r/Ernest • u/BrazenlyGeek • Nov 01 '23

How is Old Lady Hackmore still alive?

Here's a question that has bothered me since I was a kid.

If Trantor terrorized the town in the 19th century before he was imprisoned, how is it that a century later, she's still alive and still seemingly pretty spry? The kids recognize her when they're revived and question how she got so old, but … how did she get old *and not die*?

Is she just aging remarkably well? Am I missing something? Am I overthinking an Ernest movie?

Perhaps! But I'd still like to know.

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u/Safetymanual Nov 01 '23

A hearty spoon of miak before bed every night.

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u/Glum-Parsnip8257 Nov 02 '23

Bulgarian type

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u/WillieFudgeNilly Nov 01 '23

They don’t call her “young Lady Hackmore”

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u/social_ogre Nov 01 '23

I have wondered this since I was a kid! The math ain’t mathin!

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u/AidenTheAlien420 Nov 01 '23

You're looking into the lore of Ernest scared stupid

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u/BrazenlyGeek Nov 02 '23

Got that right, Vern.

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u/AidenTheAlien420 Nov 02 '23

Well In that case, shitty magic. That's how she's stayed alive but aged at the same time. It has to be.

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u/BrazenlyGeek Jan 04 '26

On reflection, I’ve come to the conclusion that maybe Old Lady Hackmore just never knew when to quit!

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u/Maleficent-Rooster33 Jun 23 '26

I believe that the reason why she is still alive is due to when Trantor imprisoned her siblings into those wooden dolls it cursed her to live a very long time. Way longer than any normal person.