8 Movie Plot Holes You Didn't Realise The Movie Actually Solved
6. "Indiana Jones Has No Impact On The Plot" - Raiders Of The Lost Ark
The "Plot Hole": The Big Bang Theory's seventh-season episode "The Raiders Minimization" features Amy (Mayim Bialik) proclaiming to Sheldon (Jim Parsons) that Raiders of the Lost Ark's plot would remain in tact even if Indiana Jones (Harrison Ford) wasn't in it: the Nazis would find the Ark of the Covenant, take it to the island, open it and subsequently all die regardless.
Why It Actually Isn't: Because parroting an off-hand joke from a sitcom is easier than actually watching the movie, this supposed plot hole is easily debunked by simply observing how Indy's presence does in fact alter the sequence of events.
If Indy hadn't attempted to thwart the transportation of the Ark in the first place, it would've been safely flown to Germany, where it's entirely possible it would've been opened in the presence of Hitler, killing him. That's right: Indy basically saved Hitler.
Even if Amy's claim was true, though, would it really be considered a plot hole, or just something people love to smugly recite ad nauseum?55