6 Insane (But Convincing) Fan Theories About Kids' Cartoons

[skinsfan07]

This was a great piece on Cracked today, which leads to ask this question to ya'll, what theories do you think are behind some TV shows/cartoons/videogames/etc?

For every innocent cartoon out there, there's at least one obsessive fan on the Internet who managed to crap out a semi-coherent theory finding something disturbing about it, like that Tom & Jerry was actually Nazi propaganda, or that Barney & Friends is a metaphor for the Watergate scandal. But just like a broken watch, even the Internet is right every once in a while: The most disturbing fan theories are the ones where you just can't help but agree with them.

Read more: http://www.cracked.com/article_19882...#ixzz2CKx7FQHp

Rest at link in quote. I love the Ed, Edd, and Eddy one. But there are some other ones out there about every show.

Like Fresh Prince of Bel Air actually being about Heaven.

Will actually died in the fight on the basketball court in West Philly.

The taxi driver is actually God, who drives a “rare” cab. He takes Will to heaven, where he works out all his issues with his wealthy Aunt and Uncle.

Will only sees his mother and father on special occasions, because that’s when they come to visit his grave.

[GhostofSparta]

Point #1-The Genie=The Merchant kinda made me go "...duh?" I didn't even realize that was a question. He's got Robin Williams' voice and has the lamp, I had always just assumed, even as a kid, they were the same person.

But the Dr. Claw = Inspector Gadget one blew my mind.

[Duckus]

I read another one on Cracked the other day that blew my mind.

Save By the Bell was a dream. Zack is sleeping and the show is based on his dreams.

Everybody knows about Saved by the Bell. Even if you weren't alive to experience the magic firsthand, you've undoubtedly heard tales of one of the greatest Saturday morning programs of all time from those who were lucky enough to be there.

What you might not know is that before he was on Saved by the Bell, Zack Morris, the hero of the show, was on a somewhat similar show called Good Morning, Miss Bliss (as were Screech, Lisa and Mr. Belding).

While the shows had some similarities (characters), the differences (mind-bending) are glaring and lead to a startling truth:
Good Morning, Miss Bliss

Zack attends middle school in a boring Indiana suburb. He's a minor troublemaker whose plans are always stopped by the intelligent Miss Bliss. Zack's had to deal with being embarrassed in front of classmates, and has had problems with girls. His friends, Mikey and Nikki, won't hesitate to put him in his place. Zack is a child of divorce, and has a brother.
Saved by the Bell

Zack goes to Bayside High in sunny California, where he is everyone's favorite everything. He's the most popular kid in school, and excels in everything: sports, music, casual racism, whatever. He's free to plot and scheme since the only authority is Mr. Belding, who has the IQ of ham (not the good kind, the ****ty one that comes from a tin). Zack is the alpha in his circle of friends. Mikey and Nikki are not even mentioned as people that exist. Slater, initially Zack's rival, becomes his lackey. Screech, already his lackey, builds a capable and sentient robot buddy.


And probably talked mad **** about it in a tell-all book years later.

Jessie loves him like a brother. Kelly loves him like someone she would have sex with. Kelly disappears without mention and is replaced by Tori, who eventually disappears without mention. Zack and his friends do everything (write songs) and go everywhere (Hawaii) together. Zack's parents are happily married, and as an only child he receives a lot of attention. Mr. Belding wants nothing more than to be his friend. Zack does terribly in school but manages to get an SAT score of 1502, a score that is literally not possible. Oh, he also has the greatest superpower of all time.

The Truth: Saved by the Bell Never Happened

It's nothing more than the escapist fantasy of a disillusioned young man named Zack Morris. Oddities or failures (Tori, Kelly dumping him) are simply signs of his subconscious trying to break through. Any problems he has in real life disappear when he's in his dream world. The show even tells us, once every episode, what Zack's real life is actually like in the theme song. The lyrics tell the tale of a day in the life of a high school student, stumbling through an unpleasant world of consequence. He starts in a panic:

By the time I grab my books, and I give myself a look, I'm at the corner just in time to see the bus fly by ...

And then later:

If the teacher pops a test, I know I'm in a mess, and my dog ate all my homework last night.

Riding low in my chair, she won't know that I'm there.

