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Rigor Mortis Erection

posted 4 years ago by Heisenberg (6730)
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I love this movie.
But there are a few plot holes, most of them are overlooked because they are part of the comedy. Including this one:
Bernie is fucked by his girlfriend. The boys are as surprised as we are, and they comment on it saying something like "she doesn't look like someone that wouldn't know".
Hence, she managed to fuck him so he must have had an erection.
That could be explained by rigor mortis, so that his dick was hard or got hard when he died.

My problem with this plot hole is: wouldn't his erection be visible, and be a social problem, in most other situations? If it's hard when she fucks him, it's been hard since he died and it will stay hard as long as he's dead. Bernie is mostly sitting, but even then it should be noticeable. Certainly he should be pitching a tent when the boys make him stand up.
How come it's not noticeable and nobody takes note of it?

The only possible explanation is that Bernie's dick is very short, so his girlfriend is fine with it (as it's hard and she knows already it's very short), but everybody else doesn't really see it through his clothes.
How do you explain this conundrum?

[–] RFinnegan2005 (3) 4 years ago

The guys just flipped it under his boxer's waistband

[–] Heisenberg (6730) 4 years ago

That's an excellent reply. But they looked surprised when she fucked him, hence I doubt they knew anything bout his dick.

[–] Mulletor (533) 4 years ago

Maybe he was a one inch wonder. I mean, he did drive a Porsche golf cart.....probably over-compensating for something.

[–] Heisenberg (6730) 4 years ago

Bernie totally fit the micropenis profile:
Motorboat.
Flashy car.
Flashy clothes.
Flashy accessories.
Flashy house.
Moustache.
Talked bout pussy all the time.
Used drugs.
Only contradiction to this was the boss's girl, she was cheating with him and she was super horny for him. Maybe Bernie had a big tongue.
But that wouldnt explain the scene when she fucks him dead...
The plot thickens......

[–] StinkyPoopyPants (3114) 3 years ago

Well, in all fairness she was pretty drunk herself and if rigor mortis had set in he would probably feel hard even without an erection. I doubt she was sober enough to really care or notice.

[–] Heisenberg (6730) 3 years ago

So you think his dick was not erected but hard?
That I don't understand. Is that even physically possible?

[–] StinkyPoopyPants (3114) 3 years ago

Honestly, I'm just taking a guess. There is such a thing as a "Death Erection" that can occur in men so that could very well be what happened in this case. But as Rigor Mortis does affect the genitalia. that too is possible.

[–] Kj1oceanlust (1458) 3 years ago

Okay, first off your assuming the woman somehow did have sex with Bernie lol. Seriously, she could have chosen too be totally aloof about the whole thing (Bernie being dead), as the two house guest's did. Possibly thinking, "oh my god he's dead". But then thinking it through and decides too simply ignore him as a stiff and just removing herself from the equation as best she could. And rather than run out right away and start asking questions or calling whomever to notify them, just thought, okay fuck it! I'll just stay a while, then leave and put on a believing face for whomever as I walk out. Somehow I'm thinking that was the most probable assumption the movie producer took in hoping we would clue into this lol. Hey Heinsberg, you wouldn't be into necrophilia by chance would you? You make it sound like you know a fair bit about human corpses after death. Perhaps in ways only a mortician or necrophile would know.

[–] Heisenberg (6730) 3 years ago

Your whole post is an absurd wall of text.
Like stated in the OP the movie clearly implies that she had sex with him.
Your theory leaves unexplained quite a lot, starting with her logic for being so calm afterwards, or ever thinking she would not be in trouble for doing what you described.

[–] Lord Rake (4456) 3 years ago

I think the best explanation is he was a coke head. So she was use to his limp dick and was drunk herself and was putting on such a show that she tricked herself that it was great sex. He was not moving like he had rigor mortis at any point in the movie.

[–] Heisenberg (6730) 3 years ago

That would make sense.
But I wonder why she was so hot for him then, cheating on her very dangerous boyfriend to get a piece of that limp dick action?

[–] Lord Rake (4456) 3 years ago

She thought he had a lot of money.

[–] Heisenberg (6730) 3 years ago

Her boyfriend was not really poor. Why cheat on him with his employee?

[–] Lord Rake (4456) 3 years ago

Because the writers wanted the gag and didn't think about how it would actually take place in reality.

[–] Kj1oceanlust (1458) 3 years ago

That's Hollywood. They have what I'll term "mutual badness, reciprocation" down to a science. In other words what I'm saying is it's like; if you do me wrong, then I do you wrong. And that wrong can come in various different forms. In the first Jurassic Park, the lawyer was a greedy moron, who hadn't any respect for natures course and how the dinosaurs had they're shot at life and then went extinct. And that's pretty much how Goldblum put it in the film. So, so what if he ended up being devoured by the T-rex lol.

[–] StinkyPoopyPants (3114) 3 years ago

I can see why you think this but I would disagree just because no woman will put up with a limp dick for very long. She was in a relationship with a rich man and cheating on him with a limp noodle really doesn't make sense.

[–] Lord Rake (4456) 3 years ago

She said it was the best sex they ever had together, so either she is use to a limp dick or Heisenberg's original post is correct. But we do not see any other part of the film where Bernie has rigor mortis.

[–] StinkyPoopyPants (3114) 3 years ago

Maybe it was the best sex they ever had together because for once he didn't have a limp noodle.

[–] Heisenberg (6730) 10 months ago

So for sex death>coke?

[–] StinkyPoopyPants (3114) 10 months ago

Apparently for that girlfriend it was, lol.

[–] Heisenberg (6730) 10 months ago

Well, there's always something new to learn!

[–] Mulletor (533) 3 years ago

Cocaine may cause Priapism (a prolonged erection of the penis)

[–] Lord Rake (4456) 3 years ago

But is more likely to cause limp dick.

[–] Kj1oceanlust (1458) 10 months ago

Are you a mortician too know all of this? We must then just assume that Bernie was hung like a light switch, and then presumably not much bigger than the smallest of pickles when erect...lol. Not too sure that would be overly noticeable.

[–] Heisenberg (6730) 10 months ago

Bernie was hung like a light switch
LOL

That is my conclusion as well.

Which raises another plot hole: why is she so hot for him? She jumps on him at the restaurant and in his house.
Is she into micro penises?

[–] Kj1oceanlust (1458) 10 months ago

I then suppose it's a case of tiny cock=lots of $$$. Yeah, Bernie was like a CEO or something along those lines for a big company. If her and Bernie got married, she most certainly would have subscribed to Ashley Madison for black guys lol. Ahhh, this was probably before the days of Ashley Madison, shit! Ahhh, maybe she just planned to have Pauly bump him off so she could get all of his $$$.

[–] Heisenberg (6730) 10 months ago

I don't know.
Her bf is rich already.

She really seems crazy for Bernie. He must have had other strengths to get her so turned on.

[–] Kj1oceanlust (1458) 10 months ago

Your overthinking this. She was being paid to play a roll as a drunken floozy.

[–] StinkyPoopyPants (3114) 10 months ago

"Bernie was hung like a light switch" LMAO!! 😂🤣