Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - The Huge Plot Hole in The Devil Wears Prada 2!

Episode Date: May 27, 2026

We chat about the worst plot holes in movies after Ben finds one that taints The Devil Wears Prada 2 for him…See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

I've talked lately about some of the great movies have been in cinemas. There's the Michael Jackson biopic. The Devil Wears Prada too. And it's funny when you watch a movie and then someone talks about it later and you're like, ah, I didn't even think about that. That sort of plot hole that maybe I should have...

Well, sometimes it's good just to sit in there and just let it wash all over you and not think too hard about it. This is not a... Dispension of disbelief. In the moment, you're just like in it. And this is not a major one. If you haven't seen The Devil Wes Prada 2,

I'm not going to give away anything too crazy here. But there is a bit where... the high flute and fashion people like Meryl Streep, they have budget cuts. Oh, so they're also living in the cost of living crisis. Yeah, so it's in today's world. So she has to fly economy like the rest of us, right? And so there's one scene, she's sitting in, you know,

in the seat with someone putting their seat back and she's not happy about it. I'm like, okay, that's what happening. And then they go to Milan, obviously, for the fashion a week. And then later on, she is staying in the most beautiful hotel room I've ever seen. It's like about three different rooms and stuff. I was very palatial. And then some of them later was like, well, how come she was, they were saving money there?

But then they got her just an extravagant, extravagant hotel room. Maybe that's why she's like, maybe she's like, I'll save on the flights, but you know my rule with accommodation. Maybe she got gifted the accommodation. Maybe. Maybe she should have got hashtag gifted. Yeah, it would be nice to put a little hashtag giffid on the screen at the time. Well, her just go, hey, just you know, this has been gifted to me by the fine people at. Excuse me, does she, do you, do she own the entire company?

No, no. No, there's people she answers to. She's disgruntled all about flying economy. So taking those receipts, the accommodation receipts back to the board, are they going to be asking some questions about that week away in Milan, aren't they? So what's the movie plot point that you kind of go, the plot hole that you want? Actually, now come to think about it.

My big thing is, I've said it before, Jurassic Park. I've always said, you know, why on earth six, seven times? We keep going back there, and we don't learn our lesson. But that aside, every time there's only one IT guy looking after the park's infrastructure. of a park laden with dozens if not you know,

50 or dinosaurs. We've got more IT people here at work, right? I do. I'll go to the IT guy he's like, oh, I'm stressing out. I wonder he's stressed out. Good point, actually.

That's a big pot hole for me at Jurassic Park. Yeah, there's some good ones that we found online as well too. Armageddon? Yeah, Armageddon. You remember that movie, right? The Ben Affleck and Bruce Willis as well.

And they were... I don't want to mess up there. And they sent him to space. They were, because they were the guys that could drill stuff, right? They were construction workers. Now, refresh the memory. It was an asteroid coming to space,

so they needed to go, land on the asteroid. They were chucking like a bomb in there. They could drill the bomb down to split it up. Yeah. She's blue sky, blue sky thinking. So they got these everyday battle of construction workers and they set them to space to save the world, right? And then didn't the detonator break?

Oh, yeah. And then Bruce, it was terrible. But anyway, here's a really good point from a movie podcast about that movie. Armageddon, this comment says, as Ben Affleck rightly says, it would have been easier to train astronauts to drill rather than train drillers to be astronauts. Bad Affleck sent to Michael Bay, like, surely it would be easier, you know, to teach astronauts how to drill.

And he's like, and he said to me, shut up, Ben, just shut up, just do it. That is a really good point. Even Ben Affleck was in the movie. He was one of the stars. He was like, hang on a second, isn't it easier for like, well, should we got astronauts to be the people drilling? Because how many years the astronauts trained for? Yeah, no offence to those drilling, obviously quite complex as well. Oh, I think.

I don't want to close my ass. It was all worth it for the song. Again, you watch a movie and you just get caught up at it. You know, when you think about the plot holes. Okay, so those are a couple of examples. What's something that just doesn't sit well with you? A movie. Can we just get it out of the way?

