WEBVTT - Some Nutso Fan Theories 0:00:01.200 --> 0:00:04.640 Welcome to Stuff you Should Know from house Stuff Works 0:00:04.680 --> 0:00:14.319 dot com. Hey, and welcome to the podcast. I'm Josh Clark. 0:00:14.600 --> 0:00:16.959 I almost forgot who i was for a second. There's 0:00:17.040 --> 0:00:20.560 Charles W. Chuck Bryant. Yeah, there's Jerry or is she 0:00:20.680 --> 0:00:24.200 really there? I don't even know anymore because it just 0:00:24.239 --> 0:00:27.280 occurred to me. We're doing a show on uh TV 0:00:27.440 --> 0:00:30.600 show fan Theories, and we have our own little fan 0:00:30.680 --> 0:00:34.280 theory here that Jerry doesn't exist. Yeah, that's true. That's 0:00:34.280 --> 0:00:36.520 a fan theory which is sort of a common thread. 0:00:36.560 --> 0:00:38.639 And a lot of these is either like, oh they 0:00:38.640 --> 0:00:41.920 were really dead or you know, or they didn't exist 0:00:42.000 --> 0:00:44.280 to begin with, right, and so we've heard from people 0:00:44.320 --> 0:00:47.280 for years. I think that Jerry's made up. I love it, Yes, 0:00:47.400 --> 0:00:52.640 because they're right. We're we're not saying no, actually, Jerry 0:00:52.680 --> 0:00:58.840 totally real. Anyway, I'm looking at it right now. So 0:00:58.960 --> 0:01:03.000 I was going through the internet looking for think pieces 0:01:03.200 --> 0:01:08.119 essays on why people come up with fan theories or 0:01:08.160 --> 0:01:11.839 what about fan theories make them, you know, make shows better. 0:01:12.360 --> 0:01:16.200 I couldn't find anything. No, I think the answer is obvious. 0:01:16.600 --> 0:01:20.360 I think that's why I couldn't find anything. Too. People 0:01:20.480 --> 0:01:23.360 just have time on their hands. That's not what I 0:01:23.400 --> 0:01:27.320 was gonna say. I was gonna say that it takes 0:01:27.360 --> 0:01:31.280 something that's already pretty enjoyable and adds entirely new dimensions 0:01:31.319 --> 0:01:36.000 in depth to it. It takes something familiar and you 0:01:36.040 --> 0:01:38.720 can go back and rewatch it through different lens now 0:01:39.680 --> 0:01:43.000 and you have time on your hands. Right, It's definitely 0:01:43.000 --> 0:01:46.680 not something that super busy people do, you know. No, 0:01:46.920 --> 0:01:48.800 And then I also was like, maybe I should just 0:01:48.840 --> 0:01:51.320 calm down. We don't have to explain everything. We can 0:01:51.360 --> 0:01:54.920 just have fun sharing fan theories. That's what we're gonna do. 0:01:55.160 --> 0:01:57.920 It's like a summer break one. Yeah, this feels like 0:01:57.960 --> 0:02:01.440 one of those. I'm we're both drunk, sure, pretty drunk. 0:02:02.200 --> 0:02:08.280 I'm just kidding kids out there, we're just joking. Should 0:02:08.280 --> 0:02:11.000 we just get right into these? Yes? Some of these 0:02:11.000 --> 0:02:12.679 are gonna be shorter, others are going to be a 0:02:12.760 --> 0:02:16.480 little longer, and we're just gonna kind of jump around. Right. 0:02:16.800 --> 0:02:22.639 Should we start with the Granddaddy or end with the Granddaddy? Uh? Well, 0:02:22.680 --> 0:02:28.280 it's the Granddaddy to you Uma by the wall? No? 0:02:28.880 --> 0:02:32.040 Do you like that one though? Yeah? And I thought 0:02:32.080 --> 0:02:33.639 maybe if I said it, Yeah, I think we'll start 0:02:33.680 --> 0:02:35.760 with say, by the Bell. I don't know why. I 0:02:35.760 --> 0:02:38.760 thought if I said it, really only I would know 0:02:38.840 --> 0:02:41.440 what you were saying. Um, we'll start with say by 0:02:41.440 --> 0:02:43.120 the bell, we'll finish with one that I know you're 0:02:43.120 --> 0:02:47.800 talking about. Okay, cool, that's very um click baity, I know, 0:02:47.960 --> 0:02:51.720 but so one you won't believe the last one. One 0:02:51.760 --> 0:02:55.160 of the things that um is really hard to do 0:02:56.040 --> 0:02:57.960 when it comes up when you when it comes to 0:02:58.000 --> 0:03:00.360 fan theories, we should say, I guess we should define. 