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Turning fan service up to eleven...

Yes.

Haven't a clue.

Okay, but that only punts the question back to "How did that TV show get green-lit?"

But then, I don't understand how shows like Teletubbies or In the Night Garden come about, either. I presume it's empirical child psychology, public service broadcasting and psychedelic drugs, mixed in the proper proportions.

I'm European, and I still don't understand how it got green-lit.

Trey, you should try my wife's haggis lasagne, followed by her raspberry and lime meringue pie on a ginger-nut base:

As my granny used to say: you can put all your eggs in one basket, but you can't put all your toads in one hole.

Blimey, I thought The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai across the 8th Dimension would be obvious.

How about...?

The General Term for Some Object

I actually figured that out using Google, but didn't know the film, and decided that using Google to get to an answer I didn't recognize was probably some kind of cheating.

Home Alone.

The Escapades of Attack Cowboy Astride the Octal Extent.

I have absolutely no trouble with Magic Beans; I love Up, despite its debatable use of them, for example.

You really need to see StF to understand why they get the use of Thompsons' Typewriter so wrong. The whole thing is set in the real world of today, with apparently normal people who know the kinds of things we do  After an hour or so of stuff, there is a scene where she is writing about her fictional character making a phone call to her, and as she types 'RING...' on her typewriter, her own phone rings.  Thompson's character thinks this is an odd coincidence. She types it again, and her phone rings again, and it scares the crap out of her.  She waits a long time, her phone doesn't ring; she convinces herself she's being silly, types 'RING...' again and her phone rings again.  At which point, she freaks out. It's clear that, to the character who owns the typewriter, its magical behaviour is unexpected and terrifying. Despite this, and similar events, such as the existence in reality of a fictional character she made up and brought into existence by typing on the typewriter, the story then proceeds to forget about this revelation: Thompson's character continues to use the typewriter, no-one in the story makes any attempt to do anything with it beyond typing fiction, and everyone blithely accepts that Will Ferrell's character, previously considered to be a regular human being, and throughly established as desperate to save his own life, is now expendable in the name of literature, including by Will Ferrell's character himself.

IMHO, the story breaks the Bean Wall, and makes the characters aware of the Magic Bean's Bean Nature, which is an error that the story doesn't recover from.

Invasion of the Body Snatchers.

Bazinga, d00d.

Pete.

Or, if that's too hard :-)... Shanksmuggler .

Maximum Overdrive?