I’m talking about a fan theory, that if true doesn’t drastically upend the fundamentals of the fiction it is set in.
Mine is that in the American Dad episode ‘Can I Be Frank With You’, that Snot’s uncle is actually just another Roger persona. He appears suddenly and conveniently to pitch a bizarre scheme, he loves hanging around with teen boys and doing drugs, and the very instant that the plan has a setback he kills himself out of sight of everyone else. That’s just Roger in a suit and glasses.
Edit: Ok, so, people are having trouble with the word “inconsequential”.
In Buffy season 5, I’m convinced there’s a connection between Ben and Glory.
James Bond is actually a time lord. It explains why he changes how he looks every few movies. This is backed up by the fact that Timothy Dalton played a time lord once in Doctor Who.
And then he became a SLASHER… of prices.
I wouldn’t call this “inconsequential”, but not only is Deckard a Replicant, he’s a very specific Replicant.
Gaff (played by Eddie Olmos) was the original officer assigned to hunting down the escaped replicants, before Holden and before Deckard. When the escaped Androids originally tried to storm the Tyrell corporation, one of them got “fried” going through an electric fence. And it was either there, or in another encounter, that Gaff was wounded in the leg, forcing Holden to take over the case, and we know where that ended up…
I posit that the android that got “fried”, didn’t actually get fried. In concert with the Tyrell corporation, they programmed him with Gaff’s memories in order to finish the job, which is why Gaff is chaperoning him, driving him around; to make sure the memory implant holds. It’s why Gaff seems to know what he’s thinking and can make origami to give him hints. It’s why Gaff at the end of the movie says “You’ve done a man’s work”. And it’s why Gaff is such a dick to him. Imagine chaperoning your artificial replacement around that everyone thinks can do just as good a job as you…
I always watch Blade Runner from that perspective. At least until the sequel came out and ruined it for me.
The dwarves from deep rock Galactic are part of the warhammer 40k universe.
This is my favorite fan theory, originally created by the Four Finger Discount people, I’m told, but I can’t find it on their site:
In Simpsons episode 9F10, “Marge vs. the Monorail”, the town meeting is interrupted by a mysterious character named Mr. Snrub. It’s a strange scene, because we never actually find out who Snrub is, and he doesn’t show up again in the rest of the episode, or indeed, in the rest of the series. However, I think I might have figured out why: Mr. Snrub is actually Mr. Burns in disguise.
I know it sounds implausible, but here is my reasoning:
Notice that “Snrub” has the same number of letters as “Monty”, Mr. Burns’s first name. Coincidence? Maybe, but there’s more.
Notice how quick Smithers is to agree with Snrub. I think the writers added this line as a subtle hint to the audience that there is some connection between Snrub and Burns. It also explains why Smithers was so willing to help Snrub in his time of need; because Snrub reminds him of Burns in some deep, ineffable way. If you listen closely to Snrub’s voice, it sounds an awful lot like Harry Shearer. Harry Shearer does the voice of many characters on The Simpsons, including Reverend Lovejoy, Seymour Skinner, Ned Flanders, and… Mr Burns. This doesn’t tell use for sure that Snrub is Burns, but it does narrow down the possibilities considerably.
When Snrub stands up to speak, he mentions that he comes from “someplace far away”. The writers of The Simpsons have always said that they consider Springfield to be somewhat flexible in its reality. For example, in one episode, Moe’s Bar is a short walk from the Simpsons’ house, but in the movie, it’s right next to the church. It is quite possible that, for the purpose of this scene, the writers wanted Mr Burns’ home to be “far away” from the Town Hall.
Notice that, in the above scene, when everyone in the Town Hall starts to get angry, Snrub instinctively tents his fingers, not unlike Mr Burns’ signature gesture. Now, to be fair, we occasionally see this gesture done by other characters, such as Homer, Bart, and even Lisa. But, I mean, still.
