WEBVTT - Selects: Some Nutso Fan Theories 0:00:00.880 --> 0:00:03.480 Hey, everybody, it's Josh and for this week's select, I've 0:00:03.560 --> 0:00:07.320 chosen our awesome episode on Not So Fan Theories. It's 0:00:07.320 --> 0:00:11.280 a straight ahead, easy, breezy, beautiful episode and I hope 0:00:11.280 --> 0:00:19.439 you enjoy it tremendously. Let's go Welcome to Stuff you 0:00:19.440 --> 0:00:28.840 Should Know, a production of iHeartRadio. Hey, and welcome to 0:00:28.880 --> 0:00:32.440 the podcast. I'm Josh Clark. I almost forgot who I 0:00:32.520 --> 0:00:35.320 was for a second. There's Charles w Chuck Bryant. Yeah, 0:00:35.400 --> 0:00:38.440 there's Jerry or is she really there? I don't know. 0:00:38.960 --> 0:00:41.600 I don't even know anymore, because it just occurred to me. 0:00:41.720 --> 0:00:46.159 We're doing a show on TV show Fan Theories, and 0:00:46.280 --> 0:00:49.240 we have our own little fan theory here that Jerry 0:00:49.280 --> 0:00:52.200 doesn't exist. Yeah, that's true. That's a fan theory which 0:00:52.240 --> 0:00:53.800 is sort of a common thread. And a lot of 0:00:53.800 --> 0:00:57.440 these is either like, oh, they were really dead or 0:00:57.480 --> 0:00:59.840 you know, or they didn't exist to begin with, right, 0:01:00.040 --> 0:01:01.880 And so we've heard from people for years to think 0:01:01.920 --> 0:01:05.080 that Jerry's made up. I love it, yes, because they're right. 0:01:05.920 --> 0:01:11.080 We're we're not saying no, actually, Jerry's totally real anymore. 0:01:14.040 --> 0:01:16.440 I'm looking at it right now. So I was going 0:01:16.480 --> 0:01:21.360 through the internet looking for think pieces, essays on why 0:01:21.760 --> 0:01:25.840 people come up with fan theories or what about fan 0:01:25.959 --> 0:01:31.679 theories make them, you know, make shows better. Couldn't find anything. No, 0:01:31.800 --> 0:01:35.120 I think the answer is obvious. I think that's why 0:01:35.160 --> 0:01:38.120 I couldn't find anything, too. People just have time on 0:01:38.120 --> 0:01:41.520 their hands. That's not what I was gonna set an say. 0:01:41.600 --> 0:01:44.959 I was gonna say that it takes something that's already 0:01:44.959 --> 0:01:49.559 pretty enjoyable and adds entirely new dimensions in depth to it. 0:01:49.560 --> 0:01:53.480 It takes something familiar and you can go back and 0:01:53.560 --> 0:01:57.200 rewatch it through different lens. Now. Yeah, and you have 0:01:57.400 --> 0:02:00.400 time on your hands, right, It's definitely not something that 0:02:00.760 --> 0:02:04.120 super busy people do, you know. No, And then I 0:02:04.120 --> 0:02:06.480 also was like, maybe I should just calm down. We 0:02:06.520 --> 0:02:08.800 don't have to explain everything. We can just have fun 0:02:08.960 --> 0:02:12.280 sharing fan theories. That's what we're gonna do. It's like 0:02:12.320 --> 0:02:15.200 a summer break one. Yeah, this feels like one of those. 0:02:15.280 --> 0:02:20.720 I'm we're both drunk, sure, pretty drunk, just kidding kids 0:02:21.320 --> 0:02:25.600 out there, We're just joking. Should we just get right 0:02:25.639 --> 0:02:28.600 into these Yes, some of these are going to be shorter, 0:02:28.680 --> 0:02:31.240 others are going to be a little longer, and we're 0:02:31.240 --> 0:02:34.680 just gonna kind of jump around, right, Should we start 0:02:34.800 --> 0:02:39.680 with the granddaddy or end with the granddaddy? Well, it's 0:02:39.720 --> 0:02:45.120 the granddaddy to you, um, say by the wall? No, 0:02:45.680 --> 0:02:48.880 do you like that one though? Yeah? And I thought 0:02:48.919 --> 0:02:50.480 maybe if I said it, Yeah, I think we'll start 0:02:50.520 --> 0:02:52.560 with say by the bell. I don't know why. I 0:02:52.600 --> 0:02:55.520 thought if I said it really fast, hopefully I would 0:02:55.520 --> 0:02:58.480 know what you're saying. We'll start with say by the bell. 0:02:58.520 --> 0:03:00.920 We'll finish with one that I know you're okay, cool, 0:03:01.000 --> 0:03:05.679 that's very um click baby, I know, but