Postponed Question

The characters ask a question you would have thought they'd have asked long ago; they're asking it now so the audience can hear.

For example, Agents Malone and Fitzgerald are getting out of their car at the missing soldier's house. Fitzgerald asks, "Since when do the army use the FBI?"

One wonders, why didn't he ask that back at the office when they first got this assignment, or during the car ride? Because we wouldn't have heard it then, that's why. That, or it was a moment of Fridge Logic on the part of the character. (Or both.)

Used to combat Fridge Logic. Likely to prompt an En Route Sum-Up. An alternative to Tell Me Again.

Examples of Postponed Question include:

Live-Action TV

  • In the episode "We Can't Win" of the 2009 version of V, Anna's Number Two asks her near the end of the episode why they were giving humans blue energy. Also counts as Viewers are Morons, because there's no way we could have figured out ourselves why an invading hostile-masquerading-as-friendly culture would possibly want to make us dependent on them for our energy needs.

Western Animation

  • One of many forms of exposition used repeatedly on Danny Phantom.


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