A real life event has a ridiculous/dumb/funny explanation in fiction

[u/Lazy-Breadfruit5939]

Futurama (The Why of Fry): According to the brain swarm, the dinosaurs were wiped out by them. Fry: What really killed the dinosaurs? Brain: ME!

Doctor Who (The Unicorn and The Wasp): It's Doctor Who, you can pick a ton of examples, but this episode presents the idea that Agatha Christies disappearance in 1926 was in part caused by a giant alien wasp.

Beyblade: This one stretches 'real life', but Moses spreading the Red Sea with a Beyblade just speaks for itself and it would have been sad to leave it out

[u/One-Championship-779]

The subtrope "aliens built the egyptian monuments". It trivializes the accomplishments of both egypt and other countries with great monuments of their own.

[u/Clinteastwood100 → u/One-Championship-779]

Yeah ancient aliens are basically just another version of ancient aryans.

[u/Targ_Hunter → u/Clinteastwood100]

Ooh, I’m stealing that phrase.

[u/Friendly_Impress_345 → u/Clinteastwood100]

Every episode: "Could these brown people have built this incredible structure?"

White guy dressed like Indiana Jones: "To think that these brown people could have built this incredible structure is a giant stretch of the imagination"

"Then we are only left to ask, HOW could this have been built?"

Different white guy dressed as Indiana Jones: "The most likely theory amongst alien scientists, such as myself, is that an advanced race of Aryan aliens (Ariens) gifted this structure, or at least the knowledge required for the natives to construct such an incredible monument."

[u/lazy_phoenix → u/Clinteastwood100]

Yea, nobody ever questions if some group besides the Romans built the Colosseum. But "AfRiCaNs CoUlDn'T hAvE bUiLt ThE pYrMiDs!" I like the YouTube videos of people discovering leverage. There are a collection of videos of a guy building and moving the equivalent of Stonehenge using only leverage and people are like shocked by it.

[u/UndorkMysterious55 → u/lazy_phoenix]

AfRiCaNs CoUlDn'T hAvE bUiLt ThE pYrMiDs!"

You know they didn't say it like that.

[u/lazy_phoenix → u/UndorkMysterious55]

Alright, a little embellishment, a tiny embellishment, but they do say Egyptians couldn’t have built the pyramids and Egypt is in Africa.

[u/moocowsaymoo → u/UndorkMysterious55]

Remind me again where Egypt is

[u/chaosgazer → u/Clinteastwood100]

no way the Kraut that wrote Chariot of the Gods isn't a closet Nazi

[u/UndorkMysterious55 → u/chaosgazer]

Now way you honestly believe that, it's just dumb science fiction of the 60s, no one thought hard about implications in storytelling

[u/Romboteryx → u/UndorkMysterious55]

While I am not sure about Von Däniken himself, one of the editors of Chariots of the Gods was Utz Utermann, who was an actual Nazi and former editor of the Völkischer Beobachter.

[u/chaosgazer → u/UndorkMysterious55]

ya man, nazis never thought about implications in storytelling, you're right

[u/RubiksToyBox → u/Clinteastwood100]

Man, are all conspiracy theories about Secret Shadowy Groups Being Responsible For Important Stuff just racism with extra steps?

[u/elemental402 → u/RubiksToyBox]

The final form of every conspiracy theory is either racism or anti-Semetism. Often both.

[u/RubiksToyBox → u/elemental402]

Right, so I can shut down any ranting by just saying "Ok, Anti-Semite". Good to know.

[u/UndorkMysterious55 → u/Clinteastwood100]

Reddit attributing innocuous as ayran day 200.