so one 0:03:05.760 --> 0:03:09.240 you won't believe the last one. One of the things 0:03:09.280 --> 0:03:13.720 that is really hard to do when it comes up 0:03:13.800 --> 0:03:16.400 when it comes to fan theories, we should say, I 0:03:16.400 --> 0:03:19.280 guess we should define A fan theory is basically, it's 0:03:19.320 --> 0:03:24.080 where somebody who likes a show says, hey, you know 0:03:24.120 --> 0:03:27.760 this show that you think means this or is about 0:03:27.800 --> 0:03:32.440 all this, it's actually this is what's going on. Almost 0:03:32.480 --> 0:03:36.440 all the time, it's just somebody's idea. But the part 0:03:36.480 --> 0:03:39.040 of the backbone of a fan theory is that it 0:03:39.160 --> 0:03:42.800 has to hold up in just about every circumstance. Yeah, 0:03:42.840 --> 0:03:45.120 and I'll get one out of the way quickly. Is 0:03:45.120 --> 0:03:47.880 a bad example. Okay, Because to me, a bad fan 0:03:47.960 --> 0:03:51.640 theory is a murder. She wrote, she was really a 0:03:51.720 --> 0:03:55.240 serial killer because you know, you never found out what 0:03:55.240 --> 0:03:57.400 happened to her husband and all these people are dying 0:03:57.400 --> 0:03:59.880 around her. I like that one, yeah, but it's just 0:04:00.080 --> 0:04:02.200 too easy. It's not like to me, a good fan 0:04:02.280 --> 0:04:04.960 theory is one you can say, and this happened, and 0:04:05.000 --> 0:04:07.480 look at this, and what about this? Okay, about this, 0:04:07.640 --> 0:04:09.400 so I know what you mean, and yes, you a 0:04:09.400 --> 0:04:11.160 fan theory doesn't have to do there else it's just 0:04:11.240 --> 0:04:14.480 some schmo saying something somewhere. Yeah, but murder, she wrote, 0:04:14.520 --> 0:04:17.320 has a couple of things to back that up besides 0:04:17.360 --> 0:04:21.080 the husband, and the husband I think is whatever. But 0:04:21.560 --> 0:04:24.560 the point that I've seen here there number one is 0:04:24.680 --> 0:04:28.400 Jessica Fletcher is a murder author, a murder mystery authoress, 0:04:28.960 --> 0:04:34.880 and she murders follow her everywhere she goes. Right, think 0:04:34.880 --> 0:04:40.080 about the last time you stumbled upon a murder, Well, 0:04:40.080 --> 0:04:42.600 that's just called TV. Okay, So that's one thing, hold on. 0:04:43.200 --> 0:04:47.800 And then secondly, even when she travels, she stumbles upon 0:04:47.920 --> 0:04:51.880 new murders. But more to the point, in her little 0:04:51.880 --> 0:04:56.880 town of Cabot Cove, a population thirty five. Ye, a 0:04:57.000 --> 0:04:59.960 significant number of the say, two hundred and seventy four 0:05:00.160 --> 0:05:04.679 episodes of Murder, she wrote, took place there. If even 0:05:04.800 --> 0:05:07.360 two hundred of those murders happened in a town of 0:05:07.440 --> 0:05:10.400 thirty five hundred, yeah, it would be the murder capital 0:05:10.400 --> 0:05:13.880 of the world percentage wise per capita. So I see 0:05:13.880 --> 0:05:15.280 what you're saying by the fact that she's a writer. 0:05:15.400 --> 0:05:18.479 It's not like she's a detective. Like you can't say it. Boy, 0:05:18.480 --> 0:05:20.640 the eighteen we're always getting in these crazy adventures like 0:05:20.720 --> 0:05:22.839 they were hired to each Yeah, they were seeking it out. 0:05:23.279 --> 0:05:25.720 She just happens to be sucked into it, all right, 0:05:25.800 --> 0:05:28.240 she just happens to be there. Right. I've never seen 0:05:28.279 --> 0:05:30.240 that at TV show either, so that probably something to 0:05:30.240 --> 0:05:34.120 do with it. What never seen murder, she wrote, shuck 0:05:34.400 --> 0:05:37.919 because I was a thirteen year old boy, not a 0:05:38.160 --> 0:05:40.960 well sixty five year old person. It's even better now. 0:05:41.240 --> 0:05:44.880 Oh really, yeah, you're rewatching it. Oh yeah, it's on 0:05:45.040 --> 0:05:48.839 Netflix and I think prime wow. Oh yeah, man, it's good. 0:05:49.279 --> 0:05:52.240 Check it out. And I'm not saying, like, oh, murder, 0:05:52.320 --> 0:05:54.800 she wrote's good. I'm a hipster. I've been watching murder, 0:05:54.880 --> 0:05:58.360 she wrote for years and years now, pal, Yeah, you 0:05:58.360 --> 0:06:02.080 don't have a beard. No, but hold on, I think 0:06:02.160 --> 0:06:05.200 I want to extend this for a second. You raise 0:06:05.240 --> 0:06:07.839 a very good point, and I feel like I defended murders. 