As a summary of the show, the theme song makes no sense. Zack has never had a bad day at Bayside in his life. He's never in a mess. Everything bounces off of him. If he's unprepared for a test, he doesn't ride low in his chair like some depressed teenager; he gets the teacher to turn the test into a bake-off, and then wins the bake-off by cheating.

It only starts to make sense when you look at the structure. The song begins with a bell taking the narrator out of his dream world:

When I wake up in the morning, and the 'larm gives out a warnin' ...

The middle of the song takes us through the narrator's miserably realistic life at school. But then at the end of the song, right before the show about Bayside starts, he gets saved by the school bell, which frees him to go home, to a world where ...

... tomorrow it'll be all right. It's alright 'cause I'm saved by the bell.

Thus, the song ends with Zack being released from the harsh realities of life by escaping to the one place where everything is all right for him. A place that exists in the border between today and tomorrow: the night time, when you sleep.

Each Saved by the Bell episode begins with a theme song that tells us what is literally happening in the real world in the time between episodes. Zack is riding low in his chair, not liking how he looks in the mirror and generally eating **** like any other high school student. Then the song's chorus (and the title of the show) releases him to the fantasy world that both he and the show's audience like so much better than real school: the infinite dream world of Bayside High. That dream world constitutes every episodes of Saved by the Bell, and it only exists in the mind of some awkward, pimply faced version of Zack Morris who can't catch a break.

Read more: http://www.cracked.com/quick-fixes/w...#ixzz2CM308439

[Warhead36]

Nothing beats the Rugrats theory.

[elkabong82]

The Sponge Bob one seems feasible since Adventure Time is similarily set.

I always thought the one about the Smurfs being symbolic of communist Russia was interesting/funny/peculiar

[skinsfan07]

The Sponge Bob one seems feasible since Adventure Time is similarily set.

I always thought the one about the Smurfs being symbolic of communist Russia was interesting/funny/peculiar

What's the Adventure Time theory? Love that show, but never heard any theories about it. A post-apocalyptic world?

BTW have you all seen the Pokemon Theory? It says that Ash was in a coma the whole time.

http://creepypasta.wikia.com/wiki/Ash's_Coma

Have you ever noticed that the pacing, tone, and story development of Pokémon changes after Ash is hit by lightning in the early episodes? How Ash and his world are relatively normal until after that incident? I have a theory.

The accident with the bike put Ash into a coma. Days later, he was found and hurried to the hospital and treated with heavy medications. This is why Team Rocket became less menacing. The medication took effect and stabilized his coma dreams so that, instead of being terrifying, they became idyllic. They allowed him to live out his Pokémon Master fantasies.

After the beginning episodes, the series is the result of Ash’s subconscious mind fulfilling his desires as well as attempting to escape reality. Should Ash realize he’s in a coma, he would wake up and suffer brain damage, so he must take down all of his mental barriers one by one.

If he can do that, he can come to grips with who he is and escape his coma. Further evidence comes from the realization that even though his journeys take him vast distances, he never usually travels by bike due to having developed a phobia of them.

The coma and fantasy explains why he never changes much, physically. It explains the worldwide socialism, as he thought up a safe system of government that would run smoothly and keep the world going, allowing his adventures to work like they do.

It also explains how a child can go off on his own into a world full of dangerous and untamed animals. In addition, it explains why every town has the same police officer and every Pokémon Centre has the same nurse.

Joy and Jenny he knew from his hometown and they act as a safety net or anchor, allowing him to feel safe no matter where he goes. They represent stability. The professors represent Ash’s ideals, which is why Gary became a professor.

rest at link.

[elkabong82]

What's the Adventure Time theory? Love that show, but never heard any theories about it. A post-apocalyptic world?.

It's not a theory. Adventure Time really is set in a post-apocalyptic/nuclear war land. They reference the Mushroom War, which refers to mushroom cloud and a large bomb going off, which is how the Lich is created. Finn is the last human, and he is mutated slightly, all the other creatures are mutants, except Marcelene who is a demon and survived the bomb, and Ice King who survived too and was only changed by his crown. I do like the show, but it amazes me with some of the stuff they do and cover that it is a kids show.

