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Cartoon Theories That Will Ruin Your Childhood · Be Amazed

• 0:00
  [SPEAKER_01]: Does anything scream childhood like Saturday morning cartoons?
• 0:04
  [SPEAKER_01]: Nothing's more innocent than sitting down with a bowl of cereal and enjoying some animated classics.
• 0:10
  [SPEAKER_01]: Until you grow up and realize your childhood favorites are actually packed full of strange implications, uncertainty and worst of all, subtext.
• 0:18
  [SPEAKER_01]: So buckle up because we're about to explore some dark cartoon theories that might just ruin your childhood.
• 0:37
  [SPEAKER_01]: We all know the disney adaptation of the Middle Eastern Folk Tale of Latin, a street monk can egg her body discovers a magical lamp, wishes to be a prince, gets found out saves the day Mary's Prince's hand lives happily ever after.
• 0:50
  [SPEAKER_01]: But a weird plot hole that always stood out to me was the fact that Aladdin is afraid everyone will find out he's only a cometer who wished to become a prince.
• 0:58
  [SPEAKER_01]: Indeed, the evil advisor Jafar later figures this out, discracing Aladdin in the process.
• 1:04
  [SPEAKER_01]: But this raises a pretty important question.
• 1:07
  [SPEAKER_01]: When Aladdin wished to become a prince, what did the Genie actually do?
• 1:11
  [SPEAKER_01]: Think about it for a second.
• 1:12
  [SPEAKER_01]: Aladdin didn't wish for people to think he's a prince.
• 1:15
  [SPEAKER_01]: He wished to be a prince.
• 1:17
  [SPEAKER_01]: If the Genie had actually granted Aladdin's wish, then there'd be no dark truths to expose.
• 1:23
  [SPEAKER_01]: Reality would have been rewritten to make Aladdin an actual member of a real royal family.
• 1:27
  [SPEAKER_01]: but it wasn't.
• 1:29
  [SPEAKER_01]: Instead Aladdin acts like he most constantly lied and conceal his past and is eventually exposed as a common street rat in Jafar's words.
• 1:37
  [SPEAKER_01]: So the genie didn't actually grant Aladdin's wish.
• 1:41
  [SPEAKER_01]: He just gave him some new clothes and an entourage.
• 1:44
  [SPEAKER_01]: If I were Aladdin, I'd have asked for a refund.
• 1:47
  [SPEAKER_01]: One rather clever theory explains this by pausing that in fact the entire movie's plot is just
• 1:55
  [SPEAKER_01]: Think about it.
• 1:56
  [SPEAKER_01]: At the end of the movie, Aladdin saves the day Wu's Princess Jasmine and they get married, making Aladdin up friends.
• 2:03
  [SPEAKER_01]: All the fake print stuff, the clothes, the elephants, the title, the entire adventure Aladdin goes on, is simply a means by which the genie gets Jasmine to fall in love with him, Mad Mariam, thus fulfilling Aladdin's first wish.
• 2:17
  [SPEAKER_01]: And hey, if the genie happens to get his freedom out of the deal, where's the harm?
• 2:21
  [SPEAKER_01]: This reading of the story casts the genie in a new line.
• 2:24
  [SPEAKER_01]: Still not evil by any means, but definitely more manipulative than he might initially appear.
• 2:30
  [SPEAKER_01]: It also makes the romantic element of the story a little creepier, after all it makes genie the ultimate matchmaker.
• 2:36
  [SPEAKER_01]: So, this is pretty embarrassing, but for the longest time, I was convinced SpongeBob was a piece of cheese.
• 2:43
  [SPEAKER_01]: I knew his name contained the word sponge, and that he lives in the ocean.
• 2:47
  [SPEAKER_01]: Look, there's a reason I'm a YouTuber, okay?
• 2:50
  [SPEAKER_01]: Another strange interpretation of SpongeBob's anatomy is known as skin theory, which stems from a pretty bizarre observation about the show.
• 2:57
  [SPEAKER_01]: Have you ever noticed how many jokes revolve around characters treating their skin like clothes?
• 3:03
  [SPEAKER_01]: and it happens a lot.
• 3:05
  [SPEAKER_01]: On top of wearing skin suits there are also lots of gross jokes where characters get their skin removed or removed easily.
• 3:13
  [SPEAKER_01]: Please don't ask why a sponge has a skeleton.