0:06:07.880 --> 0:06:10.719 She wrote with that same point that a fan theory 0:06:10.800 --> 0:06:13.679 has to have meat on its bones. Yes, it can't 0:06:13.680 --> 0:06:17.279 be an offhanded thing. It's prove what you just said. 0:06:17.720 --> 0:06:21.120 Prove why Jessica Fletcher is a serial killer? Well that's 0:06:21.200 --> 0:06:24.479 that they there's a couple of them. It's a little thin, granted, Yeah, 0:06:24.480 --> 0:06:26.599 but there's something to back it up, which makes it 0:06:26.640 --> 0:06:29.720 a decent fan theory. Not the best, but a decent one. 0:06:30.120 --> 0:06:33.200 The other thing is it's really difficult to pinpoint the 0:06:33.279 --> 0:06:37.920 origin of fan theories. Oh yeah, like who did this first? Yeah, 0:06:37.960 --> 0:06:42.160 who came up with this idea? What loser? Well, I've 0:06:42.160 --> 0:06:44.560 got one for you. So we were going to talk 0:06:44.600 --> 0:06:47.520 about the saved by the bellfan theory, and people are 0:06:47.560 --> 0:06:51.120 just like nervous with anticipation about that one. Now, as 0:06:51.160 --> 0:06:55.120 far back as I can tell, it looks like a person. 0:06:55.200 --> 0:06:59.480 A writer on the website Cracked Cracks website, a writer 0:06:59.600 --> 0:07:03.960 named um Man I lost their name Logan Trent in 0:07:04.000 --> 0:07:07.200 twenty and twelve wrote a post called Saved by the 0:07:07.240 --> 0:07:11.160 Bell a conspiracy theory. Um. Oh, so he originated this one. 0:07:11.360 --> 0:07:13.600 As far as I can tell, he gives zero credit 0:07:13.640 --> 0:07:16.680 to anybody else. And the way that the post is written, 0:07:16.720 --> 0:07:20.280 it really comes across like he is laying out his 0:07:20.480 --> 0:07:24.520 argument himself. All right, So it's possible. And if if, 0:07:24.960 --> 0:07:28.000 if you had this idea prior to twenty and twelve, 0:07:28.280 --> 0:07:31.000 and you're not Logan Trent, let us know. But I'm 0:07:31.080 --> 0:07:34.200 bestowing Logan Trent with the origin of the Saved by 0:07:34.280 --> 0:07:37.520 the Bell fan theory, which is one of the best. Yeah, 0:07:37.560 --> 0:07:41.120 and um, big shout out to Cracked in Mental Floss 0:07:41.160 --> 0:07:45.200 and our own article and who else is MeTV had 0:07:45.240 --> 0:07:50.000 a good one? Yeah, um Paste Magazine one. Uh, there's 0:07:50.040 --> 0:07:53.160 there's a lot of good fan theory articles out there, 0:07:53.320 --> 0:07:56.360 all right. So at long last, Save by the Bell 0:07:56.480 --> 0:07:58.640 and I like this one. And I don't I don't 0:07:58.680 --> 0:08:02.480 remember watching this show at all, what but I know 0:08:02.560 --> 0:08:06.080 these characters and the gist, so I had to have 0:08:06.120 --> 0:08:08.400 watched it at some point. You didn't watch Saved by 0:08:08.440 --> 0:08:11.520 the Bell. No, it wouldn't. That wouldn't in my wheelhouse, 0:08:11.560 --> 0:08:15.880 I guess not a little older teenage boy slash college Um, 0:08:16.000 --> 0:08:18.000 well they had saved by the Bell of college years. 0:08:18.280 --> 0:08:21.960 They just for you. But I do know these characters, 0:08:21.960 --> 0:08:24.640 so it had to have absorbed into me somehow. Okay, 0:08:25.560 --> 0:08:28.600 So here's the deal. Pre saved by the Bell. This 0:08:28.680 --> 0:08:31.239 I did not know. Um there was a TV show 0:08:32.400 --> 0:08:34.600 was it called Good Morning Miss Bliss? Yes, and it 0:08:34.679 --> 0:08:38.000 was unbearably bad? So he saw that too. Yeah. So 0:08:38.040 --> 0:08:40.319 the idea of this show is there's this boy named Zach. 0:08:40.440 --> 0:08:43.400 This is an Indiana that just Zach Zach Morris. Yeah, 0:08:43.480 --> 0:08:47.319 these Zach played by Mark Paul Gosler, Right, yeah, Um, 0:08:48.440 --> 0:08:53.600 this was an Indiana, of course, not California. And he 0:08:53.840 --> 0:08:56.680 was a troublemaker. And there was a teacher named Miss 0:08:56.720 --> 0:08:59.440 Bliss who was super smart and always thwarted him. She 0:08:59.640 --> 0:09:01.920 was what's the name of the lady who is in 0:09:01.960 --> 0:09:05.559 the original Parent Trap played the two twins Hayley Mills. 