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The father in the beginning?


Why did he flush her Alligator for.

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He was clearly drunk and angry because his daughter was not at home, so he decided to take it out on the alligator.

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He was a stereotypical bloated american drunken raging father.
(And a Bush supporter I might add.)

It's possible he just finished watching catwoman though logically unless he used a time machine it would be the formentioned reason.

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Maybe in the future, when time travel is a reality, they send all know copies of Catwoman into the past circa 1980 and he found all of them. Then again if you did that there would be no future.

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He mumbled something about Turds in the hamper from the Alligator. That is why he was looking for his girl to make her clean it or fuss at her. She wasn't home so he took his anger out on the gator and flushed it.

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I always kinda figured that was just an excuse the father was making just to get rid of the alligator. It's pretty damn funny if you think about it: how does a baby alligator get into (let alone get out) of a hamper?

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I don't have a very good photographic memory; I know the girl grows up to be the herpatologist but what becomes of the father for the rest of the film?

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It is indicated that he died in the intervening years. Personally I would've loved for him to live to the presant day, and be gator chow!!

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