0:03:00.400 --> 0:03:05.280 A fan theory is basically, it's where somebody who likes 0:03:05.280 --> 0:03:08.240 the show says, hey, you know this show that you 0:03:08.320 --> 0:03:12.840 think means this or is about all this, It's actually 0:03:13.120 --> 0:03:16.560 this is what's going on almost all the time. It's 0:03:16.639 --> 0:03:20.560 just somebody's idea. But the part of the backbone of 0:03:20.600 --> 0:03:23.520 a fan theory is that it has to hold up 0:03:23.560 --> 0:03:27.320 and just about every circumstance. Yeah, and I'll get one 0:03:27.320 --> 0:03:30.160 out of the way quickly. Is a bad example, because 0:03:30.200 --> 0:03:33.800 to me, a bad fan theory is uh murder. She 0:03:33.840 --> 0:03:37.320 wrote she was really a serial killer because you know, 0:03:37.560 --> 0:03:39.400 you never found out what happened to her husband and 0:03:39.440 --> 0:03:42.720 all these people are dying around her. I like that one, yeah, 0:03:42.720 --> 0:03:44.880 but it's just too easy. It's not like to me. 0:03:44.960 --> 0:03:47.240 A good fan theory is one you can say, and 0:03:47.360 --> 0:03:50.480 this happened, and look at this, and what about this? 0:03:50.160 --> 0:03:52.200 About this? So I know what you mean, and yes 0:03:52.280 --> 0:03:54.040 you a fan theory doesn't have to do there else 0:03:54.040 --> 0:03:57.640 it's just some schmo saying something somewhere. But murder, she wrote, 0:03:57.680 --> 0:04:00.520 has a couple of things to back that up besides 0:04:00.520 --> 0:04:04.280 the husband. And the husband I think is whatever. But 0:04:04.280 --> 0:04:07.320 but the point that I've seen here there Number one 0:04:07.640 --> 0:04:11.560 is Jessica Fletcher is a murder author of murder mystery authoress, 0:04:12.200 --> 0:04:16.720 and she murders go follow her everywhere she goes. Right, 0:04:17.839 --> 0:04:23.279 think about the last time you stumbled upon a murder, Well, 0:04:23.279 --> 0:04:25.760 that's just called TV. Okay, So that's one thing hold on. 0:04:26.400 --> 0:04:30.960 And then secondly, even when she travels, she stumbles upon 0:04:31.080 --> 0:04:35.039 new murders. But more to the point, in her little 0:04:35.040 --> 0:04:41.400 town of Cabot Cove, a population, a significant number of 0:04:41.440 --> 0:04:44.520 the say two hundred seventy four episodes of murder she wrote, 0:04:44.760 --> 0:04:49.680 took place there. If even two hundred of those murders 0:04:49.720 --> 0:04:53.119 happened in a town of it would be the murder 0:04:53.160 --> 0:04:56.800 capital of the world percentage wise per capita. So I 0:04:56.839 --> 0:04:58.520 see what you're saying by the fact that she's a writer. 0:04:58.560 --> 0:05:01.640 It's not like she's a detective. Like you can't say it. Boy, 0:05:01.640 --> 0:05:03.760 the eight team we're always getting in these crazy adventures 0:05:03.800 --> 0:05:05.640 like they were hired to each Yeah, they were seeking 0:05:05.640 --> 0:05:08.560 it out. She just happens to be sucked into it. 0:05:08.960 --> 0:05:11.400 She just happens to be there. Right. I've never seen 0:05:11.440 --> 0:05:13.400 that at TV show either, so that probably something to 0:05:13.400 --> 0:05:17.080 do with it. What never seen murder? She wrote, shock 0:05:17.560 --> 0:05:21.080 because I was a thirteen year old boy, not a 0:05:22.240 --> 0:05:25.640 year old person. It's even better now, really, Yeah, you're 0:05:25.680 --> 0:05:29.559 rewatching it? Oh yeah, it's on Netflix and I think prime. 0:05:30.560 --> 0:05:34.080 Oh yeah, man, it's good. Check it out. And I'm 0:05:34.080 --> 0:05:36.760 not saying like, oh, murder, she wrote good on my hipster. 0:05:37.080 --> 0:05:41.320 I've been watching Murder, she wrote for years and years now, Pal, yeah, 0:05:41.520 --> 0:05:44.760 you know have a beard. No, but but hold on, 0:05:44.960 --> 0:05:46.800 I think I want to extend this for a second. 0:05:47.920 --> 0:05:49.960 You raised a very good point, and I feel like 0:05:49.960 --> 0:05:52.600 I defended murder. She wrote with that same point that 0:05:53.080 --> 0:05:56.320 a fan theory has to have meat on its bones. 