Animated Enigmas: Dark Theories and Nostalgic Mysteries in Cartoons

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I Dum-dum Am down anotherrabbit hole.

Speaker 1 (01:23):
Of what?
Okay, so it may or may not berelated to the dior bags, if you
know.
You know, oh god slash.
Yeah, didn't we talk about thisa couple weeks ago?

Speaker 2 (01:33):
we did vaguely there's been some other weird
developments going on.
Okay, I need to do moreresearch.
I probably shouldn't even betalking about these two things,
but but I'm going to talk aboutthem really quick and I could be
totally wrong and, honestly, bythe time this comes out, it
could be totally disproven.
We have not only so that allthis UFO stuff is now starting

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to get into interdimensionalbeings quite a bit, which you
know you and I have already beenon this that they're probably
not from other planets, they'refrom other dimensions.
I love international.
They're probably not from otherplanets, they're from other
dimensions, I love international.
So the things they were callingthe oscar de la rentas or the
ufos are now thought to beplasmoids.
Plasmoids, for, like the theshortest way I can do it is
energy that is surrounded by aball of plasma.

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Our universe, our galaxy, thesun, all plasmoids.
What people think they'reseeing in the atmosphere also
plasmoids.
Okay, these like little orbsthat change shape.
They have the ability to gothrough objects because it's
energy, okay.
Okay, a few different theorieson them.
One is that it's coming from astorm on the sun.
The other is that it's actuallycoming from our military, as a
way to like.

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They're testing it to see ifthey can throw off heat seeking
missiles.
But the third isinterdimensional travel, because
what else is made up ofplasmoids are black holes and
wormholes.

Speaker 1 (02:47):
Oh, I love this.

Speaker 2 (02:48):
I heard a rumor and this is TikTok.
I need to go further down it.
But with the coming of theplasmoids came a distress signal
from the Bermuda Triangle withAmelia Earhart's call sign.

Speaker 1 (03:01):
Wait what.

Speaker 2 (03:02):
So did she time slip and come back?
Are gonna find amelia earhart?
I don't know the other thing,at the exact same time and this
is one.
I've talked about doing anepisode before and I'm gonna
have to do it now but thephiladelphia experiment, the
ship that they einstein wastrying to do a cloaking device
and it disappeared.
And then it reappeared andeveryone was like melted to the

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boat.
Yeah, so in the 70s, after itdisappeared way back when in the
70s, was actually discoveredoff the coast of greenland for a
brief second and showed up in aflash.
It disappeared.
Basically the same thing thathappened originally.
They are.
There were recent sightings ofit's, the um philadelphia, but
the ship is the USS Eldridge.

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So apparently people arestarting to have sightings of
the Eldridge again and I thinksome of the things that
disappeared to wormholes in thepast might be coming back now.
Oh my God, total conspiracy.
But yeah, go down this rabbithole with me.

Speaker 1 (04:00):
We should do a little bonus episode about this, like
where we just talk and dive inon our opinions or something
like maybe a live or a patreonepisode we should do.

Speaker 2 (04:13):
I think we should do a live in like about these dior
bags.

Speaker 1 (04:16):
Okay, okay, all right .
Um, that's all right.

Speaker 2 (04:19):
That's the rabbit hole I have for you, but before,
before we go too long, what doyou got?

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So I ordered Ancestrycom kits for me and Aunt
Patricia.

Speaker 2 (04:30):
You're going to out a murderer in your family.

Speaker 1 (04:32):
I hope.
I hope I find a cheatingscandal, I hope I find a murder,
I hope I find things, but Iwon't, because I want it, you
know, but it just came today.
I didn't do it yet because youand I had so much going on today
.

Speaker 2 (04:47):
True, it's been a day .

Speaker 1 (04:49):
I didn't even really have time to sit down, but it
came.
Mine came today.

Speaker 2 (04:53):
You know what came in the mail for me today.

Speaker 1 (04:54):
What.

Speaker 2 (04:56):
So before I tell you what came in the mail, I am
still getting free cruise offers.
So I don't know if I've talkedabout this on the podcast.
You have not.
I won a free cruise from thecruise.

Speaker 1 (05:05):
From the cruise, the cruise that we all went on in
November.

Speaker 2 (05:09):
I won a free cruise from the casino and I had to
book by December 6th, remember.
So we booked it.
Then they sent me more that Ihad to book by January 6th, so
January 7th was yesterday.
They sent me another batchonline.
So they just keep sending methese.
I've now found out they'reprobably going to do this for at
least five years.
Why?
Because they think I'm a highroller.

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So in the mail yesterday I gotan invite to an invite-only
elite cruise where they fill acruise ship with only the high
rollers.
If I book this one, it's thesame deal as the last Free
balcony room, free drinks,everything.
A black car picks you up anddrops you off from the airport,
they give you a free gift,you're entered into all these

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raffles and shit.

Speaker 1 (05:53):
I think they just I'm can you just take me on one of
these with you yeah, well, let'slook at the, the elite one,
when it comes in just taking one.

Speaker 2 (06:01):
I don't even need the elite one apparently they're
gonna just give them to me forfive years, so we'll figure it
out.

Speaker 1 (06:06):
Maybe can I just go to, maybe we'll do a patreon
cruise.

Speaker 2 (06:10):
I'm sorry, though I I can only have one free person
on the cruise, so we'll figureout some group deal okay okay,
that's it, we're gonna talk toolong.
You want to get into it yeah,but in a couple weeks you have
to share your ancestry stuffwith us.

Speaker 1 (06:23):
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, no, I will, I will.
Okay, do you have a questionfor me?

Speaker 2 (06:27):
To open the shop.
You know I do Okay.

Speaker 1 (06:29):
Give it to me, baby.

Speaker 2 (06:30):
When you were growing up, what was your favorite
cartoon and why?
Oh shit.

Speaker 1 (06:36):
Oh well, okay, Okay, I guess I have to say Rugrats,
because that's the first one Iremember when I was little
little it was fraggle rock.
But when I was like a littlebit older I loved rugrats and I
would always collect all theselittle like keychain doll things
.
My dad would take me to go buythem.
They were like at rite aid andshit.
Oh rip, rite aid um oh yeah,yeah and then so I would
probably say rugrats, but okay,I love, hey, arnold.

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Oh god, there's so many, Ican't even spongebob, fuck man.

Speaker 2 (07:03):
I could sit here all day.
Anyway, you're going to lovethis episode.

Speaker 1 (07:06):
No, I won't, If I know where we're going.

Speaker 2 (07:09):
You may have put it together already.

Speaker 1 (07:10):
You're going to traumatize me, aren't you?
No, I don't.

Speaker 2 (07:14):
I don't think we went too traumatizing.

Speaker 1 (07:17):
Unless.

Speaker 2 (07:17):
Rugrats is really your favorite.
But also, growing up I had adog named Molly.
But Molly looked exactly likeSprocket from Fraggle Rock, so
sometimes we would call her that.

Speaker 1 (07:26):
Oh, ok, I'm excited.
Ok, what are we doing?
So?

Speaker 2 (07:30):
we all love a good conspiracy theory, one that we
don't do too much on the show.