0:09:05.760 --> 0:09:10.040 Yeah it was her. Oh okay. Apparently, like Ben, when 0:09:10.040 --> 0:09:12.920 you signed a contract with Disney as a child, they 0:09:12.920 --> 0:09:17.679 own you for life. He has a couple of friends 0:09:17.760 --> 0:09:21.679 named Mikey and Nicky. They're always putting him in his place. 0:09:22.559 --> 0:09:25.839 He has a brother. His parents are divorced, and by 0:09:25.880 --> 0:09:28.800 all accounts Zach Morris and good Morning Miss Bliss is 0:09:29.679 --> 0:09:32.679 a bit of a schlub who's always sort of getting 0:09:32.720 --> 0:09:36.160 his come upance from other people. Yeah, kind of a loser. Yeah, 0:09:36.200 --> 0:09:40.760 basically the opposite of Zach Morris and say By the Bell. 0:09:41.360 --> 0:09:45.000 Did they ever say Zach attack just make that up? No? 0:09:45.120 --> 0:09:47.200 I think so. I think there's a T shirt even 0:09:47.240 --> 0:09:50.440 that said that. So flash forward and how many years 0:09:50.520 --> 0:09:54.040 later was this couple? So good Morning Miss Bliss goes 0:09:54.040 --> 0:09:56.800 off the air. I get the feeling it wasn't very popular, 0:09:57.640 --> 0:10:01.080 or they wouldn't have rebooted it as say By the Bell. 0:10:01.559 --> 0:10:05.599 They would have just you know, kept it going exactly. So, 0:10:05.679 --> 0:10:08.360 say By the Bell comes along. And now Zach is 0:10:08.400 --> 0:10:13.800 at Bayside in California. Right, he's mister everything. He's as 0:10:13.840 --> 0:10:16.760 this article points out, he's the most popular kid in 0:10:16.800 --> 0:10:22.160 school and excels in everything, sports, music, casual, racism, whatever. Right, 0:10:22.920 --> 0:10:27.120 that's that's the logan Trent swording. He's the Alpha and 0:10:27.160 --> 0:10:31.200 his circle friends Mikey and Nikki are gone. Yeah, they're 0:10:31.240 --> 0:10:33.960 just gone. No explanation, right, And there's no explanation for 0:10:34.000 --> 0:10:36.160 any of this, like how he got to California. But 0:10:36.240 --> 0:10:39.199 it's it's the same character, right, it's the exact same character, 0:10:39.240 --> 0:10:42.280 but there are some huge, huge changes, Like at his 0:10:42.440 --> 0:10:46.880 core he is a different person. Actually, not necessarily at 0:10:46.920 --> 0:10:49.160 his core, but as far as how he's treated and 0:10:49.240 --> 0:10:53.280 viewed by his peers and everyone else. Yeah, he's the 0:10:53.520 --> 0:10:56.520 differences night and day. He's not a dweeb anymore. He's 0:10:56.559 --> 0:10:59.240 not a loser. He's he's a total winner. He's Zach 0:10:59.280 --> 0:11:03.320 attack has logan. Trent points out, like, um, if he 0:11:03.360 --> 0:11:07.400 were to miss a quiz, rather than fail, he would 0:11:07.440 --> 0:11:09.719 convince the teacher to hold a bake off, and then 0:11:09.720 --> 0:11:12.680 he would win the bake off by cheating like that. 0:11:12.679 --> 0:11:15.520 That was how like he went through life. And also 0:11:15.679 --> 0:11:19.360 very notably, his parents were no longer divorced, they were married, 0:11:19.559 --> 0:11:21.320 and he didn't have a brother. He was an only 0:11:21.400 --> 0:11:25.080 child and was beloved by all right, Yeah, he had 0:11:25.640 --> 0:11:28.000 I think Slater was went from his rival to his 0:11:28.240 --> 0:11:31.520 um sort of his pal, but his you know, his 0:11:31.760 --> 0:11:35.600 second Yeah, his wingman, right, Screech was around him both, 0:11:36.600 --> 0:11:38.800 but I think he was sort of screeching both, right, Yeah, 0:11:38.880 --> 0:11:42.080 and change much right, Yeah, his screech has always been screeched. 