0:05:56.440 --> 0:05:59.800 It can't be an offhanded thing. It's proved what you 0:06:00.040 --> 0:06:03.279 just said. Prove why Jessica Fletcher is a serial killer. 0:06:03.760 --> 0:06:06.000 Well that's that. They there's a couple of them. It's 0:06:06.000 --> 0:06:09.120 a little thin, granted, but there's something to back it up, 0:06:09.200 --> 0:06:11.599 which makes it a decent fan theory. Not the best, 0:06:12.120 --> 0:06:14.800 but a decent one. The other thing is it's really 0:06:14.839 --> 0:06:19.560 difficult to pinpoint the origin of fan theories. Oh yeah, 0:06:19.600 --> 0:06:21.839 like who did this first? Yeah, who came up with 0:06:21.880 --> 0:06:27.320 this idea? Well, I've got one for you. So we're 0:06:27.320 --> 0:06:29.400 going to talk about the saved by the Bell fan theory. 0:06:29.720 --> 0:06:33.960 And people are just like nervous with anticipation about that one. Now, 0:06:34.080 --> 0:06:36.880 as far back as I can tell, it looks like 0:06:37.600 --> 0:06:41.159 a person. A writer on the website Cracked Cracks website, 0:06:42.200 --> 0:06:46.040 a writer named um Man I lost their name Logan Trent, 0:06:47.000 --> 0:06:50.240 in two thousand twelve wrote a post called Saved by 0:06:50.279 --> 0:06:54.360 the Bell a conspiracy theory. Um so he originated this one. 0:06:54.520 --> 0:06:56.760 As far as I can tell, he gives zero credit 0:06:56.800 --> 0:06:59.840 to anybody else. And the way that the post has written, 0:06:59.839 --> 0:07:03.400 it really comes across like he is laying out his 0:07:03.640 --> 0:07:08.440 argument himself. So it's possible. And if if, if you 0:07:08.560 --> 0:07:11.760 had this idea prior to two thousand twelve, and you're 0:07:11.800 --> 0:07:15.160 not Logan Trent let us know. But I'm bestowing Logan 0:07:15.200 --> 0:07:17.760 Trent with the origin of the Saved by the Bell 0:07:17.920 --> 0:07:20.880 fan theory, which is one of the best. Yeah, and 0:07:21.000 --> 0:07:24.440 um big shout out to Cract and Mental Flaws and 0:07:24.640 --> 0:07:28.360 our own article and who else was me? TV had 0:07:28.400 --> 0:07:32.840 a good one? Yeah? Um, Paste magazine had one. Uh. 0:07:32.880 --> 0:07:35.920 There's there's a lot of good fan theory uh articles 0:07:35.960 --> 0:07:39.240 out there all right. So at long last Saved by 0:07:39.240 --> 0:07:41.360 the Bell and I like this one, and I don't. 0:07:41.520 --> 0:07:44.480 I don't remember watching this show at all. What but 0:07:44.600 --> 0:07:48.880 I I know these characters and the gist. So I 0:07:48.880 --> 0:07:50.960 had to have watched it at some point. You didn't 0:07:51.000 --> 0:07:53.960 watch Saved by the Bell. No, it wouldn't. That would 0:07:54.000 --> 0:07:57.800 in my wheelhouse, I guess not. Older teenage boy slash 0:07:57.840 --> 0:08:01.120 college Um, well they had Saved the Bell of college years. 0:08:01.480 --> 0:08:05.120 They's just for you. Uh. But I do know these characters, 0:08:05.120 --> 0:08:08.680 so it had to have absorbed into me somehow. Um. 0:08:08.720 --> 0:08:11.760 So here's the deal. Pre Saved by the Bell. This 0:08:11.880 --> 0:08:14.400 I did not know. Um. There was a TV show 0:08:15.560 --> 0:08:17.720 was it called Good Morning Miss Bliss? Yes? And it 0:08:17.840 --> 0:08:21.600 was unbearably bad. He saw that too. So the idea 0:08:21.600 --> 0:08:23.680 of this show is there's this boy named Zack. This 0:08:23.760 --> 0:08:26.680 is an Indiana, not just Zack, Zack Morris, Yeah, the 0:08:26.880 --> 0:08:31.960 Zach played by Mark Paul Gosler, right, Um, this was 0:08:32.000 --> 0:08:38.280 an Indiana, of course, not California. And he was troublemaker. 