Speaker 1 (07:35):
I was going to say we haven't done it a lot OK.

Speaker 2 (07:37):
Some of this could be conspiracy theory.
We could also call this fantheories.
So I'm gonna be just straightup.
Some of these are reallyfar-fetched, have no basis in
reality.
But the interesting thing islike when these theories start
to surface, they become reallywidespread and it's like, yeah,
sort of like a game of telephone.
Everyone adds little bits tostuff like a wildfire.

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Yeah, we're not doing just oneconspiracy theory, multiple
theories, multiple fan theoriesfrom different cartoons from our
childhood.
Are you ready for somenostalgia?
And you ready to just betotally screwed with?

Speaker 1 (08:09):
yeah, let's go, because I I have not deep, deep
dived into this, but I have thatto the surface.

Speaker 2 (08:15):
I feel like everyone's kind of heard of some
of the the cartoon conspiracies, but I try to not go with all
dark ones, but I went with somethat I haven't heard of before
and some have compelling.

Speaker 1 (08:25):
I was going to say, yeah, some people they'll get
really upset about this.
So you might upset some peoplebecause some people really don't
want their childhood likememories fucked with and if you
don't want that.

Speaker 2 (08:38):
You might want to also trigger warnings of
substance abuse, self-harm,trauma.
Okay, but I do have to give areally quick shout out to my
coworker, cj, for suggestingthis episode.
So thanks, cj.
Hey, cj, appreciate you, buddy,we're starting with the Rugrats
though.

Speaker 1 (08:57):
That's actually really funny.

Speaker 2 (08:58):
Okay, yay, it's funny .
You know what, though?
I do kind of know this one.

Speaker 1 (09:01):
But I'm excited for you to tell it.
It's funny, you know what,though?
I do kind of know this one, butI'm excited for you to tell it.
There, you go.

Speaker 2 (09:05):
All right, in case you don't know me by now, I love
the fucking Rugrats.
I have slowly named all my petsafter from the show.
So we started with Reptar.
I had Phil and Lil, the twingeckos.
The snake's name is Chuckybecause he's just afraid of
everything, and I was going tohave a dog named Tommy, but I

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just never got ready enough forthe dog.
But in case you don't knowabout the Rugrats, it was a TV
show cartoon that ran from 1991all the way to 2004.
Yeah, which I didn't realize,it was actually older than I was
and it was one of the originalthree cartoons on Nickelodeon.
Thanks for making me feel old.
Yeah, no problem, anytime.

Speaker 1 (09:46):
It's older than I was .

Speaker 2 (09:47):
Fuck you.
The show focuses on a group oftoddlers, right?
So Tommy, chucky, phil, will,their friend Angelica, and some
other side characters who justdon't matter as much, going
about their day-to-day lives.
It's usually like lifeexperiences through the eyes of
toddlers that, through theirimaginations, become these great
adventures, but to the adultslike they were having full

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conversations.
But to the adults, remember, itsounded like baby talk, correct
, ok?
Now they were also oftenterrorized by the slightly older
cousin of Tommy named Angelica,ok.
So there's a ton of fantheories on this one.
We're going to go into the onethat everyone started to hear a
little bit about.
There's a ton of fan theories onthis one.
We're gonna go into the onethat everyone started to hear a
little bit about.
But this theory claims thatwhat was shown to kids on tv the
lives of all these littletoddlers and all their

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adventures was not really whatwe thought.
Yeah, kind of states that theentire event of rugrats, or
events of rugrats, took placeonly in the mind of angelica
pickles.
So tommy phil, little chucky,didn't actually exist.
Yeah, well, they did exist,briefly, uh, but they were

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created by the young girl as acoping mechanism due to neglect
and terrible parenting.
So angelica was horribly selfish.
She was rude, not great atmaking friends, but she was also
the spitting image of theperson on the show who was shown
as her mom.
The career-driven, cold, rude,little attention to everyone
explains her kind of only childsyndrome bad attitude, right.

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So the conspiracy fan theoryreally starts with saying that
that mom wasn't her real mom andit was actually her stepmom.
Oh, and that there's signsthroughout the show that her
real mom likely died to somesort of drug overdose.
Okay, so the doll that she isinsanely attached to, with the
disheveled hair and the runningmakeup that she treats like a

(11:36):
real human, is probably becauseit reminds her of her mother and
she kept her memory alive inthat way.
Okay, so three-year-oldAngelica has a way of bossing
around the kids and makingthings all about her.

Speaker 1 (11:49):
She was awful.

Speaker 2 (11:50):
Oh yeah, she was terrible.

Speaker 1 (11:53):
Just a quick sorry.
I want to say a quick side.
No, my cousins were not allowedto watch the Rugrats, solely
because of her character.

Speaker 2 (11:59):
A lot of kids in my school weren't allowed to, yeah,
but that was religious school.
Well, yeah, school.
Weren't allowed to, yeah, butthat was really just school.
well, yeah, she, but she wasterrible, yeah, so anyways
though she was maybe bossingaround being so mean to these
kids because they really didn'texist except for in her world.
So here's the dark twist otherthan angelica, all the other
babies are that's right, karadead babies.

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Uh, they died All sorts oftragedies around her and instead
of facing the grief and lettingthem go, angelica keeps them as
imaginary friends that she cancontinue to have adventures with
, have these friends and copewith her extreme feelings of
neglect, loneliness and grief,even though she hates them.

(12:42):
Well, I think it's more of justher processing the trauma right
yeah um and having control.
So she feels so out of controlin her life that that's how she
can have the control so this isnot the theory that I've heard,
but this is a good one yeah.
Well, I think this is the onethat most people have heard,
because I think the next partsyou're gonna be like okay, yeah,
okay, it just it gives more ofthe backstory of why she did

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what she did.
Ok To like create them.
So how did her imaginaryfriends come to be?
So let's start with Tommy.
In this theory, tommy waseither a stillborn or passed
shortly after being born.
Ok, and obviously Angelicawould have faced trauma from
this because that's her cousin.
It goes on to state that theparents fell into like a really

(13:27):
depressive state.
So remember that one episodewhere stew's making the pudding
at four in the morning, dd comesin.
She's like what are you doing?
He's like I'm making puddingbecause I've lost control of my
life.
Um, and those two parentsalways kind of come off a little
lethargic.
We'll say yeah, just dishe.
Stu, going further into hisdepression and not dealing with
his own loss, continues toinvent all these toys for his

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stillborn son out of grief, yep,yep.
So Angelica creates Tommy,right.
So she, instead of letting himgo, she turns him into this
imaginary friend.
Okay, so next we have Chucky.
Chucky is one who lived inconstant fear and terror, right,
he's raised by his father, chaz.
Chaz is really similar.

Speaker 1 (14:09):
Yes, Chaz.

Speaker 2 (14:10):
And in an episode in the third season is the only
time we hear about his mom.
It was an episode called.

Speaker 1 (14:16):
Mother's.

Speaker 2 (14:17):
Day, and they allude to the fact that she died
shortly after he was born.

Speaker 1 (14:20):
Yes, oh.