0:11:42.120 --> 0:11:43.720 What can you do? Bill? Stab you in the bar, 0:11:44.720 --> 0:11:46.920 all right, So what's the big reveal? What's the fan theory? 0:11:47.080 --> 0:11:50.960 So the fan theory is that Saved by the Bell 0:11:51.840 --> 0:11:57.440 is the daydream fantasy of Zach Morris who's actually living 0:11:57.640 --> 0:12:02.160 in India, back in Indiana at John Kennedy Junior High, 0:12:02.200 --> 0:12:05.080 and that the whole it's great man, and that the 0:12:05.120 --> 0:12:09.560 whole um, the whole premise of this this fan theory 0:12:09.640 --> 0:12:13.560 is revealed through the theme song, right, right, So in 0:12:13.679 --> 0:12:17.680 the theme song, the theme song talks about like how 0:12:17.800 --> 0:12:21.520 harried Zach is. Yeah, well it's all first person, right, 0:12:21.520 --> 0:12:23.280 but you assume that it's talking about Zach, because the 0:12:23.280 --> 0:12:26.400 whole show is it revolves around Zach. He's the narrator 0:12:27.080 --> 0:12:31.200 um and he's having like a lot of trouble, like 0:12:31.280 --> 0:12:33.480 getting ready and he gets out to the bus just 0:12:33.559 --> 0:12:36.200 in time to see it fly by, and the teacher's 0:12:36.280 --> 0:12:38.080 gonna pop a test and he knows he's in a 0:12:38.200 --> 0:12:41.120 mess and doggate all his homework and if you actually 0:12:41.160 --> 0:12:46.120 watch the show, nothing ever gets Zach. He's untouchable. Yeah, 0:12:47.000 --> 0:12:50.440 So in the theme song it says, it's all right 0:12:50.960 --> 0:12:54.599 because I'm saved by the Bell, right, yes, which this 0:12:54.760 --> 0:12:57.760 fan theory suggests that once once he settles in it 0:12:58.120 --> 0:13:00.680 either settles into class and starts stage, or it gets 0:13:00.679 --> 0:13:03.400 home at night and starts dreaming he can go off 0:13:03.400 --> 0:13:06.520 to bay Side, where he's the biggest winner around. That 0:13:06.800 --> 0:13:11.600 is the bell. Right. So the fact that these lyrics 0:13:12.120 --> 0:13:13.720 by the time I grab my books and I give 0:13:13.760 --> 0:13:15.440 myself a look, I'm at the corner just in time 0:13:15.480 --> 0:13:19.320 to see the bus, and then eventually writing low in 0:13:19.360 --> 0:13:22.880 my chair, so she won't know I'm there, meaning the teacher. 0:13:23.800 --> 0:13:28.600 This all is Zach and Indiana, right. It describes a 0:13:28.640 --> 0:13:32.480 different person. Doesn't make any sense that these lyrics if 0:13:32.480 --> 0:13:34.840 you'd hadn't not known that that was a show that existed, 0:13:35.240 --> 0:13:37.520 and all you knew was say by the Bell, these 0:13:37.600 --> 0:13:40.880 lyrics don't make any sense exactly, but they do if 0:13:41.240 --> 0:13:44.680 it is all a fantasy in his imagination. Sadly, it 0:13:44.760 --> 0:13:48.280 also makes sense if you think that the producers hired 0:13:48.320 --> 0:13:51.000 the composer before they were really aware of what the 0:13:51.000 --> 0:13:53.560 show is going to be like, and that's what the 0:13:53.600 --> 0:13:57.480 composer came up with lyrics. Wise, yeah, it's not nearly 0:13:57.480 --> 0:13:59.600 as fun. Well. The other thing I like about fan 0:13:59.679 --> 0:14:04.800 theory is that they are almost not real. It's just 0:14:04.880 --> 0:14:08.320 fans having fun. Yeah, but I like the idea to 0:14:08.440 --> 0:14:12.040 imagine like some subversive writer that's like, oh, well, here's 0:14:12.040 --> 0:14:15.280 what we'll do exactly. It's all an elaborate fantasy of 0:14:15.360 --> 0:14:18.040 this Zach guy. I've got one other thing that the 0:14:18.280 --> 0:14:21.160 I think the Cracked article points out, if not someone 0:14:21.160 --> 0:14:23.360 else came up with it later. They pointed out that 0:14:23.480 --> 0:14:28.360 Zach has the power to stop time and address the 0:14:28.440 --> 0:14:32.480 camera like he breaks the fourth wall fairly regularly, and um, 0:14:33.120 --> 0:14:36.680 he can just stop time and move around within this 0:14:36.760 --> 0:14:41.200 frozen time, which also, I mean, that's a