0:08:38.440 --> 0:08:40.400 And there was a teacher named Miss Bliss who was 0:08:40.440 --> 0:08:43.840 super smart and always thwarted him. She was what's the 0:08:43.920 --> 0:08:45.920 name of the lady who was in the original Parent 0:08:46.000 --> 0:08:50.000 Trap played the two twins, Hayley Mills. Yeah it was her. 0:08:50.080 --> 0:08:54.079 Oh okay. Apparently like then, when you signed a contract 0:08:54.160 --> 0:08:59.080 with Disney as a child, they own you for a life. Um. 0:08:59.840 --> 0:09:03.280 He has a couple of friends named Mikey and Nicky. Uh, 0:09:03.320 --> 0:09:05.960 they're always putting him in his place. Uh. He has 0:09:06.000 --> 0:09:09.800 a brother, his parents are divorced, and by all accounts, 0:09:09.880 --> 0:09:13.520 Zack Morris and good morning, Miss Bliss is a bit 0:09:13.559 --> 0:09:15.959 of a schlub who is always sort of getting his 0:09:16.040 --> 0:09:18.920 come up it's from other people. Yeah, kind of a loser. Yeah, 0:09:19.360 --> 0:09:23.920 basically the opposite of Zack Morris and Saved by the Bell. 0:09:24.559 --> 0:09:29.199 Did the ever say Zach attack? I think so. I 0:09:29.240 --> 0:09:31.959 think there's a T shirt even that said that. So 0:09:32.080 --> 0:09:34.880 flash forward and how many years later was this couple. 0:09:35.360 --> 0:09:38.240 So good morning, Miss Bliss goes off the air. I 0:09:38.280 --> 0:09:41.760 get the feeling it wasn't very popular, or they wouldn't 0:09:41.800 --> 0:09:45.080 have rebooted it as Saved by the Bell. They would 0:09:45.120 --> 0:09:49.040 have just you know, kept it going exactly. Uh to say, 0:09:49.080 --> 0:09:51.640 by the Bell comes along and now Zack is at 0:09:51.679 --> 0:09:57.520 Bayside in California. He's Mr. Everything. He's as this article 0:09:57.559 --> 0:10:00.319 points out, he's the most popular kid, ins cool, and 0:10:00.400 --> 0:10:06.640 excels in everything, sports, music, casual, racism, whatever. That's that's 0:10:06.679 --> 0:10:10.720 the logan transporting. Uh. He's the alpha and his circle 0:10:10.800 --> 0:10:14.880 friends Mikey and Nikki are gone. Yeah, they're just gone. 0:10:15.040 --> 0:10:17.520 No explanation, right, and there's no explanation for any of this, 0:10:17.640 --> 0:10:20.079 like how he got to California. But it's it's the 0:10:20.120 --> 0:10:22.679 same character, right, it's the exact same character, but there 0:10:22.720 --> 0:10:26.520 are some huge, huge changes, Like at his core he 0:10:26.679 --> 0:10:30.440 is a different person. Actually not necessarily at his core, 0:10:30.640 --> 0:10:33.040 but as far as how he's treated and viewed by 0:10:33.080 --> 0:10:38.240 his peers and everyone else, he's the differences night and day. 0:10:38.360 --> 0:10:40.760 He's not a duet anymore. He's not a loser. He's 0:10:40.880 --> 0:10:46.160 he's a total winner. Has logan trend points out, like um, 0:10:46.200 --> 0:10:49.880 if he were to miss a quiz, rather than fail, 0:10:50.240 --> 0:10:52.480 he would convince the teacher to hold a bake off, 0:10:52.640 --> 0:10:54.840 and then he would win the bake off by cheating. 0:10:55.360 --> 0:10:57.640 Like That's that was how like he went through life. 0:10:57.760 --> 0:11:01.840 And also very notably his parents were no longer divorced, 0:11:01.880 --> 0:11:03.960 they were married, and he didn't have a brother. He 0:11:04.000 --> 0:11:07.160 was an only child and was beloved by all right, 0:11:07.400 --> 0:11:10.240 Yeah he had Uh. I think Slater was went from 0:11:10.280 --> 0:11:13.560 his rival to his um sort of his pal, but 0:11:13.679 --> 0:11:17.880 his you know, his second Yeah, his wingman, Screech was 0:11:17.920 --> 0:11:20.880 around in both, but I think he was sort of 0:11:20.880 --> 0:11:24.440 screeching both, right, didn't changed much, Yeah, it Screech has 0:11:24.440 --> 0:11:29.400 always been screeched alright, So what's the big reveal? What's 0:11:29.440 --> 0:11:33.560 the fan theory? So the fan theory is that Saved 0:11:33.600 --> 0:11:39.439 by the Bell is the daydream fantasy of Zack Morris 0:11:39.440 --> 0:11:43.160 who's actually living in back in Indiana at John F. 0:11:43.280 --> 0:11:47.400 Kennedy Junior High and that the whole it's great man, 0:11:47.800 --> 0:11:51.240 and that the whole um, the whole premise of this 0:11:51.240 --> 0:11:56.160 this fan theory is revealed through the theme song, right, right, 