Speaker 2 (14:25):
That was canon.
That that was real right.
So, going back to the theory,this suggests that chucky was
alive for a time.
After his birth he was in a caraccident with his mom and they
both passed away.
Okay, that is what causeschaz's erratic and nervous
behavior, because he'straumatized by the accident.
Okay, now in angelica's mind,right, she doesn't have a way to

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create chucky other than thereflection of his father, so she
kind of creates this fearfulindividual.
Then we have the twins, phil,and they're my favorite.
I love them too.
I think lil too.
She was just sassy, she wassoassy.
So the DeVilles are neighborsof Dee Dee and Stu, so once
again Angelica would have beenexposed to them.

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Because you know, if the babiesdidn't exist, angelica was
still babysat by Dee Dee and Stua lot.
So this one goes to suggestthat Angelica would have surely
seen the pregnant mother nextdoor who either gets an abortion
or loses the child.
And since angelica never knewwhether the child would have
been a boy or a girl, she justmade we get twins, yeah, okay,

(15:34):
where's the proof of all thissort of deal?

Speaker 1 (15:36):
right, let's go back to the adults not being able to
understand the young kids welland like shows of like our time
more, some more even my timewere really fucked up.
Dark shows for parents oh, yeahyou know what I mean.
Like because the kids it wasoblivious.
Like now you can kind of getaway from some like parental
humor and shows, but not likethey did at these times.

Speaker 2 (15:59):
Like oh no, there was things that just went right
over kids heads, that were notfor the kids at all so this
actually is kind of the theorythat I've heard.

Speaker 1 (16:07):
It was just a little bit different, but yeah,
everything you're saying, yeah.

Speaker 2 (16:10):
So and that's, they're all different depending
on where you look Like I said,it's all a game of telephone
sort of deal, but here's, here'swhere we can get a little bit
of proof, right.
So remember to everyone elsethe baby speak.
Gibberish.
Angelica's older.
She doesn't speak in baby talk.

Speaker 1 (16:25):
Right, and it was always like why does she
understand them?

Speaker 2 (16:33):
Yeah, that was kind of like always a thing.
Now there was a character whoshe couldn't understand.

Speaker 1 (16:35):
Tommy's little brother Dill Dill.
Yeah, because wasn't he theonly surviving one.

Speaker 2 (16:39):
He was the only one who probably was alive.

Speaker 1 (16:41):
Yeah, really, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 2 (16:42):
So then she treated him worse than all the others.
Remember she like hit him.

Speaker 1 (16:48):
See, Dil was an add-on.
I was a little bit older whenDil came around.
Like I do remember him, butlike he wasn't like my core
Rugrats.
Oh yeah, yeah, he wasn't mycore memory, Sorry, Dil.

Speaker 2 (17:02):
So this is where I think we just get totally off
the rails with this.
But I added it in here, so inthe All Grown Up people have
added to the end of the show ohyeah.
So the All Grown Up seriesshowed them as like.
I think it was like they sayAll Grown Up, but they were like
old teens, teens, yeah.
And the series stops there anda lot of people speculate that
it's because Angelica'scharacter would have passed away

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from a drug overdose, becauseshe was continuing to take drugs
that allowed her to see andinteract with her imaginary
friends since childhood.
I know this is this one'sterrible.
So there are some flaws thatpoke holes in the theory, most
significantly that the childrenare visible to the adults around
them and they regularlyinteract with each other.

Speaker 1 (17:45):
But do they?
That's kind of one of thosethings, like they kind of ignore
them a lot, where you're likebut they do interact enough.
This is why I feel like thistheory kind of came about.

Speaker 2 (17:56):
And they interact a lot the kids and the kids and
the adults, when Angelica is noteven there.
Oh OK, so what a lot of people.
To bring up is Susie Carmichael.
She's the one who's aboutAngelica's age.
She's kind of Angelica'snemesis but also is like
motherly to everyone, Right.

Speaker 1 (18:13):
Oh yeah, she's a really cute little African
American girl.

Speaker 2 (18:16):
Yes, oh I loved her People kind of like.
Well, while she was Angelica'srival, she was one of the few
who actually cared about her andprobably played into her
imagination, so that's kind ofhow we got around that loophole.
Okay, they even say that she'sprobably the one who planned her
funeral in the All Grown Upseries, which is just horrible.

Speaker 1 (18:35):
Jesus Christ.

Speaker 2 (18:37):
At this point in the theory, are you standard Rugrats
or dark Rugrats?

Speaker 1 (18:42):
I mean, I kind of like the dark.
It's fun.
But also I don't know if you'regoing to get into this, but one
of the other theories reallyquick that I heard about it.
It was all like disorders thateither Tommy had or Angelica had
, Like each child represented,manifested into a disorder.

Speaker 2 (18:58):
Yes, I did see some of that yeah.

Speaker 1 (19:08):
I didn't cover it though, because we're going to
cover a very similar one foranother show.
I mean, listen, I don't want totraumatize myself, but I'm not,
but we're already traumatizedand honestly that that show
really did get dark.
It was very disturbing oncertain episodes, like the
grandpa questionable.

Speaker 2 (19:17):
So I could get down with the dark well, I'm gonna
burst your bubble on that one,because this is one of the few
that we actually have a responsefrom arlene klasky, one of the
show creators what are theygonna say?
Yeah, so she told she toldbuzzfeed at a comic con she goes
.

Speaker 1 (19:34):
A lot of people believe that conspiracy theory
that the rugrats never happenedand I'm here to tell you that
it's not true I mean, I don'tbelieve it as in it was written
that way, but I could definitelysee it because it's very
weirdly written no matter.

Speaker 2 (19:49):
A lot of those older cartoons, especially the 90s
cartoons, were, because, likethe hannah barbara ones before
that, a lot of those were likeway more straightforward.
I feel like, yeah, they hadjokes for the adults, but some
of those like 80s, 90s ones gotdark.
Um, one that I didn't throw inhere that I will while we're
talking about it is ren andstimpy.
So and and there's a ton oftheories on that one.

(20:10):
We've all heard a bunch of them,but this one I hadn't heard
before is like their erraticcrazy behavior is the direct
manifestation of their trauma ofbeing abused animals from the
parents who never took care ofthem like.
That's just like how animalswould react.
Okay, the next one, though okaywhat was your second favorite
show?
What did I say?

(20:30):
You said spongebob oh yeah.
So I was gonna say I rattled offso many, but yes, spongebob
well, so spongebob's the nextone on our list and we're gonna
go through a couple on this one.
So spongebob also onNickelodeon, aired in 1999.
And I had no idea it's stillgoing.
Oh, yes, it is.
This one has a boatload, though.
There's over 15.

(20:51):
So I'm only going to cover acouple of them.
We only have so much time.

Speaker 1 (21:10):
Also not surprised that someone's on the list,
because if you actually watchlike, watch it back as an adult.
If you think Rugrats is dark,this is one of the darkest shows
and one that just straight uphas jokes for parents only.

Speaker 2 (21:13):
But here's the thing I still fucking love it and I
can still sit down and I canjust watch it and enjoy it.
It's probably one of my mostquoted things.

Speaker 1 (21:16):
I love it, and my husband had never watched it
because he's older than all ofus, and I made him watch it one
day in a hotel a couple yearsago and he didn't get it, which
is understandable, okay.