• 3:16
  [SPEAKER_01]: That's not actually relevant to the theory.
• 3:18
  [SPEAKER_01]: It's just weird.
• 3:19
  [SPEAKER_01]: Once you're looking for them, there are a shocking number of jokes, especially in the first few seasons with similar punchlines.
• 3:26
  [SPEAKER_01]: Skin theory proposes that every resident of bikini bottom is wearing an extra set of skin, or perhaps a full body suit at all times.
• 3:36
  [SPEAKER_01]: While this may seem like a reach, consider the episode Muscle Bob Buff Pants.
• 3:40
  [SPEAKER_01]: And it's SpongeBob is tired of being seen as a witty, so he does the only sensible thing again, order a replacement pair of arms.
• 3:48
  [SPEAKER_01]: While this is strange to us, other characters seem to react relatively casually to SpongeBob's new arms.
• 3:53
  [SPEAKER_01]: I mean, SpongeBob learns about his replacement arms through a commercial, so there's clearly a market for replaceable body parts.
• 4:00
  [SPEAKER_01]: What do we meant to take from this?
• 4:02
  [SPEAKER_01]: Are there residents of bikini bottomalls zombies or something?
• 4:05
  [SPEAKER_01]: Well, one outlandish explanation is that the SpongeBob characters are actually humans and disguise.
• 4:11
  [SPEAKER_01]: This does require you hand-wave away the hole you're not living under water thing, not much more plausible, and in my opinion, interesting explanation is that the second skids are simply normal.
• 4:23
  [SPEAKER_01]: In bikini bottom residents change their costumes the way we might change our hair or wardrobe.
• 4:28
  [SPEAKER_01]: After all, and Muscle Bob Buff fans, the recent SpongeBob orders his new arms as plain all insecurity, and who can't relate to that.
• 4:35
  [SPEAKER_01]: I'll have to round with a bullet for two years of college because a girl called me boring in high school.
• 4:40
  [SPEAKER_01]: Pinky and the Brain is one of those wonderful shows that has the decency to tell you it's premise in the theme song.
• 4:46
  [SPEAKER_00]: Remember it, and went, Pinky and the Brain, it's Pinky and the Brain, one is a genius,
• 4:56
  [SPEAKER_00]: A little pitch there, that's all right.
• 4:59
  [SPEAKER_01]: My singing aside, the premise is that the smart mouse brain wants to take over the world.
• 5:05
  [SPEAKER_01]: Every week, however, he's spoiled by the peabrain dantics of his assistant pinky.
• 5:10
  [SPEAKER_01]: Over the course of its original 65 episodes brain attempted to take over the world via DBS plans such as getting elected president of the United States, creating a planet made of paper Mishay, marketing perfume, and becoming the coach of a basketball team?
• 5:24
  [SPEAKER_01]: I don't know, some of these schemes don't sound very smart, it sounds ridiculous.
• 5:28
  [SPEAKER_01]: I mean, how was brainament to take over the world by winning a golf tournament?
• 5:33
  [SPEAKER_01]: Hang on a moment.
• 5:34
  [SPEAKER_01]: One is a genius, the others insane.
• 5:37
  [SPEAKER_01]: The lyrics never mentioned which of the two is the genius.
• 5:41
  [SPEAKER_01]: Could it be that Pinky is actually the mastermind here?
• 5:44
  [SPEAKER_01]: Let's look at the evidence.
• 5:46
  [SPEAKER_01]: Brain is a textbook for megalomaniac, easy-gotistical, arrogant, and desires control above all.
• 5:53
  [SPEAKER_01]: Additionally, as we've discussed his plans tend to follow a strange sort of logic that doesn't always make sense.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Note that the theme song doesn't report either are stupid, just insane, and I think Brain fits the bill.
• 6:06
  [SPEAKER_01]: Being key on the other hand appears to be demwitted easily confused and incompetent, but almost every time one of Brain's schemes goes wrong, it's usually because of Pinky's tampering.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: This is caused many to speculate that Pinky's demeanor isn't act, but he's chosen to keep an eye on brain and the word his scheme should he ever actually get close to world domination.
• 6:27
  [SPEAKER_01]: In the recent Animaniacs reboot, we learned that brain hates humanity due to the fact he was experimented on as a lab mouse.