0:11:56.240 --> 0:12:00.160 So in the theme song, the theme song talk it's 0:12:00.160 --> 0:12:04.679 about like how harried Zack is Well, it's all first person, right, 0:12:04.720 --> 0:12:06.439 but you assume that it's talking about Zack, because the 0:12:06.440 --> 0:12:10.440 whole show is it revolves around Zack. He's the narrator um, 0:12:11.000 --> 0:12:14.720 and he's having like a lot of trouble, like getting 0:12:14.760 --> 0:12:16.800 ready and he gets out to the bus just in 0:12:17.000 --> 0:12:19.640 time to see it fly by, and the teacher's gonna 0:12:19.679 --> 0:12:21.640 pop a test and he knows he's in a mess 0:12:21.920 --> 0:12:24.320 and dog ate all his homework, And if you actually 0:12:24.320 --> 0:12:30.480 watch the show, nothing ever gets Zach. He's untouchable. So 0:12:30.920 --> 0:12:34.439 in the theme song it says, it's all right because 0:12:34.480 --> 0:12:38.120 I'm saved by the bell, right, yes, which this fan 0:12:38.200 --> 0:12:42.079 theory suggests that once once he settles in, either settles 0:12:42.080 --> 0:12:44.120 into class and starts day dreaming or gets home at 0:12:44.200 --> 0:12:47.240 night and starts dreaming, he can go off to bay Side, 0:12:47.240 --> 0:12:51.319 where he's the biggest winner around. That is the bell, right. 0:12:52.000 --> 0:12:55.840 So the fact that these lyrics, by the time I 0:12:55.880 --> 0:12:57.679 grab my books and I give myself a look, I'm 0:12:57.679 --> 0:12:59.360 at the corner just in time to see the bus, 0:13:01.200 --> 0:13:03.960 and then eventually writing low in my chair, so she, uh, 0:13:04.040 --> 0:13:07.560 she won't know I'm there, meaning the teacher. This all 0:13:08.320 --> 0:13:13.400 is Zack in Indiana it describes a different person. Doesn't 0:13:13.400 --> 0:13:16.400 make any sense that these lyrics if you had not 0:13:16.480 --> 0:13:18.679 known that that was a show that existed and all 0:13:18.679 --> 0:13:21.240 you knew was saved by the bill, these lyrics don't 0:13:21.240 --> 0:13:24.840 make any sense. But they do if it is all 0:13:24.880 --> 0:13:28.920 a fantasy in his imagination. Sadly, it also makes sense 0:13:29.000 --> 0:13:32.520 if you think that the producers hired the composer before 0:13:32.520 --> 0:13:34.640 they were really aware of what the show is going 0:13:34.720 --> 0:13:37.760 to be like, and that's what the composer came up with. 0:13:37.920 --> 0:13:41.760 Lyrics wise, Yeah, that's not nearly as fun. Well, the 0:13:41.760 --> 0:13:43.840 other thing I like about fan theories is that there 0:13:44.679 --> 0:13:49.640 almost not real it's just fans having fun. But I 0:13:50.000 --> 0:13:54.800 like the idea to imagine like some subversive writer that's like, oh, 0:13:54.800 --> 0:13:58.319 well here's what we'll do. This is all elaborate fantasy 0:13:58.360 --> 0:14:01.120 of this Zack guy. I've got one other thing that 0:14:01.120 --> 0:14:03.960 the I think the Cracked article points out if not 0:14:04.040 --> 0:14:06.400 someone else came up with it later. They pointed out 0:14:06.400 --> 0:14:10.800 that Zach has the power to stop time and and 0:14:10.880 --> 0:14:14.400 address the camera like he breaks the fourth wall fairly regularly, 0:14:14.960 --> 0:14:18.840 and um, he can just stop time and move around 0:14:18.880 --> 0:14:23.800 within this frozen time, which also, I mean that's a 0:14:23.840 --> 0:14:25.800 weird thing for somebody to be able to do if 0:14:25.840 --> 0:14:28.320 they're not in the middle of their own day dream 0:14:28.520 --> 0:14:33.280 or night dream. I love it, man, that's a good one. Um. 0:14:33.320 --> 0:14:39.720 And you know, uh, things like Mikey and Nikki disappeared. Um. 0:14:39.760 --> 0:14:41.880 At one point, Kelly is in love with him and 0:14:41.880 --> 0:14:44.720 then she just is gone with no explanation. Yeah he 0:14:44.720 --> 0:14:46.480 he people kind of pop in and out sometimes with 0:14:46.520 --> 0:14:48.960 no explanation at all. I think Kelly dumped him and 0:14:49.000 --> 0:14:51.560 then like all of a sudden, she's