Speaker 2 (21:26):
So the first theory on this one, this one's short,
it's sweet, but Pearl is not MrCrab's real daughter.
Oh, you think I don't know.
I mean, he is a crab, she's awhale.
But he's very, very selfish,right he's?
Greedy Except for when it comesto her, she gets everything she
wants.
She does so one fan theory,conspiracy theory, states that

(21:50):
this is because Mr Krabs adoptedher from her parents who died,
okay, from whalers being whalehunted.
Oh, and he spoils her becausethey were his best friends.

Speaker 1 (22:00):
I could see that Okay .

Speaker 2 (22:01):
Right.
So that's one that I justhadn't heard of before.
And also how, in the hundredsof episodes that I've watched,
I've never thought about how thefuck a crab has a whale for a
daughter.
You didn't, I never did.

Speaker 1 (22:12):
Like I don't know why .

Speaker 2 (22:14):
First episode Purple Never crossed my mind.

Speaker 1 (22:17):
I love Mr Crab.

Speaker 2 (22:18):
Our second theory is a split from this one, though.
Okay, I want you to rememberback to our aphrodisiac episode.
Do you remember the thing thatcame from whales?
Was it sperm?
No, it was puke.
What was it?
Ambergris.
Ambergris is an aphrodisiac.
It's also used for perfumes andstuff.
I forgot that episode.
It was disturbing.
So a different theory on why MrKrabs really likes his daughter

(22:41):
.
I've heard this His success isfrom the Krabby Patty and their
secret ingredients that Planktonis always trying to steal the
recipe for.
Well, that secret ingredientcould be none other than
ambergris or his own daughter'spuke.
Ew, that one to me sounds moreMr Krabs, because he'd be in it

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for himself.

Speaker 1 (23:02):
But wasn't it plankton?
What do you mean?
The secret ingredient isplankton, is it?
One of the episodes was that'swhy, and he found out and he was
horrified.
That would make sense, but theyalluded to it like it was.
But then it's like were theyjust joking to scare plankton
away, or was it really plankton?

Speaker 2 (23:23):
So you kind of left like you don't know.
I guess we'll never know,though, because but it could be
one of the creators actuallycommented on this whole theory.
Um, and then or not creators,animators, excuse me and he said
that the creator of the showwas actually against revealing
how pearl joined mr krebs family.
So I guess we'll never know,but there is apparently a
legitimate reason.

(23:44):
They just won't tell everybody.

Speaker 1 (23:46):
Okay, so that's interesting.

Speaker 2 (23:49):
The next one is kind of what you were explaining for
the Rugrats one.
So the next theory is that allthe characters in Spongebob are
actually representations, butinstead of mental disorders,
what it would be like to beaddicted to a different kind of
drug.
Okay, because the show was made, you know, shortly after the
whole war on drugs, media scare,blah, blah, blah, blah.

(24:10):
Okay, so, um, each charactersuffers from a different
addiction and their actions andthe shows are manifestations
about how people with thataddiction would act okay, I can
see that all right.
So as I through them, I want youto try to guess.
Oh, okay, so I'm going to giveyou character and then I'm going
to give you description.
Oh no, spongebob Crazy moodswings, lives in a bit of

(24:33):
delusion, tons of other strangeafflictions, right.
So he shifts from extremehappiness to anger.
He has kind of grandiose ideas,a little bit of, um, you know,
living in his own world, okay,but the swings are a big thing.
What do you think spongebobwould be the representation of?

Speaker 1 (24:52):
well, I don't know.
I ultimately like, right away Ithought acid until you started
describing stuff.
I've never taken acid, so Idon't know what the side effects
are after.
But I'm just thinking, becausehe's always seeing, like that.
I just think of the what arethey?
The jellyfish, the jellyfishparty.
It's like an acid drift, you'repretty close.

Speaker 2 (25:10):
Shrooms and speed.
Ok, there you go.
Shrooms.

Speaker 1 (25:12):
That makes sense too.
Ok, perfect.

Speaker 2 (25:15):
The next one.
You're just getting a one wordhint.
You're going to get this oneimmediately.

Speaker 1 (25:23):
Patrick.
I mean, I think Patrick's justlike fucking high on the time,
like just smoking some marijuana, lazy stoner who literally
lives under a fucking rock.

Speaker 2 (25:30):
I love him, though.
Squidward, you have two rightanswers here.
So he has deceptive behaviors,poor work performance, avoiding
eye contact, mood swings andlethargy.

Speaker 1 (25:43):
I mean he could be an alcoholic, but are we
specifically talking drugs?

Speaker 2 (25:48):
Yes, oh, alcohol is a drug, but it's not alcohol.

Speaker 1 (25:52):
I know, but it's not.
It can't be alcohol for him.
Oh wow, why don't I know that?
Why can't I think?

Speaker 2 (25:57):
Downers and or heroin .

Speaker 1 (26:00):
Oh, I would say downers, not heroin.

Speaker 2 (26:03):
I saw way more people saying heroin and, by the way,
a lot of these come from likeRanker Top Ten.

Speaker 1 (26:09):
No, it wasn't.
It's not heroin.
This is not as scientific, buthe's not strung out.

Speaker 2 (26:14):
And see, that's where it didn't make sense to me.
I think more downers like he'staking, like Xanny's- yeah, and
he's also so particular oncertain things.

Speaker 1 (26:21):
and he's so focused on certain things.
It's not heroin.

Speaker 2 (26:24):
Yeah, no, I think it's downers for sure.
Yeah, for sure, okay, okay.
And Mr Krabs is addicted toMoney, money, absolutely, which
means he is the I don't knowwhat.
Well, if he's the employer ofthe show and he has all the
money, he would be the oh.
He's the drug dealer,absolutely In cahoots with Mrs

(26:45):
Puff, and they're both obviouslyaddicted to cocaine because of
their irritability.
Now there is one who is notconstantly high, sandy, who
doesn't belong, who lives herlife in a bubble, and generally
most Sandy Cheeks.
It's Sandy Cheeks who is alwaysannoyed by the others because

(27:06):
they're just fucking high allthe time.

Speaker 1 (27:07):
Yeah, that makes sense, man, she just I want to
go home yeah, she's.

Speaker 2 (27:14):
She's sick of all their high asses, which makes
the whole uh episode wherespongebob and patrick break in
way more annoying.
When she's like trying tohibernate no, I'm dirty day they
are a bunch of fucked up littleweirdos.

Speaker 1 (27:28):
I love it so much, dude, I want to leave this
episode of watch fun job I kindof do too stepping on the beach.

Speaker 2 (27:32):
Okay, oh my god.
I think this one is definitelyfun.
It explains some, some things.
I don't think it's true, though, when you start to look into
David Lynch, who created theshow.
David Lynch was actually superabstract, very into surreal I
mean it's listed as a surrealcartoon he's also, if you look

(27:57):
at him, he has made some, I'mgoing to say, adult films, but
not porn.
I just mean he's made somereally strange strange things,
but I don't think thesecharacters are high because he
is very, very astute on the factthat he, while he creates all
these surrealist projects andvery abstract, very strange that

(28:17):
he's actually never done a drugto induce any of his creativity
.

