The ongoing nature of television series means they tend to spawn more fan theories than
any other form of entertainment.
Amid the ones that are absolutely ridiculous, are some that are actually kind of plausible.
Let's dive down the rabbit hole and look at some crazy fan theories that totally change
these TV shows.
Bikini Bottom: nuclear wasteland
In one popular fan theory, Spongebob Squarepants, Squidward, Patrick, and all the rest of Bikini
Bottom's citizens were irradiated during atomic tests, turning them into the bizarre characters
we see today.
“I don’t know what do you wanna do today?”
But how'd that even happen?
Well, the fictional Bikini Bottom is located on the ocean floor under a place called Bikini
Atoll.
That name may sound familiar, because Bikini Atoll was famously the site of 23 atomic bomb
tests in the '40s and '50s … including some underwater detonations.
These explosions left the island and reef exposed to massive amounts of radioactive
fallout, and Bikini Atoll remains uninhabitable to this day.
Unless you live in a pineapple.
“Ohhhh, who lives in a pineapple under the sea.”
“SpongeBob squarepants.”
The Paddy's Pub gang is way uglier than you think
This awesome theory about It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia comes to us courtesy of a
Reddit thread from 2015.
In it, a user going by the name CraigsBenedict proposes that Mac, Dee, and Dennis are not
really as attractive as they appear to us viewers.
The idea relies on the "unreliable narrator" premise, in which the story is told from the
characters' narcissistic perspectives, and is not how things actually are.
“Alright, but you get my point your honor and you can see that Mack was slowing down
at the end there and let the record show”
“Because he only works out his glamour muscles.”
“No, that’s, that’s bullsh*t.
I did like 3 more than you.”
There's also some evidence to back this idea up: in the episode "High School Reunion Part
2," the gang choreographs an amazing dance routine to impress all the jerks who teased
them in high school.
“Freedom, Freedom”
Of course, what they're actually doing is this:
“Ahhhhhhhhhh”
If we take this theory seriously, it could explain why the rest of the world treats these
three attractive people like total freaks.
Well, except for the fact that they routinely act like total freaks.
“So, you guys ever eat cheese.
Cheese is a funny thing, cheese is a strange thing.
I always wonder where what is cheese where does ahhhhhhh.”
Professor Samurai Jack
In 1998, animator Genndy Tartakovsky was a supervising producer on The Powerpuff Girls
for the Cartoon Network.
It follows the adventures of three superpowered sisters, who were created in a lab by a guy
named Professor Utonium:
“I just wouldn’t want to touch it, yuck.”
“Actually, girls, to him, well, you are pretty gross yourselves.
With your big heads, large eyes, little bodies.”
“Ok”
Then, in 2001, Tartakovsky created another show called Samurai Jack, all about a warrior
ripped from the past and thrown into the future, who wages battle against an immortal demon
named Aku:
“I am the last son of the land that you have pillaged.
I am here to reclaim it, for my people, for my father, for my birthright.”
Throughout the series, Samurai Jack wanders around a dystopian, post-apocalyptic world.
And at one point, he makes his way to a ruined city that looks kind of familiar...because
it sure seems to resemble the city of Townsville from The Powerpuff Girls.
Not only that, but did you ever notice how Jack kind looks a whole lot like the Professor?
Just what went wrong in Townsville?
Is this Mojo Jojo's fault?
“Haaaaaahaaaaaaa”
Ash is forever young because of a magical Pokémon
Why is Ash Ketchum, the hero of multiple Pokemon animated series, always ten years old?
Through 19 seasons and 18 movies, he never ages.
Time definitely passes on the shows, because Ash spends weeks trekking through the various
regions on his quest to collect badges and become a Pokémon master, so by all accounts,
he should be at least a teenager by now.
The answer may have come in the very first episode of the original series, when Ash witnesses
a beautiful bird Pokémon flying into a rainbow.
"What's that?”
“There is no data.
There are still pokemon yet to be identified.”
We later find out that this was a legendary Pokémon called Ho-oh.
The games say that anyone who sees Ho-oh is promised eternal happiness.
And since Ash's fondest wish is to forever travel the world collecting and training Pokémon,
the Ho-oh granted this wish, giving Ash eternal youth.
Sherlock Holmes and Spock are related
This is probably the best theory on the list, since it might not simply be a theory, at
least in the eyes of Star Trek fans everywhere.
In Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country, Spock — who, we must remind you, is half-human
— must solve a mystery in space...and to do so, he relies on not only his Vulcan logic,
but his human ancestry, too:
“An ancestor of mine maintained that if you eliminate the impossible that whatever
remains, however improbable must be the truth.”
And that's not the only time Spock relies on the wisdom of his forebears, either:
“Are you actually suggesting they're from the future.”
“If you eliminate the impossible whatever remains, however improbable must be the truth.”
“How poetic.”
If that quote's a little familiar, you may be a fan of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock
Holmes novels.
The legendary detective first uttered the quote himself in the 1890 story "The Sign
of the Four."
It gets crazier.
In the modern BBC series Sherlock, Benedict Cumberbatch has said the line himself as well:
“Once you rule out the impossible whatever remains, however improbable must be true.”
And then Sherlock and Spock finally met in 2013...kind of:
“You are suggesting the admiral violated every regulation he vowed to uphold simply
because he wanted to exploit your intellect.”
“He wanted to exploit my savagery.
My name is Kaan.”
“The fly in the ointment.”
“Well, alright Spock just take it easy.”
Ah well.
Maybe someday we'll get the Sherlock/Star Trek crossover we've all been hoping for.
Oh, wait.
“There can be no argument, the game is afoot.”
Never mind!
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