gone. And she 0:14:51.720 --> 0:14:55.080 was like one of the characters throughout the entire save 0:14:55.200 --> 0:14:58.200 by the bell Um, and then she's just gone once 0:14:58.240 --> 0:15:01.720 she dumps Zach. He's he's Terry. He's really bad at school, 0:15:01.760 --> 0:15:03.080 but he got a fifteen o two in the s 0:15:03.120 --> 0:15:07.360 A t Like all this stuff is like dream dream stuff. Right. Well, 0:15:07.400 --> 0:15:09.760 that's another point that Logan Trent makes is that a 0:15:09.840 --> 0:15:13.440 fifteen o two is literally impossible, Like you can't score 0:15:13.480 --> 0:15:18.040 a fifteen two. Yeah, so it's all it's even more 0:15:18.080 --> 0:15:22.040 evidence that all this is made up and by apparently 0:15:22.240 --> 0:15:25.200 not so smart kid man. So that's saved by the 0:15:25.200 --> 0:15:27.920 bell Man. You want to take a break and then 0:15:27.960 --> 0:15:30.360 get get back to it. I think so I could 0:15:30.360 --> 0:15:58.560 do this all day. All right, all right, we'll go 0:15:58.560 --> 0:16:01.560 through a couple of quicker ones here. The Fresh Prince 0:16:01.600 --> 0:16:05.160 is dead. Yeah, I kind of really don't need to 0:16:05.160 --> 0:16:09.080 say anything else, do you. Well? In the uh the 0:16:09.120 --> 0:16:12.320 TV's theme song where he talks about getting in a 0:16:12.360 --> 0:16:14.520 fight and that's the whole reason he's sent to Bill 0:16:14.640 --> 0:16:16.760 bell Air. Yeah, the Fresh Prince of bel Air. It's 0:16:16.760 --> 0:16:21.720 a TV show from and the rap that Will Smith, 0:16:22.480 --> 0:16:25.160 the real life Will Smith actually plays a character named 0:16:25.160 --> 0:16:27.440 Will Smith, and he talks about getting in a fight 0:16:27.880 --> 0:16:30.240 and getting sent off to bell Air to get out, 0:16:30.280 --> 0:16:32.360 you know, to get him away from the rough neighborhood 0:16:32.360 --> 0:16:38.680 and what Philly West, Philadelphia born and raised and um, 0:16:38.760 --> 0:16:41.120 so the theory is that he was actually killed during 0:16:41.200 --> 0:16:46.240 this fight, and um everything else is you know, his 0:16:46.640 --> 0:16:49.440 h journey in the afterlife. Yeah. The cab that picks 0:16:49.480 --> 0:16:51.440 him up to take him in bell Air, the rare 0:16:51.640 --> 0:16:57.760 cab is supposedly God or some sort of um ethereal 0:16:57.880 --> 0:17:00.480 figure that's taking him to the after life, which is 0:17:00.520 --> 0:17:04.359 bel Air. His parents are like basically non existent, but 0:17:04.960 --> 0:17:08.199 they show up a couple of times. Uh. This is 0:17:08.280 --> 0:17:11.119 explained away by the fan theory as his parents visiting 0:17:11.119 --> 0:17:16.359 their son's grave. It's pretty awesome. And then um boys, 0:17:16.440 --> 0:17:19.120 the men apparently showed up at one point, but they 0:17:19.119 --> 0:17:22.920 were like a heavenly choir. Oh, I don't remember that episode. 0:17:24.000 --> 0:17:27.400 So that put all that together. Fresh Prince is dead? 0:17:28.240 --> 0:17:33.320 That's right? What do you wanna do next? Should we do? Do? Uh? That? 0:17:33.480 --> 0:17:36.920 The two of them from Gilligan's Island? Yeah? The drug 0:17:37.000 --> 0:17:40.399 ones super lame? Yeah, I thought so too. There's this 0:17:40.440 --> 0:17:43.680 one theory that the and this was. You're right, it's 0:17:43.720 --> 0:17:47.720 just dumb that that Mr Howell on Gilligan's Island paid 0:17:47.760 --> 0:17:50.600 Gilligan and the Skipper to take him out to see 0:17:50.640 --> 0:17:52.119 to do a drug deal, which is why he has 0:17:52.160 --> 0:17:57.120 a trunkload of catch, trunk full of cash. Ginger's got 0:17:57.119 --> 0:18:00.159 a drug habit, Maryann's a federal agent. This just sounds like, 0:18:00.920 --> 0:18:05.520 you know, like, uh, someone smokes some weed and came 0:18:05.640 --> 0:18:08.240 up with like like someone said, hey, what's your first 0:18:08.320 --> 0:18:11.280 idea of what Gilligan's Island could have been other than 0:18:11.320 --> 0:18:15.840 what it was? And