Literary nonsense shoes turn into popcorn because, according to the "rules" of the magic, "You have a letter Q in your name and because you have the pleasure and happiness of having a Q in your name you must have a popcorn hat, popcorn mittens and popcorn shoes". Riddles only appear to be nonsense until the answer is found. The most famous nonsense riddle is only so because it originally had no answer. In Carroll's "Alice in Wonderland", the Mad Hatter asks Alice "Why is a raven like a writing-desk?" When Alice gives up, the Hatter replies that he does not know
A Glitch Is a Glitch but OReilly explained that the finished product was still something he is proud of. The initial video seen in the episode that gives the Land of Ooo a virus—featuring a girl eating her own hair—was created by OReilly and then released a few weeks before the episode aired. OReilly explained that he was trying to emulate shock sites like tubgirl or Goatse.cx. OReilly later said that some complained that the scene was "too extreme for kids' TV", but he argued that children were capable of tolerating it. OReilly found that mixing his trademark glitch style with good character animation was