what's that watermelon doing there? - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

27 Aug 2011

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 > What do watermelons have to do with Buckaroo
Banzai? 
...
  During a chase scene, the camera pans past a
watermelon in a large
 hydraulic press.  Jeff Goldblum's character asks "why is there a
 watermelon there?"  The response is simply, "I'll tell you later",
 and that's the end of it.  Jeff (and the audience) never find out. 
Somewhere I heard the answer:
the Banzai Institute was working on watermelons
with a rind tough enough to withstand air drops.
But the need for them went away before they were perfected.
Or perhaps they were too much rind, not enough fruit inside.