The Wild Thornberrys was a jungle adventure show about a little girl named
Eliza who had the ability to speak to animals I bet I have a larva by the time
it gets dark one larva the shows fun good values and positive messages about
the environment made for a feel-good story for kids with that said the
Internet as usual has provided us with several rather dark twisted theories
about the show and characters theories that just may ruin your childhood I know
we're sorry but hey you clicked on the video you knew what you're in for
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Dark theories about The Wild Thornberrys it's absolutely smashing to find you at
home good what happens when predators eat their prey
considering the Thornberrys document wildlife they more than likely come
across many incidents of animals kill each other or hunting their prey however
what exactly happens when they actually show animal killings
even some of the less violent killings as well consider what it's like for a
Lycidas II a baby sea turtle getting picked off by birds and crabs poor
gazelle getting ripped apart by a cheetah and eaten alive or Fox finding a
tasty nest full of baby birds does Eliza hear the dying screams and cries of
those baby animals we're going to find her for you
Eliza and her family have most certainly seen their fair share of lines or
cheetahs attacking zebras or antelopes considering Eliza loves animals one can
only imagine the trauma involved with watching how brutal nature is naturally
no look reflecting on the routine horrifying screams of death must haunt
Eliza every night and for that matter mating season from the perspective of
Eliza okay so this is probably the crudest theory yet but you can't help
but wonder does Eliza hear animals having sex now sex is definitely not
something that Nickelodeon would show but considering the rules of the Wild
Thornberrys universe we're just following the show's logic imagine if
you dare allies are going through the jungle and hearing constant bumping and
grinding Eliza wouldn't be able to tell the mating is being done by humans or
animals and that's pretty creepy I was starting to think I'd never lay any eggs
think about how often you hear birds chirping birds do this to attract mates
they're essentially trying to call for a booty call
is that what allies has to listen to whenever she's outside and the birds are
chirping honestly the less said about that theory the better we're not sure
which is more traumatic for Eliza listening to that constant maining of
animals in the wild or the screams of death either way this is all pretty dark
Debbi is suffering from social isolation debbie is the older sister of Eliza and
it's the only other human that knows about Eliza's powers to communicate with
animals did you say something although debbie has been able to keep
such a huge secret from their parents her and Eliza
aren't exactly close in fact debbie keeps to herself isolated from almost
everyone and the unfortunate truth is this is probably why she has an attitude
throughout most of the series according to this theory on TV Tropes org this is
also why she spends most of her time on our laptop while the rest of the family
goes on jungle adventures Debbie gets most of her social interactions through
online chats and email remember this is the 90s so Facebook and Twitter aren't a
thing yet nor is YouTube so she can't subscribe to awesome YouTube channels
she often avoids adventures as much as she can when thinking about Debbie's
past her isolation starts to make sense
Debbie probably grew up in the move with their family for years that her
childhood she probably even went through puberty in the space of that RV just
imagine going through that with no personal space at all and never being
able to make any lasting relationships since your parents are traveling all the
time even despite having a sibling Eliza is always out having adventures herself
and on top of that she's younger than Debbie so they can't relate as much as
they could if they were the same age I'm sorry did you want to play cards or show
off your picture then find someone who cares
Debbie social isolation it's also why she tends to fall for the first young
man they encounter throughout their travels in many ways her parents are
depriving her of so many important elements of growing up in her antisocial
behaviors a product of what is essentially negligence Eliza is
suffering from schizophrenia everything's fine
according to this theory eliza schizophrenia stems from moving around a
lot and the lack of human friendship she has much like debbie the life of
traveling the world and witnessing wildlife
while fun has set some serious mental ramifications for their children
apparently Eliza's parents often ignore or dismiss her anytime she talks to
animals and dismisses them as delusions this would be a fine theory in isolation
if it weren't for The Wild Thornberrys movie released in 2002 which establishes
Eliza's powers as magic in the importance of why she needs to keep that
power a secret you had to keep a secret or else there'd be some tornado thing
and you would lose your powers also even despite mainly talking and associating
with animals Eliza is shown to be fully capable of making brief human friends as
well still it does make you wonder how people perceive Eliza and her abilities
around her and what if the whole magical powers plot was made up in her head and
she spent her time talking to a monkey that can't understand her The Wild
Thornberrys were all on drugs normally it's pretty easy to just explain weird
things and cartoons with drugs but this theory actually breaks down in terms of
which Thornberrys taking which drug and who is addicted to what the theory
proposes that the shaman that put the spell on allies in the movie was
actually a drug dealer that hooked Eliza up with acid nigel thornbury the father
is on coke which is why always has high energy
Debbie smokes pot which is why she's lazy eats lot and kind of just keeps to
herself Maryann the mother of the family is suffering from a mood disorder due to
her husband's wild behavior and because of this she's unable to connect with
their children let's try it again Donny the jabbering fearow child of The
Wild Thornberrys adopted has also lost any and all humanity and The Wild
Thornberrys are too drugged out of their minds to properly help him admittedly
some of these connections to drug and mental abuse are a bit of a stretch but
I think when you really look at the behavior of these characters there's
definitely something going on the parents are very neglectful Debbie's
moody Eliza's talking to animals what do you think what drugs are they taking
Eliza's lucky call in the movie Eliza Thornberry is extremely lucky that the
poacher from the 2002 movie kept their word about letting Debbie go after she
had revealed to them how Eliza knew about their plans essentially Eliza
pulled these animals poachers planes through her communication with animals
and the animal hunters had caught on to this you know too much for this go so
the poachers had staged sort of an ultimatum for allies and her sister what
ends up happening is that Eliza tells the poachers her secret Debbie is saved
but Eliza's powers are taken away at least for that moment although she ends
up getting her powers back this scene could have gone a number of dark ways
for one Eliza could have let the poachers kill Debbie and she could have
kept her powers however this would have left the Liza with a tremendous amount
of guilt over losing her sister just to protect her secret powers
the other way the scenario could have been dead is with Eliza saving Debbie
but never getting her powers back this would leave Debbie depressed over giving
away her sisters powers and probably the one thing that brought joy to Eliza's
life and making her even more isolated from people Donny has similar powers to
Eliza as previously mentioned Donny is the wild feral child that only
speaks in gibberish however this theory lands on the idea that Donny is smarter
than the viewers have been led to believe this theory implies that Donny
has the same powers of communicating with animals that Eliza has although
it's not very dark it is quite mysterious it would only make sense
since Donny often talks to Darwin Eliza's pet monkey and Donny is also
aware of her licence powers and they haven't been taken away from her by the
shaman so based on the rule of keeping her powers a secret alone its heavily
implied that Donny might be able to communicate with animals as well it
would be an ability that would make sense for him being that he was raised
by an orangutan these were some pretty dark and wild theories but what do you
think were these theories valid or a little too hard to believe let us know
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