Furious Styles to his son Tre: “Want you to rake up these leaves off the lawn. Boy, don’t look at me funny if I ask you to do something.”

So I’m watching Boyz N The Hood last night for like the gazillionth time. It’s one of those films where I know every line verbatim. Anyway, when Reva (Angela Bassett) drops her son, Tre, off at his father’s house, there’s like a truckload of leaves on Furious’ front lawn.

After a touching goodbye from mother to son, Furious thanks Reva for letting Tre come to live with him. And after Reva drives away, Furious asks some boys (Lil Chris and Doughboy) who are talking to his son if they want to rake the leaves on his lawn for $5.

The boys refuse Furious’ measly offer of $5 stating that they could make more money doing nothing. Furious responds by saying, “That’s too bad. I guess I just have to get my son to do it for me.” Tre looks at his father as if he’d lost his mind, but after a stern warning about his defiance from his father, Tre rakes the leaves.

Now, here’s what I noticed for the first time last night after having watched this film many times over the years. Where did the leaves come from? There was no tree in Furious’ front lawn. All of these years I felt bad for Tre raking a shitload of leaves by himself, and yet there was no tree in the yard.