Speaker 1 (28:22):
Okay.

Speaker 2 (28:25):
So I would doubt that somebody who's not dabbling
right isn't going to put them ina kid show that is I would
doubt they are yeah yeah, youknow what I'm trying to say.

Speaker 1 (28:30):
Yeah, yeah, yeah damn now that we think that
spongebob definitely is myfavorite.
I don't even know why I saidrugrats.
Rugrats was my first favorite,but, dammy, my dad used to watch
hours of spongebob.
We would laugh, laugh sofucking hard.
I can't even.

Speaker 2 (28:42):
I still have to think .
My all-time favorite was Tomand Jerry.

Speaker 1 (28:45):
Oh really.

Speaker 2 (28:46):
Oh, I was obsessed.
I loved that show.
Wow, a couple other like justtwo-sentence Spongebob ones,
though that I liked.
Each character is alsorepresentative of the seven
deadly sins.

Speaker 1 (28:57):
Oh, I've heard that too.

Speaker 2 (29:04):
Right, heard that too .
Right, greed sloth gluttony.
We have all those things,pearls gluttony right wrath.

Speaker 1 (29:07):
Yep, pearl would be gluttony greed is crab.

Speaker 2 (29:08):
Mr craps is patrick, patrick.
Uh, wrath is plankton, you knowyep, okay, yeah, oh, I like that
one the last one that I reallyliked is you get all these
sentient underwater creaturesbecause bikini bottom is
actually offshore of where theywere doing the nuclear testing
in those way out their island,so you know, kind of fun.
Yeah, there's also, like youwere saying then, the mental

(29:32):
disorders in this one too, and alot of those referred to the
episode about uh, not bikinibottom, rock bottom, which is
one of, like, the mostterrifying episodes of spongebob
of all time, so one where theytake the bus down to the place
where everyone I was just gonnasay is it that one?
because that one is not cool Iguess that one is just supposed
to help kids understand anxietyhow, but it gives it to us I

(29:55):
know I don't think they did evenas an adult that I don't know
if I ever want to watch thatepisode.

Speaker 1 (29:59):
It's so vivid in my brain I don't need to re-watch
that I'm kind of right therewith you.

Speaker 2 (30:04):
It's like the one that sticks with me the most,
though exactly any othercomments on spongebob before our
next cartoon?

Speaker 1 (30:14):
no, I, I think there was a dirty one with it being
bikini bottom, but you knowthere's a bajillion so yeah, the
what's the?

Speaker 2 (30:21):
the crusty crab is in the bikini bottom.

Speaker 1 (30:23):
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, that's just a joke for adults.
Yeah, that's what it is.

Speaker 2 (30:28):
OK, so the next one.
We have our favorite group ofcrime fighting paranormal,
investigating, sandwich eating,dog loving teens driving around
the country in a van.
What Come on?

Speaker 1 (30:40):
Oh, it's whatever, but I don't think I ever really
watched it scooby-doo man ohwhat did you just say crime
fighting?

Speaker 2 (30:47):
paranormal investigating, sandwich eating
dog, loving teens who drivearound in a van why did I blank
out on all of that?

Speaker 1 (30:54):
I don't know dog and I just thought um that coward
dog.
Courage, okay, scooo, jesusChrist.

Speaker 2 (31:02):
Yeah, we could have done a whole episode on Courage
the cowardly dog.

Speaker 1 (31:04):
Yeah, okay, get your life together, yeah, okay.

Speaker 2 (31:08):
So this is another absolute favorite of mine.
Oh, this one's dark right, thisis darker.
I don't think this one is asdark, as it just explains why
there's so many of the samething happening.
Okay so, Scooby-Doo wasactually created in 69, believe
it or not, and is still going.
They've had so many spinoffs,movies, everything I know.

(31:30):
I love them.
In case you've somehow beenlike Patrick living under a rock
, it's a series that followsfour teenagers Fred Jones,
Daphne Blake, Velma Dinkley andShaggy Rogers in their talking
great day named Scooby-Doo, whosolved mysteries involving
supposedly supernaturalcreatures through a series of
antics and missteps whiletraveling using the brightly
colored van the Mystery Machine.

(31:51):
Okay so, tons of theories onthis one.
I'm going to go with one thatwas.
It was new to me, it might notbe new to you, but Okay so the
gang, no matter where they arein the country, right?
yeah they're always in run-downbuildings investigating the same
kind of phenomena that alwaysturns out to be a man in a suit
pulling a con or there are somewith women, but yeah, it's

(32:13):
usually like a human it's, it'snot supernatural yeah, yeah the
theory suggests that the worldof scooby-doo actually takes
place in america that is setafter a complete economic
collapse.
This left many buildings,businesses, homes, hotels, theme
parks all those places theywould have gone really run down

(32:34):
like they are in the show.
Okay, it would also explain whythey live in a van, at least
not down by a river, as ChrisFarley would say, kind of you
know, just, they don't haveanything to call their own.
Also, I mean, how is Shaggy sodamn hungry?
Right, he's obviously just poorand not super stoned.
Okay, so every villain in theshow, while they're doing this

(32:54):
con to pull off some kind ofmoney, shouldn't be villains?
Right?
They're educated, intelligent,highly employable people
scientists, engineers,entrepreneurs like yeah, yeah
shouldn't need to run these consto make the money.
So they're desperately trying toget away with their grand plans
because there's no jobs to behad.
Everyone's laid off.
Okay, that makes sense.

(33:14):
Great depression times 10, andthat's why they're all resorting
to these like schemes, okay.
So I like that one.
I think that one is a littlebit different yeah um another
two.
Second story on this one is uh,you know, every time they show
the mystery machine peeling away, it's like burning out yeah
well, that smoke is not from thetires that smoke is from shaggy

(33:35):
and scooby, the marriage of oneright.
I found another one on reddit,though, and I kind of I kind of
liked this one.
So these four people velma,nerdy girl, burnout boy, and
then you have like the jockcouple.
Okay, how the fuck do thesepeople end up hanging out
together in real life?
it's like the breakfast clubkind of if the breakfast club

(33:57):
couldn't stay in one place andseemingly had no direction.
Uh, because they're dodging themilitary draft.
Oh god, the mighty heptagon onreddit suggests this.
The original scooby-doo seriescame out during the height of
the vietnam war.
This time young people acrossthe country were being drafted
into combat.
Uh, scary for the averagecitizen.

(34:18):
So the gang all had theirseparate motives.
Shaggy was a hippie through andthrough.
He probably didn't agree withthe war.
It's not too far off to think apothead like Shaggy wouldn't
live a nomadic lifestyle withhis dog.
Very Jack Kerouac inspired Fred, obviously dodging the draft.
Clean cut suburban kid.
No reason to run away, unlesshis draft number came up and

(34:41):
Daphne, being the love of hislife, followed him to start
their new life together.
Maybe they spot Shaggy.
Hitchhiking picked him up inthe mystery machine which
obviously Fred owns.
He is always driving it.
Velma, she gets along with thembecause she's like that college
student turned activist typewho wildly opposes the war and

(35:01):
she gangs up with them either.
Now, the other evidence he gaveto this is have you ever seen
them call the police?
They always sort it outthemselves.
Yeah, because if they call thepolice they're going to the
fucking war but the police endup coming do they?

