Fugly's apes were rescued from animal smugglers.
Great apes (especially endangered ones like chimps and orangutans) are not legal to own as common pets, and while the
location of the movie's city is left ambiguous, there seems to be little chance that they are native to the wilds of whatever country it's located in. Maybe they were brought there as youngsters by poachers or animal smugglers, and destined to be sold off to a circus or a laboratory. They escaped from their captivity, however, and eventually found themselves in a the Flealands Hotel, where Fugly took them in to use in his shows. This is also why Thelonious seems to be
so loyal to Fugly; he was the first human to show him any kindness and the first who
was willing to treat him as an equal instead of just a dumb wild animal.
The clown suit suffered some sort of malfunction during the climax.
While it makes for a funny and unexpected punchline to an already chaotic scene, the reveal that Fugly's clown suit is inflatable
doesn't seem to make much sense in hindsight, as it just doesn't feel or look very practical. It inflates so much that it completely ruins and tears every fabric of the suit apart (including the pants) and, as shown when Esme hits the ground, prevents whoever is wearing it from walking or even standing up. There are also doesn't seem to be a way to deflate it easily and, judging by Esme's uncomfortable moans during the inflation, it doesn't appear to be a very pleasant experience. Even for someone as...
strange as Fugly, this just doesn't seem like a good idea for his performances.
But what if the suit isn't supposed to do this in the first place? It's inflatable, but it actually isn't supposed to expand so much. The gag involving it would likely go like this: as shown in the hospital scenes, Fugly's apes play the role of demanding customers who treat their clown waiter quite rudely, pulling on the suspenders of his suit and complaining about the food he serves. At some point (maybe close to the show's end), they would pull that red tag that says "DO NOT PULL"...but they would only give it a slight tug, and wouldn't completely remove it like what happens to Esme in the movie's climax.
It's that little tag itself that controls the inflatable rubber parts of the suit, and it should only be pulled gently. If done correctly, it only makes the clown suit expand a little bit; just about enough to make the wearer seem like they gained a few pounds. Unfortunately for Esme, the tag was completely removed when she was wearing it, and as a result the clown suit completely lost control and began to massively inflate. This is also why she can be heard grunting and moaning as it does so; since the suit wasn't ever supposed to expand to those sizes, it's causing her a good deal of discomfort.
Thus, the tag's label doesn't just serve as a gag; it's a genuine warning too. Esme just happened to be unlucky enough to find out what happens when it's removed carelessly from the suit.
Esme was arrested one more time after the movie's climax.
Well, she
did invade a formal event and caused the destruction of expensive property like that chandelier. Sure, she only did it to
save Babe, but there doesn't seem to be a big chance that rescuing her pet would be a good enough excuse. And it's not like she could have simply fled the scene since she was stuck inside the inflated clown suit. As such, she got arrested again... which lead to another
angry and long rant in the court about her situation and how badly she got treated at the ballroom. Maybe with some classic grandmother comments on how no one in that city has any manners or knows how to treat a lady, and probably all while
still inside the suit, as considering her
luck, it's unlikely anyone had the decency to help her out of the bloated thing and get her more dignified clothes. There was a silver lining in the end, however; the kindly judge who listened to her the first time was present and dismissed her case one more time.
- Alternatively, the stenographer that was present in the court scene was on duty that day and had a massive panic attack when he saw her again ready to talk up another storm and begged, or outright bribed, the judge to let her go just so he wouldn't have to write down her statements again.
Metropolis is actually the lair of a
cosmic entity that feeds on negative emotions.
And to make things worse, it's also got a rather twisted sense of humour. It causes all sorts of misery and misfortune to fall on anyone who lives or ventures inside of it until they snap and become bitter people who constantly release negative feelings to feed it. That's why almost everyone in the place seems so much more unpleasant, miserable, and aggressive than the people in the countryside; all of them have gone through the same sort of bad luck Esme and Babe run into during the movie, and one day they simply decided to start to give as much as they took, creating a vicious cycle and an endless food supply for the beast.
In fact, it is the reason the woman and the pig run into so much trouble to begin with. Even with Esme being a very bumbling and innocent person, and Babe being too pure for his own good, their trip would never have gone so badly had the entity sleeping beneath Metropolis not decided to make them its next victims. Thus it created all the disastrous accidents that happen during their trip, from causing them to separate from each other to all of the public humiliations Esme goes through. The reason why the latter's misfortune seems to get worse and worse as the plot advances is because the entity eventually begins to get pissed at how she refuses to break and give up no matter what happens to her. After the climax, it finally decides to quit its little game since it's obvious it's not going to win against these targets. If anything, it may have even begun to consider it dangerous to let them stick around for much longer, since both were starting to inspire other of the troubled city denizens (Babe with the stray animals and Esme with the Landlady) to stand up to their woes and improve their lives. Thus it begrudgingly allows them to leave without any further trouble, lest they begin to deprive it of even more food.
Yes, a little pig and a salt of the earth innocent country wife defeated an ancient cosmic monster, all without even realising they did it. Not bad at all for such unlikely heroes.
Fugly Floom was murdered or he committed suicide.
Seeing as he burned down the hospital (though by accident), there'd be enough hate on him where somebody had him killed, likely by a hotel guest (though we never saw any humans besides Fugly but the Landlady and Esme in the hotel). Alternatively, he could have been in so much despair over what happened that he committed suicide.
Esme's inflation was a direct result of the "Glue" which was either a potion or alien slime.
As farfetched & outlandish as this sounds, Think about it. The glue that fell on Esme wasn't actually glue, But either some sort of potion or perhaps alien slime, When it came into contact with Esme, It entered her bodily orifice. This could explain as Esme's dress ripped as she was slowly gaining pregnancy weight from the aliens growing inside her. & why she was favoring her stomach when talking to the Landlady, As well as the water slousing sounds when she put on the suit.
The "Do Not Pull" that could have a totally different function & Esme's inflation was a result of her swelling up rapidly due to the slime taking full effect. & it was actually her skin & not a rubber suit
Metropolis seems to be a mashup of cities from just about every "western" culture, as well as occasional elements from a few others, which is essentially Fedcom's entire aesthetic, many planets in
Battletech are known for having reproductions of famous Earth landmarks, the layout of human settlements with one large city sustained by more spread out agricultural communities is fairly common for terraformed worlds and the Hogetts struggling with the introduction of new technologies could be due to the recovery of lostech from the Helm Memory Core, which would probably put the date somewhere in the 3030s. Babe and the other animals' intelligence may be the result of genetic engineering, in fact they may be the ancestors of the
Uplifted Animal factions from the short-lived comedic spinoff
Critter Tek.
