Questions of My Childhood

"Well I walk the road of life among the strong, among the weak
And I ask them for the shortcut to the answers that I seek
But it seems nobody understands what is and what will be
Oh the questions of my childhood
Weave a web of mystery"
- Kansas, "Questions Of My Childhood"

When I was a small fry, I was much too smart for my own good. As an illustration, here are 10 of the burning questions I had at age nine or so:

1. How can Batman and Robin slide down the batpoles in their regular clothes and land at the bottom in their uniforms?
2. If the Professor can make houses, plates and cups, a car, and a washing machine from materials found on the island, why can't he build a boat?
   
3. Who would win in a battle between Samantha and Jeannie?
4. Why does Yogi Bear wear a hat, shirt collar and tie, but no other clothes?
5. Why does Grover wear pajamas to bed and then walk around naked all day?*
6. If Mickey the Mouse, Donald the Duck, and Goofy the Whatever can all talk, then why can't Pluto the dog?
7. In the "Three Bears" story, if the middle-sized bowl of porridge had already gotten cold, wouldn't the little, wee bowl be even colder, instead of "just right"?**
8. When the Coyote falls off a cliff, where do his bandages suddenly come from?
9. Why does Underdog always wait to use his secret energy pill until he is on the verge of defeat? Same question for Peter Potamus and his "Hurricane Hippo Holler"?
10. In the Wacky Races, why doesn't Professor Pat Pending win every single time, since he can change his car into a rocket or whatever he wants?
    

I should add that as an avid Marvel comics fan, I did have a certain automatic acceptance of the supernatural. But I also expected Marvel's level of continuity, consistency, and verisimilitude in all my entertainment forms. So for example, on #8 I didn't ask how the Coyote survived the fall in the first place - I just assumed he had invulnerability powers. But how did he get those friggen bandages? (On a related note, here's another Wile E Coyote question from one of my old posts.)

Did anyone else ask questions like these? Make me feel good, tell me yours!

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* OK, my kid sister came up with that one, but I still liked it!
** OK, this one wasn't fully original - Linus asked the same thing. But I did wonder about it too.