they were drug thing? Man, I 0:18:15.960 --> 0:18:20.159 think you nailed it. But there's a better fan theory 0:18:20.200 --> 0:18:25.399 for Gilligan's Island that Gilligan's island is hell, that this, 0:18:25.560 --> 0:18:27.560 like The Fresh Prince of bel Air, takes place in 0:18:27.600 --> 0:18:31.199 the afterlife, but not in heaven, in Hell, or at 0:18:31.240 --> 0:18:36.720 least in purgatory, That the Minnows shipwreck um caused everyone 0:18:36.760 --> 0:18:40.640 on board to drown, and that in Hell, each one 0:18:40.680 --> 0:18:43.320 of the characters represents one of the seven deadly sins 0:18:44.480 --> 0:18:50.639 Ginger's lust, Marianna's envy, Professor's pride, thirst in Hell, of 0:18:50.640 --> 0:18:54.880 course it's greed. Uh, Mrs Howell, I've seen a sloth 0:18:55.320 --> 0:18:58.639 and gluttony seen that too. I've also seen Skipper as 0:18:58.680 --> 0:19:01.600 either gluttony or wrath. Wrath makes a lot more sense. 0:19:01.760 --> 0:19:05.439 And then Gilligan is sloth or is Satan himself? Yeah. 0:19:05.520 --> 0:19:08.680 And one of the giveaways for Gilligan being Satan, well, 0:19:08.720 --> 0:19:10.960 there's two of them. One is that he's always wearing 0:19:10.960 --> 0:19:15.800 a red shirt. Oh well, so obviously Satan because Satan 0:19:15.840 --> 0:19:19.520 horror red rugby shirt. Uh. And then uh, he's always 0:19:20.000 --> 0:19:23.800 although it seems like it's always accidental, he's always thwarting 0:19:23.840 --> 0:19:26.960 their plans, Like every time they get something something going 0:19:27.040 --> 0:19:29.520 to get off of the island, Gilligan is the one 0:19:29.560 --> 0:19:32.119 who somehow screws it. Up and they're stuck there again. 0:19:32.560 --> 0:19:35.560 So he's keeping them in hell and this one actually 0:19:35.560 --> 0:19:42.440 has legs. Yeah, apparently. Sherwood Schwartz, the creator Gilligan's Island Uh, 0:19:42.520 --> 0:19:46.639 in a book, confirmed that they did. It was his 0:19:46.720 --> 0:19:48.960 idea that they did stand for the Seven Deadly Sins? 0:19:49.359 --> 0:19:52.359 Is that right? Yeah, So there you go one of 0:19:52.400 --> 0:19:56.399 the rare fan theories that actually was true. I wonder 0:19:56.400 --> 0:19:59.560 whoever whoever thought of that was like, no, yeah, I 0:19:59.720 --> 0:20:02.560 was right. Well that makes me wonder if somehow it 0:20:02.680 --> 0:20:07.040 got out or something maybe or he was retroactively just 0:20:07.080 --> 0:20:11.320 being like, yeah, yeah, that's what I meant. Schwartz. Here's 0:20:11.320 --> 0:20:14.199 a quick spot from Star Trek one that I kind 0:20:14.200 --> 0:20:17.360 of liked. We'll do both of the Star Trek ones 0:20:17.359 --> 0:20:22.840 about that. Um and UM on record is not having 0:20:22.840 --> 0:20:26.679 watched Star Trek Yeah, I mean me neither. But in 0:20:26.720 --> 0:20:35.959 Star Trek six, the Undiscovered Country, the Undiscovered Country. Sorry, 0:20:36.119 --> 0:20:39.879 people are so mad at me right now. Trek he's uh. 0:20:39.920 --> 0:20:43.120 And an ancestor of mine maintained that when you eliminate 0:20:43.160 --> 0:20:47.080 the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. 0:20:47.200 --> 0:20:49.960 And that was Spock in that movie. And the source 0:20:50.000 --> 0:20:53.040 of that was Sherlock Holmes himself from the Sign of 0:20:53.119 --> 0:20:58.920 Four from a book. And so the idea here is 0:20:58.960 --> 0:21:02.960 that Spock is related Sherlock Holmes. It's a little weird 0:21:03.280 --> 0:21:05.040 aw about that, but I could see it. I mean 0:21:05.040 --> 0:21:09.320 they're both pretty rational. Well, Sherlock Holmes, he loved his speedballs. 