We would probably all be flying to work on rocket motorcycles by now if history's greatest geniuses hadn't spent their entire careers arguing over who had the biggest Bunsen burner.
What's that? You don't typically associate the Happiest Place on Earth with crippling depression, rabies, discrimination and hate crimes? We can fix that!
Let's face it: The experts that are supposed to be taking care of business aren't always available. Thankfully, completely unknown and unqualified people came to save the day.
Occasionally you see a character die in an abrupt, pointless way that seemed to have been written in as an afterthought, or even in such an undignified way that you suspect the writers included it as a 'screw you' to the actor. Well, there's a reason for that.