The door was big enough for both of them. Yeah. She could have hung on one side. He could have hung on the other. You're right, you're right. But then the movie just would keep going. It was already long enough. I'll never let go, Jack, and then she lets go.

Oh, please let go. We've got to wrap this one. talking about the movie plot holes and when people point these out and there are loads of texts coming through you're like oh yeah there's a good one on the beauty and the beast

where they're like if you break it down the entire village thinks Bell's peculiar and a weirdo because she reads books that one's come through four four eight seven jaws like after multiple shark attacks

why did they not close the beach for swimming? Like yeah like yeah very good work that's what we would do on our benches yeah right Speaking of the Little Mermaid though I'm speaking of Disney

I watched The Little Mermaid with my daughter for the first time So when she Ursula steals her voice She signs the contract in script writing Ariel Right And she can't explain to Eric That she is the girl

But she could write him a note And explain the whole situation Yes I can't tell him Or just write him Write it down you're right You're right Just tell him

Write it down mate I mentioned Armageddon too the fact that wouldn't it have been easier to train astronauts to drill as opposed to train drillers to become astronauts? Yeah, which is the big plot of the movie and well someone's disputing this, right? Yeah, Ellie, welcome. Happy New Year to you, mate. Happy New Year from the Bay of Plenty. Show catchphrase.

Still, we're almost at June and we're still saying Happy New Year. That's impressive. But what, okay, explain to us why that was okay in Armageddon. Because one of the bigwigs asked the same question to Bruce Willis And he said it's taken me 30 years to learn to how to do this And we don't know what kind of Metal or gases or everything of stuff He explained all of that

Don't worry Bruce covered that off Felt like they had a real A real scrambled meeting on set They were like, we need to get this in there We need to get a line in there, why and they said Yeah, no, what's up? there. But again, how many years are you trained to become an astronaut?

He went up, wasn't, with some of the crew actual astronauts as well. They had the drillers and the astronauts. Yeah, right, so they combined it. Okay, we'll let that one love then. All right. Another text. I guess you're not talking about Jack fitting on the door, right? Well, that was one Megan brought up before.

That feels like a major plot hole, right? Yeah. It seemed like a really big door. Like, couldn't he lean on the other side? There was room, Megan. James Cameron's like, we've got to wrap this up somehow, Hey, thank you so much, Yehly go and have a wonderful day. Someone's texting about the hangover.

A tiger, a baby, and not one bank statement or bank fraud alert. Yeah, they got up to some wild things, eh? Wild things.

Like, I can't even purchase concert tickets without the A and ZHN. It's a different time. Is this you? Yeah, this is me.

That's the excuse for that one. Different time. Different time. Shoshang Redemptions come up. A really great movie if you've seen it. And, you know, if you haven't seen it,

you might. It's been around long enough. Okay, I'm going to say at the end, you know how he makes a hole through and the poster gets put back up in the prison cell? Yeah. Who puts the post back up after, after him? Because they don't, they discover his missing. And it's meticulously placed as well.

But he's gone. He wouldn't be an out of... You wouldn't be able, no, you're right. Someone else, you know. Maybe he had a friendly prison guard. A friend on the inside. Maybe it was one of the Mount Eden Correctional facilities prison guards who are like, I'll help you help, mate, don't worry.

I've got anything you need, pal. I've got you back. So that's a really good one too. Oh, 800, that's four for eight seven. You can keep these, keep these ones coming through. We'll come back to me. Home alone's come through many times.

I mean, it does, yeah. It feels like how do they really miss the kids? Because there was lots of them. Why did he not? And I know they lost the ticket and they counted the kid from next door. But what, yeah, and why didn't he go to the police, all that sort of stuff? You said there's a tiny little moment.

Yeah. In the beginning scene. So when one of the brothers spills the Pepsi and stuff, when they're having the pizza party and they throw out. some stuff into the bin. Apparently the ticket, his ticket, Kevin's ticket, goes into the bin with that then. But you don't really, they should have lingered on it. They should have lingered on that longer.

Yeah, right. To explain why. To zoom in on the ticket. Why there wasn't another ticket.