• 6:35
  [SPEAKER_01]: Pinky on the other hand was used as a cheese taste tester and live a relatively carefree life.
• 6:40
  [SPEAKER_01]: This could explain why the brain wants to conquer the world while Pinky, who's always been the friendlier of the two, wants to preserve it.
• 6:48
  [SPEAKER_01]: Dear scientists, please treat your lab mice with respect.
• 6:52
  [SPEAKER_01]: It may sound strange what my favorite Pokemon character as a kid was always.
• 6:56
  [SPEAKER_01]: There's joy.
• 6:57
  [SPEAKER_01]: Probably because I got beaten up a lot as a kid.
• 6:59
  [SPEAKER_01]: Nurse Joy is the friendly helpful caretaker that Ash first meets in Veridian City in the second episode of the anime TV series.
• 7:07
  [SPEAKER_01]: Joy treats Ash's injured Pikachu and they part ways.
• 7:10
  [SPEAKER_01]: Until a few episodes later, when Ash meets an identical nurse joy, running the Pewter City Poker Center.
• 7:16
  [SPEAKER_01]: This nurse joy mentions the previous joyous her sister, however something is clearly off here.
• 7:22
  [SPEAKER_01]: Whenever Ash enters his so-called friends and animal blood sport, he heads over to the bogus center and hey, surprise, there's nurse joy ready to help.
• 7:31
  [SPEAKER_01]: This even extends to cities and other continents.
• 7:34
  [SPEAKER_01]: Sure, this Nurse Joy has a different hairdo, which I'm loving, by the way, but come on.
• 7:40
  [SPEAKER_01]: They're all the same person.
• 7:42
  [SPEAKER_01]: I always suppose to believe one family is this large.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: That sister, after sister, is identical in each becameoners.
• 7:48
  [SPEAKER_01]: That her parents couldn't think of any names besides Joy.
• 7:51
  [SPEAKER_01]: On theory explains this away with a simple, if creepy hiscersion.
• 7:56
  [SPEAKER_01]: That Nurse Joy is in fact, a Pokemon.
• 7:59
  [SPEAKER_01]: While this might seem ridiculous at first, it starts making an unsettling amount of sense the more you think about it.
• 8:05
  [SPEAKER_01]: For starters, it explains why all the joys look so similar.
• 8:08
  [SPEAKER_01]: Sure, there's a little variance between them, but there's a little variance in Pokemon too.
• 8:13
  [SPEAKER_01]: It also explains why they share the same name.
• 8:16
  [SPEAKER_01]: Their joy is the species.
• 8:19
  [SPEAKER_01]: While nurse Joy can speak and looks human, there are plenty of human looking Pokemon and Pokemon like Meowth, Mewtwo, and Slowking can speak too.
• 8:28
  [SPEAKER_01]: Many Pokemon are also drawn to specific areas based on their nature.
• 8:32
  [SPEAKER_01]: Shandalua, for example, prefers mansions, nurse Joy could similarly be drawn to hospitals with a desire to take care of injured Pokemon.
• 8:40
  [SPEAKER_01]: She's often seen alongside the Pokemon Chancy, which could suggest she's an alternate evolution of the Pokemon's baby form, Hapini.
• 8:48
  [SPEAKER_01]: Their color schemes are awfully similar after all, while this is all compelling, maybe I'm overthinking things a bit.
• 8:55
  [SPEAKER_01]: After all, Pokemon takes place in a crazy, magical world we're visiting Apococenter doesn't put Ash into crippling debt for the rest of his life.
• 9:03
  [SPEAKER_01]: What a fantasy.
• 9:05
  [SPEAKER_01]: Am I the only person that finds Thomas the Tank Engines design ugly as heck?
• 9:10
  [SPEAKER_01]: Honestly, I feel crazy when kids get excited about metal trains with human faces.
• 9:15
  [SPEAKER_01]: I wonder we've never seen
• 9:18
  [SPEAKER_01]: Like how human are these trains?
• 9:22
  [SPEAKER_01]: Wait, do they, do they have entire mangled human bodies in there?
• 9:26
  [SPEAKER_01]: A quick Google tells me I'm not alone.
• 9:29
  [SPEAKER_01]: There's even a horror game chew chewed Charles about these awful creatures.
