mammalian) Rescue Rangers understand each other perfectly, yet Zipper, ALSO an insect, can be only understood by Monterey Jack. WTF?
  • Zipper possibly has a Speech Impediment, similar to Donald Duck in DuckTales (1987). It's also possible that flies in this universe always have high-pitched voices (just like chipmunks).
  • As I recall, Chip, Dale, and Gadget can understand him just fine, Zipper just interacts with Monty more often than the others.
• From that same episode, most of the other villains at least have actual reasons to commit crimes. But if Irweena wanted to become a heavy metal musician, why didn't she just become one? What was the need for her to mind control a swarm of bees?
  • Because she's a bad musician. Maybe whe was hoping the bees would work as a gimmick to make up for it, or otherwise cover up her own lack of talent.
• This is likely due to the pilot movie being Edited for Syndication, but can anyone explain where and how Chip gets his hat? The version that airs on TV, and on DVD, Chip's hat just randomly appears on his head with no explanation.
  • A comic version of the pilot shows that a regular fedora ended up getting shrunk in the wash, where Chip found it right before it randomly shows up in the TV version.
• Why Gadget didn't just roll of from conveyor belt in episode "Mind Your Cheese and Q’s"? She isn't tied on it, since Monterey easily lifts her off from it.
• It's been years since I've seen the episode, but just how exactly did Lahwhinie manage to fool Monterey? Everyone was picking up that things weren't quite right, however Chip and Dale she was able to deal with using a bit of Distracted by the Sexy. That approach wouldn't have worked on him even if she tried it (and given their relationship probably would have just been an even bigger warning). So even if the boys were preoccupied, Monty ought to have seen right through it.
  • He was being suspicious about her, but one possible explonation is that maybe in offscreen Monty told Chip and Dale that something was off with her but they were like "oh you're just exaggerating Monterey, nothing is wrong with her".
• Why was the "Dale tries to hypnotize Monty" scene from "The Pied Piper Power Play" cut? It's not like it is super offensive or anything.
• Why is it called "Coo-Koo Cola" when it seems to be a brand of fruit flavored soda instead of cola?
• Regarding "To the Rescue": since Klordane is initially presumed to have drowned a year ago and Fat Cat, his pet, has been around for long enough that Dale recognizes his casino, who was in charge of the casino during FC's absence? Even assuming that Klordane returned to the city much earlier than assumed and managed to stay low, it's unlikely Fat Cat would be able to be around every week to look over the casino.
  • Fat Cat is clearly not an indoors cat. It's not that unusual for a cat who's allowed to go outside to take off and stay out for a while. If Klordane was laying low somewhere in the city, Fat Cat would have had lots of opportunities to go out and put in plenty of appearances at the casino.
• Is Fat Cat evil because of Klordine? He seems to take after his master, even shares his arrogance and greed.
• In "Dale Beside Himself". When DTZ transforms to become an exact copy of Dale. The other rescue rangers are oblivious and ignorant to the new Dale's sudden change to the point that they are oblivious to impossibilities such as DTZ using his abilities to lift an entire typewriter twice his size into the treehouse. You would think this would tip off to the other rangers that something is not right. However it is not until the two dales are in the same room do the other rangers realize that there is an issue. How was it possible for the rangers to not notices these rather impossible feats for a chipmunk, let alone Dale.
• Also in "Dale Beside Himself" When DTZ transforms into a dragon. DTZ makes a lot of noise and even roars directly at the ceiling of the main room of the Rescue Rangers HQ. Which right above them is the kitchen in which the rest of the rangers are in. When DTZ transforms once more both him and Dale crash to the floor and make a loud thud upon impact. When Dale realizes DTZ has become an exact copy of him they both get interrupted by Chip who seemingly seems upset with Dale already. So did the other rangers happen to hear all the noise coming from downstairs or just Chip or was Chip already anticipating Dale to be goofing off? If the latter is case then did Chip assume all the noise was coming from the TV?
• With a few rare exceptions, this show adheres to Level 4 of animal-speak. However, there are a few violations of this rule.
  • At one point during "Robocat", Butch the bulldog speaks, and his owner (who wasn't looking at him) is able to understand him. His owner appears to be confused, while Butch tries to hide a guilty face.
  • In "To the Rescue", Fat Cat ordered a pizza offscreen. How exactly did Fat Cat order this pizza? He couldn't have spoken to a human over the phone, and this cartoon predates online food ordering by several years.