weird thing 0:14:41.240 --> 0:14:42.960 for somebody to be able to do if they're not 0:14:43.040 --> 0:14:45.400 in the middle of their own day dream, yeah or 0:14:45.520 --> 0:14:49.240 night dream. I love it, man, that's a good one. Um. 0:14:50.080 --> 0:14:56.760 And you know, things like Mikey and Nikki disappeared at 0:14:56.760 --> 0:14:58.880 one point, Kelly is in love with him and then 0:14:58.920 --> 0:15:02.080 she just is gone with no explanation. Yeah, people kind 0:15:02.080 --> 0:15:04.440 of pop in and out sometimes with no explanation at all. 0:15:04.480 --> 0:15:06.360 I think Kelly dumped him and then like all of 0:15:06.400 --> 0:15:09.080 a sudden, she's gone. And she was like one of 0:15:09.080 --> 0:15:13.040 the characters throughout the entire saved by the bell, right, 0:15:13.720 --> 0:15:17.000 and then she's just gone. Once she dumped Zack. He's 0:15:17.000 --> 0:15:18.880 he's Terry. He's really bad at school, but he got 0:15:18.920 --> 0:15:21.000 a fifteen o two in the SAT. Like all this 0:15:21.040 --> 0:15:24.720 stuff is like dream dream stuff. Right. Well, that's another 0:15:24.800 --> 0:15:27.080 point that Logan Trent makes is that a fifteen o 0:15:27.200 --> 0:15:30.680 two is literally impossible, Like you can't score a fifteen 0:15:30.720 --> 0:15:33.280 o two SAT. Yeah it's fifteen hundred right, Yeah, so 0:15:33.360 --> 0:15:36.160 it's all it's even more evidence that all this is 0:15:36.720 --> 0:15:39.640 made up, and by it apparently a not so smart 0:15:39.760 --> 0:15:43.680 kid man. So that's saved by the bell man. You 0:15:43.760 --> 0:15:45.720 want to take a break and then get get back 0:15:45.760 --> 0:15:47.880 to it. I think so I could do this all day. 0:15:48.000 --> 0:16:15.840 All right, all right, we'll go through a couple of 0:16:15.920 --> 0:16:21.120 quicker ones here. The Fresh Prince is dead. Yeah, I 0:16:21.200 --> 0:16:24.080 kind of really don't need to say anything else, do you. Well? 0:16:24.160 --> 0:16:28.680 In the the TV's theme song where he talks about 0:16:28.680 --> 0:16:30.560 getting in a fight and that's the whole reason he's 0:16:30.560 --> 0:16:32.880 sent to Bill bel Air, Yeah, the Fresh Prince of 0:16:32.920 --> 0:16:35.800 bel Air. It's a TV show from nineteen ninety ninety six, 0:16:36.600 --> 0:16:40.400 and the rap that Will Smith, the real life Will 0:16:40.440 --> 0:16:43.000 Smith actually plays a character named Will Smith, and he 0:16:43.040 --> 0:16:45.480 talks about getting in a fight and getting sent off 0:16:45.520 --> 0:16:47.680 to bel Air to get out, you know, to get 0:16:47.760 --> 0:16:51.960 him away from the rough neighborhood and what Philly West, Philadelphia, 0:16:52.800 --> 0:16:56.480 the Ford and raised. And so the theory is that 0:16:56.560 --> 0:17:00.480 he was actually killed during this fight, right, and that um, 0:17:00.760 --> 0:17:05.280 everything else is you know, his journey in the afterlife. Yeah. 0:17:05.359 --> 0:17:07.240 The cab that picks him up to take him in 0:17:07.320 --> 0:17:11.960 bell Air, the rare cab is supposedly God or some 0:17:12.160 --> 0:17:17.000 sort of um ethereal figure that's taking him to the afterlife, 0:17:17.040 --> 0:17:20.920 which is bell Air. His parents are like basically non existent, 0:17:21.080 --> 0:17:25.040 but they show up a couple of times. This is 0:17:25.080 --> 0:17:27.919 explained away by the fan theory as his parents visiting 0:17:27.960 --> 0:17:32.200 their son's grave. Right, it's pretty awesome. Yeah. And then 0:17:32.440 --> 0:17:35.280 um boys, the men apparently showed up at one point, 0:17:35.640 --> 0:17:38.600 but they were like a heavenly choir. Oh, I don't 0:17:38.640 --> 0:17:43.520 remember that episode. So that put all that together. Fresh 0:17:43.600 --> 0:17:47.560 Prince is dead? That's right. What do you want to 0:17:47.600 --> 0:17:50.919 do next? Should we do? Do the two of them 0:17:51.119 --> 0:17:56.040 from Gilligan's Island? Yeah? The drug one's super lame? Yeah, 0:17:56.080 --> 0:17:58.240 I thought so too. There's