• 9:34
  [SPEAKER_01]: Still, there's something even creepier going on in the Tang Engine world than human train hybrids and its forced labor.
• 9:41
  [SPEAKER_01]: According to the late Reverend Wilbert Aldry, creator of Thomas the Tang Engine, the living trains don't have faces outside their home of Sodor, the primary setting of the series.
• 9:51
  [SPEAKER_01]: Now I've been wrestling with this information since I first heard it, and whatever way it's interpreted, it's creepy as heck.
• 9:58
  [SPEAKER_01]: Either the trains lose their sentience, the moment they leave Sodor, or worse, they just lose their faces, becoming blind, mute, and entombed in their own bodies.
• 10:08
  [SPEAKER_01]: This makes leaving Soto a grim prospect for any of the trains, but it gets worse.
• 10:13
  [SPEAKER_01]: You see, the trains don't self-actualize or run their own society in the one place on Earth their alive.
• 10:20
  [SPEAKER_01]: Instead, they must obey the whims of Sir Topham Head, also known as the FAT-Controller.
• 10:25
  [SPEAKER_01]: And if the underlying imperialist vibes of a wealthy, knighted British industrialist forcing the inhabitants of a small island to work is lost on you, just look at how he behaves.
• 10:35
  [SPEAKER_01]: The Fat Controller puts the trains to work and constantly threatens them if they misbehave.
• 10:40
  [SPEAKER_01]: In one episode, the Fat Controller is too busy to order the trains around.
• 10:44
  [SPEAKER_01]: Japanese engine hero decides to take charge and manage operations while the Fat Controller is preoccupied.
• 10:50
  [SPEAKER_01]: Rather than relieve, the fat controller is furious, to radically screaming, ah, I am the controller of the railways.
• 10:58
  [SPEAKER_01]: Hero is reduced to tears and the fat controller forces him to apologize to every train on the island.
• 11:04
  [SPEAKER_01]: And another particularly harrowing episode of TrainGuard Henry, who refuses to obey the fat controller, is bricked up inside a tunnel forever.
• 11:13
  [SPEAKER_01]: The trains have clearly internalized their own enslavement too.
• 11:16
  [SPEAKER_01]: The best compliment you can give an engine on so it orders to call them useful.
• 11:21
  [SPEAKER_01]: Man, is it living a terrifying existence as a meat train wasn't enough?
• 11:25
  [SPEAKER_01]: For over 35 seasons and 750 episodes, the Simpsons has delivered hundreds of hilarious and memorable TV moments.
• 11:35
  [SPEAKER_01]: I mean, all those moments occurred in the first nine seasons, but good luck.
• 11:38
  [SPEAKER_01]: I still watch the show.
• 11:40
  [SPEAKER_01]: Fair enough, besides the Simpsons' historic drop-and-quality from the funny show on Air 2, one that had an episode about a talking dish rag.
• 11:49
  [SPEAKER_01]: Something else is rotten in Springfield, and it's time.
• 11:53
  [SPEAKER_01]: Now cartoon characters not aging in real time is nothing new, and in fact besides a few exceptions like adventure time most don't age it all.
• 12:01
  [SPEAKER_01]: Many exist in a kind of timeless cartoon world.
• 12:04
  [SPEAKER_01]: In the Simpsons however things are different, it has a floating timeline.
• 12:09
  [SPEAKER_01]: What this means is that while the characters don't age, time's still moves forward.
• 12:14
  [SPEAKER_01]: Thus the Simpsons family technically don't have a past.
• 12:18
  [SPEAKER_01]: To explain this a little more in Season 4 Episode 16, Homer's birth year is given as 1956.
• 12:23
  [SPEAKER_01]: In 1993, when the episode aired, this would have made Homer 36, which is younger than I'd have guessed.
• 12:30
  [SPEAKER_01]: This age is consistent with other episodes too.
• 12:33
  [SPEAKER_01]: Homer was a youth during the moon landing and flashback show in beginning to bald in the 80s.
• 12:38
  [SPEAKER_01]: However, his time moved forward in the real world, so did Homer's past.
• 12:43
  [SPEAKER_01]: In 2008, a season 19 episode portrays Homer as a young adult.
• 12:47
  [SPEAKER_01]: In 1994, you know, a year after the episode that confirmed he was 36, that's the floating timeline.
• 12:56
  [SPEAKER_01]: Essentially, Homer and Marge weren't born in any year.
