The Cartoon Conspiracy Theory Iceberg Explained

The Cartoon Conspiracy Theory Iceberg Explained

0:00 Intro
1:11 Level 1: Above the Surface
10:02 Level 2: Movie Set
21:54 Level 3: Andy's Room
36:27 Level 4: Bikini Bottom
49:04 Level 5: Nowhere
1:03:07 Level 6: Vacuum of Space
1:14:02 Level 7: The Void

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Music -
Ultimate Custom Night OST - Hibernating Evil
Ultimate Custom Night OST - Where Dreams Die

Gaming Myths Playlist:

[millipede]

One of my favourite cartoon theories is the Gravity Falls one where Grunkle Stan knew Gideon wasnt really psychic the moment he called him "Stanford"

[Jhud]

For Ash's coma theory, I think people forget it's an anime (and of course, game series) set in Japan. Kids in Japan have quite a lot of freedom, you can see 5 year olds going to preschool alone using public transport or running errands. In a fictional world set in Japan I don't think letting a 10 year old go on a Pokemon journey be seen as that dangerous.

[MouetteRoquefort]

So all the theories are
-every characters are dead
-every characters are in coma
_every characters are crazy
-every characters are on drugs
😭

[danem]

The Garfield one is probably the only theory that gets debunked for a worse explanation. "Garfield gets sad when Jon leaves" but the creator is like "no, he just has an existential crisis every Monday because his monotonous life is passing him by"

[PaizuruInsanal]

Helga's perspective is real tho, the author himself admitted, she was planned to be the main character at first and he even tried again pitching a Daria-style show to Nickelodeon called The Patakis.

[CinnamonGrrlErin]

Mr Mime might not be Ash's bio father, but he's the father who stepped up

[sophiaitoshiki]

I think the Family Guy theory about Brian being a CIA experiment is connected to the CIA from American Dad, as all talking animals in the latter show are results of such. That part of the theory also connects other talking animals from other cartoons by the same creator, such as the bears in the Cleveland Show

[p-bot.]

I feel like the seven deadly sins comparison you could do it with any show with a large enough cast.

[rogercheetoofficial]

I love how every single theory slots neatly into either "here's something that has actual textual evidence and is tonally consistent with the source media" or "I got rejected from the creepy pasta wiki, time to repackage it as a theory"

[matthewcorridor]

Cant believe the you didn't mention that in the Bikini Atoll theory, the joke where it cuts to real footage of a nuke, which is from an actual test at Bikini Atoll!

[suly]

There's a couple of episodes in which it is shown that Pinky is actually what makes his duo with Brain work, in one episode it is revealed that the problem of all of Brain's plans is himself, and Pinky's inputs are what fixes his flawed ideas, I think this is also the episode where Pinky becomes "smart", but he is basically the same but can express himself in a more conventionally intelligent way. So the theory is actually kind of accurate.

[mountnstream]

When I saw Attack on Titan on the thumbnail, out of all the theories and readings one could draw from that franchise, the Smurfs one wasn't what I or probably anyone expected.

[endercreeper]

People use ash never aging as evidence of immortality, but whenever we see a returning character like dawn they also haven’t aged

[biospark]

While Nemo does mean “nobody” in Latin, it’s likely that Finding Nemo gets his name from Captain Nemo from 20, 000 Leagues Under the Sea

[noone]

For the Ms Frizzle as a timelord theory, it basically comes down to the bus being her tardis. A tardis can take any form via a chemeloen circuit. The police box that we all recognize is only the given form of the Doctors Tardis, which has a broken chameleon circuit.

[petehill]

1:03:42 'Gargamel' is not a Jewish name. It is the masculine form of 'Gargamelle', the mother of the titular character of the classic French novel Gargantua and Pantagruel. The claim that is actually made is that Gargamel is a Jewish caricature because he possesses a large nose, has a cat named Azrael (after the Jewish angel of death), and in the first series of the Hanna-Barbera Smurfs animated series, he is portrayed as an alchemist who wants to turn the Smurfs into gold-- in subsequent series of the show, he simply wants to eat them.

[freakthecentipede]

I love the Ed Edd n Eddy parental abuse theory because it's canon
Eddy is the most obvious one, being abused and beat up by his adult older brother, and that's what caused him to be like... that
Edd (double D) isn't physically abused but litterally never sees his parents, they talk to him via sticky notes only and it's mostly just telling him to do chore and to work non stop. They seems to be weirdly invasive too as there's a sticky note in his bathroom telling him to "not touch himself"
And Ed lives in the disgusting basement, in horrible conditions. Yes, Ed is messy and most of the broken, dirty things are probably because of him but still, he's like 12 and mentally disabled, that's not his responsability. His parents also let his little sister beat him up and always take her side. He's also often showed hoarding food and hiding it everywhere which is a red flag.

[OmegaKaji]

For the Andy's mom theory. There's more evidence to it. The cowboy hat Andy has as a kid is actually a kid size replica of Jessie's hat, not Woody's. And in the flashback where it shows Jessie being played with by a young girl, the girl is wearing the same child size version of Jessie's hat. Given that the toy line that Woody and Jessie come from are from an older puppet show that was popular around the time that Andy's mom would be a child, and it being difficult if not impossible to find items and toys from that line in the time the movies take place, it would make sense that Andy got the hat from his mom as one of her old toys she held on too while also misplacing Jessie.

[SOLDIERSecondRateRaven]

Courage imagining the danger is one of VERY few "it's in their head" trope theories I think are actually good. Usually, I dislike them for being lazy because dream/imagination logic can always work, so they can't be disproven. But it makes sense for a dog's perception of the world to be skewed to extremely exaggerated distance and threats.

[greenhunter]

1:01:26 Professor Oak being Sammy actually isn't part of the theory, that's straight up canon and confirmed in the movie itself at the end. It's the big twist of the film, Oak has Sammy's journal in the present day (you can even see in his lab in the Let's Go games apparently), he somehow knew Sammy's name despite it never being said to him, and even outright says that he remembers it (the events of the movie) just like yesterday to himself in the English dub.

Which I guess means that the theory might as well be considered canon as well since if Oak knew Ash had a Pikachu when he first met him as a kid then he probably figured that he had to give him Pikachu anyways when the time came.