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Fan theories abound about movies, TV shows and other media abound, and have become more prevalent in recent decades thanks to the internet and social media. While of course many are outlandish and can't be taken seriously, some are actually well thought out and explain huge inconsistencies in the original media. Which are some you have heard and are interesting? Here are some good ones I have heard over the years:
TITANIC (1997) - Old Rose is an Imposter. When elderly Rose arrives on the research ship, Lewis Bodine expresses doubt to Brock Lovett that she is genuine and instead a confidence trickster citing her experience as an actress as a clue. What if Bodine was right, and this Rose Calvert (nee Dawson) was never Rose De Witt-Bukater, who really did die on the Titanic 84 years earlier? The theory goes as follows:
In the 1920s, struggling actress Rose Dawson supplements her income by working as an escort, and one of her regular clients is a deeply troubled businessman Caledon Hockley. Hockley notes her similarity and the same name as his late fiancee, and like many men with problems in his life who talk to prostitutes Hockley does just this, telling her about the Titanic, and how an artist named Jack who won a third class ticket stole Rose's heart away before the ship sank and they both died. Increasingly depressed, Cal Hockley gifts Rose Dawson a gift of a replica of the Heart of the Ocean, the original of which was lost years earlier with the real Rose, and soon thereafter dies by suicide. But there never was any guy called Jack, the guy who stole Rose away. He is the creation of Cal Hockley as a fictional figure to hate, and in fact the real Rose was in love with her maid Trudy and vice versa, and it was Trudy who sketched Rose naked wearing the diamond, Cal unable to cope with the fact that Rose loved and was having an affair with another woman. Separated during the sinking, Rose and Trudy refuse to leave the ship without each other, and both die in the disaster.
This theory with a lesbian Rose and a non-existent Jack actually explains many inconsistencies. While Mr. Lovejoy and Trudy died in the sinking, Rose's mother Ruth, Ruth's maid and Cal survive. Could Rose really have evaded all of them seeing her on the Carpathia, plus other surviving passengers and crew during the trip of 4 days to New York? Is an actress a sensible career choice for a woman running away from her past life and thought dead? Why was only the nude drawing of Rose found in the safe, and not Jack's other works? With so many years having gone by and most everyone dead by this time, none of Cal's unreliable Titanic stories told to escort Rose could be proven or disproven, nor could imposter Rose's embellishments. Why did Rose never say what became of her mother? This is because Cal never spoke of this, Rose does not know and saying the wrong thing could expose her fraud. Why did Trudy die in the disaster (in real life all female employees of first-class passengers survived) and why was she given such an undignified death, sliding down the deck screaming just before the Titanic founders, showing everyone her panties in the process? This detail might have been an embellishment by the bitter Cal Hockley, with Rose taking it to be truthful. And last of all, why would elderly Rose throw a genuine, priceless diamond into the sea, rather than get a financial reward for giving it to Brock Lovett? Because she knows it is only a replica.
NATIONAL LAMPOOONS VACATION MOVIES - Rusty & Audrey Griswald are Different Foster Children: Rusty and Audrey Griswald, the children of Clark and Ellen Griswald are played by different actors in all five NLV movies, and not only do their appearances and personalities change drastically, so do their birth orders. They are fraternal twins and in middle school in the first movie, Rusty is older and both kids in high school in European Vacation in 1985, in Christmas Vacation in 1989 Audrey is about 14 and Rusty 11, and in Vegas Vacation which was made in 1997 both kids are still in high school and it is not said who if either of them is older.
The theory goes that Clark and Ellen Griswald were unable to have children of their own, and instead at various stages were foster parents to a variety of different brother/sister duos over the years. But with the lingering pain of never having their own kids and having to bid farewell to foster kids over the years, they always imagine when speaking their names to their foster kids they are saying Rusty and Audrey, perhaps the names of their first foster children? Do we ever see any photos of Rusty and Audrey as babies or younger kids in any photos in the house? Adding weight to this theory, it is suggested that the adult incarnations of Rusty and Audrey from Vacation in 2015 played by Ed Helms and Lesley Mann and who have nothing in common with any of the prior Rusty or Audrey incarnations were fostered by the Griswald's sometime between 1985 and 1989, and that how Dana Barron (the original Audrey from 1983) was able to resurrect her role for a Cousin Eddie spinoff in the early 2000s.
GILLIGANS ISLAND - Everyone is Dead All Along - Fan theories abound about the mid 1960s sitcom Gilligan's Island, including one theory that the seven main characters - Gilligan, the Skipper, Mr. Howell, Mrs. Howell, the Professor, Mary-Anne and Ginger - did not survive the wreck of the Minnow and in fact are dead, but none of them realize it. Treating any spin-offs as non-canon, this explains a lot, such as how the character's physical appearances do not change over the course of the show. How could a boat end up so far off course on a short trip? And most of all it explains the appearance of guest characters, who arrive for one episode and then depart, leaving the seven castaways behind? This is because the guest characters realize they have died and cross over, while none of the seven main characters never do.
FULL HOUSE/FULLER HOUSE - Michelle is Estranged from the Tanner Family - By the time Fuller House was produced in the mid 2010s, Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen who played Michelle in Full House were no longer in acting. They declined to resurrect the role, hence younger Tanner sister Michelle never once appeared as an adult in the new show. The theory I read - and which had me laughing for hours - was that as a teenager in high school in the early 2000s Michelle became very difficult and rebellious, hanging out with the wrong crowd and dating a loser, metal-head boyfriend. This boyfriend caused two separate nervous breakdowns for Michelle's clean-freak father, once when he accidentally smeared the bathroom walls with melted chocolate, and a second time getting mud all over the car, Danny Tanner completely losing it, screaming, swearing and shouting about his house being full of shit (like Bob Saget's character in the 2003 movie 'Dumb and Dumberer'). Michelle however dug in her heels and refused to stop dating her boyfriend despite the problems he was causing, eventually moving out of home to live with her boyfriend's family, and continuing to remain estranged from her father, sisters and other family members.
TITANIC (1997) - Old Rose is an Imposter. When elderly Rose arrives on the research ship, Lewis Bodine expresses doubt to Brock Lovett that she is genuine and instead a confidence trickster citing her experience as an actress as a clue. What if Bodine was right, and this Rose Calvert (nee Dawson) was never Rose De Witt-Bukater, who really did die on the Titanic 84 years earlier? The theory goes as follows:
In the 1920s, struggling actress Rose Dawson supplements her income by working as an escort, and one of her regular clients is a deeply troubled businessman Caledon Hockley. Hockley notes her similarity and the same name as his late fiancee, and like many men with problems in his life who talk to prostitutes Hockley does just this, telling her about the Titanic, and how an artist named Jack who won a third class ticket stole Rose's heart away before the ship sank and they both died. Increasingly depressed, Cal Hockley gifts Rose Dawson a gift of a replica of the Heart of the Ocean, the original of which was lost years earlier with the real Rose, and soon thereafter dies by suicide. But there never was any guy called Jack, the guy who stole Rose away. He is the creation of Cal Hockley as a fictional figure to hate, and in fact the real Rose was in love with her maid Trudy and vice versa, and it was Trudy who sketched Rose naked wearing the diamond, Cal unable to cope with the fact that Rose loved and was having an affair with another woman. Separated during the sinking, Rose and Trudy refuse to leave the ship without each other, and both die in the disaster.
This theory with a lesbian Rose and a non-existent Jack actually explains many inconsistencies. While Mr. Lovejoy and Trudy died in the sinking, Rose's mother Ruth, Ruth's maid and Cal survive. Could Rose really have evaded all of them seeing her on the Carpathia, plus other surviving passengers and crew during the trip of 4 days to New York? Is an actress a sensible career choice for a woman running away from her past life and thought dead? Why was only the nude drawing of Rose found in the safe, and not Jack's other works? With so many years having gone by and most everyone dead by this time, none of Cal's unreliable Titanic stories told to escort Rose could be proven or disproven, nor could imposter Rose's embellishments. Why did Rose never say what became of her mother? This is because Cal never spoke of this, Rose does not know and saying the wrong thing could expose her fraud. Why did Trudy die in the disaster (in real life all female employees of first-class passengers survived) and why was she given such an undignified death, sliding down the deck screaming just before the Titanic founders, showing everyone her panties in the process? This detail might have been an embellishment by the bitter Cal Hockley, with Rose taking it to be truthful. And last of all, why would elderly Rose throw a genuine, priceless diamond into the sea, rather than get a financial reward for giving it to Brock Lovett? Because she knows it is only a replica.
NATIONAL LAMPOOONS VACATION MOVIES - Rusty & Audrey Griswald are Different Foster Children: Rusty and Audrey Griswald, the children of Clark and Ellen Griswald are played by different actors in all five NLV movies, and not only do their appearances and personalities change drastically, so do their birth orders. They are fraternal twins and in middle school in the first movie, Rusty is older and both kids in high school in European Vacation in 1985, in Christmas Vacation in 1989 Audrey is about 14 and Rusty 11, and in Vegas Vacation which was made in 1997 both kids are still in high school and it is not said who if either of them is older.
The theory goes that Clark and Ellen Griswald were unable to have children of their own, and instead at various stages were foster parents to a variety of different brother/sister duos over the years. But with the lingering pain of never having their own kids and having to bid farewell to foster kids over the years, they always imagine when speaking their names to their foster kids they are saying Rusty and Audrey, perhaps the names of their first foster children? Do we ever see any photos of Rusty and Audrey as babies or younger kids in any photos in the house? Adding weight to this theory, it is suggested that the adult incarnations of Rusty and Audrey from Vacation in 2015 played by Ed Helms and Lesley Mann and who have nothing in common with any of the prior Rusty or Audrey incarnations were fostered by the Griswald's sometime between 1985 and 1989, and that how Dana Barron (the original Audrey from 1983) was able to resurrect her role for a Cousin Eddie spinoff in the early 2000s.
GILLIGANS ISLAND - Everyone is Dead All Along - Fan theories abound about the mid 1960s sitcom Gilligan's Island, including one theory that the seven main characters - Gilligan, the Skipper, Mr. Howell, Mrs. Howell, the Professor, Mary-Anne and Ginger - did not survive the wreck of the Minnow and in fact are dead, but none of them realize it. Treating any spin-offs as non-canon, this explains a lot, such as how the character's physical appearances do not change over the course of the show. How could a boat end up so far off course on a short trip? And most of all it explains the appearance of guest characters, who arrive for one episode and then depart, leaving the seven castaways behind? This is because the guest characters realize they have died and cross over, while none of the seven main characters never do.
FULL HOUSE/FULLER HOUSE - Michelle is Estranged from the Tanner Family - By the time Fuller House was produced in the mid 2010s, Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen who played Michelle in Full House were no longer in acting. They declined to resurrect the role, hence younger Tanner sister Michelle never once appeared as an adult in the new show. The theory I read - and which had me laughing for hours - was that as a teenager in high school in the early 2000s Michelle became very difficult and rebellious, hanging out with the wrong crowd and dating a loser, metal-head boyfriend. This boyfriend caused two separate nervous breakdowns for Michelle's clean-freak father, once when he accidentally smeared the bathroom walls with melted chocolate, and a second time getting mud all over the car, Danny Tanner completely losing it, screaming, swearing and shouting about his house being full of shit (like Bob Saget's character in the 2003 movie 'Dumb and Dumberer'). Michelle however dug in her heels and refused to stop dating her boyfriend despite the problems he was causing, eventually moving out of home to live with her boyfriend's family, and continuing to remain estranged from her father, sisters and other family members.