• 12:59
  [SPEAKER_01]: They were just born around 36 years before whatever the current episode is.
• 13:03
  [SPEAKER_01]: This means their entire lives are constantly being ghoulishly rewritten along with their memories.
• 13:10
  [SPEAKER_01]: Some fans theorize that this isn't just the state of the show's world, it's something Homer is aware of.
• 13:16
  [SPEAKER_01]: He goes from dimwitted but well-meaning in early seasons to selfish in the later ones.
• 13:21
  [SPEAKER_01]: Fans even dubbed late-season Homer jerkass Homer, who's safe in the nihilistic knowledge that nothing he does matters and that the status quo inevitably be restored by the end of the episode.
• 13:31
  [SPEAKER_01]: I mean, in season one, when Homer loses his job, he's so distraught he considers removing himself from the world.
• 13:38
  [SPEAKER_01]: Now Homer gets a new job every week without fear.
• 13:41
  [SPEAKER_01]: Some fans tie the genesis of this change back to a season four episode where Homer meets God in a dream.
• 13:47
  [SPEAKER_01]: Perhaps this meeting gave him some greater knowledge?
• 13:50
  [SPEAKER_01]: At this point, I think just about everyone in the world recognizes Peppa Pig.
• 13:54
  [SPEAKER_01]: She's the cute, charming little pig that teaches kids about...
• 13:59
  [SPEAKER_01]: Okay, I missed a boat off HEPA.
• 14:01
  [SPEAKER_01]: Don't you talk kids about safe pork preparation?
• 14:04
  [SPEAKER_01]: Apparently that's wrong.
• 14:05
  [SPEAKER_01]: Instead, she plays with her friends and relatives?
• 14:08
  [SPEAKER_01]: Man, and my day cardgen characters had secret labs or killed each other with card games.
• 14:13
  [SPEAKER_01]: Even to a pep on novice like myself, something that stands out to me is the art style.
• 14:17
  [SPEAKER_01]: How many cartoons go for a more realistic or expressive character designs Peppa's simple crude and looks like she was drawn by a child herself?
• 14:26
  [SPEAKER_01]: Additionally, we always see Peppa from a side-on angle, so we still get to always see her entire range of facial expressions.
• 14:35
  [SPEAKER_01]: Or so we think.
• 14:36
  [SPEAKER_01]: You see in the show we often see Peppa from both her left and right sides and when we do, she still always has both eyes visible.
• 14:44
  [SPEAKER_01]: What that means is if we were to swivelbubber around, ah, who he'd end up with something horrifying while one popular Peppa Pig theory is that the world of the show takes place in a post-human society.
• 14:57
  [SPEAKER_01]: You'll notice that all the buildings in Peppa Pig are on top of large hills, which could suggest they were built to protect against floods and other environmental disasters.
• 15:05
  [SPEAKER_01]: After humans wiped themselves out via climate change, or nuclear warfare animals evolved
• 15:14
  [SPEAKER_01]: Another theory posits that to survive a bizarre new world humans transformed themselves and animals, which might explain why the big people rev it people and elephant people are all the same size.
• 15:25
  [SPEAKER_01]: While we do see one human in the series, she's also the queen.
• 15:29
  [SPEAKER_01]: Maybe that's because she's the last remaining human, or the final remaining traditional human.
• 15:35
  [SPEAKER_01]: And I think a few days ago I knew nothing about Peppa Pig.
• 15:38
  [SPEAKER_01]: Now I know it's a monarchic dystopian post-human slice-of-life kid show.
• 15:43
  [SPEAKER_01]: If you're an old-timer like me and may be surprising to hear about Team Rocket, don't just use an arborca and a coughing.
• 15:50
  [SPEAKER_01]: In fact, over the years, they've used an entire gym's worth of combatants.
• 15:54
  [SPEAKER_01]: A fan favorite is Woobofet.
• 15:56
  [SPEAKER_01]: This blobby weirdo was Jesse's signature Pokémon for a while.
• 16:00
  [SPEAKER_01]: It never obeyed her for man's always showed up in the worst possible time and was a general idiot.
• 16:06
  [SPEAKER_01]: And we loved him.
• 16:07
  [SPEAKER_01]: Something about this guy's design bothers me though.
• 16:10
  [SPEAKER_01]: It's the tail.
• 16:11
  [SPEAKER_01]: You see, Wobbuffet's gimmick is that, well, it doesn't hit hard.
• 16:15
  [SPEAKER_01]: It always bounces back like an inflatable balloon.
• 16:17
  [SPEAKER_01]: This has led many to theorize that the Pokémon itself is this little black tail with
• 16:26
  [SPEAKER_01]: This is a neat little design element, however, it's not where this theory ends.
• 16:31
  [SPEAKER_01]: See, the more I dug, the more Pokémon I found with an early similar design.
• 16:36
  [SPEAKER_01]: A pair of cartoony eyes with a black body often surrounded by something else.
• 16:40
  [SPEAKER_01]: This is led to what I'm calling the missing Pokémon theory, that all these Pokémon can trace their lineage back to one simple,
• 16:50
  [SPEAKER_01]: Need more proof?
• 16:51
  [SPEAKER_01]: While in the Pokémon Universe, no Pokémon has more than three stages in its evolutionary line.
• 16:57
  [SPEAKER_01]: Bulbasaur becomes IV-Saur, which becomes Venusaur, Iglie Buff becomes Jigglypuff, becomes Wigglytuff, etc.
• 17:04
  [SPEAKER_01]: While some Pokémon don't evolve, some can evolve into several different Pokémon, and some only evolve once.
• 17:12
  [SPEAKER_01]: No Pokémon has more than three stages.
• 17:15
  [SPEAKER_01]: What's great about the undiscovered blob theory is that, every potential Pokémon line it applies to is only a two-stage evolution.
• 17:23
  [SPEAKER_01]: Shelter evolves in a cloister, but that's it.
• 17:27
  [SPEAKER_01]: That means for all these Pokémon, the undiscovered blob could take the place of their first evolutionary stage.
• 17:33
  [SPEAKER_01]: For example, blobby could evolve into shelter, which then evolves into cloister.
• 17:37
  [SPEAKER_01]: Or it could evolve into a win-off, which evolves into Wobbuffet, or tangelo which evolves into tan drought.
• 17:43
  [SPEAKER_01]: Pokemon like EV already have a bunch of potential evolutions, so it isn't too outside the realm of possibility to think, all these Pokemon might share a mysterious missing link.
• 17:54
  [SPEAKER_01]: Or you know, a black lob with eyes is just easy to draw.
• 17:57
  [SPEAKER_01]: Go either way.
• 17:58
  [SPEAKER_01]: Mix our cars franchise, but who wielders me?
• 18:01
  [SPEAKER_01]: There are no one's favorite Pixar movies and in terms of box office, they don't live up to the studio's other successes.
• 18:07
  [SPEAKER_01]: Somehow though, the franchise sports three major leases, two spin-off films, a bunch of shorts and apparently two TV series, who loves the car's universe this much.
• 18:17
  [SPEAKER_01]: That wouldn't be so touchy if the world building in the car series wasn't so weird.
• 18:23
  [SPEAKER_01]: One car's theories that you might have heard is that the film's take place on a post-apocalyptic Earth, where humans have gone extinct and cars reign supreme.
• 18:32
  [SPEAKER_01]: While it's a fun idea in cars too letting McQueen travels all over the world from Japan to Italy, and every single city he visits is clean with well-maintained infrastructure.
• 18:41
  [SPEAKER_01]: Unless the humanity ending apocalypse happened one week before the start of the film, I doubt these cities would be in such great condition.
• 18:48
  [SPEAKER_01]: The reality is that cars take place in a world with cars instead of people, and that simple explanation carries with it a lot of dark implications Disney, likely, didn't end.
• 18:59
  [SPEAKER_01]: For example, Tony Treyhol, who appears in Cars 2, Tony is a literal combat ship, a US warship designed in the 2000s to expand American military presence in the shallow waters, specifically in the Persian Gulf.
• 19:14
  [SPEAKER_01]: This heavily implies that in the Cars Universe, the cars USA invaded Cars and Rock, hence the need for LCS Tony Triall.
• 19:23
  [SPEAKER_01]: However, another reason for deployment in the Persian Gulf was to keep an eye on Iranian waters.
• 19:28
  [SPEAKER_01]: This implies that in the Cars Universe, the Cars CIA instigated a car queue in Cars and Ron installing their own car shop.