    • Has it ever actually been established that he can't talk to humans over the telephone? It's not very far-fetched, considering the other examples listed here.
    • Couldn't he have recorded a human ordering a pizza and replayed that recording whenever he wanted one as well? he wouldn't be the only fictional cat to pull that trick.
  • In "A Bad Case of Stage Blight", Sewernose the alligator is able to talk back and forth with Clarence Dudley during his attempt to trick the actor into opening the door to his dressing room (finally succeeding by claiming to be a "singing telegram". After taking Dudley's place, he goes on to sing in the opera, with no human in the cast or audience seeming to notice any difference with the lyrics.
• "Dirty Rotten Diapers" has a few gems;
  • "Baby" Thaddeus is an adult with dwarfism. However, he can pass himself off as a baby, despite being well past puberty. All he has to do is shave constantly and his adoptive parents will never suspect a thing. These parents are changing Thaddeus' clothes and diapers at some point, you'd think they'd notice something's not quite right.
  • At one point, Thaddeus traps the Rangers in a running dishwasher. The water should be hot enough to scald the Rangers, but it comes off as being about as dangerous as a bubble bath. On top of that, the door automatically opened up after the dry cycle had finished.
  • The Rangers call 911 to get help. It connects them not to a dispatcher, but to Sergeant Spinelli at his desk. On top of that, they attempt to get his attention by talking, even though humans are unable to understand animals. Strangely, this plan was Gadget's idea.
• "The Carpetsnaggers";
  • The Rangers attempt to keep Nimnul's flying carpets grounded by nailing them to the floor. When Nimnul activates the carpets, the entire mansion they're in rises into the air. Realistically, one of the following should have happened:
    • The carpets would have ripped their own edges off.
    • The nails holding the carpets down would have been unfastened.
    • The carpets tear up parts of the floor.
    • The nails keep the carpets grounded; nothing crazy happens.
• Sewernose de Bergerac, the alligator from "A Case of Stage Blight" must be magical or something;
  • He is able to converse with humans (mentioned above).
  • At one point, he disappears in a puff of smoke before the Rangers' eyes.
  • He owns two fairly lifelike hand puppets, which are able to fool the Rangers into thinking they're miniature humans until they're seen on Sewernose's hands.
  • He gets flushed down a fountain drain that shouldn't have been large enough for him to fit into. Also, Gadget managed to initiate the flush just by tinkering with a nearby toilet.
• "The Case of the Cola Cult";
  • The (presumably 12 oz) soda cans in this episode are huge. Chip, Dale, Monty, Zipper and Myron (a mouse) all fit inside of one with plenty of room for them to stand in.
  • Later in the episode, these same characters plus another mouse are somehow forced into separate soda bottles. With the exception of Zipper, how did any of them fit through the bottlenecks?
• "A Creep in the Deep";
  • A submarine filled with water wouldn't be buoyant, and thus be unable to maneuver in the water.
  • The Rangers utilize soap bubbles as underwater helmets. Soap bubbles cannot withstand water and will pop if forced beneath the surface.
  • Flooding a submarine with bubbles would never allow it to fly.
• "It's a Bird, It's Insane, It's Dale!";
  • How exactly are the stolen monuments supposed to be transported back to their rightful locations? At the very least, they'd have to be disassembled and reconstructed.
• "Pie in the Sky";
  • Ma Sweeney's factory is set up to bake live birds into its pies. Had the pies made it to market, customers would surely notice that their "chicken" pies have whole dead crows in them.
• In "A Chorus Crime", Nimnul ends up in the Arctic Ocean, wearing nothing but his usual lab coat and a life preserver. He should be freezing and at risk of losing his life, but he doesn't seem to be bothered by the water's cold temperature at all.
  • Monterey is surprisingly well despite being underwater in Artic ocean and sitting on iceberg really long time. It's a wonder how he didn't catch pneumonia.
• "Chipwrecked Shipmunks";
  • If Chip was so sure that Monterey and Dale were just fooling around, why did he let them go together? He is the leader afterall and is shown to be right most of the time.
• The video games:
  • Lots of animals are close in size to chipmunks, including squirrels, bees, rhinoceroses and ostriches. On the contrary, Fat Cat is fairly large.
  • In the second game, Fat Cat escapes from what appears to be a human prison. This gets mentioned on the news. On the show, Fat Cat's criminal lifestyle is unknown to the human world. How exactly did Fat Cat end up in jail?