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Typical of the movie’s scatterbrained nature is the small drama it creates, then discards, about Guthrie’s past: He lived in Germany for years, though no one seems interested in whether this ended before the war.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 24, 2025

Admirers call the animal “Bullwinkle” or “Rutt,” the latter in homage to a scatterbrained moose from the movie “Brother Bear.”

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 21, 2023

So did Lloyd Christmas, scatterbrained limo driver of “Dumb and Dumber.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2023

What I’m experiencing is often called “mommy brain”— the forgetful, foggy and scatterbrained feeling many pregnant women and new mothers experience.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 8, 2021

“I dropped my ring back there,” she lied, doing her best to look scatterbrained.

From "Throne of Glass" by Sarah J. Maas




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