I will admit that this theory has some flaws. For example:
If Snrub is Burns, how did he grow the moustache so quickly? We saw Burns earlier in the episode dumping nuclear waste in the park, and he didn’t have a moustache then. This could partly be explained by the fact that, strictly speaking, we don’t know how much time has passed between that scene and the scene in the Town Hall. Perhaps this was enough time for Burns to grow the moustache that would disguise him as Snrub?
We all know that Smithers is in love with Burns, and that Burns doesn’t return Smithers’ affection. So, why is Burns so quick to embrace Smithers and hang on to him as they escape the building?
Look at this comparison of Snrub and Burns. They look almost nothing alike. For one thing, notice that Snrub has an extra wrinkle under his left eye. His face also settles into an expression that is open and happy, in contrast with Mr Burns’ scowl. In addition, Snrub has a more prominent overbite, the three liver spots on his head are further apart. I haven’t even gotten started on the colours: Snrub wears a dark blue suit with a black tie, and has light blue hair. Burns, in contrast, wears a teal suit with a pink tie, and has gray hair.
If Burns really was at the Town Hall, then who was running the nuclear plant? The lights are on in the building, which clearly means that the power is working. Snrub’s suggestion is that the city give the two million dollars to the Nuclear Power Plant. Why would Mr. Burns do this, since Burns already knows that the power plant is where the money came from? This leaves us with the possibility that Snrub was just an innocent person who spoke at the town meeting without being fully informed about the background details (hence why everybody was so mad at him for being so ignorant and unprepared).
So, at the end of the day, it’s hard to say who Snrub really is. It’s even more difficult to say why he showed up in only that one scene, and why he never showed up again — perhaps he was a character the writers wanted to introduce to the show, but could never find a good enough story for.
Like many fan theories, it’s probably not true, and I’m probably over-analyzing it, but it’s sure fun to think about!
Is he Mr. Burns exact double like Guy Incognito to Homer Simpson?
Uh, whenever you notice something like that- a wizard did it.
But…
Maybe I’m just not quite awake yet and am missing the joke… but did you seriously miss the fact that “Snrub” is just “Burns” in reverse?
Yes, I think you are missing the joke. I’ll explain it, because that can only make it funnier.
In the show, it’s quite obvious that it’s just Mr. Burns with a fake mustache. He apparently didn’t even think of a fake name until he’s called upon to suggest what to do with the money, because he says, “Mr…Snrub. Yes, that’ll do.”
The writeup is ignoring that and writing out the theory, with supporting evidence, as though realizing Mr. Snrub, is, in fact, Mr. Burns would be a major revelation to everyone. (Also it’s not my theory, I just reposted it, as noted at the top of my comment.)
I very much enjoyed reading this, thank you.
When drinking with Zefram Cochrane, Deanna Troi had no idea what tequila was. She went to Star Fleet Academy in San Fransisco, and even without warp drive and transporters, that’s not far from the major agave growing regions on Earth. Cadets gonna drink whenever they have the chance, and they’ll seek out non-synthehol stuff if they can.
Agave isn’t being farmed sustainably right now. It could also have been hit hard by Star Trek’s WWIII. It’s possible agave didn’t survive into the 22nd century. Zef may have even been going through the last bottles of it.
I’ve always liked the idea that Kevin from Home Alone grew up to be the Jigsaw killer…
Throughout the Solo movie, Han tries to thread the needle multiple times and fails. In the end of the movie he finally succeeds but only after plugging Lando’s robo girlfriend’s brain into the Falcon. After that point they never suggest that they remove her from it. They never need an astromech to calculate jumps again and almost every single person that pilots the Falcon threads the needle at least once, including ray who has literally never flown before when she does it.
Han isn’t the pilot. He’s the captain of a ghost ship. Every mistake he’s made since then has been expertly corrected by the ship itself, now given a mind and one of the longest running navigation databases in the galaxy.
See, this one I like, because it’s one of those “man, I know the writers didn’t mean it that way, but it makes sense… and it’s horrifying!” theories.
The Falcon is so good, because for decades it has essentially had the crippled, half-dead “ghost” of a droid locked inside its computer systems, unable to fully die yet clearly devoid of her true consciousness.
In Empire, Han tells 3PO to “talk to the Falcon” and later 3P0 comments on the ship’s “peculiar dialect.” Obviously at the time those lines were written it was just a half joke half figure of speech, but you could argue in universe it implies Han knows the Falcon is conscious and 3P0 was referring to the fact that the Falcon was actually communicating with him, rather than just giving diagnostic data.
3P0: it uses a very peculiar dialect
Falcon: please… let me die…
Think of all the times the falcon stalls or shorts out or magically starts working again. That’s not Hans shitty maintenance, that’s the ship ignoring them until they figure out why it’s mad.
And, tbh, in the first movie (ANH), Han surprised and flies up behind Darth Vader, the Dark Jedi lord and best pilot flying a military TIE fighter, in the Falcon, essentially a souped up semi truck of a space ship. He then proceeds to shoot his ass out of the sky, the Force be damned.
Is it just me or is there something more going on here. That ship has some deep seated, Knight Rider, Herbie the Love Bug, strange magic going on.
Han and Chewie are good… But just maybe the Falcon is gooder.
Not only is it a military ship built for the exact type of situation out was in, but it was a custom build by Vader himself. Being a very skilled mechanic is almost more fundamental to his character then hating sand. He built a race winning podracer out of trash, imagine what he can do with 20 years more practice and the entire imperial budget.
And yet, an outdated tugboat from before he was born managed to take him down. That ship has soul.
The Teletubbies are the Elois from HG Well’s The Time Machine.
I feel this gets hated on a fair bit but I enjoy it, just a bit of fun
Holy fuck that was mindblowing!
Even if it turns out to be false, I applaud their effort in making this up.
Exactly! To link all of these great & unrelated pieces of cinema together into a somewhat believable overarching storyline is pretty cool.
I don’t believe there’s any intent from the creators there at all but it’s an awesome little exercise if nothing else.
In Stargate SG-1 — spoilers — the last season they’re stuck on the ship stuck in time for a long time. I listened to the director’s commentary on it, and the actors themselves talked about how there was supposed to be a Carter and Teal’c romance. You can still see it in some of the looks they give each other and whatnot, but it was cut.
So not “fan theory” as such, but something not usually considered part of the canon but which definitely has credible support for it. (Amanda Tapping, the actor for Samantha Carter was talking about it on the commentary track.)
Doesn’t really change much, as all of them but Teal’c forget what happened after the conclusion.
SG-1
wow. that definitely adds some layers, considering Sam was the one who figured out how to fix the timeline and Teal’c was the one who executed it. and that he doesn’t tell the others anything that happened. poor guy :(
Right?
And I even think he gives Carter a look after the reset that plays a bit different with this plotpoint in mind.
Jar Jar the sith lord
I reckon it’s legit but they decided not to reveal it because they sold Jar Jar toys to too many kids.
I wrote like a 30,000 word treatise refuting every point of the Darth Jar jar with the help of an advocate.
for fun.
it would be great, but it seems unlikely and extremely lacking in evidence when you look at each point one by one and put everything back together.
Got a link?
i have five!
Part 1: https://sh.itjust.works/post/20963677/12244341
Part 2: https://sh.itjust.works/post/20963677/12244356
Part 3: https://sh.itjust.works/post/20963677/12244394
Part 4: https://sh.itjust.works/post/20963677/12244399
Part 5: https://sh.itjust.works/post/20963677/12244409
bear in mind that this is a second draft direct refutation of a list of Darth Binks evidence provided by another friendly user and we were having fun talking about it, so i was pretty casual speech to texting all of this and there might be typos.
also, if you have any direct questions or evidence of the darth binks theory, I’m ready to talk about it, it’s a very fun theory.
have a good one
But he can jump really high
this shocked a lot of people, but the frog guy jumping didn’t convince me he was sith!
meesa?
Would your treatise allow this to work if he’s not a sith, but instead an incredibly powerful by oblivious force user?
My take is that the gungans aren’t well known to the Jedi so they could have missed him, on top of that, palps would have been on naboo when he was born so whatever he’s using to hide his presence may have extended to other force sensitives in the area.
Quigon doesn’t want to get rid of jar jar, even when he’s given the chance to but dies before he has time to really look at jar jar.
Palps is stupidly chummy with jar jar even though everyone hates him. He also trusts the galaxies biggest moron to give the speech his entire plan henges on.
If his ability to accidentally always come up ahead was actually him being too dumb to realize he’s passively using the force, and he wholly believes in palps being the emergency hero, he could have accidentally swayed a few votes.
“Would your treatise allow this to work if he’s not a sith, but instead an incredibly powerful by oblivious force user?”
yeah, it’s as good as any other theory, maybe better than the sith one because there are less obvious things to point out that don’t work.
it kind of sounds like a xanth premise, if you ever read those books.
I don’t think there are strong enough foundations to hold the assumptions together myself, most binks theories I’ve read rely on a passive series of events and assumptions occurring in the background.
and I like them all.
i like the Darth Darth Binks theory and other theories, but taken in context with what is depicted on screen, how straightforward Star wars is, and what the actors and production team and scripts say about the character, there’s no cohesive or convincing supporting evidence that Jar Jar was anything other than comic relief and then a hastily minimized plot device after audiences rebelled against him.
That’s all the way consequential.
He was the Phantom Menace
Wonka Piercer. It’s so implausible it just might be true.
My personal favorite fan theory
It was mentioned on the Kill James Bond podcast; The James Bond character continuum.
The reason why James Bond looks different over the years is because James Bond is a position and not a person. Multiple agents have held this position. When one is killed or captured, another agent takes over.
So, where did the different agents end up?
Well, JB by Sean Connery was imprisoned in the US for his many crimes, rape included.
Lazenby quit after his wife was murdered.
Roger Moore, I don’t remember. Killed by Dolph Lundgren, probably.
Timothy Dalton, don’t remember.
Pierce Brosnan was captured by North Korea.
And here are the implications: Sean Connerys James Bond was imprisoned on Alcatraz, and his later life is depicted in the movie The Rock.
Pierce Brosnan is still in an NK cell, deprived of any social contact, tortured, 99% PTSD by what little remains of his body weight. As a coping strategy he has escaped into a fantasy world of his own making. And from this we get the movie Mamma Mia.
Timothy Dalton’s James Bond died deep under double cover in Hollywood in a tragic airship related rocket pack accident.
A risk we all take when going undercover as a nazi…
James Bond is a position and not a person.
This is also true about Carmen Sandiego, which is why no one can find “her”
Carmen Sandiego is a metaphor for all that you don’t know, which is why you’re always chasing “her“.
I heard this theory in the 80s, and I believe there have been in-jokes about it in the last 2 or 3 Daniel Craig Bond films. It’s likely head-canon for most Bond fans.
That’s why I think this I one of the best comments here.
Terminator, the Matrix and Dune are all the same universe at different points in time.
I don’t buy this one for the single reason that time travel is never a thing in the Dune universe and their tech is astronomically better than the other two.
Not necessarily, people don’t travel through time in Dune but they do see through time, and Spice specifically enables humans to see the past and future. I can theorize that actually traveling into the past is something only intelligent machines were able to facilitate. It could also be a situation where the high tech solution (lasers) has already been countered (shields) so the low tech solution (swords) becomes the better weapon. It could also be by a mutual agreement, or simply lost tech.
Well, at least we beat back Ai and survive…
Eventually…
