What do you know today that you didn't know yesterday?

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

Unless Empire is also a fictional work in the Star Wars universe, I doubt it. Also, the last scene gives a better view of his room.



Upon further reflection, I wondered if the Bears shirt may be a coincidence; after all, the year before the film was released, the Bears won the Super Bowl. Perhaps this might have led to some out-of-towners getting merch. But then, I asked “what the shit kind of out-of-towner is also a fan of the Cubs? Especially when their losing streak was reaching its eighth decade?” Especially by that point, if you’re a Cubs fan, you’re either from Chicago (specifically the North Side, because that’s part of the unwritten laws of Chicago, alongside “no ketchup on hot dogs” and “my lawn chair, my parking space”) or you’re a masochist. And I don’t think Fred Savage is old enough in this film to have developed a pain fetish.

So, not only is it set in Chicago, it’s set on the North Side.

All the shirt and the other gear demonstrates is that the Fred Savage character was a Bears fan, not that the framing scenes were set in Chicago. Maybe the family recently re-located to Chicago (to take care of Grandpa, for example). Maybe Unseen Dad spent his childhood in Chicago, but hadn't lived there for years, and passed his fan-ness on to his son.

Boru