this one theory that the 0:17:59.200 --> 0:18:02.399 and this one's right, it's just dumb that mister Howell 0:18:02.560 --> 0:18:06.800 on Gilligan's Island paid Gilligan and the Skipper to take 0:18:06.880 --> 0:18:08.440 him out to see to do a drug deal, which 0:18:08.480 --> 0:18:10.800 is why he has a trunk load of cash. A 0:18:10.880 --> 0:18:15.320 trunk full of cash. Ginger's got a drug habit. Marianne's 0:18:15.320 --> 0:18:18.920 a federal agent. This just sounds like, you know, like 0:18:19.960 --> 0:18:23.320 someone smoked some weed and came up with like like 0:18:23.440 --> 0:18:26.200 someone said, hey, what's your first idea of what Gilligan's 0:18:26.200 --> 0:18:29.439 Island could have been? Other than what it was, they 0:18:29.480 --> 0:18:33.560 would a drug thing. Man. I think he nailed it, 0:18:34.760 --> 0:18:38.440 But there's a better fan theory for Gilligan's Island agreed. 0:18:39.000 --> 0:18:43.120 Gilligan's Island is Hell. That this, like The Fresh Prince 0:18:43.200 --> 0:18:45.560 of bel Air, takes place in the afterlife, but not 0:18:45.720 --> 0:18:49.240 in Heaven, in Hell, or at least in purgatory. That 0:18:49.400 --> 0:18:55.600 the Minnows shipwreck caused everyone on board to drown, and 0:18:55.840 --> 0:18:58.919 that in Hell, each one of the characters represents one 0:18:58.960 --> 0:19:03.920 of the seven Deadly sins. Ginger's lust, Marianne is envy, 0:19:04.800 --> 0:19:10.720 Professors Pride, Thurston, Hell of course is greed. Missus Howell, 0:19:10.800 --> 0:19:14.400 I've seen his sloth and gluttony seen that too. I've 0:19:14.440 --> 0:19:17.560 also seen Skipper as either gluttony or wrath. Wrath makes 0:19:17.600 --> 0:19:20.119 a lot more sense. And then Gilligan is sloth or 0:19:20.440 --> 0:19:23.680 is Satan himself? Yeah. And one of the giveaways for 0:19:23.800 --> 0:19:26.920 Gilligan being Satan, well there's two of them. One is 0:19:26.960 --> 0:19:30.080 that he's always wearing a red shirt. Oh well, so 0:19:30.400 --> 0:19:34.080 obviously Satan because Satan wore a red Rugby shirt. Right. 0:19:34.720 --> 0:19:39.280 And then he's always although it seems like it's always accidental, 0:19:39.440 --> 0:19:42.600 he's always thwarting their plans, like every time they get 0:19:42.720 --> 0:19:45.159 something something going to get off of the island, right, 0:19:45.359 --> 0:19:47.800 Gilligan is the one who somehow screws it up and 0:19:47.840 --> 0:19:50.720 they're stuck there again. So he's keeping them in hell. 0:19:51.440 --> 0:19:56.879 And this one actually has legs. Yeah, apparently. Sherwood Schwartz, 0:19:57.000 --> 0:20:01.600 the creator of Gilligan's Island, in a book, confirmed that 0:20:01.760 --> 0:20:04.560 they did. It was his idea that they did stand 0:20:04.640 --> 0:20:07.000 for the Seven Deadly Sins. Yeah, is that right? Yeah, 0:20:07.960 --> 0:20:10.440 So there you go one of the rare fan theories 0:20:10.480 --> 0:20:14.280 that actually was true. And I wonder whoever whoever thought 0:20:14.320 --> 0:20:18.040 of that was like, no, yeah, I was right. Well 0:20:18.160 --> 0:20:20.040 that makes me wonder if somehow it got out or 0:20:20.080 --> 0:20:24.600 something maybe or he was retroactively just being like, yeah, yeah, 0:20:24.600 --> 0:20:30.200 that's what I meant. Here's a quick spot from Star 0:20:30.280 --> 0:20:33.280 Trek one that I kind of liked. We'll do both 0:20:33.320 --> 0:20:36.280 of the Star Trek ones about that. Okay, um and 0:20:37.320 --> 0:20:41.760 Um on record is not having watched Star Trek Yeah, 0:20:41.760 --> 0:20:45.840 I mean me neither. But in Star Trek six, the 0:20:46.000 --> 0:20:53.639 Undiscovered Country, the Undiscovered Country. Sorry, people are so mad 0:20:53.680 --> 0:20:57.120 at me right now, Trek He's yeah. Uh. And an 0:20:57.200 --> 0:21:01.560 ancestor of mine maintained that when you eliminate impossible, whatever remains, 0:21:02.040 --> 0:21:04.840 however improbable, must be the truth. And that was Spock 0:21:04.920 --> 0:21:07.920 in that movie. And the source of that was Sherlock 0:21:07.960 --> 0:21:11.080 Holmes himself, from the Sign of four, from an eighteen 0:21:11.240 --> 0:21:16.200 ninety book. And so the idea here is that Spock 0:21:16.320 --> 0:21:20.159 is related to Sherlock Holmes. It's a little weird, how 0:21:20.160 --> 0:21:22.080 about that? But I could see it. I mean they're 0:21:22.080 --> 0:21:26.119 both pretty rational. Yeah. Well, Sherlock Holmes he loved his speedballs. 