Speaker 1 (35:14):
yeah, they get arrested, like every episode, oh
shit well, mr heptagon, youwere wrong.

Speaker 2 (35:20):
Do the cops actually come?
I just remember them.

Speaker 1 (35:22):
Always they're always like no, they're always like
pulling the mask some of themare getting put in the back seat
of the car.

Speaker 2 (35:28):
Okay, so they can't be draft dodgers unless they use
aliases it's.

Speaker 1 (35:30):
I don't know if it's every episode, but yeah, it's
mostly episodes.
Um no, the dark one that I knewor heard was I think it's that
everyone's dead, all shaggy'sfriends died, oh, or yeah, you
gotta, you'll have to look intoit.
I think it's that they're alldead, or that scooby's dead,
that's why.
Or he, like his dog, died andhe's going through depression,
that's why he always talks tohim and no one like I don't know

(35:52):
.
I can't remember quite what itwas, but it was a little bit
dark.
That's the like I like your fun.

Speaker 2 (35:56):
I love these two because it's all fan theory,
it's all conspiracy theory.
I mean, it's everyone's goingto come up with the story of
these shows that have beenrunning forever and part of
their childhood, and it'scartoon, so there's no right or
wrong at the end, exactly allright.
What else you got?
Okay?
So this next one.
This one I hadn't heard before,but I think this is the one
that could be the most true woolpull over our eyes.

(36:19):
Okay, I'm gonna start out witha quote from Albert Einstein.
Okay, I do not know whatweapons the Third World War will
be fought with, but the FourthWorld War will be fought with
sticks and stones.
So that one basically says,right, because he was developing
a lot of weaponry.
That was humanity ending.

(36:40):
So I don't know what we're goingto fight the next one with, but
whatever World War III brings,it's going to set us back to the
Stone Age.
Okay, stones is your hint.
The Flintstones, theFlintstones oh, I love the
Flintstones.
Lovable Fred and Wilma livingtheir best Stone Age life.
The show ran from 1960 to 1966.
Only Uh-huh, which is weird,because I remember watching it

(37:00):
as a kid and I would havethought it wasn't that good,
well, because you're a kid, youdon't know.

Speaker 1 (37:05):
But yeah, it was such a good, that's true, yeah, you
don't think about it, and I lovethe Flintstone movie with Halle
Berry with her short hair.
Oh, my favorite.
That's my favorite, halle.

Speaker 2 (37:14):
We need to rewatch that one For sure.
It the past for everyonelistening.
But okay, so what if I told youthe show doesn't take?
What if I told you the showdoesn't happen in the past?
Oh, it's the future.
It's the future.
Okay, instead of it being thesehighly evolved cave people it's
really far in the future folksliving in a dystopian future

(37:34):
after the fall of moderncivilization okay, I've kind of
heard of spinoff, of that.

Speaker 1 (37:39):
They just didn't want to move to the future type of
deal.

Speaker 2 (37:43):
So they're in their own world, so kind of same ish
there's people who have givensome pretty good proof to this
one.
Okay, I think, literally thetheme song flintstones meet the
flintstones, they're the modernstone age family yes, okay from
the town of bedrock.
They're a page right out ofhistory.
Okay, okay, that's loose atbest, but if we look at what was

(38:05):
going on pop culture-wisearound when the show came out, a
lot of horror movies at thistime were focused around the
awakening or recreating ofmonsters, dinosaurs, things from
the past, which would explainwhy they have both dinosaurs and
saber-toothed tigers and allthese other critters that would
not have lived together in thestone age oh yeah humans,

(38:27):
dinosaurs, saber-toothed tigersthese are all from vastly
different times.
I guess I've never thought.
I mean the animals can talk.
So these have to be geneticallymodified things that have come
back after the fall of humanityor were created, because some
say that this takes place in thesame universe as uh yeah,
you're right, some, some of themdo talk jurassic park.

(38:48):
Okay, okay.
So more proof they're fullyevolved humans.
They don't have the neanderthalforeheads, they don't have the
skeletal structures of ancientpeople.
They have the skeletalstructures of modern day people.

Speaker 1 (39:01):
Yep.

Speaker 2 (39:01):
Okay, do you remember the great gazoo, the alien?

Speaker 1 (39:05):
Yes, I love him.

Speaker 2 (39:06):
Why is he banished to Earth?

Speaker 1 (39:08):
Oh yeah, they don't ever tell you, do they?

Speaker 2 (39:10):
They do, do they?
He's literally banished toEarth because he created a
doomsday device on his planet.
Oh, that's right.
So what better punishment forsomebody than to be banished to
a world that has alreadydoomsdayed itself?

Speaker 1 (39:25):
Oh, that makes sense.

Speaker 2 (39:28):
I'm telling you, this one was compelling to me more
than most.

Speaker 1 (39:31):
Yeah, I like it, because this one actually has
some evidence.

Speaker 2 (39:34):
Okay, then we have a Flintstones and the Jetsons
together in a crossover episode.

Speaker 1 (39:40):
I loved that episode Okay.

Speaker 2 (39:43):
So there's a tiny detail in this episode, though.
Okay, jetsons, obviously in thefuture.
Now, there's two actualtheories on this one that are
the exact same story, but bearwith me a minute.
So the Jetsons never go toEarth, they are always in the
atmosphere the flying cars, theflying cities, the AI, the
robots, right, all thefuturistic works.

(40:06):
In this episode, elroy the Sungets a time machine and he tries
to go back to the 25th century,which would still be our future
.
Yeah, we're in the 21st, right,but they're so far in the
future.
However, they end up back inthe Flintstones times.
Now, you could say this isbecause they just went too far
back in time in the Flintstonestimes.
Now, you could say this isbecause they just went too far
back in time.
Okay, but if you spendcountless hours doing the
research, like I did and by thatI mean finding a 30 second clip

(40:28):
you can clearly see on the timemachine, as somebody pointed
out, oh, that the switch isstill on future instead of the
past.
Oh, and they tried to say inthe episode that it was Now I
like what OrganicMacaroon178said on Reddit is that the

(40:53):
Jetsons may not have traveled intime at all.

Speaker 1 (40:56):
That the.

Speaker 2 (40:56):
Flintstones are existing at the same time.
So for this to make sense, youhave to remember the Jetsons
never touch the Earth's surface,Right?
He goes on to say he's the onewho puts Jurassic Park, the
Flintstones and the Jetsons allin one.
So somehow humanity has broughtback dinosaurs.
Then you almost bring in Matrix.

(41:19):
Right, the Matrix starts tohappen.
Robots take over somewhataround the time as humans then
leave to go to the atmosphere.
If you remember, in the Matrixit's like scorched earth, right,
and all the humans are kind ofbatteries, blah, blah, blah,
blah.
Every time the Jetsons show theplanet Earth it looks like this
scorched earth, basically, whenthe Flintstones are, I keep

(41:41):
wanting to say the Jetsons, theFlintstones are rebuilding.
It's after the end of the Matrixwhen everyone escapes and
they're rebuilding the worldokay so that when elroy took his
time machine, all he really didwas float down to the planet's
surface and they are coexistingat the exact same time that
makes sense, okay, I mean I digit I.
I like it, you know, because,like how else would you explain

(42:02):
all the modern day technology?
They had just a stone ageversion of it.
I dig it the phones, the cars,everything else I don't know I.
I think that one has someweight to it.