All of this stuff was basically revealed in the most recent episodes, the last 2 episodes of season 4 and the first 2 of season 5.

[skinsfan07]

It's not a theory. Adventure Time really is set in a post-apocalyptic/nuclear war land. They reference the Mushroom War, which refers to mushroom cloud and a large bomb going off, which is how the Lich is created. Finn is the last human, and he is mutated slightly, all the other creatures are mutants, except Marcelene who is a demon and survived the bomb, and Ice King who survived too and was only changed by his crown. I do like the show, but it amazes me with some of the stuff they do and cover that it is a kids show.

All of this stuff was basically revealed in the most recent episodes, the last 2 episodes of season 4 and the first 2 of season 5.

Yeah I saw Monday night's 30 minute episode and was kinda shocked at how far they went with the Lich and Finn's backstory. Love that show though but it us crazy that they cover it up like it's a kid's show!

---------- Post added November-17th-2012 at 02:32 PM ----------

Here's some interesting stuff about Adventure Time.

http://adventuretime.wikia.com/wiki/...m_War_Theories

Let's see here:

-Susan Strong is a human, but NOT Finn's mother.
-Finn has a long-lost twin sister (Fionna), who somehow found herself in the Land of Aaa (Australia).
-Jake rolled around in radioactive mud
-Joshua & Margaret adopted Finn & raised him alongside Jake & Jermaine
-Finn & Fionna were incased in ice for 989 years. (I WAS FROZEN TODAY!)
-Fionna was adopted by cats (this sounds similar to a comic in the defunct Nickelodeon Magazine)
-Princess Bubblegum was an 18-year old girl who was killed during the Great Mushroom War. She was calming her nerves by chewing bubblegum, but was killed by the blast. About 2993, this wad of Bubblegum came to life & became Princess Bubblegum
-Ice King was living in Alaska at the time of the attack. He was a registered sex offender & was about to have "a good time" with a young girl, when they were killed in a nuclear attack. In about 2612, he was reborn again, of ice.
-The Lich was North Korean dictator Kim Jong-il. A merciless attack on the Korean Peninsula caused that big crack in the Earth. He was reborn as The Lich in a firestorm that engulfed Beijing.
-Marceline, Lumpy Space Princess & Lady Rainicorn are from other dimensions.
-The Hyoomans truly are humans, not mutants. Finn was just having a hallucination caused by extreme stress.
-The Candy People are Willy Wonka's creations.
-Well, there are my theories. As for the Mushroom War, it rightfully should be called "World War III". Tell me your thoughts.

Don't agree that Susan Strong is human b/c remember when she took her hat off and had fins? She's clearly mutated. The rest is interesting though.

[AsiaticSkinsFan]

A lot of cartoons have adult themes

One of the saddest is Hey Arnold. Live, REALLY sad.

[KDawg]

People have way too much time on their hands (This includes me with my football studying habits, for the record)

[skinsfan07]

People have way too much time on their hands (This includes me with my football studying habits, for the record)

This is true, but damn if these aren't a great time killer at work! lol

[daveakl]

Caillou

The actual story behind this is sad on so many levels.

"Plot:
Based on the books by Christine L'Heureux, the show centers along a 4-year-old named Caillou (the titular character) who is fascinated by the world around him. Caillou lives in a blue house on 17 Pine St. (As mentioned in the episode "Where I Live") with his mommy, his daddy, and his 2-year-old sister, Rosie. Each episode in Season 1-3 has a theme and is divided into several short, attention-holding sections that mix animation, puppet skits, and video of kids in highly realistic real-life situations. In Season 4-5 episodes, they are divided in 3 shorts instead of 4. In the 4th and 5th season of Caillou, the puppet segment was dropped, along with the "Real Kids" segment. Caillou has many adventures with his family and friends and uses his imagination in every episode." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caillou

What makes is to sad is the truth.

The show is Canadian! It takes place in Canada with Canadian kids, Canadian parents, Canadian houses, Canadian streets, even Canadian clothes. I am shocked that they still air this mess on Sprout.

[skinsfan07]

^^^ Crazy stuff!!! Anyone have any more?!?

[GhostofSparta]

Yeah, I played Pokemon growing up, and here's a good one from the original game:



Or this one: