90s cartoon theories

[Olu Dara]

Garfield Hallucination Theory
Jon and Odie don’t exist. “Garfield is actually dying of starvation and just imagining Jon and Odie. There was a reference to this in a Halloween-themed comic. Garfield woke up in a condemned and abandoned house. He calls out for Odie and Jon, but there is no answer. He then wills the illusion back on himself, and continues his delusions about his ‘family’.”

 

[PTBG]

I was right about to post a thread about cartoon/tv theories. Some of these fukked up my childhood. Here are some I found:

#6. The Characters in SpongeBob SquarePants Are the Result of Nuclear Testing
The Theory:
According to one strangely convincing theory posted on Reddit, the show is really about nuclear testing. SpongeBob and his friends look and act the way they do because of their exposure to the radiation from atomic bombs dropped in the area around Bikini Bottom, where the show is set.

Why It's Not That Crazy:
First of all, the fact that a talking sponge lives in a place called Bikini Bottom isn't some roundabout reference to human contraception -- the show is set under a real place called Bikini Atoll, which is confirmed by the official Nickelodeon-written synopsis. And here's where it gets interesting: Back in 1946, the U.S. government detonated a couple of atomic bombs there, one of which was set off underwater.

Toy Story 3 Was About The Holocaust:
Jordan Hoffman at Ugo has made some highly disturbing observations about the latest installment in everyone’s favorite franchise — namely, that it’s a direct allegory to the Holocaust, with the toys as the Jews. It starts when Andy leaves for college:

These toys are left behind, just as host nations left behind the Jews as the Third Reich conquered Europe.

Woody holds a meeting, where the assembled toy family discusses possible outcomes for their new position in the world. Change a few words and it is the same exact scene at the train station from Roman Polanski’s award winning Holocaust drama The Pianist.

No, we won’t just be abandoned. Surely we can be useful to them somehow. Yes, we’ve lost friends (Bo Peep), but surely that can’t happen to us.

Buzz Lightyear stands forward and suggests sanctuary IN AN ATTIC. Are you kidding me?
The cattle car comes for the toys in the form of a horrible garbage bag – but they don’t go straight to extermination. They find themselves alive and at Sunnyside where they are put “to work.” (Consider this, then, Dachau instead of Treblinka.)

Once there, they meet the toy version of Sonderkommando, toys who live the stay fed and well-sheltered (like Ken in his dream house) while leading other toys to a certain death. Newcomers are bashed and abused in the “Caterpillar Room” by non-age appropriate children until they resemble Muselmann and are eventually thrown into the trash chute.

The trash chute leads to a systematic sorting of metal (e.g. any last valuables) until, eventually, the fiery crematoria.

Our heroes get saved at the last minute, of course, and they find themselves a new homeland. It is a place where many of their kind already live and have an established foothold, and it would appear that security, finally, is at hand if they are vigilant.

All of the Rugrats are dead and figments of Angelica’s imagination.
Chuckie (the anxious redhead) died with his mother, which explains why his father, Chaz, is such a mess. The main character, Tommy, was a stillborn and his death had a lasting effect on his father: Stu’s obsession with making toys stems from the trauma of losing his son. As for Phil and Lil, the twins with slightly ambiguous genders—their mother, Betty, had an abortion. Knowing that Betty was pregnant and then not, Angelica didn’t know the sex of the baby and thus created twins to include both sexes.

This was the worst one though:

The “Fresh Prince” Will Is Dead Theory
Will actually died in the fight on the basketball court in West Philly.

The taxi driver is actually God, who drives a “rare” cab. He takes Will to heaven, where he works out all his issues with his wealthy Aunt and Uncle.

Will only sees his mother and father on special occasions, because that’s when they come to visit his grave.

 

[Bender Rodriguez]

Ill just put this here...

 

[King Koopa]

This was the worst one though:

what about the pink small dog, the coward dog?

what about dexter?

Check my earlier post right above yours...

 

[Kidd Dibiase]

 

[feelosofer]

The one thing about Garfield is that I think Jon is a severe manic depressive. Garfield only interacts with Jon as a buffer for his severe loneliness. Dude is 35-40 years old, not married and he can't attain the one woman he likes. His parents don't respect him and he has no friends, dude is trapped in the ennui of basic white suburban life.

Hey Arnold needs no theories that whole premise of that show is fukked up enough. I was already grown when that show dropped and thought it was quite disturbing in its undertones.

 

[Kidd Dibiase]

 

[Jazzy B.]

:WHAT!:

 

[RAX 010]

ren and stimpy
thundercats
popeye
he man
pound puppies



and GO

 

[Dillah810]

Garfield Hallucination Theory
Jon and Odie don’t exist. “Garfield is actually dying of starvation and just imagining Jon and Odie. There was a reference to this in a Halloween-themed comic. Garfield woke up in a condemned and abandoned house. He calls out for Odie and Jon, but there is no answer. He then wills the illusion back on himself, and continues his delusions about his ‘family’.”

I remember when that comic came out. shyt was creppy

 

[Kidd Dibiase]

The Smurfs are white supremacists/Nazis/anti-Semites

Er, blue supremacists? Either way, many have noted that the Smurfs wear pointed white hats, except for their leader, who wears a pointed red hat — much like the fashion decisions of the KKK. There’s also the related fact that the big villain, Gargamel, is a money-loving, large-nosed, dark haired fellow. His cat even has a bona fide Jewish name, Azrael — which is also the name of the angel of death in Jewish tradition. There’s also this. And that’s not even all the Smurf conspiracy theories — check out a roundup of a few more here.

Dr. Claw is the real Inspector Gadget

According to this popular fan theory, related by Cracked, the reason we never see Dr. Claw’s face is that he is — gasp — actually the real, or at least the original, Inspector Gadget! That is, according to this theory, which states that the Inspector Gadget we know and love is a robotic recreation of the man Dr. Claw once was, a normal human detective who suffered a terrible accident.

That’s where his conveniently smart niece comes in: Penny, in her grief, recreated her uncle as a crime-fighting robot … ignoring that the real man wasn’t dead, only disfigured and insane. This would also explain why nothing ever happens to Penny, even though Claw’s cronies seem to catch her every episode: She always finds a way to ruin Claw’s plans because she’s the only thing he still cares for. And hey, remember the part at the end of the opening theme where Gadget turns Claw’s chair around and there’s a bomb in it? A bomb that thenexplodes in Gadget’s face? Perhaps this was meant to be symbolic. Perhaps there’s no Claw, just Gadget.

 

[Kidd Dibiase]

The kids from The Magic Schoolbus grow up to be the kids from Captain Planet.

Well, just look at them. No random group of young people is so pointedly multiracial. Originally spotted by Jamie Steinheimer, this more in-depth explanation comes from Geekosystem:

Gaia pulled a Jacob (see: LOST), kidnapping a bunch of children and relocating them to an island where she brainwashed them into thinking they were in “school” and she was their teacher, Miss Frizzle. In reality this was an indoctrination camp where she created the perfect pollution fighters by instilling a love of science and ecology into them at a young age.

Not all the kids made the cut. Phoebe resisted the brainwashing, unable to forget her previous life and constantly making references to her “old school.” It was a pathetic cry for help, and an attempt to hold onto her lest shred of sanity. Ralphie fell under Janet’s spell and the two escaped the island, only to be driven mad by their memories. Eventually, they turned to a life of crime becoming Hoggish Greedly and Dr. Blight respectively. The mysterious time-dialating effects of Gaia’s island accounts for their discrepancies in age. Keesha’s current whereabouts are unknown.

When her “class” had matured sufficiently, Frizzle/Gaia wiped their memories and sent them out as an eco-friendly sleeper cell until she had need of them. Years later, she gave them the power rings, and sent them off on an ecologically toyetic series of adventures.

 

[Kidd Dibiase]

The fairies in The Fairly Oddparents are metaphors for anti-depressants

According to a theory that comes, yet again, courtesy of Reddit, Timmy’s fairy godparents are simply metaphors for Zoloft and Prozac — they’re there to help him through his problems, but only until he doesn’t need them anymore. Plus, not only did they start showing up at the same time as his problems, but there are some serious side effects every time he abuses their “magic.”

Or maybe they’re just imagined by a sexually abused little boy

Here’s another theory: “The Fairly Oddparents is about a kid playing pretend with his fish. His godparents died in a car crash when he was younger; since they were the only adults who ever understood him, he finds comfort in imagining that they are there to watch over him, since his parents obviously don’t care. His babysitter slaps him around but he isn’t brave enough to tell on her. The granted wishes are all in his imagination, hence why they never have any lasting consequences. Mr. Crocker has made sexual advances on young Timmy for years, hence the delusion that he is desperate to steal Timmy’s ‘fairies,’ which represent his innocence, joy, hope, and good wishes for the future.” Now that is bleak.

 

[Pinyapplesuckas]

Did read? Not.

 

[storyteller]

The one thing about Garfield is that I think Jon is a severe manic depressive. Garfield only interacts with Jon as a buffer for his severe loneliness. Dude is 35-40 years old, not married and he can't attain the one woman he likes. His parents don't respect him and he has no friends, dude is trapped in the ennui of basic white suburban life.

Hey Arnold needs no theories that whole premise of that show is fukked up enough. I was already grown when that show dropped and thought it was quite disturbing in its undertones.

Didn't someone remove Garfield from the comics and post images of just Jon talking to himself or some ish...I think I saw it on Cracked and it was hilarious and sad at the same damned time.