• 19:44
  [SPEAKER_01]: You see how messy this all gets?
• 19:47
  [SPEAKER_01]: In the plane's spin-off movie, the character Skipper has an honest goodness flashback to his time in Cars World War II, which raises so many macabre implications.
• 19:57
  [SPEAKER_01]: I'm sure you don't need me to spell it out.
• 19:59
  [SPEAKER_01]: One final nightmare to consider is the fact that the Pope, yes, the actual Pope, canonically exists in the Cars Universe.
• 20:06
  [SPEAKER_01]: He rides around in a little potmobile as a joke, but that joke also implies that, as in the real world, there was an assassination attempt on the Pope's life in 1981.
• 20:15
  [SPEAKER_01]: The existence of a carpope means there's not only a cartholic church, but that there must also have been a car's Jesus who was somehow nailed to a cross by car's romance.
• 20:26
  [SPEAKER_01]: And who knows what they were?
• 20:28
  [SPEAKER_01]: Chariots?
• 20:29
  [SPEAKER_01]: Wheelbarrows?
• 20:30
  [SPEAKER_01]: When does it end?
• 20:31
  [SPEAKER_01]: We ever picked on as a kid, I was and it was horrible.
• 20:35
  [SPEAKER_01]: I always used to picture my bully as Nelson months from the Simpsons, ugly, mean, and stupid.
• 20:41
  [SPEAKER_01]: Something I used to tell myself to feel better was that when I grew up I was going to be miles ahead of it.
• 20:46
  [SPEAKER_01]: I'm a professional YouTuber and eligible bachelor and I've been married.
• 20:51
  [SPEAKER_01]: Twice!
• 20:52
  [SPEAKER_01]: I like to imagine my tormentor turned out like Barney Gumble, unhealthy undignified with zero discernible talents.
• 20:59
  [SPEAKER_01]: Although now that I mentioned it, these two characters do seem awfully alike, don't they.
• 21:04
  [SPEAKER_01]: I'm not the only one who's noticed either.
• 21:06
  [SPEAKER_01]: Barney being Nelson's secret father is a Simpson's theory as old as the show itself.
• 21:11
  [SPEAKER_01]: Let's look at the evidence.
• 21:13
  [SPEAKER_01]: First off, the characters look remarkably similar, same giant teeth, similar messy brown hair, the same bad posture and large gut, their color schemes are even the same.
• 21:22
  [SPEAKER_01]: Nelson also makes several jokes about his dad going out for cigarettes one day and never returning, so he know he isn't in the picture.
• 21:30
  [SPEAKER_01]: And one episode Nelson references the fact that his mom is woken up next to different men a lot, so it's entirely possible Barney was a regrettable one nightstand that ended in Nelson's birth.
• 21:40
  [SPEAKER_01]: If not directly though, Barney has been shown to donate sperm to a four-beer money, so he could easily afford a Nelson that way.
• 21:46
  [SPEAKER_01]: Either way though, Barney is hardly the most responsible guy in Springfield, so it makes sense he isn't around raising Nelson.
• 21:53
  [SPEAKER_01]: Now there's one elephant in the room this theory has to address.
• 21:56
  [SPEAKER_01]: The fact that Nelson's dad actually shows up in later episodes.
• 22:00
  [SPEAKER_01]: The thing is, though, these episodes never confirm this man is Nelson's biological father.
• 22:05
  [SPEAKER_01]: Nelson's mother also seems to have little affection for the man, so it's entirely possible he was just a guy she was with in Nelson's youth.
• 22:12
  [SPEAKER_01]: Some fans have taken this theory too much stranger links though, remember the wackiness that arises from the Simpsons floating timeline?
• 22:19
  [SPEAKER_01]: While some folks theorize the Simpsons' weird relationship with time could mean that Nelson is, in fact, a younger version of Barney.
• 22:26
  [SPEAKER_01]: And while that idea is, interesting, I think I'd better quit digging her pretty soon the Simpsons timeline will be as convoluted as the Dark Souls 1.
• 22:33
  [SPEAKER_01]: Phew!
• 22:34
  [SPEAKER_01]: haven't done that much digging into my childhood memories since my last therapy session.
• 22:39
  [SPEAKER_01]: What do you think though?
• 22:40
  [SPEAKER_01]: Do any of these theories hold water?
• 22:42
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