0:21:26.160 --> 0:21:28.800 I don't think Spock was ever into those. No, he 0:21:28.960 --> 0:21:32.080 was more evolved. You know, Sherlock Holmes loves speedballs, though, 0:21:32.119 --> 0:21:35.680 don't you. I did not. Doesn't surprise me. It surprised 0:21:35.760 --> 0:21:39.679 me at first. Really. Yeah, So there's another Star Trek one. 0:21:39.720 --> 0:21:45.439 I love this one that Andy Griffith is the pre 0:21:45.920 --> 0:21:53.239 apocalyptic world that leads into Star Trek and this one 0:21:53.400 --> 0:21:57.359 is pretty awesome. So it's based on a Star Trek 0:21:57.480 --> 0:22:01.840 episode Chuck Mirie m Iry like Syrie but with an M. 0:22:02.560 --> 0:22:06.480 Yeah and um. In this episode, the Star Trek crew 0:22:06.600 --> 0:22:12.440 beams down to Earth and it's very obvious it's Mayberry. 0:22:12.960 --> 0:22:16.760 But it's like a poke post apocalyptic Mayberry. It's peopled 0:22:16.960 --> 0:22:19.800 entirely by kids. And the reason why it's people entirely 0:22:19.880 --> 0:22:23.760 by kids because some disease has broken out where you 0:22:24.119 --> 0:22:28.440 die at the onset of puberty. Yeah, and it's uh, 0:22:28.640 --> 0:22:32.359 well it is Mayberry because it is Mayberry. It's literally 0:22:32.440 --> 0:22:35.920 the same backlot that they shot both shows at and 0:22:36.040 --> 0:22:40.000 they just outfitted Mayberry to be post apocalyptic right down 0:22:40.080 --> 0:22:43.200 to like Floyd's barbershop. Yeah, but I think they just 0:22:43.280 --> 0:22:45.280 scratched out Floyd. They scratched out the f and it 0:22:45.359 --> 0:22:47.440 just said Lloyd. Oh did it? I don't know. I 0:22:47.520 --> 0:22:49.640 think it's said Floyd's. Did it really? Yeah? Oh it's 0:22:49.680 --> 0:22:51.399 that on the nose huh. I think. So, Oh, this 0:22:51.520 --> 0:22:55.480 one's great. This is a great fan thing. Well there's 0:22:55.480 --> 0:23:02.600 another Part two that the kid who played Barney's cousin, Virgil. Uh, 0:23:02.880 --> 0:23:07.760 he actually appears in this Star Trek episode. What Yeah, 0:23:07.840 --> 0:23:11.320 so it's full circle. Gene Roddenberry was like, I'm gonna 0:23:11.400 --> 0:23:13.159 come up with a fan theory. No one knows what 0:23:13.280 --> 0:23:15.720 those are yet, but I'm going to lay it down 0:23:15.800 --> 0:23:19.560 for him decades from now the internet comes around. I 0:23:19.600 --> 0:23:21.600 don't know what that is, but it's going to be something. 0:23:21.960 --> 0:23:25.959 I'm Gene Roddenberry. You know the beginning of Andy Griffith 0:23:26.320 --> 0:23:28.840 when they're you know, walking down to the lake and 0:23:28.920 --> 0:23:31.000 he skipped the stones on the lake. Yeah, it's like 0:23:31.320 --> 0:23:34.520 right in the Hollywood Hills, is that right? Yeah? My 0:23:34.640 --> 0:23:36.800 brother drove me up there one time and it's like 0:23:36.880 --> 0:23:40.280 this look familiar and he started whistling the theme song 0:23:40.359 --> 0:23:42.960 and I was like no, wow. He said yeah, and 0:23:43.000 --> 0:23:46.280 he's like the bat Caves like over there. Oh yeah yeah, 0:23:46.280 --> 0:23:48.679 and it's sort of you know, killed my dreams. Well, 0:23:48.680 --> 0:23:54.520 the same with mash Too. That's like the Hollywood Hills. Well, 0:23:54.600 --> 0:23:58.920 like the mountains behind Malibu Rum when you fly into 0:23:59.119 --> 0:24:01.280 La you can and you're looking for You're like, oh, 0:24:01.640 --> 0:24:04.680 I totally see that. That. What we're talking about is 0:24:04.720 --> 0:24:10.960 the helicopter in the opening montage for Mash Yeah, was 0:24:12.600 --> 0:24:15.879