Speaker 1 (42:12):
Well, I mean, the cars weren't like that modern.

Speaker 2 (42:14):
Perfect?
So none of it was, but it wasmodern technology.

Speaker 1 (42:18):
Well, yeah.

Speaker 2 (42:19):
Right, that wouldn't have been.
So.
Somebody explained that thefall of humanity came from Bane
2 over tech.
Yeah, tech.

Speaker 1 (42:26):
Tech, too much tech, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 2 (42:32):
No tech, too much tech.
Yeah, yeah, no, I like it.
That's a good one.

Speaker 1 (42:33):
They kept their modern conveniences, but they
never took it back to the levelthey did before.
Yeah, no, that makes sense.
Again, I like it.
I don't know, I dig it.

Speaker 2 (42:38):
No, that's a cool one , and I I think that one at
least has solid proof yeah okay,what else you got I know it's
getting long.
We have one last show thatobviously, if you're going to
talk about a cartoon with aconspiracy theory, fuck the fan
theories on this one.
This is straight up level ofconspiracy theory that just
doesn't make sense to me.

(42:59):
Probably could do an entireepisode on this alone.
Okay, and the conspiracy isless about the show than the
show's creator, matt Groening,and his famous, famous TV show,
the Simpsons.
Okay, you know where we'regoing.

Speaker 1 (43:15):
I mean I do, but I never watched the Simpsons.
It was not a show that I caredabout.
But I do know where we're goingwith it.

Speaker 2 (43:22):
So I feel like at least once a year this starts
popping off on social mediabecause it comes true again.
Yes, which is viral that thesimpsons and its creators
somehow have the uncanny abilityto predict, with like way too
much fucking accuracy, futurereal world events like weird
creepy.
I've seen a lot of theories onthis one.

(43:43):
Matt graining is like aninsanely smart human being.
He's like a physicist,mathematician I mean.
He also made the show futurama,and most of the science jokes
in futurama are actually basedin actual science does he ever
comment on any of this shit?

Speaker 1 (43:59):
does he?

Speaker 2 (43:59):
oh yeah, he does okay yeah, um, and he's also smart
and witty and just a genius, sohe never like confirms or denies
.
He's just an asshole about it,which I would be not an asshole,
but just no, I know I meanasshole, you know.
So statisticians are like well,with the amount of you know
episodes of south park, it allcomes down to math.
You're gonna end up predictingsomething.
No, but there are others thatare so spot on that people have

(44:23):
actually kind of blame, notblamed, and they have, uh,
suggested that matt greeningmight be a time traveler yeah,
or or is he like drama thatshows literally about accidental
time travel.
Yeah, huh.
So there's there's an entireWikipedia page that is just
dedicated to the Simpsonsepisode yeah, it's crazy.

(44:43):
So I kind of want to finishthis up by going over my top
favorites from these, and then Iwant you to like tell me your
reactions to them okay so thefirst one is from an episode
lisa the greek.
It aired january 23rd 1992.
Okay, lisa correctly predictsthat the washington redskins

(45:04):
would win super bowl 26, whichthey did on january 26 that same
year.

Speaker 1 (45:12):
Okay, or of that the year that, yeah, that year okay,
so tons of time pass in betweenyeah, that could literally you
could just be like wow, that's awild ass coincidence, that is
something that you could be like, that's crazy coincidence it
would be more coincidental, butthey numbered the exact super
bowl but you could still sayholy shit, that's a crazy

(45:32):
coincidence perfect if ithappened once I think it's not,
but that's could be a crazycoincidence next one comes from
springfield, which is the nameof the town they live in, but it
has a dollar sign instead of ans, where it's also called how I
Learned to Stop Whoring andLove Legalized Gambling.

Speaker 2 (45:50):
Okay, but this episode in 1993, december 16th,
features characters Gunther andErnst who are a parody of the
real-life magicians Siegfriedand Roy oh Mm-hmm.
In this episode, gunther andErnst acts end disastrously when
their white tiger, anastasia,attacks them.
Acts end disastrously whentheir white tiger, anastasia,

(46:14):
attacks them.
In real life, obviously, roywas attacked by their white
tiger named manicor, during alive performance at the mirage
in 2003, 10 years later.
This one, I would say yeah,coincidence is not even
coincidence, it's like kind ofthe probability of that
happening could really be.

Speaker 1 (46:30):
Come on now.
Yeah, you have a wild animal,but OK, ok.

Speaker 2 (46:34):
So a similar thing of them predicting a performance.
Ok, this one is just where I'mstarting to go.
How the fuck do you in yourhead you put?
These two things together andthen how does it actually happen
?
Ok, give it to me, homerPalooza, may 19th 1996, features
Cypress Hill guest starring asthemselves the band Okay, as

(46:56):
they performed with, for somereason, the London Symphony
Orchestra Okay, which happenedwhen Cypress Hill and the London
Symphony Orchestra performedtogether at the Royal Albert
Hall, july july 10th 2024,almost 30 years later from that
okay.

Speaker 1 (47:16):
So here's where, though, I could be like they
literally could have gotten thislike this would be really funny
because it did happen on thesome the episode of a symptom
simpsons 30 years ago.
We should collaborate this.

Speaker 2 (47:31):
Do you think anybody would?
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (47:35):
That one to me just kind of struck me as it's very
weird.
But I feel like that could becollaborated, Because, come on
now, you don't think there'ssomebody on one of those teams
that was like a huge Simpsonsfan and would be like this would
be so fucking cool.
Okay, Make some calls.
I'm just saying I'll give youthat one.

Speaker 2 (47:50):
It's very weird.
All of them Very weird.
So when you Dish Upon a Staraired November 8th 1998.
Okay, and for short time, inthis episode there's a shot of
the 20th Century Fox logo andunderneath it it says a division
of Walt Disney Company whichpredicted the acquisition of
21st Century Fox by Disney.

(48:11):
December 14th 2017, 19 yearslater.

Speaker 1 (48:16):
I don't know.
What do you think?

Speaker 2 (48:18):
I again.
If it was one or two, I'm goingto give you seven, and we're
not even scratching the surface.

Speaker 1 (48:26):
Yeah, keep going, because these are just ones that
I could be like okay, yeah,okay, okay.
Elementary School Musical datedokay, okay.

Speaker 2 (48:31):
Elementary School Musical dated September 26, 2010
.
Milhouse predicts a bettingpool that Bengt Holström would
win the Nobel Memorial Prize inEconomic Sciences.
Okay, On that same betting pool, a database predicted that Ben
Ferenga would win the NobelPrize in Chemistry.

Speaker 1 (48:50):
Okay.

Speaker 2 (48:51):
Okay, now this is 2010, uh 10.
Okay.
In 2016, homestorm and farangareceived their respective awards
in those exact categories see,that's.

