Apparently, whenever a Hollywood writer is stuck on a script, they watch a random episode of this obscure TV show, filter it through an eight ball of cocaine, and call it a day.
Sometimes, you need to double-check those so-called kids' films, lest you plop the spawn down for happy-time viewing and wind up inadvertently corrupting them.
Very few fictional characters are pulled from thin air, because what's the point of having friends and family if you can't steal their essence and sell it to strangers for entertainment?
Questions are important. Without them, we'd never learn or solve problems or come up with revolutionary solutions. Oh, and we'd never ruin perfectly great movies, either.
Sometimes filmmakers have a tendency to go completely overboard which gives us scenes that cover the spectrum from unintentionally hilarious, or depressing for all the wrong reasons.