0:21:09.359 --> 0:21:12.080 I don't think Spot was ever into those. No, he 0:21:12.119 --> 0:21:15.280 was more involved. You know, Sherlock Holmes love speedballs, though, 0:21:15.280 --> 0:21:18.879 don't you. I did not. Doesn't surprise me. It surprised 0:21:18.920 --> 0:21:22.880 me at first. So there's another um Star Trek one. 0:21:22.880 --> 0:21:29.040 I love this one that Andy Griffith is the pre 0:21:29.080 --> 0:21:36.480 apocalyptic world that leads into Star Trek, and this one 0:21:36.600 --> 0:21:40.560 is pretty awesome. So it's based on a Star Trek 0:21:40.680 --> 0:21:44.480 episode Chuck Mirie m I R I like Sirie, but 0:21:44.520 --> 0:21:49.080 with an M and um. In this episode, the Star 0:21:49.160 --> 0:21:54.359 Trek crew beams down to Earth and it's very obvious 0:21:54.880 --> 0:21:59.000 it's Mayberry, but it's like a poke post apocalyptic Mayberry. 0:21:59.359 --> 0:22:02.320 It's people entirely by kids. And the reason why it's 0:22:02.359 --> 0:22:05.160 people entirely by kids because some disease has broken out 0:22:05.600 --> 0:22:10.680 where um, you die at the onset of puberty. Yeah, 0:22:10.760 --> 0:22:14.840 and it's uh, well it is Mayberry because it is Mayberry. 0:22:14.920 --> 0:22:18.040 It's literally the same back lot that they shot both 0:22:18.119 --> 0:22:21.679 shows at and they just outfitted Mayberry to be posted 0:22:21.680 --> 0:22:25.960 apocalyptic right down to like Floyd's barbershop. Yeah, but I 0:22:25.960 --> 0:22:28.119 think they just scratched out Floyd. They scratched out the 0:22:28.119 --> 0:22:30.159 f and it just said Lloyd. Oh did it? I 0:22:30.160 --> 0:22:32.400 don't know. I think it's said Floyd's did it really? Yeah? 0:22:32.440 --> 0:22:34.520 Oh it's that on the nose. Huh. I think so, oh, 0:22:34.560 --> 0:22:37.720 this one's great. This is a great fan seal it 0:22:37.760 --> 0:22:40.920 for you. Then well there's another part two that um 0:22:41.000 --> 0:22:46.240 the kid who played Barney Fife's cousin Virgil. Uh, he 0:22:46.480 --> 0:22:51.200 actually appears in this Star Trek episode. What. Yeah, so 0:22:51.280 --> 0:22:54.679 it's full circle. Gene Roddenberry was like, I'm gonna come 0:22:54.760 --> 0:22:56.600 up with a fan theory. No one knows what those 0:22:56.640 --> 0:22:59.080 are yet, but I'm going to lay it down for 0:22:59.160 --> 0:23:03.080 him decades now the internet comes around. I don't know 0:23:03.080 --> 0:23:05.280 what that is, but it's going to be something. I'm 0:23:05.359 --> 0:23:09.200 Gene Roddenberry. You know, the the beginning of Andy Griffith 0:23:09.520 --> 0:23:12.040 when they're you know, walking down to the lake and 0:23:12.080 --> 0:23:14.639 he skipped the stones on the lake. It's like right 0:23:14.640 --> 0:23:18.040 in the Hollywood Hills, Is that right? Yeah? My brother 0:23:18.119 --> 0:23:20.199 drove me up there one time and it's like this 0:23:20.240 --> 0:23:23.480 look familiar. Uh, And he started whistling the theme song 0:23:23.520 --> 0:23:26.119 and I was like no, wow. He said yeah, and 0:23:26.160 --> 0:23:29.440 he's like the bat caves like over there. Oh yeah yeah, 0:23:29.480 --> 0:23:31.760 and it's sort of you know, killed my dreams. The 0:23:31.920 --> 0:23:37.720 same with mash too. That's like the Hollywood Hills, well, 0:23:37.760 --> 0:23:42.160 like the mountains behind Malibu. Um, when you fly into 0:23:42.280 --> 0:23:44.480 l A, you can and you're looking for you like, oh, 0:23:44.840 --> 0:23:47.879 I totally see that. That what we're talking about is 0:23:47.880 --> 0:23:53.720 the helicopter in the opening UM montage for mash. Um 0:23:54.119 --> 0:23:59.080 was like, it's supposedly flying through Korea, but it's actually Yes, 0:23:59.119 --> 0:24:02.800 it's California where they're shooting, which is way cheaper to shoot. Yeah, 0:24:02.840 --> 0:24:05.280 we shot. I mean I shot a TV commercial over there, 0:24:06.000 --> 0:24:07.840 and I think we talked about this before. There's you know, 0:24:07.960 --> 0:24:09.800 one of the jeeps is still out there. I don't know, 0:24:09.880 --> 0:24:12.640 I don't remember that rusted out and overgrown with weeds 0:24:13.480 --> 0:24:15.600 and um, but yeah, it's like an old army jeep. 0:24:15.960 --> 0:24:18.120 There're a couple of little remnants. Jamie Farr is still 0:24:18.119 --> 0:24:20.600 out there, like, hey, how you doing. Thanks for visiting. 0:24:20.840 --> 0:24:22.560