Speaker 1 (49:04):
That's where I'm like .
Okay, that's a little weirdbecause it's two people in one
episode that you're battingdifferent things.
That's weird, that's crazy.

Speaker 2 (49:14):
That, and there's quite a few of those that I left
out.

Speaker 1 (49:18):
Right, well, I know there's a lot.
I tried to go for somedifferent ones, but yeah so, but
that's one where the Superbowlone, or to me, are very
compelling.

Speaker 2 (49:27):
It is very compelling .
You're predicting down to thelike the exact category or the
exact date.
Yeah, yeah, no, for real, it isweird so lisa goes gaga came
out may 20th 2012, which hadlady gaga performing a halftime
show at a super bowl.
Okay, five years later, just asdepicted, lady gaga used

(49:48):
suspension cables to give theappearance she were flying, just
like she did in the episode.
The outfit she wore was verysimilar.
I know your feeling on this onealready.
Yeah, because I just feel likeat this point so you think that
the Super Bowl and Lady Gaga gottogether to recreate the
Simpsons episode?
No.

Speaker 1 (50:03):
What I think that is.
There is so much talk about and, again, you're just not even
scratching the surface.
There's so many different ones,so there's so, like you just
said earlier, there is so much.
Every year.
You get this like the oh my God, the Simpsons.
So there's all of this, thisanimosity maybe that's not the
right word, but all of thishoopla about the Simpsons
predict in the future.

(50:24):
So if I were a creator likeLady Gaga and I know I was in an
episode of it, yes, I'm goingto strategically secretly with
my team okay, plant, oh my god,fuck it.
I scored the super bowl.
Let me fuck around a little bitthat's what I think they were.

Speaker 2 (50:41):
The same super bowl numbers that part's weird, that
part's very weird it's, it'sweird, and so that's where, like
statistically, they say withthe number of episodes, they're
going to predict something.
No, I don't think it'sconfirmation bias.
Yeah, I don't think that.

Speaker 1 (50:57):
But I think with some of those it could be like yeah,
but the, the, the super bowlnumber, that's fucking weird.
But if it were a coincidence Icould see like gaga's team or
something being like hey, weshould do this, you.
You know what I mean.

Speaker 2 (51:11):
Okay, all right, the last one, the one that
everyone's probably waiting forMarch 19th 2000.
Bart to the future Predicts thepresidency of Donald Trump.

Speaker 1 (51:21):
See, that's the ones that fuck with me, because why
the fuck would he ever be apresident?

Speaker 2 (51:31):
Even down to that light orb thing that he there's
that real picture of himtouching and he did in that
episode.

Speaker 1 (51:33):
That's what those are .
These are the type of ones thatfuck with me, because that
doesn't even make sense itdoesn't make sense, because
nobody would have thought he ranright right now.

Speaker 2 (51:41):
This episode hits twice because it hits for him
running the first time.
Yeah, but this is also theepisode where lisa runs against
him wearing that purple suit,the purple pantsuit, which is
like, basically, what you know,kamala's signature outfit, who
ran against him the second timearound.

(52:02):
So this episode somehow hit onboth presidencies yeah, that's
fucking weird so I, I mean Iagree with you.
I do think, over time,especially as some of them the
theory grew yeah right, likesure I could see lady gaga going
.
Okay, I'm gonna feed into this.
She does like the pomp andcircumstance, but I think
someone like the early it'sweird, you know, it's fucking

(52:25):
weird ones that happened in theearly 2000s and the fact that,
like the nine, we went throughseven but there's hundreds of
them it's fucking weird.
So there's, I don't know.
I'm sure somebody, matthew canexplain it away, but to me, like
I, some of them areconfirmation bias well, here's
the thing.

Speaker 1 (52:42):
Like you said, he doesn't explain it away, right,
which is like yeah, I just Idon't know.

Speaker 2 (52:49):
He knows something.
Either he's a time traveler or,and more likely, he probably
has some sort of extra sensoryability, I would go with that
one.
He has more of a grasp on maybelike um, I don't want to say
clear vision.
What's the oh not?

Speaker 1 (53:10):
clairvoyant Clairsentient.
What are they?

Speaker 2 (53:16):
Clairvoyant, clairsentient, clair.
I can't remember what it is.

Speaker 1 (53:17):
She's a clair.

Speaker 2 (53:19):
I don't know.
There's something to it, though.
It's just very strange.

Speaker 1 (53:23):
All right.
Well, I'm not disagreeing withyou, it's just some of those.
I could see, with time, thebuild-up, let's fuck with people
.
But oh yeah, if you deep diveinto all of them, it's there's
no, no, there's just too many.
It's something be going on wellgood episode.
I loved this one, thank you andI don't think you made too many

(53:44):
people man no, no, I tried to.

Speaker 2 (53:46):
We started dark, but I tried to make it lighter as we
went um.
One of a couple of other ones Iliked is that um doug from doug
is completely addicted tohallucinogens.
That's why everyone's weirdcolors and he beats play music
that one totally tracks.
Oh yeah, no, and there's likeliterally for every cartoon
there's at least four or five ofthem, like we could have gone

(54:08):
on for days, and days and days.
On this one it was hard toactually narrow it down.
I had to take a lot off my list.
But yeah, that's what I got foryou on the cartoon conspiracies
.
So, uh, reddit ranker, allthose kind of like websites,
have so many of them if you wantto go, and you can even add
your own, let us know your ownyeah, you could let us.

Speaker 1 (54:27):
What should they leave us as an emoji for this
one?

Speaker 2 (54:32):
Jellyfish Is there a?

Speaker 1 (54:33):
jellyfish Probably Leave a sea creature.
I don't think.
Oh, there is a sponge.
Well, when I was going to say asponge, there's a soap thing.
If not, leave a soap.

Speaker 2 (54:44):
I don't know what you mean, Something along the lines
of cartoons.
But that's all I got for you.

Speaker 1 (54:48):
You know we should have done Rocko's Modern Life
Damn.
Okay, sorry.

Speaker 2 (54:52):
Those were all.
I tried to stay away from toomany dark ones, and Rocko's was
bad.

Speaker 1 (54:56):
It was dark, I know, okay, sorry.

Speaker 2 (54:59):
Anyways, though.
So with that being said too,you know we are back into it,
writing our episodes.
We've got some inspiration.
I've actually got a ideas again, but we want yours.
We're always happy to have youguys write in, call in.
We are making some big plans ofstuff, and I will tell you this
much that when we do announceit, it will be announced first
on patreon.
So if you are inclined you canstill join there.

(55:22):
And what else, cara, let'sclose.

Speaker 1 (55:26):
That's about it.
We've we're here for a longtime, um, we're tired.
You're tired of hearing us.
We love you.
We appreciate everything thatyou do for us, so we're gonna
keep doing things for you andhopefully, in 2025, we're gonna
do a lot more for you.
That's our hope, fingerscrossed anyway, uh.
But the most important thingthat you can do for us is to

(55:46):
creep a real y'all balls goodbyeCreeper, real eyeballs.

Speaker 2 (56:05):
Goodbye, bye At the Irish Shop.
Open the shadows At the IrishShop and open the art box At the
Irish Shop.
The door's always open At theIrish Shop.

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